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An interview with Dr. Suresh Canagarajah on academic mobility, language and literacy
No full textThe author interviewed Dr. Suresh Canagarajah of Pennsylvania State University on academic mobility, language and literacy, in June 2017.L'autora va entrevistar al professor Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University al juny del 2017, sobre la mobilitat acadèmica, llengua y literacitats.La autora entrevistó al profesor Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University en junio 2017, sobre la movilidad académica, lengua y literacidades.L'auteur a interviewé le Dr. Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University sur la mobilité académique, la langue et l'alphabétisation, en juin 2017
An interview with Dr. Suresh Canagarajah on academic mobility, language and literacy
No full textThe author interviewed Dr. Suresh Canagarajah of Pennsylvania State University on academic mobility, language and literacy, in June 2017.L'autora va entrevistar al professor Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University al juny del 2017, sobre la mobilitat acadèmica, llengua y literacitats.La autora entrevistó al profesor Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University en junio 2017, sobre la movilidad académica, lengua y literacidades.L'auteur a interviewé le Dr. Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University sur la mobilité académique, la langue et l'alphabétisation, en juin 2017
Rethinking Suresh: Refoulement to Torture Under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms
No full textThis article takes the European Court of Human
Rights’ decision in Saadi v. Italy and uses it as an
opportunity to re-examine the Canadian case of Suresh
v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration).
The author argues that the national security exception
in Suresh is no longer tenable in light of subsequent
developments in both international and Canadian law.
The author concludes that the Supreme Court of
Canada should reject the Suresh exception at its first
opportunity and adopt an approach to review of
refoulement cases similar to that under the United
Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and
the European Convention for the Protection of Human
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Suresh Chandra on Historiography of Civilisation: With reference to Dravidian Civilisation
No full textThis paper attempts to give a critical appraisal of Professor Suresh Chandra’s views on Historiography of Civilization with reference to Dravidian Civilization. “Historiography of Indian Civilization: Harappans, Dravidians, Aryans and Gandhi’s freedom struggle” (published in JICPR June 1996) and “Demythologizing History: Dravidians in Relation to Harappans and the Aryans” (presented in the seminar on Dravidian Philosophy organized by Dravidian University, Kuppam) are the two significant works which are devoted to Historiography of civilization by Prof. Suresh Chandra. This paper mainly confines to the first article since the second one, as the author himself stated, is an offshoot of the first
The Suresh Case and Unimplemented Treaty Norms
No full textThis paper examines the role of unimplemented international treaty norms in the Canadian domestic legal system. The discussion focuses on the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Suresh , which is first investigated in some detail. In a unanimous judgement, it was held that the untransformed International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ought to inform the interpretation of the principles of fundamental justice in section 7 of the Charter and assist in deciding whether the exercise of power to deport under the Immigration Act was constitutional, given that the appellant could face torture if refoulé. The author refers to other recent decisions from the country's highest court where unimplemented treaty obligations were used in the interpretation of Canada's domestic law, namely, the Baker case in 1999 and the Hudson case in 2001. In conclusion, these developments are put in the broader contemporary strategy favouring contextual legislative interpretation, which includes resorting to international law, a trend that can be traced back to the adoption of the Charter in 1982.Ce texte examine les normes internationales issues de traités non implantés et leur rôle en droit interne canadien. La discussion se concentre sur la décision de la Cour suprême du Canada dans l'affaire Suresh, qui est tout d'abord analysée en détail. Dans un jugement unanime, on a décidé que le Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques et la Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants, qui ne sont pas mis en œuvre au Canada, devraient aider à l'interprétation des principes de justice fondamentale sous l'article 7 de la Charte et à savoir si l'exercice du pouvoir de déporter en vertu de la Loi sur l'immigration était constitutionnel, vu la possibilité de torture en cas de refoulement. L'auteur voit d'autres décisions récentes où le plus haut tribunal du pays a considéré ces obligations conventionnelles non transformées lors de l'interprétation de lois canadiennes, soit les causes Baker en 1999 et Hudson en 2001. En conclusion, il est suggéré que ces développements s'inscrivent dans la stratégie générale moderne favorisant l'interprétation législative contextuelle, qui comprend le recours au droit international, une tendance forte depuis l'adoption de la Charte en 1982.Beaulac Stéphane. The Suresh Case and Unimplemented Treaty Norms. In: Revue Québécoise de droit international, volume 15-1, 2002. pp. 221-240
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No full textMaintaining attention at a task-relevant spatial location while making eye-movements necessitates a rapid, saccade-synchronized shift of attentional modulation from the neuronal population representing the task-relevant location before the saccade to the one representing it after the saccade. Currently, the precise time at which spatial attention becomes fully allocated to the task-relevant location after the saccade remains unclear. Using a fine-grained temporal analysis of human peri-saccadic detection performance in an attention task, we show that spatial attention is fully available at the task-relevant location within 30 milliseconds after the saccade. Subjects tracked the attentional target veridically throughout our task: i.e. they almost never responded to non-target stimuli. Spatial attention and saccadic processing therefore co-ordinate well to ensure that relevant locations are attentionally enhanced soon after the beginning of each eye fixation.When we look at a scene, our gaze does not move continuously across it. Instead, our eyes move discontinuously, shifting gaze rapidly from point to point to focus on different locations in the scene. These eye movements are known as saccades, and during them the brain temporarily and selectively stops processing visual information. In the brain, a particular area of a scene is represented by different neurons before and after a saccade. Paying attention to a relevant location in a scene across an eye movement therefore requires the brain to shift its attentional effects from the neurons that represented that location in the scene before the saccade to the set of neurons that do so after the saccade. Ideally, this shift should happen rapidly and be synchronized with the eye movement. Exactly how long it takes for attention to emerge at a relevant location after a saccade was not clear because attention had not been recorded on a fine enough time-scale immediately after an eye movement. Yao et al. have now addressed this issue in a series of experiments that asked volunteers to focus their eyes on a fixed point. The volunteers had to follow the point with their eyes as it jumped to a new location, and at the same time had to look out for a change in the movement of a pattern of random dots. The results reveal that attention is fully available at the relevant location within 30 milliseconds after the saccade. In fact, the 30-millisecond delay in the emergence of attention matches the period during which vision is suppressed during a saccade. Thus, the change in the brain’s focus of attention coordinates with the saccadic eye movement to ensure that attention can be fixed on a relevant location as soon as possible after the eye movement ends. More studies are now needed to investigate how the brain coordinates its attention and eye-movement processes to synchronize the shift in attention with the eye movement
Flexible membrane type non-linear liner
No full textAcoustic liners are widely used passive noise reduction technology for aero-engine noise control. Traditional acoustic liners installed in an aero-engine are usually modelled as a Helmholtz resonator, an air-filled cavity sandwiched between a perforated plate and an acoustically rigid back sheet. For wavelengths much greater than the liner's geometrical dimensions, the air-filled cavity is regarded as a spring, and the volume of air inside the perforations of the face sheet as a mass, acting as a Single-Degree-Of-Freedom (SDOF). Such an SDOF liner design typically provides a narrow absorption bandwidth at a resonance frequency lower than a simple quarter-wave resonator. In this preliminary work, the acoustic properties of a novel liner concept called flexible slanted septum core have been studied experimentally. An overall increase in the absorption coefficient and a significant shift in the frequency range towards lower frequencies have been observed at moderate sound pressure levels (SPL). The shift in absorption frequency bandwidth is mainly attributed to the elastic constant and intrinsic damping of the flexible membrane-based perforated face sheet and slanted septum. Additionally , when excited with a high SPL sound source, the flexible liner concept showed much improved sound absorption with broadened frequency bandwidth, acting as a "non-linear" flexible membrane type liner
Chapter 1 - Disclosing the hierarchical structure of ionic liquid mixtures by multiscale computational methods
No full textThis chapter deals with the structural analysis of ionic liquid-containing mixtures through multiscale computational methods. The chapter is divided into two sections, dealing with a basic introduction to the topic, and a more in-depth presentation of four different computational methods typically used to simulate the structural and dynamical properties of complex liquid systems. Initially, the concept of the structure of a liquid is discussed, providing definitions and some examples. Subsequently, the main features of the experimental technique based on X-ray scattering are presented, which allow accessing structural information of amorphous systems. A short introduction of the laws governing the scattering phenomenon, and how scattered photons can provide information about the structure of a system is also presented. A significant part of this chapter is devoted to introducing four of the most used state-of-the-art computational methods, namely density functional theory “static” optimization, semiempirical molecular dynamics, classical molecular dynamics, and coarse-grained molecular dynamics. The starting point is the quantastic treatment of the system, in which only minimal approximations are used. The reader is then guided toward successive approximations enabling to explore different system sizes and timescales. The intricate system ethylammonium nitrate:acetonitrile 1:9 binary mixture is taken as a case study to show what the four obtained models can return in terms of characterization. The final picture describes how the various methods are fundamentally complementary to each other, meaning that there is nothing as a “best” method
From mass production to mass customization: The case of the National Industrial Bicycle Company of Japan
No full textBy means of a detailed study of the National Industrial Bicycle Company of Japan (NIBC), Suresh Kotha examines the dynamics of implementing mass customization in a firm that pursues both mass production and mass customization in two different factories. NIBC reaps superior returns by employing a 'system' which increases interaction between the mass production and mass custom factories and encourages knowledge creation. The author then considers the most important external (industry level) and internal (firm level) conditions which are necessary to successfully pursue mass customization, and points out that the interactions and interrelationships between them are important to a successful outcome too.
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