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This contribution to the conference on Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels focuses on thematic pillar 3 which addresses the advancement of international cooperation and climate diplomacy. The Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative represents an opportunity to align climate ambition with human rights and biodiversity stewardship. We consider this stage of the process a crucial waypoint for responding in a
Whereas a considerable literature emphasizes the role and function of municipalities and regions in the European Union (EU) as an expression of multilevel governance, a parallel literature has emerged which projects a view of the EU as an example of multilevel administration. This latter literature directs attention towards emerging vertical linkages implying new chains of accountability and
The Gaussian β-ensemble is a real n-point configuration {xj}n1 picked randomly with respect to the Boltzmann factor e− β 2 Hn, where Hn = ∑i≠j log |xi−1xj| + n ∑ni=112 xi2. It is well known that the point process {xj }n1 tends to follow the semicircle law σ (x) = 21π√(4 − x2 )+ in certain average senses. A Fekete configuration (minimizer of Hn) is spread out in a much more uniform way in the inter
The focus of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating Perlin noise, a method that has previously been used to model the tissue distribution of software breast phantoms, when creating a ‘compressible’ software breast phantom used in finite element analysis. Several compressible phantoms were created to represent different stages of aging in a virtual patient when younger, fibrogl
Most clinical laboratories measure total magnesium (tMg) which includes both the ionized (iMg) and bound forms. Only the ionized component is biologically active, and it may be influenced by acid-base status, plasma protein concentrations and electrolyte disturbances, potentially altering how well tMg reflects iMg. This multicenter observational study evaluated the relationship between tMg and iMg
Denna avhandling undersöker hur aktörer i Stilla havet producerade och spred oppositionell kunskap om kärnvapentester från 1950-talet till början av 2000-talet, med Franska Polynesien i fokus. För att analysera detta lanseras begreppet vittnesaktivism som övergripande står för organiserade praktiker av vittnesmål, dokumentinsamling, arkivering och transnationell spridning, genom vilka aktörer utmaThis dissertation examines how actors in the Pacific produced, mobilized, and circulated oppositional knowledge about nuclear weapons testing from the 1950s to the early 2000s, with French Polynesia as its primary focus. At its core is witness activism: coordinated practices of testimony, document retrieval and annotation, archiving, publication, and transnational circulation through which activis
Local knowledge plays a central yet uneven role in climate change policymaking. Drawing on the concept of climate eco-governmentality, this paper examines how interactions among actors, knowledge, and scales shape the governance of mangrove ecosystems in the Colombian Caribbean. Building on critical climate change and political ecology scholarship, I analyse how knowledge produced by local communi
Background: Adjuvant therapy of breast cancer patients reduces the risk of recurrence and mortality, although, a substantial proportion of patients acquire resistance and relapse in the disease. Predictors of therapeutic response are therefore important to avoid both therapy resistance and the side effects of inefficient regimes. The p53 protein is a key determinant to induce either growth arrest
Ambivalence is widely regarded as a source of ontological insecurity and anxiety due to its close association with uncertainty, undecidability, and indeterminacy. While ontological security studies (OSS) has usefully engaged with the concept of ambivalence as an epistemic phenomenon and its manifestations in international politics such as ‘strangers’, almost no attention has been paid to ambivalen
The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is becoming a serious invasive insect pest in Asia, Africa, and Oceania due to its broad spectrum of host plants and long flight distances. In response to the increasing risk of insecticide resistance, there is a growing need to develop more effective pest management options. One such option involves the use of synergists, which are substances that, while
Bladder cancer is a heterogeneous malignancy with diverse clinical outcomes, and conventional pathological assessment alone is insufficient to capture its underlying biology. Gene expression profiling can stratify tumors into molecular subtypes with prognostic and predictive potential, but the reliability of transcriptomic classification and its clinical utility remains to be established. The tran
Fluxes of sensible heat and latent heat were calculated above fields of barley and wheat in Ilstorp, using a gradient profile approach. Gradient Richardson’s number was used as the stability parameter, and it was shown that atmospheric stability varies both with time of the day and wind speed. Temperature and wind profiles were studied, and it was possible to detect a rise in the active surface in
Research question: Investigate the maturity of takt implementation in the organization and suggest areas for further improvements to maximize the outcome of the change effort. Deliverables: The project has focused on creating a comprehensive view of the maturity in the takt implementation and the results are delivered in a written report and an oral presentation both to Tetra Pak and Lund Universi
The purpose of this essay was to research and study the accountability of NGOs. The main question dealt with is with what measures and mechanisms NGOs handles critic on legitimacy and accountability deficit. It defines accountability and non-governmental organisations to facilitate an understanding of the concepts and notions of the study and goes on to discuss the criticism faced by NGOs, mainly
Jordförstöring och utbredning av urbana områden är allvarliga hot mot Egyptens jordbruk och ekonomi, samt försvårar försörjningen av den snabbt växande befolkningen. Landsat MSS bilder från tre år; 1972, 1986 och 1992, har använts för att studera försaltning, försandning och urbanisering i Nildalen, mellersta Egypten. 1992 års bild klassades enligt maximum likelihood-metoden och enligt regressionsSoil degradation and expanding urban areas are serious threats to the Egyptian agriculture and economy, and jeopardize the possibility to provide food to the rapidly growing population. Landsat MSS scenes from the years of 1972, 1986 and 1992 have been used to study salinization, sand encroachment and urbanization in the Nile valley in Middle Egypt. The 1992 data set were classified according to t
The main objective of this work was the evaluation of TM (Thematic Mapper) and MSS (Multi Spectral Scanner) data of Landsat 1 and 5 for a large scale forest damage assessment in the black triangle region. The area covers the Krusne Hory and neighboring mountain areas (border area of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. A temporal comparison of land use of 1975 and 1989 of a sub area and a class
The management of the mining sector in Sierra Leone is characterised by numerous integrations of government and donor agency policies, resembling that of global development agendas advocating for improvements of governance, transparency, capacity building and revenue generation. We must view the global policies in their local scales in order to substantiate their actual effects. The central argu
Mätningar av magnetisk hysteresis har genomförts på sedimentborrkärnor med hög tidsupplösning för att studera om sedimentkornstorleken kan relateras till relativ bottenströmshastighet. Mätningarna utfördes på tre borrkärnor, en från Nordatlanten och två från Norska havet. Hysteresismätningar är känsliga för variationer i de magnetiska kornstorlekarna (Day et al. 1977) och anses vara representativaHigh-resolution magnetic hysteresis measurements were carried out on three sediment cores, one from the North Atlantic and two from the Norwegian Sea. These measurements can be used to reconstruct changes in magnetic grain-size. Physical grain-size has been interpreted as a proxy for bottom current intensity (McCave et al. 1995) and this study shows that the hysteresis measurements can contribute
Old Red Sandstones and younger strata overlie a variety of deformed and metamorphosed Early Paleozoic and Precambrian rocks on Svalbard, referred to as the Hecla Hoek Complex. At least three different terranes are recognized, occurring in eastern, northwestern and southwestern areas. The Eastern Terrane is exposed in the northeastern parts of the Svalbard archipelago in Nordaustlandet and Ny Fries
