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Describing Three Seas Initiative in the light of constructivism should base on an examination of regional cooperation in the CE region in the context of two types of knowledge: knowing-that and knowing-how. In addition, it is significant to underline Azizov described the knowing-how and knowing-that approach as two different types of knowledge that are relevant in the context of international cooperation. Knowing-how is practical knowledge, related to skills, experience and intuition, and knowing-that is theoretical knowledge, related to facts, data and information.
International cooperation requires both practical and theoretical knowledge, because the ability to solve practical problems (knowing-how) is as important as understanding concepts and theories (knowing-that). Thus, the constructivist aim will be the examination of the current state of countries' approaches and their perceptions of the future form and meaning of 3SI.
I would like to carry out an evaluation process of the Three Seas Initiative based on a constructivist model. Hence my question - what in your opinion are the features of constructivism that can be used as evaluation criteria for 3SI? Which perspectives can be used to qualify 3SI towards this theory?
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Hi there, I am not sure if I will be able to answer your question fully or not, but I guess looking at the constructivist understanding of the social interaction of states can help. In other words, how the states perceive themselves and others will help indicate if cooperation is possible for the 3SI or not. It can also help in addressing how these countries construct their national interest - in addition to the social interaction - it can provide you with an insight of the collaborative or conflictual interactions in reference to the 3SI.
Hope this is of any help! and best of luck :)
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I am trying to find a mouse astrocyte cell line. I was planning to order C8-D1A from ATTC for some neuroinflammation experiments but the website was recently banned in my country (central Europe). I am grateful for any recommendation. Thank you.
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You can purchase Mouse Astrocytes- SV40 T cell line available in ATCC.
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Samir
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I have experienced the NDWI values for some parts of river in central Europe that apparently present values below zero which is expected to be an anomally. Does anyone have an idea of why this may be so?
This leads to a problem of wrong water recognission in scripts. Does anyone know how to overcome this issue?
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NDWI values are normalised between -1 and 1, so a negative value is not necessary an anomally, just a water pressured area (following the normalisation protocal that can be found in the JRC documentation: https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/factsheets/factsheet_ndwi.pdf). The anomally is different from the NDWI data itself as it compares to historic data.
But the fact that there are negative values is completely normal as again, it's a normalised dataset.
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For a project at University i need to estimate the carbon stock of individual Acer trees. I can't seem to find proper equations to do this. thanks in advance for your tips!
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What are the reasons for investments of Qatar and UAE in countries like Poland, Hungary, Slovakia...?
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Some investments from the Gulf countries in the region, particularly in the agriculture sector, are motivated by improving their food security. This is discussed in greater detail in the following paper:
Heumesser, C., & Schmid, E. (2012). Trends in foreign direct investment in the agricultural sector of developing and transition countries: a review. Universitat fur Bodenkultur Wien Department fur Wirtschafts-und Sozialwissenschaften, Vienna.
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In 19th and 20th centuries wooden architecture became very popular among researchers and enthusiasts of vernacular culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Numerous texsts by professional scholars and amateurs reflected their general opinions on communities they associated with timber constructions. Many remarks and theories testfied to ethnic tensions as well as heterostereotypes and autostereotypes coined by competing ethnic groups. German scholars, for example, percieved Upper Silesian wooden churches as monuments to original Slavic culture petrified due to the backwardness and poverty believed by them to be characteristic of Slavs. This view corresponded with the myth of Prussian/German cultural mission in the East.
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Timber houses in northern Europe
Timber houses, also known as wooden huts, originated in northern European countries such as Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia. The reason is that in these places, what was found in abundance was forests and trees. Timber houses have a very prominent exterior. Usually the color of these houses is burnt brown to black and the timber is placed horizontally. In the corners, the beams are fastened together. Of course, before the construction of these houses, brick houses related to the Viking period style were very common in these areas. Later in the mid-17th century, Swedish immigrants introduced this style of home to the people of North America, and later Native Americans and American colonists imitated this style of architecture.
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Did they survive after the Eemian and for how long? The actual question would be if they were still around in the Brörup interstadial (MIS 5c) and how much the Brörup fauna differed from the Eemian one (MIS 5e)? Vice versa, when did the mammoth-dominated fauna first appear in Central Europe after the Eemian? In MIS 5b or earlier? Thanks in advance, Micha
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I only have information about the elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) of Eemian in Minsk section. I'm sending it.
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Herewith I would like to enquire in the opportunities for collaboration in a research project focusing on reversing democratic backsliding in CEE/Hungary.
As a PhD candidate (Corvinus University of Budapest, exp final defense September 2020), but now based in the Netherlands, my research area is the role of Eurscepticism on EU policy in the Netherlands and Hungary. My research interests such lie also in politics and policy in the EU, the Netherlands, but especially Hungary. The political developments in Hungary and Poland call for more research projects in the field.
My number one ambition would be to team up with researchers to look at politics and policy in Central Eastern Europe. One of the issues I would be particularly interested in is the broader question how democratic decline/backsliding could be reversed. I do not have the financial means to conduct such research independently.
Any suggestions welcome!
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You will face fierce resistance from the goverment, so you will have to struggle for access to the relevant data. Otherwise I hope you will succeed with finishing the project. I am definitely pessimist about the future of this region.
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I would like to do some enzymatic assays with its gut. It is the only species of Lamprosomatinae in Western and Central Europe.
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I found it
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I am looking for a paper quoted like follwed in another paper:
SOil and surface WAter Protection using conservation tillage in northern and central Europe (SOWAP), 2007. LIFE03 ENV/UK/000617, Technical Final Report, February 2007, <www.SOWAP.org>.
I can't finde the quoted paper and I would need to have it. Could you help me? Do you know, how I can get it? Or could you give it to me? It was a EU-Project so it should be open source.
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Hello! Perhaps the following will be of some assistance to you:
Sowap - Soil and Surface Water Protection Using Conservation Tillage in Northern and Central Europe
(LIFE03 ENV/UK/000617)
Soil and Water Protection Using Conservation Tillage in Northern and Central Europe
(VAN LYNDEN and LANE, 2004)
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Dear colleagues,
I would like to measure the frequency of spider web vibration in my experiment. I'd like to use a laser doppler vibrometer. However, I am a student so it will be probably the most effective and economical to borrow this device somewhere.
I want to ask you if you know about a workplace (ideally Central Europe) where the device could be borrowed? Or do you know about other ways of measurement?
Many thanks
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It is a very interested question
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These were found in the oligotrophic mountain lake situated in Central Europe and come from the Early Holocene.
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Dear Lettie,
thank you for your suggestion. The seeds are 1.5 cm long and 1 cm wide. I think these can not belong to loquat species as I do not expect that these could have been present in the Central Europe circa 10 000 years ago.
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i am trying to interpret my results. I have an oak forest on gleysoil in central Europe. In 2015 there was medium term drought on this area and we observed ~20% Nitrogen concentration decrease in leaves. We were expecting N decrease, but in the range 5-10%, not 20 (great meta analysis by He & Djiksra, ). We are thinking about another factors related to this observation. Maybe the type of soil is important? I can't find an information if N concentration in wet forests on gleysoils leaves are higher than overage?
What is a role of gleysoil during drought in nutrient concentration?
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Your natural drought obviously has a larger impact on the N content of leafs in gley soils/plants systems than the artificial droughts on potting and other well-drained soils. In order to look for a reason in the soil you may want to exclude/compare other variables, including duration and season of drought in the experiments and your field case, measurement parameters of 'leafs' and extraction of N and P from the soil. As Paul already commented, N as such is not necessarily determining plant productivity.
On the latter two issues you may find our paper dealing with plant and soil nutrients helpful (Esselink & Gils 1984).
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Do you know of any literature investigating the motivations of house-owners (institutional, private and owner-occupier) to think about renovating their housing? Is there any study that went down the line until this very first spark, that ignited the owner's will to renovate? Was it a tenant calling, a leaking roof or a cold living room? And what made this particular event special, so it lead to action?
I'm mostly interested in qualitative studies from central Europe, but quantitative are of interest too?
A plus is given for studies, that have a focus on energy issues in renovation :)
Many thanks in advance
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We are working on a dataset of butterflies in a farmland in Poland. Despite of some efforts we were not able to find a complete list of species (available online) with their ecological/functional attributes which could be useful for Poland (Central Europe). I know that it has been published in a book "Schmetterlinge: Die Tagfalter Deutschlands" and it could be useful for us. Is there any other publication available online, which includes the information we are looking for? 
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Dear Rudolf,
I have sent the book's Author the request for the full text (available in an electronic form, if I understood properly). So, thank you very much for you response. By the way - is there in the book a table of species with their functional attributes or that information is scattered and given separately for individual species?
Krzysztof
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During the last century the population of Ulmus sp. was reduced by a combination of a bug and a fungus.
In the past Months I started to discover more and more Ulmus sp. in Bavaria. Is the population recovering or are my observations just luck?
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You can find elm trees in many places around Europe still, especially young ones. You can often find young trees close to old trees that have died years ago, but usually they are killed of by Ophiostoma ulmi when their diameter hits 10-15cm. At least that is my experience. I guess that is when their lower branches start dying of and becoming interesting for the elm-inhabiting Scolytus species that spread O. ulmi. Especially in Ulmus laevis i've also found older specimen but Ulmus minor and Ulmus glabra are actually pretty rare, at least large trees. I have seen nice old trees of Ulmus glabra before but they certainly are rare and I have never seen a living specimen of Ulmus minor with a diameter over about 20cm (and I am looking for them). I am observing some U. laevis trees that appeared to have lost a significant part of their foliage about 3 years ago and seem to have recovered to a certain degree by now so I hope that they do develop a resistence, but Ulmus glabra trees I have seen with symptoms always died after 1-3 years after the first symptoms. At least the main stem dies and usually the roots show coppicing like shoots from around the main stem.
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I am looking for laboratory in Central Europe which posesses the Thermal Conductivity Scanner for some measurements in hard rock samples. I will be grateful for information about who has this kind of equipment.
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Jacek:
GFZ has such scanner and Andrea Forster is the person to be contacted. Same scaller designed originally by Drs Popov and Huenges and produced by a Leipzig company by special orders is also a property of Polish Geological Institute in Warsaw.
Cheers
Jacek M
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I need some research results about family firm performance from Central and Eastern Europe. I have found some research about Czech Republic and poland, but do you know any articles considering other countries from CEE?
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The Effect of Family Control on Firm Value and Performance: Evidence from Continental Europe (Barontini and Caprio, 2006) European Financial Management Volume 12, Issue 5, pages 689–723, November 2006 
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Can you recomand any good publication about national minorities in Eastern and Central Europe?
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I primarily recommended in my perception two valuable publication which definitely enlarge your intellectual horizon to tackle the issue.
Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies Series editor: Richard Sakwa Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent First published by Routledge 2009
Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality Edited and introduced by Timofey Agarin and Malte Brosig Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009
Please, find attached files.
With best regards,
Karlo Godoladze
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We excavated an Early Iron Age well in the Czech Republic last year and we are looking for comparable set of paleo-environmental analyses coming from recent excavations.
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Dear Miroslav, 
yes, we have some macrofossil data from a Hallstatt period well at Crévéchamps (Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France) and there are few other Hallstatt period wells from eastern France studied archaeobotanically by Françoise Toulemonde. These are macrofossil data, but multiproxy analysis of Hallstatt period wells are still lacking...
Let me know what you need for comparison.
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Julian
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I would like to identify wide spectrum of Cestode, Nematode and Trematode individuals living in the gastrointestinal tract of micrommamals from central Europe.
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Keys to the cestoda and trematoda (in djvu format)
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I am looking for research (books, journal articles, reports) on Baroque era hermitages.  I am primarily interested in those in Italy, Germany and Central Europe, however I would also like to hear about sites in other areas of Europe.  I am primarily interested in locations and their landscape settings, but history and architecture are also of interest.  Renaissance sites, and a general history of hermitages would also be of interest.
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There is a portrayal of heremitage in the German literature of the time of the thirty years war, to be found in the most famous novel (picaresque) of the era by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: "Simplicissimus teutsch." (There are numerous editions.) There is also a recent monograph dealing with heremitage in Grimmelshausen's work: Lars Kaminski, Vita Simplicii. Einsiedlerleben und Antoniusverehrung bei Grimmelshausen. Lang, Frankfurt/M. u. a. 2010.
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I am looking for an index or indicators on the level of corporatism in Central and Eastern Europe for the most recent time-period, but I am finding it hard to find a source. If anyone is aware of such indicators, can you please let me know? 
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Hi Eltion
Indeed ICTWSS is a very comprehensive database
You may find useful the following paper by Jelle Visser "Wage Bargaining Institutions - from crisis to crisis" .
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Alfonso
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I am particularly looking at the Visegrad countries of Central Europe.
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This is a new a refreshing topic. I begin by refering to a recent article by the trio of James OKORO, Richard INGWE and Mathew OJONG (Romanian Journal of Society & Politics) on economic-diplomatic relations between China and Nigeria. This study reveals hoe the Chinese have achieved much in terms of African market penetration without giving much to Africa/Nigeria. I'm just getting bits of these claims about the Visegrad four not being part of Africa's invasion. Some of us have spoken of European invasion of Africa in pretty monolithic ways/language. I realise now how the Visegrad four have been concerned about such thinking. I would presume that the interest of the Visegrad four remain their project and any success would arise from how hard each of them or four of them combined could undertake a joint economic diplomatic campaign i.e. programme. Is Visegrad an economic/political bloc of any kind? I would like to know more about this and if possible share some research time with experts from the region (Visegrad) maybe you. Conclusively, let me ask: what could be any credentials of the Visegrad in terms of undertaking the insidious neo-liberalistic offensive on Africa. Again, I draw your attention to my article (Ingwe, Ikeji & Ojong) on neo-liberalism and the role it has played in twarthing sustainable development efforts in Africa
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Preferably involving Poland (in English or Polish) but literature on other countries in the region (in English) would be welcome.
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And also http://www.wsge.edu.pl/files/szejniuk-aleksandra-joms-2-13-2012-wsge.pdf - about securit of information, and http://www.wsge.edu.pl/files/szejniuk-aleksandra-joms-2-13-2012-wsge.pdf about control as a method to enforce security and here full volume about management issues http://www.wsge.edu.pl/files/zrz.pdf :) greetings :)