241 research outputs found
Running Scared: Eviscerating Rights in a Post 9/11 World
No full textMichael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal organization dedicated to protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He served as co-counsel in the Supreme Court case of Rasul v. Bush, which established that detainees at Guantanamo Bay had the right to invoke habeas corpus. He continues to fight against the undermining of fundamental rights in the name of the war on terror by representing victims of torture, rendition, and domestic spying. He has taught at Yale Law School and Columbia University Law School and is the author of many books and articles. In 2006, he was included by the National Law Journal on the list of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. Mr. Ratner will speak about the erosion of civil rights following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
Superradiance of J-aggregates: correspondence between infinite disordered chain and regular chain of finite length
No full textThe radiation decay of excitons in a slightly disordered molecule chain is considered. The degree of disordering dictates the excitonic state length that determines the enhancement of the decay rate Г (superradiance). Г was calculated versus disordering degree and temperature and compared with the case of a regular chain where the length of excitonic state is determined by the chain length, N. For every degree of disordering, the value of N was found that provides practically the same decay rate as a function of temperature.The author is grateful to Yu.V. Malyukin and A.M. Ratner for helpful discussions
Business and Human Rights: Seizing the Opportunity
No full textBUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY EMPRESAS E DIREITOS HUMANOS: APROVEITANDO A OPORTUNIDADE Steven R. Ratner* RESUMO: Este artigo resultou da palestra magna proferida pelo Professor Steven Ratner na ocasião da inauguração do Centro de Direitos Humanos e Empresas, da Faculdade de Direito da UFRGS e da Escola de Direito da Unisinos, que ocorreu no âmbito do “I Seminário Internacional de Direitos Humanos e Empresas: hermenêutica para um mundo transnacional”, organizado pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da UFRGS, em parceria com o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Unisinos, por meio virtual, nos dias 24 a 26 de agosto de 2020. O autor oferece uma visão geral dos desenvolvimentos em direitos humanos e empresas (“BHR”) na última década, isto é, uma noção das reações a eles de diferentes partes interessadas e um roteiro de o que está por vir para um maior desenvolvimento do campo. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Empresas. Direitos humanos. Princípios em Direitos Humanos e Empresas. Direito internacional público. Justiça Global. ABSTRACT: This article comes from the keynote speech given by Professor Steven Ratner on the occasion of the inauguration of the Center for Human and Business Rights, in the Faculty of Law of UFRGS and the Unisinos Law School, which took place within the scope of the “I International Seminar on Business and Human Rights: hermeneutics for a transnational world”, organized by UFRGS Postgraduate Program in Law, in partnership with Unisinos Postgraduate Program in Law, through virtual means, from August 24 to 26, 2020. The author offers an overview of the developments in business and human rights (“BHR”) in the last decade, a sense of the reactions to them from different stakeholders, and a roadmap of what lies ahead for further development of the field.KEYWORDS: Business. Human rights. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Public international law. Global justice. SUMÁRIO: I. II. III. IV. V. References.* Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor em Direito na Faculdade de Direito da University of Michigan, e Diretor do Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan, em Ann Arbor, nos Estados Unidos da América. Doutor em Direito (JD) por Yale, nos Estados Unidos da América, e Mestre em Direito (MD/Diplôme) pelo Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales, em Genebra, na Suíça
Business and Human Rights: Seizing the Opportunity
No full textThis article comes from the keynote speech given by Professor Steven Ratner on the occasion of the inauguration of the Center for Human and Business Rights, in the Faculty of Law of UFRGS and the Unisinos Law School, which took place within the scope of the “I International Seminar on Business and Human Rights: hermeneutics for a transnational world”, organized by UFRGS Postgraduate Program in Law, in partnership with Unisinos Postgraduate Program in Law, through virtual means, from August 24 to 26, 2020. The author offers an overview of the developments in business and human rights (“BHR”) in the last decade, a sense of the reactions to them from different stakeholders, and a roadmap of what lies ahead for further development of the field
An Evaluation of a Sustained Senior Mentor Program for Medical Students
No full textBackground/ Objective: Medical student geriatrics education using community-based volunteer 2 older persons, known as a Senior Mentor Program (SMP), began decades ago. Though these 3 programs have been described and evaluated against curriculum objectives, the full breadth of 4 students’ learning from SMPs has not been reported. Methods: We conducted a qualitative study using content analysis of reflections of Year 2 6 medical students submitted during a single visit home-based SMP. Written reflections of 102 7 randomly selected students from 2016-2018 were inductively coded and grouped into themes. 8 Older persons from the SMP site assisted in coding and quotation selection. Results: We discerned six themes from the evaluation of student reflections: student insight, 10 interview and exam, social community, challenges with aging, strengths (responses to 11 challenges), and physical infrastructure. Conclusion: A single home visit with older adults enables pre-clinical medical students to learn 13 about multiple positive aspects of aging.The Hartford Foundation/AAMC provided funding for the SMP. The Minneapolis VA GRECC provided support for ER to complete the qualitative analysis and manuscript preparation. Neither sponsor participated in the study design, methods, analysis, or interpretation of the data
Rifkin, Howard
No full textHoward Rifkin was born in the Bronx. His grandparents, both maternal and paternal, were Orthodox Jews. However, Rifkin and his parents were not, although he was bar mitzvahed in an Orthodox synagogue, the Mount Eden Jewish Center. While Rifkin’s mother was a homemaker, she eventually worked as a bookkeeper for Maurice Ratner. His father worked as a truck driver.
For his education, Rifkin attended PS 70, Wade Junior High School, and Taft High School, all of which were within several blocks of his childhood home. Rifkin attended university for a few years at Pace College. However, he dropped out and joined the army. After his time in the military, Rifkin went back to Pace but found it difficult to manage working full-time while also going to school and being married, so he left the university.
Rifkin remembers his childhood as being positive and enjoyed the plethora of street games he and his friends would play. He is still in contact with many of his friends from the Bronx and reminisces on their time playing in the school band together. Rifkin had polio as a child but was treated early on and recovered fully, so it never hindered him physically or otherwise.
As an adult, Rifkin and his wife moved to Co-Op City, where both of their children were born. They would often take trips to a bungalow colony on the weekends and enjoyed a typical American family life. After a work opportunity presented itself, Rifkin and his family moved to Houston, Texas, where he still resides today.
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Orthodox, Yiddish, PS 70, Wade Junior High School, Taft High School, Mount Eden Jewish Center, Street games, Polio, Co-Op City, Bungalow colony, Gun Hill Road, Willard Parker Hospital, Mount Eden Jewish Hospital, Montefiore Hospita
Dynamics of particle network in composite battery cathodes
No full textThis repository contains the source codes for the study of active particle-network evolution in Ni-rich LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 (NMC) composite battery cathodes, as described in the following paper:
@journal{li2021networkevolution,
title={Dynamics of particle network in composite battery cathodes},
author={Li, Jizhou and Sharma, Nikhil and Jiang, Zhisen and Yang, Yang and Monaco, Federico and Xu, Zhengrui and Hou, Dong and Ratner, Daniel and Pianetta, Piero and Cloetens, Peter and Lin, Feng and Zhao, Kejie and Liu, Yijin},
year={2022},
journal={Science}
Detection results of NMC particles in composite battery cathodes
No full textThis dataset shows more examples of the NMC particles detection overlayed with the original images in composite battery cathodes.
@journal{li2022networkevolution,
title={Dynamics of particle network in composite battery cathodes},
author={Li, Jizhou and Sharma, Nikhil and Jiang, Zhisen and Yang, Yang and Monaco, Federico and Xu, Zhengrui and Hou, Dong and Ratner, Daniel and Pianetta, Piero and Cloetens, Peter and Lin, Feng and Zhao, Kejie and Liu, Yijin},
year={2022},
journal={Science}
Uncut Gems: dizzying and breathtaking cinema
No full textUncut Gems—the fourth feature film directed by brothers Josh and Benny Safdie—is an exhausting tale of gambling, jewels and loan sharks, and gives the audience very few opportunities to catch their breath during its runtime of over two hours, which flies by at breakneck speed. Jewelry store manager and gambling addict Howard Ratner (played by Adam Sandler, in a career-best performance) is a chaotic human catherine-wheel. He lies, cheats and takes advantage of people however the audience can’t..
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