This article is a proposal for a habilitation thesis and follows up a dissertation entitled A Contrastive Description of the Standard Pronunciation of Dutch and Czech from the Perspective wac 4011 of Czech Learners of Dutch.A number of crucial research questions are formulated in the text.First, a survey of the phenomenon of Czech Dutch is provided

Bacteria to eukaryote lateral gene napoleon concealer transfers (LGT) are an important potential source of material for the evolution of novel genetic traits.The explosion in the number of newly sequenced genomes provides opportunities to identify and characterize examples of these lateral gene transfer events, and to assess their role in the evolu

ABSTRACT The Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium is a common pathogen of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients due to its ability to evolve resistance to antibiotics during treatments.While P.aeruginosa resistance evolution is well-characterized in monocultures, it is less well-understood in polymicrobial CF infections.Here, we investigated how exposure to ci

This paper treats Pan in Boeotia on the basis of the archaeological record.Although often seen as a pastoral god, it is argued that his presence in grottos and in the Kabirion is due to his being an interstitial deity of the wilds and for this reason an overseer of maturation, a marginal period characterised read more by wildness.Pan appears mostly

The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) and particularly consider whether or not this measure was invariant when used among the Black and White residents.Baseline data from an implementation study testing that included a sample of 553 residents, 30% of who were Black, f