Is it in politicians’ interest to focus policy on subjective well-being (SWB)? Many governments and international organisations have recently begun to measure progress at least partly in terms of the population’s SWB or “happiness”. This paper investigates the extent to which citizens themselves judge national success in such terms. Using cross-country panel data, the analysis shows that the el...

The highly obscured radio-bright galaxy PKS 1343 – 601 at Galactic coordinates of (l, b) = (309. ◦7,+1. ◦8) has been suspected to mark the centre of a hitherto unknown cluster in the wider Great Attractor region. As such it presents an ideal region for a search of galaxies in the near-infrared (NIR) and an in-depth study of their colours as a function of extinction. A visual search of a ∼30 squ...

The article presents the results of phonemic-graphemic analysis German dispositions upon death drawn up by spouses from first half 14th century, which come town council Zgorzelec (Görlitz). constitute a part liber civitatis aim paper is to answer question how far script fixes features spoken language. Due it could be unambiguously proved, used in text corresponds level development language with...

The PrP gene polymorphisms at codons 142 (I/M), 154 (R/H), 211 (R/Q), 222 (Q/K) and 240 (S/P) and their association with susceptibility to classical scrapie infection were investigated in five French goat herds displaying a high disease prevalence (>10%). On the basis of PrP(Sc) detection in the central nervous system and in various lymphoid tissues, 301 of 1343 goats were found to be scrapie i...