cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Activation of orbito-accumbens projections does not reliably reverse sign-tracking behavior in adolescent alcohol-exposed rats
Creators: name: Jaggers, Hannah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: America’s youth consume more than 90% of their alcohol by binge drinking, which could lead to long-term behavioral deficits and alter the developing brain. In animal models, adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) exposure has been shown to affect Pavlovian conditioned approach (PCA) behavior, where adult rats exposed to AIE exhibited reduced goal-tracking (approach to reward conditioned response) and enhanced sign-tracking (approach to reward-predictive cue conditioned response), which may act as an indicator for addiction vulnerability. To understand one potential neural circuit underlying AIE effects, we focused on the orbito-accumbens pathway due to its implications in reward learning and because research has shown that adult rats exposed to AIE had significantly less resting-state functional connectivity between the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) compared to control rats. We hypothesized that AIE-exposed female rats would exhibit sign-tracking behavior that could be shifted to goal-tracking through stimulation of orbito-accumbens projections. To determine how activation of the orbito-accumbens pathway affects conditioned behavior in both AIE-exposed and control rats, in vivo optogenetic techniques were utilized to selectively activate OFC neurons projecting to the NAcc while sign- and goal-tracking behaviors were assessed using PCA. We found that activation of the orbito-accumbens projections in AIE-exposed rats did not produce a reliable shift in behavior from sign- to goal-tracking. This finding indicates that the orbito-accumbens pathway is not exclusively responsible for altering reward learning in AIE-exposed rats.
Access to justice in Poland and length of proceedings as the main obstacle to access to justice in Poland
Creators: name: Augustyn, Zofia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: administration of justice
Poland

description: Second semester University: Utrecht University.
description: The right to access to justice is one of the fundamental human rights and can be found in most important human rights treaties. Like with almost every human right, there are a number of problems which create a gap between the reality and an ideal access to justice. As access to justice is a very complex term, also the variety of problems connected with access to justice is very broad. This paper will examine the length of proceedings as the main obstacle to access to justice in Poland. The first part of this paper is introduction of the term access to justice and different aspects of this term. First chapter includes also historical background of the access to justice. Second part, concerns law instruments, which guarantee, the right to be tried within reasonable time, as one of the crucial factors, of the access to justice. The third part includes the criteria of the right to be tried within reasonable time in jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and deals with possible sources of the delays of the proceedings in the Polish courts. The last part concerns possible ways of improvement of the right to be tried within reasonable time in Poland.
IDENTIFIKASI SENYAWA TURUNAN HASIL FRAKSINASI KAYU AKAR ARTOCARPUS ODORATISSIMUS
Creators: name: Mutmainnah, Putri
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi senyawa turunan hasil fraksinasi kayu akar Artocarpus odoratissimus. Kayu akar A. odoratissimus dimaserasi dengan pelarut metanol. Fraksinasi dilakukan menggunakan Kromatografi Cair Vakum (KCV) dengan variasi eluen mulai dari nonpolar sampai polar (n-heksan 100 %; n-heksan : etil asetat = 9:1 sampai 1:9; etil asetat 100%, dan etil asetat : metanol 9,5:0,5 dan 9:1) menghasilkan 10 fraksi utama. Pemurnian dilakukan dengan kromatografi kolom grafitasi menghasilkan 7 fraksi utama. Hasil identifikasi berdasarkan FT-IR dan 1H-NMR menunjukan bahwa senyawa murni tersebut diduga senyawa turunan fenilpropanoid
Breaking fertile ground in the European Union : a trial for the regulation of womb and child trade in surrogacy
Creators: name: Koenigswarter, Julia De
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: human reproductive technology
Europe
surrogacy

description: Second semester University: Utrecht University
description: The thesis provides an overview of the challenges that arise in the European Union with an increasing number of incoming children born as a result of a commercial international surrogacy arrangement. The principal objective of the analysis is to provide a human rights regulative approach to surrogacy which has mostly been apprehended to date under private law. In the first part of the analysis, the filiation systems of a sample of EU member states and their adaptability to surrogacy cases are assessed. The thesis then proceeds to examine the existing legal protections available under international human rights instruments, such as the CEDAW, the CRC and the ECHR, for all the parties to surrogacy arrangements. The inadequacy of family law on the national level or international private law to address issues raised by commercial surrogacy has impacts per se in terms of the human rights of the intended parents, the commissioned children and surrogates. The results of this thesis plead for the design of a multilateral regulation of surrogacy that would take into account human rights and democratic values along with matters of private international law. In order to achieve this, more interdisciplinary endeavors in research, the legal arena and on the level of international bodies is necessary.
Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Routine HIV Screening/Testing in Primary Care Settings among Healthcare Providers in the Southeastern United States: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Tan, Kelly R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background. In 2006 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention implemented new recommendations for routine HIV screening and testing to be conducted in medical settings outside of STD/HIV clinics on all patients aged 13-64 regardless of perceived risk. Despite ongoing efforts to improve HIV screening and testing, many settings are not following these guidelines. In addition, the southeastern United States is disproportionately affected by HIV. Purpose. The purpose of this project was to describe health care providers’ perceived barriers and facilitators to universal screening and testing for HIV at poorly utilized/novel testing sites in the southeastern US through a review of the literature, and to develop recommendations for future research, practice, and policy. Methods. I conducted a review of the literature of perceived barriers and facilitators to routine HIV testing among health care providers in February, 2016 according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. Identified barriers and facilitators were coded and organized into levels of the Ecological Model of Health Promotion. Results. Perceived barriers and facilitators were identified at the societal, organizational, and individual level including federal/state policy, protocol constraints, and provider beliefs/characteristics. The information from this paper may help guide future research and interventions to improve adherence to CDC recommendations.
PROBLEMS OF THE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE HAITIAN CAPITAL PORT-AU-PRINCE
Creators: name: Kurochkina, K.A.
name: Dussap Sabine
name: Zatolokina, N.M.
Publisher: name: Вектор ГеоНаук
Year: 2022
Subjects: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
PORT-AU-PRINCE
SLUMS
RURAL EXODUS
POOR GOVERNANCE
TERRITORIAL PLANNING

description: The lack of urban infrastructure services in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, is a source of perpetual problems that affect the well-being of the population, their economic prospects and their quality of life. The spatial analysis of the situation in Port-au-Prince study’s spatial locations and interactions for a new layout, a new organization of the territory thus making it possible to better understand what is happening in the capital and to solve complex problems. A rapid growth of the population in Port-au-Prince which represents a critical factor and the State having had no prospect of receiving this massive displacement of the population, causing the impotence and inactivity of the State in the face of the deterioration of the existing urban infrastructure and the non-territorial planning in relation to the influx of the population causing a plummeting on all aspects of life, a self-destruction of the capital. Natural resources are being exploited massively, which could lead to a shortage of drinking water and electrical energy; mobility in a saturated capital, a non-existent garbage collection service, heavy recurring natural disasters. How do you deal with these problems in the capital when there is bad governance?
Healthcare providers' HPV vaccination recommendation practices in Argentina, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, and Spain
Creators: name: Kundu, Debanjali
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) is available for the prevention of cervical, vaginal, vulvar, penile, and oral cancers. Physician recommendation is an important predictor of adolescent patient vaccination, and future HPV vaccination programs should address physician concerns to encourage uptake worldwide. Few data are currently available on differences in providers’ recommendations for and attitudes towards HPV vaccination across different geographical settings.
Methods: A total of 151 adolescent vaccine providers were interviewed from five geographically representative countries (Argentina, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, and Spain) from October 2013 and April 2014.
Results: Most physicians (83%) believed the vaccine protects against cervical cancer and genital warts (37%). Negative perspectives included high cost [(50%; range 26%: South Africa-77%: Korea)]; and doubts concerning vaccine safety and efficacy [(19%: range 7%: South Africa-33%: Spain)]. Overall, over half of physicians (54%) would recommend HPV vaccination always or most of the time [(range: 13%: Malaysia-77%: Spain)]. Most physicians (74%) stated they were comfortable recommending the vaccine, although Korea was an outlier (33%). Free, low-cost, or publicly available vaccines [(39%: range 26%: South Africa-57%: Korea)] and additional data on vaccine safety and efficacy [(62%: range 3%: Malaysia-80%: Spain)] were the most commonly cited facilitators of vaccine recommendation.
Discussion: Countries varied greatly in the proportion of providers recommending HPV vaccine always or most of the time, which may be due to cultural differences or national vaccine availability in some regions. Physicians’ most commonly cited concerns about vaccination included safety and efficacy, likely due to its recent introduction, or not yet being routinely available in some countries.
Transport in a One-Dimensional Hyperconductor
Creators: name: Plamadeala, Eugeniu
name: Mulligan, Michael
name: Nayak, Chetan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define a `hyperconductor' to be a material whose electrical and thermal DC conductivities are infinite at zero temperature and finite at any non-zero temperature. The low-temperature behavior of a hyperconductor is controlled by a quantum critical phase of interacting electrons that is stable to all potentially-gap-generating interactions and potentially-localizing disorder. In this paper, we compute the low-temperature DC and AC electrical and thermal conductivities in a one-dimensional hyperconductor, studied previously by the present authors, in the presence of both disorder and umklapp scattering. We identify the conditions under which the transport coefficients are finite, which allows us to exhibit examples of violations of the Wiedemann-Franz law. The temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity, which is characterized by the parameter $Δ_X$, is a power law, $σ\propto 1/T^{1 - 2(2-Δ_X)}$ when $Δ_X \geq 2$, down to zero temperature when the Fermi surface is commensurate with the lattice. There is a surface in parameter space along which $Δ_X = 2$ and $Δ_X \approx 2$ for small deviations from this surface. In the generic (incommensurate) case with weak disorder, such scaling is seen at high-temperatures, followed by an exponential increase of the conductivity $\ln σ\sim 1/T$ at intermediate temperatures and, finally, $σ\propto 1/T^{2-2(2-{Δ_X})}$ at the lowest temperatures. In both cases, the thermal conductivity diverges at low temperatures.
description: v.2 minor updates, 19 pages, 4 appendices
“Civil marriage is a civil right” : confronting the “right to marry” to Lebanon’s normative pluralism is a growing sectarian environment
Creators: name: Mardam Bey, Soulayma
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: marriage
Lebanon

description: Second semester University: Université Libre de Bruxelles.
description: In Lebanon, family laws from marriage to its termination depend on one’s sectarian affiliation, which is itself inherited from the father. Eighteen communities are officially recognised by the state and fifteen personal status laws applied within the same territory are submitting people, especially women, to unequal treatment. The inexistence of an optional civil law for interfaith couples or couples who don’t want to marry religiously goes against freedom of conscience. Such a system contributes to favour sectarian allegiance at the detriment of both national and individual identity. The community becomes the structuring element of society. While many pinpoint the responsibility of the Ottoman and French rule in the establishment and development of this extreme example of juridical pluralism, the latter was reinforced by the consent of the Lebanese, to the extent that all attempts to secularise personal status laws under the mandate were faced with the uproar of religious leaders. Yet, the Lebanese law, starting with the Constitution, allows in many ways for civil marriage. The main constraints are political rather than legal. While almost all religious authorities reject civil marriage, Muslim authorities - especially Sunni - are the most virulent as they regard civil marriage as an identity threat. However, beyond religions, it is above all patriarchy that underlies such a sectarian approach.
The main stages of the case of Darfur: taking a closer look at the commission of inquiry on Darfur, the Security Council, and the International Criminal Court
Creators: name: Hainboek, Mario
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Darfur
International Criminal Court
United Nations. Security Council

description: Second semester University: National University of Ireland Galway
description: The text at hand deals with the situation in Darfur which has been referred by the Security Council via Resolution 1593 to the International Criminal Court. An analysis of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Darfur which prompted the referral will be conducted as well as an analysis of Security Council Resolution 1593 itself. In addressing the Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Darfur focus will also be placed on the Commission applied provisions concerning genocide. Another part of this thesis deals with the practice of the Prosecutor. In so doing the question of why the prosecutor needed more than one and half a year to issue the first arrest warrants will be addressed. Also the Prosecutors interpretation of the elements of the offence of genocide will be discussed and illustrated. Finally, the question of personal immunity accruing to head of states will be ventilated as Pre- Trial Chamber one issued an arrest warrant against President Al Bashir who holds the position of sitting head of state of the Republic of Sudan.
Curious continued fractions, nonlinear recurrences and transcendental numbers
Creators: name: Hone, Andrew N. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11J70, Secondary 11B37

description: We consider a family of integer sequences generated by nonlinear recurrences of the second order, which have the curious property that the terms of the sequence, and integer multiples of the ratios of successive terms (which are also integers), appear interlaced in the continued fraction expansion of the sum of the reciprocals of the terms. Using the rapid (double exponential) growth of the terms, for each sequence it is shown that the sum of the reciprocals is a transcendental number.
description: Additional proposition and remarks added
Universal right to education in Europe? With focus on the Roma in Croatia
Creators: name: Eder, Agnes
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: right to education
Europe
Croatia
Romanies

description: Second semester University: Uppsala University.
description: The present thesis explores the situation of the Roma minority and their right to education in Croatia. Since education provides the opportunity to empower oneself and to fully participate in society. it constitutes one of the most fundamental human rights and is of particular importance for the marginalised Roma. International human rights instruments, such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Convention of the Rights of the Child as well as the European Convention on Human Rights are analysed in order to identify the holistic scope of the right to education. In addition, a detailed consideration is given to the principles of non-discrimination and equal access regarding education, given that the already underprivileged Roma also experience disadvantages especially in the area of education. Croatia, being on the one hand a state in transition and on the other hand about to join the European Union soon, committed itself to the above mentioned human rights treaties and yet failed to fully compl. The analysis of the national legal framework and the actual situation of Roma children in Croatia shows poor school attendance, high drop-out rates and segregated classes with inferior curricula. This alarming situation demands from the state to finally undertake responsibility and take action. Consequently, recommendations are presented in order to address the problem. Positive measures, non-discriminatory strategies and equality policies are needed to ultimately give Roma children the chance to lift themselves out of exclusion.
The Role of PIK3CA Mutations in Gliomagenesis
Creators: name: Stroobant, Emily E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and malignant primary brain tumor, is currently incurable and the most recent advance in treatment yields a median survival of only 12-15 months. To account for GBM’s heterogeneity, molecular diagnostics may be used to enable mutation specific treatment and improve patient outcomes. Mutations in PIK3CA, the p110α subunit of phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), are important in pathogenesis of other cancers, and drugs targeting PI3K are in clinical development. In 12% of GBM, PIK3CA is mutated and recurrent mutations are distributed across three functional domains (adaptor-binding, helical, and kinase). As their role in GBM tumorigenesis is unknown, we examined six mutations known to occur in GBM, two per mutated domain, for activation of biochemical signaling through phosphorylation of downstream targets ATK and S6. These mutations were introduced into immortalized human astrocytes, with and without oncogenic RAS. We determined that the downstream signaling molecule AKT is activated by all of the mutations in human astrocytes, with the greatest increase caused by mutations in the helical and kinase domains. The presence of oncogenic RAS cooperated with the helical and kinase domain mutations to activate signaling. Mutations in the adaptor-binding domain appear to increase signaling independently of oncogenic RAS. Mutations in PIK3CA therefore differentially increase signaling, leading to differing phenotypes and possible differential response to PI3K inhibitors. By understanding the consequences of differing mutations, GBM diagnosis and treatment can be improved.
«Advertências» e «queixumes» de Jorge Pinto Azevedo a D. João IV, em 1646, sobre a decadência do estado da Índia e o «proveito» de Macau na sua «restauração». Apresentação, leitura e notas de
Creators: name: Matos, Artur Teodoro De
Publisher: name: Povos e Culturas
Year: 1996

description: Povos e Culturas, v. 5 (1996): Portugal e o Oriente: passado e presente
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1560
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1676 col. 18 (iam 7). Philodemus, De poematis 2
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Elaphoglossum crassipes Diels, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum crassipes

description: Elaphoglossum crassipes (Hieron.) Diels, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1(4): 334. 1899. (Fig. 41A–J)
 Range: — Bolivia (CO, LP, SC, TA) and northwestern Argentina.
 Ecology: —Fairly common; epiphytic and saxicolous, in humid forests, on rock faces, and on steep, grassy slopes, often in somewhat less humid habitats than the similar E. cuspidatum; 1000–3500 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Stopping the Bloody Cycle of Civil Wars: The Effect of Specific Regime Type on Civil War Recurrence
Creators: name: Jordan, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This paper investigates which specific regime type is best able to prevent civil war
recurrence. I theorize that due to the different levels of citizen involvement in each regime type,
a regime such as a Consensus Democracy with a high level of citizen involvement will be less
vulnerable to rebellion than a regime with low levels of citizen involvement, such as a
Strongman Autocracy. I find that the only regime type significantly correlated with the outbreak
of civil war in a post-conflict state is the Strongman regime. Among the autocratic-leaning
regimes, I am unable to find any significant results for the personalistic and militaristic factors.
Among the democratic-leaning regimes, I am also unable to find any significant results for the
four institutions and democracy consensus scores. Overall, I fount that it is less important to have
a regime that is best at preventing conflict recurrence, but rather more important to avoid the
regime type – Strongman Autocracies – that are worst at preventing conflict recurrence.
Beyond bulldozing: is slum upgrading a means to realise the right to adequate housing?
Creators: name: Bell, Christina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: right to housing
urban policy

description: Second semester University: Abo Akademi University.
description: Despite wide recognition of the human right to adequate housing, massive violations are commonplace around the world. One billion people live in slums, 2 billion are forcibly evicted from their homes every year. Urban poverty will be one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, with a multitude of human rights at stake. This thesis explores the legal framework of the right to adequate housing, shows the obligations of States towards its fulfilment, presents its advocates and duty-bearers, and examines the question of responsibility of the different parties. With the case of Kenya, the approach of slum upgrading, a strategy that includes physical, social, economic and environmental improvements of living conditions within existing settlements, is examined. In a further step the ability of KENSUP, the Slum Upgrading Programme of the Kenyan Government to fulfil its human rights obligations – incumbent on the State due to the treaties it has ratified – is analysed. Finally, the influence of global policy frameworks on human rights is discussed, taking the example of the Millennium Development Goals and the polemic slogan Cities without slums to illustrate the interrelation between public policy and economic, social and cultural rights.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1561
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1676 col. 19 (iam 8). Philodemus, De poematis 2
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Strong and weak convergence of population size in supercritical catalytic branching process
Creators: name: Bulinskaya, Ekaterina Vl.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J80, 60J27

description: A general model of catalytic branching process (CBP) with any finite number of catalysis centers in a discrete space is studied. More exactly, it is assumed that particles move in this space according to a specified Markov chain and they may produce offspring only in the presence of catalysts located at fixed points. The asymptotic (in time) behavior of the total number of particles as well as the local particles numbers is investigated. The problems of finding the global extinction probability and local extinction probability are solved. Necessary and sufficient conditions are established for phase of pure global survival and strong local survival. Under wide conditions the limit theorems for the normalized total and local particles numbers in supercritical CBP are proved in the sense of almost surely convergence as well as with respect to convergence in distribution. Generalizations of a number of previous results are obtained as well. In the proofs the main role is played by recent results by the author devoted to classification of CBP and the moment analysis of the total and local particles numbers in CBP. Keywords and phrases: catalytic branching process, extinction probability, strong local survival, pure global phase, limit theorems, multi-type Bellman-Harris process.
Contemporary threats to human rights in the online public sphere. The case of Facebook
Creators: name: Segura Vides, María José
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: human rights
social networks
media
public-private
freedom of expression
right of privacy
business

description: Second semester University: University of Southern Denmark/Danish Institute for Human Rights
description: This thesis examines how the current use of social media platforms as forums for public discussions impacts human rights. The discussion makes use of Facebook as an example of a major platform that is globally used for public debate. The thesis builds on the concept of the public sphere, developed by Habermas, to look at the nature of today’s public forums in the online realm. It finds that the normative public sphere is subject to a dramatic change and it claims that this shift is rooted in the overlapping of the private and the public. Two main elements are challenged in social media platforms. In the first place, the public sphere is based on civic engagement and participation but content moderation policies by platforms owners are disrupting this idea. Secondly, Habermas envisioned a public sphere that is free from commercial interests but this ideal is being corrupted by the platforms’ profit-driven goals. This thesis indicates that such a significant transformation of the public sphere is having, among others, a negative impact on the human rights associated to public life. Freedom of expression and the right to privacy, respectively. An analysis of how social media like Facebook are taking on the duty of gatekeepers of public speech, effectively shaping user participation and the public discourse, illustrates the profound effects of platforms’ policies on freedom of expression. Likewise, a study of the online business model of these corporations demonstrates the threat that this business model poses to users’ right to privacy. The thesis concludes with the concern that users exercise their human rights and freedoms within privately owned platforms that operate outside the human rights protection framework. It looks at existing efforts, including regulation, and examines ways of overcoming the governance gaps that prevent human rights from being protected in the online realm of social media platforms. Keywords: public sphere, Facebook, right to privacy, freedom of expression, content moderation, online business model
Trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation : legalised or criminalised in EU. Case study of Romania, Poland, Cyprus and Bulgaria
Creators: name: Ilieva, Gergana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: sexual exploitation
European Union countries
trafficking in women
Bulgaria
Cyprus
European Union
Poland
Romania

description: Second semester University: Maastricht University.
description: Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation is one of the priorities in the policy of European Union. The criminalisation of the phenomenon is important because it directly relates to the protection of human rights and the prevention of the involved of greater societal circles. At the European regional level the root causes leading to human trafficking are hidden in the poverty, lack of democracy, corruption among the authorities, gender inequality and violence against women. In 2011, the European Commission adopted the Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, which established new norms on international level. To what extent the implementation of EU legislation is able to fight trafficking of women for purpose of sexual exploitation? In theory, EU legislation for the eradication of the crime of THB for sexual exploitation has a comprehensive and complete character that establishes the assumption for further effectiveness and success. Unfortunately, it is not true, because in the process of implementation and harmonisation into the national level, the domestic authorities translate and interpret law in their own capacity and perception, which contributes for shifting the meaning of the concept. This is one of the main shortcomings of the EU law.
Financial Literacy Program Evaluation
Creators: name: Homburger, Aaron
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This paper characterizes the relationship between public high school curriculum and financial literacy and then between financial literacy and financial behaviors through
two discrete stages of examination. The first stage examines the relationship between education policy differences and the resulting assessment of financial literacy as determined by the score on a five-question survey. The second stage analyzes the impact that financial literacy has on significant financial behaviors using a factor-by-factor analysis. The estimation sample includes only recent public high school graduates. The prevailing analysis suggests 1) that being financially literate pays dividends in the choices an individual makes and that 2) the provision of the financial education has minimal impact on an individual's financial literacy. The paper concludes with a discussion of possible error points and sheds a new light on an important sub-category of labor economics, pertaining to the field of education economics. Ultimately this paper illustrates that the critical point that other factors because state requirements account for financial literacy and that financial literacy explains a decent amount of the variation in financial behavior outcomes.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1562
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1676 col. 20 (iam 9). Philodemus, De poematis 2
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Curating Memory in Post-Conflict Peru
Creators: name: Lackey, Michael Donovan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Considering the burgeoning culture of memory in Peru, this research is interested in the
way memorial museums have emerged as a form of memory site, and how these museums both
reflect and influence the negotiation and contestation of memory and truth-telling in post-conflict Peru. Studying three specific memorial museums, the Yuyanapaq: Para Recordar exhibit, ANFASEP’s Museum of Memory, and The Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (LUM), this thesis argues that Peru’s civil society actively sought out spaces for reflection and remembrance immediately following the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and that the creation of these memorial museums reflects the dialectic nature of memory in a post-conflict society. Additionally, this thesis will demonstrate how the LUM, Peru’s newest memorial museum, embraces the processes of negotiation and renegotiation of memory in a post-conflict society, and utilizes its design and exhibits to promote further dialogue between civil society, the state, and other memory initiatives.
International Truth Commissions as a vehicle of transitional justice: do they further the right to the truth? : a case study of the Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission
Creators: name: Haslwanter, Katja
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: transitional justice
truth commission
Kyrgyzstan

description: Second semester University: Tartu University.
description: This thesis examines the field of transitional justice, in particular one of its most prominent tools: truth commissions. Furthermore the notion of the right to the truth will be elucidated and it will be elaborated on the question to what extent these two concepts interrelate to each other. Thus the question will be stressed whether truth commissions, thanks to its mandate and work, act as a safeguard to the right to the truth. It will also be touched upon the question whether truth commission are efficient in terms of implementing their work, among others by means of formulating recommendations. It will be essential to point out that there are two ways of establishing a truth commission: truth commissions can come into being following international pressure, on one hand, or following a domestic need to establish a commonly accepted version of truth, on the other. It becomes clear that the latter are more likely to generate successful outcomes. A case study of a mainly internationally driven commission, namely the Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission (KIC), will be then conducted to picture the particular outcomes of truth commissions of that kind. As the outcomes of truth commissions are particularly diverse and difficult to grasp due to the individual character of every single country, it can be argued that the most likely element to be achieved by a truth commission is the establishment of a certain record of the past and thus a certain dimension of truth, which is of tremendous value for every single society that suffered from past human rights abuses; a value which they cannot be deprived of.
Search for magnetic monopoles and stable particles with high electric charges in 8 TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for highly ionizing particles produced in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV center-of-mass energy is performed by the ATLAS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 7.0 fb$^{-1}$. A customized trigger significantly increases the sensitivity, permitting a search for such particles with charges and energies beyond what was previously accessible. No events were found in the signal region, leading to production cross section upper limits in the mass range 200--2500 GeV for magnetic monopoles with magnetic charge in the range $0.5g_{D}
description: 18 pages plus author list + cover pages (35 total), 5 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2014-16/
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1563
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1676 col. 21 (iam 10). Philodemus, De poematis 2
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Elaphoglossum elkeae M. Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum elkeae

description: Elaphoglossum elkeae M.Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia 58(2): 102. 2006. (Fig. 7F–O)
 Range: — Endemic to Bolivia (LP); known only from the type collection.
 Ecology: —Rare; epiphytic in humid forests; 3400 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Climate change and environmental migration : the danger of the status quo
Creators: name: Nosworthy, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: climatic changes
migrations
environment

description: Second semester University: Åbo Akademi University
description: Climate change and the environmental migration phenomenon reside in a dangerous international legal protection gap – a status quo unwilling to change. Climate change and environmental migration are linked with multiple security threats, including those affecting national security, public security, communal security and human security, and impact the political and social order, culture, life and personal integrity. The current international legal framework of refugeehood and international human rights law is inadequate to respond to such threats because it is unable to grasp environmental conditions as primary motivators for migration, particularly in cases of slow-onset changes. Shortsightedly, the reasons for migration are more often linked with economic justifications, as the effects of the slow environmental changes are more difficult to distinguish. The purpose of this thesis is to map the under-researched threats associated with climate change and its linkages to environmental migration in cases of slow-onset changes, leading to permanent or semi-permanent external displacement. This connection between migration and climate change is established through the examination of three different cases, being the Pacific Islands and the rising ocean, the shrinking of Lake Chad, and the melting glaciers of the Himalayas. Additionally, the security threats associated with such events are identified and explored with the assertion that environmental migration and the related, but inadequately equipped, international framework exacerbate security threats. Finally, possible avenues from which to mitigate these problems are examined.
Blow-up of weak solutions to a chemotaxis system under influence of an external chemoattractant
Creators: name: Black, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K40, 35B44, 35K61, 35Q92, 92C17

description: We study nonnnegative radially symmetric solutions of the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel whole space system \begin{align*} \left\{\begin{array}{c@{\,}l@{\quad}l@{\,}c} u_{t}&=Δu-\nabla\!\cdot(u\nabla v),\ &x\in\mathbb{R}^n,& t>0,\\ 0 &=Δv+u+f(x),\ &x\in\mathbb{R}^n,& t>0,\\ u(x,0)&=u_{0}(x),\ &x\in\mathbb{R}^n,& \end{array}\right. \end{align*} with prototypical external signal production \begin{align*} f(x):=\begin{cases} f_0\vert x\vert^{-α},&\text{ if }\vert x\vert \leq R-ρ,\\ 0,&\text{ if } \vert x\vert\geq R+ρ,\\ \end{cases} \end{align*} for $R\in(0,1)$ and $ρ\in\left(0,\frac{R}{2}\right)$, which is still integrable but not of class $\text{L}^{\frac{n}{2}+δ_0}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ for some $δ_0\in[0,1)$. For corresponding parabolic-parabolic Neumann-type boundary-value problems in bounded domains $Ω$, where $f\in\text{L}^{\frac{n}{2}+δ_0}(Ω)\cap C^α(Ω)$ for some $δ_0\in(0,1)$ and $α\in(0,1)$, it is known that the system does not emit blow-up solutions if the quantities $\|u_0\|_{\text{L}^{\frac{n}{2}+δ_0}(Ω)}, \|f\|_{\text{L}^{\frac{n}{2}+δ_0}(Ω)}$ and $\|v_0\|_{\text{L}^θ(Ω)}$, for some $θ>n$, are all bounded by some $\varepsilon>0$ small enough. We will show that whenever $f_0>\frac{2n}α(n-2)(n-α)$ and $u_0\equiv c_0>0$ in $\overline{B_1(0)}$, a measure-valued global-in-time weak solution to the system above can be constructed which blows up immediately. Since these conditions are independent of $R\in(0,1)$ and $c_0>0$, we will thus prove the criticality of $δ_0=0$ for the existence of global bounded solutions under a smallness conditions as described above.
description: 21 pages
Crisis and social rights in Europe : retrogressive measures versus protection mechanisms
Creators: name: Garcia Pedraza, Paula
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: economic crisis
Europe
Italy
Spain
economic policy
economic social and cultural rights
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights

description: Second semester University: Abo Akademi University, Turku.
description: The austerity measures that are being adopted to counteract the current economic and financial crisis are challenging the enjoyment and the protection of economic and social rights. In Europe, as in other countries of the world, these measures have become a primary choice for reducing the deficit and the public debt. Nonetheless, this choice has not been exempt from controversy. As a matter of fact, this option has been strongly criticised due to the impact that it is having on the enjoyment of acquired economic and social rights. In fact, all the governments’ that have implemented austerity measures in Europe have been defeated through democratic elections. Moreover, social protest against this policy has risen and spread to different countries. Ireland and Spain are two of the five countries most affected by austerity. For this reason, they have been selected as case studies to determine whether austerity is having a retrogressive impact on economic and social rights and whether or not it is necessary to reinforce protection mechanisms.
Evaluating CUDA Applications under EDF Scheduling for use in Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Li, Forrest
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Advances in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles provide
safety-critical control functions such as pedestrian detection, collision warnings, and lane tracking
through an array of sensors mounted throughout a vehicle. To support the constant stream of sensor
data, real-time systems are needed to periodically process the sensor data to ensure correct functionality
of assistive and autonomous control functionality. In this paper, I discuss the use of CUDA, a
programmable GPU platform for parallelizing data processing, within the context of ADAS and
autonomous vehicles. I also discuss the development of a platform on which to run CUDA applications
under Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling, a real-time scheduler, and I evaluate the feasibility of
running CUDA applications under EDF scheduling to process sensor data.
Hawking, Fiducial, and Free-fall Temperatures of Black Hole on Gravity's Rainbow
Creators: name: Gim, Yongwan
name: Kim, Wontae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On gravity's rainbow, the energy of particles affects the geometry of black hole in such a way that the Hawking temperature of black hole is appropriately modified. It means that the fiducial and free-fall temperatures on the background of black hole should also be modified according to deformation of the geometry. We find that the fiducial temperature takes the blue-shifted modified Hawking temperature so that it is divergent at the horizon, while the free-fall temperature defined by employing the thermodynamic Stefan-Boltzmann relation on gravity's rainbow is finite everywhere without the blue-shift effect; in particular, it is vanishing at the horizon. In this respect, the behaviors of the two-different temperatures at the horizon show that black hole complementarity is still required on gravity's rainbow.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, version to appear in EPJC
Some Statistical Considerations for Comparisons between Groups for Counts of Events during At-risk Time Periods
Creators: name: Zhou, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In the fields of public health and medicine, many studies are interested in analyzing a
count of events over a time at-risk, or a rate. Examples of studies where events over a time
period were the outcome variable of interest include bleeding frequencies in dogs with
hemophilia B (Nichols 2013), lower respiratory infections in one year old infants (LaVange
1994), exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (Keene 2008), and
relapses in multiple sclerosis (Kappos 2006). The events are considered as discrete episodes over
a time at risk; however, the difficulty in defining frequency of events varies by study. Generally,
the risk time periods are variable and differ randomly between subjects. In some studies, the
covariates in the study may change over the course of follow-up. This thesis will evaluate the
different analysis methods that may be appropriate for data in the form of counts over a period of
follow-up time. Considerations of these characteristics will affect the type of statistical methods
used to analyze the data and in choosing the most appropriate method.