The production of EU sectoral competitiveness indicators is a response to the increasing interest in analysing the competitiveness of the EU economy from a sectoral perspective. This approach provides insight into the performance of each industry and contributes to explaining the competitiveness...

The SOCCARE Project studied social care arrangements of European families in five different socio-economic and cultural environments that represent the variety of European welfare states (Finland, France, Italy, Portugal and the UK). It focused on four key family types that all are heavily...

The purpose of this report is to make available the outcome of the work of COST Acton 722 'Short-range forecasting of fog, visibility and low clouds', which was carried out from 2002 to 2003. During this period, an inventory of existing forecast methods and ongoing projects was made and an...

The overall aim of this project has been to derive quantitative thermodynamic and kinetic algorithms and use them to develop personal computer based programs that can predict microstructural development as a series of contours around welds. The work has covered both single- and multi-pass...