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The phenomenon of global warming has become a fact, however; the uncertainty is about the magnitude and acceleration of its manifestations. Global mean sea level rise is one of the results induced by global warming and is happening with an undetectable accelerated pace. The world international organizations and governments are devoting efforts and initiatives in a trial to manage global warming in

Detta arbete är en undersökning av regelverket för solcellsanläggningar på brukningsvärd jordbruksmark och hur detta regelverk tolkas i praktiken. Brukningsvärd jordbruksmark är en nationellt skyddsvärd resurs som erhåller ett särskilt skydd i miljöbalken genom en hushållningsbestämmelse i 3 kap. 4 § miljöbalken. Detta eftersom en långsiktigt säkerställd livsmedelsproduktion utgör ett väsentligt s

Sverige är en av Europas ledande gruvnationer och den svenska gruvindustrin utgör en mycket viktig näring från försörjningssynpunkt, sysselsättningssynpunkt och industriell synpunkt. Samtidigt som mineralindustrin innebär stora vinster för samhället medför den även rad betänkligheter ur miljösynpunkt. Gruvverksamhet för bland annat med sig buller, damm, förändrad hydrologi och utsläpp av olika slaSweden is one of Europe's leading mining nations and the Swedish mining industry is an important industry from a supply, employment and industrial point of view. At the same time as the mineral industry brings profits for society it also brings consideration from an environmental point of view. Mining activities include noise, dust, altered hydrology and emissions of various kinds. In addition

Under tidigt 2000-tal, efter att olika företagsskandaler uppdagats både i Sverige och internationellt, kom flera betänkanden som alla behandlade bolagsstyrningsfrågor. Resultatet av dessa utredningar blev regelverket “Svensk kod för bolagsstyrning”. Den svenska Koden för bolagsstyrning är marknadens självreglering på bolagsstyrningsområdet och bygger på principen ”följa eller förklara”. Denna prinDuring the early years of the 21st century, after the revealing of various corporate scandals, several public reports were published in Sweden concerning corporate governance issues. These reports became the framework for the Swedish Corporate Governance Code, a soft law instrument established by the market. “Comply or explain” is the regulatory approach for the Code, meaning that a company, in it

The infringement of intellectual property rights has devastating effects on trade, the free circulation of goods, employment, development and public health. Rights holders and the companies legitimately exploiting them are the main parties injured by this and in the last few years, infringement has increased by more than 1000%. The Commission has fought against such infringement since the eighties

Ethiopia is implementing a Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) as of 2005, claimed to be the largest social protection program in Africa, which sets out to link relief to development and curb the country’s long over dependence on food aid. This research,thus explores the theoretical framework regarding social protection programs and their ability to bridge the gap between relief and development b

The Unified Glare Rating (UGR) method defined by the International Commission on Illumination is practically the only one used for evaluation of discomfort glare in the lighting design process. However, it is unclear if this method aligns with subjective discomfort glare measures using subjective glare indexes (SGIs). We compared calculated UGR values with commonly used subjective discomfort glare

BackgroundObservational data suggests that an anterior or apical left ventricular (LV) position in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is associated with worse outcome and higher likelihood of “non-response”. It is not known whether the benefits of optimizing LV lead position in a second procedure outweighs the procedural risks.ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical effects of LV lead repositioning

The ways in which a bureaucratic model of oversight could be turned into a vehicle of individualizing religious practices in late-eighteenth-century Sweden is the central concern of this chapter. It focuses on how bureaucratic measures could be used to implement enlightened reform, thereby offering a different perspective on ‘pastoral Enlightenment’ in the rural European North. By examining how Ol

Humans have an irresistible inclination to coordinate actions with others, leading to species-unique forms of cooperation. According to the highly influential Shared intentionality theory (SITh), human cooperation is made possible by shared intentionality (SI), typically defined as a suite of socio-cognitive and motivational traits for sharing psychological states with others, thereby enabling ind

In this chapter, a detailed review of the current understanding of thephysical processes of droplet breakup in a high-pressure homogenizer (HPH) is presented,covering breakup mechanisms by laminar shear in the gap inlet and its boundarylayers, by local turbulence in the gap exit jet, and by cavitation. Experimentalevidence of the effects of homogenization pressure, Thoma number, dispersed andconti In this chapter, a detailed review of the current understanding of the physical processes of droplet breakup in a high-pressure homogenizer (HPH) is presented, covering breakup mechanisms by laminar shear in the gap inlet and its boundary layers, by local turbulence in the gap exit jet, and by cavitation. Experimental evidence of the effects of homogenization pressure, Thoma number, dispersed and

PurposeSexual harassment in contexts of higher education is a well-documented problem with far reaching consequences for individuals and organizations. Questions remain about how sexual harassment is conceptualized and what implications these conceptualizations have for designing programmes to prevent and respond to sexual harassment in university settings. This study aimed to understand how stude

Just over seven years into the implementation of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP in October 2016, the armed conflict has reconfigured and reactivated in several parts of the country. In the Putumayo department, tensions between the state, various armed groups, and rural communities over territory and crops for illicit use persisted, and even accentuated in the

Background The implementation of immunological biomarkers for radiotherapy (RT) individualization in breast cancer requires consideration of tumor-intrinsic factors. This study aimed to investigate whether the integration of histological grade, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1), and programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) can identify tumors with aggressive ch