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SPONSORS Lady Butler
No full textRIGHTS GROUP is an international research and information unit registered in Britain as an educational charity under the Charities Act of 1960. Its principal aims are – To secure justice for minority or majority groups suffering discrimination, by investigating their situation and publicising the facts as widely as possible, to educate and alert public opinion throughout the world. To help prevent, through publicity about violations of human rights, such problems from developing into dangerous and destructive conflicts which, when polarised, are very difficult to resolve; and To foster, by its research findings, international understanding of the factors which create prejudiced treatment and group tensions, thus helping to promote the growth of a world conscience regarding human rights. Minority Rights Group urgently needs further funds for its work. Please contribute what you can. MRG is eligible to receive a covenant from UK taxpayers
report Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: failing minorities and indigenous peoples
No full textacknowledges Irish Aid for their financial contribution towards the realization of this report. The author would also like to acknowledge Tatia Khubulava, MRG intern, for additional research and for support during the field visit; MRG Afric
An HCCI combustion engine system using on-board reformed gases of methanol with waste heat recovery : ignition control by hydrogen
No full textAdjusting a proportion of two fuels with different ignition properties is an effective technique for controlling the ignition timing in HCCI combustion. This research newly proposes an HCCI combustion engine system fuelled with dimethyl ether (DME) having a high cetane number and methanol-reformed gas (MRG) having a high anti-knock property. In the system, both DME and MRG are to be produced from methanol by onboard reformers utilising the exhaust heat from the engine. Because the reactions producing DME and MRG are endothermic, a part of exhaust heat energy can be recovered during the fuel reforming process. This research experimentally investigated characteristics of combustion, exhaust emissions, engine efficiency and overall thermal efficiency including the waste heat recovery through the fuel reforming in the HCCI combustion engine system. Because MRG consists of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, effects of the two on the autoignition of DME were also analysed
<i>Make Do and Mend</i>: Exploring Gene Regulation and CRISPR through a FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) Residency with the MRG-Grammar Project
No full text This article documents the artistic research the author undertook for FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) residency. It describes her collaboration with the MRG-Grammar consortium and the creation of an artwork that involved editing the genome of a bacterium using CRISPR to reflect on issues related to antimicrobial resistance, biohacking and control. The article explores the author’s methodology and describes the benefits of long-term embedded residencies to create artworks that are deeply engaged with emerging technologies with a view to enable the public to access the concepts and implications of cutting-edge technologies and scientific research through an artistic lens. </jats:p
Acknowledgements
No full textMinority Rights Group gratefully acknowledges the support of Christian Aid, HEKS, Novib and Oxfam, and all the other organizations and individuals who gave financial and other assistance for this report. This report has been commissioned and is published by MRG as a contribution to public understanding of the issue which forms its subject. The text and views of the author do not necessarily represent, in every detail and in all its aspects, the collective view of MRG. THE AUTHOR DR SHIRIN AKINER is a recognized authority on Central Asia and minority issues. She is the author of numerous articles and books on the region. Dr Akiner is Director o
SPONSORS Lady Butler
No full textis an international research and information unit registered in Britain as an educational charity under the Charities Act of 1960. Its principal aims are – To secure justice for minority or majority groups suffering discrimination, by investigating their situation and publicising the facts as widely as possible, to educate and alert public opinion throughout the world. To help prevent, through publicity about violations of human rights, such problems from developing into dangerous and destructive conflicts which, when polarised, are very difficult to resolve; and To foster, by its research findings, international understanding of the factors which create prejudiced treatment and group tensions, thus helping to promote the growth of a world conscience regarding human rights. The Minority Rights Group urgently needs further funds for its work. Please contribute what you can. MRG is eligible to receive a covenant from UK taxpayers
A PASE BASED TACTIC TOWARDS THIAZOLE TETHER PYRANOPYRAZOLES VIA ECO-FRIENDLY SYNTHETIC ROUTE AND MEASUREMENTS OF INFECTION RESISTANCE POTENTIAL
No full textThe author MRG and GVZ thankful to Ural federal university, Russia for support. Also thankful to Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India, for collaboration works
Quantization loss for convolutional decoding in Rayleigh-fading channels
No full textThis letter presents a theoretical analysis (based on tight upper bounds on the error probability) of quantization loss with integer metrics used for convolutional decoding in the Rayleigh-fading channel. Optimum configurations with respect to the generalized cutoff rate criterion are established for 2-bit, 3-bit and 4-bit quantizers, and corresponding losses with both de facto industry-standard 1/2-rate and associated punctured 3/4-rate codes are evaluated. Assuming optimized thresholds, 4-bit metrics are shown to incur only a small quantization loss. However, results also indicate that the loss is sensitive to suboptimum threshold spacing
The UK Justice and Security Bill 2012-2013: Using secrecy to legitimize the securitization of the law
No full textThe Justice and Security Act of 2013 provides for closed hearings in civil cases involving security sensitive information. The author argues that the UK Government successfully created and reinforced the authority of secretive sources to ensure the Bill was passed. Such authoritative sources promoted imaginaries of a future attack but also the need to respect legal principles that protected members of ‘our’ community. The dynamics between these imaginaries and principles led to the passing of the Bill in its final form – approving closed procedures in court, but removing inquests and issues of the ‘public interest’ from the Bill. Moreover, deliberation of the Bill was represented as negotiated and rational, thereby providing the final Act with legitimacy in elite fields. This research outlines how secrecy may not only be an end-goal of securitization moves, but reference to secret intelligence can also be integral to the justification of these moves
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