cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Overview of Integration of the Virtualization of Network Functions in the Context of Information Centric Networks
Creators: name: Castillo, Antonio Cortés
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2; C.2.1; C.2.3
subject: 94 (Primary)

description: Nowadays, the new network architectures with respect to the traditional network topologies must manage more data, which entails having increasingly robust and scalable network structures. As there is a process of growth, adaptability, and change in traditional data networks, faced with the management of large volumes of information, it is necessary to incorporate the virtualization of network functions in the context of information content networks, in such a way that there is a balance between the user and the provider at cost level and profit, the functions on the network. In turn, NFVs (Network Functions Virtualization) are considered network structures designed based on IT virtualization technologies, which allow virtualizing of the functions that can be found in the network nodes, which are connected through routing tables, which allows offering communication services for various types of customers. Therefore, information-centric networks (IC, unlike traditional data networks which proceed to exchange information between hosts using data packets and TCP/IP communication protocols, use the content of the data for this purpose where the data travels through the network is stored in a routing table located in the CR (Content Router) of the router temporality to be reused later, which allows for reducing operation costs and capital costs . The purpose of this work is to analyze how the virtualization of network functions is integrated into the field of information-centric networks. Also, the advantages and disadvantages of both architectures are considered and presented as a critical analysis when considering the current difficulties and future trends of both network topologies.
description: 7 pages,7 figures, conference paper, index in Scopus
Easyworm: an open-source software tool to determine the mechanical properties of worm-like chains
Creators: name: Lamour, Guillaume
name: Kirkegaard, Julius B
name: Li, Hongbin
name: Knowles, Tuomas P
name: Gsponer, Jörg
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: A growing spectrum of applications for natural and synthetic polymers, whether in industry or for biomedical research, demands for fast and universally applicable tools to determine the mechanical properties of very diverse polymers. To date, determining these properties is the privilege of a limited circle of biophysicists and engineers with appropriate technical skills. Findings: Easyworm is a user-friendly software suite coded in MATLAB that simplifies the image analysis of individual polymeric chains and the extraction of the mechanical properties of these chains. Easyworm contains a comprehensive set of tools that, amongst others, allow the persistence length of single chains and the Young’s modulus of elasticity to be calculated in multiple ways from images of polymers obtained by a variety of techniques (e.g. atomic force microscopy, electron, contrast-phase, or epifluorescence microscopy). Conclusions: Easyworm thus provides a simple and efficient tool for specialists and non-specialists alike to solve a common problem in (bio)polymer science. Stand-alone executables and shell scripts are provided along with source code for further development.
Complementarity-Entanglement Tradeoff in Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Maleki, Yusef
name: Maleki, Alireza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantization of the gravity remains one of the most important, yet extremely illusive, challenges at the heart of modern physics. Any attempt to resolve this long-standing problem seems to be doomed, as the route to any direct empirical evidence (i.e., detecting gravitons) for shedding light on the quantum aspect of the gravity is far beyond the current capabilities. Recently, it has been discovered that gravitationally-induced entanglement, tailored in the interferometric frameworks, can be used to witness the quantum nature of the gravity. Even though these schemes offer promising tools for investigating quantum gravity, many fundamental and empirical aspects of the schemes are yet to be discovered. Considering the fact that, beside quantum entanglement, quantum uncertainty and complementarity principles are the two other foundational aspects of quantum physics, the quantum nature of the gravity needs to manifest all of these features. Here, we lay out an interferometric platform for testing these three nonclassical aspects of quantum mechanics in quantum gravity setting, which connects gravity and quantum physics in a broader and deeper context. As we show in this work, all of these three fundamental features of quantum gravity can be framed and fully analyzed in an interferometric scheme.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
CAP measures towards environmental sustainability: Trade opportunities for Africa?
Creators: name: Latka, Catharina
name: Heckelei, Thomas
name: Kuhn, Arnim
name: Witzke, Heinz-Peter
name: Kornher, Lukas
name: Latka, Catharina
name: Heckelei, Thomas
name: Kuhn, Arnim
name: Witzke, Heinz-Peter
name: Kornher, Lukas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: CAP reform
subject: EU-Africa-trade
subject: transport costs
subject: coupled payments

description: The future EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) requires coherence with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the international commitments in the fight against climate change. Next to ensuring stable food supply by supporting farmers and enhancing agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability is a core aspect of the proposed future CAP. At the same time, new policies must not compromise socio-economic development in low-income countries, especially in Africa, as stated in the European consensus on development. On the contrary, the extensification of agriculture in the EU may create trade opportunities for African countries. We apply a global agri-economic model to assess trade-related impacts of potential, environmentally motivated changes of CAP policies in the EU and Africa. Our findings suggest that EU production levels of meat would change with a stronger environmental focus of the CAP. These changes reduce the EU’s share in agri-trade flows to Africa. However, food supply in Africa is not projected to deteriorate, as imports from other world regions and, to a limited extent, increasing domestic production can fill the gap. In how far potentials for domestic production growth can be used in African regions depends at least partly on their competitiveness vis-á-vis substituting importers. A sensitivity analysis on reduced transport costs shows that infrastructure investments could contribute to a stronger integration of Africa in international markets. On a global level, our analysis reveals the need to balance sustainability trade-offs in terms of avoiding leakage effects from EU agricultural production changes versus facilitating economic growth potentials in low- and middle-income countries.
Book Review: Stephen Macedo, Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage
Creators: name: Maine, Alexander
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: Review of Stephen Macedo, Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage (Princeton University Press, 2015).
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 2 (2017)
Rewriting Reproductive Rights: Applying Feminist Methodology to the European Court of Human Rights' Abortion Jurisprudence
Creators: name: Sauls Avolio, Vanessa
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: This article adopts feminist methodology to demonstrate how women’s rights and reproductive freedom can be enhanced at the judicial level: a process that can lead to legal reform. The practice of feminist judgment-writing is central in achieving this objective. Recently, feminist scholars and practitioners have come together to rewrite landmark judgments concerning women’s rights. Examples of these efforts can be found in the Women’s Court of Canada and the UK Feminist Judgments Project. Drawing from these reformative experiences, the article rewrites two abortion judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: A, B and C v Ireland and P and S v Poland. These revisions emphasise the necessity for alternate accounts of women’s rights in the courtroom.
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 2 (2017)
Why We Still Oppose Gold and Also Oppose Hybrid Open Access
Creators: name: Hunter, Rosemary
name: Alessandrini, Donatella
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: In Vol 2, No 2 of feminists@law (2012) we published our response to the Finch Report as an Editorial titled ‘Why We Oppose Gold Open Access’. Five years later, it is timely to take stock of what has happened since the Finch Report and to revisit our assessment of the government’s and research funders’ open access (OA) policies. Our focus in this Editorial is on journal publishing in Law and more generally in Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) rather than in the STEM disciplines, on which much of the OA literature since Finch has been based. We consider first how the market in OA has developed since 2012, and secondly how the OA ecosystem now appears, before finally making proposals for the future.
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 2 (2017)
Design and Fabrication of Nano-Particles with Customized Properties using Self-Assembly of Block-Copolymers
Creators: name: Huang, Changhuang
name: Bai, Kechun
name: Zhu, Yanyan
name: Andelman, David
name: Man, Xingkun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Functional nanoparticles (NPs) have gained significant attention as a promising application in various fields, including sensor, smart coating, drug delivery, and more. Here, we propose a novel mechanism assisted by machine-learning workflow to accurately predict phase diagram of NPs, which elegantly achieves tunability of shapes and internal structures of NPs using self-assembly of block-copolymers (BCP). Unlike most of previous studies, we obtain onion-like and mesoporous NPs in neutral environment and hamburger-like NPs in selective environment. Such novel phenomenon is obtained only by tailoring the topology of a miktoarm star BCP chain architecture without the need for any further treatment. Moreover, we demonstrate that the BCP chain architecture can be used as a new strategy for tuning the lamellar asymmetry of NPs. We show that the asymmetry between A and B lamellae in striped ellipsoidal and onion-like particles increases as the volume fraction of the A-block increases, beyond the level reached by linear BCPs. In addition, we find an extended region of onion-like structure in the phase diagram of A-selective environment, as well as the emergence of an inverse onion-like structure in the B-selective one. Our findings provide a valuable insight into the design and fabrication of nanoscale materials with customized properties, opening up new possibilities for advanced applications in sensing, materials science, and beyond.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
#LesbiansAreHot: On Oil, Imperialism and What it Means to Queer International Law
Creators: name: Baars, Grietje
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: Paper given at the symposium to celebrate the scholarship of Dianne Otto, SOAS, University of London, September 2016.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 1 (2017)
Gentrification, cultural policy and live music in Melbourne
Creators: name: Lobato, Ramon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines the regulation of nightlife in Melbourne, with a special focus on live music venues. Widespread gentrification of the city centre and inner suburbs has recently created considerable tension between residents and venues. Under pressure from both sides, the state government established the Live Music Taskforce in 2003, and its findings resulted in a semi-formal - albeit largely symbolic - policy reorientation towards the protection of existing music venues. Through a case study of the Live Music Taskforce policy development process, the author argues that the Bracks government's creative cities development strategy and its overriding economic motivations have, in this instance, intersected with the broader cultural needs of Melbourne. However, such productive intersections can in no way be assured by creative industries planning models, whose interest in cultural activity is conditional upon its economic value.
СРАВНЕНИЕ ЭФФЕКТИВНЫХ СПОСОБОВ БОРЬБЫ С ПЕСКОПРОЯВЛЕНИЕМ НА СКВАЖИНАХ
Creators: name: Асирян Александр Вячеславович
name: Танин Иван Юрьевич
Publisher: name: StudNet
Year: 2020
Subjects: динамические показатели
пескопроявление
гравийные фильтры
песчаные фильтры
депрессия
забойное давление

description: Данная статья посвящена рассмотрению механических и химических способов контроля за пескопроявлением при добыче нефти. Вынос песка значительно усложняет добычу нефти, что связано с образованием пробок в скважинах, разрушением оборудования внутри скважины при взаимодействии с песком, с засорением наружного оборудования и трубопроводов песком. Было проведено сравнение эффективности полимерных фильтров, системы гравия с полимерным покрытием, гравийного фильтра.
ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ ДЕБАТОВ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ПРЕПОДАВАНИЯ ПЕДАГОГИКИ СТУДЕНТАМ БАКАЛАВРИАТА (ИЗ ОПЫТА РАБОТЫ)
Creators: name: Солодкая Наталья Владимировна
Publisher: name: StudNet
Year: 2020
Subjects: дебаты
мотивация
педагогика
студент бакалавриата
творческая активность.

description: Актуальность темы обосновывается отсутствием творческой активности и мотивации к изучению педагогики у студентов бакалавриата. В статье особое внимание уделено применению дебатов. Используя дебаты в процессе преподавания педагогики, преподаватель активизирует познавательную деятельность студентов, повышает мотивацию к изучению дисциплины, способствует формированию творческой активности студентов бакалавриата.
Development of a machine-learning enabled Safe Water Optimization Tool for humanitarian response
Creators: name: Ali, Syed Imran
name: Jean-François Fesselet
name: Arnold, Matt
name: Khan, Usman
name: Ali, Syed Saad
name: Spendlove, Mike
name: Vasileiou, Apostolos
name: Santi, Michael De
name: Rahma Shakir
name: Adler, Dalia
name: Orbinski, James
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Development of a machine-learning enabled safe water optimization tool for
humanitarian response presented at MSF Scientific Days International (London) Innovation Day, May 14, 2020 by Syed Imran Ali
title: JCSDA quarterly no. 71, Spring 2022
title: JCSDA Quarterly Newsletter ; #71
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Yoe, James G.
Publisher: name: United States. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (U.S.)
Year: 2022

description: JCSDA Quarterly Newsletter ; #71
Femtosecond fabricated photomasks for fabrication of microfluidic devices
Creators: name: Day, Daniel
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes the direct write laser fabrication of a photolithography mask for prototyping of microfluidic devices in polydimethylsiloxane. An amplified femtosecond pulse laser is used to selectively remove the aluminium metal layer from the poly(methyl methacrylate) photomask substrate. The use of a femtosecond pulse laser to selectively etch a metal layer has several advantages over other conventional methods for binary photomask fabrication, namely rapid prototyping of microfluidic devices using soft lightography. Control of the energy density and defocus position of the focusing objective lens results in the etching of features with widths ranging from 2 µm to 35 µm when using an objective lens with a numerical aperture of 0.25.
Einfluss volumetrischer MRT-Daten von Patienten mit Glioblastom auf deren klinischen Verlauf
Creators: name: Hiepel, Marie Cristin
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den Einfluss volumetrischer MRT-Daten auf das Outcome von Glioblastompatienten zu untersuchen und deren prognostische Aussagekraft zu analysieren. Der von uns gebildete Parameter NTR (Nekrose-Tumor-Ratio) konnte im Zuge der multivariaten Cox-Regressionsanalyse als unabhängiger signifikanter prognostischer Faktor auf das Gesamtüberleben bestätigt werden. Patienten mit einem NTR ≤ 0,3 haben ein besseres Outcome als Patienten mit einem NTR > 0,3, wobei die beste Prognose bei einem NTR ≤ 0,1 zu erwarten ist.
Radiation conditions for the Helmholtz equation in a half plane filled by inhomogeneous periodic material
Creators: name: Hu, Guanghui
name: Rathsfeld, Andreas
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Half-space radiation condition
subject: inhomogeneous medium
subject: wave-mode expansion
subject: scattering by grating
subject: RCWA
subject: 74J20
subject: 76B15
subject: 35J50
subject: 35J08

description: In this paper we consider time-harmonic acoustic wave propagation in a half-plane filled by inhomogeneous periodic medium. If the refractive index depends on the horizontal coordinate only, we define upward and downward radiating modes by solving a one-dimensional Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem with a complex-valued periodic coefficient. The upward and downward radiation conditions are introduced based on a generalized Rayleigh series. Using the variational method, we then prove uniqueness and existence for the scattering of an incoming wave mode by a grating located between an upper and lower half plane with such inhomogeneous periodic media. Finally, we discuss the application of the new radiation conditions to the scattering matrix algorithm, i.e., to rigorous coupled wave analysis or Fourier modal method.
Répartition des catégories socio-professionnelles par département en 2015 en France métropolitaine
Creators: name: Plard, Guichet
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Relation: https://www.nakala.fr/page/data/11280/4a43ea4c
description: Relation: https://www.nakala.fr/page/data/11280/d0ada45b
High Prevalence and Partner Correlates of Physical and Sexual Violence by Intimate Partners among Street and Off-Street Sex Workers
Creators: name: Argento, Elena
name: Muldoon, Katherine Anne
name: Duff, Putu
name: Simo, Annick
name: Deering, Kathleen N.
name: Shannon, K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: OBJECTIVES: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with increased risk of HIV among women globally. There is limited evidence and understanding about IPV and potential HIV risk pathways among sex workers (SWs). This study aims to longitudinally evaluate prevalence and correlates of IPV among street and off-street SWs over two-years follow-up. METHODS: Longitudinal data were drawn from an open prospective cohort, AESHA (An Evaluation of Sex Workers Health Access) in Metro Vancouver, Canada (2010-2012). Prevalence of physical and sexual IPV was measured using the WHO standardized IPV scale (version 9.9). Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression using Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) were used to examine interpersonal and structural correlates of IPV over two years. RESULTS: At baseline, 387 SWs had a male, intimate sexual partner and were eligible for this analysis. One-fifth (n = 83, 21.5%) experienced recent physical/sexual IPV at baseline and 26.2% over two-years follow-up. In multivariable GEE analysis, factors independently correlated with physical/sexual IPV in the last six months include: childhood (<18 years) sexual/physical abuse (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.05, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.14-3.69), inconsistent condom use for vaginal and/or anal sex with intimate partner (AOR = 1.84, 95% CI: 1.07-3.16), <daily prescription opioid use (AOR = 1.72, 95% CI: 1.02-2.89), providing financial support to intimate partner (AOR = 1.65, 95% CI: 1.05-2.59), and sourcing drugs from intimate partner (AOR = 1.62, 95% CI: 1.02-2.26). DISCUSSION: Our results demonstrate that over one-fifth of SWs in Vancouver report physical/sexual IPV in the last six months. The socio-structural correlates of IPV uncovered here highlight potential HIV risk pathways through SWs' intimate, non-commercial partner relationships. The high prevalence of IPV among SWs is a critical public health concern and underscores the need for integrated violence and HIV prevention and intervention strategies tailored to this key population.
Sensate Vision: From Maximum Visibility to Haptic Erotics
Creators: name: Janssen, Sara
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: For years, moving-image pornography has been shaped by a desire for “maximum visibility,” according to film scholar Linda Williams (1999), informing pornography’s formulaic and repetitive graphic depiction of the mechanics of the sexual act, as well as its intense scrutiny of the female body, and its different generic tropes, the most important one being the so-called “money shot,” consisting of the external male ejaculation. However, in the course of the last two decades, a corpus of feminist, lesbian, and queer pornography has appeared, which not only expresses a particular interest in bringing to screen female sexual pleasure, but also problematizes pornography’s obsession with maximum visibility, instead seeking to convey the tactile and visceral “feel” of the sexual encounter. By taking up Laura Marks’s concept of “haptic visuality” as a particular feminist strategy, this article takes into account two examples of alternative pornography, namely Touch (2013) and One Night Stand (2006), in order to describe the ways in which these films not only appropriate the carnal appeal of pornography, but also reconfigure it, experimenting with different ways of visualizing female sexuality, and opening up not only what pornography might look like, but also what it might do.
description: feminists@law, Vol 5 No 2 (2015)
The Protection of Civilians and Protection of Peacekeeping Mandates: Gender and Ethics in Collective Security
Creators: name: Heathcote, Gina
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: This lecture considers how Security Council authority and legitimacy gain traction through the deployment and development of normative provisions. I focus on the robust peacekeeping mandates in the UN Security Council Resolutions on the Protection of Civilians and on Women, Peace and Security to demonstrate how the Security Council's thematic resolutions are increasingly used to justify new modes of force. This raises questions regarding the ethics of a feminist project focused on supporting the women, peace and security framework that is increasingly co-opted into militarised peacekeeping. At the same time the Council's use of gender perspectives and the protection of civilians narrative is seemingly used to avoid scrutiny of its agenda and mandates, suggesting that the development of normative and thematic work requires greater scrutiny from critical and feminist actors.
description: feminists@law, Vol 5 No 2 (2015)
Beyond Words: Breaking the Boundaries of Legal Language
Creators: name: Ohana, Natalie
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: This is the transcript of a Tedx talk given at Goodenough College, London on 21 May 2016. The author describes an art and dialogue workshop she conducted with artist Dr Sue Challis at a women’s refuge in London run by Solace Women’s Aid. The art works produced by women residing in the refuge concerning encounters with the legal system prompted reflections on the limits of language – especially legal language – as a tool to convey painful and traumatic experiences, and the value of combining language and art as a more effective means for expression and communication. A video of the talk is available at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ydrf7DljfQ.
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 1 (2016)
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World, edited by Sanja Bahun and V.G. Julie Rajan
Creators: name: Duggan, Marian
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: Book review of Sanja Bahun and V.G. Julie Rajan (eds), Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (Ashgate, 2nd ed, 2015).
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 1 (2016)
Persistence in Complex Systems
Creators: name: Salcedo-Sanz, S.
name: Casillas-Pérez, D.
name: Del Ser, J.
name: Casanova-Mateo, C.
name: Cuadra, L.
name: Piles, M.
name: Camps-Valls, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Persistence is an important characteristic of many complex systems in nature, related to how long the system remains at a certain state before changing to a different one. The study of complex systems' persistence involves different definitions and uses different techniques, depending on whether short-term or long-term persistence is considered. In this paper we discuss the most important definitions, concepts, methods, literature and latest results on persistence in complex systems. Firstly, the most used definitions of persistence in short-term and long-term cases are presented. The most relevant methods to characterize persistence are then discussed in both cases. A complete literature review is also carried out. We also present and discuss some relevant results on persistence, and give empirical evidence of performance in different detailed case studies, for both short-term and long-term persistence. A perspective on the future of persistence concludes the work.
Post-Truth and the 'Metropolitan Elite' Feminist: Lessons from Brexit
Creators: name: Cain, Ruth
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: This short comment reflects on gender, age and class profile of those who voted to leave the European Union in the UK's 'Brexit' referendum, and the implications for academic feminists in finding themselves members of a minority holding very different views from and despised by many of those whose interests they have purported to represent.
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 1 (2016)
On the distribution of $ϕ(σ(n))$
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Saunak
name: Dixit, Anup B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11N37, 11N36, 11N64

description: Let $ϕ(n)$ be the Euler totient function and $σ(n)$ denote the sum of divisors of $n$. In this note, we obtain explicit upper bounds on the number of positive integers $n\leq x$ such that $ϕ(σ(n)) > cn$ for any $c>0$. This is a refinement of a result of Alaoglu and Erdős.
description: 5 pages
Burn in Flames Post-Patriarchal Archive in Circulation
Creators: name: Browne, Sarah
name: Jones, Jesse
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: This is the transcript of a presentation made by artists Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones at the Mixing Feminism, Legality and Knowledge seminar, held in June 2016 at the School of Law, Queen Mary Universtiy of London. The archive in circulation consists of objects involved in the regulation of the female body under the nation state and capitalism, which are labelled hazardous for future generations. It is one of a number of critical feminist tactics of resistance and defence, and exists for a future moment after the fall of patriarchy. The project forms part of a larger collaborative project by the artists called In the Shadow of the State.
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 1 (2016)
State, Family and Women’s Reproductive Agency in China
Creators: name: Gao, Biye
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: This paper describes the alternative roles that patriarchal families and oppressive state policy might play in local women’s exercise of reproductive agency. Based on interviews with 26 rural women in Hunan, China, the paper explains how women, rather than experiencing their reproductive bodies as victims, act as agents. Theoretically, this paper engages with feminist discussions of coercion, victimhood, and agency. Through an examination of the different roles that marital and natal families play in women’s resistance to state violence, and how women employ state policy to resist reproductive duties within families, it extends the feminist scholarship on coercion and agency by proposing further investigation of the operation of different layers of repression and the possibility of agents’ manipulation of oppressions. Moreover, I reflect on the gender politics that underpin women’s reproductive agency and argue that gender equality and reproductive empowerment should be promoted in tandem in the Chinese context.
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 2 (2017)
Efficient Accelerator for Dilated and Transposed Convolution with Decomposition
Creators: name: Chang, Kuo-Wei
name: Chang, Tian-Sheuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hardware acceleration for dilated and transposed convolution enables real time execution of related tasks like segmentation, but current designs are specific for these convolutional types or suffer from complex control for reconfigurable designs. This paper presents a design that decomposes input or weight for dilated and transposed convolutions respectively to skip redundant computations and thus executes efficiently on existing dense CNN hardware as well. The proposed architecture can cut down 87.8\% of the cycle counts to achieve 8.2X speedup over a naive execution for the ENet case.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, published in IEEE ISCAS 2020
Illicit Sex and the Female Researcher: Reflections from the Field
Creators: name: Parker, Katharine
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: This article presents some initial methodological reflections from an ongoing programme of empirical research examining the risk taking behaviours of men who have sex with men in public sex environments in an urban area of North East England. Drawing upon an early career female researcher’s experience of undertaking sixteen in-depth interviews with male participants, this paper seeks to critically explore the challenges that female researchers face when conducting interviews with men on topics related to sexuality and sexual risk behaviours.
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 2 (2017)
Doing Feminist, Human Rights-Based, Socio-Legal Research on Prostitution: Challenges and Potential
Creators: name: Radacic, Ivana
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2016

description: This article discusses the dilemmas faced in my research on prostitution. After describing the projects I have been undertaking in New Zealand and Croatia, it discusses the methodological and ethical issues I have been facing and the relevance of the legal and socio-cultural environments. In particular, it looks at the problems in securing access to the field and recruiting participants, the relationships with the participants, and the risks faced by the participants and the researcher. Following this, it summarises the lessons learnt and contributions that feminist socio-legal research centred on human rights can make for sex work scholarship.
description: feminists@law, Vol 6 No 2 (2017)
Bilateral Trade Flow Prediction by Gravity-informed Graph Auto-encoder
Creators: name: Minakawa, Naoto
name: Izumi, Kiyoshi
name: Sakaji, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The gravity models has been studied to analyze interaction between two objects such as trade amount between a pair of countries, human migration between a pair of countries and traffic flow between two cities. Particularly in the international trade, predicting trade amount is instrumental to industry and government in business decision making and determining economic policies. Whereas the gravity models well captures such interaction between objects, the model simplifies the interaction to extract essential relationships or needs handcrafted features to drive the models. Recent studies indicate the connection between graph neural networks (GNNs) and the gravity models in international trade. However, to our best knowledge, hardly any previous studies in the this domain directly predicts trade amount by GNNs. We propose GGAE (Gravity-informed Graph Auto-encoder) and its surrogate model, which is inspired by the gravity model, showing trade amount prediction by the gravity model can be formulated as an edge weight prediction problem in GNNs and solved by GGAE and its surrogate model. Furthermore, we conducted experiments to indicate GGAE with GNNs can improve trade amount prediction compared to the traditional gravity model by considering complex relationships.
Wireless Displacement Sensing of Micromachined Spiral-Coil Actuator Using Resonant Frequency Tracking
Creators: name: Ali, Mohamed Sultan Mohamed
name: AbuZaiter, Alaa
name: Schlosser, Colin
name: Bycraft, Brad
name: Takahata, Kenichi
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: This paper reports a method that enables real-time displacement monitoring and control of micromachined resonant-type actuators using wireless radiofrequency (RF). The method is applied to an out-of-plane, spiral-coil microactuator based on shape-memory-alloy (SMA). The SMA spiral coil forms an inductor-capacitor resonant circuit that is excited using external RF magnetic fields to thermally actuate the coil. The actuation causes a shift in the circuit’s resonance as the coil is displaced vertically, which is wirelessly monitored through an external antenna to track the displacements. Controlled actuation and displacement monitoring using the developed method is demonstrated with the microfabricated device. The device exhibits a frequency sensitivity to displacement of 10 kHz/µm or more for a full out-of-plane travel range of 466 µm and an average actuation velocity of up to 155 µm/s. The method described permits the actuator to have a self-sensing function that is passively operated, thereby eliminating the need for separate sensors and batteries on the device, thus realizing precise control while attaining a high level of miniaturization in the device.
Challenging and Redressing Police Failures in the Context of Rape Investigations: The Civil Liability Route
Creators: name: Conaghan, Joanne
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2015

description: The question of police attitudes to and conduct of rape complaints has been in the British public eye now for some time. A damning succession of studies have catalogued police failings, from initial reporting through to final disposition of a case, generating a mountain of data evidencing deep structural, institutional, and cultural problems going to the heart of the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. Located within a broader policy context of growing concern over the low rate of convictions for rape cases and set against a backdrop of substantial reform of rape law, not just in England and Wales but around the globe, the police handling of rape investigations has attracted repeated criticism and public scrutiny. One way of addressing these concerns is through strategic civil litigation. ooking beyond the UK, it is clear that both tort and human rights arguments have been successfully invoked to redress systemic and operational problems pertaining to the police conduct of rape investigations. Within the UK, such developments have been constrained by the doctrinal framework, particularly by the strong judicial deference given to policy considerations against civil liability first articulated in Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire (1989). However, recent developments in human rights law and, in particular, the successful suit against the Metropolitan police for investigative failures in the context of the ‘Black cab rapist’ case (DSD & NBV v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (2014)) suggest that this avenue of redress may now be opening up. How should this development be viewed in the context of the wider problem rape presents to criminal justice? Can civil liability be deployed effectively to bring about transformative cultural and institutional change in the context of investigating and prosecuting rape? Might it deliver results where all else appears to have failed? The purpose of this paper is to begin to explore these questions.
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Accessible Justice? Rape Victimisation and Psychosocial Disability
Creators: name: Ellison, Louise
name: Munro, Vanessa
name: Hohl, Katrin
name: Wallang, Paul
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2015

description: In a context in which research evidence indicates high rates of alleged sexual victimization amongst adults with psychosocial disabilities (PSD), this paper sets out to explore some of the challenges that are posed to the criminal justice system by these types of complainants. We do so by drawing upon rape allegation data recently collected by the London Metropolitan Police Service over a two month period. Our analysis of this snapshot of Metropolitan Police rape reporting suggests that a significant number of rape complainants have recorded PSDs, and that these complainants are significantly more likely than those without recorded PSDs to experience additional, circumstantial vulnerabilities, including intellectual disability, alcohol and/or drug dependency, and repeat victimisation. Our findings also suggest that cases involving complainants with recorded PSDs are significantly more likely to suffer attrition – to ‘drop out’ of the criminal justice system - due to police or prosecutorial decision-making. In this paper we reflect upon possible explanations for this heightened attrition rate but also use our snapshot analysis as a stepping off point from which to highlight the need for more sustained critical research on the treatment of complainants, and the adequacy of police and prosecutor training and practice in this area.
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David A.J. Richards, The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire
Creators: name: Cobb, Neil
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2015

description: Review of David A.J. Richards, The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire: Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
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Abortion Law Reform in Ireland: A Model for Change
Creators: name: Enright, Mairead
name: Conway, Vicky
name: De Londras, Fiona
name: Donnelly, Mary
name: Fletcher, Ruth
name: McDonnell, Natalie
name: McGuinness, Sheelagh
name: Murray, Claire
name: Ring, Sinead
name: Ui Chonnachtaigh, Sorcha
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2015

description: Ireland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. Abortion has been criminalised since 1861, and the passage of the 8th Amendment in 1983 introduced ‘the right to life of the unborn’ into the Constitution. The effects of the 8th Amendment are felt on a daily basis by women leaving Ireland for abortion, by pregnant women receiving maternal care, by doctors caring for pregnant women, and by lawyers working for the health service. As predicted by the then-Attorney General Peter Sutherland at the time of the referendum, the 8th Amendment has introduced an uncertain and practically unusable position to Irish law. It has, simply put, become “unliveable”. In late 2014 Labour Women, a branch of the Irish Labour Party, established a Commission for Repeal of the 8th Amendment. That Commission comprised three groups: a political group, a medical group, and a group of legal experts. The authors of this paper are those legal experts. In this paper, we first outline the legal status quo as regards abortion in Ireland before making a case for constitutional reform. Having established the desirability of, and need for, constitutional reform we then outline the working principles that informed our drafting of the accompanying Access to Abortion Bill 2015, bearing in mind our intention to craft a model for reform that would be workable from the perspective of women’s lives, medical practice, and politics. Although drafted as part of the Labour Women Commission, and with some (limited) input from the other Commission groups, the proposed draft is that of the authors of this paper (working within the confines of our remit as ‘legal experts’ to the Commission) and not of the Labour Party or of Labour Women. It is made available here for discussion, debate and development by all interested parties.
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Hole Mobility Calculation for Monolayer Molybdenum Tungsten Alloy Disulfide
Creators: name: Wu, Ming-Ting
name: Yang, Cheng-Hsien
name: Chung, Yun-Fang
name: Chen, Kuan-Ting
name: Chang, Shu-Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple band model using higher order non-parabolic effect was adopted for single layer molybdenum tungsten alloy disulfide (i.e., $\mathrm{Mo}_{1-x}\mathrm{W}_x\mathrm{S}_2$). The first-principles method considering $2\times2$ supercell was used to study band structure of single layer alloy $\mathrm{Mo}_{1-x}\mathrm{W}_x\mathrm{S}_2$ and a simple band (i.e., effective mass approximation model, EMA) model with higher order non-parabolic effect was used to fit the first-principle band structures in order to calculate corresponding the hole mobility. In addition, we investigate the alloy scattering effect on the hole mobility of $\mathrm{Mo}_{1-x}\mathrm{W}_x\mathrm{S}_2$.
General Scheme of Access to Abortion Bill 2015
Creators: name: Enright, Mairead
name: Conway, Vicky
name: De Londras, Fiona
name: Donnelly, Mary
name: Fletcher, Ruth
name: McDonnell, Natalie
name: McGuinness, Sheelagh
name: Murray, Claire
name: Ring, Sinead
name: Ui Chonnachtaigh, Sorcha
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2015

description: Ireland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. Abortion has been criminalised since 1861, and the passage of the 8th Amendment in 1983 introduced ‘the right to life of the unborn’ into the Constitution. The effects of the 8th Amendment are felt on a daily basis by women leaving Ireland for abortion, by pregnant women receiving maternal care, by doctors caring for pregnant women, and by lawyers working for the health service. As predicted by the then-Attorney General Peter Sutherland at the time of the referendum, the 8th Amendment has introduced an uncertain and practically unusable position to Irish law. It has, simply put, become “unliveable”. In late 2014 Labour Women, a branch of the Irish Labour Party, established a Commission for Repeal of the 8th Amendment. That Commission comprised three groups: a political group, a medical group, and a group of legal experts. The authors of this Draft Bill are those legal experts. In the accompanying paper, we first outline the legal status quo as regards abortion in Ireland before making a case for constitutional reform. Having established the desirability of, and need for, constitutional reform we then outline the working principles that informed our drafting of the Access to Abortion Bill 2015, bearing in mind our intention to craft a model for reform that would be workable from the perspective of women’s lives, medical practice, and politics. Although drafted as part of the Labour Women Commission, and with some (limited) input from the other Commission groups, the proposed draft is that of the authors (working within the confines of our remit as ‘legal experts’ to the Commission) and not of the Labour Party or of Labour Women. It is made available here for discussion, debate and development by all interested parties.
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Worker compensation injuries among the Aboriginal population of British Columbia, Canada : incidence, annual trends, and ecological analysis of risk markers, 1987–2010
Creators: name: Jin, Andrew
name: George, M. Anne
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Lalonde, Christopher E.
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2021

description: Background: Aboriginal people in British Columbia (BC) have higher injury incidence than the general population, but information is scarce regarding variability among injury categories, time periods, and geographic, demographic and socio-economic groups. Our project helps fill these gaps. This report focuses on workplace injuries. Results: During the period 1987–2010, the crude rate of worker compensation injury in BC was 146.6 per 10,000 person-years (95% confidence interval: 146.4 to 146.9 per 10,000). The Aboriginal rate was 115.6 per 10,000 (95% CI: 114.4 to 116.8 per 10,000) and SRR was 0.88 (95% CI: 0.87 to 0.89). Among those living on reserves SRR was 0.79 (95% CI: 0.78 to 0.80). These community characteristics independently predicted injury risk: crowded housing, proportion of population who identified as Aboriginal, and interactions between employment rate and income, occupational risk, proportion of university-educated persons, and year. Conclusions: As employment rates rise, so has risk of workplace injury among the Aboriginal population. We need culturally sensitive prevention programs, targeting regions and industries where Aboriginal workers are concentrated and demographic groups that are at higher risk.