Depopulation of EU Lower-income Regions: Can Digitalisation via Broadband Access Reduce it? by Anna Garashchuk, Fernando Isla Castillo, Pablo Podadera Rivera

“…Sharp demographic declines especially in Eastern and Southern Europe, due to the intra-EU migration of younger, skilled workers from these areas have become a serious obstacle to the sustainable development of many EU lower-income regions. …”
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BOSNIAK CULTURAL HERITAGE: CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TRADITIONAL KNOCKERSAND GATES by Yusuf Ziya Sümbüllü, Melinda Botalić

“…When it comes to Bosnian, or more precisely Bosniak culture, it is of high importance to discuss traditional gates, which represent one of the most signifIcant creations that vividly paint the culture of Bosniaks – one of three constitutive nations or ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina – the place of juxtaposition of different Southern Europe and Balkans cultures thus creating colorful, and above all rich cultural and social structure.…”
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Les réseaux des académies et des écoles d’art en Europe méridionale (1740-1820) : projet et perspectives de recherche by Émilie Roffidal

“…The present contribution wants to report a research project initiated within FRAMESPA, on Academies and schools of art in Southern Europe. Beyond their hybrid character, these institutions have in common the same founding intention which opens the way to a wide study on this new phenomenon of creation and development of artistic training centers since 1740s. …”
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Uncanny companions: kinship, activism, and public health as interdependent modalities of care provision under Greek austerity by Andreas Streinzer

“…The anthropology of the economic crisis since 2007/ 08 analyses the emergence of solidarity practices among social movements, kinship, and friendship during austerity and the recession in Southern Europe. Analysing these practices alongside “resilience” allows to critically examine the interdependence of “variegated austerity” and the normative appraisal of solidarity networks and familial care practices. …”
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What Causes the Arabian Gulf Significant Summer Sea Surface Temperature Warming Trend? by Kamal A. Alawad, Abdullah M. Al-Subhi, Mohammed A. Alsaafani, Turki M. Alraddadi

“…For the air temperature, the positive AMO phase coincides with the occurrence of warm air masses covering all of the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, and Southern Europe. These processes prove that the AMO is a possible candidate for the AGs SST decadal variability, hence enabling a better evaluation of future climate scenarios for this important region. …”
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A new species of Pharmacis Hübner, 1820 from Spain with a brief review of the genera Pharmacis and Korscheltellus Börner, 1920 (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae) by Axel Kallies, Teresa Farino

“…The new species belongs to a group of mostly day-flying species that are restricted to the European Alps and some mountain ranges of southern Europe. Based on morphology and analysis of mitochondrial COI gene sequences, the new species is closely related to Pharmacis aemilianus (Constantini, 1911), an endemic of the Italian Apennines. …”
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Education and Heritage of Medieval Warfare. A Study on the Transmission of Knowledge by Informal Educators in Defensive Spaces by Darío Español-Solana, Jesús Gerardo Franco-Calvo

“…Historical reenactment is becoming a top-tier teaching tool in the countries of Southern Europe. In Spain specifically, this discipline is experiencing a boom as a heritage education method, particularly in informal settings. …”
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The role of a developing upper diffluent trough in surface cyclogenesis over central Mediterranean by Nicholas G. Prezerakos, Helena A. Flocas

“…Therefore, it seems that this approach offers to the operational meteorologists a simple tool to evaluate the numerical weather prediction of a cyclonic development in southern Europe and to decide for its uncritical accept or rejection when the initial atmospheric conditions in northwest Europe are similar to those described above. …”
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European Sentiment in time of crises. The point of view of young university students by Mariaeugenia Parito, Ricardo Pérez-Calle, Lucia D’Ambrosi

“…The latest emergencies – economic, refugee, and the pandemic of Covid-19 – has impacted in European collective identity construction, especially in Southern Europe. This article investigates if the pandemic crisis has activated in young Italian and Spanish university students nationalistic or/and European responses. …”
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Gaining national belonging Argentinians and Ecuadorians in Spain and Italy by Paola García, Luis Garzón

“…Taking as a starting point the fieldwork undertaken between 2002 and 2006 in three cities of southern Europe, the questions of identity and national belonging of Argentinians and Ecuadorians in Spain and Italy are addressed. …”
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“Homo Europaeus"? A comparative analysis of advertising by Stefano Calabrese, Antonella De Blasio, Bianca Di Prazza

“…The analysis of advertising in European countries shows that there is no such thing as the homo europaeus, but that there are two major continental blocks: the Nort-European one, with its monochronic advertisements, narrative formats based on relationships and soft-sell brand representation mechanisms, in which the context is more relevant than the product itself; in Southern Europe, on the other hand, we found polychronic advertising, narrative formats based on the idea of performance and mechanisms of representation of individual hard-sell products, in which the context loses its prominence.…”
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BECC Laboratory in Tokyo. Urban lanscape, urban regeneration. Interdisciplinary academic class by Olimpia Niglio, Tsuneaki Fukui

“…But architecture has increasingly come to characterize itself for the functions required of it in close relation to the natural context and hence forms and therefore constructive typologies closely related to local resources: let us think of earth houses in the regions of the African continent or Latin American, to stone houses in central and southern Europe, to wooden houses in northern Europe and Asia.…”
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CCHFV vaccine development, current challenges, limitations, and future directions by Büşra Ahata, Büşra Ahata, Günseli Bayram Akçapınar

“…The disease is life-threatening in many regions of the developing world, including Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Southern Europe. In line with the rapidly increasing disease prevalence, various vaccine strategies are under development. …”
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Sec-butyl ester of dodecenoate: synthesis and attractive properties by K. A. Efetov, E. V. Parshkova, M. Y. Baevsky, A. I. Poddubov

“…The latter species is the grape pest in southern Europe. The attractant obtained can be used for the detection of species, for monitoring their numbers in nature and for the elaboration of ecological methods of pest control.…”
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European cuckoo bees of the tribe Dioxyini (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae): distribution, annotated checklist and identification key by Petr Bogusch

“…Altogether, ten species of cuckoo bees of the tribe Dioxyini have been recorded from Europe, with two species distributed widely in the continent while others are restricted in distribution to only one or several countries in southern Europe. These ten representatives are classified into five genera: Aglaoapis, Dioxys, Ensliniana, Metadioxys and Paradioxys. …”
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Measurement of Time by the Ancient Slavs<br>Merjenje časa pri starih Slovanih</br> by Roman Zaroff

“…The paper explores time measurements and perception of time by the ancient Slavs in the pre-Migration Period and Slavic settlement of Central and Southern Europe. It attempts to reconstruct a year, seasonal, month-like division and naming, as well as lunar and solar time measurement. …”
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Une information en plusieurs langues : vers une compétence informationnelle plurilingue by Caroline Venaille, Encarnación Carrasco Perea

“…This investigation is contextualized in two complementary territories of Southern Europe: Sassari (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain).The study lists intercomprehension strategies with a strong informational and educational potential. …”
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Le cimetière militaire roumain de Soultzmatt by Vasile Iorgulescu

“…The Orthodox celebrations are organised by the parishes of the region and presided over by Mgr Joseph Pop, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe.…”
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Enveloping the marsh. Reflections on interventions in fragile landscapes. The case of the Odiel Marshes by Luis Miguel Cortés Sánchez, Javier López Rivera, Ramon Pico Valimaña

“…This article is based on a reconciliation between the marshlands of southern Europe and nature and man, recovering the energy that made them the engines of local economies and turning them into spaces of opportunity and fertile producers of contemporary ecologies. …”
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Gender and the Transitions by Teresa María Ortega López, Kostas Yannakopoulos

“…The democratization processes that took place during the last decades of the twentieth century in Southern Europe have made the transition from dictatorship to democratic system the focus of numerous studies. …”
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