Using people actively involved in mountain climbing, this thesis explores people‟s motivations to participate in mountain climbing, an activity frequently characterised in terms of risk. Moreover, using a variety of both quantitative and qualitative methods the assessment of the role of risk as a motivation for mountain climbing is central to the thesis. The first study (N = 232) employed a the...

Since its introduction in 2010, the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) concept has known a large diffusion European countries. Albania, an aspiring candidate country to join Union EU, is paving way towards by transposing EU directives fields of energy efficiency into national legislation. Most building stock includes buildings with low thermal and performance but high refurbishment potential, t...

In recent years, we have been able to observe the emergence and mainstreaming of an EU discourse on digital sovereignty, which highlights importance gaining back control infrastructure technological production, based EU's perceived loss economic competitiveness, limited capacity innovate, high degree dependence foreign infrastructures service providers and, related all these factors, difficulty...

The aim of the present study was to measure lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), europium (Eu), and gadolinium (Gd) concentrations in human semen and correlate the results with sperm quality. The median semen content of La was 19.5 µg kg(-1) dry weight (dw) (range 2.27-269), of Ce was 41.9 µg kg(-1) dw (range 4.52 to 167), of Eu was 0.68 µg kg(-1) dw (range 0.06-1.95), of Gd was 3.19 µg kg(-1) dw (rang...

This report aims to provide an overview of the intensity of work and work satisfaction in Korea by comparing the first Korean Working Conditions Survey with the results of the fourth European Working Conditions Survey in 2005. According to the comparison, Korean workers work longer hours than workers in the majority of EU countries. However, work intensity in the EU 27 was 1.5 times stronger th...

BACKGROUND The aim of the current study was to quantify the burden of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) with respect to health-related quality of life, work productivity and activity impairment, and healthcare resource utilization. METHODS Data were obtained from the 2010 EU National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS), which included participants from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK ...

This paper examines the effects of institutional arrangements on the wage formation process by estimating Phillips’ curves for the principal European Union (EU) member states, employing a time-varying parameter methodology. Our interest is in ascertaining the causes of any differences in the underlying sacrifice ratios vis. the short-run percentage increase in unemployment (or decrease in GDP) ...