cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analysis of the relationship between patients’ fear of falling and prescriber acceptance of pharmacists’ recommendations
Creators: name: Brown, Tenley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: Certain medications place older adults at higher risk for experiencing a fall. This is a modifiable risk factor that may be managed by community pharmacists, but requires prescriber acceptance of recommendations. Previous studies indicate that prescriber acceptance of pharmacist recommendations may be impacted by patient-reported concerns. Objective: To examine the relationship between patient-reported fear of falling and prescriberacceptance of pharmacist recommendations. Methods: A prospective, observational study  design was used. Eligible patients were age 65 and older and received care at one of 31participating pharmacies in North Carolina. Eligible patients were screened for falls risk using three evidence-based questions; patients screening positive were eligible for a comprehensive medication review. Data was collected via a prescriber response form. The primary outcomewas the prescriber acceptance of pharmacist recommendations. Results: Five hundred and sixty-two recommendations were communicated to prescribers, with 338 (60%) for patients who worried about falling. There was no significant difference in prescriber acceptance rate between those who worried about falling and those who did not (36.1% vs. 41.1%, X2=0.23). Conclusion: For patients who indicated they had a fear of falling, prescribers were not more likely to consider a pharmacist’s recommendations regarding medications that contribute to falls risk.
Influenza Virus Infection--Can Fatty Acids Change Infectivity?
Creators: name: Liu, Kelly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic identified obesity as a risk factor not only for complications and death related to influenza but also as a risk factor for infection despite vaccination.7, 10, 11 The virus replicates by budding from the host cell membrane, and this project aims to determine if the differential fatty acid composition of obese individuals’ serum may be responsible for the increased infectivity.8 Lung epithelial cells (A549) were grown in palmitate (16:0), oleic acid (18:1), or linoleic acid (18:2) at different concentrations, exposed to 128 HAU influenza virus, and the amount of infectious virus produced in each condition was determined by the TCID50 assay protocol. At 2 hours post-infection, the viral titer of cells incubated in 50 μM polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), 1.47×〖10〗^5 TCID50, was significantly greater than that of cells incubated in 200 μM PUFA, 2.37×〖10〗^4 TCID50, 50 μM monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA), 1.38×〖10〗^4 TCID50, and 50 μM saturated fatty acid (SFA), 1.33×〖10〗^4 TCID50. At 5 hours post-infection, the TCID50 from cells incubated in 50 μM PUFA, 1.00×〖10〗^5 TCID50, was significantly greater than that of cells incubated in 50 μM MUFA, 2.85×〖10〗^3 TCID50, and control vehicle, 1.00×〖10〗^4 TCID50. Cells incubated in 50 μM PUFA also produced a significantly greater average TCID50, 7.4985×〖10〗^4 TCID50, than all other conditions.
The impact of climate change on low-lying island nations: a challenge for the international community : the case of Tuvalus climate refugees
Creators: name: Panci, Elettra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: climatic changes
migrations
environment

description: Second semester University: University College Dublin.
description: Climate change is considered one of the major causes of migration flows. It has been estimated that by the middle of this century hundreds of millions of people will be forced to cross national borders as a consequence of sea level rise, desertification, floods, droughts (all effects attributed to global warming). The impact of climate change will be most acute for poor countries, in particular low-lying island nations whose existence is threaten by sea level rise. Particularly at risk is the small archipelago of Tuvalu in the South Pacific region which is likely to become the first country to be totally submerged by the ocean. The plight of Tuvaluans needs to be addressed urgently: people forced to leave their home lands as a consequence of climate-induced disruption should be recognised as climate refugees and resettled in safer countries. They will need more than a form of temporary protection; they should be granted a “permanent refuge” where to rebuild their lives. This work considers the lacunae of the existing legal international instruments in addressing the problem of climate displacement and proposes a new specific regime to fill these gaps. It looks at an international burden sharing system regionally implemented as the most adequate solution to ensure protection to people like Tuvaluans forced to abandon their lands as a consequence of irreversible environmental degradation.
Dependence of transverse magneto-thermoelectric effects on inhomogeneous magnetic fields
Creators: name: Shestakov, A. S.
name: Schmid, M.
name: Meier, D.
name: Kuschel, T.
name: Back, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transverse magneto-thermoelectric effects are studied in permalloy thin films grown on MgO substrates. We find that small parasitic magnetic fields below 1 Oe can produce artifacts of the order of 1 % of the amplitude of the anisotropic magneto-thermopower which is also detected in the experiments. The measured artifacts reveal a new source of uncertainties for the detection of the transverse spin Seebeck effect. Taking these results into account we conclude that the contribution of the transverse spin Seebeck effect to the detected voltages is below the noise level of 20 nV.
description: 9 pages
Elaphoglossum amazonicum Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum amazonicum

description: Elaphoglossum amazonicum Atehortúa ex Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot., n.s., 27: 122. 1991. (Fig. 19F–J)
 Range: — Peru, Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, SC), and western Brazil.
 Ecology: —Common; epiphytic and terrestrial in humid forests; 490–1200 m.
 Notes: —Often confused with E. raywaense, from which it differs by the characters given in the key. Additionally, E. raywaense is never terrestrial and its mature leaves are usually smaller than those of E. amazonicum (15–65 × 2.5–6 vs. 45–96 × 5–10 cm). The distinctness of this taxon was first recognized by Underwood, who annotated a gathering from Bolivia (Williams 1027, GH, NY) as E. williamsii Underw., but never published that name.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
The export of hazardous industries : protecting human rights from environmental harm through home states extraterritorial obligations
Creators: name: Barros, Ana Sofia : Freitas De
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: industry
international obligations

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki
description: The export of hazardous industries constitutes a phenomenon whereby different environmental and safety standards at the national level and a lack of harmonization at the international level have created a permissive setting for TNCs to transfer industrial activities characterized by high risks of harm to developing countries, while powerless individuals and communities bear the brunt of environmental and human rights damage. This thesis seeks for a solution, within the international legal order, to effectively protect individuals from business-related harm and, to that end, concentrates on the extent to which international law offers the possibility of recognizing home States extraterritorial obligations. Following an extensive analysis of the concept of due diligence within International Environmental Law, the concept of diagonal environmental rights is unveiled, and further incorporated into the realm of International Human Rights Law, in consideration of the interpretations, so far undertaken by treaty bodies, regarding the scope of human rights
Co-Occurrence of Intimate Partner Violence and Opioid Use in North Carolina: A County-Level Analysis
Creators: name: Filene, Eliza
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This paper examines the relationship between assault against women and death from unintentional opioid overdose across counties in North Carolina between the years 2010 and 2015. This analysis uses opioid overdose death data as well as assaults against women in North Carolina to examine co-occurrence across counties.Using county and year fixed-effects, I found a positive relationship between assault against women and opioid overdose death in non-rural counties and a slightly negative relationship in rural counties. This is finding may be due to measurement error created by low levels of assault reporting in some counties over time. Based on findings of the geographical trends of co-occurring overdose and assault against women as well as the limitations of this analysis, this paper makes recommendations for future research and policy initiatives for addressing intimate partner violence in the context of the opioid epidemic in North Carolina.
A Surface Low Energy Characterization Technique for High Purity Germanium Detectors
Creators: name: Pagan, Samantha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of natural and enriched P-type point contact germanium detectors located in the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Its primary goal is to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the 76-Ge isotope, which would produce an excess of events at the Q-value of 2039 keV. Extreme measures have been taken in the DEMONSTRATOR to reduce background in the region of interest and increase the sensitivity to this signal. Low detector thresholds allowed the collaboration to also develop a low energy program focused on light WIMP and axion searches. Low energy characterization of detectors is essential for these searches. Due to a high background of events at the surface of the Earth, low energy characterizations must typically be completed underground. This study explores a low energy characterization technique that could be performed at the surface of the Earth reliant on low energy Compton scattering events. A radioactive source along with a primary and a backing detector operated in coincidence were utilized for this technique. The results of this study qualitatively demonstrated the generation of a population of low energy events in the primary detector, which could be used for low energy characterizations. Overall, this study confirmed the potential of this method to be developed to perform surface low energy characterizations.
The 2016 reform on Islamic education textbooks in Morocco : the strategy used by the reform to implement a “more tolerant” Islam
Creators: name: Boustany, Razane
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Morocco
education
Islam
tolerance

description: Second semester University: International University of Rabat.
description: In 2016, a commission working under the supervision of the Moroccan Ministry of Education completed a revision of the textbooks and curricula for the teaching of Islam in public schools. This change was very controversial among the experts and teachers of Islamic education, which raised a lot of questions concerning the effectiveness and the significance of this reform. In fact, it was made upon the request of the King Mohammad VI, who wanted to promote a “more moderate” Islam. This study, which is based on a careful review of selected textbooks before and after the reform, seeks to underline first, the different issues pointed out in the public debate to better understand the direction taken by the reform. Second, it exposes a comparative study of six textbooks underlining exactly what the changes were to the curriculum, was it on the level of the structure or the content of the textbooks. Finally, it will put into relation the different elements found in the first two parts in order analyze the strategy used by the Ministry of Education, in the reform of 2016, to promote a “more moderate” Islam.
Testing and Performance of UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger Telescope
Creators: name: Ripa, J.
name: Kim, M. B.
name: Lee, J.
name: Park, I. H.
name: Kim, J. E.
name: Lim, H.
name: Jeong, S.
name: Castro-Tirado, A. J.
name: Connell, P. H.
name: Eyles, C.
name: Reglero, V.
name: Rodrigo, J. M.
name: Bogomolov, V.
name: Panasyuk, M. I.
name: Petrov, V.
name: Svertilov, S.
name: Yashin, I.
name: Brandt, S.
name: Budtz-Jorgensen, C.
name: Chang, Y. -Y.
name: Chen, P.
name: Huang, M. A.
name: Liu, T. -C.
name: Nam, J. W.
name: Wang, M. -Z.
name: Chen, C. R.
name: Choi, H. S.
name: Kim, S. -W.
name: Min, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory pathfinder (UFFO-p) is a new space mission dedicated to detect Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and rapidly follow their afterglows in order to provide early optical/ultraviolet measurements. A GRB location is determined in a few seconds by the UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger telescope (UBAT) employing the coded mask imaging technique and the detector combination of Yttrium Oxyorthosilicate (YSO) scintillating crystals and multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. The results of the laboratory tests of UBAT's functionality and performance are described in this article. The detector setting, the pixel-to-pixel response to X-rays of different energies, the imaging capability for <50 keV X-rays, the localization accuracy measurements, and the combined test with the Block for X-ray and Gamma-Radiation Detection (BDRG) scintillator detector to check the efficiency of UBAT are all described. The UBAT instrument has been assembled and integrated with other equipment on UFFO-p and should be launched on board the Lomonosov satellite in late-2015.
description: journal: Proceedings of Science, Swift: 10 Years of Discovery; conference date: 2-5 December 2014; location: La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; 7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in July 9 2015
Family reunification between static EU citizens and TCNs: a ‘purely internal situation’?
Creators: name: Nikiforidou, Andriani
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: family reunion
European Union

description: Second semester University: Åbo Akademi University
description: Contrary to family reunification concerning EU citizens who have exercised their right to move within the EU, family reunification of static EU citizens is not regulated by any Directive in the EU framework, but falls in principle within the remit of EU Member States. This thesis argues that placing limitations on family reunification concerning EU citizens who have not exercised their right to free movement and are not able to link their application to any EU Directive cannot be considered as a purely domestic matter. According to the progressive jurisprudence of the CJEU, the TFEU provides safeguards to the citizens of the Union stemming directly from the status of the EU citizenship. This thesis further argues that the substance of the rights attached to this status also entails the possibility for EU citizens to establish and develop their family life in their country of residence. To this end, this paper provides a critical analysis of the case law of the CJEU regarding family reunification of static EU citizens, combined with Member States’ human rights obligations with respect to the right to family life, read alone and in conjunction with the principle of equality and non-discrimination. Particular attention is also drawn to the principle of the best interests of the child, which must be the primary consideration of all States in cases which involve children.
Questioning the EU's normative power in Azerbaijan: an Assessment of the EU's democracy promotion programmes from the recipients' perspective
Creators: name: Guillot, Elise
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: democratisation
Azerbaijan
development aid policy
European Union
foreign policy

description: Second semester University: University of Tartu.
description: Although the academic literature has already largely dealt with the EU democracy promotion, notably towards its Neighbourhood, little attention has been granted to laggard countries in terms of human rights and democracy, including Azerbaijan. The country's human rights record is worrisome and worsening, especially since the 2014 crackdown on the civil society. Drawing on the concept of Normative Power Europe and relying on qualitative interviews, this thesis questions the extent to which the EU remains a normative power in Azerbaijan, considering both the concrete achievements of the EU on the ground and their assessment by representatives of the Azerbaijani civil society. The present contribution underlines the importance of taking into account the recipients' perspective(s) for the analysis of democracy promotion programmes. This research reveals that the EU's democracy promotion agenda does not follow a unique approach but that the different EU institutions favour distinct instruments to foster democratisation in Azerbaijan. It also appears that EU institutions have not consistently enforced their democracy promotion programmes. The local civil society, while praising the EU's narrative, awaits more commitment and more implementation from the regional organisation. Local democracy promoters advocate for a tougher stance from the EU, involving stronger conditionality mechanisms and sanctions.
Elaphoglossum blepharoglottis Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum blepharoglottis

description: Elaphoglossum blepharoglottis Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot., n.s., 27: 126. (Fig. 17A–C)
 Range: — Peru and Bolivia (CO).
 Ecology: — Extremely rare; epiphytic in humid forests; 1250–2100 m. Previously known only from the Peruvian holotype, but now also from Bolivia (Kessler 13359, LPB); probably endangered.
 Notes: —The large (to 75 × 10 cm), narrowly oblanceolate blades with attenuate bases and scales mostly limited to petioles, costae, and margins are characteristic to this species. The leaf scales are black to dark brown, strongly subulate, and dense. The ones on the petioles and costae are patent, but the ones along the margins are smaller and strongly ascending.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
The combat drone: an extension of the human body : a moral and legal assessment of the use of combat drones in contemporary armed conflict
Creators: name: Schellings, Edith H. A.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: drone warfare
international humanitarian law
just war
targeted killings

description: Second semester University: University of Vilnius.
description: The advent of drone strikes has raised serious concerns about their consequences for the protection of civilians under international human rights law. In this thesis it is examined how combat drones in contemporary armed conflict – targeted killings and asymmetric war – can be morally and legally assessed. This research approaches the drone as a medium, rather than an autonomous robot, and compares just war theory with the minimal applicable legal standard of protection, the law of non-international armed conflict. It is argued that the legality and morality of drones for targeted killings in the war against terrorism depends upon compliance with ius in bello. It is asserted that combat drones require a stricter application of ius in bello because 1.) to neglect their full capability for accuracy violates customary precaution requirements, 2.) a permissive application of ius in bello endangers civilians due to the proximity of contemporary battlefields to civilian areas, and 3.) the its risk-free nature of the drone inspires abuse of the already weak UN Charter. It is concluded that specific IHL regulations on the use of combat drones would strengthen ius in bello as a last guarantee for the protection of those not participating in war.
title: ZrO2 films deposited by spray pyrolysis from water-based precursor solutions on glass and TCO substrates
Creators: name: Zrilic, Ana
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sprühpyrolyse
subject: kubischesZirkoniumoxid
subject: c-ZrO2
subject: ZrO2
subject: ZrOCl2 x 8H2O
subject: ZrO2 Schicht
subject: fluordotiertes Zinnoxid
subject: zinndotiertes Indiumoxid
subject: FTO
subject: ITO
subject: Dünnschichtfilm
subject: spray pyrolysis
subject: cubic zirconium oxide
subject: c-ZrO2
subject: ZrO2
subject: ZrOCl2 x H2O
subject: fluorine doped tin oxide
subject: tin doped indium oxide
subject: ITO
subject: FTO
subject: thin film

description: This thesis focuses on gaining a better understanding of depositing stable ZrO2 layers on transparent conducting oxide substrates while using spray pyrolysis from water-based precursor solutions. ZrOCl2×8H2O was chosen – out of curiosity – as the precursor salt for the process. The influence of a range of factors, that play an important role for the spray-pyrolysis process, were studied on three substrates: borosilicate glass, fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) and tin doped indium oxide (ITO). The precursor concentration was varied between 25mM and 100mM to investigate the behaviour of the ZrO2 films on the chosen substrates. The scanning repetitions were varied between 75 and 250 to analyse the evolution of crystallisation as the ZrO2 thickness increased. The temperature of the heating surface was tested between 360°C and 430°C to see its impact on the crystallin character of the films.The crystal structure, morphology and transmission of the obtained layers were evaluated by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and Fourier-transform spectroscopy.Due to shortcomings it was only partly possible to obtain crystallin ZrO2 films. Despite the clearly visible formation of cubic zirconium oxide on all samples, the morphological investigation indicates the impact of droplets in its major part, which is not ideal for a vapour phase dependant process. Further optimization of the chosen process and precursor salt is necessary to obtain a successful receipt in order to implement it in further applications such as solar cells or optoelectronic devices.
The consequences of counter-terrorism policies on fundamental human rights : discussing the impact on the prohibition of torture
Creators: name: Parziale, Viviana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: September 11th 2001
terrorism
torture
torture victims
United States of America

description: Second semester University: Université Libre de Bruxelles.
description: The events of September 11 and the consequential modus operandi chosen by the Bush’s administration generated a severe international debate on torture, as the U.S. forces have mainly used it as a questionable mean to interrogate and obtain information from suspected terrorists. The subject of torture has been re-questioned since, and a whole new literature has flourished, and new discussions arose between the ones who condemn torture in its every form and those who justify it in certain particular cases. The overall debate on torture, the different views from the academic world, the latest proposals and critics will be the focus of this work. Beginning with a brief analysis of the close link between terrorism and human rights, the thesis will proceed examining how the counter-terrorism strategy implemented by the United States failed to respect and adhere to international law obligations as far as human rights were concerned. Despite all the numerous violations occurred, the aspect of torture will be the only one considered throughout this work. Finally, an in-depth critical analysis on the on-going erosion of the prohibition on torture will be provided on a three-bases structure: the morals, the laws and the factual situation. Questioning the three dimensions, the goal will be to understand and evaluate the impact of the United States counter-terrorism policy on the range of the peremptory norm.
Revisiting the NVSS number count dipole
Creators: name: Tiwari, Prabhakar
name: Nusser, Adi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a realistic modeling of the dipole component of the projected sky distribution of NVSS radio galaxies. The modeling relies on mock catalogs generated within the context of $Λ$CDM cosmology, in the linear regime of structure formation. After removing the contribution from the solar motion, the mocks show that the remaining observed signal is mostly (70\%) due to structures within $z\lesssim0.1$. The amplitude of the model signal depends on the bias factor $b$ of the NVSS mock galaxies. For sources with flux density, $ S> 15 \; \rm mJy$, the bias recipe inferred from higher order moments is consistent with the observed dipole signal at $2.12σ$. Flux thresholds above $20 \; \rm mJy$ yield a disagreement close to the $3σ$ level. A constant high bias, $b=3$ is needed to mitigate the tension to the $\sim 2.3σ$ level.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
International legal protection of the right to education for refugees and asylum-seekers : developments and challenges
Creators: name: González Fernández, Julia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: right to education
refugees
asylum seekers
human rights
international law

description: Second semester University: KU Leuven
description: Purpose – The highest refugees and asylum-seekers crisis was reached in 2015. Their right to education constitutes a relevant tool to lift their lives. The present work examines the state of development of this right and specifically the most recent developments which are taking place as significant number of refugees do not benefit from this right as they do not access or they are at risk to abandon or fail in school. Research question – This work is related to how the state of development of the right of refugees to education can fully ensure the enjoyment of this right to all refugees and asylum-seekers. Main findings – States recognized and are highly committed to ensure the right to education to all refugees and asylum-seekers. Significant advancements of the framework continue to advance the enjoyment of this refugees’ right. The major difficulties do not lie in the development of the law, but in the implementation. More efforts are needed between many actors beyond primary education to ensure secondary education and vocational training. There are many challenges ahead (cultures, languages, bureaucracy, etc.). But, countries seem to be highly polarized on the issue and sometimes spread very different messages as well as policy solutions.
Now That I Have Been Condemned By the State, What Are My Chances of Execution? Rates of Reversal in the Capital Punishment System, 1973-2011
Creators: name: Dietrich, Anna W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This thesis explores one aspect about the actual use of the death penalty, which, if
known to all Americans, would certainly surprise them. The contents of this paper
uncover rates of reversal in capital cases that average 73.3 percent over the modern
history of the punishment. In these 73.3 percent of cases in which a final decision has
been reached, a state or federal judge found error so consequential that it could only be
corrected with a new trial, even with the knowledge that the public supports the death
penalty. Since 1976, only 19.7 percent of condemned inmates that are no longer on death
row have actually been put to death. This finding has implications that persist over
differing opinions about the usefulness of capital punishment. Whether one’s reaction to
this is that “frivolous appeals” need to be curtailed so that the punishment can more
commonly be carried out, or if one believes the high rates of reversal slow a rickety
system that’s prone to troubling error and mistakes, both sides can agree that the rate of
reversal is surprisingly high.
High rates of reversal make state capital punishment systems extraordinarily
costly. This finding also cripples the many arguments that lie behind overwhelming
public support for the death penalty as a deterrent for future murders, an important
retributive tool, and a vehicle for bringing closure to the families of victims. Furthermore,
the uncertainty of reversals burden death row inmates in a way that is akin to torture. It is
for these reasons that the statistical rarity of execution given a death sentence is not just
surprising, but shocking from perspectives of public policy and human rights. Following
variation in executions over time and jurisdiction before parsing its implications, this
thesis will make clear that the reality of America’s capital punishment system falls short
of effectiveness as a predictable, justly administered punishment for the nation’s most
heinous criminals.
ICE-COLA: Towards fast and accurate synthetic galaxy catalogues optimizing a quasi $N$-body method
Creators: name: Izard, Albert
name: Crocce, Martin
name: Fosalba, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Next generation galaxy surveys demand the development of massive ensembles of galaxy mocks to model the observables and their covariances, what is computationally prohibitive using $N$-body simulations. COLA is a novel method designed to make this feasible by following an approximate dynamics but with up to 3 orders of magnitude speed-ups when compared to an exact $N$-body. In this paper we investigate the optimization of the code parameters in the compromise between computational cost and recovered accuracy in observables such as two-point clustering and halo abundance. We benchmark those observables with a state-of-the-art $N$-body run, the MICE Grand Challenge simulation (MICE-GC). We find that using 40 time steps linearly spaced since $z_i \sim 20$, and a force mesh resolution three times finer than that of the number of particles, yields a matter power spectrum within $1\%$ for $k \lesssim 1\,h {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ and a halo mass function within $5\%$ of those in the $N$-body. In turn the halo bias is accurate within $2\%$ for $k \lesssim 0.7\,h {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ whereas, in redshift space, the halo monopole and quadrupole are within $4\%$ for $k \lesssim 0.4\,h {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$. These results hold for a broad range in redshift ($0 < z < 1$) and for all halo mass bins investigated ($M > 10^{12.5} \, h^{-1} \, {\rm M_{\odot}}$). To bring accuracy in clustering to one percent level we study various methods that re-calibrate halo masses and/or velocities. We thus propose an optimized choice of COLA code parameters as a powerful tool to optimally exploit future galaxy surveys.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures; matches the version accepted by MNRAS; some results have been extended to higher redshifts; we added Appendix B
The right to rehabilitation : the implementation within a transitional justice process
Creators: name: Natsheh, Reem
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: rehabilitation
torture
victims
transitional justice
Tunisia

description: Second semester University: University of Carthage.
description: Internship report: Tunisian institute for rehabilitation - Nebras
description: This report examined the right to rehabilitation, and its implementation within a transitional justice process. The report looked into Tunisia as a case study, in which it examined the enacted laws and their coincidence with international treaties and conventions. The report looked into the practical implementation of the right to rehabilitation through studying and analyzing the work of the Tunisian institute for rehabilitation-Nebras, the first and only rehabilitation center in Tunisia. Through the development of the report, many challenges emerged facing the implementation of the right to rehabilitation; some are international, such as the lack of a clear definition of rehabilitation. Other challenges, on the national level, are the most problematic ones as the level of implementation in this report was on a national level, as shown by this report most of these challenges were created due to the lack of the government responsibilities towards its obligations, for example in terms of enacting laws and providing different types of support, such as financial support and other means of practices. To sum up, the report emphasized on the importance of the right to rehabilitation and its implementation, moreover it concluded to a number of recommendations that emerged as a solution for the challenges.
Transitional justice in Iraq : justice and reconciliation for the Yazidi minority in Northern Iraq for crimes committed by ISIS
Creators: name: Janssens, Louise Monique
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: transitional justice
Iraq
reconciliation
minority groups
terrorism
retributive justice
restorative justice

description: Second semester University: University of Vienna
description: This is an interdisciplinary analysis of how transitional justice tools can contribute to deliver justice and ensure reconciliation for the Yazidi community in Iraq. They became victims of ISIS‘ most cruel strategies of war including the systematic separation of families, destruction of villages, mass killings and rape as part of a genocide on an ethno-religious minority that was left defenceless by Iraqi and Kurdish military forces. Looking into the country‘s history and legal framework will help to indicate the specific needs of the victims and the limitations of the judicial and extra-judicial tools that are used in transitional justice processes. The analysis will focus on five pillars: Retributive justice, Restorative justice, Reconciliation initiatives, Reform and Remembering. The analysis aims at formulating recommendations on how to avoid impunity for the ISIS leaders and combatants who orchestrated or committed these crimes and how to start rebuilding and reconciling a community in a country that was unable to protect themselves from such atrocities.
Restoring a free-standing character of graphene on Ru(0001)
Creators: name: Voloshina, Elena
name: Berdunov, Nikolai
name: Dedkov, Yuriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Realization of a free-standing graphene is always a demanding task. Here we use scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy to study the crystallographic structure and electronic properties of the uniform free-standing graphene layers obtained by intercalation of oxygen monolayer in the "strongly" bonded graphene/Ru(0001) interface. Spectroscopic data show that such graphene layer is heavily p-doped with the Dirac point located at 552 meV above the Fermi level. Experimental data are understood within DFT and the observed effects are in good agreement with the theoretical data.
description: manuscript and supplementary material
Women and HIV/AIDS in prison: a human rights approach : the Angola context
Creators: name: Alves, Joana : Mendes
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: AIDS
Angola
prison conditions
prisoners
women

description: Second semester University: University of Padua
description: Prisoners do not (should not) lose their rights while they are deprived of their liberty under the custody of the State besides the lawful limitations inherent to incarceration. They must be considered by the State as part of the population and Governments should not neglect their rights as human beings. As prison systems have been primarily designed for men, who continue to be the majority of the prison population, prison policies and procedures often do not address women’s rights and needs. Data on the health of women in prison and the health care provided for them, namely related with HIV/AIDS, is rare. This situation inhibits the States to adequately respect, protect and fulfil the inalienable human rights of women in prison even when they are provided by the national and international law. As an example of this situation we chose the Angola´s context. Among it, the current thesis aims to assess the problematic related with women prisoners affected by HIV/AIDS in a human rights perspective . It explores how the existing international, regional and national human rights instruments, to which Angola has adhered, guarantee the protection of women in this particular situation and the importance of systematic assessment necessary to effectively fulfil those rights.
Pronounced - Log T Divergence in Specific Heat of Nonmetallic CeOBiS$_2$: A Mother Phase of BiS$_2$-Based Superconductor
Creators: name: Higashinaka, Ryuji
name: Asano, Takuya
name: Nakashima, Takuya
name: Fushiya, Kengo
name: Mizuguchi, Yoshikazu
name: Miura, Osuke
name: Matsuda, Tatsuma D.
name: Aoki, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low-temperature properties of CeOBiS$_2$ single crystals are studied by electrical resistivity, magnetization, and specific heat measurements. Ce 4f -electrons are found to be in a well-localized state split by crystalline-electric-field (CEF) effects. The CEF ground state is a pure $J_z$ = $\pm$ 1/2 doublet, and excited doublets are located far above. At low temperatures in zero field, we observe pronounced $-\log T$ divergence in the specific heat, revealing the presence of quantum critical fluctuations of 4f magnetic moments near a quantum critical point (QCP). Considering that CeOBiS$_2$ is a nonmetal, this phenomenon cannot be attributed to the competition between Kondo and the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interactions as in numerous f-electron-based strongly correlated metals, indicating an unconventional mechanism. We suggest that CeOBiS$_2$ is the first material found to be located at a QCP among geometrically frustrated nonmetallic magnets.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
How Can North Carolina Increase Pro Bono Legal Studies? A Case Study
Creators: name: Bane, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Over 80% of the civil legal needs of low-income Americans go unmet every year. While legal aid organizations are the dominant source of legal assistance for low-income individuals, they suffer from underfunding and understaffing and do not come close to meeting the vast amount of needs of low-income Americans. In fact, there is only one legal aid attorney for every 11,000 North Carolinians eligible for their services, compared to one private attorney for every 362 North Carolinians. One way to meet the need for free legal services is through private attorneys who offer their services for free through pro bono. This research is a case study of North Carolina, seeking to answer the question: how can North Carolina increase its pro bono legal services? To evaluate North Carolina’s pro bono culture and suggest suitable policies for the state, this paper uses a mixed-methods approach of combining quantitative data and qualitative interviews with leaders in the field of North Carolina. This descriptive case study suggests three policy reforms to increase North Carolina’s supply of pro bono legal services, including pro bono program training for legal aid organizations, formal attorney emeritus programs, and mandatory pro bono reporting.
Elaphoglossum decoratum T. Moore, Index Fil.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum decoratum

description: Elaphoglossum decoratum (Kunze) T.Moore, Index Fil. 8. 1857. (Fig. 32E–K)
 Range: —Antilles; Guatemala to Bolivia (LP), Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil.
 Ecology: —Rare; epiphytic and terrestrial, in humid forests; 700–1500 m. Collected only twice in Bolivia despite being very distinctive and conspicuous; probably threatened in the country.
 Notes: —If the petiolar and costal scales are examined with magnification, it can be seen that they are slightly inrolled at their bases.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Robust forecasts on fundamental physics from the foreground-obscured, gravitationally-lensed CMB polarization
Creators: name: Errard, Josquin
name: Feeney, Stephen M.
name: Peiris, Hiranya V.
name: Jaffe, Andrew H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abridged] Recent results from the BICEP, Keck Array and Planck Collaborations demonstrate that Galactic foregrounds are an unavoidable obstacle in the search for evidence of inflationary gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. Beyond the foregrounds, the effect of lensing by intervening large-scale structure further obscures all but the strongest inflationary signals permitted by current data. With a plethora of ongoing and upcoming experiments aiming to measure these signatures, careful and self-consistent consideration of experiments' foreground- and lensing-removal capabilities is critical in obtaining credible forecasts of their performance. We investigate the capabilities of instruments such as Advanced ACTPol, BICEP3 and Keck Array, CLASS, EBEX10K, PIPER, Simons Array, SPT-3G and SPIDER, and projects as COrE+, LiteBIRD-ext, PIXIE and Stage IV, to clean contamination due to polarized synchrotron and dust from raw multi-frequency data, and remove lensing from the resulting co-added CMB maps (either using iterative CMB-only techniques or through cross-correlation with external data). Incorporating these effects, we present forecasts for the constraining power of these experiments in terms of inflationary physics, the neutrino sector, and dark energy parameters. Made publicly available through an online interface, this tool enables the next generation of CMB experiments to foreground-proof their designs, optimize their frequency coverage to maximize scientific output, and determine where cross-experimental collaboration would be most beneficial. We find that analyzing data from ground, balloon and space instruments in complementary combinations can significantly improve component separation performance, delensing, and cosmological constraints over individual datasets.
description: 37 pages plus appendices, 15 figures; first two authors contributed equally to this work; forecasting tool available at http://turkey.lbl.gov. v4: matches version published in JCAP (with extended dark energy constraints)
The needless and harmful detention of illegally staying third country nationals : effective alternatives to detention in the European Union
Creators: name: Erquicia León, Myriam
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: irregular migrations
European Union
detention
immigrants
return migration

description: Second semester University: Université de Strasbourg
description: Every year, thousands of irregular migrants receive a return decision in all EU member states. Most of them are detained in order to enforce the removal. However, only a small amount of them are finally return to their country of origin or country of transit. Legal, administrative and humanitarian impediments prevent the effective return of many irregular migrants: they are unreturnable. In spite of being unreturnable, many of them face long periods in immigration detention and some of them are even detained several times, causing huge mental damages and disrupting their lives. International standards consider alternatives to detention the best option to carry out an effective removal whilst protecting the fundamental rights of irregular migrants. Nevertheless, the practice shows that most of EU countries use immigration detention systematically without considering alternatives. Considering the specific situation of unreturnable third country nationals (), this fact hampers the enjoyment of their human rights. This thesis revises the causes of unreturnability and goes through the legal framework of immigration detention. Moreover, it reviews the practice concerning the detention of irregular migrants in EU member states, which goes against legal standards in several cases. The last part of the thesis explains the alternatives to detention as well as further regularisation mechanisms that the EU member states should envisage whilst dealing with unreturnable TCNs to protect their human rights. Key words: unreturnable TCNs, immigration detention, alternatives to detention, EU, return procedure
Replication code
Creators: name: Koncha, Valeriya
name: Kazun, Anton
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440404
subject: Political economy and social change

description: An increase in morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19 in 2020-2022 has forced various countries to introduce lockdowns. Due to unfavorable economic consequences, this measure often caused a negative attitude toward the population, leading to sabotage and even protests. In this study, we question whether it is possible to change the population's attitude towards lockdown by emphasizing economic loss prevention. Based on the results of an online survey of 23,064 residents of Russia, we show that mentioning the negative economic consequences of a lockdown reduces the level of support for it. In contrast, mentioning the possibility of avoiding long-term negative consequences for the economy reinforces this support. The influence of economic loss prevention treatment holds for the poor and people with full-time employment, although these are groups that the lockdown can affect in the first place. Moreover, we show that economic loss prevention treatment can even influence people's opinions who were initially firmly against the lockdown. However, loss prevention treatment is not significant for people who have already experienced the pandemic's direct negative economic consequences.