Social Welfare in China and Vietnam: how new welfare models are being developed in a globalised world

This paper discusses the social security systems in China and Vietnam as descriptive examples of developments of social welfare models in changing Asian contexts. It seeks to develop a methodological approach, which will enable analyses of overarching “macro” developments as well as individual experiences thereof. The main objective is to discuss the possibilities of a comparative analysis of soci

The Muhannad Effect: Media Panic, Melodrama, and the Arab Female Gaze

In the summer of 2008, the Saudi-owned, pan-Arab satellite television network Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) aired a failed Turkish soap opera, Gümüş, as the Arabized Noor, creating an overnight sensation and a media panic. Arab news media attributed a wave of domestic violence and divorce to the series’ handsome lead actor, and his character’s romantic deportment. This article combines con

Do animals have imagination? Using pictures to study the representational abilities of great apes.

Preparation and properties of polysulfone ionomers for fuel cell membranes

Beta-decay of O-22

Den litterära renässansen och utveckling av den arabiska romanen

Direct CO2 inhibition offsets temperature effects on future isoprene emissions

A New Smith Predictor for Controlling a Process with an Integrator and Long Dead-Time

The struggle for dignity by people with severe functional disabilities.

How to identify the correct information from eyewitness memory reports?

A multi-echolon inventory control model for implementation in practice - the case of Tetra Pak Technical Service

Inköparen-nyckelperson i produktutvecklingen

Economic Reforms and the Malian Economy

Usage-Based Reading - An Experiment to Guide Reviewers with Use Cases

Reading methods for software inspections are used for aiding reviewers to focus on special aspects in a software artefact. Many experiments have been conducted for checklist-based reading and scenario-based reading concluding that the focus is important for software reviewers. This paper describes and evaluates a reading technique called usage-based reading (UBR). UBR utilises prioritised use case

Perfomance Modelling and Control of Distributed E-commerce Sites

Rather Free than Filmmaker: Film Workshops in Sweden 1968 - 2001

The paper presents the two Swedish film workshops "Filmverkstan" and FilmCentrum" and discusses them as minor cinema practices. Besides sketching the history of the workshops, the paper presents an agenda for further research.

The role of sensations in the anticipating self

Novel electronic and optoelectronic devices with nanometer-scale semiconductor structures

Microwave spectroscopy test measurements in industrial settings

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Adapting a causality model of technical systems to represent socio-technical systems: A Case study from the BoP

The base of the world economic pyramid, generally called the base of the pyramid (BoP), consists of four billion people with average daily income of four dollars. Over the past several years, the design and development of products and services for BoP markets has been investigated by several authors from different disciplines. While some authors suggest a systems approach to design and develop pro