A sweet deal? Sugarcane, water and agricultural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2016 Globally, the area of sugarcane is rising rapidly in response to growing demands for bioethanol and increased sugar demand for human consumption. Despite considerable diversity in production systems and contexts, sugarcane is a particularly “high impact”
Biggs, T. +11 more
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Physicians' migration in Europe: an overview of the current situation
BMC Health Services Research, 2007 Background The migration of medical professionals as a result of the expansion of the European Union is cause for concern. But there is a significant lack of information available about this phenomenon.
Amaya Carlos +2 more
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The experiences of accession 8 migrants in England : motivations, work and agency [PDF]
, 2010 Drawing on a recently completed qualitative study in a northern English city, this paper explores motivations and experiences of Accession 8 (A8) migrants who have entered the United Kingdom following the expansion of the European Union in 2004.
Cook, J, Dwyer, PJ, Waite, L
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Meridiano 47, 2017 O presente artigo busca analisar as vantagens comerciais a serem obtidas pelo Brasil como resultado do processo de ampliação da União Europeia.
João Augusto Baptista
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Places of everyday cosmopolitanisms: East-European construction workers in London [PDF]
, 2008 This paper illustrates how cosmopolitanisms among East-European construction workers in London are shaped by the localised spatial contexts in which encounters with difference take place.
Datta, Ayona
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Energy and Environmental Challenges in the European Union and Green Bonds
Social SciencesCould the European Union mitigate the negative effects of economic, pandemic and environmental crises using only one tool? The answer is positive, by implementing “green” fiscal expansion financed by “green” common debt, such as issuing green bonds.
Georgios Maris, Marios Psychalis
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Business cycle synchronization within the European Union: A wavelet cohesion approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 In this paper, we map the process of business cycle synchronization across the European Union. We study this synchronization by applying wavelet techniques, particularly the cohesion measure with time-varying weights. This novel approach allows us to study the dynamic relationship among selected countries from a different perspective than the usual ...
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A Data-Driven Supply-Side Approach for Measuring Cross-Border Internet Purchases [PDF]
, 2018 The digital economy is a highly relevant item on the European Union's policy agenda. Cross-border internet purchases are part of the digital economy, but their total value can currently not be accurately measured or estimated. Traditional approaches based on consumer surveys or business surveys are shown to be inadequate for this purpose, due to ...
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A crucial dipole test of the expansion center Universe - based on high-z SCP Union & Union2 supernovae [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 The expansion center Universe (ECU) gives a dipole anisotropy to the Hubble ratio, at any Hubble depth D. After a long series of successful dipole tests, here is a crucial multiple dipole test at z bins centred on the mean
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Synthesis of Ballistic Capture Corridors at Mars via Polynomial Chaos Expansion [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The space sector is experiencing a flourishing growth and evidence is mounting that the near future will be characterized by a large amount of deep-space missions. In the last decade, CubeSats have granted affordable access to space due to their reduced manufacturing costs compared to traditional missions.
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