The Centre for Science and Technology Studies of Leiden University organized the 11th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators 8 - 11 September in Leiden. Science and technology indicators have become an increasingly important instrument for science policy and research management. The assessment of strengths and weaknesses of a country’s science system, ranking, benchmarking and classification of universities, finding excellence in research, identification of emerging and often interdisciplinary research themes, measuring knowledge transfer between academia and industry - all these examples show the value of S&T indicators for users. and Petr Ráb.
The article presents a manuscript collection of texts of evangelical provenance that has recently been purchased in a German second-hand bookshop. According to a chronogram, this manuscript is likely to come from 1840. The manuscript consists of fifteen relatively independent text sections thematically related to the denominational controversies before and after the battle of White Mountain. The paper examines possible printed or manuscript models of individual parts and as well as their reflection in both earlier and more recent bibliographic literature. and David Mach.
15 years ago a small group of the Czech scientists visited the meeting of European plant exophysiologists in Viterbo starting a new EU projects on elevated CO2 effects. Because of personal involvement of prof. Paul Jarvis, the Czech group was incorporated into this type of European ecophysiological research. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary was prepared a conference covering the topics from stress physiology and elevated CO2 effects from leaves to ecosystems up to impact of climate change on ecosystems. Key findings in regulatory and stress physiology, plant-to-plant interactions and responses to changing environment with emphases on single and/or combined effects of CO2, water and temperature were presented. and Michal Marek.