University of Pannonia

‘Sunday Afternoon’ (1968) and ‘Hired Girl’ (2006) are two autobiographically inspired and closely related stories set in the 1950s, a decade of momentous change both in the history of fashion and Alice Munro’s personal life. My reading of these two stories focuses on Munro’s descriptions of clothing and the clothes consciousness of her characters and narrators. Building on previous scholarship at the intersection of literary and material culture studies, I will show how sustained attention to the materiality of characters’ attire reveals patterns in Munro’s work. I argue that through her unobtrusive but sustained attention to attire and clothes consciousness, Munro interrogates the Cinderella plot – one that promises triumph by romance aided by the right dress – while also exposing the precariousness of the self when it is rooted in invisibility.

This study evaluated tibiofemoral loading and medial meniscal stress distribution in individuals with flexible flatfoot (FFF) during walking under different foot progression angle (FPA) conditions. This study analyzed the gait of 28 FFF patients (16 males, 12 females) under three FPA conditions (neutral, toe-in, toe-out). Kinematic (Vicon) and kinetic (Kistler) data were used to estimate tibiofemoral forces in OpenSim. Subsequently, joint angles and muscle forces at peak tibiofemoral forces were used to drive a finite element (FE) model of the knee, enabling the comparison of meniscal von Mises stress, maximum shear stress, and contact pressure across FPA conditions. Tibiofemoral force increased during early stance (9-11%) in the toe-in condition with this increase reaching statistical significance in males (p = 0.008, mean partial within the SPM-identified cluster). FE analysis showed that peak stresses and contact pressure were primarily localized in the anterior region of the medial meniscus. A consistent directional response to FPA was observed with the lowest peak values occurring in the toe-in condition and the highest values in the toe-out condition. Adjusting FPA modulates intra-articular knee loading via the kinetic chain. For FFF patients, neutral FPA provides stable loading. The toe-in condition presents a complex mechanism: despite increasing tibiofemoral force (notably in males), it reduces peak stress by altering contact mechanics and stress distribution. Therefore, FFF gait interventions must be individualized based on factors like foot morphology, sex, and functional goals.

Jelen tanulmány magyarországi és ausztriai közfürdők szolgáltatásminőségét vizsgálja a vendégélmény perspektívájából, kvalitatív megfigyeléses próbavásárlói (mystery shopping) módszer alkalmazásával. A kutatás elsődleges célja annak feltárása volt, hogy a hivatalosan tanúsított sztenderdek milyen mértékben tükröződnek a látogatók által észlelt szolgáltatási teljesítményben, különös tekintettel az élmény- és érzékszervi dimenziókra. Az egyedi protokoll szerint négy egészségturisztikai helyszín fürdőkomplexuma került értékelésre: Sárvár, Bükfürdő, Bad Loipersdorf és Lutzmannsburg. Az eredmények rámutatnak a magyar és az osztrák fürdők között fennálló markáns különbségekre az észlelt szolgáltatásminőség, az atmoszféra, a higiénia és a vendégút-szervezés területén. A vizsgálat következtetése szerint a vendégélmény minőségét nem csupán az infrastruktúra, hanem sokkal inkább az érzékszervi és humán tényezők alakítják, amelyek meghatározóak az egészségturizmus versenyképességében.

Saharan dust outbreaks are increasingly affecting Europe, yet their impact on photovoltaic (PV) energy production is still predominantly interpreted through the lens of direct aerosol radiative attenuation. This study demonstrates that such an approach substantially underestimates the other influence of dust on solar energy generation, as the dominant mechanism operates indirectly through dust-induced modifications of cirrus clouds.We analyse six years (2019-2024) of national-scale PV generation data from Hungary, a Central European country where solar power accounted for approximately 25% of total electricity generation by 2024. PV production data are combined with reanalysis- and satellite-based atmospheric datasets, including dust column mass density from MERRA-2, cirrus cloud properties from MODIS, and surface irradiance from the CAMS Radiation Service. PV performance is quantified using a dynamically fitted production envelope, allowing generation losses to be assessed independently of capacity growth and seasonal variability.Our results reveal that the largest PV yield reductions occur not during high-dust conditions alone, but when elevated dust loads coincide with enhanced cirrus cloud coverage and reflectance. Under such combined conditions, PV performance ratios fall to approximately 46%, compared to values exceeding 75% during low-dust, low-cirrus periods. During high-dust episodes, cirrus reflectance increases by about 55%, while cirrus coverage rises by 60-85%, providing clear observational evidence of strong aerosol-cloud interactions. Seasonal analysis shows that these indirect effects peak during the transitional seasons (spring and autumn), when thermodynamic conditions favour heterogeneous ice nucleation on mineral dust particles.To disentangle direct and indirect pathways, we apply both linear and non-linear (quadratic) mediation frameworks, supported by block bootstrap resampling to ensure robust statistical inference. The bootstrap analysis consistently demonstrates that the indirect, cirrus-mediated pathway is statistically significant and more stable than the direct dust effect. While direct aerosol extinction can be strong during extreme dust events, its influence is episodic and highly state-dependent. In contrast, dust-induced cirrus enhancement represents a persistent and dominant mechanism governing PV efficiency losses across dust regimes.These findings indicate that the radiative impact of Saharan dust on solar energy production is fundamentally a coupled dust-cirrus phenomenon rather than a simple aerosol-extinction problem. As the frequency and intensity of transcontinental dust intrusions are projected to increase under future climate conditions, explicitly accounting for aerosol-cloud interactions is essential for reliable PV performance assessment, energy planning, and the stability of increasingly solar-dominated power systems.The research was supported by the Sustainable Development and Technologies National Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (FFT NP FTA) and NRDI projects TKP2021-NKTA-21 and RRF-2.3.1-21-2021.

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) often provides superior separation of macromolecules such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), a major biopharmaceutical class, compared with liquid chromatography. However, electropherograms frequently exhibit complex baselines and peak shapes that are not reliably handled by integration algorithms designed for chromatographic data, and manual integration is often required. Many concepts have been proposed to improve peak integration, ranging from incremental algorithmic refinements and signal-to-noise (S/N)-based approaches to artificial intelligence (AI)-driven strategies, but objective performance comparisons are not possible without shared reference data sets and agreed peak limits. To address this gap, we initiated a multinational collaboration involving industrial and academic laboratories to create a comprehensive reference data set for CE peak integration. A total of 227 challenging and practically relevant electropherograms were collected from diverse applications, converted to a standardized format, and independently integrated by multiple experts. Using dedicated software tools and a structured consensus process, mutually accepted reference integration limits were established for each data set. These reference electropherograms, together with the underlying integration rules, are now made available to the scientific community. Analysis of the reference data set identified general principles for reliable peak integration, including the importance of standardized zoom levels and consistent handling of small peaks near the noise level. The data set provides a common foundation for benchmarking commercial chromatography data systems (CDS) and for developing and validating new algorithmic and AI-based integration methods. We expect this work to speed up the development of practical, automated integration strategies for CE and that these core concepts can be applied to other separation techniques.

• The environmental impacts of climate action must be assessed in the planning phase. • The Life Cycle Impact Assessment is a suitable framework for assessing different projects. • Environmental impacts can be significantly reduced by choosing the right materials. Climate action projects increasingly depend on construction materials whose embodied impacts strongly influence sustainability performance, yet cross-comparison between different types of infrastructure remains limited. This study evaluates the material related environmental impacts of representative European climate interventions using a unified life cycle impact framework focused on production and delivery stages. A structured workflow was applied, including project selection, inventory extraction from public technical reports, material quantification, and impact modeling using Global Warming Potential (GWP), Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP), and Human Toxicity (HT). To allow a consistent comparison between heterogeneous interventions, results were normalized using category-specific functional units: floor area for buildings, surface area for parks, and length for flood defenses. Ten projects spanning building renovation, insulation upgrades, green infrastructure, and flood prevention systems were analyzed. The results show that environmental performance is governed primarily by material intensity rather than project size alone. Flood prevention infrastructure exhibits the highest absolute impacts due to heavy mineral material requirements, whereas green infrastructure projects demonstrate low normalized impact intensity relative to spatial scale. Renovation and insulation projects show wide variability depending on envelope material strategies, showing embodied exchanges that are not visible in total impact values. By integrating material inventories with category-based normalization, the framework transforms conventional material LCA into a comparative engineering tool capable of evaluating several climate actions on a common basis. This approach supports evidence-based material selection, exposes efficiency differences between intervention strategies, and advances the practical integration of embodied impact metrics into climate infrastructure planning.

One of the first papers to link metalinguistic awareness with third language learning was written by Jacqueline Thomas and published in the book "Cognitive processing by bilinguals". This article investigates how the phenomenon of metalinguistic awareness has been conceptualised over the last 30years of research and aims at demonstrating the relationship and significance of metalinguistic awareness to (early) multiple language learning. Word definition and its suitability for assessing both linguistic proficiency and metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children will be discussed as a fairly unknown approach in multilingualism research. The current study was carried out as part of a longitudinal large-scale study in the trilingual educational context of Ladin primary schools in South Tyrol, the northernmost province of Italy. According to the Ladin parithetical educational system pupils are taught in the three official languages German, Italian and the oldest language Ladin, a neo Latin, Rhaeto-Romance language. The results of the study indicate that not only did children aged eight and nine in the Ladin primary schools outperform the control group from a monolingually oriented German speaking school (with little exposure to Italian) in terms of formal and non-formal definitions but they also performed better with regard to their understanding of concrete and abstract terms, thereby falsifying Piaget's assumption that the correct use of abstract concepts would not be possible before middle-school age.

Abstract Urbanization contributes to an overall decline in the diversity of freshwater macroinvertebrate assemblages, while beta diversity in stream communities is primarily driven by local environmental conditions. Our study explored how anthropogenic stream modification influences taxonomic beta diversity and its components richness difference (D) and replacement (R) in low-order stream macroinvertebrate assemblages and how environmental variables shape these patterns. The two components (D and R) together with the Jaccard similarity (S) were used to generate the ternary diagrams (SDR simplexes) to evaluate the effects of urban land-use change and stream identity. We found that effect of urbanization on compositional heterogeneity varies across streams due to their unique characteristics. Furthermore, our results indicated that stream size drove community differences among natural and degree of urbanization between urban stream sections. The varying responses of streams beta diversity to anthropogenic modifications highlight the need for site-specific management in conservation strategies. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine how local environmental parameters influence compositional heterogeneity among samples (beta diversity, replacement and richness difference component) in natural and urban sections of low-order streams, focusing on the entire macroinvertebrate assemblages.

Nanoscale amphibole nucleation and growth in the Earth’s mantle is poorly understood despite its important role in the evolution and stability of the lithosphere, along with its influence on the coexisting fluid composition. Here, we focus on the nanoscale features of a clinopyroxene-amphibole-fluid inclusion system in an amphibole-bearing upper mantle xenolith and propose a new amphibole formation mechanism at mantle depth. Our approach includes fluid inclusion formation, crystallographic observations and molecular properties of the entrapped H2O-bearing supercritical CO2-rich mantle fluids. First, the differentiation of H2O and CO2 along the supercritical fluid-clinopyroxene interface leads to nanometre-thick hydrous monolayer formation. The disruption of the supercritical fluid-clinopyroxene interface, including the hydrous monolayer, leads to amphibole formation. Hydrous fluid-mobile elements in the hydrous monolayers, support amphibole growth via diffusion along the clinopyroxene-amphibole interface enhanced by various structural misfits. Our results help to clarify the driving forces of element exchange in a supercritical fluid-solid system and present the initial stage of hydrous mineral formation and growth. This process causes fixation of H2O and common lithophile elements with relative CO2 enrichment in the residual supercritical fluid. Nanochannels can contribute to element migration in clinopyroxene-amphibole-rich, non-porous domains in the lithospheric mantle.