Publications

The essays in this book tap the potential of the historical analysis of social contexts in which property rights are embedded – social relations, power and agency, political institutions, culture – to understand how landed resources are actually appropriated. This exploratory approach seeks both to take advantage of the existing theory of property rights, as it is applied by the institutionalist outlook on economic history, and to go beyond it by explicitly incorporating social processes and factors in the analysis of property institutions. With this common aim in mind, the book covers a wide variety of historical cases throughout space and time, from the late Middle Ages in the Czech lands and in Tuscany to the very recent de-collectivisation of the countryside in former socialist countries, which will contribute rich and grounded insights to the discussion of the topic and of its implications.

Smart Environments (SEs), like energy efficient buildings, vehicular or urban environments, are populated by many devices connected by wireless networks.

The radio channel is central to SEs, as it impacts the design of transmission techniques and communication protocols. Radio communications in SEs need to be green and based on cooperative paradigms in order to mitigate the effect of interference and improve efficiency – hence the definition of Green Smart Environments (GSEs).

Action B20 was conceived as a means of promoting life science research in the field of mammary biology. Its principal focus has been on biomedical research aimed at improving human health and well-being. In the field of mammary biology this translates into a focus on breast cancer, which remains a major disease of Western societies, and human lactation, which is increasingly recognized as conferring substantial and long-term health benefits which extends well beyond childhood, both for mother and offspring.