A European Border and Coast Guard: Fit for purpose? CEPS Commentary, 24 February 2016

In December 2015, The Commission proposed to set up a European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) as one of the key responses to the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’. The initiative intends to give Frontex, the EU’s current border agency, more competences, staff and equipment, and to rename it the EBCG. The new EBCG would work together with the member states’ national border and coast guard authorities.

Individual and group level trajectories of behavioural development in Border collies.

In order to assess dogs’ personality changes during ontogeny, a cohort of 69 Border collies was followed up from six to 18–24 months. When the dogs were 6, 12, and 18–24 months old, their owners repeatedly filled in a dog personality questionnaire (DPQ), which yielded five personality factors divided into fifteen facets. All five DPQ factors were highly correlated between the three age classes, indicating that the dogs’ personality remained consistent relative to other individuals. Nonetheless, at the group level significant changes with age were found for four of the five DPQ factors. Fearfulness, Aggression towards People, Responsiveness to Training and Aggression towards Animals increased with age; only Activity/Excitability did not change significantly over time. These changes in DPQ factor scores occurred mainly between the ages of 6 and 12 months, although some facets changed beyond this age. No sex differences were found for any of the tested factors or facets, suggesting that individual variation in personality was greater than male/female differences. There were significant litter effects for the factors Fearfulness, Aggression towards People and Activity/Excitability, indicating either a strong genetic basis for these traits or a high influence of the shared early environment. To conclude, from the age of six months, consistency in personality relative to other individuals can be observed in Border collies. However, at the group level, increases in fearful and aggressive behaviours occur up to 12 months and for some traits up to two years, highlighting the need for early interventions. Follow-up studies are needed to assess trajectories of personality development prior to six months and after two years, and to include a wider variety of breeds.

The Impact of increased United States-Mexico trade on southwest border development : report to the Senate Committee on Finance on investigation no. 332-223, under section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

"November 1986."

Drug control : river patrol craft for the Government of Bolivia : fact sheet for the Chairman, Task Force on International Narcotics Control, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives /

"GAO/NSIAD-88-101FS"

A flower of the tropics : and other stories of Mexico and the border /

Mode of access: Internet.

Border environmental education resource guide = Guía de recursos de educación ambiental en la frontera : Southern New Mexico, South Texas, Northern Chihuahua, Northern Coahuila, Northern Nuevo Leon, Northern Tamaulipas.

English and Spanish text inverted, bound together back to back.

Impacts of airborne pollutants on wilderness areas along the Minnesota-Ontario border /

Mode of access: Internet.

Shoreline movement investigations report : Portuguese Point to the Mexican border (1852-1982) : Coast of California storm and tidal waves study /

Mode of access: Internet.

With Aesop along the black border,

"The fables contained in this volume were ... published in the State between August 1923 and February 1924."

Across Chrysê : being the narrative of a journey of exploration through the south China border lands from Canton to Mandalay /

Mode of access: Internet.

An analysis of ASAP patrol activity: analytic study #3. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

An analysis of ASAP patrol activity in Columbus, Georgia from January 1972 - December 1974. Section II - volume 3. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

Kansas City ASAP--analytic study 3: an analysis of ASAP patrol activity. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

An analysis of ASAP patrol activity 1972-1974.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.