Definitional Dilemmas : Southeastern Europe as « Culture Area » ?

Southeastern Europe – Global Challenges And

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in southeastern Europe.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an acute, tick-borne viral disease, affecting only humans and newborn mice, with hemorrhagic manifestations and considerable mortality in humans. CCHF virus circulates in nature in an enzootic tick-vertebrate-tick cycle; migrating birds and livestock transferred from endemic to non-endemic areas may carry large numbers of infected ticks thus spreading t...

Policy Dilemmas in Financing Long-term Care in Europe

All rights reserved. No part of this paper may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieve system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Abstract Long-term care (LTC) is the largest insurable risk facing the elderly...

Which Sustainability for Europe? Policy Dilemmas over GM Crops

As the term 'sustainability' is more widely adopted, its meaning becomes more contested. It encompasses divergent accounts of the problem to be solved. These accounts can be analysed according to a three-part taxonomy: an 'environmental management' view serves to mediate (or adjudicate) between neoliberal and community views. Such a heuristic device can help illuminate controversies in particul...

Definitional Trees

Rewriting is a computational paradigm that specifies the actions, but not the control. We introduce a hierarchical structure representing, at a high level of abstraction, a form of control. Its application solves a specific problem arising in the design and implementation of inherently sequential, lazy, functional programming languages based on rewriting. For example, we show how to extend the ...