We often hear that rights talk pervades politics, law and morality, that rights have never played a more decisive role in the formation of local and global relations, that rights are used more frequently than ever before to debate and resolve social, legal and political disputes, that rights emerge out of attempts to deal with or prevent injustice, and that they can support strategies of emancipat

This report describes the work carried out within the research project ``Merging Real-Time and Control Theory for Improving the Performance of Embedded Control Systems''. The overall objective of the work has been to develop integrated control and scheduling methods for improving the performance of real-time control systems with limited resources. The work has fallen into three categories. First,

Vid bedömning av universitetslärares meriter betraktas undervisning och forskning ofta som två skilda verksamheter, där olika uppsättningar kriterier definierar en skicklig lärare och en skicklig forskare. Återspeglar detta då verkligheten, eller är det möjligt att formulera gemensamma kriterier? Vi vill här diskutera en preliminär modell för bedömning av såväl forsknings- som undervisningsmeriter

This book is an anthology of a number of inquiries regarding Iraq after the fall of the Baath regime in Iraq in 2003, written by the author. There are a range of themes been discussed in the book, the Kurds in Iraq at crossroads, the process of rebuilding the state of Iraq, the US foreign policy and the case of Iraq, regional power and the rebuilding of Iraq, Turkey’s policies vis a vis Iraq and t

Resistance to antibiotics is a major threat to the effectiveness of modern health care. This study examines if pay-for-performance (P4P) to care providers stimulates the appropriate use of antibiotics; in particular, if P4P can induce a substitution away from broad-spectrum antibiotics, which contribute more to the development of resistance, to less resistance-driving types. In the context of Swed

This report presents the findings of of the "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) : Climate Change and the Cryosphere" assessment, the third AMAP assessment on arctic climate issues and a follow-up on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) published in 2005. The assessment was conducted between 2008 and 2011 by over 200 scientists, experts, and members of Native groups, and b

Intresset för lärlingsutbildning har ökat påtagligt i Sverige. Inom gymnasieskolan inleddes en försöksverksamhet 2008 som i och med gymnasiereformen 2011 (Gy11) växlades över i en reguljär utbildningsverksamhet. Dessutom förekommer en mer klassisk lärlingsutbildning i avtalsreglerade former som färdigutbildning inom ett antal branscher. Lärlingsutbildningsbegreppet används också emellanåt inom arb