“…The study offers a comparative evaluation of the main features of the VAT systems between the ten countries surveyed and provides a commentary on the development of the VAT systems in line with the VAT legislation of the EU…”

“…The Economic Policy of the Netherlands -Action on the main items of the Budget -Action on the volume of liquidity -Wage and price policy -Specific measures III. …”

“…It provides a spotlight on the main avenues towards a transformation in road freight transport regulation in Europe…”

“…This OECD statistical annual, now discontinued, provided an overview of the economic development of the Member countries of the OECD since 1970. The tables mainly show derived statistics such as growth rates and percentage shares. …”

“…The first meditation presents three methodological procedures (reception, mediation, comparison) which articulate the discussion about the main constituents (political failures, truths) of that problem along the other seven meditations…”

“…Jiang argues against the democratic view that the consent of the people is the main source of political legitimacy. Instead, he presents a comprehensive way to achieve humane authority based on three sources of political legitimacy, and he derives and defends a proposal for a tricameral legislature that would best represent the Confucian political ideal.…”

“…The main objective of this work is to significantly deepen the understanding of the material and the structural behaviour of continuous-discontinuous SMC composites, following a holistic approach to investigate microscopic aspects, macroscopic mechanical behaviour as well as failure evolution at the coupon, structure and component level. …”

“…The delivery of essential goods to beneficiaries in the aftermath of a disaster is one of the main objectives of relief logistics. Thereby, the present work aims to improve relief logistics by improving the location selection of warehouses, distribution centers, and points of distribution. …”

“…The SBQS is the main Brazilian forum devoted to Software Quality. …”

“…The Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST) is one of the most important scientific events about software testing in Brazil. Its main goal is to promote an annual forum to discuss systematization and automation of the software testing activity, promoting interaction between researchers and industry to strengthen cooperation and innovation in this crucial software development area…”

“…After 40 years, ICSE continues to be the premier software-engineering conference, where researchers, practitioners, and educators come together to present, discuss, and debate the most recent research results, innovations, trends, and concerns in the field of software engineering. ICSE's main conference is preceded by four days of co-located conferences, workshops, and mentoring events…”

“…This thesis analyzes the process of designing compact and efficient non-imaging optical systems for general lighting. The main focus is on automated methods for the design of freeform-optics for light emitting diodes (LEDs). …”

“…Our chosen topic fitted the current situation ideally: Audio Mostly in extended realities---contrary to the common acceptation of augmented reality or virtual reality that refer to mainly visual systems. The plural, realities, indicates that we wanted to cover this topic from a variety of viewpoints: from design over engineering to music and fine arts…”

“…La politique économique -Politique monétaire -Le budget de l'État -Politique de la main-d'oeuvre -Problèmes de politique III. Résumé Annexe statistique…”

“…Main objective of this work is to develop, by systematic variation of the chemical composition, and TMP, 14% Cr nano-structured ferritic alloys with significantly improved high-temperature properties compared to currently available ODS alloys. …”

“…The book attempts to covers the main fields of water quality issues presenting case studies in various countries concerning the physicochemical characteristics of surface and groundwaters and possible pollution sources as well as methods and tools for the evaluation of water quality status. …”

“…The chapters of this book are collected mainly from the best selected papers that have been published in the 4th International conference on Information Technology ICIT 2009, that has been held in Al-Zaytoonah University, Jordan in the period 3-5/6/2009. …”

“…It also provides a systematic, comparative, and critical introduction to the main schools of psychoanalysis useful for clinicians, academics, and those exploring psychoanalysis for the first time…”

“…The development of kinetic theory-related numerical schemes and their applications to fluid dynamics problems are the main focus…”

“…Cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder in children and young adults, is a multisystemic disease that mainly affects the lungs. Advances and improvements in the diagnosis and management of this condition have led to increased overall and symptom-free survival in cystic fibrosis patients. …”