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European annual cosmic-ray dose: estimation of population exposure
The earth is continually bombarded by high-energy cosmic ray particles, and the worldwide average exposure to cosmic rays represents about 13% of the total annual effective dose received by the population.
Giorgia Cinelli +7 more
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Basin-Wide Maritime Awareness From Multi-Source Ship Reporting Data [PDF]
A system was set up to ingest automatic ship position reports (terrestrial and satellite AIS, LRIT) and fuse these into a Maritime Situational Picture, tracking the ships within an ocean basin-wide area of interest in real time. Trial runs were made over
Harm Greidanus +9 more
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How effective are VAT reforms in improving healthy dietary choices by EU consumers?
Governments are increasingly considering fiscal instruments to improve dietary health. This paper quantifies the medium-term impacts on European food markets of a differentiated VAT policy that promotes healthy food consumption while discouraging intake ...
Beatrice Farkas +3 more
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Background In light of the vulnerability of the developing brain, mixture risk assessment (MRA) for the evaluation of developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) should be implemented, since infants and children are co-exposed to more than one chemical at a time ...
Francesca Pistollato +6 more
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Uncovering temporal changes in Europe’s population density patterns using a data fusion approach
Official data on the distribution of human population often ignores the changing spatio-temporal densities resulting from mobility. Here, authors apply an approach combining official statistics and geospatial data to assess intraday and monthly ...
Filipe Batista e Silva +8 more
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Successful, small scale, manufacturing from five European island regions [PDF]
The support of the European Commission, through its Leonardo da Vinci Community Vocational Training Action Programme, in this ongoing pilot project- MT/2002/B/F/139000- is gratefully acknowledged.
Baldacchino, Godfrey +1 more
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Revision of the European Citizens' Regulation [PDF]
Since the Lisbon Treaty, European Citizens' Initiatives empower 1 million citizens to ask the European Commission to propose new EU legislation. Our proposal to reform the existing Regulation will make it easier for citizens to set up and support ...
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Assessing policy options for the EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 [PDF]
In this paper we analyse the possible impact of Cohesion Policy 2014-2020, putting together the investments supported by EU funding in all NUTS2 regions and running a set of simulations.
Andries Brandsma +6 more
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A global cloud free pixel- based image composite from Sentinel-2 data
Large-scale land cover classification from satellite imagery is still a challenge due to the big volume of data to be processed, to persistent cloud-cover in cloud-prone areas as well as seasonal artefacts that affect spatial homogeneity.
C. Corbane +9 more
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"The European Commission: Enlargement as Reinvention?" [PDF]
Will future historians view the 2004-7 enlargements as a heroic step towards the unification of Europe, or the point at which the European Union’s (EU) glory days came to an end?
Peterson, John,, Birdsall, Andrea.
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