European qualifications passport for refugees

Explaining the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning

European Agreement on the Abolition of Visas for Refugees.

The government of Malta ratified this Agreement on abolishing visas for refugees on January 17, 1989.

Qualifications frameworks for the European higher education area A new instrumentalism or “ much ado about nothing ” ?

The purpose of this article is to explore the development of qualifications frameworks as a key element in the Bologna process, which aims to develop a European Higher Education Area by 2010. By setting up descriptors of learning outcomes, a European qualifications framework is intended as an instrument that enables Europe to coordinate and exchange qualifications. Furthermore, the article anal...

The athlete biological passport.

BACKGROUND In elite sports, the growing availability of doping substances identical to those naturally produced by the human body seriously limits the ability of drug-testing regimes to ensure fairness and protection of health. CONTENT The Athlete Biological Passport (ABP), the new paradigm in testing based on the personalized monitoring of biomarkers of doping, offers the enormous advantage ...

Constraint Qualifications for Nonlinear Programming

This paper deals with optimality conditions to solve nonlinear programming problems. The classical Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions are demonstrated through a cone approach, using the well known Farkas’ Lemma. These conditions are valid at a minimizer of a nonlinear programming problem if a constraint qualification is satisfied. First we prove the KKT theorem supposing the equalit...