This paper analyses the rise of Swedish trade and shipping in the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century. It focuses on three factors that shaped Sweden’s role in the area: foreign policy interest, foreign trade policy (mercantilism), and commodity demand and supply. The foreign policy interest is represented by attempts to build an alliance with the Ottoman Empire against Russia. An outcome…
This chapter comparatively analyses the policy and governance contexts of six European regions that are affected by different hydrological impacts of climate change. The results demonstrate that a major governance strength across regions lies in the organization of management capacities to deal with existing water-related risks. For example, the Dutch context focuses on water safety, Cyprus has…
During the last few years, large-scale efforts towards realizing high-photonic inte‐ gration densities have put SOAs in the spotlight once again. Hence, the need to de‐ velop a complete framework for SOA-induced signal distortion to accurately evaluate a system’s performance has now become evident
Capsaicin, komponen paprika, telah digunakan dalam praktik kuliner praktik nutrisi sehari-hari. Agen ini diketahui menyebabkan berbagai tindakan di dalam tubuh melalui pengaktifan neuron aferen yang sensitif terhadap capsaicin. Sebuah buku yang baru saja diluncurkan berjudul, Afferentasi Saraf Sensitif Capsaicin dan Saluran Pencernaan: dari Bangku ke Samping Tempat Tidur, menarik karena beberap…
Penelitian ini mengeksplorasi potensi akuakultur di lokasi serbaguna (multi-use sites) di samudra lepas sebagai solusi inovatif bagi kebutuhan sumber daya laut di era Antroposen. Dengan menganalisis tantangan dan peluang teknis, studi ini meninjau bagaimana integrasi berbagai pemanfaatan ruang laut dapat mengoptimalkan produksi pangan berkelanjutan. Hasilnya menekankan perlunya kebijakan strate…
The digital pdf of Chapter 5 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international politics and law. With its focus on competent judgments, the praxis approach holds the promise to overcome the divide between knowing and acting that marks positivist internati…
The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's Bioethics Programme was established to address such issues in 1993. Since then, it has adopted three declarations on human genetics and bioethics (1997, 2003 and 2005), set up nume…
This chapter will focus on didactic Audio Description (AD) and didactic free commentary. Firstly, it will provide the reader with an overview of the main types of didactic AD (DAD) and didactic free-commentary (DFC), differentiating between intersemiotic for both modes as well as intralingual, and interlingual for free commentary. Afterwards, it will present how didactic AD and didactic free co…
"This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated. Accelerating societal, economic, political and technological change affects how we prepare, equip and organise for war, as well as how we conduct war – both in its low-tech and high-tech forms, and whether it is with high in…
This chapter argues for the significance of semiotic organisation of messaging in communicating the country-of-origin (COO) of a brand in advertising, and ultimately–brand itself. The author analyses persuasive structures of human thought used in visual advertising. Metaphorical thinking, narrativisation, using stereotypes, mythisation, and the accompanying aestheticisation in advertising bec…