LIFE ASSURANCES AND BURIAL CLUBS.

Clubs within clubs:

This paper deals with two examples of macro-regions in the EU: the Benelux and the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). Building on the distinction between “old” and “new” regionalism, it discusses some characteristics of regions in general, and of sub-integration schemes within the EU in particular. These characteristics are applied to the two regions at hand. From this application it foll...

Life, death and burial: multifaceted impact of autophagy.

Macroautophagy, often referred to as autophagy, designates the process by which portions of the cytoplasm, intracellular organelles and long-lived proteins are engulfed in double-membraned vacuoles (autophagosomes) and sent for lysosomal degradation. Basal levels of autophagy contribute to the maintenance of intracellular homoeostasis by ensuring the turnover of supernumerary, aged and/or damag...

Technical Enforcement of Informational Assurances

Dealing with informational assurances we have to consider the full complexity of the information society. In a norrower sense informational assurances comprise informational rights, the related legal and social rules as well as the enforcing technical mechanisms. The right of privacy, understood as informational self-determination, is taken as an important example. Starting from a discussion of...

Assurances of Objectivity

Convergence Clubs in Cross-Country Life Expectancy Dynamics

Can ‘development’ and ‘underdevelopment’ be defined as specific economic states? Is it possible that whole sets of countries find themselves in particular types of dynamic equilibria that determine the type and extent of their growth? This is the kind of question that was addressed when development theory originated. However, the difficulties faced by development policy in practice led to the c...