District heating systems are prevailing in parts of Northern Europe and this editorial introduces work on the optimisation of such systems in Denmark, Britain and Norway. Focus of two of the articles are on low temperature systems. This is either directly through lowering the forward temperature and analysing system consequences and optimal forward temperatures as in the work of Lund et al. – or it is by the use of the return pipe water for...

This paper analyses the presence of interamerican cultural relations in reading and listening text obtained from a sample of international English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks and from a sample of international French as a foreign language (FFL) textbooks which are available on American markets. It does so by looking into the frequencies of the texts that contain any of three types of interamerican cultural relations per country, by identifying the pairs that compose...

Organizational culture and strategy have had a long and varied history in communication research. Different definitions go hand in hand at several levels to analyze their nature and impact. The cultural roots of organizations and the need for flexible strategic communication raise the question: What are the similarities between organizational culture and strategies and do both concepts influence each another? Embedded in dynamic environments and coping with complexity, organizational culture and strategy seem to be...

The marketing communications industry, whose most visible manifestation can be found in advertising, is closely connected to creativity—so much so, in fact, that this creativity constitutes one of its cornerstones. Within the industry itself, the cult of creativity is legitimized, reaffirmed, and maintained via various competitions, the press, and professional associations, without mentioning the discourse of agencies that put creativity at the heart of their business models, adopting it as their very purpose. Yet this...

In this paper, I propose a new approach to phrasal coordination in general and disjunction in particular based on Durst-Andersen’s cognitive-semiotic theory of linguistic supertypes, according to which Russian is a reality-oriented language with a third-person-oriented speaker and Danish is a hearer-oriented language with a second-person-oriented speaker. I claim that the use of conjunction and disjunction in these languages is determined by their essential properties as two different super- types, viz. by the ground-situational nature...

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of the Humanities, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of the Humanities, Aalborg University

Sino-Latin American relations experienced an extraordinary "intensification process" throughout the first sixteen years of the 21st century. The present article analyses Sino-Latin American relations in the 21st century and proposes three major ideas. First, Sino-Latin American relations experienced an inflection point in 2001, which initiated an unprecedented process that intensified the relationship. Second, since the inflection point in 2001, the relationship established its foundations by transiting through an economic phase between 2001 and 2008, and...

The PhD Series of The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University

Procurement is no longer just about buying the cheapest possible supplies or services. Rather, it is understood as a process whereby organisations meet their needs in a way that achieves value for money on a lifetime basis and allows delivering aspects beyond savings, so-called sustainable procurement. This is true both for the public and private sectors. However, there is only limited legal regulation of sustainable procurement, which causes many uncertainties in respect to the possibility...

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University

The PhD Series of the Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University