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Klasse-S-Leistungsverstärkersystem für Funkanwendungen
No full textAlex Putzer, BScKurzfassung auf deutsch und englischMasterarbeit Universität Innsbruck 202
Klasse-S-Leistungsverstärkersystem für Funkanwendungen
No full textAlex Putzer, BScKurzfassung auf deutsch und englischMasterarbeit Universität Innsbruck 202
Putting the rights of nature on the map. A quantitative analysis of rights of nature initiatives across the world
No full textThe Rights of Nature (RoN) promote a new understanding of the human environment, where natural entities are conceived as subjects with intrinsic value independent of human interests. The implementation of this idea gained momentum in the United States in 2006. One decade and a half later, the idea has spread all over the world. Despite some efforts, a sophisticated geographical inventory of the movement is missing. Building on Kauffman (2020), we identified and analysed 409 initiatives in 39 countries, creating the most comprehensive database of RoN initiatives to date. We developed a taxonomy that may guide further research. We also present two detailed maps which can help policymakers, legislators, judges, researchers, and the public at large to evaluate and compare initiatives. The findings of this investigation directly help the UN Harmony with Nature Programme and have contributed to the launch of the Eco-Jurisprudence Monitor, an online database of RoN initiatives
The Rights of Nature as a Bridge between Land-Ownership Regimes: The Potential of Institutionalized Interplay in Post-Colonial Societies
No full textRights of Nature Database - June 2021
No full textThree Versions of a Rights of Nature Database (updated for June 2021). The work developed into the Eco-Jurisprudence Monitor (ecojurisprudence.org
Linear ODEs: an Algebraic Perspective
No full textThis booklet was intended to provide a minimum of ready-to-use references for the minicourse given by the author during the XXII E ́scola de Algebra (40 Anos), held in Salvador de Bahia (July 2012). It wishes to bring to the fore a number of relationships with other branches of mathematics. Examples include the theory of symmetric functions, the theory of universal decomposition algebras associated to a polynomial, derivations of the exterior algebra of a free module, D-modules, Schubert calculus for the complex Grassmannian, boson-fermion correspondence in the representation theory of the Heisenberg algebr
Putting the rights of nature on the map. A quantitative analysis of rights of nature initiatives across the world – Second Edition
No full textPrivate Rights of Nature
No full textThe Rights of Nature concept not only breaks with the anthropocentrism of existing (environmental) law; it also recognizes that nature has private interests, in addition to being of public interest. That is, whereas in classic sustainability thinking, the use of certain resources is allowed as long as public interests are not systematically/systemically harmed, rights of nature facilitate the protection of nature before planetary boundaries are transgressed. This recognition of nature as having private interests enables the framing of disagreements around ‘nature’ as matters of corrective justice, which renders the application of private legal doctrines more easily conceivable and arguably even necessary.The contributions to this Symposium Collection showcase the viability of the intersection of private law and rights of nature. Firstly, it is necessary to research how existing private law will influence the effectiveness of rights of nature. Such an exercise is undertaken by Björn Hoops, who carefully assesses what rights for the German Black Forest would mean in terms of German constitutional property law. The mirror image of this approach is to explore what impact Rights of Nature will have on private law. Such an approach is taken by Alex Putzer and co-authors in their article on the transformation of land-ownership regimes after the introduction of Rights of Nature in Ecuador and Uganda. A third line of scholarship assesses the significance of Rights of Nature for private law theory: Visa Kurki proposes a new concept of legal personhood, prompting us to think through the meaning of statements like ‘a river is a legal person’
Cerebral glucose hypometabolism in Tick-Borne Encephalitis, a pilot study in 10 Patients
No full textAbstractBackgroundTick borne encephalitis (TBE) is an acute meningoencephalitis with or without myelitis caused by an RNA virus from the flavivirus family transmitted by Ixodes spp ticks. The neurotropic TBE virus infects preferentially large neurons in basal ganglia, anterior horns, medulla oblongata, Purkinje cells and thalamus. Brain metabolic changes related to radiologic and clinical findings have not been described so far.MethodsHere we describe the clinical course of 10 consecutive TBE patients with outcome assessment at discharge and after 12 month using a modified Rankin Scale. Patients underwent cerebral MRI after confirmation of diagnosis and before discharge. 18F-FDG PET/CT scans were performed within day 5 to day 14 after TBE diagnosis. Extended analysis of coagulation parameters by thrombelastometry (ROTEM® InTEM, ExTEM, FibTEM) was performed every other day after confirmation of TBE diagnosis up to day 10 after hospital admission or discharge.ResultsAll patients presented with a meningoencephalitic course of disease. Cerebral MRI scans showed unspecific findings at predilection areas in 3 patients. 18F-FDG PET/CT showed increased glucose utilization in one patient and decreased 18F-FDG uptake in seven patients. Changes in coagulation measured by standard parameters and thrombelastometry were not found in any of the patients.DiscussionGlucose hypometabolism was present in 7 out of 10 TBE patients reflecting neuronal dysfunction in predilection areas of TBE virus infiltration responsible for development of clinical signs and symptoms
