Some foreign policy analysts believe that what we are witnessing in the 21st century is nothing short of a reconfiguring of the global political order - with China firmly positioned at the helm as a (re)emerging great power. At present, the notion of the imminent establishment of a ‘new world order with Chinese characteristics’ is increasingly gaining traction. This sentiment has long permeated fo

Seminar date: 29th May, 2017 Course: BUSN79, Business Administration Degree Project in Accounting and Finance, 15 ECTS Authors: Gareth Wright and Nikolaos Lappas Supervisor: Anders Anell Keywords: Management control systems, National culture, Levers of control Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify how multinational companies set their central management control systems and how are

The phenomenon of migration is a highly debated topic in international politics, rising in importance on the global agenda. This can be seen in the securitisation of migration policies of the EU, who has sought to restrict migration and sharpen border controls since mid-70s. In this process Turkey is of vital importance, considered one of the main ‘bridges’ for transit migration into the EU. Thus,

The purpose of this essay was to examine the language of Kazantzakis with its different aspects, such as his Cretan dialect, his dimotiki, foreign loan words as well as his own neologisms, everything with focus upon his later book Αναφορά στον Γκρέκο. I will walk through the author's life, his studies, jobs, far away traveling, self-exile, as well as the influences, thoughts and spiritual ques

Folkitektur handlar om att ta tillbaka trähantverkstraditioner till dagens byggnadsproduktioner. Projektet manifesterar trähantverket genom att bygga en kiosk med timringstekniker som dominerat svensk byggnadsproduktion i århundraden. Ordet arkitektur kan delas upp i prefixet arki- som ursprungligen betyder överste eller mästare. Den andra delen -tektur kommer från grekiskans tekton som betyder

Background: Social support has a strong impact on individuals, not least on older individuals with health problems. A lack of support network and poor family or social relations may be crucial in later life, and represent risk factors for elder abuse. This study focused on the associations between social support, demographics/socio-economics, health variables and elder mistreatment. Methods: The c

Future historians might remember the period 2009-2012 as a turning point in the political response to global warming and climate change. The 1980s were a time of agenda-setting in which climate change became accepted as a political problem; the 1990s saw the first institutionalization through adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 and its Kyoto Protocol in 19

Comparisons of release rates, duration in the field, and catch efficiency of polyethylene and cotton roll dispensers for the sex pheromones of sawflies (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae) were conducted. The release rates of the neodiprion sertifer(Geoffr.) and Diprion pini (L.) sex pheromones, the acetates of pentadecanol and (2S,3S,7S)-3,7-dimethyl (2S,3R,7R)-3,7-dimethyl--tridecanol from polyethylene di

Police crash reports are often the main source for official data in many countries. However, police sampling and data are known to be subject to bias, making the countermeasures adopted according to them possibly inefficient. In the case of bicycle crashes, this bias is most acute and it probably varies across countries, with some of them being more prone to reporting accidents to police than othe

Background: There has been a lack of a standardized protocol for collection of patient reported outcomes (PRO) and detection of and indication for psychological treatment in cleft care. The objectives of this paper was to translate Cleft Hearing Appearance and Speech Questionnaire (CHASQ) into eight European languages, to investigate whether levels of PRO in patients with cleft lip and/or cleft pa

Urbanization has resulted in a gigantism of urban complexes and in many environmental and social problems. The situation on the surface and the principles of sustainable development compel urban planners to utilize the urban underground space, which for centuries has been almost exclusively the application field of mining. More often than not spatial planning in urban areas allocates various land-

This contribution presents a new software, Collectio, which can be used for creating highly complex relational MySQL databases, or more accurately, dynamic libraries. These libraries prove particularly well-suited for texts where the material has been organized in different ways and thus represents a ‘fluid’ textual tradition, or in traditions transmitted in many languages. So far, two libraries hThis contribution presents a new software, Collectio, which can be used for creating highly complex relational MySQL databases, or more accurately, dynamic libraries. These libraries prove particularly well-suited for texts where the material has been organized in different ways and thus represents a ‘fluid’ textual tradition, or in traditions transmitted in many languages. So far, two libraries h

CALL FOR PAPERS TO THE CALL FOR PAPERS TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COLLOQUIUM BALTICUM We have had the pleasure to listen to a great number of interesting papers at the meetings of the Colloquium Balticum, and it has often been said that a joint publication is a desideratum to make these contributions wider known in the res publica litterarum and to put our network, the Colloquium Balticum, on the s

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Dedicated scientist and researcher who taught Carl von Linné Probably you have all seen the magnolia tree on the northwestern side of the fountain in front of the University building in Lund. But, have you ever noticed the statue of Kilian Stobaeus the Elder that is sitting among the rich leaves of that tree? Of the professors at Lund University, he is one of only a few that has been honoured with

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Doctoral student Contact details Email: tabita [dot] rosendal_ebbesen [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] se Phone: +46 46 222 37 26Organisation Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University Visiting address: Sölvegatan 18B, Lund Room number: 105 Service point: 61 WebpageTabita Rosendal Ebbesens profile in Lund University research portalOther affiliations Doctoral student Centre for East and S

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1 An approximation of job quality and innovation using the 3rd European Company Survey. QUINNE WORKING PAPER No.4 WP5-3-2017 Rafael Muñoz-de-Bustillo* Rafael Grande** Enrique Fernández-Macías*** OCTOBER 2017 * University of Salamanca, Spain ** University of Málaga, Spain *** Eurofound, Dublin, Ireland. 2 AN APPROXIMATION OF JOB QUALITY AND INNOVATION USING THE 3RD EUROPEAN COMPANY SURVEY QUINNE WO

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