Aphrodite is the divine image in Western civilization of love and fertility. She is the eternal beauty of classical Greece - but she has a wide-ranging history. On the one hand giver of wealth and abundance - on the other linked with violence and war. Aphrodite appeared on Cyprus during the Bronze Age. Protectress of copper, her cult spread all over Europe. In Scandinavia she was called Nerthus. B

Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. The papers in this volume illustrate how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsman, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry

Popular Abstract in Swedish Ända sedan Charles Darwin 1859 publicerade Om arternas uppkomst har just frågan om hur en art delas i två varit en central del av evolutionsbiologin. Darwin hade under resorna på HMS Beagle iakttagit hur bland annat härmtrastar och finkar på Galápagos varierade mellan öarna och drog slutsatsen att flera närbesläktade arter inom grupperna delade samma ursprung. Darwin beThe process of speciation is a cornerstone in evolutionary biology. In Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, he described how he imagined that a new species would evolve to fill an empty niche. This focus on ecology shifted with Mayr towards the importance of isolation, and for many decades the geographic modes of speciation were debated. Speciation in sympatry, i.e. without any isolation between the

A model catalyst system with a loading range between 1/4 to 10 theoretical layers of vanadium oxide on TiO2(B ) support was tried for selective ammoxidation and oxidation of toluene. In the case of ammoxidation, a peak in conversion rate per unit surface area was found for a catalyst with a coverage of about 2 theoretical layers, indicating a strong interaction between the catalyst and the otherwi

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have originally been developed for large enterprises (LEs). However, market saturation, integration of supply chains and technology improvements have led to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have started adopting ERP systems. Though there is a focus shift from LEs to SMEs in the ERP market, most academic literature on ERP systems is based on findi

In the last decade there has been interest in Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition- HCCI as a way to increase the efficiency of the gasoline engine. The attractive properties are increased fuel efficiency due to reduced throttling losses, increased expansion ratio and higher thermodynamic efficiency. The main drawback of HCCI is the absence of direct combustion timing control. Therefore all the