News about Croatia
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A conference on 'Waters in Sensitive and Protected Areas' will be held from 13 to 15 June 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia.
Climate change is damaging the ecosystems of the Adriatic and the Black Sea basins, highly sensitive areas that are in large part protected by the Water Framework Directive and other EU legislation. Due to their extraordinary state of preservation, these areas are internationally recognized ...
The 53rd International Neuropsychiatric Pula Congress will be held from 19 to 22 June 2013 in Pula, Croatia.
Neurology and psychiatry have emerged during the second half of the 20th century as independent scientific and practical medical disciplines, with a big number of subspecialties and their specific methodologies and technologies. This enabled revolutionary changes in the understanding of many neurological ...
A conference entitled 'Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities' will take place from 18 to 20 April 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia.
In psychology and sociology, identity is a person's conception and expression of his/her individuality or group affiliations (such as national identity and cultural identity).The identity is conceived to provide unity and recognition while it also ...
An event entitled 'Structural Glass Conference' will be held on 18 April 2013 in Porec, Croatia.
Glass cannot compete with steel in terms of strength or durability, but it is the only structural material that offers the qualities of translucency and transparency. The use of glass has evolved from purely decorative or architectural, to structural, encouraging glass technologies to advance concurrently with ...
The 22nd International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming will take place from 17 to 19 September 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a branch of machine learning which uses logic programming as a uniform representation technique for examples, background knowledge and hypotheses. Due to its strong representation formalism based on first-order Horn Clause logic, ILP ...
European research and innovation efforts are set to receive a significant increase in funding with the announcement of the largest set of calls for proposals ever under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Worth a total of EUR 8.1 billion, projects funded by these calls are open to organisations and businesses in all EU Member States, FP7 partner states and specifically eligible countries.
The calls ...
The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics will take place from 26 to 28 June 2012 in Split, Croatia.
Fluid mechanics is the study of fluids and the forces on them. The field can be divided into fluid statics (the study of fluids at rest), fluid kinematics (the study of fluids in motion) and fluid dynamics (the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion). It is a branch of ...
The Second International Conference on Island Sustainability will take place on 17 to 19 September 2012 in Island of Brac, Croatia.
Rising living standards and increased leisure time have allowed many people to take longer holidays and to travel to distant parts of the world. Venturing to new and unknown places has helped make tourism is one of the world's fastest growing industries. The problem, however, ...
As Germany was struck by a devastating Escherichia coli (E. coli) crisis in June 2011, the dangers of transferring life-threatening disease-causing germs in food from one country to another once again hit the headlines. Despite the alarm however, until now very few studies have been carried out into the actual danger posed by germs that enter the EU along with food. Step in a new EU-funded project that ...
The 12th International Conference on Simulation and Experiments in Heat Transfer and their Applications will take place from 27-29 June 2012 in Split, Croatia.
Heat transfer has played a major role in a variety of new application fields such as sustainable development and reduction of greenhouse gases as well as for micro- and nanoscale structures and biomedical-engineering. Recent applications have been ...
