cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Human rights concerns related to judgment publications and disseminations online and strategies on preventing violence
Creators: name: Zhao, Qian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: internet
judgement
public-private
right of privacy

description: Second semester University: Lund University.
description: On 11th November 2013, the Supreme Court released a new provision to push forward the online publication of judgments in China. A new website is also set up by the Supreme Court to post valid judgments of all levels of courts. The provision requires disclosure of litigants’ names and other personal information, which arose a human right concern on right to privacy, as well as a debate on balance between public interests and private interest. This debate is raised again when it comes to further online distribution of judgments. Therefore, this paper will analyze the conflicted interests, and looking for manners to deal with the debate and human right concern both on judgment publication and distribution on the Internet.
3D UNet Mouse Embryo Fixed
Creators: name: V. Bondarenko
name: A. Wolny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
plantseg
unet
3d
semantic-segmentation
mouse-embryo
nuclei
animal
tissue
confocal-microscopy
pytorch
fixed

description: Download RDF Package
UNet3D Mouse Embryo Nuclei + Boundaries A 3D U-Net trained to predict the nuclei and their boundaries in fixed confocal images of developing mouse embryo. Voxel size: (0.2×0.2×1 µm^3) (XYZ).
description: A 3D U-Net trained to predict the nuclei and their boundaries in fixed confocal images of developing mouse embryo.Voxel size: (0.2×0.2×1 µm^3) (XYZ). (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data
Creators: name: Alemzadeh, Homa
name: Iyer, Ravishankar K.
name: Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew
name: Leveson, Nancy
name: Raman, Jaishankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding the causes and patient impacts of surgical adverse events will help improve systems and operational practices to avoid incidents in the future. We analyzed the adverse events data related to robotic systems and instruments used in minimally invasive surgery, reported to the U.S. FDA MAUDE database from January 2000 to December 2013. We determined the number of events reported per procedure and per surgical specialty, the most common types of device malfunctions and their impact on patients, and the causes for catastrophic events such as major complications, patient injuries, and deaths. During the study period, 144 deaths (1.4% of the 10,624 reports), 1,391 patient injuries (13.1%), and 8,061 device malfunctions (75.9%) were reported. The numbers of injury and death events per procedure have stayed relatively constant since 2007 (mean = 83.4, 95% CI, 74.2-92.7). Surgical specialties, for which robots are extensively used, such as gynecology and urology, had lower number of injuries, deaths, and conversions per procedure than more complex surgeries, such as cardiothoracic and head and neck (106.3 vs. 232.9, Risk Ratio = 2.2, 95% CI, 1.9-2.6). Device and instrument malfunctions, such as falling of burnt/broken pieces of instruments into the patient (14.7%), electrical arcing of instruments (10.5%), unintended operation of instruments (8.6%), system errors (5%), and video/imaging problems (2.6%), constituted a major part of the reports. Device malfunctions impacted patients in terms of injuries or procedure interruptions. In 1,104 (10.4%) of the events, the procedure was interrupted to restart the system (3.1%), to convert the procedure to non-robotic techniques (7.3%), or to reschedule it to a later time (2.5%). Adoption of advanced techniques in design and operation of robotic surgical systems may reduce these preventable incidents in the future.
description: Presented as the J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper for adult cardiac surgery at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons in January. See Appendix for more detailed results, discussions, and related work. Updated the headers
3D UNet Mouse Embryo Fixed
Creators: name: V. Bondarenko
name: Wolny, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
plantseg
unet
3d
semantic-segmentation
mouse-embryo
nuclei
animal
tissue
confocal-microscopy
pytorch
fixed

description: Download RDF Package UNet3D Mouse Embryo Nuclei + Boundaries A 3D U-Net trained to predict the nuclei and their boundaries in fixed confocal images of developing mouse embryo. Voxel size: (0.2×0.2×1 µm^3) (XYZ).
description: A 3D U-Net trained to predict the nuclei and their boundaries in fixed confocal images of developing mouse embryo.Voxel size: (0.2×0.2×1 µm^3) (XYZ). (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Metallicity determination in open star clusters by exploring Gaia—J-PLUS synergy
Creators: name: Machado-Pereira, Eduardo
name: Daflon, Simone
name: Placco, Vinícius
name: Guerço, Rafael
name: Limberg, Guilherme
name: Maia, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Under various initial conditions, open star clusters serve as valuable laboratories for studying stellar evolution and its outcomes. The Gaia mission has significantly advanced our understanding of the Milky Way through precise astrometric data, while the Javalambre-Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) offers extensive multiband photometric information. In this study, we investigate a list of 24 open star clusters, including 13 recently discovered ones, by combining the precise astrometric measurements from Gaia with data from J-PLUS. By utilizing machine learning algorithms, we trained models using Gaia and J-PLUS data to determine atmospheric parameters for members individually, in particular yielding metallicities estimates for these clusters. Importantly, this methodology can be readily extended to other multiband photometric surveys, providing a direct pathway to explore the metallicity properties of other various clusters.
Are four Centuries of systemic segregation coming to an end? A socio-historical analysis of custodial care with case studies on deinstitutionalisation of children with disabilities in Bulgaria and Serbia
Creators: name: Stefanović, Lazar
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: children with mental disabilities
medical care
dignity
Bulgaria
Serbia

description: Second semester University: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
description: This study encompasses the phenomenon of institutionalisation of persons with mental disabilities in a holistic manner, from its rise to the fall as the only mainstream form of care for this group. The phenomenon of the period of “great confinement” with regards to persons with mental disorders determined the later development of custodial care systems; hence my thesis examines wrongness of the inveteracy of punitive and control oriented care that was long taken for granted. The perception of mental disorders progressed significantly after the aforementioned period; still today we are able to detect worryingly outdated approaches to mental disability as well as some features of the custodial care that were present a few centuries ago. A significant breakthrough happened with introduction of somewhat vague concept of dignity that allowed theorists and lawmakers to further develop understanding of this concept and incorporate it in international legal instruments. The position of dignity is examined with regards to realization of the rights of persons with mental disabilities and understanding the importance of autonomy as a prerequisite for dignified life. Ultimately, deinstitutionalisation is a tool by which the society loosens the control established upon the persons with mental disorders a long time ago. The case studies focus on the processes of deinstitutionalisation of children with disabilities in Bulgaria and Serbia. The Bulgaria’s experience gives appreciable insight in this process which Serbia can use to carry out a successful deinstitutionalisation of children with disabilities.
Systematic Review and Method-oriented Meta-analysis on the Simple Scale for Acceptance Measurement by Van der Laan et al. (1997)
Creators: name: Zoellick, Jan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: acceptance of advanced transport telematics
subject: measuring acceptance in transport and automation
subject: methodological review
subject: Method-oriented meta-analysis
subject: reliability
subject: semantic differential
subject: systematic review
subject: technology acceptance
subject: validity

description: Assessing reliability, validity, and results from applications of a technology acceptance measure
Resistive Graphene Humidity Sensors with Rapid and Direct Electrical Readout
Creators: name: Smith, Anderson David
name: Elgammal, Karim
name: Niklaus, Frank
name: Delin, Anna
name: Fischer, Andreas
name: Vaziri, Sam
name: Forsberg, Fredrik
name: Råsander, Mikael
name: Hugosson, Håkan W.
name: Bergqvist, Lars
name: Schröder, Stephan
name: Kataria, Satender
name: Östling, Mikael
name: Lemme, Max C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate humidity sensing using a change of electrical resistance of a single- layer chemical vapor deposited (CVD) graphene that is placed on top of a SiO2 layer on a Si wafer. To investigate the selectivity of the sensor towards the most common constituents in air, its signal response was characterized individually for water vapor (H2O), nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), and argon (Ar). In order to assess the humidity sensing effect for a range from 1% relative humidity (RH) to 96% RH, devices were characterized both in a vacuum chamber and in a humidity chamber at atmospheric pressure. The measured response and recovery times of the graphene humidity sensors are on the order of several hundred milliseconds. Density functional theory simulations are employed to further investigate the sensitivity of the graphene devices towards water vapor. Results from the interaction between the electrostatic dipole moment of the water and the impurity bands in the SiO2 substrate, which in turn leads to electrostatic doping of the graphene layer. The proposed graphene sensor provides rapid response direct electrical read out and is compatible with back end of the line (BEOL) integration on top of CMOS-based integrated circuits.
description: Nanoscale, 2015
Elaphoglossum pattersoniae Mickel, Amer. Fern J.
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 pattersoniae

description: Elaphoglossum pattersoniae Mickel, Amer. Fern J. 80(3): 110. 1990. (Fig. 45H–O)
 Range: —Central Peru and Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Rare; terrestrial on earthen banks and roadsides in humid forests; 2100–3200 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
The right to work for Syrian refugee in Jordan: a durable solution? : would providing the right to work for refugees in protracted situation be a development opportunity?
Creators: name: Salavert, Lise
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: right to work
refugees
Syria
Jordan

description: Second semester University: University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin
description: This master thesis is trying to seek durable solution for refugees through the necessity to apply Chapter 3 of the 1951 Convention related to the status of refugee: the right to work. I argue that the provision of the right to work could be the durable solution that the hosting countries and the International Community have been looking for. To support this argument, the case of Jordan is being studied and analyzed within this master thesis, as one of the best example to support new policies for durable solutions. However, I will demonstrate that to ensure the efficiency of the new policy through the so-called Jordan Compact, a revision of this agreement will need to be done to ensure that this policy will reach its overall goal: being providing self-sufficiency to refugees being in protracted displacement.
Components of Shared Governance:  Structures and Implementation Methods that Benefit Nurses
Creators: name: Davis, Eleanor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Introduced by Porter O’Grady in 1984 as an organizational model to put the control of
nursing practice into the hands of bedside nurses, shared governance has been shown to increase
job satisfaction, autonomy, control of nursing practice, commitment to the organization, and
empowerment. While it is well studied that shared governance creates positive nursing outcomes,
there exists a gap in the literature about what components of nursing shared governance create
these positive nursing outcomes. This paper presents the results of an integrative literature
review that was conducted to explore the components of shared governance that improve nursing
outcomes, and to identify those shared governance components that are reported as being most
beneficial to nurses. The resulting discussion based on the review indicates that shared
governance is most successful at improving nursing outcomes when its structure promotes
communication and collaboration. Evidence-based practice councils provide nurses with the
evidence needed to support decision-making processes and ensure that changes implemented
within shared governance structures are effective. Shared governance is most successful in
improving nursing outcomes when it uses education to promote its development and incorporates
professional advancement programs.
Modern magic in Nigeria: witchcraft accusations, child abandonment and child trafficking in Akwa Ibom state
Creators: name: Pri, Louise
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: children rights
Nigeria
trafficking in young people

description: Second semester University: University of Coimbra.
description: This thesis explores the possible link between branding children as witches, child abandonment and the risk of child trafficking in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. By combining the theoretical perspectives of Michel Foucault’s “governmentality”-analytics and the Actor network Theory, witchcraft is examined as a ‘productive power’ and as a ‘pastoral’ and ‘disciplinary’ power technique, as well as a network-actor that comes into being, as a relational effect of its network associations. In a five-part analysis, the thesis further explores and finds witchcraft to be related to the occurrence of misfortune as well as serve as an explanatory function; that the identification and construction of “child witches” is based on a perceived motive of malice, which in effect modifies the behaviour and actions of individuals; that witchcraft is performed as accusations, confessions, deliverances, exorcisms, business and legislation, which create different realities for different actors; that witchcraft can be understood as a levelling and normalising mechanism, which is used to maintain a social order; and that a connection can be rendered visible between child witchcraft stigmatisations, child abandonment and child trafficking by uncovering the phenomenon of trafficking ‘ritual oaths’.
Production of fragments and hyperfragments in antiproton-nucleus collisions
Creators: name: Feng, Zhao-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Formation mechanism of fragments with strangeness in collisions of antiprotons on nuclei has been investigated within the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics (LQMD) transport approach combined with a statistical model (GEMINI) for describing the decays of excited fragments. Production of strange particles in the antiproton induced nuclear reactions is modeled within the LQMD model, in which all possible reaction channels such as elastic scattering, annihilation, charge exchange and inelastic scattering in antibaryon-baryon, baryon-baryon and meson-baryon collisions have been included. A coalescence approach is developed for constructing hyperfragments in phase space after de-excitation of nucleonic fragments. The combined approach could describe the production of fragments in low-energy antiproton induced reactions. Hyperfragments are formed within the narrower rapidities and lower kinetic energies. It has advantage to produce heavier hyperfragments and hypernuclides with strangeness s=-2 (double-$Λ$ fragments) and s=1 ($\overlineΛ$-fragments) in antiproton induced reactions.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Elaphoglossum paucinervium 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 paucinervium

description: Elaphoglossum paucinervium M.Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia 58(2): 115. 2006. (Fig. 8K–R)
 Range: — Endemic to Bolivia (LP); known only from the type collection.
 Ecology: —Rare; probably epiphytic in humid forests; 1500 m.
 Notes: —The small frond size and creeping rhizomes are also present in E. mandonii, but that species has entire blade scales and truncate blade bases.
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
Elaphoglossum petiolosum T. Moore, Index Fil.
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 petiolosum

description: Elaphoglossum petiolosum (Desv.) T.Moore, Index Fil. 12. 1857. (Fig. 28G–M)
 Range: —Andes from Colombia to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; epiphytic in humid forests, mostly around timberline; 2400–3950 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
Let’s boost democracy and human rights: the use of the social media and its impact on the venture of enhancing democracy and human rights in an era of social turbulence
Creators: name: Karagianni, Ioanna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: democracy
human rights
media
social movements
social networks

description: Second semester University: Masaryk University, Brno.
description: The use of the social media has seen an uprising the last few years. The outcome of their extensive use has been reflected in the Egyptian Revolution, the Occupy Movement, the case of WikiLeaks and the case of the Anonymous. Utilising the social media, one can see that there are multiple benefits for democracy and human rights. However, the disadvantages also have to be examined, since they show that it is not the social media itself that will make the change. To maximize the use of the social media and their beneficiary nature for human rights and democracy, there should be new policies. The appropriate use of the social media both by the citizens and by the governments is the key to enhance democracy.
Random Projections through multiple optical scattering: Approximating kernels at the speed of light
Creators: name: Saade, Alaa
name: Caltagirone, Francesco
name: Carron, Igor
name: Daudet, Laurent
name: Drémeau, Angélique
name: Gigan, Sylvain
name: Krzakala, Florent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random projections have proven extremely useful in many signal processing and machine learning applications. However, they often require either to store a very large random matrix, or to use a different, structured matrix to reduce the computational and memory costs. Here, we overcome this difficulty by proposing an analog, optical device, that performs the random projections literally at the speed of light without having to store any matrix in memory. This is achieved using the physical properties of multiple coherent scattering of coherent light in random media. We use this device on a simple task of classification with a kernel machine, and we show that, on the MNIST database, the experimental results closely match the theoretical performance of the corresponding kernel. This framework can help make kernel methods practical for applications that have large training sets and/or require real-time prediction. We discuss possible extensions of the method in terms of a class of kernels, speed, memory consumption and different problems.
The right to respectful maternity care : access to skilled and respectful birth attendants in facility-based deliveries and women’s experiences of intersectional discrimination. A comparison between Angola and Mozambique
Creators: name: Gameiro, Joana : Neves
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: motherhood
medical care
health services
Angola
Mozambique
discrimination
maternal mortality

description: Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast
description: Maternal mortality and morbidity is a widespread epidemic. Sub-Saharan African countries are the most affected and in most of them this issue is pervasively neglected by the governments. The main causes of this epidemic are the unavailability of quality maternal care services and trained health care personnel. One key strategy for addressing this issue is to increase facility-based deliveries, thereby increasing the proportion of women utilizing skilled care at birth. The issue of high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity is multidimensional and must be addressed on several fronts. These include working to eliminate wrongful gender stereotyping and intersectional discrimination, overcoming cultural, financial, and geographic barriers to health care access, as well as reforming poor quality of care at facilities. Ultimately, this study intends to answer the question of whether Angola and Mozambique are complying with the international standards of quality and respectful maternity care. Thus, this study will analyse if each respective state is investing the maximum of their available resources in bolstering their national health workforce and whether they are successfully seeking and receiving international assistance thereby guaranteeing equitable and non-discriminatory access to the highest attainable standard of health during facility-based deliveries.
Characterizing Carbamazepine Usage at Mission Health
Creators: name: Bernacchi, Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant that is FDA-approved to treat bipolar
I disorder, epilepsy, glossopharangeal neuralgia, and trigeminal neuralgia, and also has
expansive non-labeled indications. On January 12, 2007, the FDA released an alert
stating that carbamazepine can cause dangerous, or even fatal, skin reactions (Stevens
Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), most commonly in patients with a
particular human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allele variation HLA-B*1502. This allele
occurs almost exclusively in patients with Han Chinese ancestry, but also is found in
South Asian Indians. Toxic reactions may occur up to 3-6 months after starting
carbamazepine. Genetic tests for HLA-B*1502 are available, but Mission Neurology and
Mission Hospital currently do not administer these tests prior to carbamazepine use.
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to characterize the use of carbamazepine at
Mission Neurology; and with Mission Neurology physicians, develop and evaluate
different approaches to minimize use of carbamazepine in at risk populations.
Especially of interest is the frequency in which Asian patients have received
carbamazepine as outpatients (Mission Neurology Clinic) and as inpatients at Mission
Hospital. Methods: An electronic chart review of patients who received carbamazepine at Mission Neurology outpatient clinic and inpatient at Mission Hospital (including ED) between 2008 and 2014 was conducted. The initial search query included the following clinical and demographic variables to characterize carbamazepine use: date of visit, date prescribed carbamazepine, clinic location, primary health insurance plan, race or
ethnicity, sex, age, ICD9 diagnosis code, allergies, other medications, and ICD9 codes
associated with adverse drug events. Results: The reviewed medical records from Mission Neurology revealed that a total of 180 patients were prescribed carbamazepine, with 165 Caucasian, 2 American Indian, 1 Asian, 1 African American, and 11 patients of unknown ancestry. At Mission Hospital a total of 2,407 individual patients were administered carbamazepine as an in-patient. Of those patients, 1,823 were Caucasian, 105 African American, 17 American Indian, 4 Pacific Islander, 4 Asian, and 449 patients were of unknown ancestry. Between 2008 and 2014 at Mission Hospital, there were 72 incidences of erythema multiforme rash, SJS, or TEN, in 62 unique patients. Conclusion: This data demonstrates that at-risk patients, due to their ancestry, have received carbamazepine at Mission Health between 2008 and 2014. This data supports the consideration of a policy change to require testing before carbamazepine is administered to at-risk patients or to use an alternate drug in these patients.
Elaphoglossum plumosum T. Moore, Index Fil.
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 plumosum

description: Elaphoglossum plumosum (Fée) T.Moore, Index Fil. 364. 1862. (Fig. 55A–D)
 Range: —Amazonian basin from the Guianas and southern Venezuela to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia (SC), and Brazil.
 Ecology: —Rare; epiphytic in humid forests; to 900 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
Examining protection of Chinese defense lawyers rights in criminal proceedings
Creators: name: He, Ru
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: criminal procedure
human rights
lawyers
China

description: Second semester University: Université Libre de Bruxelles
description: This thesis examines the human rights situation of defense lawyers in China. It describes how difficulties in handling criminal cases may affect the rate of legal representation in criminal cases. This thesis analyzes the deep roots of the current plight of defense lawyers through an examination of the obstacles Chinese defense lawyers face in the pre-trial stage. Criminal defense lawyers run the risk of being arrested and accused of “evidence fabrication” under Article 306 of the Criminal Law, and attacked by the victim’s family or judicial organs. Furthermore, lawyers face difficulties in meeting with clients, getting prosecutions files, investigating and collecting evidence. The lack of an independent judiciary and autonomous bar association along with the presence of various cultural and institutional obstacles, contribute to the deterioration of the legal environment in which lawyers must practice. Thus to improve that legal environment and to promote the status of defense lawyers, the Chinese government should speed up the process of judicial reform. Finally, the thesis makes recommendations to both the government and National People’s Congress by urging them to comply with various international conventions concerning the rights of lawyers.
Gas Inflow and Outflow Histories in Disk Galaxies as Revealed from Observations of Distant Star-Forming Galaxies
Creators: name: Toyouchi, Daisuke
name: Chiba, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate gas inflow and outflow histories in Milky Way-like disk galaxies, to get new insights into the baryonic processes in galaxy formation and evolution. For this purpose, we solve the equations for the evolutions of the surface mass densities of gas and metals at each radius in a galactic disk, based on the observed structural properties of distant star-forming galaxies, including the redshift evolution of their stellar mass distribution, their scaling relation between the mass of baryonic components, star formation rate (SFR) and chemical abundance, as well as the supposed evolution of their radial metallicity gradients (RMGs). We find that the efficiency of gas inflow for a given SFR decreases with time and that the inflow rate is always nearly proportional to the SFR. For gas outflow, although its efficiency for a given SFR is a decreasing function of time, similarly to gas inflow, the outflow rate is not necessarily proportional to the SFR and the relation between the outflow rate and SFR strongly depends on the evolution of the adopted RMG. We also find that the results on the outflow rate can be reproduced in the framework of momentum-driven (energy-driven) wind mechanism if the RMG is steepening (flattening) with time. Therefore if the well measured RMGs and their evolution for Milky Way-like galaxies are obtained from future observations, then our results will be useful to constrain the main driving mechanism for their galactic outflows.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
title: V:SCOUT: digitales Leitsystem in der ThULB
Creators: name: Hartmann, Paul
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Leitsystem
subject: Bestandspräsentation
subject: 020

description: Workshop für die EDV-MitarbeiterInnen der Wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken in Thüringen 2024: Veranstaltung des Bibliotheksservice-Center Thüringen (BSC)
Landau levels of Majorana fermions in a spin liquid
Creators: name: Rachel, Stephan
name: Fritz, Lars
name: Vojta, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Majorana fermions were originally proposed as elementary particles acting as their own antiparticles. In recent years, it has become clear that Majorana fermions can instead be realized in condensed-matter systems as emergent quasiparticles, a situation often accompanied by topological order. Here we propose a physical system which realizes Landau levels - highly degenerate single-particle states usually resulting from an orbital magnetic field acting on charged particles - for Majorana fermions. This is achieved in a variant of a quantum spin system due to Kitaev which is distorted by triaxial strain. This strained Kitaev model displays a spin-liquid phase with charge-neutral Majorana-fermion excitations whose spectrum corresponds to that of Landau levels, here arising from a tailored pseudo-magnetic field. We show that measuring the dynamic spin susceptibility reveals the Landau-level structure by a remarkable mechanism of probe-induced bound-state formation.
description: 4+6 pages, 2+6 figures; v2: final version, Phys. Rev. Lett. (accepted)
Dignity and human rights : the French and European legal approaches under consideration
Creators: name: Jacques, Lucie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: dignity
legal aspects
European countries
France

description: Second semester University: University of Latvia.
description: In our societies, in which persons are called upon to live together, but where the individual interest to develop oneself in accordance with personal desires and feelings is to be taken into consideration, the concept of dignity is of fundamental importance. Able to be seen as the intrinsic value of the individual due to his belonging to humanity, and whereby he deserves respect for his human quality, but also as the individual’s personal feelings and self-esteem, supposedly free to act according to his wishes, dignity would provide a basis for human rights requests. In this context, the thesis aims at analysing and determining how and to what extent dignity plays a role in the realm of human rights. Throughout a research based on the French and European - the Council of Europe – legal systems, the thesis attempts to analyse how dignity is used to protect human equality on the basis of a right to be respected as a human being. Then, on the same methodology, it tries to establish that dignity can provide a support for individual freedom in order to reach self-fulfilment. Finally, the thesis seeks to demonstrate that dignity should be able to justify solidarity, necessary in the frame of the individuals’ ‘quality of life’.
SPATIAL SCIENCE TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF MACROALGAE AQUACULTURE FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION IN U.S. OCEAN WATERS
Creators: name: McGuirt, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Widespread environmental impacts coupled with the pressure of diminishing global petroleum reserves has led to a push in the U.S. for a systemic transition from fossil-based fuels to clean energy technologies. Biofuels could potentially play a role in decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels and moving toward more sustainable energy sources. Macroalgae are one promising alternative to the biofuel feedstocks currently used, and the numerous economic and environmental benefits associated with macroalgae cultivation could explain the growing interest in utilizing various taxonomic groups of macroalgae as feedstocks. In order to aid in the spatial planning realm of the burgeoning seaweed-to-fuels industry, this project involved three main components: (1) the creation of a geodatabase of point observation GIS data for species within seven aquaculture-relevant marine macroalgae genera,(2) a case study in the Gulf of Mexico using point data for two genera of macroalgae to conduct a density analysis and investigate the incidence of these two genera as they relate to key oceanographic parameters known to determine macroalgae distribution, and (3) a suitability analysis in the Gulf of Mexico for two species of Sargassum, analyzing not only oceanographic parameters, but also human and environmental space conflicts. GIS data layers within the United States Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) were compiled for Alaria, Gracilaria, Macrocystis, Pyropia, Saccharina, and Sargassum to analyze genera occurrence on a nationwide level and were found to span the entire geographic extent of the EEZ, from Northern Alaska to the coasts of Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The focus was then narrowed to the Gulf of Mexico for the subsequent analyses. The Gulf has high potential for macroalgae aquaculture, particularly for species of Sargassum and Gracilaria, which thrive naturally in this region. Conversely, there are many existing space uses in the Gulf that would restrict the area available for aquaculture. This multifaceted analysis could assist in screening potential locations for the development of macroalgae aquaculture in the U.S.
Sovereignty, borders and refugees : the crisis of democracy and human rights in Europe
Creators: name: Gorriahn, Laura
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: boundaries
Europe
democracy
European Union
human rights
irregular migrations
refugees
sovereignty
European Union countries

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki.
description: The thesis examines the current political situation of refugees at the European border, arguing that the refugee is herself to be understood as a consequence of the border control practices that are put in place in order to hold her back. Drawing on the method of ideology critique, I problematise our current imaginary of the border as being a hegemonic project that deeply pervades our understanding of the border as a self-evident and static idea. As a consequence, its dynamic, political and productive character becomes obscured. Migrants appear as a threat to the stability of the social order. In the ongoing process of their irregularisation, they are often deprived of their basic human rights. Drawing on these observations, I argue that even the normative concepts we commonly use to criticize institutional arrangements and social practices – namely democracy and human rights – reproduce the static imaginary of the border. Against this background, I critically evaluate the emancipatory power these concepts unfold regarding the moral and legal entitlements of refugees. Both democracy and human rights seem to have the potential of sustaining relations of domination and to transform them. In view of the contemporary developments, I conclude that instead of talking about a refugee crisis, we should talk about a crisis of democracy and human rights.
Seam Puckering Objective Evaluation Method for Sewing Process
Creators: name: Brad, Raluca
name: HĂloiu, Eugen
name: Brad, Remus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper presents an automated method for the assessment and classification of puckering defects detected during the preproduction control stage of the sewing machine or product inspection. In this respect, we have presented the possible causes and remedies of the wrinkle nonconformities. Subjective factors related to the control environment and operators during the seams evaluation can be reduced using an automated system whose operation is based on image processing. Our implementation involves spectral image analysis using Fourier transform and an unsupervised neural network, the Kohonen Map, employed to classify material specimens, the input images, into five discrete degrees of quality, from grade 5 (best) to grade 1 (the worst).
Elaphoglossum pulchrum 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 pulchrum

description: Elaphoglossum pulchrum M.Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia 58(2): 116. 2006. (Fig. 4K–N)
 Range: —Endemic to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; saxicolous on rock faces in humid forests, often growing with E. orbignyanum; to 1700– 2550 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
The Role of Pyruvate Kinase Isoform M2 (PkM2) in the Survivorship of Smoothened-driven Mouse Models of Medulloblastoma
Creators: name: Fish, Taylor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor. This cerebellar
neoplasm affects an estimated 1 in 150,000 children. Medulloblastoma arises from the aberrant
proliferation of cerebellar granule neuron progenitors (CGNPs) located in the external granule
cell layer (EGL) of the cerebellum. Current therapy for medulloblastoma involves surgical
resection, where possible, and aggressive radiation therapy and chemotherapy. With this
standard of treatment, long-term survival of up to 80% has been achieved for patients without
high-risk criteria. Despite recent advancements, medulloblastoma is still incurable in
approximately one third of patients, and the high toxicity of the aggressive therapy often has
detrimental effects on survivors, most notably measurable cognitive decline. Understanding the
cellular mechanisms mediating cancer growth may lead to less toxic targeted cancer therapies for
medulloblastoma.
Elaphoglossum pumilio Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot.
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 pumilio

description: Elaphoglossum pumilio Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot., n.s., 27: 156. 1991. (Fig. 43F–N)
 Range: —Northern Peru to Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Local and uncommon; terrestrial on roadbanks and clay banks in degraded vegetation in arid valleys, with Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.; 1850–2800 m.
 Notes: —A small, coriaceous species of dry Andean valleys that differs from the commoner E. tenuiculum in showing distinct scale bodies on the abaxial blade scales.
 Elaphoglossum rimbachii (Sodiro) Christ, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Gesammten Naturwiss. 36(1): 126, f. 70. 1899.
 Range: — Ecuador to Bolivia (LP); range uncertain due to taxonomic complexity of this group.
 Ecology: —Locally fairly common; epiphytic and saxicolous in humid forests; 2950–3300 m.
 Notes: —It is uncertain if Bolivian material is conspecific with that from Ecuador, the source of the type. The application of this name differs from that used in Flora of Peru (Mickel 1991), where E. rimbachii was applied to the species here called E. casanense.
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
title: Portuguese Cinema and Philosophy
Creators: name: Silveirinha Castello Branco, Patrícia
name: Viegas, Susana
Publisher: name: IFILNOVA - NOVA FCSH
Year: 2014

description: This issue takes up the theme of Portuguese cinema and philosophy, aiming at addressing films made by Portuguese filmmakers from a philosophical perspective. Our aim in this issue is to discuss this long and strong relationship, inviting and combining various approaches and interpretations.
description: Patrícia Castello Branco and Susana Viegas (Eds), “Portuguese Cinema and Philosophy,” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image vol.5 (2014).
description: ISSN: 1647-8991
WiFi Assisted Multi-WiGig AP Coordination for Future Multi-Gbps WLANs
Creators: name: Mohamed, Ehab Mahmoud
name: Kusano, Hideyuki
name: Sakaguchi, Kei
name: Sampei, Seiichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) access points (APs) using 60 GHz unlicensed frequency band are considered as key enablers for future Gbps wireless local area networks (WLANs). Exhaustive search analog beamforming (BF) is mainly used with WiGig transmissions to overcome channel propagation loss and accomplish high rate data transmissions. Due to its short range transmission with high susceptibility to path blocking, a multiple number of WiGig APs should be installed to fully cover a typical target environment. Therefore, coordination among the installed APs is highly needed for enabling WiGig concurrent transmissions while overcoming packet collisions and reducing interference, which highly increases the total throughput of WiGig WLANs. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive architecture for coordinated WiGig WLANs. The proposed WiGig WLAN is based on a tight coordination between the 5 GHz (WiFi) and the 60 GHz (WiGig) unlicensed frequency bands. By which, the wide coverage WiFi band is used to do the signaling required for organizing WiGig concurrent data transmissions using control/user (C/U) plane splitting. To reduce interference to existing WiGig data links while doing BF, a novel location based BF mechanism is also proposed based on WiFi fingerprinting. The proposed coordinated WiGig WLAN highly outperforms conventional un-coordinated one in terms of total throughput, average packet delay and packet dropping rate.
description: 6 pages, 8 Figures, IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2015
Investigating border-related deaths in the Mediterranean: migrant fatalities as collateral damage of European border control policies
Creators: name: Tombini, Martina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Mediterranean countries
migrations
European Union
police
smuggling
irregular migrations

description: Second semester University: University of Southern Denmark/Danish Institute for Human Rights
description: During the last two decades, a mix of images, opinions, facts and personal statements on the greatest migratory flow the Mediterranean has ever experienced have been broadcast all over the world. Contradictory information has been indiscriminately spread by media, politicians and scholars on the people taking a one-way ticket across the sea in search of a better future. In response to their arrival, new and tougher regulations have been imposed, both by the EU and individual Member states. In this context, where economic interests and fundamental rights have been invoked to tell the two sides of the story, little has been said about the supposed relationship between the enforcement of European border control policies and the large number of fatalities that occur at sea on these journeys. The aim of this thesis is threefold. Firstly, after an introductory discourse on the background context and key word definitions, I present a historical overview of the frontier strategies implemented by European states during the last twenty years with the intent to create the grounds of my study. Secondly, I examine the link between these measures and the high number of migrant casualties in the Mediterranean in order to test the assumption whereby border control policies do not actually deter migrants from migrating because they create new and more hazardous routes that ultimately lead to more deaths at sea. Thirdly, I discuss major counterarguments to, and critics at, the aforementioned hypothesis. These include the idea that numerous other variables influence immigration in the Mediterranean, the theory whereby collateral damage of EU border regulations is allowed as long as the regulations combat smugglers’ networks and irregular migration, and the view that considers humanitarianism a pull factor for undocumented migrants.