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Nationwide analysis on the impact of socioeconomic land use factors and incidence of urothelial carcinoma
2017
Incidence rates for urothelial carcinoma (UC) have been reported to differ between countries within the European Union (EU). Besides occupational exposure to chemicals, other substances such as tobacco and nitrite in groundwater have been identified as risk factors for UC. We investigated if regional differences in UC incidence rates are associated with agricultural, industrial and residential land use.Newly diagnosed cases of UC between 2003 and 2010 were included. Information within 364 administrative districts of Germany from 2004 for land use factors were obtained and calculated as a proportion of the total area of the respective administrative district and as a smoothed proportion. Fur…
ETHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
1970
Publisher Summary This chapter presents ethnological research and teaching at the University of Jyvaskyla. The center of the administrative district of Central Finland, Jyvaskyla, is located in the center of the population of Finland, somewhat north of the place where three large water routes empty into the northern end of Finland's longest lake, Paijanne. Higher Finnish-speaking culture was now even officially acknowledged, which, among other things, led to the situation in which one of the main strongholds of the new culture received its location in Jyvaskyla, which from time to time competed successfully with the capital city for the position of the Finnish-speaking cultural center. In 1…
Protokoły rozjemców rejencji opolskiej jako źródło do badań życia codziennego na wsi śląskiej od XIX do połowy XX wieku
2017
The acts of arbitration courts, operating in Opole district since 1835, constitute an interesting source for the research of Silesian everyday village life in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The author, after having presented a short outline of the institution and its legal functioning, concentrates on specific cases lodged to peacemakers. The everyday life situations in the protocols present the interpersonal conflicts, usually concerning unimportant things, not being included in the criminal case catalogue. The picture of the village, as shown in the article, is however not an idyllic one. It presents the conflicts, difficult to be found in other historical resources, such as: a tus…