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Awarding Construction Contracts: Do Swedish Adminsitrative Courts Support or Hinder Sustainability

In recent Swedish local government practice, lowest bid has increasingly been replaced as an award criterion for construction contracts by multicriteria approaches, including ecological criteria. The purpose of this investigation is to analyse how court practice influences the development of ecological criteria. Court decisions from 2004 and onwards are analysed in order to answer questions as how

Female Buddhist Authority and the Thai Sangha

In Thailand gender determines access to Buddhist ordination and women have never been granted membership in the Buddhist congregation, sangha. In spite of the fact that women are excluded from the possibility of being ordained by the Thai sangha women are active in the Buddhist field both as supporters of the sangha and as female Buddhist leaders. The Thai Buddhist nuns, mae chi, have existed in

Interactions of vitronectin and plasminogen with Helicobacter pylori

Helicobacter pylori is the main cause of chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer disease in man and is also associated gastric cancer. The spiral shaped H. pylori moves through the gastric mucous layer and colonises the gastric epithelial cells. H. pylori adheres to specific mucosal structures, including mucus molecules, epithelial cells, glycoconjugates and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. The ECM

Home Sweet Home - A Hermeneutic approach to Arnold Schoenberg's First String Quartet Opus 7

The Second String Quartet by Arnold Schoenberg, written in 1907 and 1908, is breaking musical traditions at least twice – (1) by leaving tonality, (2) by breaking the genre of string quartet, adding a voice who is interpreting two poems by the German symbolist Stefan George in its third and forth movements. In this paper, I want to raise the question about the reasons why Schoenberg might have add