The objective of this paper is to provide a classification of recycling policy measures in relation to the actual recycling levels achieved in the EU Member States and in the European Environment Agency member countries. The paper covers the following five waste streams: packaging waste, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), municipal solid waste (MSW), biodegradable municipal waste (B

Publisher Summary: This chapter discusses two major developments that have taken place over the past decade. First is the enormous wealth of energy band calculations that have had tremendous success in explaining the properties of specific solids, but in which the connection with first principles is not always apparent. Second is the spectacular progress of many-body theory applied to the solid st

In this article, I apply René Girard's theory of generative violence to the international law relating to the use of force. I argue that texts of international law make gestures of referral towards an immanent normativity on the fettering of divine violence. The means to this end is a form of sacrificial violence that seeks to promote the preservation and cohesion of the ‘international community’.

Artikeln behandlar den nya användningen av hjälpverbet kommer att, där infinitivmärket att allt oftare stryks i talspråk och skriftspråk. Den undersöker ett större skriftspråkligt material och diskuterar förutsättningarna för användningen av kommer utan att.

This manuscript presents an reconfigurable architecture, suitable to process time synchronization for multiple OFDM standards. The proposed architecture is based on a coarse-grained reconfigurable cell array, and the different radio standards under analysis are IEEE 802.11n, 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Digital Video Broadcast for cellular devices. With the use of a 2-by-2 cell array, composed of

Navigation using inertial measurement units (IMUs) is an interesting area of research. Due to the low cost hardware and simple implementation, the approach looks very attractive. But the performance of the IMUs to provide sub-meter accuracy over a longer period of time is still not sufficient, so different approaches have been adopted to increase the performance at the cost of extra hardware and/o

The purpose of this work is to provide statistical series on energy consumption in Portugal in 1856-2006. Its main innovation is the inclusion of traditional sources along with modern ones.

This study investigates the use of cleft constructions in English and Swedish on the basis of a bidirectional translation corpus consisting of original English and Swedish texts and their translations into the other language. This design minimizes the problems inherent in corpora of original texts alone, viz. that no pair of texts is perfectly matched for content, as well as translation corpora, v

The chapter on Sweden in this book on trade union revitalisation in 34 countries analyzes the Swedish model of industrial relations and its current challenges, among them the falling union density. The recent development of industrial relations is characterized in terms of a new mix of decentralisation and centralisation and of self-regulation and state regulation. Contents of the Swedish chapte