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Tax incentives can be a policy instrument to fund the arts and culture. Such incentives must meet certain rules and principles, including, for EU Member States, EU requirements. In addition, various other aspects must be taken into account in the appreciation of tax incentives as a cultural funding instrument. This includes, on the one hand, notions of fairness, concerns about ‘philanthrocapitalis
While fiscal policy making in the EU is in the hands of national governments, it is to be carried out in accordance with commonly agreed rules: the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). The SGP originates in the understanding that uncoordinated fiscal policy produces cross-border effects that can harm the functioning of the Economic and Monetary Union. For member states with an excessive deficit, that
Purpose – This paper concerns an integrated life cycle assessment (ILCA) comparing daylighting retrofit solutions for an existing sports hall, currently relying only on electric lighting. Daylight quality, environmental impact and financial aspects are generally independently considered, leading to suboptimal decisions when all aspects are considered together. By taking the sports hall as an examp
Study Region 103 FLUXNET2015 flux towers distributed across diverse climatic and ecological regions. Study Focus Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is critical for understanding regional ecohydrological processes. Physically based models such as the Penman-Monteith-Leuning (PML) model are robust but often constrained by fixed parameterization schemes, while data-driven approaches such
Background: Collider bias is often considered a potential explanation when the association between obesity and disease diagnosis differs from that with disease outcome, as seen in the “obesity paradox.” For prostate cancer (PCa), in particular localized PCa, an “inverse” obesity paradox has been observed, where body mass index (BMI) is negatively associated with diagnosis (hazard ratio [HR] ~0.9 p
This is the first part of a work devoted to the study of the set of integer solutions to a system of inequalities determined by homogeneous forms. According to the heuristics that the number of such solutions should match the volume of the set of real solutions, sharp estimates for the volume of the semialgebraic domain under consideration are established. These estimates are expressed as a functi
Introduction: Familial risk of lung cancer (LC) is at the level of many common cancers (ca 2.0) but as cigarette smoking is the main cause of LC, it has remained undefined to what extent smoking contributes to the familial risk. We take advantage of the natural experiment of divorce. In Sweden, it has been customary that children stay with their mother after divorce. We thus hypothesize that only
An important step in understanding the formation and evolution of the nuclear star cluster (NSC) is to investigate its chemistry and chemical evolution. Additionally, exploring the NSC’s relationship to the other structures in the Galactic center and the Milky Way disks is of great interest. Extreme optical extinction has previously prevented optical studies, but near-IR high-resolution spectrosco
Background: Although physiological reflux is seen in nearly all newborns to varying degrees, symptoms can be severe and cause gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). In preterm infants, one symptom that is often attributed to GERD is apnea and associated cardiorespiratory events, such as bradycardia and oxygen desaturation. Although the relationship between GERD and apnea, bradycardia, and desatur
Turbulent heat transfer over rough surfaces is crucial in natural and industrial processes, yet it has received less attention than that of momentum transfer. Recently, research in this field is rapidly growing, driven by advancements in computational methods, the role of surface roughness in meteorology, and the growing use of Additive Manufacturing technologies for energy and thermal management
Understanding the initiation, propagation and evolution of water injection-induced fractures is essential for geo-energy applications. Hydromechanical stimulation experiments were conducted in a deep borehole drilled into crystalline bedrock to gain insights into these processes, involving simultaneous in-situ measurements of three-dimensional fracture displacements, injection flow rates, and wate
Cell replacement therapies using human pluripotent stem cell-derived ventral midbrain (VM) dopaminergic (DA) progenitors are currently in clinical trials for treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Recapitulating developmental patterning cues, such as fibroblast growth factor 8 (FGF8), secreted at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary (MHB), is critical for the in vitro production of authentic VM DA prog
Public and scientific interest in human-robot interactions is growing rapidly. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an integral part of human experience, there is an urgent need to understand people’s receptivity to it, especially in emotionally intimate or private spheres. Intimate receptivity goes beyond general technology attitudes, carrying potential implications for companionship, mental h
Although groundwater serves as the predominant source of drinking water across many rural regions and certain urban areas of Rwanda, little is known about this resource. Anthropogenic impacts, such as faecal contamination, as well as geogenic water quality problems, including elevated arsenic, fluoride, iron, and manganese, are among the issues of concern for groundwater quality in Rwanda. Long-te
The cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky formalism is employed to investigate the band structure of 115I from low to high spin. A set of eight rotational bands with well established spins and parities are analyzed. Five bands start at low spin and are assigned to the single-particle proton orbitals (𝑑5/2, 𝑔7/2), 𝑔9/2, and ℎ11/2, which are close to the Z = 53 Fermi surface for a deformation of ɛ2=0.2. Th
pyPFC is a comprehensive open-source Python package for setting up, running and analyzing 3D phase field crystal (PFC) simulations. The object-oriented code is designed to take full advantage of GPU acceleration, but can also be ran on purely CPU-based systems. The overarching ambition with the pyPFC package is to provide an easily accessible and computationally efficient PFC simulation framework,
Hybrid photon counting detectors have significantly advanced synchrotron research. In particular, the introduction of large cadmium telluride-based detectors in 2015 enabled a whole new range of high-energy X-ray measurements. This article describes the specifications of the new PILATUS4 cadmium telluride detector and presents results from prototype testing for high-energy powder X-ray diffraction
