210 research outputs found
Extraterritoriale Terrorismusbekämpfung
No full textMarkus Volz befasst sich mit den Auswirkungen des internationalen Terrorismus und insbesondere der Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 auf das Völkerrecht. Untersucht werden die Voraussetzungen und Grenzen staatlicher Regelungs- und Durchsetzungshoheit (Jurisdiktion). Anhand zweier Fallbeispiele - der Vorabübermittlung von Fluggastdaten im internationalen Luftverkehr und der Initiative zur Unterbindung der Proliferation von Massenvernichtungswaffen (PSI) - weist der Verfasser eine neue völkergewohnheitsrechtliche Entwicklung zur Anerkennung extensiver Regelungshoheit und eine verstärkte Kooperationsbereitschaft der Staaten im Zusammenhang mit der internationalen Terrorismusbekämpfung nach. Markus Volz zeigt außerdem, dass mit der Ausübung extraterritorialer Hoheitsgewalt die entsprechende extraterritoriale Anwendung völkerrechtlicher Verträge zum Schutz von Menschenrechten einhergehen sollte.The events of September 11, 2001 have triggered a »global war on terror«. One of its hallmarks is to fight terrorism beyond State borders. This study examines the limits of such extraterritorial action and its effects on the rules of jurisdiction in international law. The question of extraterritorial jurisdiction has hitherto been confined to international economic law and international environmental law. This study opens up a novel dimension to one of the fundamental questions of international law. Using two case studies, the author outlines a new development of States more readily recognizing extensive claims to prescriptive jurisdiction where these are justified on grounds of fighting international terrorism. The first case study concerns the demand by US authorities on European and other foreign airlines to provide Passenger Name Record (PNR) data and to allow access to computer systems outside the United States. The second one pertains to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), which provides the framework for the interdiction of weapons of mass destruction at sea. Finally, the author argues that any extension of extraterritorial jurisdiction should be accompanied by the extraterritorial application of human rights instruments
Invitation
No full textInvitation to a concert by the Kansas State College Symphonic Band on Sunday, February 13, 1972 at 3:00 PM in McCray Auditorium. Under the direction of Mr. Edward W. Volz, the band played a piece by Vittotio Giannini. The featured soloist was Pat Ryan-Trombone by Rimsky/Korsakov. More pieces by Nelhybel, Mailman, and Sousa were featured as well.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/recital-fliers/1859/thumbnail.jp
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[Correction] Genomic reconstruction of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in England (Nature, (2021), 600, 7889, (506-511), 10.1038/s41586-021-04069-y)
No full textThe name of author Erik Volz appeared as “Erik M. Volz” in The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium contributions listings. Further, the affiliation listed for COG-UK Consortium member Adam A. Witney was shown incorrectly (Imperial College London) and has been now amended to the Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s Hospital of London, London, UK. The changes have been made to the HTML and PDF versions of the article.</p
gnuradio/volk: Release v2.4.1
No full text[2.4.1] - 2020-12-17
Hi everyone!
We have a new VOLK bugfix release! We are happy to announce VOLK v2.4.1! We want to thank all contributors. This release wouldn't have been possible without them.
Our v2.4.0 release introduced quite a lot of changes under the hood. With this bugfix release, we want to make sure that everything works as expected again.
Contributors
A. Maitland Bottoms [email protected]
Johannes Demel [email protected]
Michael Dickens [email protected]
Philip Balister [email protected]
Ron Economos [email protected]
Ryan Volz [email protected]
Changes
Build
cpu_features CMake option
Add cpu_features to static library build.
Use static liborc-0.4 library for static library build.
cmake: Detect if cpu_features submodule is present.
Install
Check for lib64 versus lib and set LIB_SUFFIX accordingly.
CI
Add CI test for static library build.
Releases
project: Include git submodules (i.e. cpu_features) in release tarball.
scripts: Add GPG signature to release script
Other
readme: Update TravisCI status badg
Misusing mobile phones to break the ice: The tabletop game Maze Maestro
No full textPerformance of newly-formed project teams is often limited, or at least delayed, when team members refrain from sharing their ideas due to unfamiliarity with their peers. A variety of ice-breaking methods can help overcome this cold start, but mostly they need to be deployed and moderated by experienced facilitators. This setup is rarely an option for most undergrad project courses at university level, typically carried out in small teams. In order to help breaking the ice in this context, we developed Maze Maestro, a collaborative tabletop game in which the board is made up by attaching the displays of the team members' mobile phones to form a large maze. Each member controls a character in the maze, and the whole team has the common goal of leaving the maze together; however, this is only possible with timely communication and much cooperation. While playing, team members are encouraged to confer possible plans and share their ideas, which is the fertile ground for breaking the ice. Play testing has shown that Maze Maestro was perceived as a fun and original collaborative game. So far, results of a preliminary user study are optimistic about the ability of Maze Maestro to break the ice within newly-formed teams, without requiring any facilitator.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.Computer Graphics and Visualisatio
The Yen Exchange Rate and the Hollowing-out of the Japanese Industry
No full textThe paper was written while the second author held the Banque de France Chair at EHESS in Paris. Ulrich Volz would like to thank Banque de France for financial support for this research project and Fondation France Japon de l’EHESS for its wonderful hospitality and great support.Since the demise of the Bretton Woods system, the Yen has seen several episodes of strong appreciation, including in the late 1970s, after the 1985 Plaza Agreement, the early and late 1990s and after 2008. These appreciations have not only been associated with "expensive Yen recessions" resulting from negative effects on exports; since the late 1980s, the strong Yen has also raised concerns about a de-industrialisation of the Japanese economy. Against this backdrop, the paper investigates the effects of changes to the Yen exchange rate on the hollowing out of the Japanese industrial sector. To this end, the paper uses both aggregate and industry-specific data to gauge the effects of Yen fluctuations on the output and exports of different Japanese industries, exploiting new data for industry-specific real effective exchange rates. Our findings support the view that the periods of yen appreciation had more than just transitory effects on Japanese manufacturing. The results also provide indication of hysteresis effects on manufacturing. While there are certainly also other factors that have contributed to a hollowing out of Japanese industry, a strong Yen played a role, too
A practical method for proactive information exchange within multi-agent teams
No full textPsychological studies have shown that information exchange is a key component of effective teamwork. In addition to requesting information that they need for their tasks, members of effective teams often proactively forward information that they believe other teammates require to complete their tasks. We refer to this type of communication as proactive information exchange and the formalization and implementation of this is the subject of this thesis. The important question that we are trying to answer is: under normative conditions, what types of information needs can agent teammates extract from shared plans and how can they use these information needs to proactively forward information to teammates? In the following, we make two key claims about proactive information exchange: first, agents need to be aware of the information needs of their teammates and that these information needs can be inferred from shared plans; second, agents need to be able to model the beliefs of others in order to deliver this information efficiently. To demonstrate this, we have developed an algorithm named PIEX, which, for each agent on a team, reasonably approximates the information-needs of other team members, based on analysis of a shared team plan. This algorithm transforms a team plan into an individual plan by inserting coomunicative tasks in agents' individual plans to deliver information to those agents who need it. We will incorporate a previously developed architecture for multi-agent belief reasoning. In addition to this algorithm for proactive information exchange, we have developed a formal framework to both describe scenarios in which proactive information exchange takes place and to evaluate the quality of the communication events that agents running the PIEX algorithm generate. The contributions of this work are a formal and implemented algorithm for information exchange for maintaining a shared mental model and a framework for evaluating domains in which this type of information exchange is useful
East Asian Capitalism: Diversity, Continuity, and Change
No full texthttp://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000316641500018&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701Area StudiesSSCI0BOOK REVIEW213215-21
ryanvolz/radioconda: 2024.05.29
No full text<p>This release contains the usual round of package version updates (sadly no new packages for this one), plus a major Windows fix that prevented Qt GUI elements from running in GNU Radio.</p>
<p>Updated software radio packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>digital_rf 2.6.9</li>
<li>gnuradio 3.10.10.0</li>
<li>gqrx 2.17.5</li>
<li>hackrf 2024.02.1</li>
<li>libm2k 0.8.0</li>
<li>soapysdr-module-plutosdr 0.2.2</li>
</ul>
<p>Other updated packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>ipython 8.24.0</li>
<li>matplotlib 3.8.4</li>
<li>numpy 1.26.4</li>
<li>pandas 2.2.2</li>
<li>python 3.11.9</li>
<li>scipy 1.13.1</li>
</ul>
<p>Fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed "ImportError: DLL load failed while importing qtgui_python" (#78). A bug in PyQt caused non-radioconda libraries to be loaded in certain circumstances, causing the error and failure to load Qt graphical components. A workaround has been implemented while a proper fix to PyQt is considered.</li>
<li>Fixed "gqrx doesn't launch from menu shortcut on Windows" (#89). A change in conda menu installation caused the gqrx shortcut to not worked, and this has now been fixed by updating the shortcut.</li>
</ul>
ryanvolz/radioconda: 2023.11.06
No full text<p>Lots of updates and a few new packages with this release! On the updates side, highlights include GNU Radio 3.10.8.0 and the latest versions of a number of SDR libraries (<code>libiio</code>, <code>limesuite</code>, <code>rtl-sdr</code>, and <code>uhd</code>). In particular, the <code>rtl-sdr</code> update brings support for the RTL-SDR Blog V4 dongle!</p>
<p>For newly-included packages, we have:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gnss-sdr.org/">GNSS-SDR</a> A software-defined receiver for global navigation satellite system signals</li>
<li><a href="https://gitea.osmocom.org/sdr/gr-iqbal/">gr-iqbal</a> A GNU Radio I/Q balancing module</li>
<li><a href="https://hamlib.github.io/">Hamlib</a> A library for controlling the myriad of radios and rotators available to amateur radio and communications users</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/f4exb/libmirisdr-4">libmirisdr-4</a> Support for Mirics MSi001 + MSi2500 SDR devices</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/chipmuenk/pyfda">pyfda</a> A Python filter design and analysis tool</li>
</ul>
<p>Finally, this release also includes an <a href="https://github.com/conda/conda/releases/tag/23.10.0">important update to <code>conda</code></a>. With this latest release, <code>conda</code> defaults to using its new <code>libmamba</code> solver, resulting in much faster performance for installing and updating packages. The <code>mamba</code> package (from which <code>libmamba</code> was born) is still included, but it should no longer be necessary to use <code>mamba</code> to get better performance over plain <code>conda</code>.</p>
<p>Oh, and Python 3.11 is included now as well, updated from Python 3.10!</p>
<p>New packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>gnss-sdr 0.0.18 (<strong>Linux and macOS only</strong>)</li>
<li>gnuradio-iqbalance 0.38.2</li>
<li>hamlib 4.5.5</li>
<li>mirisdr 2.0.0</li>
<li>pyfda 0.8.4</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated software radio packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>gnuradio 3.10.8.0</li>
<li>gnuradio-dect2 0.0.0.20231030.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-filerepeater 0.0.0.20231030.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-foo 0.0.0.20231030.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-fosphor 0.0.0.20231031.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-gpredict-doppler 0.0.0.20231030.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-hermeslite2 1.0.0.0.post11</li>
<li>gnuradio-hpsdr 0.0.0.20231030.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-ieee802_11 0.0.0.20231031.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-ieee802_15_4 3.6.post128</li>
<li>gnuradio-inspector 0.0.0.20231031.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-leo 1.0.0.post99</li>
<li>gnuradio-lora_sdr 0.0.0.20231031.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-paint 0.0.0.20231031.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-radar 0.0.0.20231031.dev</li>
<li>gnuradio-rds 3.10.post17</li>
<li>gnuradio-satellites 5.4.0</li>
<li>gqrx 2.17.3</li>
<li>inspectrum 0.3.1</li>
<li>libiio 0.25</li>
<li>limesuite 23.10.0</li>
<li>pyadi-iio 0.0.16</li>
<li>rtl-sdr 2.0.1</li>
<li>soapysdr-module-lms7 23.10.0</li>
<li>uhd 4.5.0.0</li>
</ul>
<p>Other updated packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>conda 23.10.0</li>
<li>ipython 8.17.2</li>
<li>mamba 1.5.3</li>
<li>matplotlib 3.8.1</li>
<li>numpy 1.26.0</li>
<li>pandas 2.1.2</li>
<li>python 3.11.6</li>
<li>scipy 1.11.3</li>
</ul>
<p>Fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed "DLL load failed while importing fosphor_python" on Windows (#63). The <code>gnuradio-fosphor</code> package depends on the <code>glfw</code> package, which had mistakenly been built in Debug mode and required certain debug DLLs that might not be installed.</li>
</ul>
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