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In the last two decades, Scandinavian healthcare systems have experienced profound processes of change on many dimensions, e.g. structural reforms of hospital fields, new types of healthcare organisations, explosion of new quality standards, and altered relationships between healthcare professionals and patients.The joint heading for the articles presented in the following is "Redrawing Boundaries within Scandinavian Healthcare", which was also the theme of a conference held in Copenhagen in December 2006. The theme was selected to signal a particular approach to change, namely that the unders

There are a significant number of nuclear and radiological sources in Central Asia, which have contributed, are still contributing, or have the potential to contribute to radioactive contamination in the future. Key sources and contaminated sites of concern are: (1) The nuclear weapons tests performed at the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) in Kazakhstan during 1949-1989; (2) Safety trials at STS, where radioactive sources were spread by conventional explosives; (3) Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) within STS and outside STS in Kazakhstan, producing crater lakes and waste storage facilities etc

1Political thought in eighteenth-century France: the invention of aristocratic liberalism11 --2Liberty and inequality: the royalist discourse40 --3A society of equals: the liberal response68 --4Liberty in a levelled society: Charles Dunoyer, Benjamin Constant, and Prosper de Barante89 --5The new aristocracy: a theme in Restoration liberalism111 --6The danger of democracy: Orleanist liberalism and Alexis de Tocqueville129 --7The French predicament: aristocratic liberalism in the Second Empire155.

Based on case studies of 11 societies in the world's most dynamic region, this book signals a new direction of study at the intersection of citizenship education and the curriculum. Following their successful volume, Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific: Concepts and Issues (published as No. 14 in this series), the editors, widely regarded as leaders in the field in the Asia-Pacific region, have gone beyond broad citizenship education frameworks to examine the realities, tensions and pressures that influence the formation of the citizenship curriculum. Chapter authors from different societies have addressed two fundamental questions: (1) how is citizenship education featured in the current curriculum reform agenda in terms of both policy contexts and values, and (2) to what extent do the reforms in citizenship education reflect current debates within the society? From comparative analysis of these 11 case studies the editors have found a complex picture of curriculum reform that indicates deep tensions between global and local agendas. On one hand, there is substantial evidence of an increasingly common policy rhetoric in the debates about citizenship education. On the other, it is evident that this discourse does not necessarily extend to citizenship curriculum, which in most places continues to be constructed according to distinctive social, political and cultural contexts. Whether the focus is on Islamic values in Pakistan, an emerging discourse about Chinese 'democracy', a nostalgic conservatism in Australia, or a continuing nation-building project in Malaysia – the cases show that distinctive social values and ideologies construct national citizenship curricula in Asian contexts even in this increasingly globalized era. This impressive collection of case studies of a diverse group of societies informs and enriches understanding of the complex relationship between citizenship education and the curriculum both regionally and globally.

Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows instead that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety, shared by Sudanese and Egyptian communities. The resulting ethnic identity is ambiguous and flexible, allowing Sudanese to voice their frustrations and make claims for their own uniqueness while acknowledging the identity that they share with the dominant Egyptian community

Processes of knowledge production and dissemination are increasingly set in an international context. In research and higher education the links between local actors and the international environments are both proliferating and intensifying. Individual level self-organised international collaboration is increasingly supplemented by national and supranational organised activities, and by market oriented activity with a global scope. Starting from these observations, this book analyses patterns of internationalisation comprising the national and supranational level, the level of higher education

Fast solution of the Gaussian copula model / Bjorn Flesaker -- Perturbed Gaussian copula / Jean-Pierre Fouque, Xianwen Zhou -- The determinants of default correlations / Kanak Patel, Ricardo Pereira -- An empirical study of pricing and hedging collateralized debt obligation (CDO) / Lijuan Cao, Zhang Jingqing, Lim Kian Guan, Zhonghui Zhao -- Data mining procedures in generalized Cox regressions / Zhen Wei -- Jump diffusion in credit barrier modeling : a partial integro-differential equation approach / Jingyi Zhu -- Bond markets with stochastic volatility / Rafael DeSantiago, Jean-Pierre Fouque, Knut Solna -- Two-dimensional Markovian model for dynamics of aggregate credit loss / Andrei V. Lopatin, Timur Misirpashaev -- Credit derivatives and risk aversion / Tim Leung, Ronnie Sircar, Thaleia Zariphopoulou -- The skewed t / Wenbo Hu, Alec N. Kercheval -- Credit risk dependence modeling with dynamic copula : an application to CDO tranches / Daniel Totouom, Margaret Armstrong -- Introduction / Jean-Pierre Fouque, Thomas B. Fomby, Knut Solna

This book provides an accessible introduction to the key human rights concepts, the current debates about human rights, strategies and institutions for taking forward the global implementation of human rights, and the core messages that need to be imparted to students and the public at large