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The Working Language of the CJEU: Time for a Change?
Get PDFIt is well known that the working language of the CJEU is French. For many years, the status of French was unquestioned, but this is now changing. This article considers how French came to be chosen as the CJEU’s working language; the effect of that choice on the CJEU’s judicial method; and the feasibility and desirability of a change in the CJEU’s language practices. Has French become an impediment to the CJEU’s capacity to communicate effectively with its stakeholders? Should French be replaced or supplemented? If so, by what? Would any potential benefits that might accrue from changing the CJEU’s language practices be outweighed by the disruption that would be caused? Or do the political sensitivities in play simply make reform impossible
Supplemental Materials for the paper 'Understanding the effect of water transport on the thermal expansion properties of the perovskites BaFe0.6Co0.3Nb0.1O3-d and BaCo0.7Yb0.2Bi0.1O3-d.'
No full textThe supplemental materials include raw data for all figures included in the paper. That includes Tif files for all TEM and SEM scans (not modified) - raw data for XRD scans and sets of data for TGA, dilatometer and mass spectrometer
Pork, Peace and Principles: the Relations between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union
Get PDFOver the last decade the EU faced numerous calls to engage with the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan set up in 2010 and its successor, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), found in 2015. While proponents differ in terms of their justification and desired scope of cooperation, they share the view that it should take place on a region-to-region basis, thus representing an important departure from the EU's approach to the post-Soviet countries. The EU's reluctance to embark on such a course so far has been attributed to the political crisis of EU-Russia relations, especially in the aftermath of the annexation of Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine. In this context, for some, a mega-deal contains not just the promise of economic cooperation and connectivity, but also represents the means to improve relations with Russia and restore peace and stability in Europe.
This paper argues that while these are worthy objectives, the utility of a region-to-region engagement with the EAEU should be premised on a realistic assessment of the nature of Eurasian integration as well as informed by the priorities in EU's external economic relations following its 2006 Global Europe strategy, more generally. To this end, the paper examines the EAEU against three particular dimensions: the extent to which it represents a unified regional actor, its trade liberalisation credentials and its ability to meet the EU's values conditionality. It concludes that the EAEU's institutional set up and practice exhibits fundamental problems in all of them. This means that the expected benefits of a regional mega-deal with the EAEU are highly uncertain, but also that moving away from a bilateral mode of engagement will entail significant departures from EU's principles and approach to external relations more generally
Liquids sensing for industrial applications
Get PDFLiquid is one of the primary state of matter that has so much importance in our lives. The fact that every liquid has distinct property called the dielectric constant. It gives us the opportunity to measure and analyse various form of liquids by simply exposing them to some sort of electrical signal. Today this knowledge of dielectric properties of liquids has become an important tool, if properly interpreted will provide useful information that can be utilised in many ways. From changes in concentration level; to moisture content in plants; to analysis of body fluids to aid medical diagnosis. For instance early detection and monitoring of diseases such as diabetic and cancer in medicine and quality of product in food and petroleum industry. My research is aimed at designing sensors that are capable of investigating liquids with accuracy and at reduce cost using microwave resonators cavities
The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind
Get PDFThe book presented deep important connections between Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy, based partly on an argument that both philosophy and science are primarily concerned with identifying and explaining possibilities contrary to a common view that science is primarily concerned with laws. The book attempted to show in principle how the construction, testing and debugging of complex computational models, explaining possibilities in a new way, can illuminate a collection of deep philosophical problems, e.g. about the nature of mind, the nature of representation, the nature of mathematical discovery. However it did not claim that this could be done easily or that the problems would be solved soon. 40 years later many of them have still not been solved, including explaining how biological brains made possible the deep mathematical discoveries made millennia ago, long before the development of modern logic, often wrongly assumed to provide foundations for all of mathematics. Later work on these ideas includes the author's Meta-Morphogenesis project, inspired by Alan Turing's work: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/meta-morphogenesis.html
Originally published in 1978 by Harvester Press, this went out of print. An electronic version was created from a scanned in copy and then extensively edited with corrections, addtional text, and notes, available online as html or pdf, intermittently updated. This pdf version was created on 2019/07/09
How has TV dramas legitimised China's rural neoliberal transformation agenda?
Get PDFThe Chinese state is leading a neoliberal transformation in China's rural area. A growing number of rural topic TV dramas choose to follow its agenda. However, it is not clear why the TV drama industry gets involved in this rural transformation process, and how much these dramas can help the state to carry out its policies. This study aims to address these issues. By conducting in-depth interviews with government officials, drama professionals and peasants in two villages, supplemented by analyses of relevant literature and archives, this research reveals how China's rural neoliberal transformation process looks like when it intersects with China's media marketisation process. It concludes that the Chinese state is increasingly collaborating with the market for the interpenetration of political-economic interests, and thereby joins the global discussion on how neoliberalism, as a way of governing, works in different socio-political contexts
In the footsteps of Phyllis...: The Birmingham Photographic Grid Project 2017. Library of Birmingham Exhibition
Get PDFTDAG Mids Apr Meeting: The role of trees and greenspaces in mitigating urban heat island, Kieron Doick, Forest Research
Get PDFInternships and Ethnography: students researching students
No full textPresentation from the UXLibs V conference (2019):
What are the benefits of allowing students to lead your UX research, and how can they contribute to your understanding of the lived experience of your users? Our intern took control of a cultural probe into the PGT experience at Birmingham, which also investigated and analysed various UX techniques
Educational leadership in non-white majority schools: a post-colonial perspective on global multicultural capital
Get PDFThis project looks at how both staff and student leaders understand, recognise, and embed diverse embodied cultural capital within the institutional environment/ ethos/ cultural pedagogy of three schools/ colleges based in Leicester. It does so within the historical context of Leicester's multiculturalism. This project looks for evidence of a global multicultural capital embedded within each institution's ethos/ environment/ open spaces. It is looking for evidence of institutional, symbolic, and objectified recognition of embodied non-white cultural capital in institutions where non-white students are the large majority. It does so through a postcolonial theoretical lens. It hopes to find non-white cultural capital embedded within each institution's ethos/ open spaces as a counter-balance to the formal colonial curriculum. It explores whether the embodied narratives, histories, and experiences of non-white students are recognised as a way to contest unequal power relations and oppressive cultural hierarchies within education and wider society
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