In the aftermath of the climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 (15th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations), two issues appear to have played a determinant role in the negotiation discourse…
The expansion of higher education has lead to a continuously increasing number of jobs that deal with scientific problems and methods (Gibbons 1994). In science based industries like the biotechnology industry…
According to school entry regulations in most countries, the composition of school entrance cohorts is determined by a fixed cutoff date. This procedure creates inter-cohort differences in age and development…
