235 research outputs found
European Union developments in equality and human rights: the impact of Brexit on the divergence of rights and best practice on the island of Ireland
No full textThis report was commissioned by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) further to its role, with the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), as the Dedicated Mechanism under Article 2(1) of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol. This paper was written by Sarah Craig, Anurag Deb, Eleni Frantziou, Alexander Horne, Colin Murray, Clare Rice and Jane Rooney for the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The views expressed within this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission or the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, nor the employers of the authors. Responsibility for any statements, errors or omissions in this reportrests with the authors. This paper is not intended to be relied upon as legal advice applicable to any individual case.<br/
European Union developments in equality and human rights: the impact of Brexit on the divergence of rights and best practice on the island of Ireland
No full textThis report was commissioned by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) further to its role, with the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), as the Dedicated Mechanism under Article 2(1) of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol. This paper was written by Sarah Craig, Anurag Deb, Eleni Frantziou, Alexander Horne, Colin Murray, Clare Rice and Jane Rooney for the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The views expressed within this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission or the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, nor the employers of the authors. Responsibility for any statements, errors or omissions in this reportrests with the authors. This paper is not intended to be relied upon as legal advice applicable to any individual case.<br/
LTEE-TnSeq-processed-data
No full textThis repository contains processed data from transposon sequencing (TnSeq) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) of the ancestral strains and evolved clones at 50K from the Lenski Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE). It comprises TnSeq mutant trajectory counts, and output files from WGS analysis using breseq and samtools.Funding Acknowledgements:
- Anurag Limdi: Molecules, Cells, and Organisms Graduate Program
- Richard E. Lenski: US National Science Foundation (DEB-1951307) and the John Hannah endowment at Michigan State University
- Michael Baym: NIGMS of the National Institutes of Health (R35GM133700), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio
<i>Aspergillus</i> in a cervico-vaginal smear of an adult postmenopausal female: An unusual case
No full textThere are several case reports documenting opportunistic fungal infection in the female genital tract, with Aspergillus spp being a rarely reported causative organism. We hereby report a case of Aspergillus infection in a 48 year-old, postmenopausal female with carcinoma of the cervix. She presented with features of pelvic inflammatory disease, and an initial routine cervico-vaginal smear revealed severe inflammation along with fungal bodies. The features were consistent with the presence of Aspergillus spp, while the background epithelial cells were negative for intraepithelial malignancy. She was offered therapy for pelvic inflammatory disease. A repeat Papanicolaou smear after two weeks was negative for intraepithelial organisms, but showed the evidence of a high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, with biopsy confirming squamous cell carcinoma
European Union developments in Equality and Human Rights: The Impact of Brexit on the divergence of rights and best practice on the island of Ireland
Full text linkThis report was commissioned by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland(ECNI). This paper was written by Sarah Craig, Anurag Deb, Eleni Frantziou,Alexander Horne, Colin Murray, Clare Rice and Jane Rooney for the EqualityCommission for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissionand the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.Report finalised on 30 April 2022. Funded by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.Article 2 of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, contained within the Withdrawal Agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and the European Union, outlines a commitment to non-diminution of rights in Northern Ireland post Brexit. This commitment is underpinned by the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 1998 and its provisions on Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity, which saw these elements as integral to creating the necessary conditions for facilitating peace in Northern Ireland in the wake of conflict. That the United Kingdom and European Union constructed Article 2 on this basis is reflective of the emphasis that was placed on the 1998 Agreement in the Brexit negotiations and assertions that the Agreement must be upheld in any deal between the two sides. The expansive yet ambiguous framing of the 1998 provisions, while politically sufficient at the time of agreement, have acquired a legal significance in the wake of Brexit. Article 2 represents a reaffirmation of commitment to the 1998 provisions, while simultaneously demanding clarity in the relationship between domestic and European Union law, and obligating an ongoing monitoring process of this post-Brexit.<br/
European Union developments in Equality and Human Rights: The Impact of Brexit on the divergence of rights and best practice on the island of Ireland
Full text linkThis report was commissioned by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland(ECNI). This paper was written by Sarah Craig, Anurag Deb, Eleni Frantziou,Alexander Horne, Colin Murray, Clare Rice and Jane Rooney for the EqualityCommission for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissionand the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.Report finalised on 30 April 2022. Funded by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.Article 2 of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, contained within the Withdrawal Agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and the European Union, outlines a commitment to non-diminution of rights in Northern Ireland post Brexit. This commitment is underpinned by the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 1998 and its provisions on Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity, which saw these elements as integral to creating the necessary conditions for facilitating peace in Northern Ireland in the wake of conflict. That the United Kingdom and European Union constructed Article 2 on this basis is reflective of the emphasis that was placed on the 1998 Agreement in the Brexit negotiations and assertions that the Agreement must be upheld in any deal between the two sides. The expansive yet ambiguous framing of the 1998 provisions, while politically sufficient at the time of agreement, have acquired a legal significance in the wake of Brexit. Article 2 represents a reaffirmation of commitment to the 1998 provisions, while simultaneously demanding clarity in the relationship between domestic and European Union law, and obligating an ongoing monitoring process of this post-Brexit.<br/
Development of a computational tool for forensic DNA analysis
No full textForensic DNA analysis consists of a DNA profiling process by a method called as STR Analysis, short for Short Tandem Repeats. By using the statistics it provides, various probabilistic approaches are implemented in a software package to find out DNA profile matches and individual identifications. This study has contributed in the design, development and integration of an easy to use and interactive software application to find the number of contributors in a DNA sample and to find a match against it with another person’s DNA. This research specifically deals with the (1) design of an algorithm for filtering unfiltered DNA profile samples to remove bleed-through peaks; (2) design of an interactive interface for MatchIt, where a DNA sample of a person of interest is tested against a DNA sample to find a match; and (3) data modeling, design and integration of a database for the software.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Anurag Arnol
Parliamentary sovereignty and the protocol pincer
No full textIt is May 2030 and Stormont heads into its fourth Assembly election in eight years. Voters walk past election posters loudly praising and denouncing the Northern Ireland Protocol. As with the other Assembly elections since Brexit, the Protocol occupies centre-stage. Voters are under no delusion: the new Assembly will be as polarised as ever, no matter its party-political make-up.The legal backdrop to this (not entirely unfeasible) future is complex: the UK's Withdrawal Agreement has meant the emergence of a regulatory border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The consequences which flow from this have been swift and myriad: trade barriers and social unrest, barely a year after withdrawal.The focus of this paper, however, is the impact of these changes on the UK constitution. I will examine two landmark judgments of the UK Supreme Court, applying the themes arising in these cases to the legislation which incorporated the Protocol into UK domestic law. In so doing, I will argue that, far from ‘taking back control’, the UK Parliament has instead erected significant new barriers to its ability to ‘make or unmake any law whatever’ for the whole of the UK.<br/
Design of a morphing airfoil exhibiting bi-stability using topology optimization
Full text linkThis study aims to harness the geometric non-linearity of structures to design a novel camber morphing mechanism for a bi-stable airfoil using topology optimization. The goal is to use snap-through instabilities to actuate and maintain the shape of the morphing airfoil. Topology optimization has been used to distribute material over the design domain and to tailor the nonlinear response of the baseline structure to achieve the desired bi-stable behavior. The large scale deformation undergone by the structure is modeled using a hyperelastic material model. The non-linear structural equilibrium equations are solved using arc-length and displacement-controlled Newton-Raphson analysis. Isoparamteric finite element evaluation is used for analyzing kinematic and deformation characteristics of the structure. The optimization problem is solved using a computationally efficient nonlinear optimization algorithm, the Method of Moving Asymptotes (MMA), with a Solid Isoparametric Material Penalization (SIMP) scheme. The gradient information required for the optimization has been evaluated using an adjoint sensitivity formulation. Two different design domains, one with a structured quadrilateral mesh and another with an unstructured triangular mesh, are investigated and compared. The effect of different optimization parameters on the final optimized structure and its behaviour has also been analyzed. The final result is a novel camber morphing mechanism without the disadvantages of increased weight and higher maintenance costs associated with conventional actuation mechanisms. The optimized results obtained numerically are then 3-D printed to evaluate their performance characteristics.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01The student, Anurag Bhattacharyya, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-21 at 10:08.The student, Anurag Bhattacharyya, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-04-21 at 10:28.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-04-24 at 17:31.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10960 on 2017-08-10 at 15:06:45Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T20:33:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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