‘Listen how the fiddle cries and laughs’ : traditional Lithuanian fiddling in Soviet-era Siberia

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The Cultural Heritage and Its Sustainability in Europe

Books dealing with different aspects of cultural heritage (culinary heritage, global warming influence on CH) and teaching about it

Combating Trafficking in Persons: A directory of organisations

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ASI_2003_HT_UK_Combating_Trafficking.pdf: 445 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Taking our Public Services Back in House: A Remunicipalisation Guide for Workers and Trade Unions

This report was commissioned by Public Services International (PSI) to provide guidance to workers, trade unions and allied civil society groups interested in taking back public services into public ownership and control. In particular, this guide provides an overview of the relevant stages of remunicipalisation - the return of privatised public services into public ownership on a local and regional level – and distils lessons learnt from 50 case studies of remunicipalisation (and municipalisation) from the standpoint of trade unions

Watching culture : the role of cultural studies in view of changes in culture management in Poland

Recent years have seen dynamic growth in the number of researches in culture. Thanks to them, more is known about the cultural market. Institutions/cultural organizations are increasingly conducting a dialogue with their customers, meet their needs. At the macro level increases the number of tests is used to build the knowledge, the creation of a development strategy, or vision of cultural policy. At the micro level serves institutions and organizations of culture. The article describes the Polish most important types of research with their strengths and weakness like: -Central Statistical Office research; -Commissioned research; -Grant programs for research in the culture - in Poland there are very few; -Research related to work on strategy; -Research associated with project co-financing from EU and national funds. The author wishes to establish a comparative discussion, a dialogue on the role of studies in culture in a much wider dimension

Articles in Volumes 1 to 20 of Archaeologia Baltica (1995 – 2013)

Articles in Volumes 1 to 20 ofArchaeologia Baltica (1995 – 2013

Pedagogy and Educational Sciences in the Post-Soviet Baltic States, 1990–2004: Changes and Challenges

Plasmonics is a promising field of nanophotonics dealing with light interaction with metallic nanostructures. In such material systems, hybridizationof photons and collective free-electron oscillation can result in sub-wavelength light confinement. The strong light-matter interaction can be harnessed for,among many applications, high-density photonic integration, metamaterial design, enhanced nonlinear optics, sensing etc. In the current thesis work, we focus on experimental fabrication and characterization of planar plasmonic metamaterials and waveguide structures. The samples are fabricated based on the generic electron beam lithography and characterizations are done with our home-made setups. Mastering and refinement of fabrication techniques as well as setting up the characterization tools have constituted as a majorpart of the thesis work. In particular, we experimentally realized a plasmonic absorber based on a 2D honeycomb array of gold nano-disks sitting on top of a reflector through a dielectric spacer. The absorber not only exhibits an absorption peak which is owing to localized surface plasmon resonance and is insensitive to incidence’s angle or polarization, but also possesses an angle- and polarization-sensitive high-order absorption peak with a narrow bandwidth. We also demonstrated that the strong light absorption in such plasmonic absorbers can be utilized to photothermally re-condition the geometry of gold nanoparticles. The nearly perfect absorption capability of our absorbers promises a wide range of potential applications, including thermal emitter, infrared detectors, and sensors etc. We also fabricated a plasmonic strip waveguide in a similar metal-insulator-metal structure. The strip waveguide has a modal confinement slightly exceeding that of the so-called plasmonic slot waveguide. We further thermally annealed the waveguide. It is observed that the propagation loss at 980 nm has been decreased significantly,which can be attributed to the improvement in gold quality after thermal annealing.QC 20140203</p