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Revue européenne des migrations internationales, vol. 22 - n°2 | 2009

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

Revue européenne des migrations internationales, vol. 22 - n°3 | 2009

Current integration discussion about the Turkish population in Germany is influenced by culturalessentialism. The political and social components of integration are by and large being neglected.The incorporation of migrants of Turkish origin into the society is praised as a superior target for theCurrent Discussions in the German Integration Debate Revue européenne des migrations in...

Case 29-1998

A 57-year-old man was referred to the hospital because of fever and jaundice. The patient had been in good health until four years earlier, when a noninvasive, papillary transitional-cell carcinoma of the bladder, grade 1 on a scale of 1 to 3, was excised. Similar tumors were excised 12 and 18 months later. One year before admission, live bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) microorganisms were admini...

Improving Maternal and Child Health in Difficult Environments: The Case For “Cross-Border” Health Care

Health in Action T he evidence base on organising, delivering, and paying for effective and equitable health services in any resource-constrained setting is very weak [1]. To make health service delivery work in difficult environments, such as Badakhshan province in Afghanistan, the Northern Areas of Pakistan, and Gorno-Badakhshan province in Tajikistan, substantial challenges must be addressed...