This article examines the process of emergence and consolidation of an expat community of over 2000 Polish EU Institutions officials in Brussels. This group appears quite alienated both from other Polish migrants in Belgium and from the local population. At the same time, they constitute a strongly integrated community. The objective of the present analysis is to explain the drivers and the dyn...

The transposition of EU law into national law is a significant part of the EU policy process. However, political scientists haven’t devoted to it the attention that it deserves. The author, a political scientist, construes transposition as a part of the wider process of policy implementation. Following implementation theory from the field of public policy, the article outlines three sets of fac...

To minimize the unwanted toxic effects of anti-anginal ranolazine by kinetic control of drug release, it was entrapped into gastro-resistant, biodegradable eudragit (EU) and ethyl cellulose (EC) binary blend using phase separation method. Ten formulations were prepared using different polymer blend ratios and solvent. The prepared microparticles were characterized for micromeritic properties, p...

or Ce 3+ as an activator on the other side. Also, the quantum efficiency of the thiosilicates is acceptable (e.g. 30% for Sr2SiS4, 35% for Ca2SiS4) and open to further improvement, e.g. by finetuning the synthesis conditions [1]. The thermal quenching temperature T0.5 (defined as the temperature for which the emission intensity is half of the intensity at low temperature) in Ca2SiS4:Eu is suffi...

Overgrowing (interaction) and dissolution of intact and milled hot particles by various micromycetes were studied under laboratory conditions. Hot particles used for the investigation originated from the Chernobyl accident release and atomic bomb testing sites. The micromycetes investigated were mitosporic fungi mainly isolated from the Chernobyl site and vicinity. Most of the fungal species an...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of postoperative radiotherapy for the treatment of patients with pathologic N1 neck disease. METHODS One hundred eighteen consecutive patients with upper aerodigestive tract cancer who were initially treated with curative surgery between 1986 and 2002 and had pN1 disease without extracapsular spread were reviewed. Postoperative radio...

We study whether financial openness facilitates the economic integration of formerly centrally planned economies with the EU-15. Two dimensions of economic integration are considered: cross-country convergence of per-capita incomes and bilateral trade in goods and services. We find that more financially open economies effectively catch-up faster and trade more with the EU-15. These integration-...

Environmental taxation has been a permanent feature of the policy agenda over past few decades. It represented about 2.5 percent GDP and 6 total in EU recent years. In this paper, we study evolution environmental its two main subcategories, energy transport taxes, as percentage share EU, through club convergence analysis period 1995–2016. From perspective, results show three groups countries or...