Is the EU integrating?

Integrating Web Resources into the Eu Agentcities Multi-agent Initiative

Agents are problem-solving units with well-defined boundaries and interfaces operating in given environments. Agents receive inputs about the state of their environment through their sensors, may change their environment via their actors, have specific goals, control their inner state and actions autonomously, and apply flexible problem-solving algorithms to hit their target, i.e. react upon th...

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

Is EU/EEA population protected from polio?

The WHO European Region has been declared polio-free since 2002. By 2010, inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) was the only polio vaccine in use in the EU/EEA for the primary vaccination of children. A systematic review of the literature on polio seroprevalence studies, complemented by the analysis of available vaccine coverage data, has been carried out with the aim of assessing the level of protec...

Is Innovation Destroying Jobs? Firm-level Evidence from the Eu°

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low-tech industries. From a ...

Saffron’omics’: The challenges of integrating omic technologies

Saffron is one of the highly exotic spices known for traditional values and antiquity. It is used for home décor besides serving as a colorant flavor and is widely known for medicinal value. Over the last few years, saffron has garnered a lot of interest due to its anti-cancer, anti-mutagenic, anti-oxidant and immunomodulatory properties. Integration of systems biology approaches with wide appl...