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In the light of the constitutional legal developments by the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Court of Justice’ or ‘the CJEU’) as regards protection of fundamental rights, subsequently accepted by the authors of the Treaties (see Article 6.3 TEU), the Court can today be correctly described as the constitutional court of the EU. Against this backdrop, the CJEU
Sexual traits are often the most divergent characters among closely related species, suggesting an important role of sexual traits in speciation. However, to prove this, we need to show that sexual trait differences accumulate before or during the speciation process, rather than being a consequence of it. Here, we contrast patterns of divergence among putative male sex pheromone (pMSP) compos
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, conflicts in Egypt and Tunisia over the authority to rule and the role of religion in society raised questions about these societies’ capacity for reconciling differences. In retrospect, the conflicts also raise questions about the theoretical tools used to analyse regional developments. In particular, the ‘post-Islamism’ thesis has significantly changed the de
We propose a novel approach to the problem of inverse kinematics for possibly redundant planar manipulators. We show that, by considering the joints as point masses in a fictitious gravity field, and by adding proper constraints to take into account the length of the links, the kinematic inversion may be cast as a convex programming problem. Convex constraints in the decision variables (in particu
The basement membrane of the compound eye of four insect species and three crustacean species was investigated employing electron microscopy. The basement membrane consists of an extracellular (basal lamina) and a cellular portion, the latter being composed of the flattened terminal extensions of cone cells and accessory pigment cells in insects and distal pigment cells in crustaceans. Other cells
Recent literature has suggested how late-medieval families may have used financial markets to navigate the life cycle. Precious little is known about the precise connections between the life cycle and family on the one hand and investments in financial instruments on the other, though. We analyse late-medieval investment behaviour using a new dataset of hundreds of life annuities. Our data give ag
We study diffusion of cooperation in a two-population game in continuous time. At each instant, the game involves two random individuals, one from each population. The game has the structure of a Prisoner's dilemma where each player can choose either to cooperate (c) or to defect (d), and is reframed within the field of approachability in two-player repeated game with vector payoffs. We turn the g
While ecosystem-based planning approaches are increasingly promoted through international and national policies, municipalities are still struggling with translating them into practice. Against this background, this paper aims to increase the knowledge of current advances and possible ways to support the implementation of the ecosystem services (ES) approach at the municipal level. More specifical
Biodiversity loss and ecosystem service (BES) degradation are translating into different risks for financial institutions which are not accounted for in a sufficient and adequate manner. Being a topic outside its core expertise and foci, the financial sector is lacking assessment methodologies for BES risks. Therefore, the European financial sector is lacking up-to-date estimations on the scale of
With the present thesis I aim to explore what accounts for fluctuations in capital formation and profitability in Sweden and the UK since 1950. Do expectations rule investments which in turn determine profits, or is it rather profitability that rule expectations and thus investment behaviour? Applying a finite distributed-lag model on a variety of variables, profits emerge as a reliable key factor
Stratum corneum (SC) is the outer most layer of the epidermis recognized as the main barrier of the skin. The most important function of SC is to regulate water loss to the outer environment and prevent the chemical as well as microbial invasion. This exceptional ability of SC is attributed to its composition and architecture which resembles an actual brick and mortar wall. The structure and compo
Statliga och kommunala myndigheter inköp av byggentreprenader, varor, tjänster och byggkoncessioner måste föregås av ett upphandlingsförfarande enligt Lag om offentlig upphandling (2007:1091). En leverantör som inte anser att myndigheten agerat korrekt kan ansöka om överprövning i förvaltningsdomstol av upphandlingen eller ett avtal som myndigheten ingått enligt 16 kap. 4 § lagen om offentlig upphSwedish authorities that intend to purchase public goods, services and public works contracts are obliged to initiate a public procurement procedure according to the Swedish law of Public Procurement Act (2007:1091). An economic operator can initiate a review in a public administrative court if the authority has not procured correctly according to Chapter 16 § 4 of the Public Procurement Act. The
The Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago Reserve, located in the waters of northern Mozambique, is the largest marine protected area in Africa, extending over 200 km of coastline. Despite the region’s importance for the local economic, information on the marine ecosystem, notably benthic habitat, is very scarce. Twelve atolls were mapped in the region using object-based image classification of very-
This thesis is focused on modelling the pumping of the human heart. The modelling is limited to the left heart. Flows through the left heart were visualized by pathlines, streamlines and curl from 3D-velocity data acquired using 3D-velocity encoded magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A mathematical model was developed based on control volume analysis, 3D-flow analysis and the latest developments in
In May 2023, the EU adopted a crucial part of their updated climate policy, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). This thesis poses questions about how this novel legislation affects the EUs South-Eastern neighbours, the Western Balkans (WB). The relevance for applied climate change strategies lies in the policy-oriented approach to a new type of international climate policy. Previous res
Sedan monopolets fall har mediesituationen i Sverige förändrats mycket. SVT är inte längre ensamma aktörer på marknaden. Många frågor har uppstått efter monopolet föll. Bland annat hur SVT ska anpassa sig för att kunna behålla publiken i framtiden när utbudet och konkurrensen från andra kanaler ständigt växer. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att granska debatten kring SVT i Dagens Nyheter (DN) och
Problem: When unknown things, (e.g. a new media) first emerge on the market it is often defined as a threat to the society's values. This phenomenon is called moral panic and seems to be happening right now due to the diffusion of the Internet. Many times teenagers find themselves in the middle of disturbing situations. There are also concerns in the society that the Internet makes teenagers a
Podcastformatet som arena för politiserad maskulinitet, författad av Jens Kraemer, Alexander Holm & Jeppe Truedsson, är skriven inom ämnet Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Institutionen för kommunikation, Lunds universitet. Studien undersöker hur idéer om maskulinitet och antifeminism, med grund i den digitala manosfären, kommer till uttryck och ges politisk betydelse i samtida digital m
