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In the European Commission people with different cultural backgrounds are working together to achieve common goals. This thesis is an explorative study of the impact the different cultural backgrounds of the staff have on the work in the administrative Commission. By analyzing interviews conducted with staff in Directorate-General for Education and Culture and in Directorate-General for Economic a

Greek islands face a series of problems that can put their sustainability at risk. Overexploitation of natural resources, limited waste and wastewater management practices, and energy shortage are such problems. Lack of cyclic behaviour in resource flows is a factor tightly linked to these problems. Here, the concept of industrial symbiosis appears to offer an important potential in addressing som

Abstract The need to conduct more research on identity differences arises as Turkey gets closer to becoming a member of the European Union. Aware of this demand the aim of this thesis is to examine the modernization efforts in Turkey and find out if these have led to a Europeanization of the Turkish identity, an issue of significance in integration. The dissertation is carried out with a social c

For a very long time the municipal fire services in Sweden have been formed due to tradition and different laws. This design does not take the actual risks in the municipal into consideration. The purpose of this report is therefore to create a model for designing municipal fire services. This model will take more factors into consideration than the population structure as has been done before.

Effective weed control in agricultural crop fields increases yields, but simultaneously reduces floral resources for pollinators because many weed species provide pollen and nectar. Consequently, efforts to enhance crop yields on organic farms by using effective weed control methods risk compromising positive effects of organic farming on pollinating insects. Thus, it is important to find manageme

The present study describes the testing and function of the drop-volume method in the analysis of fetal lung maturity with use of amniotic fluid. Elevated surface tension resulting from a lack of surface-active phospholipids (surfactant) is the primary etiologic defect in the development of respiratory distress syndrome. The drop-volume method quantifies the surface tension of amniotic fluid with

Accelerated economic change in developing countries is rapidly transforming cities; existing urban systems and land-use patterns are poorly adapted to the scale of growth and the spatial restructuring of economic activity. Within this context, the paper assesses the challenges in educating planners in the knowledge and skills needed to deal with these trends. The paper argues for a review of plann

The mirror effect refers to a rather general empirical finding showing that, for two classes of stimuli, the class with the higher hit rates also has a lower false alarm rate. In this article, a parsimonious theory is proposed to account for the mirror effect regarding, specifically, high- and low-frequency items and the associated receiver-operating curves. The theory is implemented in a recurren

The role of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) in El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability is investigated using coupled model experiments with different topography setups. Removing the TP results in weakened trade winds in the tropical Pacific, an eastward shift of atmospheric convection center, a shallower mixed layer in the equatorial Pacific, and a flattened equatorial thermocline, which leads to

The neutron-rich 213Pb isotope was produced in the fragmentation of a primary 1 GeV A 238U beam, separated in FRS in mass and atomic number, and then implanted for isomer decay γ-ray spectroscopy with the RISING setup at GSI. A newly observed isomer and its measured decay properties indicate that states in 213Pb are characterized by the seniority quantum number that counts the nucleons not in pair

400 år av barnomsorg: En ny bok skildrar Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhusets historia 400 år av barnomsorg: En ny bok skildrar Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhusets historia Av Sofia Hermansson - Publicerad den 7 maj 2025 Omslag: Cristina Jäderberg (källa: Stockholmia förlag) I nyutgivna (april) "För barnens bästa eller samhällets nytta – Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhusets historia" ges en fascinerande inblick i

https://www.hist.lu.se/article/400-aar-av-barnomsorg-en-ny-bok-skildrar-stiftelsen-allmaenna-barnhusets-historia/ - 2026-07-06