In the current climate of increased influx of migrants into European countries, understanding how to engage with diversity in order to utilize it as a resource is becoming essential for supporting inclusion in education and society. Schools are often first sites of intercultural experiences for children and young people recently arrived to a host country. Educators and other professionals in public services facilitating equality of opportunity and equality of access for diverse school communities often lack opportunities to develop skills and insights relevant to new everyday challenges. The LUCIDE (Languages in Urban Settings for Inclusion and Diversity in Europe) network of research partners was established with the aim to provide insights and develop guidance that would support institutions (schools, councils, universities, hospitals) and local and national economies to gain better understanding of complexities involved in providing services in highly diverse contexts. LUCIDE consisted of 16 partners based in 13 European cities (two in London) and two cities outside of Europe. All partners had pre-existing activities focused on researching and promoting multilingualism within urban contexts of different types. Some cities in the LUCIDE network have had multilingualism as an integral part of their functioning over a long period throughout centuries of their history, while others started experiencing it as a recent impact of new patterns of migration. The European city partners were Athens, Dublin, Hamburg, Limassol, London, Madrid, Osijek, Oslo, Rome, Sofia, Strasbourg, Utrecht, and Varna. The two outof-Europe partners were Ottawa and Melbourne. This feature in the London Review of Education brings to its readers papers from four LUCIDE partner cities: Limassol, Rome, Strasbourg, and Ottawa (with the latter’s research here comparing the services in Montreal and Vancouver). These papers have been selected to provide insights into new explorations of multilingualism in cosmopolitan cities. The term ‘cosmopolitan cities’ is used to place the emphasis on a positive approach to diversity stemming from the premise that diversity is a resource for individuals and societies. The LUCIDE network directly built upon the LETPP (Languages in Europe: Theory, Policy and Practice) project, funded in 2010 by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme. The LETPP vision was that multilingual cities would be trailblazing new ways to approach and utilize diversity. The LUCIDE network proposal aimed to extend the aims and delivery of this project, and was developed and funded by the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme from December 2011 to November 2014. Its main activities were to carry out research as the basis for developing guidelines for multilingual cities relating to the following five spheres:

Lung cancer is usually presented with cough, dyspnea, pain and weight loss, which is overlapping with symptoms of other lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Pulmonary fibrosis shows characteristic reticular and nodular pattern, while lung cancers are mostly presented with infiltrative mass, thick-walled cavitations or a solitary nodule with spiculated borders. If the diagnosis is established based on clinical symptoms and CT findings, it would be a misapprehension. We report a case of lung adenocarcinoma whose symptoms as well as clinical images overlapped strongly with pulmonary fibrosis. The patient’s non-productive cough, progressive dyspnea, restrictive pattern of pulmonary function test and CT scans (showing reticular interstitial opacities) were all indicative of pulmonary fibrosis. The patient underwent a treatment consisting of corticosteroids and antibiotics, to no avail. Histopathology of the lung showed that the patient suffered from mucinous adenocarcinoma. Albeit the immunohistochemical staining was not consistent with lung adenocarcinoma, tumor’s morphological characteristics were consistent, and were used to make the definitive diagnosis. Given the fact that radiography cannot always make a clear-cut difference between pulmonary fibrosis and lung adenocarcinomas, and that clinical symptoms often overlap, histological examination should be considered as gold standard for diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma.

A Comissao de Residuos Quimicos do Departamento de Alimentos e Nutricao (CRQ-DEPAN) composta por Profissionais de Apoio Tecnico (Biologos, Quimico, Matematico, Tecnico de Alimento, Tecnico de Bioterio e Tecnico de Informatica) comecou no ano de 2000. O objetivo principal, na epoca da criacao, juntamente com a Comissao de Seguranca da FEA, era dar destino adequado ao passivo de residuos quimicos armazenado no departamento e conscientizar os usuarios de laboratorios da necessidade de minimizar e descartar adequadamente os residuos gerados. Num trabalho continuo de conscientizacao, que ja dura cerca de oito anos, sao oferecidos anualmente treinamentos sobre descarte de residuos quimico e biologico, lavagem de vidraria, utilizacao de equipamentos, uso correto de EPIs e boas praticas de laboratorio. Outras medidas como orientacao na compra de reagentes, utilizacao de procedimentos comuns de analise e descarte de residuos, disponibilizacao de FISPQ para consulta, tem contribuido fortemente na organizacao dos laboratorios evitando acidentes, desperdicio de reagentes e geracao de residuos. Medidas organizacionais permitem o funcionamento integrado do Departamento e um ambiente de trabalho mais saudavel.

Mensalmente sao geradas cerca de 300 toneladas de lixo biologico em Campinas e regiao. Esse lixo, considerado Classe A, e proveniente de hospitais, centros de saude, farmacias, clinicas, laboratorios, ambulatorios, consultorios medicos, odontologicos, veterinarios etc. No Laboratorio de Ensaios Biologicos do Departamento de Alimentos e Nutricao (DEPAN) da Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos, sao realizadas pesquisas nutricionais com animais, cujos residuos: carcacas de animais, sangue, visceras e material perfurocortante sao coletados adequadamente por firma especializada para tratamento e disposicao. Com o objetivo de saber o destino final desse tipo de lixo, foi realizada uma visita tecnica a empresa MB Engenharia e Meio Ambiente Ltda, responsavel pelo tratamento de todo lixo Classe A de Campinas e regiao. Profissionais de apoio tecnico e alunos de pos-graduacao do DEPAN acompanharam todo processo de tratamento, no qual o residuo biologico e triturado, recebe a injecao de vapor d’agua (150°C/15 min) e aplicacao de ondas eletromagneticas (95°C/30 min). Apos esse tratamento, o lixo ja reduzido em ate 80% do volume inicial, e considerado lixo comum (Classe D) e disposto em aterro sanitario. Esta visita foi muito importante do ponto de vista tecnico, agregando conhecimento aos profissionais envolvidos no gerenciamento de residuos quimicos e biologicos do Departamento de Alimento e Nutricao.

This paper looks at the key trends of financial integration and analyzes the degree to which Western Balkan countries are internationally integrated in financial flows. With the aim of reviewing the development of financial integration in the region some the experience of Western Balkan regions will be examined by conducting cross-country comparisons. The analysis focuses on the Western Balkans region by examining a set of financial indicators, but it will be useful to see the comparative view to the European perspective (EU 3 countries). To the purpose of cross country comparison, several important financial integration indicators related to financial openness and financial deepening are considered. The data for eight transition countries was sourced from the World Bank - World Development Indicators, IFS (International Financial Statistics), and WEO. For needs of the size and composition of capital inflows countries of the Western Balkan and EU 3 countries data are drawn from balance of payment selected countries. The paper provides two key insights. First, the financial systems in sample of analyzing countries are still at an earlier stage. Second, the median volatility of Portfolio investments (as % of GDP) is shown substantially less than the median volatility of Loan-to-GDP ratio and median volatility of FDI flows-to-GDP ratio. Also, the coefficient of variation for the Western Balkan region as well as EU3 countries reveals that the loan-to-GDP ratio is less volatile than the FDI inflows to GDP ratio. http://dx.doi.org/10.17130/ijmeb.2016icafr22419

High-coverage whole-genome sequence studies have so far focused on a limited number of geographically restricted populations, or been targeted at specific diseases, such as cancer. Nevertheless, the availability of high-resolution genomic data has led to the development of new methodologies for inferring population history and refuelled the debate on the mutation rate in humans. Here we present the Estonian Biocentre Human Genome Diversity Panel (EGDP), a dataset of 483 high-coverage human genomes from 148 populations worldwide, including 379 new genomes from 125 populations, which we group into diversity and selection sets. We analyse this dataset to refine estimates of continent-wide patterns of heterozygosity, long- and short-distance gene flow, archaic admixture, and changes in effective population size through time as well as for signals of positive or balancing selection. We find a genetic signature in present-day Papuans that suggests that at least 2% of their genome originates from an early and largely extinct expansion of anatomically modern humans (AMHs) out of Africa. Together with evidence from the western Asian fossil record, and admixture between AMHs and Neanderthals predating the main Eurasian expansion, our results contribute to the mounting evidence for the presence of AMHs out of Africa earlier than 75,000 years ago.