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In Thailand gender determines access to Buddhist ordination and women have never been granted membership in the Buddhist congregation, sangha. In spite of the fact that women are excluded from the possibility of being ordained by the Thai sangha women are active in the Buddhist field both as supporters of the sangha and as female Buddhist leaders. The Thai Buddhist nuns, mae chi, have existed in

The Biomass Action Plan (BAP) for Europe outlines how to achieve the targets for bioenergy and energy crops defined by the European Commission and member states. However, it is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that shapes the utilisation of agricultural land. This paper therefore reviews the supportive measures for energy crops in recent CAP reforms and investigates the effects on farmers in ‘

The fundamental limits of the gain and efficiency of an antenna are explored. The antenna is confined in a sphere and all of the currents are assumed to run in a material with a conductivity that is a function of the radial coordinate. The analysis is based on the expansion of the electromagnetic fields in terms of vector spherical harmonics. Explicit expressions for the limits of gain and efficie

Anorthoscopic vision: Designing and Sensing the Future Tom O’Dell As a means of thinking about the future and issues of uncertainty, I would like to take my point of departure in a project I completed a few years ago (O’Dell 2013) concerning plans to develop a huge particle sciences facility in Lund, called the European Spallation Source (ESS). I was the only ethnologist working with a team of 1

We apply the statistical sparse jump model, a recently devel-oped, interpretable and robust regime switching model, to infer key featuresthat drive the return dynamics of the largest cryptocurrencies. The algorithmjointly performs feature selection, parameter estimation, and state classifica-tion. Our large set of candidate features are partly based on cryptocurrency,sentiment and financial marke

This paper studies the relationship between income inequality and carbon emissions in the United States between 1929 and 2019. We contribute to the literature by studying if and how the relationship has varied over time. To this end we estimate a band spectrum regression model and a smooth-varying coefficients model. Our results show that higher inequality was associated with lower emissions durin

The distinction between primary and secondary iconic signs, which I first made with regard to pictures, has been applied by other scholars to language, gesture, and music. Taking stock of this process, it has become necessary to clarify the distinction, insisting on the fact that secondary iconicity is not conventionality, but a kind of iconicity which is in itself not sufficient to define a meani

The early Greek translation of the Qur’an has received little notice, not least due to the many claims that it was a faulty and inadequate attempt of rendering the Qur’an into Greek. This article argues that the faults are very few and minor, and that the early translation (from before 870 CE) should instead be read as a serious example of early Qur’anic interpretation as well as a documentation o