This article argues that against all odds, the corporatist inclusion of the major societal interests in public decision-making is still a relevant governance mechanism in the European multi-level system. At the national level,a diversity of systems continues to operate. At least in some cases, corporatist arrangements (which tend to be austerityand supply-side oriented) were prompted by the est...

Surface broadcast of broiler litter to no-till row crops exposes the litter and its nutrients to risks of loss in runoff water and volatilization and may limit the potential benefit of litter to the crops. Subsurface banding of litter could alleviate these risks. A field study was conducted in 2008 and 2009 on an upland Falkner silt loam soil to determine the effect of broiler litter placement ...

Tangential and normal velocity profiles of the boundary layer surrounding live swimming fish were determined by digital particle tracking velocimetry, DPTV. Two species were examined: the scup Stenotomus chrysops, a carangiform swimmer, and the smooth dogfish Mustelus canis, an anguilliform swimmer. Measurements were taken at several locations over the surfaces of the fish and throughout comple...

In an increasingly globalised and competitive economy, there is a need to ensure that graduates have the skills, knowledge and attitudes to be not only work ready for today but work ready PLUS for tomorrow. Data from the Graduate Destination Survey (2012) show that 75% of ICT students get a job once they complete their degree. Although employment outcomes are influenced by external market condi...

There are few standards of physical measurements available for pre-school children in the British Isles. Gore and Palmer (1949) pubJished cross-sectional data of the pre-school period based on measurements taken in 1947. Within each age-group sample there were differences of weeks or months between ages of individual children. The most recent publication of cross-sectional data in this age peri...

Hydrothermal environments are characterised by high metal concentrations related to interactions of the convective seawater circulation with basaltic rocks inside the ocean crust. Thus, hydrothermal fluids are enriched with, among other toxic metals, mercury (Hg) that becomes bioavailable to vent macro invertebrates and that may determine development of specialised defence mechanisms. Unusually...

This investigation has been stimulated by an apparent increase in the prevalence of rampant caries of the deciduous dentition amongst pre-schoolchildren in the London area. Although there is little universal agreement on a definition of rampant caries, it may be described as a lesion of acute onset involving many or all of the erupted teeth, rapidly destroying coronal tissue, often on surfaces ...