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Pacifying the public sphere : an analysis of inequality, discourse and legitimacy in the context of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs)
Creators: name: Guldberg, Christoffer
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: participation
citizenship
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
security

description: Second semester University: University of Coimbra.
description: In the present thesis I analyse the pacifying Police Units (UPPs) of Rio de Janeiro. In doing this I focus on the aim of bringing citizenship and rights to the residents of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. I argue that the lack of participation in the process of formulation and implementation of the program by its beneficiaries has a number of consequences for its legitimacy and efficiency. Due to this lack of participation by favela residents as socially constituted legal subjects, that is, citizens, combined with a lean normative structure, the implementation of the program becomes guided by external interests as well as social and discursive categories that represent the favelas as sources of risk and danger, and the favela residents as simultaneously sources of danger and risk on one hand, and victims of the drug lords and social and historical injustices, on the other hand. These discursively constructed external categories have the consequences of stripping the favela residents of agency and making the implementation of the program have the character of a controlling and normalizing intervention. Thus, the benefits brought by the program in terms of the fulfilment of some civil and social rights have more of a character of privileges. For the abovementioned reasons, I argue that they have not, so far, succeeded in creating the conditions for an inclusive public sphere where the construction of citizenship and the claim for rights can take place.
The roles of NGOs in the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings. With case studies on Austria, Italy and the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Tutzer, Judith
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
NGOs
trafficking
Austria
Great Britain
Italy

description: Second semester University: University of Vienna.
description: This research work addresses the question of how the various roles of NGOs envisaged by the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings are related. It seeks to demonstrate how the potentially dichotomous roles of being a partner of the State while also critically monitoring the implementation of the Convention by the latter are interrelated, interdependent and also combinable. In order to do so, case studies on Austria, Italy and the United Kingdom are conducted. The comparative analysis reveals that the ideal way to improve action is the involvement of NGOs on the institutional level and in policy development. The inclusion of NGOs in the monitoring process conducted by GRETA is found to be most effective when using the channel of consultation with NGOs during country visits. The relationship between the two roles is proposed to be represented as a circle: working as partners of the State provides NGOs with more information to share – ideally – with the State for policy development or with GRETA. GRETA’s report can then be used to put pressure on the State, also in terms of more NGO involvement, and thus bring about change and close the circle.
Radio Observations of the Star Formation Activities in the NGC 2024 FIR 4 Region
Creators: name: Choi, Minho
name: Kang, Miju
name: Lee, Jeong-Eun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star formation activities in the NGC 2024 FIR 4 region were studied by imaging centimeter continuum sources and water maser sources using several archival data sets from the Very Large Array. The continuum source VLA 9 is elongated in the northwest-southeast direction, consistent with the FIR 4 bipolar outflow axis, and has a flat spectrum in the 6.2-3.6 cm interval. The three water maser spots associated with FIR 4 are also distributed along the outflow axis. One of the spots is located close to VLA 9, and another one is close to an X-ray source. Examinations of the positions of compact objects in this region suggest that the FIR 4 cloud core contains a single low-mass protostar. VLA 9 is the best indicator of the protostellar position. VLA 9 may be a radio thermal jet driven by this protostar, and it is unlikely that FIR 4 contains a high-mass young stellar object (YSO). A methanol 6.7 GHz maser source is located close to VLA 9, at a distance of about 100 AU. The FIR 4 protostar must be responsible for the methanol maser action, which suggests that methanol class II masers are not necessarily excited by high-mass YSOs. Also discussed are properties of other centimeter continuum sources in the field of view and the water masers associated with FIR 6n. Some of the continuum sources are radio thermal jets, and some are magnetically active young stars.
description: To appear in the Astronomical Journal
Modeling Gentrification: An Agent-Based, Amenities-Driven Approach
Creators: name: Halev, Avishai
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The evolution of urban areas plays a major role in crafting public policy and spurring investment. Gentrification, involving the “transformation of a working-class or vacant area of the central city into middle-class residential or commercial use”, is inherently intertwined with neighborhood ascent and descent. We propose an agent-based model to study the existence and dynamics of gentrification, centered on a two-dimensional lattice with wealth and an inherent amenities interacting via particular feedback processes. Various parameter regimes beget distinct sets of dynamics, including that of wealth hotspots – as consistent with empirical observation. We then derive a continuum model of partial differential equations (PDE) from the agent-based model and analyze the instability regime of the continuum system; the resultant regime agrees with observations of simulation of the discrete model.
Constructions of us, constructions of them : the asylum debate in Norway: is the asylum seeker perceived as a threat?
Creators: name: Løkken, Hedda
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: asylum
Norway

description: Second semester University: University of Hamburg.
description: According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, 59.5 million people in the world are displaced from their homes.1 A large number of these are individuals fleeing war, conflict and prosecution, seeking to find safety for themselves and their families in a different country. However, the increasing reaction in many host countries, as part of a global trend, is that the migrants themselves are perceived and met as a security threat. This study focuses on the case of Norway, placed in the European context, but outside the European Union, to see whether securitisation is present also there. The theory of securitisation is used as a theoretical framework for the analysis of opinions and attitudes towards asylum seekers in Norway. Through analysis of media discourse, political rhetoric, and the place of other influential voices, securitisation of asylum seekers is considered in this context to be maintained through continuing state structures of routine. Additionally, the Norwegian welfare model, beneficial for citizens, has the perhaps unintentional consequence of building up under exclusion of the asylum seeker. This study shows that even in a country with strong socio-economic structures, the fear for consequences of migration are present, underlining the fact that securitisation and alienation of asylum seekers is a constructed choice. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, 59.5 million people in the world are displaced from their homes.1 A large number of these are individuals fleeing war, conflict and prosecution, seeking to find safety for themselves and their families in a different country. However, the increasing reaction in many host countries, as part of a global trend, is that the migrants themselves are perceived and met as a security threat. This study focuses on the case of Norway, placed in the European context, but outside the European Union, to see whether securitisation is present also there. The theory of securitisation is used as a theoretical framework for the analysis of opinions and attitudes towards asylum seekers in Norway. Through analysis of media discourse, political rhetoric, and the place of other influential voices, securitisation of asylum seekers is considered in this context to be maintained through continuing state structures of routine. Additionally, the Norwegian welfare model, beneficial for citizens, has the perhaps unintentional consequence of building up under exclusion of the asylum seeker. This study shows that even in a country with strong socio-economic structures, the fear for consequences of migration are present, underlining the fact that securitisation and alienation of asylum seekers is a constructed choice.
Evaluating the Source of Pb and Sr in North Carolina Surface Waters
Creators: name: Cary, Paige
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Lead and strontium concentrations and isotopic compositions of surface water samples collected across the state of North Carolina have been evaluated to determine the predominate contributor of each element to the water. Strontium isotope systematics in NC surface waters are reflective of the underlying bedrock geology and the influence of seawater in the Coastal Plain. The lead isotopic data is decoupled from the strontium data and displays no trends with relation to bedrock geology, though there may be some evidence of natural lead contribution to river waters in the Blue Ridge Belt. Most lead isotope ratios fall within or very close to the range for eastern U.S. leaded gasoline, suggesting that the source of lead in North Carolina surface waters is primarily anthropogenic.
RADJASPIN Situs Rekomendasi Slot Tergacor Di Indonesia
Creators: name: RADJA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: radjaspin
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Alternative expression for the electromagnetic Lagrangian
Creators: name: Saldanha, Pablo L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reintroduce an alternative expression for the Lagrangian density that governs the interaction of a charged particle with external electromagnetic fields, proposed by Livens about one century ago. This Lagrangian is written in terms of the local superposition of the particle fields with the applied electromagnetic fields, not in terms of the particle charge and of the electromagnetic potentials as is usual. Here we show that the total Lagrangian for a set of charged particles assumes a simple elegant form with the alternative formulation, giving an aesthetic support for it. We also show that the alternative Lagrangian is equivalent to the traditional one in their domain of validity and that it provides an interesting description of the Aharonov-Bohm effect.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. v2: Minor changes on the text. Some references were included
MPEC 2024-R103 : 2024 RJ3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RJ3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The time to recover or to reflect? : the monitoring of article 13 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. Case analysis of Bulgaria, Denmark and Georgia
Creators: name: Sorjanen, Anna-Maija
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: human trafficking
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. Article 13
Bulgaria
Denmark
Georgia
victims

description: Second semester University: University of Padua
The road to MOND--a novel perspective
Creators: name: Milgrom, Mordehai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accepting that galactic mass discrepancies are due to modified dynamics, I show why it is specifically the MOND paradigm that is pointed to cogently. MOND is thus discussed here as a special case of a larger class of modified dynamics theories whereby galactic systems with large mass discrepancies are described by scale-invariant dynamics. This is a novel presentation that uses more recent, after-the-fact insights and data (largely predicted beforehand by MOND). Starting from a purist set of tenets, I follow the path that leads specifically to the MOND basic tenets. The main signposts are: (i) Space-time scale invariance underlies the dynamics of systems with large mass discrepancies. (ii) In these dynamics, $G$ must be replaced by a single "scale-invariant" gravitational constant, Q0 (in MOND, Q0=A0=Ga0, where a0 is MOND's acceleration constant). (iii) Universality of free fall points to the constant q0=Q0/G as the boundary between the G-controlled, standard dynamics, and the Q0-controlled, scale-invariant dynamics (in MOND, q0=a0). (iv) Data clinches the case for q0 being an acceleration (MOND).
description: 9 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
The flavor-blind principle: A symmetrical approach to the Gatto-Sartori-Tonin relation
Creators: name: Saldaña-Salazar, U. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a systematic study of the generic Gatto-Sartori-Tonin relation, $\tan^2θ_{ij}= m_i/m_j$. This study of fermion mixing phenomena leads us to the necessary conditions that are needed in order to obtain it without any approximation. We begin by considering two Dirac fermion families. By means of the hierarchy in the masses, it is found that a sufficient and necessary condition is to have a normal matrix with $m_{11}=0$. This matrix can be decomposed into two different linearly independent contributions. The origin for such two independent contributions can be naturally explained by what we shall call the flavor-blind principle. This principle states that Yukawa couplings shall be either flavor-blind or decomposed into several sets obeying distinct permutation symmetries. In general, it is shown that the symmetry properties of the introduced set of Yukawa matrices follow for $n$ fermion families the unique sequential breaking $S_{nL}\otimes S_{nR} \rightarrow S_{(n-1)L}\otimes S_{(n-1)R} \rightarrow \cdots \rightarrow S_{2L}\otimes S_{2R} \rightarrow S_{2A}$. The particular case of three fermion families explains why the four mass ratios parametrization that we recently proposed can be used even in the case of no hierarchical masses.
description: 19 pages, 2 tables; v2: Title and Abstract changed, 21 pages, 2 tables, references added, additional clarifications and explanations along the text, Conclusions rewritten, main results unchanged; matches version accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Spatiotemporal Variability and Composition of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane in the Piedmont of North Carolina
Creators: name: Schumak, Catherine E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are two of the most abundant trace greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere. Both gases have been steadily increasing as a result of anthropogenic
activities such as the burning of fossil fuels (Mckain et al. 2014), and methane is particularly
potent with a warming potential at least 34 times greater that of CO2 (Jackson et al. 2014). In this
study, mobile surveys were performed to measure atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations and
the δ12C and δ13C isotopic compositions throughout the Piedmont of North Carolina to
characterize the spatiotemporal variability of these two potent greenhouse gases. Four sites
located over Mesozoic shale basins, which have potential to be hydraulically fractured to extract
natural gas, were surveyed, with a fifth site used as a control. Combining the analyses with GPS
data, surveys found that spatially, almost all sites varied significantly from one another in terms
of CH4, CO2, δ13C-CH4, and δ13C-CO2. The majority of sites also were temporally different
across survey dates for all four measurements, though less so for δ13C-CO2. Urban environments
tended to exhibit greater concentrations of atmospheric CO2 (𝑥 = 405.726 ppm) than rural areas
(𝑥 = 399.917 ppm), as well as less negative δ13C-CO2 values (𝑥 = -9.441%0 and 𝑥 = -9.786%0
respectively.) The importance of this study as a baseline prior to the introduction of hydraulic
fracturing to North Carolina cannot be understated, as few other locations with natural gas
potential have been left untouched. Perhaps this study, if it is continued, will be able to provide
insight into how fracking affects air quality and greenhouse gas emissions should it be
introduced to North Carolina.
Megalastrum bolivianum 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 bolivianum

description: Megalastrum bolivianum M.Kessler & A.R.Sm., Amer. Fern J. 96(1): 33, f. D–F. 2006.
 Range: — Venezuela, Ecuador to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Rare; terrestrial in humid forests and ravines; 1300–1600 m.
 Notes: —Abaxial blade surfaces with long, whitish hairs on the veins; rachises with a mixture of long and very short hairs, and broad, medium brown scales. A small species with thin blades and conspicuous, dark veins. The blade shape is ovate-lanceolate, rather than deltate as in most species of Megalastrum.
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
New minorities, solidarity and European democracy : human rights and education in the European regions: the renaissance of Europe
Creators: name: Pavanato, Alberto
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: democracy
European Union
human rights
human rights education
European Union countries
minority groups

description: Second semester University Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.
description: The present thesis that the quality of European democracy may be meansured on local political authorities commiment to human rights. Therefore, European solidarity based on sharing of economic resources shall not only be directed to enhance "new comers" and citizens knowledge on human rights and international standars, but also nuturing a favorable enviroment for the formation of European leaders committed at filling the political distance perceived by European between the EU and their cities. In addtion, this thesi inderstans human rights as intelligible principles with universal, relative, pratical theoretical, apolitical and neutral charateristicsof inclusiveness, which encompass both he newcomer with the citize. Education to human rights shall be included, therefore, in the political language with the aim to form the protagonists of EU 2020 goals.
Situation of civil society in Egypt : legal and political challenges of human rights NGOs before and after the 2011 revolution
Creators: name: Puisto, Janica
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: civil society
Egypt
human rights
NGOS

description: Second semester University: University of Padua.
description: In the context of global concern for diminishing civil society space, this study examines the situation of civil society in Egypt which has witnessed political instability since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. The aim of this research is to assess the legal and political challenges of human rights NGOs before and after the 2011 revolution. Instead of providing an exhaustive retrospect on Mubarak’s thirty-year presidency, the main objective of the research is to clarify the current and future situation of human rights NGOs in Egypt. The interdisciplinary methodology includes the legal analysis of the association Law 84 of 2002 and other related laws, practical examples, and interviews with human rights NGO professionals in Cairo. The thesis concludes that the legal challenges for human rights NGOs have stayed rather consistent since Mubarak’s presidency until today as the Law 84 of 2002 on associations has remained unamended. In addition, the human rights NGOs have continued to encounter similar interferences particularly by the national security forces before and after the 2011 revolution. However, in the post-Mubarak period, the political rhetoric and interventions against human rights NGOs has strengthened, thus, the organisations and their employees are threatened to be stigmatised as terrorists or foreign agents. Furthermore, other laws in the post-Mubarak era such as the new Protest Law have increasingly restricted the freedom of civil society. Moreover, Egypt’s future under the new President el-Sisi does not seem to bring legal or political reforms for more allowing civil society environment.
Effect of Arrival Order on Co-infecting Pathogens
Creators: name: Simha, Anita
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Multiple pathogens commonly infect a single host individual, and it is possible for microbial pathogens to interact within a host. These interactions can shape disease outcomes. The order in which distinct pathogens infect the same host can influence the overall outcome of the pathogens’ interactions on the amount of disease each pathogen causes. To determine how the arrival order of two pathogens on a shared host affect disease severity, tall fescue (Lolium arundinaceum) leaves were inoculated with Colletotrichum cereale and Rhizoctonia solani either simultaneously or sequentially both with detached leaves and whole host plants. It was hypothesized that a prior-arriving pathogen could influence the infection success of the second-arriving pathogen. On detached leaves, proportion leaf area diseased was measured daily, and, in the growth chamber, lesion lengths were measured daily. In the detached leaf assay, when R. solani arrived after infection by C. cereale, disease symptoms were more severe than when R. solani was inoculated simultaneously with C. cereale. In the growth chamber experiment, R. solani lesions were bigger when it was inoculated simultaneously with R. solani. Additionally, a survival analysis, a measure of host response to infection rather than pathogen response to infection, indicated that leaves inoculated with R. solani before C. cereale died more and died faster than in any other condition. These growth chamber results suggest that the order in which pathogens infect a host can determine disease outcomes, and the contrasting results from the detached leaf assay suggest the importance of using whole hosts to fully capture factors that can influence pathogen dynamics. The effect of arrival order on disease has implications for potential shifts in the relative timing of pathogen epidemics due to changing climate conditions.
Soil multifunctional resilience: the influence of agricultural practice on soil microbiome functioning
Creators: name: Fraser, Fiona
name: Watson, Christine
name: Holden, Nicola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Soil functions underpin essential ecosystem functions (food security, water purification, carbon storage etc.) In turn, soil functions are determined by the soil microbial community whose abilities are moderated by the abiotic environment. Here the Healthy Soils programme aims to refine our understanding of the functional processes from the microbial communities present in soil, the interactions with parameters commonly altered due to agricultural practice and how this influences the resilience of these functions to exogenous stress events. Here we used temperature stresses (freezing and heating) to probe the resilience of the microbiomes metabolism under long-term (100 years) differing agricultural management
The concept of hooliganism in Putin’s Russia: a conveniant charge to control inconveniant people?
Creators: name: Zilliacus, Karin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: freedom of expression
Russia
political opposition

description: Second semester University: Tartu University
description: Freedom of expression is a human right demanding state actors to exercise a delicate balance. The paper examines the Russian charge of hooliganism as a possible constraint to freedom of expression. The aim has been to find out whether the charge is in accordance with legal standards protecting the right of freedom of expression which Russia is applicable to. If arbitrarily applied, it may also run contrary to the Russian Constitution. Modern day hooliganism cases are set against the background of and compared to relevant international law and the Soviet history and context, as well as against the civil and political development in Russia in recent years. The paper examines how the charge has been applied in recent high profile hooliganism cases. It demonstrates how the hooliganism charge has re-emerged as a tool to silence political dissent after the re-election of president Putin in 2012. Had Russia made a more efficient transition from totalitarianism, the charge would most probably have been more difficult to re-introduce. Extensive media attention is almost a prerequisite for the authorities to use the charge, indicating that humiliation and fear of political opposition, even the slightest, felt by the political establishment, is likely to precede a hooliganism charge.
Rayleigh Wavetrains in Nonlinear Elasticity
Creators: name: Wheeler, Aric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The initial formulation of the evolution equation for the leading order approximation in nonlinear elasticity
in the weakly nonlinear regime goes back to [Lar83]. Moreover, Lardner identified the appropriate
scaling for nonlinear effects to appear in the leading order approximation, which in our case is ε2. This
evolution equation is termed the amplitude equation. Hunter derived the analogous results for first order
hyperbolic systems in his paper [Hun89]. The amplitude equation for nonlinear elasticity turns out to be
a nonlocal Burgers type equation, and the argument to solve it goes back to Benzoni-Gavage. We want to
stress that all of this body of work is primarily devoted to constructing approximate leading order solutions
to equations, not the exact solution itself. So one of the main goals in geometric optics is to show that the
constructed approximate solution is close to the exact solution and that the exact solution exists on a time
interval independent of ε.
Critical analysis of Ethiopias action against internal child trafficking
Creators: name: Halefom, Mahlet Fitsum
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: trafficking in young people
Ethiopia

description: Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast
description: Large proportions of Ethiopian children are exposed to violation without having care and treatment from the State and their parents by the mere fact of violation of their rights and interests of children. As a result, they face a multitude of risks to their lives due to various forms of exploitation, abuse and neglect. Even after novel international instruments on the issues of human trafficking of children have come into force, greater recognition has given to the international trafficking. However, the majority of cases of child trafficking involve internal trafficking. A few efforts by means of adopted legislation and policies, in national structures have been set up to stop trafficking in children. On issues such as legislation, national policies and national structures established to coordinate in anti-trafficking initiatives; this dissertation notes both progress and some gaps. In fact, some practices such as child protection unit have been identified to prevent children from being trafficked or to assist trafficked children. However, the protection and assistance of children who have been trafficked is not encouraging. The dissertation argues that the term ‘trafficking’ is still interpreted to refer to different crimes such as child labour, sexual abuse and so on which can be the consequences of trafficking. Particularly in this regard how national legislation conforms to international standards. The paper also recognises that the government of Ethiopia and NGOs have given priority to combating international trafficking of women rather than to child trafficking. This resulted in the protection of children and their specific rights and needs being completely neglected, as they have not been addressed explicitly. However, the actions made by the Ethiopian government to the response of child trafficking are not enough. Moreover, Ethiopian children who have been trafficked are not entitled to adequate protection and assistance. Many legislation and international documents have been issued, but not enough has been done to implement them at the national level.
Featureless quantum insulator on the honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Kim, Panjin
name: Lee, Hyunyong
name: Jiang, Shenghan
name: Ware, Brayden
name: Jian, Chao-Ming
name: Zaletel, Michael
name: Han, Jung Hoon
name: Ran, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to construct fully symmetric, gapped states without topological order on a honey- comb lattice for S = 1/2 spins using the language of projected entangled pair states(PEPS). An explicit example is given for the virtual bond dimension D = 4. Four distinct classes differing by lattice quantum numbers are found by applying the systematic classification scheme introduced by two of the authors [S. Jiang and Y. Ran, Phys. Rev. B 92, 104414 (2015)]. Lack of topological degeneracy or other conventional forms of symmetry breaking, and the existence of energy gap in the proposed wave functions, are checked by numerical calculations of the entanglement entropy and various correlation functions. Our work provides the first explicit realization of a featureless quantum insulator for spin-1/2 particles on a honeycomb lattice.
description: Significantly revised version with new author list. Supplementary file available upon request
Deterministic Generation of Photon Pairs within the Bad Cavity Limit
Creators: name: Chang, Yue
name: González-Tudela, Alejandro
name: Sánchez-Muñoz, Carlos
name: Navarrete-Benlloch, Carlos
name: Shi, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development, characterization and control of $N$-photon sources are instrumental for quantum technological applications. This work constitutes a step forward in this direction, where we propose a cavity quantum electrodynamics setup designed for the generation of photon pairs. We analyze it both via the scattering and master equation formalisms. From the connection between these two frameworks it naturally arises a physical criterion characterizing when weakly-driven systems behave as continuous antibunched two-photon sources. We find the optimal parameters for which our setup works as an efficient photon-pair source, showing also that it becomes a deterministic down-converter of single photons. We provide a specific implementation based on state-of-the-art superconducting circuits, showing how our proposal is within the reach of current technologies.
description: 14 pages with 6 figures
Megalastrum fugaceum 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 fugaceum

description: Megalastrum fugaceum R.C.Moran, J.Prado & Sundue, Amer. Fern J. 104(3): 158. 2014.
 Range: — Ecuador to northwestern Argentina. In Bolivia, known from CH, CO, LP, SC, and TA.
 Ecology: —Fairly common; terrestrial in humid forests; (1000–) 1700–2900 m.
 Notes: —Specimens treated here were listed as M. pulverulentum morph 2 by Kessler & Smith (2006) and described as a new species by 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
First-principles study of magnetic properties in Fe-ladder compound BaFe2S3
Creators: name: Suzuki, Michi-To
name: Arita, Ryotaro
name: Ikeda, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetic, structural, and electronic properties of the recently discovered iron- based superconductor BaFe2S3 based on density functional theory with the generalized gradient approximation. The calculations show that the magnetic alignment in which the spins are coupled ferromagnetically along the rung and antiferromagnetically along the leg is the most stable in the possible magnetic structure within an Fe-ladder and is further stabilized with the periodicity char- acterized by the wave vector Q=(pi,pi,0), leading to the experimentally observed magnetic ground state. The magnetic exchange interaction between the Fe-ladders creates a tiny energy gap, whose size is in excellent agreement with the experiments. Applied pressure suppresses the energy gap and leads to an insulator-metal transition. Finally, we also discuss what type of orbitals can play crucial roles on the magnetic and insulator-metal transition.
The role of internet intermediaries in the protection of freedom of expression and personal data : human rights in a digital age
Creators: name: Timmermans, Louise
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: internet
freedom of expression
human rights
right of privacy
data protection
private law

description: Second semester University: Université de Montpellier
description: The phenomenon of globalization has led to the emergence of powerful private actors on the international scene, capable of competing with the traditional powers of states in all fields, including that of human rights. In the world of internet, these new actors, that we will call internet intermediaries, have increasingly been playing a key role in the protection of freedom of expression and of personal data. On the one hand, they have adopted private rules regarding content restriction on their networks and the processing of data. On the other hand, states have been more and more relying on these actors to carry out their policies, mainly by requiring them to restrict content that they consider illegal or harmful or to hand over data to national authorities. The growing role that private actors play in freedom of expression and data protection raises concerns from a human rights perspective. Indeed, traditional human rights law has been designed to apply to states and not to private actors. However, new ways have emerged to ensure human rights protection online through the extension of the scope of state's traditional responsibilities and the development of new instruments specifically addressed to private actors.
title: Collecting Digital Object Reuse Data and Assessing it with Care
Creators: name: Woolcott, Liz
name: Jefferson, Derrick
name: Morales, Myrna
name: Thompson, Santi
name: Kenfield, Ayla Stein
name: Kelly, Elizabeth Joan
name: Hennig, Nicole
name: Chapman, Joyce
name: Shiri, Ali
name: Ranti Junus
name: Ranti Junus
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2020

description: Presented at the 2023 Open Repositories conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa on Wednesday June 14, 2023.
Spin torque and Nernst effects in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya ferromagnets
Creators: name: Kovalev, Alexey A.
name: Zyuzin, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict that a temperature gradient can induce a magnon-mediated intrinsic torque and a transverse spin current in systems with non-trivial magnon Berry curvature. With the help of a microscopic linear response theory of nonequilibrium magnon-mediated torques and spin currents we identify the interband and intraband components that manifest in ferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and magnetic textures. To illustrate and assess the importance of such effects, we apply our theory to the magnon-mediated spin Nernst and torque responses in a kagome lattice ferromagnet.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, supplemental material
Hydraulic Fracturing in North Carolina: Analysis of Draft Regulations to Inform the Environmental, Public Health, and Economic Implications of an Unconventional Oil and Gas Industry in the State
Creators: name: Koenigsberg, Dakota
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this thesis is to provide an in-depth analysis of North Carolina’s
proposed rule set for hydraulic fracturing to discover the future environmental, public
health, and economic implications of an unconventional oil and gas industry in the state.
While nevertheless important to the people and communities of North Carolina, the social
implications of an unconventional oil and gas industry are outside the scope of this paper.
For example, issues such as forced pooling, noise/light pollution, and criminal penalties
for unauthorized disclosure of trade secret information are intentionally excluded from
the paper’s discussion and analysis of regulations. Part 1 begins with background
information that should establish a sufficient foundational knowledge of hydraulic
fracturing, the regulatory landscape at the federal level, and the framework within which
North Carolina’s rules were drafted. Part 2 discusses state-level regulation of hydraulic
fracturing, introducing North Carolina’s rule proposals for each area of regulation, using
the Marcellus Shale states as a case study, and considering perspectives of environmental
groups and industry. Part 3 analyzes emerging best practices and key issues for fracking
in North Carolina. Finally, policy recommendations are made.
Understanding and modeling turbulent fluxes and entrainment in a gravity current
Creators: name: Odier, P.
name: Chen, J.
name: Ecke, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental study of the mixing processes in a gravity current flowing on an inclined plane. The turbulent transport of momentum and density can be described in a very direct and compact form by a Prandtl mixing length model: the turbulent vertical fluxes of momentum and density are found to scale quadratically with the vertical mean gradients of velocity and density. The scaling coefficient, the square of the mixing length, is approximately constant over the mixing zone of the stratified shear layer. We show how, in different flow configurations, this length can be related to the shear length of the flow ($ε$/$\partial$ z u^3)^1/2. We also study the fluctuations of the momentum and density turbulent fluxes, showing how they relate to mixing and to the entrainment/detrainment balance. We suggest a quantitative measure of local entrainment and detrainment derived from observed conditional correlations of density flux and density or vertical velocity fluctuations.
Hungary's policy towards its kin minorities : the effects of Hungarys recent legislative measures on the human rights situation of persons belonging to its kin minorities
Creators: name: Lema Bouza, Oscar Alberto
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: ethnic and national groups
Hungary
ethnic identity
human rights
national identity
minority rights

description: Second semester University: Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.
description: This thesis focuses on the recent legislative measures introduced by Hungary aimed at kin minorities in the neighbouring countries. Considering as relevant the ones with the largest Hungarian minorities (i.e. Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine), the thesis starts by presenting the background to the controversy, looking at the history, demographics and politics of the relevant states. After introducing the human rights standards contained in international and national legal instruments for the protection of minorities, the thesis looks at the reasons behind the enactment of the laws. To do so the politically dominant concept of Hungarian nation is examined. Finally, the author looks at the legal and political restrictions these measures face from the perspective of international law and the reactions of the affected countries, respectively. The research shows the strong dependency between the measures and the political conception of the nation, and points out the lack of amelioration of the human rights situation of ethnic Hungarians in the said countries. The reason given for this is the little effects produced on them by the measures adopted by Hungary and the potentially prejudicial nature of the reaction by the home states. The author advocates for a deeper cooperation between Hungary and the home states.
Securing Data on Compromised Hardware
Creators: name: Corallo, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Advancements in attacks with physical access to commodity hardware has resulted in a general consensus that, given physical access, all of the data on a machine should be considered compromised. In this talk, I will consider existing attacks and mitigations and propose a practical system under which certain data security guarantees
can be made. Specifically, I propose a system which attempts to protecting encryption keys absolutely against physical attackers and uses them to protect both main memory and disk access.
Islamist violence vs. counter-terrorism policies: a reciprocity of human rights violations : an emphasis on media as an agent (Case of Charlie Hebdo)
Creators: name: Awada-Badawi, Zahraa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: human rights violations
Islam
media
terrorism
violence

description: Second semester University: University of Hamburg.
description: Muslims’ lives have changed drastically since the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. A US-led war on terror was waged to fight terrorism that threatens the peace and security of the world. Undoubtedly, this has left its mark on the lives of Muslims and Arabs. Countries taking part in the war on terror and developing counter-terrorism policies have indulged so much in that that their measures fail to equate between security and human rights. This study seeks to explore how human rights like the freedom of religion, freedom of movement, and freedom from fear of the Muslim population have been put at stake in favour of freedom of expression and potential security threats. It also sheds light on the significant role of media as an agent in the phenomenon of terrorism through comparison of news coverage of ‘terrorist events’, showing how this coverage can be Islamophobic and misleading for the audience for the sake of serving political and economic interests, or how it can be in favour of the Muslim population whose image is being distorted and choose to highlight the struggles Muslims go through as part of this worldly campaign against terrorism.
The “Homeland of Human Rights” put at the test in the terrorist threat era : France, collective memory and counterterrorism
Creators: name: Bénard, Mathilde
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: collective memory
human rights
France
terrorism
history
security
liberty

description: Second semester University: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
description: The impact and instrumentalization of collective memory has been broadly addressed in nationalist/ authoritarian contexts, albeit very much less in democratic ones. France's national identity has been very much constructed on its rich History, and still upholds today –to the world but most of all for its citizens– an image of “Homeland of Human rights” rooted on the 1789 French Revolution. The thesis questions this image as to its origins, validity and perpetration through the years. In the light of this idealized national image, it then addresses the current counterterrorism measures adopted by the French State since 2015 Charlie Hebdo dreadful attacks. Through an analysis of the stakes and implication of the measures taken –an endlessly renewed state of emergency, then a new law in 2017– the study highlights the threat of counterterrorism, and the hypocrisy of that present situation regarding the Homeland of Human rights image. Secondly, the study questions the potential interaction between these two elements: how the image actually appears strengthened by the current situation on the one hand, and how this situation's gravity might be cloaked by the glorious image on the other hand. The thesis in the end highlights the dangerousness of counterterrorism measures in particular, and on a broader picture questions the collective memory process' implications in this context: as it is known to transform past historical events, could it not also have a similar deforming impact on current events? In the French case, the idealized Homeland of Human rights image could then weaken the society's immune system to recognize and fight against threats. Without reaching a conclusive terms, for further studies on the topic would be needed, the French society's –usually famous for their protest culture– passivity towards the current situation indeed seem to support such an impact.