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State and Church Relationships under the European Convention on Human Rights: A Value Framework for State Action
No full textAs they impact the condition of religious groups, and in fine that of the very individuals composing them, state-church relationships are an important dimension of religious freedom. The way states interact with religious groups, communities, and associations has a decisive impact on the religious condition of their members, in their effort to develop their religious beliefs or practices. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to explore the European Court of Human Rights’ regulation of state-church relationships. The research focuses on ECtHR’s judgments issued on article 9, either autonomously or in connection with article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It also considers cases adjudicated upon article 2 of Protocol I to the Convention. For optimal consistency with Europe’s social evolution, however, special attention was given to those cases issued from early 2011. The article argues that behind the margin of appreciation granted for states to enact any system they see fit, the Court puts forward limits they cannot trespass. Indeed, the systems adopted have to abide by the values underlying the Convention as a whole. The article argues said values materialize a global framework that unifies states into one European global approach, thus giving a further illustration of the oligopolistic Pluralism that the Court develops in its regulation of individual religious freedom
Protection of European Values at the International Level: The European Court of Human Rights and Freedom of Religion
No full textFundamental values and principles such as rule of law, democracy and human rights are at the heart of growing concerns within Europe and its Institutions — from the European Union to the Council of Europe. This Article explores how the European Court of Human Rights protects European fundamental values through its main instrument—the European Convention on Human Rights—, with a special focus on article 9 and religious freedom. Religion is a powerful social force, it is still at the heart of social dynamics and henceforth, through the values it tends to endow individual behavior with, is at the heart of the value frameworks structuring societies. A chronological reading of the Court’s judgments in religious cases shows the Court has developed, through the years, a specific reasoning that spins around a set of values said to underly the whole Convention, for being the fundamental values and principles of the European Society as a whole. The Article argues this approach tends to favor the latter values and principles sometimes over religious behaviors. It amounts, therefore, to consecrating a European value order on which the Convention is said to rest, from which it is said to rise, and at the conservation of which its application aims
Religion in Society: New Paradigm and New Challenges
No full textIn the early decades of the XX century, religion, as a social fact, was considered a dying agent. Social scientists had settled for the upcoming death of religion and the gradual secularization of society and individual minds. In the late decades of the same century, though, a radical shift shook that paradigm: field observation showed religion was still present within society and individual minds, it was only hiding behind new patterns and principles that social sciences’ mindset of the time could not grasp:. It was becoming more individual an experience, less rigid, more spiritual, and relegating religious institutions and prominent religious figures to a very limited and narrow dimension of social life. In short: it is individual religious experience, as a lived reality, that mutated. This mutation drove with it new issues and challenges for social scientists to explore—especially lawyers, sociologists and political scientists—and warrants new interdisciplinary approaches for scholarship in the domain
Trophoniella radesiensis Chaibi & Antit & Bouhedi & Meca & Gillet & Azzouna & Martin 2019, n. sp.
No full textTrophoniella radesiensis n. sp. Chaibi and Gillet Figures 3–6 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: D7C85C70-87FF-4AF4-8599-A8462B3FB8B1 Material examined. Holotype: MNCN16.01 /18453, collected on 25 Nov 2015 in Radés Station, Gulf of Tunis (15°55′ N, 97°41′ W) by the first author. Paratypes: MNCN 16.01 /18454. 6 specimens, same data as for holotype; UCO T FLA 025.1specimen, same data as for holotype. Diagnosis. Body covered by sediments of different grain size (50–1000 µm of long axe) embedded on tunic, completely concealed except in posterior region. Tunic pale, dorsally smooth, ventrally rough, with large papillae, carrying sediment grains and particles. Body papillae arranged in two dorsal and four ventral rows. Branchial plate tongue-shaped. Unidentate anchylosed neurohooks from chaetiger 20. Description. Holotype with some chaetae broken, non-reproductive adult, unknown sex. 35 mm long, 4 mm wide, with 60 chaetigers; paratypes varying from 30–43 mm long and 1–4 mm wide for 43–74 chaetigers (Fig. 3 A– E). Anterior body sub-cylindrical in cross-section, tapering towards pygidium. Tunic transparent, dorsally smooth, ventrally rough with large papillae, carrying sediment grains and particles with long axes ranging from 50 to 1000 µm, totally embedded in tunic, completely concealing it dorsally and ventrally, absent in posterior region. Pale brown, slightly reddish anteriorly. Cephalic cage 12 mm long, with chaetae ca. 1.5 times longer than body width, formed by chaetigers 1–5; chaetiger 2 dorsolateral, chaetiger 3–4 lateral. Chaetal transition from cephalic cage to body chaetae gradual (Fig. 3A, 3 C–E). Body papillae similar in colour to body wall, mostly eroded, arising in two dorsal and four ventral longitudinal rows from first chaetiger to posterior end, better preserved anterior-most body region (Fig. 3A, 3 C–E). Parapodia well developed. Noto and neuropodia have four prechaetal papillae and five postchaetal papillae (Fig. 3C). Especially long papillae absent from anterior chaetigers. Gonopodial papillae not seen. Chaetiger 1 with about six notochaetae and eight neurochaetae; anterior dorsal margin with dorsal papillae, arising as a multifid cephalic veil (Fig. 4A). Chaetiger 5 widening posteriorly. Cephalic hood not exposed. Caruncle short and triangular (Fig. 4C, 4D). Branchiae cirriform, arising from tongue-shaped branchial plate, arranged in two lateral lobes (Fig. 4A, 4D), thin, long (0.5–3mm), whitish once preserved in ethanol, with ca. 60 filaments. Palp, long, corrugated, pale, as long as largest branchiae, 6 mm long (Fig. 4B, 4C). Prostomium lowcone, with two large and two small black eyes (Fig. 3D, 3E). Lateral lip expanded; dorsal and ventral lips not well developed (Fig. 3D, 3E). Notochaetae all multiarticulated capillaries; articles progressively longer towards falcate tips; medial ones in short longitudinal series, 4–7 per bundle; some yellowish some dark brown; unidentate tips (Fig. 5 A–5D). Multiarticulated capillary neurochaeta from chaetiger 2 to 5, then short unidentate neurohooks from chaetiger 6 to 19 (Fig. 6A) and anchylosed hooks from chaetiger 20 to body end (Fig. 6B), darker than preceding ones, arranged in transverse series of 4–6 units per bundle, similarly wide along their length, subdistally not or slightly expanded, with short rings continued up to a subdistal, non-annulated hyaline region, hooked, tapering to roughly pointed, unidentate tips (Fig. 5A, 6B). Pygidium simple, with single anal cirrus. No intra-specific variability in morphological characters was observed, except for lacking sediment gains in some specimens. Distribution. Known only from the type locality, Radés Station (Gulf of Tunisia, Mediterranean Sea). Collected from both soft and rocky bottoms, from 3–4 m to 10 m depth. Etymology. The species name radesiensis refers to the type locality, Radés Station.Published as part of Chaibi, Marwa, Antit, Mouna, Bouhedi, Marwa, Meca, Miguel A., Gillet, Patrick, Azzouna, Atf & Martin, Daniel, 2019, A new species of Flabelligeridae (Annelida), Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., from Tunisia, pp. 551-561 in Zootaxa 4571 (4) on pages 554-556, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/261426
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Higher-order Hermite-Gauss modes for gravitational waves detection
No full textAs part of the research on thermal noise reduction in gravitational-wave detectors, we experimentally demonstrate the conversion of a fundamental TEM00 laser mode at 1064 nm to higher-order Hermite-Gaussian modes (HG) of arbitrary order via a commercially available liquid crystal spatial light modulator. We particularly studied the HG5,5/HG10,10/HG15,15 modes. A two-mirror plano-spherical cavity filters the higher-order modes spatially. We analyze the cleaned modes via a three-mirror diagnosis cavity and measure a mode purity of 96/93/78% and a conversion efficiency of 6.6%/3.7%/1.7%, respectively. A full set of simulations and mathematical proofs are also presented which shows that (i) Hermite-Gauss modes resonate in a two-mirror cavity provided mirrors are properly angled with respect to the impinging mode, and (ii) Hermite-Gauss modes resonate in triangular cavities. Hence, higher-order Hermite-Gauss modes are compatible with ground-based gravitational-wave detectors' architecture and can be employed for the mitigation of mirror thermal noise for the third generation Einstein Telescope or Cosmic Explorer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
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