cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pruning Sets of Modularity Partitions in Single and Multi-layer Networks Via an Equivalence to Stochastic Block Model Inference
Creators: name: Gibson, Ryan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Partitioning a network into communitites of densely connected nodes is an important problem across a wide range of disciplines. We demonstrate a method for pruning sets of such partitions to identify small subsets that are statistically significant from the perspective of stochastic block model inference. Crucially, our method works in both single and multi-layer domains and allows for restricting to a fixed number of communities when desired. On the examples considered here, our procedure identifies fewer than 10 ``important'' partitions, even when the number of unique input partitions exceeds 100,000. Additionally, we derive upper bounds on the resolution parameter for which modularity maximization can be equivalent to optimizing the likelihood fit to a degree-corrected stochastic block model. We demonstrate that these bounds hold in practice, providing a priori regions where modularity maximization heuristics ``should'' be run if a certain number of communities is desired.
Ge Microdisk with Lithographically-Tunable Strain using CMOS-Compatible Process
Creators: name: Sukhdeo, David S.
name: Petykiewicz, Jan
name: Gupta, Shashank
name: Kim, Daeik
name: Woo, Sungdae
name: Kim, Youngmin
name: Vuckovic, Jelena
name: Saraswat, Krishna C.
name: Nam, Donguk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present germanium microdisk optical resonators under a large biaxial tensile strain using a CMOS-compatible fabrication process. Biaxial tensile strain of ~0.7% is achieved by means of a stress concentration technique that allows the strain level to be customized by carefully selecting certain lithographic dimensions. The partial strain relaxation at the edges of a patterned germanium microdisk is compensated by depositing compressively stressed silicon nitride layer. Two-dimensional Raman spectroscopy measurements along with finite-element method simulations confirm a relatively homogeneous strain distribution within the final microdisk structure. Photoluminescence results show clear optical resonances due to whispering gallery modes which are in good agreement with finite-difference time-domain optical simulations. Our bandgap-customizable microdisks present a new route towards an efficient germanium light source for on-chip optical interconnects.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Establishing Control Over Competitive Market Spaces Through Strategic Branding and Messaging in Niche Markets: A qualitative content analysis of Under Armour and Nike's female and soccer market strategic communications
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Kayla
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This thesis’ research will focus on the broader business question of how up-and-coming
companies can rely on strategic branding and messaging to penetrate a niche
market and subsequently take greater control over a competitive market as a whole
(Moore, 2002). To answer this question, Under Armour will serve as a qualitative content
analysis case, as Under Armour’s social media messaging and branding has helped the 19-
year-old company establish a globalized community, build extensive brand recognition and
earn millions of dollars worth of free media. Under Armour’s efforts have also helped the
company distinguish itself and push toward outcompeting much larger, richer and more
established athletics brands (Hansen, 2015).
By studying the social media branding and messaging strategies of Under Armour,
this research will provide greater insights into how the young corporation can continue to
leverage social media strategic communication to penetrate a niche market and compete
more squarely with behemoth athletic companies like Nike. On a broader scale, this
research will provide valuable insights into how emerging corporations can rely on
strategic messaging and branding to establish footholds in contested niche markets,
expand laterally and grow in a sustainable manner (Moore, 2002).
Localisation of directional scale-discretised wavelets on the sphere
Creators: name: McEwen, Jason D.
name: Durastanti, Claudio
name: Wiaux, Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scale-discretised wavelets yield a directional wavelet framework on the sphere where a signal can be probed not only in scale and position but also in orientation. Furthermore, a signal can be synthesised from its wavelet coefficients exactly, in theory and practice (to machine precision). Scale-discretised wavelets are closely related to spherical needlets (both were developed independently at about the same time) but relax the axisymmetric property of needlets so that directional signal content can be probed. Needlets have been shown to satisfy important quasi-exponential localisation and asymptotic uncorrelation properties. We show that these properties also hold for directional scale-discretised wavelets on the sphere and derive similar localisation and uncorrelation bounds in both the scalar and spin settings. Scale-discretised wavelets can thus be considered as directional needlets.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures, minor changes to match version accepted for publication by ACHA
Growing intersections of counter-terrorism measures and the rule of law: case studies of the United Kingdom, France and the United States of America
Creators: name: Ragulyte, Justina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: national security
France
Great Britain
United States of America
rule of law
terrorism

description: Second semester University: New University of Lisbon.
description: This study is an initial attempt to investigate gradually growing gap between counterterrorism measures and the rule of law with an emphasis added on a civil society. The study examines a controversial issue of terrorism definition which provides the grounding for further investigation of international human rights law violations. Thesis examines liberal democracies that used to be in the front of promoting and protecting human rights – the United Kingdom, the United States of America and France. Each country is examined separately, providing the documentation how states have reacted to the threat posed by terrorism and provides the extent to which counter-terror measures have changed the legal landscape. Flowingly the impact on a civil society has been examined in the United Kingdom at World Counter Terror Expo 2016. The methodology is a broadly based consultative process with professionals as well as supporting augments with credible surveys. Finally, the thesis acknowledges that current implementation of the counterterrorism measures deeply contradicts the international human rights norms. Finally, the examination argues that states take individual approach to a global issue putting in jeopardy human rights which has been evident within the civil society.
Lack of Free Choice Reveals the Cost of Multiple-Target Search Within and Across Feature Dimensions
Creators: name: Ort, Eduard
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: attentional template
subject: cognitive control
subject: eye movement
subject: visual attention
subject: visual search

description: Data and material of Ort, E., Fahrenfort, J. J., & Olivers, C. N. L. (in press). Lack of Free Choice Reveals the Cost of Multiple-Target Search Within and Across Feature Dimensions. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
MPEC 2024-R102 : 2024 RH3
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 RH3

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.
Delayed Offloading using Cloud Cooperated Millimeter Wave Gates
Creators: name: Mohamed, Ehab Mahmoud
name: Sakaguchi, Kei
name: Sampei, Seiichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Increasing wireless cellular networks capacity is one of the major challenges for the coming years, especially if we consider the annual doubling of mobile user traffic. Towards that and thanks to the fact that a significant amount of mobile data is indeed delay tolerable, in this paper, we suggest embedding the delayed offloading of some user traffic to be a part of future wireless cellular networks. To accomplish this, user delayed files will be offloaded using ultra-high speed Millimeter Wave (Mm-W) Gates. The Mm-W Gate, which will be distributed inside the Macro basestation (BS) area, consists of number of Mm-W Access Points (APs) controlled by a local coordinator installed inside the Gate. To effectively manage the delayed offloading mechanism, utilizing the concept of User/Control (U/C) data splitting, the Gates coordinators and the Macro BS are connected to the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) through optical fiber links. Also, files offloading organizer software is used by the User Equipment (UE). A novel weighted proportional fairness (WPF) user scheduling algorithm is proposed to maximize the Gate Offloading Efficiency (GOFE) with maintaining long term fairness among the different mobility users pass through the Gate. If the Gate is properly designed and the files delay deadlines are properly set; near 100% GOFE with average reduction of 99.7% in UE energy consumption can be obtained, in time the user just passes through the Gate.
description: 5 pages, 7 Figures, IEEE Intentional Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2014
Tree-Level Unitarity and Renormalizability in Lifshitz Scalar Theory
Creators: name: Fujimori, Toshiaki
name: Inami, Takeo
name: Izumi, Keisuke
name: Kitamura, Tomotaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study unitarity and renormalizability in the Lifshitz scalar field theory, which is characterized by an anisotropic scaling between the space and time directions. Without the Lorentz symmetry, both the unitarity and the renormalizability conditions are modified from those in relativistic theories. We show that for renormalizability, an extended version of the power counting condition is required in addition to the conventional one. The unitarity bound for S-matrix elements also gives stronger constraints on interaction terms because of the reference frame dependence of scattering amplitudes. We prove that both unitarity and renormalizability require identical conditions as in the case of conventional relativistic theories.
description: 31 pages, 11 figures
title: Philosophy of Religion
Creators: name: Dias Branco, Sérgio
Publisher: name: IFILNOVA - NOVA FCSH
Year: 2013

description: This issue addresses the topic of philosophy of religion and its connections with cinematic art. Film and religion have been fruitful research topics taken in conjunction. Different philosophical fields have addressed film, from the philosophy of art to the philosophy of mind, yet philosophy of religion has been a field lacking in the philosophical discussion of film. This issue aims at addressing this lack.
description: Sérgio Dias Branco (eds), “Philosophy of Religion,” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image vol.4 (2013)
description: ISSN: 1647-8991
MPEC 2024-C21 : 2024 BG5
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 BG5

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.
Women domestic workers in Egypy : a critical analysis on the rights of women domestic workers in Egypt
Creators: name: Yacoub, Christine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: domestic workers
Egypt
labour law
women

description: Second semester University: University of Nottingham.
description: “Domestic work is one of the oldest and most important occupations for many women in many countries.” It is a deeply-rooted problem in all across the globe and it is present in our society from antiquity. This thesis begins with the brief overview of the Egyptian society and talks about the plight of women domestic workers In Egypt and their available national legal remedies in compliance with the international labor standards for women domestic workers in Egypt. Thesis has highlighted the lack of protections provided to domestic workers all across the globe. This thesis has shown that in absence of legal protections, domestic workers have become quite vulnerable in comparison to other workers. More than 52 million persons are domestic workers worldwide and only 10 % of them have been given the rights at par with other workers. Some of them have been completely left out from the legal remedy and it has exposed them for the exploitation from their employers and the recruiters of domestic workers. The exploitation of domestic workers can be termed as the violation of human rights where human dignity, liberty and the right of equality are grossly compromised. This situation defeats the dream of the UN for larger freedom and it can partly attributed to the gaps and discriminatory legislations in national labor laws. Some states have successfully incorporated the legal protections for women domestic workers in their national legislation such as South Africa and Jordon. Their legal remedy given to women domestic workers is welcome step for the promising and better lives of workers. The best practices of other countries can be replicate in Egypt, too, and there should be focus in strengthening the law enforcement tools of the countries so after adopting of law for women domestic workers, that can be executed too.
Towards investigation of evolution of dynamical systems with independence of time accuracy: more classes of systems
Creators: name: Gurzadyan, V. G.
name: Kocharyan, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently developed method (Paper 1) enabling one to investigate the evolution of dynamical systems with an accuracy not dependent on time is developed further. The classes of dynamical systems which can be studied by that method are much extended, now including systems that are; (1) non-Hamiltonian, conservative; (2) Hamiltonian with time-dependent perturbation; (3) non-conservative (with dissipation). These systems cover various types of N-body gravitating systems of astrophysical and cosmological interest, such as the orbital evolution of planets, minor planets, artificial satellites due to tidal, non-tidal perturbations and thermal thrust, evolving close binary stellar systems, and the dynamics of accretion disks.
description: Eur. Phys. Journ. C (in press), to match the published version, 4 pages
Elaphoglossum tectum 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 tectum

description: Elaphoglossum tectum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) T.Moore, Index Fil. 15. 1857. (Fig. 32A–D)
 Range: —Antilles, mountains from Mexico to Bolivia (BE, LP), southeastern Brazil.
 Ecology: —Rare; saxicolous and terrestrial, on rocks and walls, in semihumid and humid habitats; 700–2900 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Haldane-Hubbard Mott Insulator: From Tetrahedral Spin Crystal to Chiral Spin Liquid
Creators: name: Hickey, Ciarán
name: Cincio, Lukasz
name: Papić, Zlatko
name: Paramekanti, Arun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by cold atom experiments on Chern insulators, we study the honeycomb lattice Haldane-Hubbard Mott insulator of spin-$1/2$ fermions using exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group methods. We show that this model exhibits various chiral magnetic orders including a wide regime of triple-Q tetrahedral order. Incorporating third-neighbor hopping frustrates and ultimately melts this tetrahedral spin crystal. From analyzing low energy spectra, many-body Chern numbers, entanglement spectra, and modular matrices, we identify the molten state as a chiral spin liquid (CSL) with gapped semion excitations. We formulate and study the Chern-Simons-Higgs field theory of the exotic CSL-to-tetrahedral spin crystallization transition.
description: 4 pages, Supplemental Material (3 pages). Revised following referee comments. Published version
Targeted approach to unaccompanied migrant minors : a monitoring instrument to improve the efficacy of national policies. The case study of Italy
Creators: name: Matarese, Serena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: children
Italy
human rights monitoring
migrants
unaccompained migrant children
young people

description: Second semester University: Maastricht University
description: Migration represents today, especially for European Countries, one of the most crucial challenges. It is a multifaceted phenomenon, characterized by a plurality of individuals, with different needs and aspirations. Among them, peculiar importance is covered by unaccompanied migrant minors. The latter’s recognition is quite recent and it is based on the absence of adults’ care, which makes children particularly vulnerable. In this context, to positively approach migration represents an essential goal to be reached for the satisfaction all subjects involved: migrants, citizens, States. This Thesis focuses on unaccompanied migrant minors aged between 15 and 18 years (who represent the highest and most complex presence), in order to identify both their peculiarities and the best instruments to provide adequate normative answers. Substantially, two ideas sustain this approach: on the one hand, that each group of individuals composing the migrant population has peculiar needs; on the other hand that the individuation of such characteristics, and the consequent articulation of national intervention, can lead to more efficacy implementation of guarantees and protections. On the basis of the peculiarities typifying unaccompanied minors above fifteen years of age, a specific Monitoring Instrument has been proposed to improve State’s evaluation of existing policies and their development of future legislations. Finally, the case study of Italy has been analysed, also through the application of the Monitoring Instrument. Thus, the Thesis has been provided with a higher level of effectiveness. Firstly, the phenomenon of unaccompanied migrant minors has been investigated and evaluated in the context of one of the most sensible European State of destination. Secondly, the Monitoring Instrument’s efficacy has been evaluated, in order to define future refinements and implementations. In the whole development of the research and analysis, Human Rights have been recognized a peculiar role: the unavoidable frame for States’ constructive interventions. Indeed, Human Rights provide States with general scopes and objectives, leaving space to develop national policies in consideration of different realities, resources and cultures.
Improving the Effectiveness of the Grameen Bank of Uganda
Creators: name: Sridhar, Mahati
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Micro-finance is a lending solution for low-income and developing regions of the world.
However, creating the most effective model for microfinance requires specific tailoring
for each region and each target segment. One specific organization that is facing the
challenges from the lack of an effective model is the Grameen Bank in Uganda. In
comparison to some of its peer institutions, the Grameen Bank has much lower women
outreach and rural penetration. Through my research, I provide qualitative and
quantitative analyses of various microfinance ventures throughout Africa. These analyses
discuss the importance of rural penetration, women inclusion, financial education, and
deposit vs loan ratios. In the end, I provide solutions to the Grameen Bank of Uganda for
how they can improve their outreach with more tailored solutions in line with their peer
institutions.
Psychedelic rehabilitation for drug policy and trauma survivors : advancing mental health care by granting access to MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder
Creators: name: Pyle, Lily Jarrett
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: drug
medical care
mental health

description: Second semester University: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
description: According to current international drug policy, psychedelic drugs share the same abuse and ad-dictability potential as heroin. The presumption is that acknowledging any different would not only pose a threat to the safety and health of society but would compromise established moral values. Legislators have created a campaign against psychedelics since their revival in the 1960s, fighting a war against an imagined evil. Refusing to allow space for possible therapeutic applications of psychedelic drugs prevents individuals from a better quality of life and therefore violates human rights. MDMA-assisted therapy (±3,4-Methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) has been used successfully for year by an underground network of psychotherapist to treat PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder). After its popularisation in the 1980s, it was given an emergency assignment as a schedule I substance and would arbitrarily remain classified in the most restrictive categorisa-tion. Drug policy continues to make research with MDMA a slow and expensive endeavour. Those suffering from PTSD still cannot access MDMA-assisted therapy despite its on-going 25-year development as a new drug with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). MDMA-assisted therapy is the single most effective, efficient, and humane treatment for PTSD and the possibly greatest innovation in psychiatric care with the past 100 years. This thesis will address how MDMA was illegally categorised as a schedule I substance and how legislators ignored the recommendations of the administrative judge, scientific evidence, and the criteria for scheduling substances. The scheduling of MDMA was a classic example of legal paternalism which impedes on personal autonomy, self-determination, and human dignity. Individuals should be afforded the right and responsibility to make informed decisions about their treatment options with the aid of an overseeing physician. The law cannot adequately as-sess the needs of each individual, especially when making uneducated decisions according to 'moral‘ code. When addressing the ethical concerns of MDMA, this thesis will demonstrate that this treatment is in fact more humane and respects the entirety of human rights.
Foreign agents or human rights defenders? The protection of non-governmental organisations in Russia vis-à-vis Council of Europe model : case study of 2012 "Law of Russian Federation on Foreign Agents"
Creators: name: Skalova, Marie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: administration of justice
Russian Federation
criminal procedure
NGOs

description: Second semester University: Tartu University
description: This thesis examines the compatibility of the Russian framework for protection of non- governmental organisations (NGOs) in law and practice with the model approved by the Council of Europe. While NGOs are recognised as legal personalities and subjects to international law by the Strasbourg system and as key elements of a pluralist democracy, the Russian system does not protect them in the same manner. The author of this thesis argues that the main reason why Russia does not recognise NGOs as ‘equal partners’ is because they may be perceived as a ‘danger’ to its sovereignty and state-centred approach to international law. The thesis focuses on the ‘Law on Foreign Agents’ adopted in 2012 that regulates mainly Russian human rights NGOs. As a result of a legal analysis, the author finds that the individual rights to freedom of assembly and association and expression are not respected in Russia. The issue of protection of NGOs represents yet another landmark in the Russia-Council of Europe human rights partnership which has been since its beginning a ‘battle’ of sovereignty versus interference in the state affairs. Therefore, there still remains a question whether the Western model of individual rights is applicable to the Russian context with its socio- cultural and political specificities.
Aus der metrologischen Welt
Creators: name: Simon, Jens
name: Jahr, Rüdiger
name: Klauenberg, Katy
name: Elster, Clemens
name: Smandek, Bernhard
name: Barthel, Andreas
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: PTB-Präsidium
Nachruf
Deutsche Wiedervereinigung
Deutsch-Chinesische Zusammenarbeit
Neutronenstrahlen
Neutronenmetrologie
Neutronenmasse
Neutronen-Wirkungsquerschnitte
Planck-Konstante
Ehemaliger Forschungsreaktor der PTB
Forschungs- und Messreaktor
Leichtwasserreaktor
Neutronenphysik
Reaktorrückbau
Radioaktive Abfälle

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 128 (2018), Heft 2. ISSN 0030-834X
Kinematics of fluid particles on the sea surface. Hamiltonian theory
Creators: name: Fedele, Francesco
name: Chandre, Cristel
name: Farazmand, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the John-Sclavounos equations describing the motion of a fluid particle on the sea surface from first principles using Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms applied to the motion of a frictionless particle constrained on an unsteady surface. The main result is that vorticity generated on a stress-free surface vanishes at a wave crest when the horizontal particle velocity equals the crest propagation speed, which is the kinematic criterion for wave breaking. If this holds for the largest crest, then the symplectic two-form associated with the Hamiltonian dynamics reduces instantaneously to that associated with the motion of a particle in free flight, as if the surface did not exist. Further, exploiting the conservation of the Hamiltonian function for steady surfaces and traveling waves we show that particle velocities remain bounded at all times, ruling out the possibility of the finite-time blowup of solutions.
From 'rights bearers' to 'rights beggars' : the practice of human rights under the rule of corruption : a theoretical argument on how dark social capital converts basic human rights into privileges via lack of trust and closed networks - focus on post-communist member states of the European Union
Creators: name: Turcanu, Geanina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: corruption
Eastern Europe
European Union countries
human rights
rule of law
state responsibility

description: Second semester University: University of Ljubljana
description: In light of internationally defined and enforced human rights standards, the state is the only entity which can be held legally responsible for human rights violations of its citizens. The current Thesis asks the question of what happens when it is the state itself perpetrating infringements that do not always and necessarily amount to the status of violations, nonetheless the insidious mechanisms through which they are systematically and intentionally carried out trigger random regular negative impacts on the very substance of otherwise legally protected basic rights and freedoms of its citizens. Such is the example of public sector corruption in post-communist states and new EU member states implicitly, which triggers structural and regular negative impacts on the very basic human rights of its citizens. The current Thesis constitutes an attempt to describe the above mentioned mechanisms through a theoretical endeavour, proposing to reconceptualise corruption through the lenses of the conceptual framework of ‗social capital‘. A sociological approach to corruption is desirable in light of the overwhelming failed attempts to tackle it which concentrated exclusively on a legal approach. In order to grasp the mechanisms through which insidious informal practices like nepotism, patronage and clientelism survive and undermine the rule of law, a distinction between exceptional and systemic corruption needs to be made, which the EU fails to acknowledge in its new anti-corruption strategy. Systemic corruption creates a rule of its own paralleling and undermining the rule of law and needs to be acknowledged as such.
Elaphoglossum ruficomum 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 ruficomum

description: Elaphoglossum ruficomum Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot., n.s., 27: 159. 1991. (Fig. 57A–I)
 Range: —Andes from northern Peru to Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Fairly common; terrestrial, rarely epiphytic, in humid forests and páramo vegetation; 1900–3400 m.
 Notes: —Recognized by its long ((6–) 12–20 mm), linear, bright red-orange rhizome scales.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
The right to healthy environment: potential of the European Convention on Human Rights
Creators: name: Shavela, Volha
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: environment
European Convention on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights

description: Second semester University: University of Padua.
description: The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) does not include any article specifically designed to provide a general protection of the environment as such. But many believe that the ECHR has already established one of the most remarkable mechanisms of control and guarantee of “right to a healthy environment” through the evolving interpretation of existing provisions. This paper intends to present the limits of the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence in regard of environmental cases and shows how Europe and the world would benefit if the right to a healthy environment became a stand-alone right in the ECHR. Key words: Human Rights, Environment; Right to a Healthy Environment; European Court of Human Rights; European Convention on Human Rights.
Freedoms of access to food : exploring the right to adequate food through the capabilities approach
Creators: name: Palasuberniam, Preetha
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: right to food
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
World Trade Organisation
agriculture
India
South Africa
malnutrition

description: Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast
description: The double burden of malnutrition is a major concern in terms of policy and practice. The right to adequate food is outlined to include access to food in terms of quality and quantity, noting personal requirements and cultural preferences. The capabilities approach detracted from a food supply perspective, promoted by Malthusian fears and enabled by GATT, to a focus on creating access to food. Promotion of trade liberalisation under the Agreement on Agriculture is supported by the capabilities approach, but in practice trade distortions and restrictions prevent the creation of a fair and equal market and hindering local food security and food sovereignty capabilities. The agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights motivates research and development that can enhance capabilities and development. Careful implementation under its provisions must be taken to not hamper biodiversity or food sovereignty. Finally, to further enhance access to adequate food, legal measures can help to ensure trade law, policies, and programmes are aligned with the each other.
Elaphoglossum yungense de la Sota, Darwiniana
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 yungense

description: Elaphoglossum yungense de la Sota, Darwiniana 18: 246, f. 5. 1973. (Fig. 31F–L)
 Range: — Peru to northwestern Argentina. In Bolivia, known from CH, CO, LP, SC.
 Ecology: —Common; saxicolous and terrestrial, only accidentally epiphytic, on rocks, roadsides, and cliffs in semihumid and humid forests; 1000–2300(–3200) m.
 Sect. Polytrichia (Sodiro) Christ, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Gesammten Naturwiss. 36(1): 22. 1899.
 A small group characterized by lack of hydathodes and by bearing subulate (inrolled) scales on the blades and petioles. In some species, the subulate scales are inrolled only at the bases and flattened distally. While the group as such is distinctive and includes some of the most familiar species of Elaphoglossum in Bolivia, the delimitation of species in the group of E. barbatum is highly problematic, and detailed research throughout the Neotropics is badly needed.
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
Single Nugget Kriging
Creators: name: Lee, Minyong R.
name: Owen, Art B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a method with better predictions at extreme values than the standard method of Kriging. We construct our predictor in two ways: by penalizing the mean squared error through conditional bias and by penalizing the conditional likelihood at the target function value. Our prediction exhibits robustness to the model mismatch in the covariance parameters, a desirable feature for computer simulations with a restricted number of data points. Applications on several functions show that our predictor is robust to the non-Gaussianity of the function.
Ethnic Capital and STEM Participation: The Impact of Ethnic Group Characteristics on the Educational and Occupational Achievement of Second-Generational Immigrants
Creators: name: Wong, Francis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Most of the economic and sociological literature on the outcomes of children of immigrants uses income or years of education to measure the extent to which human capital is transferred from parent to child. This paper examines the role of parent human capital and levels of ethnic community human capital in predicting participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey (CILS) provides data in three waves on children of immigrants and follows respondents from age fourteen to twenty-four. A multilevel probit model which allows for errors to be clustered at the ethnic community level is used in the analysis. This paper finds that parent human capital and ethnic community capital help predict child participation in these fields. Ethnic community characteristics produce consistently significant effects, suggesting that higher levels of ethnic capital contribute to higher rates of participation in STEM fields. Due to systematic residential decisions by immigrants, neighborhood quality serves as a proxy variable for parent human capital. The effects of ethnic community are not mitigated when controlling for neighborhood or source country characteristics.
Towards the azimuthal characteristics of ionospheric and seismic effects of "Chelyabinsk" meteorite fall according to the data from coherent radar, GPS and seismic networks
Creators: name: Berngardt, O. I.
name: Perevalova, N. P.
name: Kutelev, K. A.
name: Zherebtsov, G. A.
name: Dobrynina, A. A.
name: Shestakov, N. V.
name: Zagretdinov, R. V.
name: Bakhtiyarov, V. F.
name: Kusonsky, O. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a study of the azimuthal characteristics of ionospheric and seismic effects of the meteorite 'Chelyabinsk', based on the data from the network of GPS receivers, coherent decameter radar EKB SuperDARN and network of seismic stations. It is shown, that 6-14 minutes after the bolide explosion, GPS network observed the cone-shaped wavefront of TIDs that is interpreted as a ballistic acoustic wave. The typical TIDs propagation velocity were observed 661+/-256m/s, which corresponds to the expected acoustic wave speed for 240km height. 14 minutes after the bolide explosion, at distances of 200km we observed the emergence and propagation of a TID with spherical wavefront, that is interpreted as gravitational mode of internal acoustic waves. The propagation velocity of this TID was 337+/-89m/s which corresponds to the propagation velocity of these waves in similar situations. At EKB SuperDARN radar, we observed TIDs in the sector of azimuthal angles close to the perpendicular to the meteorite trajectory. The observed TID velocity (400 m/s) and azimuthal properties correlate well with the model of ballistic wave propagating at 120-140km altitude. It is shown, that the azimuthal distribution of the amplitude of vertical seismic oscillations can be described qualitatively by the model of vertical strike-slip rupture, propagating at 1km/s along the meteorite fall trajectory to distance of about 40km. These parameters correspond to the direction and velocity of propagation of the ballistic wave peak by the ground. It is shown, that the model of ballistic wave caused by supersonic motion and burning of the meteorite in the upper atmosphere can satisfactorily explain the various azimuthal ionospheric effects, observed by the coherent decameter radar EKB SuperDARN, GPS-receivers network, as well as the azimuthal characteristics of seismic waves at large distances.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures. To be submitted to JGR
Making room for the rights of intersex children : legal perspectives on intersex genital surgeries
Creators: name: Holzer, Lena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: gender identity
genital surgeries
intersexuality

description: Second semester University: Utrecht University.
description: The rights of intersex persons are a new topic on the human rights agenda. It has only been in the last ten years that international and national human rights institutions have started to address the issue of subjecting intersex children to “cosmetic” genital surgeries in order to make their genitalia look typically female or male. This thesis explores different legal approaches for regulating these medically unnecessary intersex genital surgeries performed on non-consenting children. At first, this study examines how international and national human rights bodies have so far responded to intersex rights activists’ claims that the surgical alteration of children’s intersexed genitalia are human rights violations. The primary focus of this thesis is to analyse the extent to which different national approaches of protecting the rights of intersex persons have truly been in the best interests of intersex children. General Comment No. 14 of the CRC Committee provides the analytical framework for evaluating whether or not a legal measure ensures the child’s best interests. The study aims to shed some light on the debate on which legal measures need to be implemented in the future if states want to ensure that intersex children’s human rights are not being violated as a consequence of genital surgeries.
The complexity of counting locally maximal satisfying assignments of Boolean CSPs
Creators: name: Goldberg, Leslie Ann
name: Jerrum, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68Q17

description: We investigate the computational complexity of the problem of counting the maximal satisfying assignments of a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) over the Boolean domain {0,1}. A satisfying assignment is maximal if any new assignment which is obtained from it by changing a 0 to a 1 is unsatisfying. For each constraint language Gamma, #MaximalCSP(Gamma) denotes the problem of counting the maximal satisfying assignments, given an input CSP with constraints in Gamma. We give a complexity dichotomy for the problem of exactly counting the maximal satisfying assignments and a complexity trichotomy for the problem of approximately counting them. Relative to the problem #CSP(Gamma), which is the problem of counting all satisfying assignments, the maximal version can sometimes be easier but never harder. This finding contrasts with the recent discovery that approximately counting maximal independent sets in a bipartite graph is harder (under the usual complexity-theoretic assumptions) than counting all independent sets.
description: V2 adds contextual material relating the results obtained here to earlier work in a different but related setting. The technical content is unchanged. V3 (this version) incorporates minor revisions. The title has been changed to better reflect what is novel in this work. This version has been accepted for publication in Theoretical Computer Science. 19 pages
title: Embodiment and the Body
Creators: name: Silveirinha Castello Branco, Patrícia
Publisher: name: IFILNOVA - NOVA FCSH
Year: 2012

description: This issue takes up the theme of embodiment and the body, its relationship to cinema’s history (theory and practice), and its reawaken in a recent body of research attentive, not only to film, but also to video and to new media.
description: Patrícia Castello Branco (Ed), “Embodiment and the Body,” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image vol.3 (2012).

description: ISSN: 1647-8991
The scope of application of the right to life : does Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights include a right to die?
Creators: name: Koullen, Caroline
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: euthanasia
right to life
European Convention on Human Rights - Article 2

description: Second semester University: Université de Strasbourg.
description: How do European societies influence international Human Rights Law and how does the European Court of Human Rights respond to the demands of an evaluating and pluralistic society? Those are the questions that will be analysed in this thesis, with regard to a specific topic which is ever more emerging within Europe: euthanasia and assisted suicide. In relation to this, special consideration will be given to the margin of appreciation system, leading to a variety of accepted national interpretations of Article 2 with regard to the alleged implied “right to die” within the meaning of the right to life. Considering the case law on euthanasia and assisted suicide of the ECtHR, deductions and possible changes within the law will be evaluated. Since the topic of euthanasia does not only include a legal, but also a philosophical and moral aspect, concepts like dignity and morality will also be treated in this thesis in order to position euthanasia within those concepts and with regard to the meaning of the European Convention of Human Rights as a living document. To concretize the different theoretical claims, the thesis will focus on a specific country (Luxembourg), which has decriminalized euthanasia and assisted suicide. Altogether, the thesis deals with the questions on how to organize legislation at European level if there are considerable discrepancies concerning a specific subject at both national and international level, how to handle social evolution and emancipation and how to define a democracy in Europe in terms of individual rights.
title: Poshumanism. Human and Non-Human: Links, Continuum, Interplay
Creators: name: Silveirinha Castello Branco, Patrícia
Publisher: name: IFILNOVA - NOVA FCSH
Year: 2015

description: This issue discusses Poshumanism as a way to explore alternative understandings to both the Moderm/Humanistic and Postmodern views on the issues of Technological Images, New Media and Human and Nonhuman interplay.
description: Patrícia Castello Branco (ed), “Poshumanism. Human and Non-Human: Links, Continuum, Interplay,” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image vol.7 (2015)
description: ISSN: 1647-8991
Democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood : an assessment of European neighbourhood policy as a framework for external democracy promotion
Creators: name: Birch, Jennifer
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: democratisation
development aid policy
European Union
foreign policy

description: Second semester University: Masaryk University, Brno.
description: With 2014 marking the 10th anniversary of the genesis of the European Union’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), this thesis analyses whether the policy has constituted an effective framework for external democracy promotion after a decade of implementation. The thesis focuses on six case study countries from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, as well as external evaluations of the policy and direct interviews with policy makers and experts in the area. It assesses a number of key questions pertaining to the effectiveness of the ENP in the promotion of democracy, as well as the ENPs ability to evaluate and develop itself in reaction to the changing neighbourhood. This thesis argues that the European Union has no clear or unified road map for the region, neither defined in the policy nor agreed between its many member states. The EU has failed over the last 10 years to adequately assess itself and to adapt to a changing neighbourhood. The EU has further failed, because it has become satisfied with supporting façade democracies, preferring stability in its neighbourhood over real democratic progress.