a taxonomic overview of the genus anticharis (scrophulariaceae) especially in namibia and angola is presented. three new species are described, viz. a. namibensis b. nord., a. kaokoensis b. nord. and a. angolensis b. nord. a key to the anticharis species of namibia and angola is presented. some aspects of phytogeography, molecular phylogeny and photosynthetic pathways (c3-c4) are briefly discus...

Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude towards my supervisor Sjouke Mauw for his support in finding a suitable project, his guidance and support during the project, and his confidence. I'm also grateful to Chess iT and my company supervisor Bert Bos in particular, for giving me the opportunity to do my research there and for allowing me the freedom to choose the direction of my r...

This paper introduces the META-NORD project which develops Nordic and Baltic part of the European open language resource infrastructure. META-NORD works on assembling, linking across languages, and making widely available the basic language resources used by developers, professionals and researchers to build specific products and applications. The goals of the project, overall approach and spec...

Laboratory of General Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Centre for Nanoand Biophotonics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Histology, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Ghent Uni...

Transparency relates to communication and information about the conduct of firms. Transparency can relate to the past, the present, and the future and it can vary in format, content, and reliability. In this paper I review experimental evidence which relates to the impact of transparency on the competitiveness of markets. * This paper was prepared for the Encore Workshop on “Experiments for Ant...

1Université Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France 2Laboratoire “Activité Physique, Muscle et Santé,” EA 4488, IFR 114, Université Lille 1, Sciences et Technologies, 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France 3Faculté de Médecine-Secteur Nord, UMR1072 UNIS Inserm/Aix-Marseille Université, Bat C, Bd Pierre Dramard, 13344 Marseille Cedex 15, France 4Comprehensive NeuroAIDS Center, Animal Models and Behav...

Erik Braudeau*, Gaghik Hovhannissian, Amjad T. Assi and Rabi H. Mohtar* 1 Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar 2 Pédologie Hydrostructurale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement France Nord, Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement, Bondy, France 3 Unité Mixte de Recherche 242, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris, I...

1 Abstract In this paper, we combine a fairly complex system dynamics model of the Nord Pool power market with stochastic price models from financial economics. The idea is to combine the fundamental relationships (given by the system dynamics model) with a good representation of stochasticity from stochastic price models. The purpose is to provide long-term price prognoses for investment decis...