Abstract Bats of four islands of the Dodecanese Archipelago (Astypalea, Kalymnos, Symi, Megisti) were studied for the first time. The bat fauna of these islands comprises eleven species and the faunas of the particular islands are composed of five (on Astypalea) to nine...

When running data intensive applications on distributed computational resources long I/O overheads may be observed as access to remotely stored data is performed. Latencies and bandwidth can become the major limiting factor for the overall computation performance and ca...

Wilson, J.B. (corresponding author, bastow@bastow.ac.nz): Botany Department, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. Chiarucci, A. (alessandro.chiarucci@unisi.it): BIOCONNET, Biodiversity and Conservation Network, Department of Environmental Science ‘G. ...

Records of nine Pediciidae and 80 Limoniidae species (10 Limnophilinae, 38 Chioneinae, and 32 Limoniinae) are presented. Seventeen species are recorded for the first time from Azerbaijan and 14 from Georgia, of which 12 species are new to the whole of Transcaucasia. Thr...

Cattle dominate archaeozoological assemblages from the north-central Europe between the sixth and fifth millennium BC and are frequently considered as exclusively used for their meat. Dairy products may have played a greater role than previously believed. Selective pres...

Some of the most extraordinary finds from the Early Neolithic period are wooden wells. These constructions permit unusual insights into Neolithic settlements, their subsistence and environment, as well as into the surrounding landscape. A recent excavation of a Neo lith...

Abstract. The developments of the latest technology in the field of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) are revolutionizing the methods of surveying, representing and managing the built heritage. The integrated use of 3D survey instruments such as laser scanning, digital ph...

Abstract The central region of our Milky Way is extremely active. It harbors the closest galactic nucleus that is accessible to us allowing us to study it in fine detail. Here we present a consice summary of some of the most recent results obtained with state of the art...

Abstract We describe systematic changes that have been made to the Czech morphological dictionary related to annotating new data within the project of Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). We bring new solutions to several complicated morphological features that occur in Cz...

The present paper examines written sources pertinent to Alexander the Great’s expedition in Bactria and Sogdiana. It focuses on the impact of the military campaigns on the local inhabitants in four interconnected fields of human activity (military, political, urban, and...