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The Use of Flocked Swabs with a Protective Medium Increases the Recovery of Live Brucella spp. and DNA Detection

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum, 2021
Brucellosis is a worldwide zoonosis caused by bacteria from the genus Brucella. Once established, it is very hard to eradicate this disease, since it contaminates animals, the environment, and humans, causing problems for veterinary and public health as ...
Luca Freddi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

EU Expansion and EU Growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The exercise in economic integration that today is called the European Union (EU) began in the 1950s amid high hopes for the benefits that it would provide, both economically and politically The political benefits, by eliminating the historic military conflict among the participating countries, have been unambiguous and very large.
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
openaire   +1 more source

Healthcare Policy‐Making Through the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility: A Multi‐Level Governance and Policy Design Approach

open access: yesRisk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) has been a significant innovation in European Union (EU) governance and represents an opportunity to prioritize healthcare investments and reforms, among other policies. While much has been written about the EU post‐pandemic, particularly regarding the potential for changing the economic paradigm and ...
David Natali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

European Without Euros: How Geopolitical Histories Shape the Symbolic Boundaries of Europe

open access: yesJournal of Social Issues, Volume 81, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geocultural dynamics shape the symbolic boundaries of Europe and the psychological and political consequences of those boundaries. We extend traditional models of social identification by arguing that claims to group representativeness ‐ and the recognition of such claims ‐ are deeply ...
S Obradović   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The soft-photon approximation in infrared-laser-assisted atomic ionization by extreme-ultraviolet attosecond-pulse trains

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2013
We use the soft-photon approximation, formulated for finite pulses, to investigate the effects of the dressing pulse duration and intensity on simulated attosecond pump–probe experiments employing trains of attosecond extreme-ultraviolet pulses in ...
Álvaro Jiménez Galán   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stopping a Virus from Moving Freely: Border Controls and Travel Restrictions in Times of Corona

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2021
One year down the road, this article evaluates the travel restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, first, in the light of the rules of the Schengen acquis (controls at the internal and external borders) and, second, under the provisions
H. van Eijken, J.J. Rijpma
doaj   +1 more source

The EU's ‘Ever Closer Union’: Ideals and Contradictions of a Civilian Empire

open access: yesContemporary European Politics, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Most explanations of the European Union (EU) have dealt with it as a kind of (con)federation, a multi‐level construction, a peculiar blend of supranational and intergovernmental features, or a neo‐functional set‐up. Some regard the EU as an empire of sorts, but either this perspective is drowned out by approaches privileging a ‘normative power’
Ulf Hedetoft
wiley   +1 more source

The EU target for organic farming: Potential economic and environmental impacts of two alternative pathways

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 602-623, May 2025.
Abstract The EU aims to reach 25% of the total agricultural area under organic farming by 2030. Interlinking a farm‐level and agro‐economic market model, we assess impacts of achieving the target either at Member State or aggregated EU level. Results show that flexible budget allocation across Member States would be more cost‐efficient and less ...
Dimitrios Kremmydas   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integration of soil information systems. BIS and SOTER perspectives

open access: yesSoil and Water Research, 2008
The article presents an overview and brief characteristics of the selected soil information systems in the Czech Republic. It suggests synchronisation of their development, particularly some convergence of the Land Evaluation Information System and Soil ...
Jitka Sládková
doaj   +1 more source

Controlled Loss of Control: The Articulation of Resilience as ‘Empty Signifier’ in EU and NATO Policies

open access: yesContemporary European Politics, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The objective to make subjects and objects 'resilient' is written into many EU and NATO policies and 'building resilience' has been made a priority of EU‐NATO cooperation. This article critically examines the articulation of resilience as an ‘empty signifier’ in the policy realm, drawing on poststructuralist theory to problematise what ...
Alexandra M. Friede
wiley   +1 more source

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