... authoritative in the Middle Ages called theirauthority into question. When combined with the propaganda poten-tial of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing becamea major force behind ... abridgement, ThePrinting Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, ). Eisenstein, Printing Press and Eisenstein, Printing Revolution. For his critique of Eisenstein see Johns, The Nature ... the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making(Chicago and London, ), esp. pp. –, argues strongly for the impor-tance of different cultural settings in making distinctive print cultures....
... et Maladies Infectieuses 2007; 37:S175-188 [French] 4. Klaeger AJ, Herbort CP. Cotton wool spots as possible indica-toris of retinal vascular pathology in ocular lyme borreliosis. Int Ophthalmol ... ocular in- flammation, features must include occurrence in an endemic zone; and/or the report of contact with a tick or of previous erythema migrans; positive serology with presence of IgM in ... actually developed demyelinating syndromes. [5] Figure 1: Tick among the eyelashes (courtesy of Dr. N. Massaro; Agrigento - Italy). Figure 2: Papillitis with initial macular exudation....
... information dissem-ination, public awareness and health advice.WHO GUIDELINES FOR DRINKING-WATER QUALITYWHO’s Guidelines for drinking-water quality (39) are the international reference point ... WHO European Region committed themselves to jointaction with WHO, the European Commission (EC) and other international organizations in building asupporting information base.The resulting European ... Public Health Institute, Kuopio, FinlandKristiina PatjaaNational Public Health Institute, Helsinki, FinlandJouko Tuomistoa,bNational Public Health Institute, Kuopio, FinlandPerrine de Crouy-ChanelaFrench...
... particularly in asthmatics ã Increase in airway allergic inflammatory reactionsã Increase in hospital admissionsã Increase in mortalityEffects related to long-term exposureã Increase in lower ... symptomsã Reduction in lung function in childrenã Increase in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ã Reduction in lung function in adultsã Reduction in life expectancy, owing mainly to cardiopulmonary ... pollution inEurope , which provides essential input to EU policy-making on air quality, in particular the Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) programme of the European Commission. More than 80 leading...
... resulting indebtedness has been exacerbated by the financial crisis and recession, and this in turn is contributing to underlying financial instability – Europe s biggest problem. The financial ... 01000002000003000004000005000006000007000008000009000001000000Mar/00Nov/00Jul/01Mar/02Nov/02Jul/03Mar/04Nov/04Jul/05Mar/06Nov/06Jul/07Mar/08Nov/08Jul/09Mar/10Nov/10Jul/11Mar/12Nov/12Lending to EU Credit InstitMain RefisL-Term Financing SOLVING THE FINANCIAL AND SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS INEUROPE 10 OECD JOURNAL: FINANCIAL MARKET TRENDS VOLUME ... (based on the Vickers Report)14 is implementing the most significant reform since the crisis (including ring-fencing retail banking from investment banking), the USA has the Volcker rule (that...
... may be used interchangeably in this document, reflecting common usage. In all cases externalities are calculated to give marginal figures, or figures cose to being marginal. The dominance of health ... sources within each country, within the modelling domain. Here, and elsewhere, effects in eastern Europe are included although analysis has not been undertaken to quantify the damages linked to ... relate to people dying earlier than they would in the absence of air pollution. Morbidity relates instead to illness, ranging from minor effects such as coughing to life threatening conditions that...
... Developments in Ukraine highlight its role in building a secure and stable Europe, based upon democratic values. Most Ministers appealed to all parties and institutions in Ukraine to co-operate fully in ... Eleventh Ministerial Council in Maastricht contains the option that participating States may present requests through the OSCE for assistance in securing or eliminating such stockpiles. Since the ... participating States willing to provide assistance in implementing huge projects in the field of securing or destroying such stockpiles. The requests and a one-day special FSC meeting on 29...
... trends in mobile phone usage and internet usage show rapid increases with populations in eastern parts of Europe fast catching up with those in west and central Europe (see graphs). 3 European ... to parents as containing milk and being only a ‘snack’ size. Products are sold in multi-packs of 8 and 16 for repeating the ‘treat’ on a routine basis. The online advertising specifically describes ... on marketing to children, including cross-border issues5 which were presented to the World Health Assembly in 2010. In 2009, the WHO European Regional Network on reducing marketing pressure...
... Portugal, Spain Nordics: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden CEE: Central Eastern Europe | Creating lasting value YearBook 2011 | Creating lasting value Yearbook 2012 Investments Investments ... raising/managing the fund (industry statistics). ã The funds included in the statistics are: private equity funds making direct private equity investments, mezzanine private equity funds, co-investment ... Analytics *Buyout funds including Growth capital and Mezzanine funds Investments Investments Statistics explained: ã Industry statistics are an aggregation of the figures according to the country...
... formal Education and Training. IPTS LEARNING 2.0 POLICY BRIEF 7 Learning 2.0 – Innovating formal Education & TrainingInnovations in informal ICT-enabled Learning Communities Research ... 46Downloading and/or watching movies, short films or video filesF Downloading/listening/watching/exchanging/podcasting music/ filmsE Downloading/listening to/watching/play in g ... and teachers. The findings indicate that learning strategies that make use of social media can contribute to innovation in Education and Training inEurope by facilitating technological, pedagogical...
... Chapter 7 Tackling the challenges of chronic disease inEurope 55 7.1 New pharmaceuticals and medical devices 55 7.2 Financial incentives 59 7.3 Improving coordination 67 7.4 Information and ... and PoliciesEuropeanReinhard Busse, Miriam Blümel, David Scheller-Kreinsen, Annette ZentnerObservatory Studies Series No 20TACKLING CHRONIC DISEASE IN EUROPE Strategies, interventions ... according to the income categories used by the World Bank. - x -Table 7.2 Incentives used to improve chronic care in European countries63Table 7.3 Recent policy initiatives to improve coordination...
... living in a couple and thenumber of children in many of the men’s equations, this could indicate that there is somecoordination going on within couples: on average men seem to specialize in ... A. Brugiavini, H. Jürges, J. Mackenbach, J. Siegrist and G.Weber (eds.), Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. First Results from theSurvey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Mannheim ... of an individual who is 50+) or older than 64 (around 48percent of the sample), and deleting observations with important missing information (3percent of the remaining sample), we retain a sample...
... representing the reciprocal of yield,zis a variable that indexesfarmer-supplied inputs used in organic food production, and( , )bc w zis increasing, linearlyhomogeneous, and concave in w, ... marginal cost industry. Organic production, on the other hand, is assumed to be anincreasing cost industry: at the margin, expanding organic production requires additional farmer-supplied inputs ... theparameteris to be interpreted as capturing the underlying efficiency gain in production, due to theinnovation, net of the possibly noncompetitive pricing of the improved inputs. But for the...
... is being constrained by the introduction of new generationsof quality assurance and clinical governance systems across manyEuropean countries including, in particular, clinical guidelines and ... successful in controlling and dominatingthe health care division of labour and in the process circumscribing thenurses’ professionalisation project. Thus, according to this interpretationnursing ... abandonment of the Welfare State in favour ofa far more minimalist approach to government justified in terms of ‘the 1Reorganising Hospital Medicineand Nursing in Europe It will not have escaped...
... ‘specialness’ of banks in a setting in which there are asymmetries ofinformation. In this setting, according to the ‘signalling hypothesis’, commercial banksspecialise in lending information to problematic ... difficulties in integratinginstitutions with widely different strategic orientation. These findings fit well with theprocess of financial consolidation observed in recent years in the European ... Cross-border mergers in European Banking and bankefficiency, University of Gent Working Paper 152.Vives, X. (2000), Lessons from European banking liberalization and integration, in TheInternationalization...