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Principled and practical approaches to data flows in international commercial arbitration -case study of England and Singapore
No full textA web of data flows captured by the data protection legislation prompts the need to raise awareness for partakers of an international arbitration and their multiple roles and responsibilities attaching to them. This paper will explicate the data flow/roles among the stakeholders and across borders examining the legal implications of data flows in international commercial arbitration. Focusing on England and Singapore, an in-depth legal examination of the local regulatory duty and the scope of data protection exemptions will be carried out. It will address specifically the interaction of data protection law and arbitration administered by LCIA and the SIAC. To do so, firstly, the research starts with a general discussion on arbitrator’s liability. Secondly, it provides an analysis of the data flows and partakers’ role at the intersections between data protection and arbitration. Thirdly, the risks and requirements relating to data flows, the use of cloud service, and beyond are examined. Fourthly, the extra-territorial effects of data protection laws and their intersection with the limitation of exemptions is highlighted with a case study of the practice of LCIA and SIAC. Finally, the research concludes with the recommendations of data mapping, risk assessment and raising awareness of regulatory duties imposed by extra territorial reach of “local” data protection laws.
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Catalogue of Central College Library, at Fayette, Mo. 1887
No full textPamphlet entitled "Catalogue of Central College Library at Fayette, Mo. 1887." 57 pages. 15.5 cm high. Has index of author names, possibly missing some pages. Several writings in pencil and stray pencil marks
Privacy boundaries in digital space: an exercise in responsibilisation
No full textIn digital space, the boundaries of privacy are often amorphous, symptomatic of human actors’ developing relationship with virtual spaces. As a result, those with little exposure to digital space may simply transplant their ‘real world’ expectations, whereas those who immerse themselves may assimilate a new perspective on privacy. Firstly, this paper considers the need for comparative research in the privacy field. Secondly, it reflects on the utility of Altman’s and Hughes’ theories of privacy regulation in the context of digital space. Thirdly, it discusses how privacy interference has been addressed by UK and South African law, focusing on the evolution of data protection. Fourthly, it reflects on the legal implications of the fracturing of responsibility between state and non-state actors. And, lastly, it draws out the consequences of such responsibilisation and how these relate to Altman and Hughes’ work
Revealing the influence of Mo addition on interphase precipitation in Ti-bearing low carbon steels
No full textMo is widely used as an effective microalloying element to improve mechanical performance of interphase precipitation steels, but the precise role of Mo in interphase precipitation behavior is not fully understood. In this contribution, interphase precipitation behavior in a series of Ti-Mo-bearing low carbon steels is systematically studied, and the role of Mo in interphase precipitates and its coarsening behavior is revisited. It is found that (Ti, Mo)C precipitates instead of TiC are formed in the Mo-containing alloys, and the average site fraction of Mo in (Ti, Mo)C is almost independent of the bulk Mo content. Moreover, the number density of interphase precipitates can be substantially enhanced by a minor addition of Mo, albeit it does not further rise with increasing the bulk Mo content. This is because the Mo fraction in (Ti, Mo)C rather than the bulk Mo content governs the driving force for precipitation nucleation and the interfacial energy of the (Ti, Mo)C/α and (Ti, Mo)C/γ interfaces. In addition to the reduced interfacial energy, decrease of Ti trans-interface diffusivity has been identified as another key reason for the enhanced carbide coarsening resistance in Mo-containing alloys.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Novel Aerospace Material
Studies on Bis(imido) molybdenum complexes containing unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands
No full textThis thesis describes the synthesis and characterisation of molybdenum bis(imido) complexes containing unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands. A principal objective of the work was to examine the effect of various imido substituents on the coordination number of the complex and the orientations adopted by olefin and acetylene ligands. Chapter One highlights areas of transition metal chemistry relevant to the thesis, with particular emphasis on the psuedo-isolobal analogy between cyclopentadienyl and imido ligands, A convenient one-pot synthesis of molybdenum bis(imido) complexes of the type Mo(NR)(NR')Cl(_2).DME (R=R'=l-adamantyl, 2-t- BUC(_6)H(_4); R=2,6-i-Pr(_2)C(_6)H(_3), R'=t-Bu) is described in Chapter Two. Mo(N-l- adamantyl)(O)Cl(_2).DME has been synthesised, and its structure determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction.- The preparation of olefin complexes Mo(NR)(NR')(C(_2)H(_4))(PMe(_3))n (R=R'=l-adamantyl, n=l; R=R'=2-t-BuC(_6)H(_4), n=2; R=2,6-i-Pr(_2)C(_6)H(_3), R'=t- Bu, n=l) is outlined in Chapter Three. Structural information derived from NMR data has allowed comparison with metallocene-like olefin adducts. Chapter Four describes the synthesis of complexes containing σ-bound phenyl ligands (Mo(NR)(NR')(σ-C(_6)H(_5))(PMe(_3)) (R=R'=l-adamantyl, 2-t-BuC(_6)H(_4); R=2,6-i-Pr(_2)C(_6)H(_3), R'=t-Bu)) as potential precursors to benzyne complexes. Chapter Five describes the preparation of diphenylacetylene complexes Mo(NR)(NR')(PhC=CPh)(PMe(_3)), structural information derived from NMR data allows comparison with previously known metallocene-like acetylene complexes. Full experimental details for Chapters Two to Five are given in Chapter Six
Avatars of the author in Mo Yan's novels
No full textL’écrivain chinois Mo Yan a mis en scène dans son œuvre romanesque des avatars de l’auteur, identifiés à lui par le nom dans deux romans et par le rôle de créateur du récit dans plusieurs récits. Ces représentants ne sauraient être identifiés à l’auteur empirique, mais peuvent être interprétés à l’aune de ce que représente pour nous l’auteur, au sens large, ou dans une visée individuelle, lorsque nous analysons leur caractérisation en fonction d’autres textes, fictifs ou référentiels, construisant la figure biographique, théorique et fantasmatique de l’auteur. Outre qu’elle joue sur l’aporie de sa présence dans la fiction, cette représentation métafictionnelle a des fonctions diverses. Dans Le Pays de l’alcool, elle souligne l’allégorie tout en déjouant la censure ; dans La Dure Loi du karma, elle brosse un portrait comique du romancier, reflétant ses différents rôles pour le lecteur et la société. La suite de l’étude porte sur des narrateurs révélant un statut de créateur du récit, de sorte qu’ils provoquent une distanciation et un doute sur leur situation diégétique, en les associant à une tendance métafictionnelle présente dans l’œuvre de Mo Yan depuis son premier roman long, Le Clan du sorgho rouge, où elle est l’effet d’un narrateur omniscient et présent dans l’univers de la fiction. Ces figures d’autorité thématisent l’imagination à l’œuvre, tout en signalant l’altérité de la figure de l’auteur que le lecteur infère de ses indices supposés. Elles représentent l’auteur en une logique non référentielle, comme produit d’un ensemble mouvant d’hypothèses, issues d’une interprétation des récits comme éléments constitutifs de l’œuvre.In his fictional works, Chinese novelist Mo Yan created avatars of the author, who are either identified by their name such as the characters Mo Yan in The Republic of Wine and in Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out or by a creative role they reveal, in other narratives. Both doubles, Mo Yan’s fictional homonyms, cannot be considered as the empirical author, and yet may be interpreted in the light of what the author means to us, whether in a broad or individual sense, when their characteristics are confronted with the biographical, theoretical and fantasmatic figure of Mo Yan which other texts create. Drawing attention to the aporetical presence of the author in a universe he created, metafictional author representations have various functions. In The Republic of Wine, it enlights the allegorical value of the novel and, to the real author, is a means to deter censorship. In Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Mo Yan is a parody of a novelist, where the role he plays for the reader and in society appear in a nutshell. Next, the sign of the author is to be extended to other narrators who reveal, more or less explicitly, that they create the narrative, thus inducing readers to suspend belief and reconsider their diegetic posture. Beginning with his first long novel Red Sorghum, metafiction has been an obsessive tendency in Mo Yan’s novels, making imagination a theme of the novel while suggesting the figure of the author a reader infers from the text is but a shifting body of hypotheses, which envision narratives a part of the whole works that make the author
Remote justice: information rights as a tool of empowerment
No full textThe coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a compulsory retreat from public spaces. While, for some, this displacement has brought about engagement with digital technologies in new and interesting ways, for others, digital technologies have proved to be the site of technology-facilitated abuse (TFA). Consequently, there are renewed calls for regulation of TFA, with a great deal of this discussion focussing on the design and enforcement of criminal law. However, the scope of behaviour perpetrated with, or through, digital technologies is much broader and demands a range of responses that offer access to justice. This paper argues information rights offer significant potential to enable victims/survivors to gain control over personal information, feel empowered, and improve their mental health and wellbeing. First, it defines information rights and how they are accessed from an EU perspective. Second, it addresses the relationship between legal rights and empowerment in this context. It reflects on if, and how, information rights have been used within the UK specifically, to provide reflections on harnessing their potential. And lastly, explores the viability of advocacy in this area.Output Status: Forthcoming/Available Onlin
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Author Correction: The disease resistance protein SNC1 represses the biogenesis of microRNAs and phased siRNAs.
No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Beixin Mo, which was incorrectly given as Beixing Mo. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
The Role of the Regulated Sector in the UK Anti-Money Laundering Framework: Pushing the Boundaries of the Private Police
No full textThis article argues that the conceptualisation of private police in current academic literature requires expansion to accommodate the role of the regulated sector in the Anti- Money Laundering (AML) framework. Firstly, it evaluates the literature on ‘private police’ and argues that its current parameters are too narrow to accommodate the ‘policing’ role of the regulated sector. Secondly, it lays out the legislative framework that has developed to deal with the problem of money laundering. Thirdly, it contextualises the role of the regulated sector, examining the domestic interagency policing relationships within the suspicious activity regime as operationalised in Scotland. Finally, it takes a closer look at how the courts have interpreted the ‘failure to report offence’ under s330 of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002 and its consequential effect on the engagement of the regulated sector with the SARs regime
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