cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Safeguarding education beyond borders
Creators: name: Balanescu, Diana Elena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: education
Moldova
international obligations
right to education

description: Second semester University: Uppsala University.
description: The human right to education has been commonly regarded as a domestic matter of states. In this context, the present thesis proposes to focus on the question whether states have the obligation to realise the right to education beyond their territorial borders. More precisely, it explores whether, and if so, under which conditions, states can be held accountable for violations and denials of the right to education beyond their borders under the current international human rights law. To this aim the international and regional legal framework protecting the right to education are scrutinized with focus on the substance of the right, the corresponding states’ obligations and the available remedies to rights – holders. Also, the extraterritorial obligations of states to respect, to protect and to fulfil the right to education are assessed in the light of the clarifications brought by the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and by academics’ interpretations. For a better illustration, a case – study is conducted exploring the obligations of states and the extent of their responsibility in realising the right to education in Transdniestria. The thesis’ findings indicate that states’ obligations to respect and to protect the right to education extraterritorially are clearer, better defined and can be claimed against the duty – bearers in case of violations. However, it cannot be concluded that the extraterritorial obligation to fulfil the right to education entails a legally binding obligation for states to provide the right to education in foreign territories. Hence, it is the task of the courts and human rights treaty bodies to clearly articulate in individual cases the scope and legal nature of extraterritorial obligations of states in relation to the right to education.
Investigating a Framework for Successful Co-teaching to Support Inclusion in an Elementary School Setting
Creators: name: Russell, Danielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: It is estimated that approximately one in ten children in the United States is exceptional. Although public schools within the United States are legally mandated to provide a free and appropriate education to all students, the approaches for providing this appropriate education to individuals with exceptionalities vary greatly. Research has supported that inclusive educational practices are beneficial for students (both with and without disabilities), teachers, as well as communities. Furthermore, research has supported the idea that co-teaching methods of inclusion could provide unique benefits for students and teachers alike. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived benefits and drawbacks of co-teaching from the perspective of both general educators and special educators with co-teaching experience. An additional goal was to determine what elements the participants’ perceived were most vital for successful implementation of co-teaching practices. The intended result of this study is to provide a framework for successful co-teaching. After surveying and interviewing six teachers with experience with co-teaching, the results indicated that most participants felt that co-teaching was beneficial for students and teachers alike, when implemented successfully. That being said, most participants agreed that co-teaching is a very complex model of service delivery, and several variables, such as teaching styles and philosophies, time, and administration, must work together in order to this practice to be successful.  Given this information, the researcher created a framework for successful co-teaching methods of inclusion that discusses some of the most vital elements involved in the practice. Implications for the field of education and the limitations of this research were also addressed.
Checkmate, Mr Dictator : the road to challenging impunity: from contesting amnesties to assest recovery
Creators: name: Klosinska, Aleksandra Maria
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: dictatorship
impunity

description: Second semester University: University of Coimbra
description: For centuries, the impunity of the sovereign has been one of the most evident features of the international political architecture. The sole fact that we refer to this phenomenon as ‘culture of impunity’ indicates how deeply has it been ingrained in our societies. However, following the atrocities of the Second World War and the post-war growing concern with human rights, this paradigm started to change, especially during the last two decades. Gradually, impunity started being stigmatized. Twenty years ago, only few utopian idealists could imagine that dictators such as Charles Taylor could be held accountable for their crimes. Although impunity is usually discussed within its legal context, this thesis sheds a new light on the subject, arguing that dictatorship can be eliminated only if a mixture of startegies is applied. Using an analogy to the chess game where the one that attacks his opponent from different sides is the winner, this paper demonstartes that diffrent aspects of world’s despots impunity (such as legal, economic, political) need to be comprehensively tackled in order to achieve the ultimate goal of toppling the regime.
Life As Technology: The Rise of Informational Biology and Genetics in Literature from 1950-2006
Creators: name: Thompson, Morgan Greer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Fictional representations of human cloning, in light of the redefinition of scientific
and socio-cultural structures prompted by cloning technology, then become significant in
defining the ramifications of reproductive technology. In Chapter One of this project, I
analyze how William March’s 1954 novel The Bad Seed suggests a biodeterminist theory
of human behavior that runs counter to the psychoanalytic model popular at that time. I
argue that Rhoda Penmark and her mother Christine Penmark represent, as a pair, both
the “age of anxiety and violence” (March 29) but also represent an early version of what
Kaushik Sunder Rajan defines as biocapital. The novel, in its take on heredity and
determinism, redefines the role of environment, responsibility, and the natural while also
emphasizing the relationships between bio-technology, reproduction, and capital.
In Chapter Two, I analyze the representation of reproduction and technology in
Octavia Butler’s 1987 novel Dawn. I argue that the figure of the ooloi, the third sex the
alien Oankali species capable of genetic engineering, redefines the biological as
technological, and the relationship between the Oankali and the humans is representative
of the relationship between humans and IVF at the novel’s publication. I suggest that
Butler uses these figures to define the concerns that these developments might be a new
avenue for the perpetuation and reinforcement of inequality and the abuse of human life.
They are also representative of the instrumentalization and informationalization of the
human body that results from the Human Genome Project, which began shortly after the
novel’s publication.
In Chapter Three, I analyze Kazuo Ishiguro’s employment of human cloning in
Never Let Me Go. I suggest that the cloned children are symbolic of the main anxieties of
cloning as the instrumentalization of human life, the conversion of the body into a subject
of consumption, and the creation of a new system of valuation that prioritizes certain
human bodies over the bodies of others. Ishiguro’s novel depicts an informational system
that complicates the valuation of human life and depicts the attempted mechanization of
the concept of the human soul in ways that suggest the dehumanization that accompanies
the informationalization of the body.
From the work of March to Ishiguro, this project examines the evolution of
regulation and responsibility as technoscientific advancement increasingly redefines these
concepts. Each work represents an attempt to re-stabilize definitions of the natural, the
human, and of responsibility in a system that resists stabilization.
Polystichum mexiae Copel., Univ. Calif. Publ. 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
Polystichum
Polystichum mexiae

description: Polystichum mexiae Copel., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 19: 299, t. 55. 1941.
 Range: — Ecuador, Bolivia (CO, LP, SC); likely also Colombia and Peru.
 Ecology: —Rare; terrestrial in humid forests; 2100–3200 m.
 Notes: —Not mentioned and unsampled in the molecular analysis by McHenry & Barrington (2014).
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
MicroRNAs with a Major Impact: The Role of miR-15b in the Anticancer Effects of Caloric Restriction in a C3-Tag Model of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Dave, Om
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: Obesity is associated with increased risk and poor prognosis of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), a highly aggressive subtype of breast cancer with high rates of metastasis and recurrence. Previous research from our lab showed calorie restriction (CR) has an antitumorigenic effect against TNBC, although mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesize that CR may facilitate this anticancer effect, at least in part, via upregulation of microRNA (miR)-15b and subsequent disruption of IGF-1 system activation. Methods: cBioPortal, TargetScan, miRTarBase, and various TCGA data sets were utilized to conduct in silico analysis of potential genes and target pathways associated with miR-15b expression, especially along the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway.  To mimic caloric restriction in vitro, M6 and M6C cells derived from the C3-Tag series progression cell were treated with several nutrient restricted medias including reduced serum, BMS754807 (inhibitor of IGF1-R), IGF-1, and different combinations of these three conditions. To characterize the impact of caloric restriction on these cells and their potential mechanistic action, qPCR was performed on miRNA and mRNA collected to determine fluctuations in levels of miR-15b and IGF1-R. Results: The qPCR analysis performed in vitro did not yield any statistically significant results demonstrating the impact of caloric restriction on miR-15b or IGF1-R. However, in silico analyses revealed that miR-15b overexpression in human breast tumors was associated with increased expression of genes associated with regulation of breast cancer cell proliferation, while decreased miR-15b was associated with enhanced growth factor signaling and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.Conclusion: In silico studies suggest the anticancer effects of CR in a murine model of TNBC may be mediated, at least in part, through increased miR-15b expression and subsequent targeting of the IGF1 axis regulating downstream genes involved in breast cancer cell proliferation and progression. However, several sources of error could have impacted the in vitro component of this study, indicating that further analyses are necessary to confirm the interaction amongst caloric restriction, miR-15b, and IGF-1 system activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway.
Injection of orbital angular momentum and storage of quantized vortices in polariton superfluids
Creators: name: Boulier, Thomas
name: Cancellieri, Emiliano
name: Sangouard, Nicolas D.
name: Glorieux, Quentin
name: Kavokin, A. V.
name: Whittaker, David M.
name: Giacobino, Elisabeth
name: Bramati, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the experimental investigation and theoretical modeling of a rotating polariton superfluid relying on an innovative method for the injection of angular momentum. This novel, multi-pump injection method uses four coherent lasers arranged in a square, resonantly creating four polariton populations propagating inwards. The control available over the direction of propagation of the superflows allows injecting a controllable non-quantized amount of optical angular momentum. When the density at the center is low enough to neglect polariton-polariton interactions, optical singularities, associated to an interference pattern, are visible in the phase. In the superfluid regime resulting from the strong nonlinear polariton-polariton interaction, the interference pattern disappears and only vortices with the same sign are persisting in the system. Remarkably the number of vortices inside the superfluid region can be controlled by controlling the angular momentum injected by the pumps.
description: 5 pages, 4 colored figures
Effective spin-chain model for strongly interacting one-dimensional atomic gases with an arbitrary spin
Creators: name: Yang, Lijun
name: Cui, Xiaoling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general form of the effective spin-chain model for strongly interacting atomic gases with an arbitrary spin in the one-dimensional(1D) traps. In particular, for high-spin systems the atoms can collide in multiple scattering channels, and we find that the resulted form of spin-chain model generically follows the same structure as that of the interaction potentials. This is a unified form working for any spin, statistics (Bose or Fermi) and confinement potentials. We adopt the spin-chain model to reveal both the ferromagnetic(FM) and anti-ferromagnetic(AFM) magnetic orders for strongly interacting spin-1 bosons in 1D traps. We further show that by adding the spin-orbit coupling, the FM/AFM orders can be gradually destroyed and eventually the ground state exhibits universal spin structure and contacts that are independent of the strength of spin-orbit coupling.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures; more discussions on the spin-chain model and more refs added
Polystichum montevidense Rosenst., Hedwigia
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
Polystichum
Polystichum montevidense

description: Polystichum montevidense (Spreng.) Rosenst., Hedwigia 46: 111. 1906.
 Range: —Andes from Ecuador to Bolivia (CH, CO, LP, SC, TA), southeastern Brazil, Uruguay, northern and central Argentina (Condack et al. 2013).
 Ecology: — Common; in humid to semihumid forests, at forest edges, in scrub, and sometimes in pastures; 2100– 4050 m, 1700–2500 m in southern Bolivia.
 Notes: —This is the most common member of a taxonomically difficult species group in Bolivia; it is a mediumsized to large species distinguished mostly by characters of the petiolar scales. Buds occur on some specimens, but are inconspicuous. Hybrids, suggested by malformed spores, are probably not infrequent, but are difficult to diagnose morphologically due to the similarity of the species. Some specimens from southern Bolivia have large petiolar scales lighter brown than typical, but they do not approach the bright orange scales of P.rufum.
 The taxonomy of this species has recently been clarified by Condack et al. (2013), who found the species (three gatherings in their molecular sampling, one from Bolivia) to be widespread, variable, diploid, and sister to P. albomarginatum + P. solomonii, both occurring in Bolivia. McHenry & Barrington (2014) also included three specimens in their analysis, from Bolivia, Argentina, and Uruguay. Lectotypification of the species was accomplished by Morero et al. (2016), based on a specimen from Tucuman, Argentina.
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
Control of complex networks requires both structure and dynamics
Creators: name: Gates, Alexander J.
name: Rocha, Luis M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The study of network structure has uncovered signatures of the organization of complex systems. However, there is also a need to understand how to control them; for example, identifying strategies to revert a diseased cell to a healthy state, or a mature cell to a pluripotent state. Two recent methodologies suggest that the controllability of complex systems can be predicted solely from the graph of interactions between variables, without considering their dynamics: structural controllability and minimum dominating sets. We demonstrate that such structure-only methods fail to characterize controllability when dynamics are introduced. We study Boolean network ensembles of network motifs as well as three models of biochemical regulation: the segment polarity network in Drosophila melanogaster, the cell cycle of budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and the floral organ arrangement in Arabidopsis thaliana. We demonstrate that structure-only methods both undershoot and overshoot the number and which sets of critical variables best control the dynamics of these models, highlighting the importance of the actual system dynamics in determining control. Our analysis further shows that the logic of automata transition functions, namely how canalizing they are, plays an important role in the extent to which structure predicts dynamics.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Examination of SatS function in the SecA2 export pathway of Mycobacteria
Creators: name: Johnson, Sara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis. Exported proteins interact with the host and contribute to the virulence of M. tuberculosis. Exported proteins are synthesized in the bacterial cytoplasm but are transported to the bacterial cell wall or are fully secreted out of the bacterium via specific export pathways. Examining export pathways augments our understanding of physiology and pathogenesis of mycobacteria. SecA1 is an ATPase, conserved across bacterial species that provides energy for protein export. SecA2 is a secondary but not redundant SecA ATPase in mycobacterial species that exports its own subset of substrates. We identified a protein, SatS, which we hypothesize functions in SecA2-dependent export as an export chaperone. Export chaperones are proteins that stabilize or keep a substrate unfolded in a translocation competent state. SapM is an exported protein via the SecA2 pathway that is dependent on SatS. We hypothesize that SatS is a chaperone due to its similarities to other known export chaperones and that SapM export is decreased in a ΔsatS mutant. To examine the function of SatS we transformed secB, a known Sec export chaperone in Gram-negative bacteria, into a ΔsatS mutant of model organism Mycobacterium smegmatis to determine if it could rescue SapM secretion and support our hypothesis. SapM export was not rescued by expression of a single copy of secB; however, we predict that the overexpression of SapM in a ΔsatS mutant by secB may occur if we introduce a high copy number plasmid that expresses SecB. A positive outcome would strongly support our hypothesis and contribute to our understanding of the SecA2 export pathway in M. tuberculosis.
On the Equilibrium Shape of Erythrocytes
Creators: name: Marchenko, V. I.
name: Podolyak, E. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the model proposed by Canham quantitatively describes the observed biconcave shape of human erythrocytes.
Crossover from a heavy fermion to intermediate valence state in noncentrosymmetric Yb2Ni12(P,As)7
Creators: name: Jiang, W. B.
name: Yang, L.
name: Guo, C. Y.
name: Hu, Z.
name: Lee, J. M.
name: Smidman, M.
name: Wang, Y. F.
name: Shang, T.
name: Cheng, Z. W.
name: Gao, F.
name: Ishii, H.
name: Tsuei, K. D.
name: Liao, Y. F.
name: Lu, X.
name: Tjeng, L. H.
name: Chen, J. M.
name: Yuan, H. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of the physical properties and electronic structure of the hexagonal compounds Yb2Ni12Pn7 (Pn = P, As) by measuring the electrical resistivity, magnetization, specific heat and partial fluorescence yield x-ray absorption spectroscopy (PFY-XAS). These demonstrate a crossover upon reducing the unit cell volume, from an intermediate valence state in Yb2Ni12As7 to a heavy-fermion paramagnetic state in Yb2Ni12P7, where the Yb is nearly trivalent. Application of pressure to Yb2Ni12P7 suppresses T_FL, the temperature below which Fermi liquid behavior is recovered, suggesting the presence of a quantum critical point (QCP) under pressure. However, while there is little change in the Yb valence of Yb2Ni12P7 up to 30 GPa, there is a strong increase for Yb2Ni12As7 under pressure, before a near constant value is reached. These results indicate that any magnetic QCP in this system is well separated from strong valence fluctuations. The pressure dependence of the valence and lattice parameters of Yb2Ni12As7 are compared and at 1 GPa, there is an anomaly in the unit cell volume as well as a change in the slope of the Yb valence, indicating a correlation between structural and electronic changes.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Realization of the right to freedom of movement within the Russian Federation
Creators: name: Begitova, Nelli
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: freedom of movement
Russian Federation

description: Second semester University: Maastricht University
description: Europe has in the past few decades seen a rise in political parties whose agenda differs quite significantly from other established European political parties. The aim of these relatively new parties is to change aspects in society which they see as problematic, and which threaten the traditional European traditions and values. One such threat often pointed out by the parties is the growth of the Muslim minority in Europe. Anti-Muslim sentiments are frequently used in the political rhetoric of the parties, whose ideas are legitimised through increased hostility towards Muslims among Europeans in general. This paper will analyse the dynamics between the increased intolerance towards Muslims in Europe, the popularity of the parties who use anti-Islamic speech to gain popularity, and the possible effects on the European value system as stated by the European Union and the Council of Europe. The conclusion drawn is that core European values are threatened by increased European intolerance towards the Muslim minority, and if the situation is not taken seriously, the values by which Europe defines itself might be weakened in the future.
Piezoresistivity and Strain-induced Band Gap Tuning in Atomically Thin MoS2
Creators: name: Manzeli, Sajedeh
name: Allain, Adrien
name: Ghadimi, Amirhossein
name: Kis, Andras
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The bandgap of MoS2 is highly strain-tunable which results in the modulation of its electrical conductivity and manifests itself as the piezoresistive effect while a piezoelectric effect was also observed in odd-layered MoS2 with broken inversion symmetry. This coupling between electrical and mechanical properties makes MoS2 a very promising material for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Here we incorporate monolayer, bilayer and trilayer MoS2 in a nanoelectromechanical membrane configuration. We detect strain-induced band gap tuning via electrical conductivity measurements and demonstrate the emergence of the piezoresistive effect in MoS2. Finite element method (FEM) simulations are used to quantify the band gap change and to obtain a comprehensive picture of the spatially varying bandgap profile on the membrane. The piezoresistive gauge factor is calculated to be -148 +/- 19, -224 +/- 19 and -43.5 +/- 11 for monolayer, bilayer and trilayer MoS2 respectively which is comparable to state-of-the-art silicon strain sensors and two orders of magnitude higher than in strain sensors based on suspended graphene. Controllable modulation of resistivity in 2D nanomaterials using strain-induced bandgap tuning offers a novel approach for implementing an important class of NEMS transducers, flexible and wearable electronics, tuneable photovoltaics and photodetection.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures in Nano Letters (2015)
The responsibility to protect: rethoric and reality in the intervention in Libya
Creators: name: Winter Beatty, Clarissa Renee
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: responsibility to protect
Libya

description: Second semester University: University of Seville.
description: This thesis examines the normative development of the principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) from its initial conception, formulated by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, to its final endorsement in the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document. The evolution of R2P has precipitated the debate on the responsibilities of both individual states and the international community to protect populations against genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. The notion of R2P has been accepted as an umbrella term that is not limited to military intervention alone but includes a responsibility to prevent, react and rebuild. The military intervention in Libya has shown that the rhetoric of R2P when put into practice, has had to face the controversies surrounding the reality of the use of force as a legal and legitimate instrument of protection. The implementation of the R2P principle sought to avoid the challenges posed by the problematic legacy of humanitarian interventionism. However, these issues persist and must be constantly debated if the commitment to strengthen the legitimacy and the authority of the international community to end atrocity crimes is to be translated into effective protection of civilians.
Single-pulse dynamics and flow rates of inertial micropumps
Creators: name: Govyadinov, A. N.
name: Kornilovitch, P. E.
name: Markel, D. P.
name: Torniainen, E. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bubble-driven inertial pumps are a novel method of moving liquids through microchannels. We combine high-speed imaging, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and an effective one-dimensional model to study the fundamentals of inertial pumping. For the first time, single-pulse transient flow through U-shaped microchannels is imaged over the entire pump cycle with 4-microsecond temporal resolution. Observations confirm the fundamental N-shape flow profile predicted earlier by theory and simulations. Experimental flow rates are used to calibrate the CFD and one-dimensional models to extract an effective bubble strength. Then the frequency dependence of inertial pumping is studied both experimentally and numerically. The pump efficiency is found to gradually decrease once the successive pulses start to overlap in time.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
title: Legitimacy, Shared Understanding and Exchange of Resources: Co-managing Lakes Along an Urban–Rural Gradient in Greater Bengaluru Metropolitan Region, India
Creators: name: Lakshmisha, Arvind
name: Thiel, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: India
subject: water co-management
subject: Greater Bengaluru Metropolitan Region
subject: legitimacy
subject: shared understanding
subject: exchange of resources
subject: 500
subject: Indien
subject: Distrikt Bangalore
subject: Ressourcenmanagement
subject: Wasser
subject: See
subject: Legitimität

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
The fragility of human rights in the face of political interests: the island of Diego Garcia
Creators: name: Xynogalou, Aikaterini
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: indigenous peoples
international politics

description: Second semester University: Åbo Akademi University.
description: The island of Diego Garcia, situated in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is the biggest and the most important overseas military base of the United States. Until very recently, the existence of this island was not well-known to the public though it gained much attention when conspiracy theories wanted the lost Malaysian airplane to be connected with the US secret military base. The island, which for approximately the last fifty years has been the “Footprint of Freedom” for the Americans, was the motherland of the Chagossians until 1968. Diego Garcia as well as many other small islands in the Chagos Archipelago officially belonged to Mauritius. However, Mauritius at the time was a British Colony. Between 1968 and 1973 the whole native population of the islands was forcibly evicted by the British authorities as was indicated in the agreement with the US. Being in the center of the Cold War and given the geopolitical importance of the island, Diego Garcia seemed to be ideal in the eyes of the US for the pursuit of their interests. In the world we live, human rights cannot keep up with the political interests of states let alone with those of the Great Powers. For the national security of the US and the UK, the Chagossians found themselves exposed to human insecurity and to chronic impoverishment.
The pervasiveness of rape myths acceptance and the transformative potential of the Istanbul Convention. GREVIO’s contribution
Creators: name: Daffara, Rachele
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: rape
violence against women
psychology
protection
Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
Istanbul Convention

description: Second semester University: University of Cyprus
description: Millions of women are raped each year and perpetrators are rarely convicted and punished by criminal justice systems. Because of the social acceptance of “rape myths”, i.e. false and preconceived notions of how a rape survivor ‘should’ behave before, during and after an attack, rape survivors are often denigrated and blamed, while rapists’ violent tendencies are tacitly justified, accepted and normalized. Taking into specific account the importance of the entry into force of the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention, this thesis will focus on the social pervasiveness of rape myths acceptance, its corrosive effect on society's ability to prosecute and convict rapists with the purpose to assess how the Convention has defined rape and to what extent it has contributed in creating a “European caring society” in which female rape survivors’ rights to access the justice system and to be equally treated and protected by the law have been recognized and effectively guaranteed. To evaluate the transformative potential of the Istanbul Convention, a comparative analysis exclusively focused on the Convention provisions concerning rape will be conducted taking into account the four national reports submitted by State Parties to GREVIO and the baseline country evaluations published by the monitoring body.
Polystichum paramicola M. Kessler & A. R. Sm., 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
Polystichum
Polystichum paramicola

description: Polystichum paramicola M.Kessler & A.R.Sm., Brittonia 57(3): 222, f. 5c. 2005.
 Range: — Ecuador, Bolivia (CO); to be expected in Peru.
 Ecology: —Rare; humid grasslands and scrub near timberline; 3500–3750 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
An updated guide to robust statistical methods in neuroscience
Creators: name: Wilcox, Rand
name: Rousselet, Guillaume
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Applied statistics
Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: This reproducibility package contains the R code and data to reproduce the figures and examples from the article; the figures in pdf format (CC-BY license); knitted notebooks in pdf format. The R notebooks for the figures and matching analyses have the format `fig0x.Rmd`. The file `outliers.Rmd` contains code to reproduce the outlier examples presented in sections 2.1 and 3.2. For convenience, the code can also be accessed via GitHub (MIT license).
 Open access article available here.
Diquark mass differences from unquenched lattice QCD
Creators: name: Bi, Yujiang
name: Cai, Hao
name: Chen, Ying
name: Gong, Ming
name: Liu, Zhaofeng
name: Qiao, Hao-Xue
name: Yang, Yi-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate diquark correlation functions in the Landau gauge on the lattice using overlap valence quarks and 2+1-flavor domain wall fermion configurations. Quark masses are extracted from the scalar part of quark propagators in the Landau gauge. Scalar diquark quark mass difference and axial vector scalar diquark mass difference are obtained for diquarks composed of two light quarks and of a strange and a light quark. Light sea quark mass dependence of the results is examined. Two lattice spacings are used to check the discretization effects. The coarse and fine lattices are of sizes $24^3\times64$ and $32^3\times64$ with inverse spacings $1/a=1.75(4) {\rm~GeV}$ and $2.33(5) {\rm~GeV}$, respectively.
description: 9 figures
Hercules and Antaeus: Authorship and Meaning in a Print by Agostino Veneziano
Creators: name: Cox, Phillip
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This thesis centers on an analysis of a single engraving, Hercules and Antaeus
(fig. 1) by Agostino Veneziano, and seeks to address the formal, iconographic, and
historical problems that the work raises. The research occupying the following pages
concerns a particular impression of the print in the Burton Emmett Collection of the
Ackland Art Museum. Since the print entered the Ackland’s collection in 1958, it has
been given only cursory curatorial attention. The work has never before received
sustained study, even though its composition contains a series of puzzles waiting to be
solved. The print presents a non-canonical vision of the classical topos by an important,
but understudied, printmaker of the cinquecento. This paper will critically examine
Hercules and Antaeus for the first time.
The new challenge of human rights law: addressing islamophobia
Creators: name: Rubio Moreno, Ana Adela
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: European Court of Human Rights
Islam
xenophobia

description: Second semester University: Université Libre de Bruxelles
description: The following research analyses whether the European Human Rights institutions (namely Council of Europe, European Union and the European Court of Human Rights) are effective enough by addressing the phenomenon of Islamophobia. This thesis will explore the behaviour of these institutions in relation to the following tasks: firstly, in relation to conceptualising and defining Islamophobia from a Human Rights perspective; secondly, regarding the identification of the phenomenon as such, paying special attention to human rights violations committed because of Islamophobia; and thirdly, in relation to the impact, from a Human Rights perspective, of the most relevant case law of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to European Muslims. This thesis hopes to identify Islamophobia as a discriminatory phenomenon from a Human Rights law perspective. This is in order to facilitate the monitoring role of European Human Rights institutions in combating discrimination against Muslims because of Islamophobia. In addition, this thesis hopes that this identification helps to facilitate the task of these institutions in promoting public awareness of a phenomenon which can potentially be a form of violation of human rights.
Theory of Solvation-Controlled Reactions in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoreactors
Creators: name: Angioletti-Uberti, Stefano
name: Lu, Yan
name: Ballauff, Matthias
name: Dzubiella, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metallic nanoparticles embedded in stimuli-responsive polymers can be regarded as nanoreactors since their catalytic activity can be changed within wide limits: the physicochemical properties of the polymer network can be tuned and switched by external parameters, e.g. temperature or pH, and thus allows a selective control of reactant mobility and concentration close to the reaction site. Based on a combination of Debye's model of diffusion through an energy landscape and a two-state model for the polymer, here we develop an analytical expression for the observed reaction rate constant $k_{\rm obs}$. Our formula shows an exponential dependence of this rate on the solvation free enthalpy change $Δ\bar{G}_{\rm sol}$, a quantity which describes the partitioning of the reactant in the network versus bulk. Thus, changes in $Δ\bar{G}_{\rm sol}$, and not in the diffusion coefficient, will be the decisive factor affecting the reaction rate in most cases. A comparison with recent experimental data on switchable, thermosensitive nanoreactors demonstrates the general validity of the concept.
Polystichum platyphyllum C. Presl, Tent. Pterid.
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
Polystichum
Polystichum platyphyllum

description: Polystichum platyphyllum (Willd.) C.Presl, Tent. Pterid. 84. 1836.
 Range: — Jamaica, southern Mexico to northwestern Argentina, southeastern Brazil. In Bolivia, known from BE, CH, CO, LP, SC, and TA.
 Ecology: —Common; terrestrial in humid and semihumid forests, often on steep slopes, stream banks, or rarely along roadsides, 600–2800 m.
 Notes: — This widely distributed species is polymorphic and may represent a species complex. McHenry & Barrington (2014) included four specimens in their analysis, one from Bolivia.
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
Russias legal approach to indigenous peoples rights: international standard & Russian context
Creators: name: Brisson, Louise : De
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: indigenous peoples
Russian Federation
peoples rights

description: Second semester University: Tartu University.
description: Indigenous peoples themselves were primordial actors in the elaboration of universal instruments (United Nation Declaration on Indigenous Peoples Rights) and mechanisms (the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues). Using the tools of anthropology helps understand the indigenous international movement as a recognition of a global indigenous identity, and reconsider indigenous peoples' relation to law as a part of a political process to achieve recognition. In the Russian Federation, indigenous laws shaped Russian indigeneity rather than the opposite. Although indigenous peoples influenced the policies addressed to them, there is still a dead-end in implementation. First, Russian indigeneity is factually limited to one organisation, and unable to step out of the definition and habitus dictated by the legal instruments. The tradition of advocacy is mainly of a political nature, with a good relation to power, but the legal tradition is still hesitant. Then, implementation is impaired by low Human Rights standards regarding individual rights. Indigenous peoples do not represent for Russia a threat as a group, and one could expect Russian Federation to be more open to collective rights, since the critique of Human Rights Regime in Russia is often based on individualism. However, the fact that Human Rights provided the nest for the thrive of indigenous rights strengthened their anchorage in human dignity and individual freedom. Application of international standards would require not only a better record in human rights, but also a better integration of indigenous peoples of Russia in global indigeneity.
Polystichum polyphyllum C. Presl, Tent. Pterid.
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
Polystichum
Polystichum polyphyllum

description: Polystichum polyphyllum (C.Presl) C.Presl, Tent. Pterid. 83. 1836.
 Range: —High mountains from southern Mexico to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Common; terrestrial and saxicolous, often growing among rocks and in rock crevices, in humid forest habitats as well as near and above treeline; (2000–) 2800–4100 m.
 Notes: —For additional comments, see P. orbiculatum, with which this species has usually been combined. Generally, P. polyphyllum is more coriaceous, with more decidedly inrolled pinnules, and more numerous oblong (vs. orbicular) pinnule-pairs per pinna than P. orbiculatum. It also seems to be more common than P. orbiculatum in Bolivia. McHenry & Barrington (2014) included a single specimen (from Ecuador) in their analysis.
 Two additional rather similar and possibly related species were included in an analysis by McHenry & Barrington (2014): P. gelidum (see comments under P. lehmannii) and P. pycnolepis (Kunze) T.Moore. Both of these have Venezuelan types, which we have seen. We are uncertain of their differences from P. polyphyllum, or their circumscription and range, and it seems prudent to await more definitive studies before including them in a treatment of Bolivian Polystichum. Lectotypification of P. pycnolepis was accomplished by Morero et al. (2016), based on a specimen from Edo. Aragua, Venezuela.
 McHenry & Barrington (2014) also included a Bolivian specimen identified as P. sodiroi Christ, type from Ecuador. This species is somewhat similar to P. polyphyllum but generally more dissected, 3-pinnate or nearly so, with small, somewhat rounded, coriaceous ultimate segments. We have seen no Bolivian material that matches P. sodiroi and so do not include it in our treatment. For Peru, Tryon & Stolze (1991) treated P. polyphyllum as a synonym of P. orbiculatum var. boboense (Hieron.) R.M.Tryon, but we think that both taxa are distinct, and further that Polystichum boboense Hieron. should be treated as species, separate from P. orbiculatum.
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
Managing Risk and Promoting Success: How Microfinance Lenders Can Better Utilize Borrower Insights for Collateral Strategy
Creators: name: Hedadji, Mohammed
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: At its conception, microfinance was a lending mechanism designed to alleviate
poverty by providing group-structured lending to those who could not otherwise receive
financing. As it has spread into new markets, microfinance lending has grown and
changed significantly — especially as the model was adopted in the United States. While
its goal is still to fund and empower entrepreneurial ventures by lending to the poor, the
payment and collateral structure of microfinance in the U.S. is drastically different from
the original microfinance model established by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.
The most notable difference, the lack of social collateral, has contributed to higher
default rates (and thus, higher operating costs) and slower growth among microfinance
institutions in the U.S., relative to much of the world. Higher default rates are important
because they have pushed U.S. micro-lenders to find new ways to mitigate the risk of
these loans, including the use of individual lending models and/or physical collateral.
Prior literature has discussed the various forms of collateral available to microlenders,
their potential uses in the U.S., and the impact of each on operating costs and margins.
But there has been little research conducted surrounding lender meetings/interactions as a
potential form of collateral. Furthermore, little research has been done to quantify the
effectiveness and importance of these forms of collateral from the borrower’s
perspective. Overall, the voice of the borrower has been largely excluded from the loan-structuring
process. To address these gaps, I conducted research with borrowers from two
microlending institutions: The North Carolina Rural Center and The Women’s
Microfinance Initiative of Uganda. I selected these two lenders to compare and contrast
different loan features and collateral tools in a domestic and international setting.
Additionally, the two samples represented one struggling microlender (NC Rural Center)
and one successful high-growth lending institution (WMI-Uganda). My findings
suggested that more frequent lender meetings/interactions can potentially help reduce
late/missed loan payments. Additionally, my findings indicated that incremental
professional development courses could potentially serve as collateral for borrowers,
influencing borrowers to repay their loans, and improve their ability to do so (thus
reducing overall risk).