cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Degrowth: a sign that something had to change in the development debate
Creators: name: Muratori, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2019

description: The traditional understanding of the development discourse has relied for centuries on the imperativeness of economic growth. In this context, the de-growth movement represents an alternative approach that highlights the limits of the current policies and their threatening effects on human life in the social, economic and environmental fields. This paper analyses the stages through which the growth-oriented approach has revealed its unsustainability but also the aspects that the de-growth community has failed to consider, exposing the movement to harsh criticism. Nonetheless, the disruptive effect of de-growth and the subsequent new terms of the debate have allowed scholars to explore new ideas. In particular, in the field of international development, de-growth has led to the collapse of the system developed-underdeveloped and as a result, third world countries are slowly regaining their own voice in determining the best paths to improve their lives. Keywords: de-growth, economic, environment, international, development, underdeveloped
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 5 (2019): Kent Student Law Review
Nickel(II), copper(II), and cobalt(II) complexes derived from a new unsymmetrical ONS donor Schiff base ligand: synthesis, characterization, crystal structure, and catalytic activities
Creators: name: Kalita, Mukul
name: Gogoi, Prasanta
name: Pranjit Barman
name: Bipul Sarma
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Ni(II), Cu(II), and Co(II) complexes, ML2, with a new thioether containing ONS donors were synthesized, where L = deprotonated Schiff base. The analytical, spectral (FTIR, 1H NMR, and UV-vis), conductivity, and magnetic studies show that the metal complexes possess octahedral geometry and are non-electrolytes. The coordination mode of ligand, 1, and nickel(II) complex, NiL2, 2, was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Here, the nickel is coordinated to two oxygens, two nitrogens, and two sulfurs of two tridentate ligands with slightly distorted octahedral environment around nickel. The copper complex shows very good catalytic activities towards oxidation of organic thioethers to the corresponding sulfoxide predominantly using H2O2 as the oxidant.
Keeping Corruption at ‘Arms’ Length: The scope of the Foreign Corruption Practice Act in Combatting Corruption in the Arms Trade Industry
Creators: name: Adhikari, Nilaza
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2019

description: In an era dominated by global conflict, terrorism and the increasing need for defence, it is unsurprising that global arms trade is thriving. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, arms trade accounts for roughly 40% of all corruption in global transactions. However,there is little literature regarding the extent to which existing anti-corruption regimes can or have combatted arms trade corruption. This essay aims to contribute to the discourse on arms trade corruption by critically evaluating the scope of the Foreign Corruption Practice Act (FCPA) in combatting corruption, in particular bribery,within the arms industry. The discussion commences with an introduction of the FCPA’s origins, functions and extraterritorial jurisdiction. This will be followed by an examination of corruption within the arms trade industry and the role defence offset plays in contributing to bribery. Attention will be paid to the FCPA’s method (or lack thereof) of tackling defence-offset corruption. Subsequently, the paper will draw on FCPA’s enforcement power and its fines system to explore its effectiveness. This section will also analyse the FCPA’s implementation within the United States (US) and whether the act has succeeded in its primary aim to safeguard US business against corruption, particularly in the arms industry. Through a discussion on the FCPA’s vagueness and exclusion of grease payments, the final section will critically evaluate the FCPA’s limitations in combatting arms bribery and corruption. Whilst the essay acknowledges the FCAP’s role in helping combat arms corruption, it emphasises on the FCPA’s limitation and calls for FCPA reform to combat arms corruption.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 5 (2019): Kent Student Law Review
Tricks of the Counter-Trade: An Evaluation of the Utility of Countertrade Transactions in Developing States Through an Analysis of the Sino-Congolese Barter Deal
Creators: name: Onukwugha, Marilyn
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2019

description: This study aims to examine the development and trend of countertrade transactions and assess their utility in state development by first examining the emergence and current trend of countertrade practice. It will then provide background on Congo and the events leading up to its current state of underdevelopment before presenting a case study on the Sino-Congolese countertrade deal, wherein both China and Congo’s stakes will be discussed, along with a comparison of this deal with another countertrade deal China has undertaken with a developing state. An examination of countertrade’s role in state development will follow. Finally, points will be made about some adverse effects of countertrade and its impression on the international community as a whole.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 5 (2019): Kent Student Law Review
Η οδηγία 2003/109 σχετικά με το καθεστώς υπηκόων τρίτων χωρών οι οποίοι είναι επί μακρόν διαμένοντες
Creators: name: Λεοντιάδου, Σοφία Ευθυμίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Οδηγία 2003/109
Eπί μακρόν διαμένοντες
Καθεστώς υπηκόων τρίτων χωρών
Directive 2003/109
Long term residents
The status of Third-country nationals

description: Με την παρούσα εργασία θα επιχειρήσουμε να σκιαγραφήσουμε τις όψεις της Οδηγίας 2003/109/ΕΚ σχετικά με το καθεστώς των υπηκόων τρίτων χωρών, οι οποίοι είναι επί μακρόν διαμένοντες στο έδαφος ενός κράτους-μέλους της Ένωσης. Αρχικά θα ασχοληθούμε με το αντικείμενο και το πεδίο εφαρμογής τη εν λόγω οδηγίας. Έπειτα, θα εξετάσουμε την εξέλιξη της αναφορικά με την ερμηνεία των νομικών εννοιών που περιλαμβάνει υπό το φως της νομολογίας του Δικαστηρίου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Θα αναλυθούν παράλληλα τα δικαιώματα, που παρέχει στους υπηκόους τρίτων χωρών και θα γίνει προσπάθεια να αναδειχθούν οι δυσκολίες, που ανακύπτουν κατά την άσκησή τους. Τέλος, θα επιχειρηθεί μια συνολική αποτίμηση του κατά πόσο έχουν επιτευχθεί οι στόχοι της οδηγίας και θα καταγραφούν οι τροποποιήσεις, οι οποίες, εάν επέρχονταν, θα μπορούσαν να καταστήσουν την εφαρμογή της αποτελεσματικότερη στο πλαίσιο του Χώρου Ελευθερίας Ασφάλειας και Δικαιοσύνης
description: Through this Thesis we will attempt to outline the aspects of Directive 2003/109/EC regarding the status of third country nationals, who are long-term residents in the territory of a member state of the Union. First, we will examine the object and the scope of application of the directive in question. We will then elaborate on the development regarding the interpretation of the legal concepts it includes in the light of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union. At the same time, the rights it provides to the nationals of third countries will be analyzed and an attempt will be made to highlight the difficulties that arise during their exercise. Finally, will be attempted an overall assessment of whether the objectives of the directive have been achieved and the amendments will be recorded which, if they were to come, could make its implementation more effective in the context of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Nickel(II), copper(II) and cobalt(II) complexes derived from a new unsymmetrical ONS donor Schiff base ligand: Synthesis, characterization, crystal structure and catalytic activities
Creators: name: Kalita, Mukul
name: Gogoi, Prasanta
name: Pranjit Barman
name: Bipul Sarma
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Ni(II), Cu(II) and Co(II) complexes, ML2 with a new thioether containing ONS donors were synthesized where L = deprotonated Schiff base. The analytical, spectral (FT-IR, 1H NMR, UV-Vis), conductivity and magnetic studies show that the metal complexes possess octahedral geometry and are non-electrolytes. The coordination mode of ligand, 1 and nickel(II) complex, NiL2, 2 were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Here, the nickel is coordinated to two oxygens, two nitrogens and two sulfurs of two tridentate ligands with slightly distorted octahedral environment around nickel. The copper complex shows very good catalytic activities towards oxidation of organic thioethers to the corresponding sulfoxide predominantly using H2O2 as the oxidant.
Gambling, Risk, and Law: Exploring the changing roles of the individual and the state in a multi-faceted gambling regulation arena
Creators: name: Murray, Calum James
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2019

description: This paper presents an examination of ways in which risk is deployed to govern the gambling market. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, it seeks to explore how the dominant socio-political discourse of neoliberalism as well as the perception of risk as a rationality and technology of government inform the ways in which the gambling industry and its associated risks are increasingly governed through the individual gambler, rather than through state-enforced mechanisms. Besides confirming Foucault’s observations that the practice of government occurs at numerous levels and is delegated to various (non-state) actors, the growing reliance on individuals as a form of governance in the gambling industry also showcases the gradually changing relationship between the individual and the state. A relationship once characterised by the omnipresence of a paternalistic and assertive state becomes a relationship of cooperation and mutual reliance for the purposes of promoting both governance efficiency in an increasingly diverse and complex gambling market as well as the welfare for individual gamblers.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 5 (2019): Kent Student Law Review
A new Wells-Dawson organic-inorganic hybrid polytungstate containing dimeric silver coordination complexes: (Hpy)2[Ag2(phen)4]2(P2W18O62)
Creators: name: Wu-Hua Chen
name: Hu, Zhi-Biao
name: Zhu-Sen Zhang
name: Le-Xing You
name: Shun-Ji Xie
name: Yuan, Qiu-Lan
name: Zhao, Jin-Hua
name: Huang, Tian-Fu
name: Jin-Xiao Mi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cancer
Developmental Biology
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Pharmacology
Molecular Biology
Biochemistry

description: An attempt to incorporate Ag+ ions and some organic reducing ingredients (e.g., pyridine) simultaneously into a polyoxometalate is a challenging task due to the high standard reduction potential of Ag+ ions. By using a second organic ligand to coordinate Ag+ first, we prepared a new polytungstate, (Hpy)2[Ag2(phen)4]2(P2W18O62) (1) (py = pyridine (C5NH5), phen = 1,10-phenanthroline (C12N2H8)), which contains discrete inorganic polyanions ([P2W18O62]6–), protonated pyridine molecules and [Ag2(phen)4]2+ dimers. The isolated inorganic polyanions cluster close to the planes of (100) and are bound together by pyridine molecules via hydrogen bonds to form layers parallel to (100) at (0, y, z) and (0.5, y, z). The [Ag2(phen)4]2+ dimers are located between successive layers of (100) and represent an uncommon feature that the hexagonal benzene rings of phen molecules are directly overlapped face to face. Our work opens a new way for synthesis of other Wells-Dawson organic-inorganic hybrid polytungstates by controlling reactant addition order.
The UK’s Prevent policy as a form of risk governance in the education sector and how it violates human rights and fundamental freedoms
Creators: name: Wainaina, Beatrice Wambui
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2018

description: The UK’s Prevent Program within the education sector and its referral initiative Channel, are counter-effective. The government claims that these initiatives are a means of safeguarding vulnerable students from extremism. Contrary to these claims is that the Prevent program is not well received within the education sector. In fact, most interactions that have involved police intervention have resulted in violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of children under the care act. Consequently, a number of lawsuits have been levied against Prevent by parents and academicians which is highlighted in this paper. Furthermore, the statutory duty imposed under Prevent is a form of risk governance driven by pre-emption. British Muslim students are singled out as suspect communities because they ‘lack in Britishness’ and placed under surveillance. Moreover, the government claims that Prevent is a safeguarding initiative implemented to protect vulnerable students from extremism. This paper will show that the uncertainty level presented by the term extremism, renders Prevent’s risk assessment unreliable. Furthermore, the changing level of risk associated with risk governance renders the premise of Prevent political. This is the kind of governmentality that is constructed at the supranational level and implemented locally through domestic policies such as Prevent.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 4 (2018)
The Missing Human in Human Rights Law
Creators: name: Misra, Anamika
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2019

description: This article examines the meaning and potential usefulness of interpreting norms of torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment, or punishment (CIDTP) through a ‘gender perspective’. It will place particular emphasis on discussing the denial of reproductive rights and gender-based violence and interpreting the actions arising from these violations as torture and CIDTP. I engage in a critical feminist study of the doctrinal aspects of the international human rights law on torture by analysing the legal practice of regional human rights courts and the UN Human Rights Council by evaluating their case law and other legal mechanisms arising from these systems. In addition to these primary sources, I also refer to secondary sources such as reports by UN Special Rapporteurs, studies by civil society organisations specialising in reproductive rights, and academic writing in this field. I suggest the necessity for integrating a feminist and intersectional framework to analyse the creation and implementation of human rights legislation and improve the resilience and effectiveness of the protection and redress provided by these rights. Doing so will further mainstream gender into the practice of international human rights law and will strengthen the protection of those who are victimised and disempowered.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 5 (2019): Kent Student Law Review
Nickel(II), copper(II), and cobalt(II) complexes derived from a new unsymmetrical ONS donor Schiff base ligand: synthesis, characterization, crystal structure, and catalytic activities
Creators: name: Kalita, Mukul
name: Gogoi, Prasanta
name: Pranjit Barman
name: Bipul Sarma
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Ni(II), Cu(II), and Co(II) complexes, ML2, with a new thioether containing ONS donors were synthesized, where L = deprotonated Schiff base. The analytical, spectral (FTIR, 1H NMR, and UV-vis), conductivity, and magnetic studies show that the metal complexes possess octahedral geometry and are non-electrolytes. The coordination mode of ligand, 1, and nickel(II) complex, NiL2, 2, was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Here, the nickel is coordinated to two oxygens, two nitrogens, and two sulfurs of two tridentate ligands with slightly distorted octahedral environment around nickel. The copper complex shows very good catalytic activities towards oxidation of organic thioethers to the corresponding sulfoxide predominantly using H2O2 as the oxidant.
Colombicallia curta Galileo and Martins 1992
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Botero, Juan Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Colombicallia
Colombicallia curta

description: Colombicallia curta Galileo and Martins, 1992
(Fig. 32)
 Colombicallia curta Galileo and Martins 1992: 138.
 Remarks. This species was described based on one male and two females from Colombia (Magdalena) and remains known only from this country.
 Material examined. PANAMA (new country record), Colon: vic. Palenque, 5 females, 17.II.1999, J.E. Wappes leg. (4 females, FSCA; 1 female, MZSP).
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio & Botero, Juan Pablo, 2024, The unbelievable fauna of American Lamiinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae): description of two new species, transference, and notes in Acanthocinini, and a new record in Calliini, pp. 1-17 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (28) on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793369
FINDING THE BALANCE: PROPORTIONALITY, GOOGLE SPAIN, AND THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN UNDER THE EU’S GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
Creators: name: Stoquert, Andrew Hart
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2018

description: With the EU’s trailblazing new data protection regulation (GDPR) coming into force in late 2018, the importance of data protection and privacy law has been amplified across the globe. Under the EU’s old data protection directive, however, a number of precedents, including the ‘right to be forgotten,’ will likely be impacted by the new regulation. While the European Court of Justice’s interpretation of this right under the old directive is particularly worrisome, the GDPR could facilitate the continuance of the right as it currently exists or alternatively, serve to narrow it. This article will demonstrate that while there is indeed a strong argument in favor of recognizing a legal ‘right to be forgotten,’ there is also a danger in striking an imbalance between an individual’s right to privacy on one hand, and the public’s right to information and freedom of expression on the other. While it is likely that the judgment will remain highly persuasive under the new GDPR, this paper will also examine additional protections built into the Regulation, as well as other practical limitations that could assist in keeping the right to be forgotten ‘in check’ moving forward.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 4 (2018)
ОЦЕНКА КЛИНИКО-ЭПИДЕМИОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ И РЕЗУЛЬТАТОВ ЭНДОСКОПИЧЕСКОГО ХИРУРГИЧЕСКОГО ЛЕЧЕНИЯ ПОЛИПОЗНЫХ РИНОСИНУСИТОВ
Creators: name: Алимова, Дурдона
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Полипозный риносинусит (ПРС) — это хроническое воспалительное заболевание слизистой оболочки носовой полости и придаточных пазух носа. Оно характеризуется отечным, множественным и двусторонним дегенеративным поражением слизистой оболочки носа и придаточных пазух носа, которое начинается в боковых массах решетчатого лабиринта, где возникает образование гладких, желеобразных, прозрачных и грушевидных полипозных образований [1, 3, 4].
Acquisitive Liberations: A Critical Evaluation of the Use of Human Rights Discourse in Justifying Military Intervention
Creators: name: Williams, Martin Paul George
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2018

description: Military intervention into the affairs of other states is often justified by the United States of America with reference to human rights, and is therefore called humanitarian intervention. This article examines the operation of the human rights discourse in justifying such intervention, and argues that the conflation of national self-interest and collective self-defence, which is allowed for in jus ad bellum discourse and built into the UN legal and executive architecture, allows for intervening states to present military actions that afford them strategic gain and commercial opportunity as altruistic acts. Support, weak resistance or acquiescence to such action by the UN and by the press allows for such actions to acquire popular legitimacy, and this article examines how the human rights discourse provides an argumentative framework to articulate such legitimacy. In its critical analysis of arguments put forward by Simma and Cassese, the article concludes that the conduct of intervening states post bellum should attract as much legal scrutiny as the initial intervention, and that the use of human rights to justify interventions that are acquisitive in motive undermines the purpose and operations of human rights as a driver for positive change in the world.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 4 (2018)
The SSH Open Marketplace: increasing the discoverability of your favourite resources
Creators: name: Laure Barbot
name: Cristina Grisot
name: Barbara McGillivray
name: Maja Dolinar
name: Magdalena Wnuk
name: Christian Schuster
name: Elena Battaner Moro
name: Stefan Buddenbohm
name: Clara Parente Boavida
name: Michael Kurzmeier
name: Cesare Concordia
name: Klaus Illmayer
name: Irena Vipavc Brvar
name: Edward Gray
name: Alexander König
name: ARIKAN, Canan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: digital tools, digital methods, Social Sciences and Humanities, EOSC, discovery

description: The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace (SSH Open Marketplace) - marketplace.sshopencloud.eu - is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. The SSH Open Marketplace showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the research data life cycle. In doing so, it facilitates discoverability and findability of research services and products that are essential to enable sharing and re-use of workflows and methodologies. 

The SSH Open Marketplace might be regarded as an innovative service. It is, of course, a directory in a classic way, indexing information and allowing researchers to navigate their way to new tools and methods. But it is something new, as well: through the creation and marking of relations between indexed items in a semantically much more meaningful way than the limited textual relatedness of keyword or category classes, it creates contextualization which increases the serendipity in the search of resources. 

This poster, created by the SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board members provides an overview of what the service is, what is indexes, how it is managed and how it can be used.
The SSH Open Marketplace poster 2023
Creators: name: Barbot, Laure
name: Grisot, Cristina
name: McGillivray, Barbara
name: Dolinar, Maja
name: Wnuk, Magdalena
name: Schuster, Christian
name: Moro, Elena Battaner
name: Buddenbohm, Stefan
name: Boavida, Clara Parente
name: Kurzmeier, Michael
name: Concordia, Cesare
name: Illmayer, Klaus
name: Kirnbauer, Martin
name: Brvar, Irena Vipavc
name: Gray, Edward
name: König, Alexander
name: Jääskeläinen, Taina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: digital tools, digital methods, Social Sciences and Humanities, EOSC, discovery

description: The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace (SSH Open Marketplace) - marketplace.sshopencloud.eu - is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. The SSH Open Marketplace showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the research data life cycle. In doing so, it facilitates discoverability and findability of research services and products that are essential to enable sharing and re-use of workflows and methodologies. The SSH Open Marketplace might be regarded as an innovative service. It is, of course, a directory in a classic way, indexing information and allowing researchers to navigate their way to new tools and methods. But it is something new, as well: through the creation and marking of relations between indexed items in a semantically much more meaningful way than the limited textual relatedness of keyword or category classes, it creates contextualization which increases the serendipity in the search of resources. This poster, created by the SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board members provides an overview of what the service is, what is indexes, how it is managed and how it can be used.
The SSH Open Marketplace: increasing the discoverability of your favourite resources
Creators: name: Barbot, Laure
name: Grisot, Cristina
name: McGillivray, Barbara
name: Dolinar, Maja
name: Wnuk, Magdalena
name: Schuster, Christian
name: Moro, Elena Battaner
name: Buddenbohm, Stefan
name: Boavida, Clara Parente
name: Kurzmeier, Michael
name: Concordia, Cesare
name: Illmayer, Klaus
name: Kirnbauer, Martin
name: Brvar, Irena Vipavc
name: Gray, Edward
name: König, Alexander
name: Jääskeläinen, Taina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: digital tools, digital methods, Social Sciences and Humanities, EOSC, discovery

description: The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace (SSH Open Marketplace) - marketplace.sshopencloud.eu - is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. The SSH Open Marketplace showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the research data life cycle. In doing so, it facilitates discoverability and findability of research services and products that are essential to enable sharing and re-use of workflows and methodologies. The SSH Open Marketplace might be regarded as an innovative service. It is, of course, a directory in a classic way, indexing information and allowing researchers to navigate their way to new tools and methods. But it is something new, as well: through the creation and marking of relations between indexed items in a semantically much more meaningful way than the limited textual relatedness of keyword or category classes, it creates contextualization which increases the serendipity in the search of resources. This poster, created by the SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board members provides an overview of what the service is, what is indexes, how it is managed and how it can be used.
An appraisal in rule of law terms of the use of policy agendas versus legal norms to protect populations at risk from the global freshwater crisis
Creators: name: Simon Cartaya, Mariana
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2018

description: This short paper takes an 'international rule of law' perspective in an attempt to weight out policy versus law to solve the normative question of how to best solve the world's freshwater crisis. The issues touching the freshwater crisis have been identified as environmental concerns, human rights concerns, and most prominently, the equitable distribution of natural resources.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 4 (2018)
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model and its role in the resource description
Creators: name: Ferreira, Jaider Andrade
name: Santos, Plácida Leopoldina Ventura Amorim Da Costa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a data model that represents and describes resources aiming to interoperability and access to information in digital environments. In this paper, we present the RDF data model, its origins and its main features. Since this is a theoretical and exploratory research with a descriptive purpose, we used literature review as a methodology for our bibliographical investigation. It was possible to demonstrate the importance of RDF for description of any resources, whether they are digital or not, bibliographic or not. Furthermore, RDF provides for resource description communities the opportunity to define the semantics of their metadata in a formal way, i.e., to determine the meaning of the metadata elements according to their specific needs for description, and in a way readable by machines. Using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) syntax for metadata exchange and processing, RDF contributes to interoperability between different information and description systems, thus contributing to the construction of integrated search engines that will enable specialized services to their users.
Environmentally Displaced Persons in Europe: limits of the legal protection of this controversial category of migrants
Creators: name: Vestita, Rachele
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2017

description: The article investigates the controversial category of the Environmentally Displaced Persons (EDPs) and the limits of the EU legal framework in providing subsidiary protection to this category of migrants. The Environmentally Displaced Persons are those migrants forced to flee from their home country due to environmental disasters and degradation. First, the article explains why the EU should take action to protect EDPs. Second, it examines if the Temporary Protection Directive and the Qualification Directive can provide adequate protection to EDPs. Finally, the article analyses the most recent approaches of the EU on the matter and it seeks to understand why the EU is still reluctant in providing a specific legal framework in order to protect EDPs.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 3 (2017)
Sharing is Caring – Care workers’ employment bargain and the National Minimum Wage
Creators: name: Stabryla, Kinga
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2018

description: It is undoubtingly noticeable that care workers' employment rights are currently prominent in the news and raise important social, market and legal concerns of equality and fairness. They stimulate debates on the consequences of the legal position on the 'wage-work bargain' of care workers and the national minimum wage laws are central to this. It can be said that national minimum wage (NMW) underpayments stem from laws which define social structures and attitudes about care giving. As such, the core substance of NMW regulations will be analysed to define how and why this issue exists and what is the impact. Inevitably, socio-legal issues about the gendered workforce, multi-level control of the industry and economics (the ageing population, social capital and market logics) will serve as perspectives of criticism to the current position of law on care work and the NMW.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 4 (2018)
A Humanless World: The Progressive Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Intellectual Property
Creators: name: Dinev, Kaloyan Dinkov
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2018

description: With recent leaps in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, the boundary between science fiction and reality is blurring constantly, with computers performing actions previously thought to be unique only to man. Though challenged by traversal of the physical realm, their capabilities to mimic human problem solving and creativity is growing exponentially. In discovering this potential lies the possibility of a cultural and scientific enrichment the likes of which will dwarf both the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, respectively. Naturally this is accompanied by countless inventions and artistic expressions from which society will inevitably benefit. However, due to their originators likely being at least in part or wholly computers, the question will arise as to who will be their true owners or authors from a legal standpoint. This article will examine the extent to which human and machine intelligence can be compared and will attempt to ascertain the ways in which the latter could pose a threat to the system of Intellectual Property laws in place to protect the rights of inventors/creators. Where possible, the piece will also attempt to propose potential remedies and pre-emptive actions to alleviate the dangers such a synthetic revolution could cause to IP’s legal framework.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 4 (2018)
Waging War against the Woman’s Body: Limitations of the Laws of Armed Conflict and Post-War Justice mechanisms
Creators: name: Latif, Hannah Jasterini
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2017

description: The following work shall critique the bodies of the laws of armed conflict and international criminal law for their inadequacy in addressing sexual assault during wartime through inappropriate measures to define, incorporate, and progressively interpret international statute to encompass sexual assault as a global crime. In order to illustrate this point one provides a socio-historic examination of the international legal development of sexual assault and an analysis of what makes it a ‘gendered’ crime. The second section shall then critically assess attempts to prohibit sexual assault in the Geneva Conventions, and how its recognition and prosecution under ‘grave breaches’ can be problematic. The third section then examines the decisions made at the ICTY and ICTR to define rape under “greater” crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity. The overall evaluation of the above shall provide a socio-legal account of the woman’s subordinate and decentralized status in international law by revealing its weaknesses in offering her protection against such a pervasive and heinous crime.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 3 (2017)
Novel supramolecular elastomer films based on linear carboxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane oligomers: preparation, characterization, biocompatibility, and application in wound dressings
Creators: name: Anqiang Zhang
name: Wenwen Deng
name: Yaling Lin
name: Junhui Ye
name: Yaomin Dong
name: Yufeng Lei
name: Hongtao Chen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A novel supramolecular elastomer (SESi) based on multiple hydrogen bond associations between low-molecular-weight polydimethylsiloxane chains was obtained through a two-step reaction of linear carboxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane oligomers with diethylenetriamine and urea, and the reaction mechanism was characterized. The results of differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction analyses indicated that the supramolecular network structure is completely amorphous, endowing SESi with rubber-like elastic behavior at room temperature. The transparent SESi film prepared by hot pressing displayed nice viscoelasticity, benign water absorption, water vapor transition rates, and ideal biocompatibility; and did not show cytotoxicity or skin irritation. These properties allow the elastomer to function as an occlusive wound dressing. To demonstrate its potential in wound dressings, a detailed comparison of commercial 3M Tegaderm™ film and the SESi film was conducted. The SESi film exhibited similar effects in wound healing, and the wound bed was covered by the SESi film without the occurrence of significant adverse reactions.
The fundamental role of regional human rights courts in inciting social and health policy change
Creators: name: Thirard, Lucile
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2017

description: This case comment is an analysis on a a report by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This case shows a fundamental shift in State compliance to the non-binding measures of the Court. While the compliance can be explained by political motives, it still ensures a further promotion and protection of human rights. In this case, HIV-infected servicemen were discharged from the Mexican military. In this instance, Mexico's compliance with the IACHR's recommendations may have positive effect on the reduction or even elimination of the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country as well as the region.
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 3 (2017)
Novel supramolecular elastomer films based on linear carboxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane oligomers: preparation, characterization, biocompatibility, and application in wound dressings
Creators: name: Anqiang Zhang
name: Wenwen Deng
name: Yaling Lin
name: Junhui Ye
name: Yaomin Dong
name: Yufeng Lei
name: Hongtao Chen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A novel supramolecular elastomer (SESi) based on multiple hydrogen bond associations between low-molecular-weight polydimethylsiloxane chains was obtained through a two-step reaction of linear carboxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane oligomers with diethylenetriamine and urea, and the reaction mechanism was characterized. The results of differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction analyses indicated that the supramolecular network structure is completely amorphous, endowing SESi with rubber-like elastic behavior at room temperature. The transparent SESi film prepared by hot pressing displayed nice viscoelasticity, benign water absorption, water vapor transition rates, and ideal biocompatibility; and did not show cytotoxicity or skin irritation. These properties allow the elastomer to function as an occlusive wound dressing. To demonstrate its potential in wound dressings, a detailed comparison of commercial 3M Tegaderm™ film and the SESi film was conducted. The SESi film exhibited similar effects in wound healing, and the wound bed was covered by the SESi film without the occurrence of significant adverse reactions.
The right to leave a country: general implications and the case of migrants
Creators: name: Mathioudaki, Eleftheria
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2017

description: Abstract The article explores the right to leave a country, including one’s own and its relation to migration. Taking States’ sovereignty as a point of departure, it examines the correlation between the international provisions on the right to leave a country (e.g., the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966) and the methods that States use to control migration; such as the externalisation and closure of borders, increased document requirements and the criminalisation of migration. Moreover, the right to enter a country is critically examined as it constitutes the necessary corollary to the right to leave a country. The analysis reveals a systematic violation of the discussed right due to the States’ fear of cross-border crime and as a demonstration of their sovereign power. Therefore, the data lead to the conclusion that there is a negative impact on people on the move, and particularly asylum refugees. Keywords borders, sovereignty, migrants, surveillance, violations, human rights
description: Kent Student Law Review, Vol 3 (2017)
Costed extensions for Horizon 2020 fellowships impacted by the covid-19 outbreak
Creators: name: A Group Of Research Fellows From The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Programme.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Researchers from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme - Horizon 2020's individual fellowship programme have written this letter to the European Commission's President on 29. April 2020. The intent of the letter was to voice researchers' concerns about Horizon 2020's lack of funding to support projects impacted by the covid-19 outbreak and to solicit appropriate support through costed extensions.
ПОЛИЗ ДАЛАЛАРИГА ПЛЁНКА ТУШАЙДИГАН КОМБИНАЦИЯЛАШГАН МАШИНА
Creators: name: Норчаев, Даврон
name: Содиқов, Хасан
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Сўнгги йилларда мамлакатимизда қишлоқ хўжалиги ерларининг самарадорлигини, жумладан, сувни тежайдиган технологияларни қўллаган ҳолда, оширишга алоҳида эътибор қаратилмоқда [1].
Dissociation kinetics of macrocyclic trivalent lanthanide complexes of 1-oxa-4,7,10-triazacyclododecane-4,10-diacetic acid (H2ODO2A)
Creators: name: C. Allen Chang
name: Chih-Cheng Lin
name: Chien-Hung Kuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Plant Biology

description: The dissociation kinetics of selected trivalent lanthanide (Ln3+, Ln=La, Pr, Eu, Er, Lu) complexes of the macrocyclic ligand H2ODO2A (1-oxa-4,7,10-triazacyclododecane-4,10-diacetic acid), LnODO2A+, were studied in the [H+] range (0.1–2.4) × 10−4 M in the temperature range 15–45 °C. Excess Cu2+ ions were used as the scavenger for the ligand in acetate–acetic acid buffer medium. The dissociation reactions are independent of [Cu2+] and follow the rate law kobs = kd + kAC[Acetate] + K′klim[H+]/(1 + K′[H+]), where kd, kAC, and klim are the respective dissociation rate constants for the [H+]-independent, acetate-assisted, and the [H+]-dependent limiting pathways; K′ is the equilibrium constant for the protonation reaction LnODO2A+ + H+ ↔ LnODO2AH2+. The dissociation rates of LnODO2A+ complexes are all faster than those of the corresponding LnDO2A+ complexes (DO2A2− is the fully deprotonated dianion of the ligand H2DO2A, 1,4,7,10-tetrazacyclo-dodecane-1,7-diacetic acid), consistent with the notion that LnODO2A+ complexes are kinetically more labile and thermodynamically less stable than the corresponding LnDO2A+ complexes, and H2ODO2A is not pre-organized for Ln3+ ion complexation but H2DO2A is. The dissociation rates of LnODO2A+ complexes (ODO2A2− is the deprotonated dianion of the ligand H2ODO2A, 1-oxa-4,7,10-triazacyclododecane-4,10-diacetic acid) are all faster than those of the corresponding LnDO2A+ complexes (DO2A2− is the deprotonated dianion of the ligand H2DO2A, 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,7- diacetic acid), consistent with the fact that LnODO2A+ complexes are kinetically more labile and thermodynamically less stable than the corresponding LnDO2A+ complexes, and H2ODO2A is not pre-organized for Ln3+ ion complexation but H2DO2A is.
Dissociation kinetics of macrocyclic trivalent lanthanide complexes of 1-oxa-4,7,10-triazacyclododecane-4,10-diacetic acid (H2ODO2A)
Creators: name: C. Allen Chang
name: Chih-Cheng Lin
name: Chien-Hung Kuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The dissociation kinetics of selected trivalent lanthanide (Ln3+, Ln = La, Pr, Eu, Er, Lu) complexes of the macrocyclic ligand H2ODO2A (1-oxa-4,7,10-triazacyclododecane-4,10-diacetic acid), LnODO2A+, were studied in the [H+] range (0.1-2.4) ×10−4 M in the temperature range 15-45 °C. Excess Cu2+ ions were used as the scavenger for the ligand in acetate-acetic acid buffer medium. The dissociation reactions are independent of [Cu2+] and follow the rate law kobs = kd + kAC[Acetate] + K’klim[H+]/(1+K’[H+]), where kd, kAC and klim are the respective dissociation rate constants for the [H+]-independent, acetate-assisted, and the [H+]-dependent limiting pathways; K’ is the equilibrium constant for the protonation reaction LnODO2A+ + H+ ó LnODO2AH2+. The dissociation rates of LnODO2A+ complexes are all faster than those of the corresponding LnDO2A+ complexes (DO2A2- is the fully deprotonated dianion of the ligand H2DO2A, 1,4,7,10-tetrazacyclo-dodecane-1,7-diacetic acid), consistent with the notion that LnODO2A+ complexes are kinetically more labile and thermodynamically less stable than the corresponding LnDO2A+ complexes, and H2ODO2A is not pre-organized for Ln3+ ion complexation but H2DO2A is.
Environmental correlates of species diversity for sarcosaprophagous Diptera across a pronounced elevational gradient in central Spain
Creators: name: D. Martín-Vega
name: B. Cifrián
name: L. M. Díaz-Aranda
name: A. Baz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology

description: Measuring the biological diversity in a given area can provide valuable approaches not only to conserve ecological systems, but also to understand their functioning and organization. The current paper analyzes the species richness and diversity patterns of sarcosaprophagous Diptera across an elevational gradient of natural habitats in central Spain, and the relationship between the species diversity and the environmental variables defining each habitat. The calculation of randomized species richness curves and non-parametric estimators confirmed the representativeness of the inventories. Oromediterranean habitats, i.e. those located at highest elevation, showed significantly lower species richness than mesomediterranean and supramediterranean levels. Slope and solar radiation were significantly and negatively correlated with diversity, whereas the correlation between mean temperature and diversity was significantly positive. A significantly negative correlation was found between diversity and the percentage of forest surface, whereas the correlation between diversity and the percentage of urban surface was positive and close to significance. Possible explanations for these observed patterns are considered and discussed. This study also supports the use of different, complementary diversity measurements in order to obtain a proper assessment of the diversity of a given area.
Dissociation kinetics of macrocyclic trivalent lanthanide complexes of 1-oxa-4,7,10-triazacyclododecane-4,10-diacetic acid (H2ODO2A)
Creators: name: C. Allen Chang
name: Chih-Cheng Lin
name: Chien-Hung Kuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The dissociation kinetics of selected trivalent lanthanide (Ln3+, Ln=La, Pr, Eu, Er, Lu) complexes of the macrocyclic ligand H2ODO2A (1-oxa-4,7,10-triazacyclododecane-4,10-diacetic acid), LnODO2A+, were studied in the [H+] range (0.1–2.4) × 10−4 M in the temperature range 15–45 °C. Excess Cu2+ ions were used as the scavenger for the ligand in acetate–acetic acid buffer medium. The dissociation reactions are independent of [Cu2+] and follow the rate law kobs = kd + kAC[Acetate] + K′klim[H+]/(1 + K′[H+]), where kd, kAC, and klim are the respective dissociation rate constants for the [H+]-independent, acetate-assisted, and the [H+]-dependent limiting pathways; K′ is the equilibrium constant for the protonation reaction LnODO2A+ + H+ LnODO2AH2+. The dissociation rates of LnODO2A+ complexes are all faster than those of the corresponding LnDO2A+ complexes (DO2A2− is the fully deprotonated dianion of the ligand H2DO2A, 1,4,7,10-tetrazacyclo-dodecane-1,7-diacetic acid), consistent with the notion that LnODO2A+ complexes are kinetically more labile and thermodynamically less stable than the corresponding LnDO2A+ complexes, and H2ODO2A is not pre-organized for p> ion complexation but H2DO2A is.
End of Life Decisions: The extent to which quality of life factors should affect them
Creators: name: Mokuolu, Toluwani Ayobami
Publisher: name: Kent Student Law Review
Year: 2017

description: The significance of quality of life factors in end of life decisions cannot be overstressed. However, a plethora of case law shows that there are other factors which must be considered. The landmark cases of W v M and Others[1] and Airedale N.H.S Trust v Bland[2] indicate that autonomy and best interests of the patient must be given adequate consideration before making end of life decisions. The courts held that despite M’s minimally conscious state, dying was not in her best interests. However, in Bland where he had been in a persistent vegetative state, it was held that it was lawful for treatment to be withdrawn. This article gives a critical assessment of the disparities in both decisions and with the aid of other case law, examines the extent to which quality of life factors have influenced the decisions of the courts. Furthermore, it argues whether patient autonomy should override best interests and then it concludes that quality of life factors should influence end of life decisions to the extent of the patient’s autonomy or self-determination. In other words, quality of life factors must be considered but respect for patient autonomy should be paramount. * LLM Medical Law and Ethics Candidate, Kent Law School, University of Kent, tam36@kent.ac.uk [1] [2011] EWHC 2443 (Fam). [2] [1993] AC 789 (HL).
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