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    Reviewing Member States’ Commitment to the European External Action Service. EPIN Working Paper No. 34, 20 November 2012

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    Based on interviews with diplomats from a representative cross-section of nine member states and members of the EEAS itself, the research findings of this EPIN Working Paper confirm long-standing traditions and member state perceptions of cooperation with European institutions. The paper also reveals new aspects of the intergovernmental method of foreign policy shaping and making in the European Union; in particular how different national positions can positively or negatively affect the consolidation of the EEAS and the role of the EU as an international actor. As such, the Working Paper makes an original contribution to the existing literature on one of most discussed actors in the European Union’s post-Lisbon architecture in the domain of EU external action

    Germany as viewed by other Member States. EPIN Working Paper No. 33, 21 June 2012

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    Germany’s problem is not so much that it is generally right about the need for fiscal discipline but that it has to learn how to be right: this is the most difficult issue to manage from a political standpoint. This EPIN (European Policy Institutes Network) paper brings together contributions from a cross-section of EU member states and the Gallup World Poll survey on the question of how Germany is being viewed at this time of economic and political crisis. The conclusions, subtitled: The Narcissism of Small Differences is a refreshingly candid and insightful analysis of current European relations, noting that Germany’s current weight reflects only the conjuncture of extraordinary domestic and international economic factors. How Germany and the other member states behave towards one another now will have implications for all long after this moment has passed

    Agri-food Trade Specialisation Pattern in the New EU Member States

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    The paper analyses development of agri-food trade specialisation pattern in eight EU Member States of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements (NMS) during the period 2000 – 2005. Over the period analysed, the NMS were not able to hold trade positions in the most competitive commodities, but on the other hand, positions of a number of previously uncompetitive commodities improved. We show convergence of dynamism of agri-food trade specialisation across NMS in trade with the partners/groupings investigated.agri-food trade, specialisation, EU Member States of 2004 and 2007 enlargements, International Relations/Trade,

    On the station of Windeyer and Eldershaw, New South Wales, ca. 1848 [picture] /

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    In: Views in New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1848.; Inscription below image: Near Mr Windeyer's station.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK671/23.; Title from index and additional information.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an4650619. Identified by a member of the Windeyer family as Marouan, a property owned by Walter Hurndale Windeyer and Finney Eldershaw from 1846 to 1848. Marouan was about 20 kilometres south of Glen Innes, near Ben Lomond

    Other title KPERS Paper, Acitve Member Issue 2009

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    Descriptors: benefits, pension funds, public employee benefits, retirement fundsAnnual Statements on the Way Benefits Remain Secure in the Face of Stormy Financial Markets Fiscal Year 2008 : A Financial Snapshot for Members Strategies to Help You Ride Out Uncertain Investment Times Social Security Launches Online Benefit Signup Timely Tax Tidbits Don t Let Debt Set Back Your Financial Future How Is a Partial Lump-Sum Option Calculated? Kansas Public Employees Retirement System September 2009 : VOL. 2 KPERS Is Not Bankrupt Check Out www.kpers.org Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference See the Big Picture Do You Have Service to Purchase? Getting to the Heart of Who We Are Life Can Change in an Instant Working After Retirement Changes New Trustees Give Members a Voice Your Vote: Your Voice KP&F Disability Earnings Limit RemovedName changes to BenifitWise in second issue of this year. -- This internet resource contains issues released throughout the year

    Inter-regional mobility in the accession countries : a comparison with EU15 member states

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    "This paper uses a data set covering 9 EU15 member states and 7 candidate countries and new member states to compare inter-regional migration patterns in the 1990s. We find that the level of migration is lower in candidate countries and new member states than in EU15 member states. Also in contrast to the EU15 member states, migration has fallen in candidate countries and new member states. This casts doubt an the viability of migration as an adjustment mechanism. Estimating place-to-place models of migration we find that migration is less reactive to regional disparities in candidate countries and new member states than it is in EU15 member states. If reaction to labor market disparities were similar to EU15 states, net migration should increase by a factor of between 2 and over 10." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))regionale Mobilität - internationaler Vergleich, Binnenwanderung, regionaler Arbeitsmarkt, regionale Disparität, Mobilitätsbereitschaft - Determinanten, demografische Faktoren, ökonomische Faktoren, Arbeitsmarktgleichgewicht, Arbeitskräftemobilität, Wanderung - Modell, Europäische Union, Osteuropa

    Low-sensitivity active filter design

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    1977 Summer.Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).At high frequencies, the performance of active filters is impaired by the frequency dependent nature of the operational amplifiers. Much research has been devoted to the design of active filters with reduced dependence on the active devices; however no general analysis scheme or method of comparing existing filters has emerged. A general characterization of second-order active-RC filters employing one, two, and three operational amplifier(s) is given. A method of comparing active filters with respect to the active devices based on the active sensitivity function is introduced. Conditions necessary for zero pole, ωo, Q, and transfer-function-magnitude active sensitivities are derived. Several novel circuits that possess these zero-active-sensitivity properties are presented. The markedly superior performance of these filters is demonstrated by a comparison of second-order zero-active-sensitivity filters with other popular existing realizations. Experimental results that agree favorably with the theoretical results of these filters are presented
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