The role of vernal species in vegetation classification: a case study on deciduous forests and dry grasslands of Central Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Vymazalová ◽  
Lubomír Tichý ◽  
Irena Axmanová
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Vegetation Classification ◽  
Deciduous Forests ◽  
Dry Grasslands

The role of bilingual instructors in the implementation of ERC standards in Eastern and Central Europe. Case study of Ukraine

Resuscitation ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. S105
Author(s):  
L. Duniec ◽  
J. Szymański ◽  
T. Łazowski ◽  
J. Andres
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe

Erich Wulffen and the case of the criminal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Lang
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Case Writing

State Prosecutor and legal reformer Erich Wulffen used the case study genre for legal and largely didactic purposes. Chapter 4 illustrates the adoption of the conventions of sexological case writing by the legal fraternity in twentieth-century Central Europe, and ways in which Wulffen brought the case study genre from the hidden world of the court to the wider public. In doing this, Wulffen carved a niche for himself as an expert in legal reform and sexology in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. He embraced different kinds of case modalities over the course of his professional career, targeting professional, middle-class audiences and the wider reading public during his thirty years in the role of prosecutor. The changing success of Wulffen’s publications highlights the intensifying crisis of the expert case study as a modality able to ‘speak the truth’ about modern sexuality and deviance. While Wulffen’s expert case studies about con men and other criminals were highly successful during the Wilhelmine era, the same approach and model for case writing met a more critical audience after 1918. Wulffen embraced the challenge of a new democratic environment by writing implicitly didactical popular crime novels. However, eventually his criminal subjects literally ‘wrote back’ after their sensationalised trials, using case studies in an attempt to narrate their own versions of events. The accounts of these criminals-turned-writers such as convicted paedophile Edith Cadivec. Thus the popularisation of sensationalist case studies, written, for instance, by perpetrators of crime, was an important factor in the case study genre’s loss of respectability.

scholarly journals The Role of Relational Capital in Anti-Crisis Measures Undertaken by Companies—Conclusions from a Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 780
Author(s):  
Anna Walecka
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Relational Capital ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Company

The aim of this article was to present the results of empirical research conducted in enterprises of all sizes operating in Poland and Central Europe. The study focused on the impact of relational capital on the prevention of and intervention in the event of a crisis in a company. The author assumes that there is a link between a company’s relational capital and its susceptibility to crisis phenomena. The research carried out allowed different conclusions to be drawn. It turns out that the studied companies were characterized by a high level of relational capital. Their internal relational capital—particularly the relations between employees and company owners—was especially important to them. Relations of the surveyed companies with external stakeholders were also important. In response to the question about the role of relational capital in anti-crisis measures undertaken by companies, it appears that the relational capital of the companies surveyed allowed them, in their opinion, to avoid many crisis situations. Thanks to the right attitudes of the surveyed companies’ stakeholders, they have often managed to avoid crises. This situation also applies to the recent crisis caused by COVID-19.

Patterns of Innovation Transfer and the Spread of Copper Metallurgy to Central Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silviane Scharl
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Innovation Transfer ◽  
Copper Metallurgy

Innovation transfer can be described as a process of communication and integration. Its success depends on two conditions: first, the information flow itself and, second, the acceptance and implementation of this information. In this article, it is assumed that both aspects are influenced by certain factors that can stimulate or constrain the transfer of innovation. This hypothesis is tested in a case study concerning the spread of copper metallurgy in Central Europe. A contextual analysis shows that its transmission can be reconstructed as a slow integrational process. Further, the spread of copper metallurgy occurred in fits and starts, with repeated breaks that, in some cases, lasted for several hundred years. These halts are key for analysing the mechanisms of innovation transfer. In this context, the role of those variables which influenced this transfer will be analysed.

Semi-dry grasslands along a climatic gradient across Central Europe: Vegetation classification with validation

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 835-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eszter Illyés ◽  
Milan Chytrý ◽  
Zoltán Botta-Dukát ◽  
Ute Jandt ◽  
Iveta Škodová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Vegetation Classification ◽  
Climatic Gradient ◽  
Dry Grasslands

The role of multiplicity in a cult: A case study

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Worrall ◽  
Ann W. Stockman

Endangered Butterflies and their Non-Native Host Plants: Examining Shifting Values of Belonging in Restoration

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
Amy M. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Native Host

The island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus), thought to be extinct throughout the 20th century until re-discovered on a single remote island in Puget Sound in 1998, has become the focus of a concerted protection effort to prevent its extinction. However, efforts to “restore” island marble habitat conflict with efforts to “restore” the prairie ecosystem where it lives, because of the butterfly’s use of a non-native “weedy” host plant. Through a case study of the island marble project, we examine the practice of ecological restoration as the enactment of particular norms that define which species are understood to belong in the place being restored. We contextualize this case study within ongoing debates over the value of “native” species, indicative of deep-seated uncertainties and anxieties about the role of human intervention to alter or manage landscapes and ecosystems, in the time commonly described as the “Anthropocene.” We interpret the question of “what plants and animals belong in a particular place?” as not a question of scientific truth, but a value-laden construct of environmental management in practice, and we argue for deeper reflexivity on the part of environmental scientists and managers about the social values that inform ecological restoration.

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