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Interview with Bishop Kurt Scharf, 6 June 1986.
No full textInterview conducted by Dr. James Patrick Kelley with Bishop Kurt Scharf in Berlin, Germany on June 6, 1986
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International Law in the Trump Administration
No full textLouis C. Greenwood Lecture Series
Case Downtown at the City Club
Event Description
Michael Scharf, former State Department official and current Co-Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, will discuss international law and the Trump administration at the CWRU Case Downtown presentation at the Cleveland City Club. Mr. Scharf will frame the discussion by addressing the provocative statement by a Republican former high level Bush administration official, who recently said: “We are witnessing the beginning of the greatest presidential onslaught on international law and international institution in American history.” The presentation will examine both President Trump\u27s unique process and approach for addressing foreign policy issues, as well as discuss specific issues where there have been perceived major changes -- from trade law to national security, from human rights to global warming. This presentation will be especially relevant for attorneys working in international law, foreign policy, trade, human rights and national security.
Speaker Biography
Michael Scharf Dean of the Law School, Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, and host of Talking Foreign Policy, a radio program broadcast on WCPN 90.3 FM (Cleveland\u27s NPR station). In addition, he serves as Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO. During a sabbatical in 2008, Scharf served as Special Assistant to the Prosecutor of the Cambodia Genocide Tribunal. During the elder Bush and Clinton Administrations, Scharf served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he held the positions of Attorney-Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Attorney-Adviser for United Nations Affairs, and delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. A graduate of Duke University School of Law (Order of the Coif and High Honors), and judicial clerk to Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat on the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, Scharf is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and 17 books, including The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda which was awarded the American Society of International Law\u27s Certificate of Merit for outstanding book in 1999, and Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein, which won the International Association of Penal Law\u27s book of the year award for 2009. His last three books have been published by Cambridge University Press. A past recipient of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alumni Association\u27s Distinguished Teacher Award and Ohio Magazine\u27s Excellence in Education Award, Scharf continues to teach International Law and was ranked as 17th most cited author in the field since 2010 by the Lieter study, issued in June 2016
International Law in the Trump Administration
No full textLouis C. Greenwood Lecture Series
Case Downtown at the City Club
Event Description
Michael Scharf, former State Department official and current Co-Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, will discuss international law and the Trump administration at the CWRU Case Downtown presentation at the Cleveland City Club. Mr. Scharf will frame the discussion by addressing the provocative statement by a Republican former high level Bush administration official, who recently said: “We are witnessing the beginning of the greatest presidential onslaught on international law and international institution in American history.” The presentation will examine both President Trump\u27s unique process and approach for addressing foreign policy issues, as well as discuss specific issues where there have been perceived major changes -- from trade law to national security, from human rights to global warming. This presentation will be especially relevant for attorneys working in international law, foreign policy, trade, human rights and national security.
Speaker Biography
Michael Scharf Dean of the Law School, Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, and host of Talking Foreign Policy, a radio program broadcast on WCPN 90.3 FM (Cleveland\u27s NPR station). In addition, he serves as Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO. During a sabbatical in 2008, Scharf served as Special Assistant to the Prosecutor of the Cambodia Genocide Tribunal. During the elder Bush and Clinton Administrations, Scharf served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he held the positions of Attorney-Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Attorney-Adviser for United Nations Affairs, and delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. A graduate of Duke University School of Law (Order of the Coif and High Honors), and judicial clerk to Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat on the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, Scharf is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and 17 books, including The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda which was awarded the American Society of International Law\u27s Certificate of Merit for outstanding book in 1999, and Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein, which won the International Association of Penal Law\u27s book of the year award for 2009. His last three books have been published by Cambridge University Press. A past recipient of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alumni Association\u27s Distinguished Teacher Award and Ohio Magazine\u27s Excellence in Education Award, Scharf continues to teach International Law and was ranked as 17th most cited author in the field since 2010 by the Lieter study, issued in June 2016
High Crimes and High Drama
No full textCase Western Reserve University School of Law and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Present High Crimes and High Drama Professor Michael Scharf - author of Enemy of the State Professor Henry King - former Nuremberg prosecutor Dan Moulthrop (moderator) - WCPN Cleveland\u27s national public radio commentator/producer December 10, 2008 Cleveland, Ohi
Finite quantum electrodynamics: the causal approach
No full textIn this classic text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics, author Günter Scharf carefully analyzes the role of causality in quantum electrodynamics. His approach offers full proofs and detailed calculations of scattering processes in a mathematically rigorous manner. This third edition contains Scharf's revisions and corrections plus a brief new Epilogue on gauge invariance of quantum electrodynamics to all orders. The book begins with Dirac's theory, followed by the quantum theory of free fields and causal perturbation theory, a powerful method that avoids ultraviolet divergences and solves the infrared problem by means of the adiabatic limit. Successive chapters explore properties of the S-matrix — such as renormalizability, gauge invariance, and unitarity — the renormalization group, and interactive fields. Additional topics include electromagnetic couplings and the extension of the methods to non-abelian gauge theories. Each chapter is supplemented with problems, and four appendixes conclude the text
CFAR matched direction detector
No full textIn a previously published paper by Besson et al., we considered the problem of detecting a signal whose associated spatial signature is known to lie in a given linear subspace, in the presence of subspace interference and broadband noise of known level. We extend these results to the case of unknown noise level. More precisely, we derive the generalized-likelihood ratio test (GLRT) for this problem, which provides a constant false-alarm rate (CFAR) detector. It is shown that the GLRT involves the largest eigenvalue and the trace of complex Wishart matrices. The distribution of the GLRT is derived under the hypothesis. Numerical simulations illustrate its performance and provide a comparison with the GLRT when the noise level is known
An intervention and assessment to Improve information literacy
No full textPurpose: The goal of the study was to test an intervention using a brief essay as an instrument for evaluating higher-order information literacy skills in college students, while accounting for prior conditions such as socioeconomic status and prior academic achievement, and identify other predictors of information literacy through an evaluation of student behavior and attitude. Design/Methods/Approach: An instructional intervention was evaluated using a brief essay as a pre- and posttest of learning in a course in technical communication. Multiple readers rated essays on five criteria to measure higher-order skills. Interrater reliability and internal consistency of the measures were tested. Analyses of variance and covariance were used to measure academic gains and to partial out the effects of confounding variables. Student behavior was measured by level of activity in the course management system and essay length. Student attitude was measured through a content analysis of their reflective statements. A control group of students who took the same course without the intervention, but who did not take the pretest, also took the posttest. Findings: 1) The method used for measuring information literacy was found to be reliable and valid. 2) The use of the brief essay as a pre- and posttest showed that the students in the treatment group achieved impressive gains in higher-order skills associated with information literacy. 3) The students in the treatment group significantly outperformed students in the control group with substantive effect sizes explaining results. 4) Socioeconomic status had no significant impact on information literacy. 5) Student use of online instructional materials had no significant impact on information literacy. Originality/Value: A model of information literacy assessment in higher education was proposed to isolate important classes of variables affecting learning. An experimental design using multivariate methods to account for the multiple influences of variables on information literacy allowed for the determination and partitioning of the influence of each variable and sets of variables. This knowledge allows for efficient and systematic progress to be recorded where less productive variables can be dropped from the model and significant and important variables are kept in the model to increase the amount of variability explained in information literacy outcomes.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Davida Schar
Professionalisierung und Geschlecht in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Die Verberuflichung des Alltäglichen?
No full textKim-Patrick Sabla vertieft die Problematik der Alltagsnähe der Sozialen Arbeit anhand der Angebote der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe, die durch das 1990/91 in Kraft getretene Kinder- und Jugendhilfegesetz (KJHG) einen neuerlichen Professionalisierungsschub erlebt hat. Das Tätigkeitsprofil der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Problembearbeiter/innen auf die Koproduktion mit ihren Klienten angewiesen sind; hieraus erwachsen typische Anforderungen des Handelns unter Unsicherheit, die eine überschüssige Qualifikationsreserve auf Seiten der Professionellen erfordert. Doch kontrastiert dieses anspruchsvolle Anforderungsprofil scharf mit der bereits hervorgehobenen Alltagsnähe Sozialer Arbeit. Sabla macht sie anhand der sog. Sozialpädagogischen Familienhilfe anschaulich: Die Alltäglichkeit der Settings (\u27Einkaufen\u27, \u27Kochen\u27), in denen Professionelle die Erziehungs- und Konfliktlösungskompetenzen ihrer Klientel schulen, lässt aus der Sicht Nichtprofessioneller begründungsbedürftig werden, warum es für die Soziale Arbeit einer Berufsausbildung bedarf. (HoF/Text übernommen
Trauma als Wissensarchiv
No full textIn the Brazilian religion Umbanda - which formed in the state of Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of African, indigenous and European religions - communication with spirit beings is central, recalling Brazilian history. Since the 1940s, it has spread worldwide and, from about 2010, also settled in German-speaking Europe in the course of transatlantic sacred globalization. Nevertheless, its spread has hardly been researched so far. Inga Scharf da Silva fills a research gap here by addressing the spiritual community of Ilê Axé Oxum Abalô (also called Terra Sagrada) on the basis of more than five years of ethnological field research. The community locates its mother house in the Swiss mountains in the canton of Appenzell and forms a transregional network with seven offshoots in Graz and Vienna, Zurich and Bern, Berlin and Cumuruxatiba in Brazil. Each chapter of the study is framed by the portrait of a deity (Orixá) as well as narratives from mythical lore and related to text passages from Oswald de Andrade's 'Manifesto Antropófago' and Umberto Eco's 'Foucault Pendulum'. In doing so, the author illustrates how the religious practice of trance as an incorporation of structures of consciousness can contribute to the reflection of the knowledge production of her religion and, beyond that, to a decolonization of thought in Europe
Vinyl Player. Eine funktionale Skulptur für analogen Musikgenuss
No full textMit einem Plattenspieler lässt sich das analoge Musikhören zelebrieren. Dieser bietet eine Alternative zur wachsenden Digitalisierung der Welt. Kein Wunder, wachsen die Verkaufszahlen von Vinyl seit Jahren stetig.
Im Gegensatz zu herkömmlichen Plattenspielern wird die Schallplatte im «Vinyl Player» vertikal eingelegt, wodurch mit den üblichen Sehgewohnheiten gebrochen wird. Nach dem Abspielen der Vorderseite wird die Platte automatisch gedreht, um die Rückseite abzuspielen. So kann man sich ein gesamtes Album anhören, ohne dass die Platte von Hand gewendet werden muss.
Das reduzierte Design des Plattenspielers schafft optischen Raum für die Betrachtung der sich drehenden Platte und der sichtbaren mechanischen Komponenten. Der «Vinyl Player» wird dadurch zur funktionalen Skulptur, die den Musikgenuss erhöht.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11806/next/ICDP_2024000
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