Publications

The new precariousness of the welfare state and the growing influence of the market, are challenging children’s life worlds, their everyday lives in families, schools, kindergartens and leisure areas. Demographic changes are leaving children vulnerable in the competition for public resources, access to space and use of time. Children are marginal at the big stage of political and economic actors. They do not have strong interest group to defend their rights to resources. But societies can not do without children’s contributions to society. Broad social changes call for deeper analyses as to the cultural blindness to children’s input to the societal fabric, and their consequences for children. These country studies explore children’s welfare from available sources across European countries.

The third international conference, Postharvest Unlimited 2008, organized by the Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Engineering Postdam-Bornim, ATB under the auspices of COST Action 924 “Enhancement and Preservation of Quality and Health Promoting Components in Fresh Fruits and Vegetables” and ISHS was held at Humboldt Universät zu Berlin on 4-7 November 2008. Keynote speakers and authors of selected contributed oral presentations were given the opportunity to submit a manuscript for publication.

The papers contained in this volume of Acta Horticulture report the peer reviewed Proceedings of the International Symposium on Berries: From Genomics to Sustainable Production, Quality and Health, organized on the occasion of the XXVIII International Horticulture Congress, August 22 – 27, 2010 Lisbon, Portugal. Keynote speakers and authors of selected contributed oral and poster presentations were given the opportunity to submit a manuscript for publication.

The following broad subjects were discussed at the symposium, and are represented in the more than 100 articles and reports that comprise this publication: Genetics and Biotechnology; Cultivars Evaluation; Physiology; Cultivation; Pathology; Quality and Health Related Compounds; Economics.

This topical volume of the Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics utilizes new information not previously accessible for fog related research; it focuses on surface and remote sensing observations of fog, various numerical model applications using new parameterizations, fog climatology, and new statistical methods.

The new precariousness of the welfare state and the growing influence of the market, are challenging children’s life worlds, their everyday lives in families, schools, kindergartens and leisure areas. Demographic changes are leaving children vulnerable in the competition for public resources, access to space and use of time. Children
are marginal at the big stage of political and economic actors. They do not have strong interest groups to defend their rights to resources. But societies can not do without children’s contributions to society. Broad social changes call for deeper analyses as to the cultural blindness to children’s input to the societal fabric, and
their consequences for children. These country studies explore children’s welfare from available sources across European countries.