Paper Tiger or Game-Changer? Challenges of and Opportunities for EU Engagement with the Eurasian Economic Union. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers (BRIGG) 1/2015.

The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) started work on 1 January 2015. Considered as Russia’s response to the EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP), it has been almost ignored in Brussels. However, with the Ukraine crisis and the deteriorating relations with Moscow, some European leaders have begun to reconsider Putin’s proposal for a region-to-region engagement. This paper tries to analyse under which conditions this could represent a long-term solution for a new European order. First, it is argued that the EEU is still far from being a credible international interlocutor. Second, Russia’s commitment to international trade rules and liberalization is questioned, whereas its geopolitical objectives seem predominant. EU engagement with the EEU in Ukraine would mean, in the short term, legitimizing Russia’s vision of a ‘bipolar Europe’ divided in spheres of influence. In the long run, prospects for inter-regional cooperation remain open, but the way to go is long and full of obstacles.

On the prospective detection of polyoxymethylene in comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with the COSIMA instrument onboard Rosetta

The presence of polyoxymethylene (POM) in cometary grains has been debated years ago. Although never proven, its presence can not be excluded. Rosetta, the ESA mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, may answer this question. On board the spacecraft, COSIMA (COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyzer) will analyze the grains ejected from the nucleus using a Time Of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (TOF-SIMS). In this paper we report the extent to which COSIMA will be able to detect POM if this compound is present on cometary grains. We have analyzed two kinds of POM polymers with a laboratory model of COSIMA. Positive mass spectra display alternating sequence of peaks with a separation of 30.011 Da between 1 and 600 Da related to formaldehyde and its oligomers but also to the fragmentation of these oligomers. The separation of 30.011 Da of numbers peaks, corresponding to the fragmentation into H2CO is characteristic of POM and we show that it could be highlight by mathematical treatment. POM lifetime on COSIMA targets have also been studied as POM is thermally instable. It can be concluded that the cometary grains analysis have to be planned not too long after their collection in order to maximize the chances to detect POM. This work was supported by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES).

Report of the Royal Commission appointed to consider and report upon the care and treatment of the sick and wounded during the South African campaign : presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty /

CD. 453, Cd. 454, Cd. 455.

Kaleidophone : new resources of melody and harmony : pitch scales in relation to chord structures : an aid to composers, performers, arrangers, teachers, song-writers, students, conductors, critics, and all who work with music /

Mode of access: Internet.

Invalid cookery : a manual of recipes for the preparation of food for the sick and convalescent, to which is added a chapter of practical suggestions for the sickroom, by Mrs. Julia A. Pye /

Some recipes include wine or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Beef tea, with oatmeal or rice; Poached eggs on toast; Isinglass wine jelly.

Paper cutting correlated with the common school branches,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Sick Child

Gabriel Metsu; 1 ft. 43/64 in.x 10 45/64 in.; oil on canvas

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Tending the Sick in Marburg, Death of St Elizabeth, inner right wing of an altarpiece made for the Grote Kerk in Dordrecht

Master of the Saint. Elizabeth Panels; 4 ft. 2 13/64 in.x 3 ft. 7 7/64 in.; oil on panel

Report of work of the Agricultural experiment station of the University of California ...

1904/05-1911/12 included in President's general report of University of California for those years.

The Bible and slavery: in which the Abrahamic and Mosaic discipline is considered in connection with the most ancient forms of slavery : and the Pauline code on slavery as related to Roman slavery and the discipline of the apostolic churches.

Microform.

The diary of Dr. Thomas Cartwright, bishop of Chester; commencing at the time of his elevation to that see, August M.DC.LXXXVI,; and terminating with the visitation of St. Mary Magdalene college, Oxford, October M.DC.LXXXVII.

Mode of access: Internet.

Wessex worthies (Dorset) with some account of others connected with the history of the county, and numerous portraits and illustrations.

"A list of officers and men killed in action, or who died of wounds in the great war, 1914-1918, alphabetically arranged": p. [151]-156.

Lectures on church-building: with some practical remarks on bells and clocks,

Mode of access: Internet.