cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Pragmatic Court: Reinterpreting the Supreme People’s Court of China
Creators: name: Zhang, Taisu
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Year: 2012

description: This Article examines the institutional motivations that underlie several major developments in the Supreme People’s Court of China’s recent policy-making. Since 2007, the SPC has sent off a collection of policy signals that escapes sweeping ideological labeling: it has publically embraced a populist view of legal reform by encouraging the use of mediation in dispute resolution and popular participation in judicial policy-making, while continuing to advocate legal professionalization as a long-term policy objective. It has also eagerly attempted to enhance its own institutional competence by promoting judicial efficiency, simplifying key areas of civil law, and expanding its control over lower court adjudication. This Article argues that the strongest institutional motivation underlying this complex pattern of activity is, contrary to some common assumptions, neither simple obedience to the Party leadership nor internalized belief in some legal reform ideology, whether legal professionalism or populism. Instead, it is the pragmatic strengthening of the SPC’s own financial security and sociopolitical status-the SPC is, in many ways, a “rational actor” that pursues its institutional self-interest. This theory of “institutional pragmatism” brings unique analytical cohesion to the SPC’s recent behavior, giving us a clearer sense of its current priorities and, perhaps, its future outlook.
description: Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (2012)
Book Review: Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court
Creators: name: Nardi Jr., Dominic J.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Year: 2011

description: In the words of C. Neal Tate, since the late 198os, the Philippines have become, “[a]side from India … the only nation in Afro-Asia where the expansion of judicial power can be said to be a significant, current political development.”‘ Indeed, the Supreme Court of the Philippines has struck down significant economic reforms, issued new rules to assist human rights victims, thwarted constitutional amendments, and even helped overthrow a president. Until recently, the Court was even one of the most popular institutions in the country.’ Despite these developments, there has been remarkably little scholarship about the Court as a political institution from either Filipinos or foreign observers.3 Legal developments in the Philippines should be of particular interest to American comparative law scholars. The United States colonial period heavily influenced Filipino law and legal institutions. Filipino lawyers have pursued LL.M. degrees at American law schools. Justice Antonio Carpio of the Supreme Court of the Philippines has even given new justices books on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court because he considers it a role model.’ Yet, despite these links to the U.S., the Supreme Court of the Philippines faces unique political and institutional challenges. Likewise, although the Court frequently cites U.S. case law,5 its own jurisprudence has gone in directions that would bewilder many American jurists.6 Indeed, the country is a prime example of how local political cultures can reinterpret and reshape foreign legal transplants.
description: Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)
title: Behandlung und Beseitigung von kommunalen und industriellen Schlämmen - Situation in Österreich
Creators: name: Lengyel, Werner
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 1980
Subjects: Klärschlamm
Österreich

description: Vorträge des 15. ÖWWV - Seminars RAACH, 28.1. - 1.2.1980
Chemistry PhD Supervisors in Australia: A Study of the Relationship between their Conceptions of Doctoral Purpose and their Reported Educational Practices
Creators: name: Ibo, Rami
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: Over the past 30 years, the literature on doctoral education has raised a number of debates about the research doctorate. This has included debates over its purpose and whether its graduates are well prepared to address the diverse and complex problems of today’s workforce. However, scholarly literature on doctoral education in the academic discipline of chemistry is mostly non-existent. To address this research gap, I draw upon key concepts arising from the doctoral education literature such as doctoral purpose, practice, and evaluation to provide the necessary framing for this study. Based on this, I ask the following question: ‘What are the Positions of Chemistry PhD Supervisors in Australia in Relation to Contemporary Debates and Practices in Doctoral Education?’ This study adopts a qualitative research methodology in which 31 chemistry PhD supervisors in Australia were interviewed using the semi-structured interview method. Data were analysed thematically using both deductive analysis for pre-existing themes from the literature, and inductive analysis for emergent themes from the data. Three main themes characterised the analysis: supervisors’ conceptions of doctoral purpose; their reported educational practices; and their reported methods of self-evaluation of supervisory success and graduate follow-up. It was found that the reported practices for two groups of supervisors in the sample did not align with their conceptions of purpose. Instead, they showed a strong tendency to socialise their students into becoming custodians or ‘stewards’ of the discipline, despite interviewees expressing conceptions of doctoral purpose that aligned with the development of graduates as knowledge workers equipped with the knowledge and skills for wider employment. For the other group, their conceptions of doctoral purpose did align with their reported educational practices of preparing ‘stewards’ of the discipline, with their reported practices also tending towards setting up their students to become stewards. These issues were further compounded by supervisors not adequately following up with their graduates in terms of their career outcomes, despite them indicating that they considered graduate employment as one measure of supervisory success. The main scholarly contribution this thesis makes is in initiating the scholarly debates and discussions about contemporary doctoral education within the discipline of chemistry. These debates and discussions are needed in order to not only critically reflect on the role and influence chemistry PhD supervisors have in the education of future chemistry PhD candidates, but also to critically contemplate the purpose and contribution of the chemistry doctorate in relation to the labour market and broader society. Practical implications arising will also be discussed.
Modelling religious signalling
Creators: name: Brusse, Carl
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: The origins of human social cooperation confound simple evolutionary explanation. But from Darwin and Durkheim onwards, theorists (anthropologists and sociologists especially) have posited a potential link with another curious and distinctively human social trait that cries out for explanation: religion. This dissertation explores one contemporary theory of the co-evolution of religion and human social cooperation: the signalling theory of religion, or religious signalling theory (RST). According to the signalling theory, participation in social religion (and its associated rituals and sanctions) acts as an honest signal of one's commitment to a religiously demarcated community and its way of doing things. This signal would allow prosocial individuals to positively assort with one another for mutual advantage, to the exclusion of more exploitative individuals. In effect, the theory offers a way that religion and cooperation might explain one another, but which that stays within an individualist adaptive paradigm. My approach is not to assess the empirical adequacy of the religious signalling explanation or contrast it with other explanations, but rather to deal with the theory in its own terms - isolating and fleshing out its core commitments, explanatory potential, and limitations. The key to this is acknowledging the internal complexities of signalling theory, with respect to the available models of honest signalling and the extent of their fit (or otherwise) with religion as a target system. The method is to take seriously the findings of formal modelling in animal signalling and other disciplines, and to apply these (and methods from the philosophy of biology more generally) to progressively build up a comprehensive picture of the theory, its inherent strengths and weaknesses. The first two chapters outline the dual explanatory problems that cooperation and religion present for evolutionary human science, and surveys contemporary approaches toward explaining them. Chapter three articulates an evolutionary conception of the signalling theory, and chapters four to six make the case for a series of requirements, limitations, and principles of application. Chapters seven and eight argue for the value of formal modelling to further flesh out the theory's commitments and potential and describe some simple simulation results which make progress in this regard. Though the inquiry often problematizes the signalling theory, it also shows that it should not be dismissed outright, and that it makes predictions which are apt for empirical testing.
Quark solitons as constituents of hadrons
Creators: name: Ellis, John
name: Frishman, Yitzhak
name: Hanany, Amihay
name: Karliner, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We exhibit static solutions of multi-flavour QCD in two dimensions that have the quantum numbers of baryons and mesons, constructed out of quark and anti-quark solitons. In isolation the latter solitons have infinite energy, corresponding to the presence of a string carrying the non-singlet colour flux off to spatial infinity. When $N_c$ solitons of this type are combined, a static, finite-energy, colour singlet solution is formed, corresponding to a baryon. Similarly, static meson solutions are formed out of a soliton and an anti-soliton of different flavours. The stability of the mesons against annihilation is ensured by flavour conservation. The static solutions exist only when the fundamental fields of the bosonized Lagrangian belong to $U(N_c{\times}N_f)$ rather than to $SU(N_c) \times U(N_f)$. Discussion of flavour symmetry breaking requires a careful treatment of the normal ordering ambiguity. Our results can be viewed as a derivation of the constituent quark model in QCD$_2$, allowing a detailed study of constituent mass generation and of the heavy quark symmetry.
description: 27 p. + 8 figures (not included). Figures are available via ftp, see instructions in the paper
Leniency and Severity in China’s Death Penalty Debate
Creators: name: Lewis, Margaret K.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Year: 2011

description: China has implemented an initial wave of death penalty reforms that returned final review power of all capital cases to the Supreme People’s Court and reportedly significantly curbed executions. After reviewing recent legal developments concerning capital cases, this Article explores how the initial push to reduce use of the death penalty has given way to a more complex and nuanced debate over what factors should determine when the death penalty is appropriate. At this juncture in the reform trajectory, the dilemma of when to be lenient and when to be severe is particularly acute as public opinion chafes against a rapid decline in executions, especially when those treated leniently are affluent and/or politically well-connected.
description: Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)
Spatio-Temporal Supermodes:Rapid Reduction of Spatial Coherence in Highly Multimode Lasers
Creators: name: Chriki, Ronen
name: Mahler, Simon
name: Tradonsky, Chene
name: Pal, Vishwa
name: Friesem, Asher A.
name: Davidson, Nir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatial coherence quantifies spatial field correlations over time, and is one of the fundamental properties of light. Here we investigate the spatial coherence of highly multimode lasers in the regime of short time scales. Counter intuitively, we show that in this regime, the temporal (longitudinal) modes play a crucial role in spatial coherence reduction. To evaluate the spatial coherence we measured the temporal dynamics of speckle fields generated by a highly multimode laser with over $10^5$ lasing spatial (transverse) modes, and examined the dependence of speckle contrast on the exposure time of the detecting device. We show that in the regime of short time scale, the spatial and temporal modes interact to form spatio-temporal supermodes, such that the spatial degrees of freedom are encoded onto the temporal modes. As a result, the speckle contrast depends on the number of temporal modes, and the degree of spatial coherence is reduced and the speckle contrast is suppressed. In the regime of long times scale, the supermodes are no longer a valid representation of the laser modal structure. Consequently, the spatial coherence is independent of the temporal modes, and the classical result, where the speckle contrast is suppressed as the number of spatial modes, is obtained. Due to this new spatio-temporal mechanism, highly multimode lasers can be used for speckle suppression in high-speed full-field imaging applications, as we demonstrate here for imaging of a fast moving object.
title: Umweltverträglichkeit der Schlammbehandlung
Creators: name: Usrael, Gerhard
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 1980
Subjects: Klärschlamm
Umweltverträglichkeit

description: Vorträge des 15. ÖWWV - Seminars RAACH, 28.1. - 1.2.1980
title: Migration der Amadeus Germany Systeme von BS2000 nach UNIX
Creators: name: Teppe, Werner
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Migration
subject: Fallstudie
subject: Test
subject: Automatisierung

description: Dieser Beitrag beschreibt das aus mehreren Alternativen ausgewählte Migrationsvorgehen und die weitgehend automatisch ablaufenden Testprozesse.
How Aung San Suu Kyi Can Free Burma from Fear
Creators: name: Lwin, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Year: 2011

description: Last November, Burma held its first elections in twenty years. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest soon after the elections. This paper examines the role of the law in Burma, suggesting that law has influenced military decision making at key points in Burma’s history. First, the right of secession granted in Burma’s 1947 Constitution accelerated military coups in 1957 and 1962, and the issue of secession will not be completely resolved until the Burmese government properly negotiates with ethnic minority groups. Second, during the heated years of 1988 to 1990, Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), made a significant mistake when it invoked the law and proclaimed that military officials would be subject to Nuremberg-style trials. Lastly, because the junta fears the exercise of legal power against if it were to transfer legal power to civilians, the junta is extremely unlikely to cede power while its senior officials are still alive. Burma needs to learn from its past legal failures, and the elections and release of Suu Kyi provide an opportunity-if Burma chooses to take it.
description: Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)
The top-degree part in the Matchings-Jack Conjecture
Creators: name: Burchardt, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 05C10, Secondary 05C30, 05E05, 20C30

description: In 1996 Goulden and Jackson introduced a family of coefficients $( c_{π, σ}^λ ) $ indexed by triples of partitions which arise in the power sum expansion of some Cauchy sum for Jack symmetric functions $( J^{(α)}_π)$. The coefficients $ c_{π, σ}^λ $ can be viewed as an interpolation between the structure constants of the class algebra and the double coset algebra. Goulden and Jackson suggested that the coefficients $ c_{π, σ}^λ $ are polynomials in the variable $β:= α-1$ with non-negative integer coefficients and that there is a combinatorics of matching hidden behind them. This \emph{Matchings-Jack Conjecture} remains open. Doł\oldk{e}ga and Féray showed the polynomiality of connection coefficients $c^λ_{π,σ}$ and gave the upper bound on the degrees. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the polynomial $ c_{π, σ}^λ$ to achieve this bound. We show that the leading coefficient of $ c_{π, σ}^λ$ is a positive integer and we present it in the context of Matchings-Jack Conjecture of Goulden and Jackson.
description: 34 pages
Selection and mechanism exploration for salt-tolerant genes in tomato
Creators: name: Xiaohong Kou
name: Xiuyu Chen
name: Cuiyu Mao
name: Yulong He
name: Yanchun Feng
name: Caie Wu
name: Zhaohui Xue
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: High salinity is a major destructive environmental factor limiting the growth and productivity of plants. In this study, we selected 8 significantly enriched salt stress-related pathways and 17 differentially expressed genes based on RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq). We verified the salt tolerance of the selected key genes using qRT-PCR and combined molecular biology and physiology to explore the salt tolerance mechanism of ASR2-like and ASR3-like genes using the salt-tolerant tomato cultivar LA2711 and the salt-sensitive tomato cultivar ZS-5. The results showed that exogenous ABA significantly increased all physiological indexes but decreased the transcript levels of two target genes compared with untreated controls under salt stress, suggesting that the two genes play an important role in salt tolerance in the form of negative dependence on ABA. Combined with the ABA adaptation pattern and the relationship between the target gene and ABA in the process of response to salt stress, we concluded that ASR2-like and ASR3-like might respond to salt stress by increasing the activities of ROS-scavenging enzymes and proline content via negative dependence on ABA. Taken together, these results provide a good resource for the genetic improvement of tomato and a theoretical basis for obtaining tomato varieties with high resistance to salt.
Coherent Dirac plasmons in topological insulators
Creators: name: Mondal, Richarj
name: Arai, Akira
name: Saito, Yuta
name: Fons, Paul
name: Kolobov, Alexander V.
name: Tominaga, Junji
name: Hase, Muneaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the ultrafast reflectivity response from photo-generated coupled phonon-surface Dirac plasmons in Sb$_2$Te$_3$ topological insulators several quintuple layers thick. The transient coherent phonon spectra obtained at different time frames exhibit a Fano-like asymmetric line shape of the $A^2_{1g}$ mode, which is attributed to quantum interference between continuum-like coherent Dirac-plasmons and phonons. By analyzing the time-dependent asymmetric line shape using the two-temperature model (TTM), it was determined that a Fano-like resonance persisted up to $\approx$1 ps after photo-excitation with a relaxation profile dominated by Gaussian decay at $\leq$200 fs. The asymmetry parameter could be well described by the TTM for $\geq$200 fs, therefore suggesting the coherence time of the Dirac plasmon is $\approx$200 fs.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Heavy metals from different land use soil in the capital of ancient Pundranagar, Bangladesh: a preliminary study for ecological risk assessment
Creators: name: Islam, Md. Saiful
name: Ismail, Zulhilmi
name: Jamal, Mohamad Hidayat
name: Ibrahim, Zulkiflee
name: Jumain, Mazlin
name: Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul
name: Kabir, Md. Humayun
name: Islam, Shah Md. Asraful
name: Ahmed, Sujat
name: Phoungthong, Khamphe
name: Ibrahim, Khalid A.
name: Idris, Abubakr M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Safe levels of extractable heavy metals in land-uses urban soil have not been universally established. The pollution of land-uses soils in ancient Pundranagar, Bangladesh arouses growing interest because of severe anthropogenic stress, urbanization, ecotourism, overexploitation of natural resources, and discharges of industrial as well as municipal waste. Our study unfolds the extent of heavy metal pollution in the land-uses surface soil of this ancient terrestrial ecosystem and also investigates the contamination status, source, and ecological risks using pollution indices techniques. Total 90 soil samples were collected from six different land-uses and heavy metals were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. The concentration ranges of chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn) in land-uses soils were 5.04–73.06, 18.26–313.2, 25.51–370.6, 4.83–36.30, 0.54–17.25, 8.60–187.9, 1128–8155, 35.04–129.1 and 8.60–187.9 mg/kg, respectively. Multivariate principal component analysis showed that Ni, Pb, Mn, Cu, and Zn in soil mainly from anthropogenic sources while As from lithogenic or natural sources. Considering the potential ecological risk, soil from all land uses showed moderate to high ecological risk. Analysis of the results indicates the alarming condition of this ancient terrestrial ecosystem.
Estimation of PM2.5 using high-resolution satellite data and its mortality risk in an area of Iran
Creators: name: Li, Guoxing
name: Aboubakri, Omid
name: Soleimani, Samira
name: Maleki, Afshin
name: Rezaee, Reza
name: Safari, Mahdi
name: Goudarzi, Gholamreza
name: Fatehi, Fariba
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Satellite-based exposure of fine particulate matters has been seldom used as a predictor of mortality. PM2.5 was predicted using Aerosol Optical Depths (AOD) through a two-stage regression model. The predicted PM2.5 was corrected for the bias using two approaches. We estimated the impact by two different scenarios of PM2.5 in the model. We statistically found different distributions of the predicted PM2.5 over the region. Compared to the reference value (5 µg/m3), 90th and 95th percentiles had significant adverse effect on total mortality (RR 90th percentile:1.45; CI 95%: 1.08–1.95 and RR 95th percentile:1.53; CI 95%: 1.11–2.1). Nearly 1050 deaths were attributed to any range of the air pollution (unhealthy range), of which more than half were attributed to high concentration range. Given the adverse effect of extreme values compared to the both scenarios, more efforts are suggested to define local-specific reference values and preventive strategies.
An Act for consolidating in one Act certain provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for undertakings of a Public nature. Whereas It is expedient to establish certain conditions and provisions upon and in accordance with which Land required for undertakings or works of a public nature may be acquired and the manner of obtaining compensation for the same...
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: AN ACT FOR CONSOLIDATING IN ONE ACT CERTAIN PROVISIONS USUALLY INSERTED IN ACTS AUTHORIZING THE TAKING OF LANDS FOR UNDERTAKINGS OF A PUBLIC NATURE. ... THIS ACT MAY BE CITED AS THE "VANCOUVER ISLAND LAND CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT, 1863."

Draft of Vancouver Island Land Clauses Consolidation Act, 1863.
Is Ramsar Home Yet? A Critique of South Korean Laws in Light of the Continuing Coastal Wetlands Reclamation
Creators: name: Kim, Rakhyun E.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Year: 2011

description: One of the ways the clash between economic development and environmental protection in South Korea is manifested is in the country’s policies on coastal land use and reclamation. Even though coastal wetlands are legally considered public property, they have been continuously reclaimed and privatized by the state and its close corporate entities under the Public Waters Reclamation Act of 1962. Since its accession to the Ramsar Convention (the “Convention”), Korea has been curtailing the privatization of public lands. The country has instituted domestic measures to implement the provisions of the Convention and to follow the principle of sustainable use of wetlands. Coastal law and policy have also gained political prominence since Korea hosted the Tenth Ramsar Conference in 20o8. Efforts to uphold the country’s obligations under the Convention and to limit large-scale coastal reclamation projects, however, have not been effective. Over 1,ooo square kilometers of coastal wetlands, or thirty percent of the remaining wetlands, are currently being developed. In addition, numerous special development laws, providing loopholes for developers to circumvent limits on land reclamation projects,. have been passed. This article reviews South Korea’s legal and institutional landscape and examines the question of whether the Ramsar Convention has been genuinely internalized by the legal system. Domestic laws are insufficient in upholding the principles of the Convention, and government administrators are not committed to upholding them. This article ultimately concludes that Korean law needs to adopt and internalize certain outside norms in order to effectively carry out Korea’s obligations under the Ramsar Convention.
description: Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)
title: A Systematic Approach for Comparing and Reusing Design Alternatives
Creators: name: Knodel, Jens
name: Forster, Thomas
name: Girard, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: architecture evaluation
subject: reconstruction
subject: design comparison
subject: reverse engineering
subject: product lines

description: This work introduces an approach to mine field-tested design solutions when defining the architecture of a new product line. The design comparison approach (DCA) compares design solution alternatives implemented in existing systems and evaluates their advantages and drawbacks. This explicit comparison and analysis enables the development of high quality product line architectures by incorporating field-tested, proven concepts and strategies. The experiences gained so far in case studies support the claim that the resulting architecture profits from the application of the DCA approach.
title: Kurzfassungen der Vorträge der GI-Fachtagung Software Engineering 2005
Creators: name: Liggesmeyer, Peter
name: Pohl, Klaus (Herausgeber)
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering
subject: Fachtagung
subject: Vorträge

description: Die Fachtagung Software Engineering 2005 zielt auf die Zusammenführung und Stärkung der deutschsprachigen Softwaretechnik ab. Die Tagung bietet ein Forum zum intensiven Austausch über praktische Erfahrungen, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse sowie zukünftige Herausforderungen bei der Entwicklung von Softwareprodukten bzw. softwareintensiven Systemen. Sie richtet sich gleichermaßen an Experten aus Industrie und Wissenschaft. Im Folgenden werden die Vorträge der Konferenz kurz zusammengefasst.
The Coordinated Radio and Infrared Survey for High-Mass Star Formation III. A catalogue of northern ultra-compact H II regions
Creators: name: Kalcheva, I. E.
name: Hoare, M. G.
name: Urquhart, J. S.
name: Kurtz, S.
name: Lumsden, S. L.
name: Purcell, C. R.
name: Zijlstra, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A catalogue of 239 ultra-compact HII regions (UCHIIs) found in the CORNISH survey at 5 GHz and 1.5" resolution in the region $10^{\circ} < l < 65^{\circ}, ~|b| < 1^{\circ}$ is presented. This is the largest complete and well-selected sample of UCHIIs to date and provides the opportunity to explore the global and individual properties of this key state in massive star formation at multiple wavelengths. The nature of the candidates was validated, based on observational properties and calculated spectral indices, and the analysis is presented in this work. The physical sizes, luminosities and other physical properties were computed by utilising literature distances or calculating the distances whenever a value was not available. The near- and mid-infrared extended source fluxes were measured and the extinctions towards the UCHIIs were computed. The new results were combined with available data at longer wavelengths and the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) were reconstructed for 177 UCHIIs. The bolometric luminosities obtained from SED fitting are presented. By comparing the radio flux densities to previous observational epochs, we find about 5% of the sources appear to be time variable. This first high-resolution area survey of the Galactic plane shows that the total number of UCHIIs in the Galaxy is ~ 750 - a factor of 3-4 fewer than found in previous large area radio surveys. It will form the basis for future tests of models of massive star formation.
description: 30 pages; accepted for publication in A&A on 21.03.2018
The operations of the familial body: genes, family and hereditary cancer
Creators: name: Witchard, Alison Monique
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
family
genes
partial
individuals
caregiving

description: This thesis examines the experiences of 47 Australian and American women who have been tested for BRCA1- and BRCA2-associated hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome. Existing anthropological approaches to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome assert a stern analytic division between biomedical and genetic, and familial relatedness. By asserting the primacy of the individual, these approaches attempt to rescue the socially connected at-risk woman who chooses her relations with others affectively, from the genetic sequence that dictates her relations with others medically. This figure of the ‘individual’ is anthropologically considered to organise socially significant others according to either selfish or selfless motives: she may selfishly have children despite the risk of cancer she confers, or selflessly hold back her reproductive desires. These difficult emotional decisions, it is anthropologically asserted, are obscured by a medical world that dictates genetic relatedness. But, as I show in this thesis, analyses that sharply contrast genetic and social forms of relatedness prevent us from seeing their shared basis in, simultaneously, partiality and collectivity. Rather than taking up the familiar combative anthropological stance in which the biomedical and the social are sharply contrasted, I take my cue from a basic principle of genetic inheritance. Genes challenge the discrete boundedness of the body: each person makes partial genetic contributions which, in concert with the partial contributions of others, yield the genetic collective that is ‘me.’ Just as persons are the collective product of partial contributions of others, so too is the social institution of the family. The family is a sociality made and maintained in fleshy relations between parts of bodies that together create a familial collective. Taking the notions of partiality and collectivity that are found in both genetic and social worlds of cancer as key motifs, I offer up a new analysis of precancerous lives. Instead of seeing at-risk women who act as bounded individuals – either selfishly or selflessly – I focus on the precancerous parts of women’s bodies that threaten to disrupt familial collectivities. Such an analysis tells us much about the importance of particular body parts to the intercorporeal sociality of the family, how critical it is that those parts remain reliably there, however unreflexively considered they might usually be, and how wrenching it is to have to remove parts critical to the making and maintenance of the family to remain in it as a living presence.
The Supreme People’s Court and the Political Economy of Judicial Empowerment in Contemporary China
Creators: name: Ip, Eric C.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Year: 2011

description: This article explores the transformation of the Chinese Supreme People’s Court (“Court”) from a state security agency into a relatively autonomous policy-making organization. Beginning in the mid-199os, the Court has reinterpreted virtually every major legislative act, made rules in numerous substantive law and regulatory fields, instructed lower judges to suspend ultra vires local enactments, appointed its own justices, and initiated nationwide judicial reform. This article addresses questions of why this court came to exercise such expanded powers and how this happened without the encouragement of the Leninist state. It argues that the Court’s empowerment originated from the entrepreneurial choices of senior justices. A new judicial ideology that combines activist and professional values emerged under the auspices of entrepreneurs. By encouraging pro-empowerment preferences within the Court, supporting the interests of influential business actors, and reforming local courts in line with its ideology, the Court succeeded in constructing support bases for judicial empowerment. Increasingly fragmented political authority, breakneck economic development, and considerable legislative underperformance have all furthered the Court’s aggrandizement. However, Chinese judicial empowerment is qualified by the inter-subjective perceptions of China’s rulers regarding the proper boundaries of judicial power.
description: Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)
Proclamation. No. 5 A. D. 1863. By His Excellency James Douglas, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Columbia and its Dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c. Whereas, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the session of Parliament, held in the 21st and 22nd years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled an "Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia,"...
Creators: name: Douglas, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Wide coat of arms ] R. PROCLAMATION. NO. 5, A.D. 1863. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, &C., &C. ... ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, THIS 14TH DAY OF MAY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE, AND IN THE TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY'S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND, WILLIAM A.G. YOUNG. COLONIAL SECRETARY. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

British Columbia Loan Act.
title: FMC als Mittel der Architekturfindung im Reengineering
Creators: name: Knöpfel, Andreas
name: Tabeling, Peter
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Reengineering
subject: Legacy
subject: FMC
subject: Modellierung

description: Die Identifikation der zentralen Systemstrukturen ist unverzichtbar für das Reengineering komplexer, über lange Zeit gewachsener Software–Systeme. Abgleich und Integration von Aussagen über das System aus unterschiedlichen Informationsquellen sind hierzu unverzichtbar. Durch Anwendung des Modellierungsansatzes FMC (Fundamental Modeling Concept) lassen sich in diesem Kontext üblicherweise auftretende Verständnis- und Kommunikationsprobleme effektiv reduzieren.
China’s Tortuous Path Toward Ending Torture in Criminal Investigations
Creators: name: Belkin, Ira
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Year: 2011

description: On May 21, 2010, Chief Judge Zhang Liyong of the Henan Provincial High Court left his office in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou and travelled to a remote peasant village. There, in front of national television cameras, he bowed deeply three times and personally offered his apologies to Zhao Zuohai, a poor farmer, for his unjust murder conviction.’ Thus, a “month of reflection” in all of the “judicial organs”-the courts, the prosecutors’ offices and the police of Henan Province-came to a close. This rare public display of contrition by Chinese officialdom was occasioned by this embarrassing case of the Chinese justice system convicting an innocent man of a murder that had never occurred. There was no gainsaying the wrongfulness of the conviction and the innocence of Zhao Zuohai. This was not a case of a guilty party getting off on a technicality. After serving eleven years in prison, Zhao Zuohai was exonerated by the most persuasive evidence possible: after more than a decade’s absence, the alleged murder victim, Zhao Zhanshang (no relation), returned to their home village still very much alive to claim social welfare benefits. Village officials were shocked to see Zhao Zhanshang “return from the dead.”
description: Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)
Proclamation. No. 6 A. D. 1863. By His Excellency James Douglas, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Columbia and its Dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c. Whereas, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the session of Parliament held in the 21st and 22nd years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled an "Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia,"...
Creators: name: Douglas, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Coat of arms A ] R. PROCLAMATION. NO. 6, A.D. 1863. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, &C., &C. ... {L.S.} ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MAY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE, AND IN THE TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY'S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND, WILLIAM A.G. YOUNG. COLONIAL SECRETARY. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Sunday Observance Act.
Additional file 1 of Oral arsenic and retinoic acid for high-risk acute promyelocytic leukemia
Creators: name: Ma, Ya-Fang
name: Lu, Ying
name: Wu, Qian
name: Lou, Yin-Jun
name: Yang, Min
name: Xu, Jie-Yu
name: Sun, Cai-Hong
name: Mao, Li-Ping
name: Xu, Gai-Xiang
name: Li, Li
name: Huang, Jian
name: Wang, Huai-Yu
name: Lou, Li-Jiang
name: Meng, Hai-Tao
name: Qian, Jie-Jing
name: Yu, Wen-Juan
name: Wei, Ju-Ying
name: Li, Zhen-Yu
name: Zhu, Xue-Lu
name: Yan, Xiao-Yan
name: Chen, Su-Ning
name: Jin, Jie
name: Zhu, Hong-Hu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. The treatment schema. The consolidation therapy included RIF (60 mg/kg daily in an oral divided dose) in a 4-week-on and 4-week-off regimen for 4 cycles and ATRA (25 mg/m2 daily in an oral divided dose) in a 2-week-on and 2-week-off regimen for 7 cycles. Of note, treatment cycles were counted according to the cycles of ATRA. Figure S2. Flow chart of participants enrollment, treatment and follow-up. 54 patients were enrolled in the clinical trial and an intention-to-treat analysis were performed. Seven patients had major protocol violation. Four of them suffered cerebral hemorrhage in induction therapy, so their physicians advised two cycles of chemotherapy for consolidation therapy and continued with RIF plus ATRA for 7 cycles. One of them changed protocol for a grade 3 hematochezia. One patient returned to his hometown hospital and changed his treatment plan. The last one did not give a specific reason for the change in treatment. Another seven patients were in consolidation process. Two patients were lost to follow-up and one of them had not completed the trial. Thus 39 patients were included in the per-protocol analysis. Figure S3. PML-RARA tested at 3, 5 and 7 months from the beginning of the induction therapy in ITT analysis.Table S1. Characteristics of the Patients. Table S2. Clinical characteristics and treatment of five patients with cerebral hemorrhage. Table S3. Treatment and outcomes of two relapsed patients. Patient No.1 had cerebral hemorrhage at the time of diagnosis. She had a molecular relapse at 11 months after remission and a central nervous system relapse at 13 months. Patient No.2 had a hematologic relapse at 13 months and achieved remission again after RIF plus ATRA reinduction and alive until last follow-up.
title: Bericht über die ICSE Workshops SESS and WADS 2005
Creators: name: Warns, Timo
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: ICSE
subject: Tagung
subject: Konferenz
subject: Bericht
subject: Workshop
subject: SESS
subject: WADS

description: Der Aspekt der Vertrauenswürdigkeit nimmt eine zunehmend größere Rolle bei der Entwicklung von Software ein. Um die dabei auftretenden Herausforderungen zu beältigen, ist die Zusammenarbeit der Communities der Fehlertoleranz, Sicherheit und Softwaretechnik gefragt. Dieser Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse der ICSE Workshops Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS) und Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS) 2005 zusammen, in denen diese Communities zusammentrafen.
The Impact and Direction of National Standardized Sentencing Reform in China
Creators: name: Xiaoqin, Ye
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Year: 2011

description: On October 1, 2010, the People’s Republic of China (“China”) implemented nationwide reform to standardize criminal sentencing in the form of two landmark judicial documents with the goal of reducing unwarranted sentencing disparities and establishing relatively independent sentencing procedures. On that date, all Chinese courts implemented the Directive on Sentencing in the People’s Courts (for Trial Implementation) (“Directive on Sentencing”),’ promulgated by the Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”); and the Opinion on Certain Issues of Standardized Sentencing Procedure (for Trial Implementation) (“Opinion on Sentencing Procedure”),’ promulgated by the “Two Supremes” and “Three Ministries.”‘ These “guidance” documents, which provide strict standards and specific procedures for criminal sentencing, triggered full-scale “standardized sentencing reform” ( A M 011 r *) (liangxing guifanhua gaige) throughout the Chinese court system. This article briefly discusses the primary impact and possible implications of these new reforms, in particular the Directive on Sentencing. The Directive on Sentencing and Opinion on Sentencing Procedure have no legally binding effect. Of course, these standardized sentencing rules would enjoy stronger legal effect if promulgated as laws by the National People’s Congress (NPC) or as a judicial interpretation by the SPC, as authorized by the Standing Committee of the NPC. Specific sentencing rules can be seen as applying the penalty range provisions of the Criminal Law. It is usually the NPC that promulgates and amends basic laws such as the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law, and the SPC itself seems not to have gained sufficient experience to enact a complete judicial interpretation on sentencing issues for all offenses. But apparently the SPC thinks it necessary to promote sentencing reform at present, relying on Article 127 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China to promulgate the Directive on Sentencing.’ Article 127 authorizes the SPC to supervise trials in local courts and authorizes higher courts in general to supervise trials in lower courts. The SPC’s guidance on sentencing, then, can be understood as a means of supervising criminal trials at all levels. So the Directive on Sentencing and Opinion on Sentencing Procedure are designated as pilot judicial documents without binding force: they provide only supervisory guidance in sentencing, and a more formal set of 6 rules is to be enacted after sufficient data on sentencing are collected.
description: Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)
Avoiding degenerate coframes in an affine gauge approach to quantum gravity
Creators: name: Mielke, E. W.
name: McCrea, J. D.
name: Ne'eman, Y.
name: Hehl, F. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum models of gravity, it is surmized that configurations with degenerate coframes could occur during topology change of the underlying spacetime structure. However, the coframe is not the true Yang--Mills type gauge field of the translations, since it lacks the inhomogeneous gradient term in the gauge transformations. By explicitly restoring this ``hidden" piece within the framework of the affine gauge approach to gravity, one can avoid the metric or coframe degeneracy which would otherwise interfere with the integrations within the path integral. This is an important advantage for quantization.
description: 14 pages, Preprint Cologne-thp-1993-H2
Proclamation. No. 7 A. D. 1863. By His Excellency James Douglas, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Columbia and its Dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c. Whereas, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the session of Parliament held in the 21st and 22nd years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled an "Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia," ...
Creators: name: Douglas, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO. 7, A.D. 1863. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, &C., &C. ... {L.S.} ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF MAY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE, AND IN THE TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND, WILLIAM. A.G. YOUNG. COLONIAL SECRETARY. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Mining District Act.