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The burden of infertility : infertility care and the scope of the human right to health
Creators: name: Campo, Charlotte
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: infertility
right to health

description: Second semester University: New University of Lisbon
description: The objective of this thesis is to discuss whether infertility can be considered as a serious health need and what the subsequent implications might be on the protection one’s human right to health. Through an in-depth examination on what entails infertility and on the exact position of infertility care within the framework of the human right to health, an answer will be formulated on the question to what extent national health care policies should endeavour to provide infertility care under the scope of the human right to health. After a theoretic investigation on the link between infertility and the right to health in the international and European human rights discourse, the generated outcome will be tested against the practical cases of Belgium and Portugal. This research advocates for a broad understanding of the human right to health, encompassing a revitalised right to reproductive health that includes a certain right to infertility care. Suggestions are made on the desired regulation of infertility care.
Does the EU lack legitimacy in promoting human rights abroad? : a critical analysis of the EUs human rights policies
Creators: name: Mechri, Erika Amanda
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: human rights
European Union

description: Second semester University: University of Nottingham
description: While the European Union tirelessly promotes the indivisibility and universalism of the human rights as well as the establishment of strict scrutiny of its economic third country-partners, the human rights discourse changes as it come closer to question and scrutinise its own Member States. Although major steps towards better protection of human rights and commitment to respect for fundamental rights have been taken, inter alia by the Court of justice’s very active case-law and by the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, double standard remains. The concrete outcome of new Article 6 of the TEU that gives to the Charter of Fundamental Rights a legal status, binding the Union’s Institutions and Member States when implementing EU law; and provides an obligation for the Union to accede the ECHR, remain unclear. Member States are still reluctant in being subjected to internal scrutiny. However, the analysis the EU Institutions’ response to the Hungarian case and the use that they made of new sanction procedure provided by Article 7 TEU and of the EU Charter, as well as the analysis of the recent case-law, notably the NS case1, of the ECJ ajar a door of more precisions and an outline answer to the subsisting doubts. 1 N. S. and M. E. Joined Cases C-411/10 and C-493/10, 2011, OJ C 274/34.
Electronic Medical Record Implementation: The Effect On Physician Efficiency
Creators: name: Flinn, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This paper uses patient-level pooled cross sectional data from the National Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey (NAMCS) to study the impact on the adoption IT systems in the health industry
(namely stand alone offices) in the form of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. It also
examines what physician characteristics make adoption more probable. When looking at patient
visits from the years 2005-2010, an OLS model shows that full EMR systems increase patient
visit time by about 3%, however there is reason to believe that these results are biased due to
endogeneity in the EMR variable. Because EMR systems are not randomly assigned to physician
offices, there is likely a link between the type of patients a physician serves, and that physician’s
choice to adopt EMR systems. After using instrumental variables and a two stage least squares
regression, I am able to show that the adoption of EMR systems decreases patient visit time by
24.2%. The IV and 2SLS show that endogeneity exists within the EMR variable, and in fact
EMR systems are not to blame for the increase in patient visit time that appears to occur from
EMR adoption.
Outsourcing responsibility: a case study of Australias practice of outsourcing immigration detention centres
Creators: name: Blanco Smith, Marco
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: immigration
Australia
privatisation

description: Second semester University: University of Southern Denmark.
description: Privatisation processes, including outsourcing arrangements are altering the very conception of governance. The drive to privatise is advocated as streamlining governance, by making it more cost efficient, creating more choice and encouraging competition. However, other voices warn that privatisation and outsourcing leads to a lack of transparency and accountability which ultimately fosters environments conducive to violating human rights. Since the inception of private actors gaining control of Immigration Detention Centres in Australia, there has been consistent calls for the State to retake control and management. In 2009 the Australian government claimed that it was not in a position to return Immigration Detention Centres to State control, due to the inability of the public sector to provide detention services. Also it was claimed that the State would be to exposured to compensation claims by private actors who had already commenced tendering to provide immigration services. This raises concerning questions about the government's capacity to protect asylum seekers and whether the State has become overly reliant on the private sector to provide governmental functions. This thesis focuses on outsourcing arrangements regarding Immigration Detention Centres involving Australia, within Australian and extraterritorially and seeks establish as to whether the State can be attributed responsibility for the actions of private actors and International Organisations.
Non-equilibrium Lifshitz theory as a steady state of a full dynamical quantum system
Creators: name: Lombardo, Fernando C.
name: Mazzitelli, Francisco D.
name: Lopez, Adrian E. Rubio
name: Turiaci, Gustavo J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we analyze the validity of Lifshitz's theory for the case of non-equilibrium scenarios from a full quantum dynamical approach. We show that Lifshitz's framework for the study of the Casimir pressure is the result of considering the long-time regime (or steady state) of a well-defined fully quantized problem, subjected to initial conditions for the electromagnetic field interacting with real materials. For this, we implement the closed time path formalism developed in previous works to study the case of two half spaces (modeled as composite environments, consisting in quantum degrees of freedom plus thermal baths) interacting with the electromagnetic field. Starting from initial uncorrelated free subsystems, we solve the full time evolution, obtaining general expressions for the different contributions to the pressure that take part on the transient stage. Using the analytic properties of the retarded Green functions, we obtain the long-time limit of these contributions to the total Casimir pressure. We show that, in the steady state, only the baths' contribute, in agreement with the results of previous works, where this was assumed without justification. We also study in detail the physics of the initial conditions' contribution and the concept of modified vacuum modes, giving insights about in which situations one would expect a non vanishing contribution at the steady state of a non-equilibrium scenario. This would be the case when considering finite width slabs instead of half-spaces.
Megalastrum marginatum M. Kessler & A. R. Sm., 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
Megalastrum
Megalastrum marginatum

description: Megalastrum marginatum M.Kessler & A.R.Sm., Amer. Fern J. 96(1): 40, f. 2 D–F. 2006.
 Range: —Endemic to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Locally common; terrestrial in humid forests and along streams; 400–1900 m.
 Notes: —Differs from co-occurring and closely related M. rupicola by basally 3-pinnate blades (vs. 2-pinnate-pinnatifid), long straight hairs (0.5–1.7 mm) on costae, costules, and veins on both sides of the blades. The two species are similar in laminar cutting and have similar rachis and costal scales (i.e., lanceolate and shiny brown). Eberhardt 402 (UC), determined as an atypical member of this species by Moran et al. (2014a), seems more likely to us to be a hybrid; it has shorter and sparser hairs than M. marginatum, unusually densely scaly costae and costules abaxially, and seemingly malformed sporangia and spores. Megalastrum longipilosum A.Rojas, from Costa Rica and Panama, was cited from Bolivia by Moran & Prado (2010); this specimen was later redetermined as M. marginatum (Moran et al. 2014a).
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
Men, Mansions, and Money: Inside the Gendered and Bounded Culture and Legacy of Princeton University's Eating Clubs
Creators: name: Goudreault, Corinne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Princeton University is unique in many ways, not the least of which is its eating club system. As an outlet for meals, studying, socializing and events for their Junior and Senior members and ubiquitous social life for all years of students, these clubs play many roles and affect many aspects of students’ lives. In this project, I look through the broad lenses of gender and exclusionary spaces to explore students’ experiences in the clubs. I combine my own involvement in participant-observation field research with personal interviews and a general survey to collect rich qualitative data about individuals as well as quantitative information. My scope is small with the intention of providing a deep look into this world rather than providing broad statistical data. The clubs provide an experience that despite its singularity reveals potential insights about the changing landscape of gender, institutionalization, stratification, and social interactions in contemporary America.
After describing the purpose and history of the clubs, I spend a large portion of this thesis describing in detail the actual happenings of the clubs, from day to day activities to exceptional formal events. This rich description is then followed by a broader discussion of the role of gender, exclusionary policies, and formal spatial controls. My findings revolve around the prevailing attitudes of the Princeton undergraduate population about these clubs as revealed in and by individual experiences and discussions.
A chiral route to spontaneous entanglement generation
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Ballestero, Carlos
name: Gonzalez-Tudela, Alejandro
name: Garcia-vidal, Francisco J.
name: Moreno, Esteban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of spontaneous entanglement between two qubits chirally coupled to a waveguide. The maximum achievable concurrence is demonstrated to increase by a factor of $4/e \sim 1.5$ as compared to the non-chiral coupling situation. The proposed entanglement scheme is shown to be robust against variation of the qubit properties such as detuning and separation, which are critical in the non-chiral case. This result relaxes the restrictive requirements of the non-chiral situation, paving the way towards a realistic implementation. Our results demonstrate the potential of chiral waveguides for quantum entanglement protocols.
description: 5 pages + 1 page supplemental, 4 figures
Megalastrum nanum R. C. Moran, J. Prado & Sundue, 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
Megalastrum
Megalastrum nanum

description: Megalastrum nanum R.C.Moran, J.Prado & Sundue, Amer. Fern J. 104(3): 173, figs. 2E, 8A, 32B.
 Range: — Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (SC, TA).
 Ecology: —Known from only five collections from the three Andean countries; terrestrial in evergreen forests; 1700–2100 m.
 Notes: —This is one of the smaller, decompound species in the genus, with leaves to 1 m long, and less than 75 cm long in the four specimens seen; blades are <50 cm long. The costal scales are darkened at the tips and prominantly toothed along the margins, along with numerous long septate hairs to 2 mm on the costae, costules, and veins abaxially; this is much the same as the indument in M. fugaceum. One wonders whether M. nanum might not be a precociously fertile version of M. fugaceum ? All four collections seen of M. nanum were first determined as M. pulverulentum, another very close relative (see under M. ciliatum and M. fugaceum for further comments).
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
Peasant reserve zones as a frame for the guarantee of collective rights of peasant collectivities in Colombia. : the case of Cimitarra River Valley
Creators: name: Vargas Perdomo, Sonia Cristina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Colombia
peasants
rural areas
agriculture
collective identity
peoples rights
social justice

description: Second semester University: University of Deusto, Bilbao
description: Peasants and their rights have been denied throughout the history. In Colombian legal order, there is a lack of the concept, and there is no recognition of their collective nature or their attachment to the lands and territories. Besides, Colombia has a history of violence and inequality that have affected mainly the rural areas. Peasants have suffered the consequences of the armed conflict, the historical marginalization, and the concentration of the land. In response, the communities have created forms of resistance and organization. After massive mobilizations, the Law 160 of 1994 was issued. This provision established the legal form of Peasant Reserve Zones (PRZ) in Colombia as a geographical area with the goals of stabilization of the peasant economy, the improvement of the causes of social conflicts and the creation of conditions to the achievement of peace and social justice. Accordingly, this thesis aims to examine the PRZ as a framework for the guarantee of collective rights of peasant collectivities, specifically the case of Cimitarra River Valley. For this purpose, the document contains the theoretical discussion about collective rights, the definition of the concept of collectivity and peasant communities and the review of the collective rights recognized in the International and Colombian Law. This led to the analysis of the case as a legal and social form that could frame the guarantee of rights of peasant collectivities.
Minority education in Estonia : practical implementation of human rights standards: an effective policy to integrate the Russian minority?
Creators: name: Zaiane, Linda
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: education
integration
minority groups
Estonia

description: Second semester University: Tartu University
description: This thesis assesses Estonian educational law and policy with regard to their compliance with international legal standards concerning the right to education of minorities and their positive and negative impact on the integration of the Russian minority in Estonia. The research questions are: Is the Estonian policy compatible with international human rights law and standards? Is it an effective policy in terms of integration of the Russian minority? This thesis focuses on a legal approach to the topic, incorporating the relevant international and national legislation regarding the right to education. As the implementation of legislation is linked to policy strategies and to their impact on peoples‟ lives, I will also analyse sociopolitical aspects. The literature thus includes these different fields: history, international law and sociology/political science often based on surveys. Opinions of international monitoring bodies and Estonian State Reports to these bodies, articles of Estonian newspapers and information requested from the Ministry of Education or taken from its website have been used. The research results are summarized in three chapters. Chapter 1 gives the historic background of current inter-ethnic relations and of educational legislation in Estonia. Chapter 2 explains the relevant international legal standards for minority rights and the right to education. Chapter 3 examines if the national education system complies with international law and standards? In a second step policy questions relevant for integration are discussed including the policy documents on integration, segregation and multiculturalism. The general conclusions show that Estonia is complying with its international legal obligations. However, these are rather vague and leave a wide margin of appreciation to states. In terms of educational realities Estonian authorities could improve aspects regarding the curricula and take steps towards the inclusion of all people affected by educational policies.
Replication and Extension of McPhetres & Zuckerman (2017). Religious People Endorse Different Standards of Evidence When Evaluating Religious Versus Scientific Claims
Creators: name: Lobato, Emilio
name: Holbrook, Colin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This project reflects a replication and extension of the research reported in McPhetres & Zuckerman (2017). In addition to attempting to replicate their main finding that religious individuals endorse a lower standard of evidence for believing a religious claim relative to a scientific claim, we are extending this work to investigate whether religious and non-religious individuals treat negative or contradictory evidence of scientific and religious claims differently.
A numerical approach for the direct computation of flows including fluid-solid interaction: modeling contact angle, film rupture, and dewetting
Creators: name: Mahady, K.
name: Afkhami, S.
name: Kondic, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present a computationally efficient method for including fluid-solid interactions into direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations. This method is found to be as powerful as our earlier formulation [J. Comp. Phys., vol. 249: 243 (2015)], while outperforming the earlier method in terms of computational efficiency. The performance and efficacy of the presented method are demonstrated by computing contact angles of droplets at equilibrium. Furthermore, we study the instability of films due to destabilizing fluid-solid interactions, and discuss the influence of contact angle and inertial effects on film breakup. In particular, direct simulation results show an increase in the final characteristic length scales when compared to the predictions of a linear stability analysis, suggesting significant influence of nonlinear effects. Our results also show that emerging length scales differ, depending on a number of physical dimensions considered.
description: Submitted to: Physics of Fluids
Production of Renewable Fuels by the Photocatalytic Reduction Production of Renewable Fuels by the Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 using Magnesium Doped Natural Ilmenite
Creators: name: Kumar, Pawan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 340101
subject: Analytical spectrometry
classificationCode: 340103
subject: Electroanalytical chemistry
classificationCode: 340104
subject: Flow analysis
classificationCode: 340107
subject: Quality assurance, chemometrics, traceability and metrological chemistry

description: The photo-reductive performance of natural ilmenite was boosted and the production of renewable fuels from the reduction of CO2 was enhanced by doping the natural mineral with magnesium. The doping was achieved by high energy ball milling in the presence of MgO and Mg(NO3)2. The photo-reduction of CO2 in aqueous solution led to the evolution of H2, CH4, C2H4, and C2H6, and the insertion of Mg in the structure of ilmenite enabled increases of up to 1245% in the fuel production yield, reaching total production of 210.9 µmol h-1 gcat-1. Displacements of the conduction band to more negative potentials were evidenced for the samples doped with magnesium. Indirect effects such as increases in the valence band maximum, and the introduction of intermediate energy levels were also evidenced through the measurement of the crystallite size and the determination of the band structure of the materials. Mott-Schottky analyses of the samples showed the n-type nature of the semiconductor materials and enabled the estimation of the density of charge carriers, which strongly influenced the photocatalytic performance. The strong potential of the application of natural ilmenite in gas phase artificial photosynthesis was proved by the evaluation of CO2 reduction in gas conditions, which allowed the enhancement in the selectivity and significantly increased the production of CH4 as compared to aqueous solution, reaching an important yield of CH4 of 16.1 µmol h-1 gcat-1.
Territorial peace: development and governance in the Colombian post-conflict scenario : seed of hope from the Cauca region
Creators: name: Meléndez, Catalina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: peace
transitional justice
Colombia
Cauca
participation
peace processes
government
land reform
civil society

description: Second semester University: University of Deusto, Bilbao
description: The Concept of Territorial Peace, introduced by the High Commissioner of Peace, Sergio Jaramillo, during the peace talks between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -FARC- has boosted the discussion on peacebuilding in the country. First, it has confirmed the necessity of assuming a differentiated approach for the implementation of policies for peace, according to the spatial, temporal, geographical, economical, political and cultural heterogeneity of the territories. Second, it has emphasized that peace goes beyond than stopping the war and that it is urgent to solve the structural causes of it, rooted in the agrarian question, inequality, and deprivation of fundamental rights. Third, it has highlighted the need for recognizing local initiatives to build a new alliance between the State and the communities through the active participation and construction of peace from below. The development of this concept during the first days of implementation of the Peace Agreements in one of the most intricate and vulnerable departments of the country, Cauca, showed the complexity of putting those ideas into practice. However, in the midst of the challenges and obstacles, great potential has been identified at the local level, as well as expectations and hopes on its progress. The work carried out by civil society organizations has created alternative institutions that should be the basis to work in a joint proposal for the future. Territorial Peace is thus a window of opportunity for peace, development, and democracy, assuming government and society commitment with what has been agreed and achieved until now. Key Words: Territorial Peace, Transitional Justice, Peacebuilding, Territorial Development, Participation, Governance, Colombia, Cauca.
There are Not Enough: The Banning of Traditional Birth Attendants in Zambia
Creators: name: Fox, Tyler
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: There are currently health policies being passed in countries around the world aiming to ban traditional birth attendants from delivering. The World Health Organization associated TBAs with increasing global maternal mortality ratios – specifically in the global south – due to their lack of knowledge and education surrounding birth complications (Kruske and Barclay 2004:307).One country which banned traditional birth attendants as a response to high maternal mortality ratios was Zambia. According to the World Health Organization, the current maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Zambia is 224 deaths per 100,000 live births (World Health Organization 2015). The ratio has declined significantly since 1990, where the MMR was 577 deaths per 100,000 live births (World Health Organization 2011). These reductions can be contributed, at least in part, to the use of midwives and traditional birth attendants. However, the Zambian Ministry of Health decided to cut all funding for traditional birth attendant training programs and bar the maternal health attendants from delivering mothers at home in 2010. I am interested to see the role TBAs and midwives have played in combatting the maternal mortality ratio in Zambia and how this role has changed since the health policy passed in 2010. I am specifically interested in understanding the traditional birth attendants and midwives’ perspective on their changing roles in society as a result of a reproductive policy change in the country.
Open-Access-Kostenmonitoring: Landesreport von Brandenburg wird Daten aus der Deutschen Bibliotheksstatistik einbeziehen
Creators: name: Falkenburg, Philipp
name: Stadler, Heike
name: Zeunert, Miriam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Access
Open Access Monitoring
Deutsche Bibliotheksstatistik
DBS
Open-Access-Transformation

description: Die vorliegende Publikation beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema des Open Access Monitorings in Brandenburg. Durch die Open-Access-Strategie des Landes Brandenburg aus dem Jahr 2019 bekamen die Hochschulbibliotheken den Auftrag, ihre Open-Access-Aktivitäten auf Publikationsebene zu monitoren. Die Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg koordiniert zusammen mit der AG Open Access Monitoring (Brandenburg) die Erarbeitung und Durchführung eins landesweites Open Access Monitoring. Außerdem wird die Möglichkeit der Datenauswertung der Deutschen Bibliotheksstatistik (DBS) zum Zweck der Anreicherung des Open Access Monitorings erläutert und eine Auswertung des Datenfeldes 151.1 auf nationaler Ebene angestellt. Neben dem Arbeitsbericht werden die zugrundeliegenden Daten als .xlsx-Datei veröffentlicht.
description: Gefördert mit Mitteln des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg.
Megalastrum rupicola M. Kessler & A. R. Sm., 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
Megalastrum
Megalastrum rupicola

description: Megalastrum rupicola M.Kessler & A.R.Sm., Amer. Fern J. 96(1): 41, f. 6. 2006.
 Range: — Peru and Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Locally common; terrestrial in humid forests and ravines; 1000–2000 m.
 Notes: —Differs from M. subincisum by paler, more translucent, broader costal and costular scales (0.2–4.5 × 0.1– 0.8 mm vs. 0.1–3 × 0.05–0.3 mm). Also tends to be smaller and to have blunter ultimate segments than M. subincisum. The proximal pinnae of M. rupicola typically are slightly falcate.
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 only way out is in": los efectos de salir del enclave etnico hispano en los protagonistas afrolatinas de Junot Diaz, Esmeralda Santiago, Piri Thomas y Loida Maritza Perez
Creators: name: Efird, Lea N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Esta investigación estudia el papel y la complejidad del llamado enclave étnico hispano en los Estados Unidos, específicamente aquel en el que viven comunidades afrolatinas de origen dominicano y puertorriqueño, y se restringe a un estudio en relación con la idea de raza. El estudio se centra en el análisis de textos literarios de cuatro autores: Junot Díaz (1968-), Piri Thomas (1928-2011), Esmeralda Santiago (1948-), y Loida Maritza Pérez (1963-). Los protagonistas en estos libros experimentan crisis de identidad con respecto a su raza y etnicidad como resultado de las dinámicas del enclave en que desarrollan sus vidas. El colorismo1 y la negación de la herencia de origen afro dentro de los enclaves étnicos hispanos influye sobre los personajes en términos de su identidad racial. Dado que los personajes de las obras estudiadas pasan por la experiencia de vivir fuera del enclave, se observará la manera en que desarrollan una identidad dual, que a un mismo tiempo negocia sus raíces afro y su latinidad, y que les empuja a entender qué significa ser dominicano/puertorriqueño y estadounidense. Sin embargo, es imposible evaluar las consecuencias de esta experiencia por fuera del enclave sin reconocer que semejante identidad dual significa abandonar la facilidad derivada de existir sin cuestionar la vida dentro del enclave. Vivir afuera del enclave, o no estar de acuerdo con sus normas sociales, también crea una vida de soledad y aislamiento para aquellos que tienen esta cualidad dual. El título de mi tesis es una cita de The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao en que Lola, una protagonista, dice que no se puede salir del enclave completamente, pero que tengas que regresar para escaparse de la ideología del enclave. Esta paradoja entre salir y regresar, afro y latino, el mundo exterior y el enclave, domina a las vidas de estos personajes. Como consecuencia de esta complejidad del papel del enclave en el bienestar social, emocional, y racial de los personajes de estos autores, mi objetivo es analizar su impacto en la identidad, particularmente la identidad racial, de los personajes, en sus aspectos tanto positivos como negativos.
Breakdown of the Migdal approximation at Lifshitz transitions with giant zero-point motion in H3S superconductor
Creators: name: Jarlborg, Thomas
name: Bianconi, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While 203 K high temperature superconductivity in H3S has been interpreted by BCS theory in the dirty limit here we focus on the effects of hydrogen zero-point-motion and the multiband electronic structure relevant for multigap superconductivity near Lifshitz transitions. We describe how the topology of the Fermi surfaces evolves with pressure giving different Lifshitz-transitions. A neck-disrupting Lifshitz-transition (type 2) occurs where the van Hove singularity, vHs, crosses the chemical potential at 210 GPa and new small 2D Fermi surface portions appear with slow Fermi velocity where the Migdal-approximation becomes questionable. We show that the neglected hydrogen zero-point motion ZPM, plays a key role at Lifshitz transitions. It induces an energy shift of about 600 meV of the vHs. The other Lifshitz-transition (of type 1) for the appearing of a new Fermi surface occurs at 130 GPa where new Fermi surfaces appear at the Gamma point of the Brillouin zone here the Migdal-approximation breaks down and the zero-point-motion induces large fluctuations. The maximum Tc=203K occurs at 160 GPa where Ef/w0=1 in the small Fermi surface pocket at Gamma point. A Feshbach-like resonance between a possible BEC-BCS condensate at Gamma and the BCS condensate in different k-space spots is proposed.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
The demands of professional rugby league match-play
Creators: name: Glassbrook, Daniel
name: Doyle, Tim
name: Alderson, Jacqueline
name: Fuller, Joel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: GPS
subject: Meta-analysis
subject: Movement
subject: Professional
subject: Rugby League
subject: Systematic

description: This review characterizes the movement demands of professional rugby league match-play.
Generating single photons at GHz modulation-speed using electrically controlled quantum dot microlenses
Creators: name: Schlehahn, A.
name: Schmidt, R.
name: Hopfmann, C.
name: Schulze, J. -H.
name: Strittmatter, A.
name: Heindel, T.
name: Gantz, L.
name: Schmidgall, E. R.
name: Gershoni, D.
name: Reitzenstein, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the generation of single-photon pulse trains at a repetition rate of up to 1 GHz. We achieve this high speed by modulating the external voltage applied on an electrically contacted quantum dot microlens, which is optically excited by a continuous-wave laser. By modulating the photoluminescence of the quantum dot microlens using a square-wave voltage, single-photon emission is triggered with a response time as short as 270 ps being 6.5 times faster than the radiative lifetime of 1.75 ns. This large reduction in the characteristic emission time is enabled by a rapid capacitive gating of emission from the quantum dot placed in the intrinsic region of a p-i-n-junction biased below the onset of electroluminescence. Here, the rising edge of the applied voltage pulses triggers the emission of single photons from the optically excited quantum dot. The non-classical nature of the photon pulse train generated at GHz-speed is proven by intensity autocorrelation measurements. Our results combine optical excitation with fast electrical gating and thus show promise for the generation of indistinguishable single photons at high rates, exceeding the limitations set by the intrinsic radiative lifetime.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Youth cultures and change in Tunisia : towards understanding youth networks dynamics in the context of social movement and subcultural theories
Creators: name: Tadros, Nadia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: youth
Tunisia
social movement
political participation
social networks

description: Second semester University: University of Carthage
description: The thesis questions the relationship between Tunisian youth values and practices and their impact on the process of social and political change, the work will show the significance of combing subcultural theory and the social movement theory to analyze the different network dynamics that youth groups engage in Tunisia as a mediator between their values and practices. Furthermore, the thesis will compare the different types of youth networks of subcultures and mainstream cultures both institutionalized and noninstitutionalized. The Hypothesis of the thesis is that youth who belong to institutionalized subcultures have more dynamics targeted at achieving social and political change by opposing to the values of society and introducing new meanings and practices in the Tunisian context than youth who belong to institutionalized mainstream cultures. In order to test this problematic, a qualitative research method was applied to five Tunisian youths. The results were able to verify the hypothesis with three cases out of the five tested cases.
Development of high-performance iron-based superconducting wires and tapes
Creators: name: Ma, Yanwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional powder-in-tube (PIT) method has been the most effective technique for fabricating iron-based superconducting wires and tapes. Tremendous advances have been made during the last few years, especially for 122 family pnictide tapes. Here we review some of the most recent and significant developments in making high-performance iron-based tapes by the ex-situ PIT process, paying particular attention to several fabrication techniques to realize high-field Jc performance in terms of increase of core density and improvement of texture. At 4.2 K, the practical level transport Jc up to 0.12 MA/cm2 in 10 T and 0.1 MA/cm2 in 14 T have been achieved in the K-doped 122/Ag tapes. As for multifilamentary 122 iron-based wires and tapes, the highest Jc values reached so far are 61 kA/cm2 and 35 kA /cm2 at 4.2 K and 10 T, respectively for 7- and 19-core Sr-122 tapes. Recently, high Jc Cu-cladded and stainless steel/Ag double-sheathed 122 tapes have also been produced in order to improve either mechanical properties or thermal stability. More importantly, the scalable rolling process has been used for the first time to demonstrate high Jc values in 122 conductor tapes of 11 m in length.
description: 32 pages, 18 figures. Review Article
Uncovering Culture and Identity in Refugee Camps
Creators: name: Dalal, Ayham
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 720 Architektur
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: refugee camp
subject: cultural diversity
subject: Flüchtlingslager
subject: kulturelle Vielfalt

description: Refugee camps, especially in their emergency phases, are places where everything seems to be similar, repetitive, and modular. This impression is not only due to the unified shelter unit that is usually distributed by UNHCR1 (traditionally a tent, and recently caravans, prefabs, and developed T-Shelters), but is also due to the camps’ ordered layout and hierarchical plan.
The Wandering Collection: The India Museum and Dialogues on Empire
Creators: name: Leonard, Kayla
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Prince Albert’s positive response to the Great Exhibition of 1851 spawned several new
museums in the South Kensington area, including the India Office’s India Museum. Scholars for
the past century and a half have extensively studied all of these museums. Many of the museums
that opened in the wake of this event were museums that revolved around the concept of
education as discussed in Bruce Robertson’s 2004 article “The South Kensington Museum in
Context: An Alternative History.” Robertson’s article is one of many that focuses on the
creation of a museum and the roles that the director and staff played in that creation. Like many
other historians, Robertson looks at a museum, in this case the South Kensington Museum,
without looking at the wider context in which it was founded. Many of these histories do not
include empire as a factor in the creation and day-to-day operations of these institutions. Those
scholarly explorations which do involve empire such as the Smithsonian’s Exhibiting Cultures:
The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display tend to focus more on post-colonial representations
of other cultures, such as the 1986 exhibition of Indian Art at the Grand Palais in Paris. In
contrast, this paper examines the cultural dialogues regarding empire that took place between the
educated British public and the Government through the collections of the India Museum. By
tracing the collections of the India Museum between 1869 and 1883, it is evident that the British
Government and the British people used cultural centers such as the former India Museum as a
structure through which the perception of empire could be discussed, changed, and molded to fit
changing conceptions of British national identity. In many ways, during this period British
perception of empire changed from one sustained by trade to one sustained by culture.
By utilizing the internal documents found in museum archives in London, this thesis is
able the follow the internal, bureaucratic debates that occurred within this museum and how
those debates correlated with larger events. This paper is divided into three chapters. The first
chapter examines the trade background and focus of the India Museum as it came under the
purview of the India Office, as well as how some in the British public received that background
and focus. The second chapter explores how changes were made to the India Museum during the
mid-1870s in response to public criticisms, including a move from the India Office building to a
new home in South Kensington. The final chapter traces the India Museum’s collections through
their dispersal to the South Kensington Museum and the ways in which that dispersal reflected
shifting perceptions of empire from a solely financial institution to one with a variety of
functions.
Mickelia bernoullii R. C. Moran, Labiak & Sundue, 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
Mickelia
Mickelia bernoullii

description: Mickelia bernoullii (Kuhn ex Christ) R.C.Moran, Labiak & Sundue, Brittonia 62(4): 342. 2010.
 Range: —Southern Mexico to Colombia and Ecuador, Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Rare; hemiepiphytic in humid forests; to 1500 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
Homeowner perceptions of North Carolina sea level rise policy
Creators: name: Brodmerkel, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The North Carolina coastline faces various threats such as erosion, increasing pressure from booming coastal populations, and increasing frequency of major storm events. In 2012, the state addressed the threat of sea-level rise (SLR) on development by enacting NC House Bill 819: “An Act to Study and Modify Certain Coastal Management Policies” (HB819). HB819 did not allow for any guidelines to define a rate of SLR for regulatory purposes and mandated that the Coastal Resource Commission Science Panel update the SLR report in the next 5 years, but could only use historical models to determine future rates of SLR for up to 30 years. NC provides a fascinating case study in SLR policy, because the state previously passed progressive policies for oceanfront erosion control, but halted any regulatory planning for sea level rise until July 1, 2016 with HB819. This thesis sought to address if NC waterfront homeowners and statewide residents were aware of HB819, their opinions of HB819, and what factors were most likely to predict awareness and acceptance of HB819. Surveys were sent out via Qualtrics to waterfront homeowners and statewide residents in NC in summer 2016. The results show that: 1) a greater awareness and stronger opinions of HB819 were reported by the waterfront group; 2) political party primarily impacted awareness of HB819; and, 3) those who believe they will be harmed by SLR are most opposed to HB819. These findings demonstrated that SLR is both a geographic and politicized issue with varying implications for legislators, state-wide residents, and waterfront residents. In the future, NC policy-makers should consider the concerns of NC residents when creating new SLR policy, with a particular focus on coastal residents who will be most harmed.
UNSCR 1325 and OSCE police missions: is gender really mainstreamed?
Creators: name: Gomes, Mariana : Groba
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: conflict resolution
peace agreements
women

description: Second semester University: University of Hamburg.
description: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 adopted by the Security Council in 2000 is seen both as an instrumental tool and a benchmark, as it was the first time that the Security Council acknowledged the disproportionate impact of conflict on women and the importance of their role in all peace related aspects ranging from peace negotiations, conflict resolution to post-conflict reconstruction. It called on United Nations Members States to mainstream a gender perspective in peace operations, to train peacekeepers in gender and human rights and to reflect on the impact peacebuilding can have on women and girls in particular. It also appealed to Member States to increase the recruitment of women in police forces, a field where women are still widely underrepresented. The Organisation for Co-operation and Security in Europe is the world largest regional security organisation and has been particularly responsive to UNSCR 1325 and in including the gender mandate the Resolution defends. The OSCE has today an important array of field police missions with several police advising services which include capacity building activities for police officers, recruitment of police officers and training in policing related matters as well as gender issues. It also advocates that gender mainstream lies at the heart of its police missions. It is this gender dimension that this research will strive to assess.
Human rights cities for all: local integration of asylum seekers and refugees. Case study of Graz
Creators: name: Azkorra Camargo, Amaia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: integration
asylum seekers
cities and towns
human rights
urban policy
local government
Graz
refugees

description: Second semester University: University of Graz
description: Asylum seekers and refugees are arriving at cities. This thesis explores the relevance of human rights at the local level with a special focus on the process of integrating asylum seekers and refugees. It presents some instruments and mechanisms that cities could make use of to protect, respect, fulfil and promote human rights and to transform global human rights into local human rights. A human rights city is a model of city where human rights-based policies are implemented in order to ensure the rights of all its inhabitants. The relevance of this thesis lies in its attempt to outline the added value of human rights cities towards local integration of asylum seekers and refugees. The research provides a comprehensive analysis of how Graz, a human rights city since 2001, is trying to effectively integrate asylum seekers and refugees while following a human rights-based approach. The findings reveal that human rights cities have the power to positively impact asylum seekers’ and refugees’ human rights, derived from their institutional infrastructure and resilience in comparison to non-human rights cities. Nonetheless, a strong political will, a multi-level governance, financial resources and coordination between relevant stakeholders is needed. Keywords: Human rights at the local level; Human rights cities; Local integration; Asylum seekers; Refugees; Graz.