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S04RS SGB No. 19 (Author\u27s Rights)
No full textA BILL
To amend the LSU Senate Rules of Order to include Rights of the Author
Free Zone Incentives in MERCOSUR Countries and WTO Law
No full textPublished source: Gabriel Gari, 'Free Zone Incentives in MERCOSUR Countries and WTO Law' (2011) 6 Global Trade and Customs Journal, Issue 5, pp. 223–244
ID: GTCJ2011031This article examines the consistency of the incentives offered by free zone regimes in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay with World Trade Organization (WTO) law. It suggests that some of the incentives offered to free zone users are inconsistent with the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM) because they constitute a ‘subsidy’ within the meaning of the ASCM, subject de iure or de facto to export performance, most notably, exemptions of direct taxes, exemptions of custom duties on the import of capital goods, exemptions of payment of social welfare charges, unqualified exemptions on payment of indirect taxes, and the possibility to supply goods or services to free zone users at promotional rates. By contrast, this article suggests that there are no significant inconsistencies between free zone incentives and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) but warns that the situation could change in the future if, as a result of multilateral negotiations, MERCOSUR countries opt for extending their GATS commitments to new sectors and modes of supply
F22RS SGB No. 16 (Lead Author\u27s Rights)
No full textTo Amend Title 2, Chapter 7, Section 606: Consideration of Legislation to change Presentation Rights of Lead Author
Thermomagnetic generators with magnetocaloric materials for harvesting low grade waste heat
No full textTo date, there are very few technologies available for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity. Thermomagnetic generators are one approach proposed more than a century ago. Such devices are based on a cyclic change of magnetization with temperature. This switches a magnetic flux and, according to Faraday’s law, induces a voltage.
Here we give an overview on our research, covering both materials and systems. We demonstrate that guiding the magnetic flux with an appropriate topology of the magnetic circuit improves the performance of thermomagnetic generators by orders of magnitude. Through a combination of experiments and simulations, we show that a pretzel-like topology results in a sign reversal of the magnetic flux. This avoids the drawbacks of previous designs, namely, magnetic stray fields, hysteresis and complex geometries of the thermomagnetic material.
Though magnetocaloric materials had been the first choice also for thermomagnetic generators, they require some different properties, which we illustrate with Ashby plots for materials selection. Experimentally we compare La-Fe-Co-Si and Gd plates in the same thermomagnetic generator. Furthermore, we discuss corrosion and deterioration under cyclic use is a severe problem occurring during operation. To amend this, composite plates using polymer as a matrix have been suggested previously
Linking the basic sciences in teaching: suggestions for histology instruction
No full textPT: J; NR: 0; TC: 0; J9: ANAT HISTOL EMBRYOL; PG: 3; GA: FV613Source type: Electronic(1
Swiss-Polar-Institute/wind-speed-correction v0.1.0
No full textwind-speed-correction
Initial release.
Analysis of the flowdistortion bias in the ship borne wind speed measurements from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Experiment (ACE). We use ERA-5 reanalysis data to quantify the flowdistortion bias in the measured relative wind speed and direction as a function of the relative wind direction.
Please refer to and cite Landwehr et al. (2019; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-366) when using this code or modified versions of it.
Using the code
An example of how these scripts can be used can be found in a Gitlab repository which also contains datasets that were used and created by this code.
Requirements
In order to run the code, the packages in requirements.txt should be installed:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Note that pyantarctica requires an older version of pandas, but this code will run with the newer version of pandas=1.0.3.
Running the code
Amend paths to input and output dataset files in read_ace_data.py and ace_flowdistortion.py.
Then execute with python3:
python3 ace_flowdistortion.py
Input datasets
This repository can be used with the following input datasets.
Summary raw wind data from the Southern Ocean collected on board the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) during the austral summer of 2016/2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3801718
One-minute average cruise track and ship velocity of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) undertaken during the austral summer of 2016/2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3772895
ERA-5 reanalysis results interpolated onto the five-minute average cruise track of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) during the austral summer of 2016/2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3831980
Distance to the nearest land/coastline (including small subantarctic islands) for the five-minute average cruise track of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) during the austral summer of 2016/2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3832045
77040_UBXH3_2017012618_2017021818.txt provides a list of all the times that near surface wind observations were assimilated into ERA5 from station UBXH3 (the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov used during ACE), during the period November 2016 to May 2017. The columns in the file are stationId, date (yyyymmdd; UTC), time (hh; UTC), latitude (degree_north), longitude (degree_east).
All of the above datasets are available with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. SL received funding from the Swiss Data Science Center project c17-02
TransCom 3 experimental protocol
No full textJuly 2000.Sponsored by NSF award OCE-9900310, and NOAA NA67RJ0152 Amend. 30
Legal opinion on the admissibility of applying Article 51 (2) of the Standing Orders of the Sejm in the proceedings in relation to draft law codes and bills to amend draft law codes
No full textThe author is critical on the application of Article 51 (2) of the Standing Orders of the Sejm in proceedings in relation to draft law codes and bills to amend draft law codes. He emphasizes that, despite the lack of a provision which would prevent beginning the second reading of the above‑mentioned drafts immediately after the conclusion of the first reading without referral to the committee, extended work on draft law codes and on bills to amend them are useful for the reflection on this legislation which is, in principle, extensive and complex. The author concludes that Article 51 (2) of the Rules of Parliament is contrary to the reason of the law of the proceedings carried out in accordance with a law‑code
Competence of an administrative court to amend an administrative act
No full textBakalaura darbā autors analizē tiesu praksi saistībā ar Administratīvā procesa likuma 253. panta trešo un sesto daļu, Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesas praksi un citus avotus, ar mērķi noskaidrot Administratīvā procesa likuma 253. panta trešās daļas saturu, to, vai šobrīd spēkā esošais regulējums ir atbilstošs tiesībām uz taisnīgu tiesu un to, vai nebūtu lietderīgi piešķirt tiesām kompetenci grozīt administratīvos aktus. Autors secina, ka lai gan tiesību norma sākotnēji paredzēta administratīvo pārkāpumu grozīšanai, šādu kompetenci būtu lietderīgi piešķirt administratīvajām tiesām attiecībā uz dažādām administratīvo kategorijām, lai gan no tiesībām uz taisnīgu tiesu šāda prasība neizriet.In the Bachelor's thesis the author analyses the case law in relation to Article 253, paragraphs three and six of the Administrative procedure law, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and other sources, with the goal of determining the content of Article 253, paragraph three, wehether the current regulation is in line with the right to a fair trial, and wether it would be useful to empower the courts with the ability to amend administrative acts. The author concludes that, although the law was originally intended to remedy cases of administrative offense proceedings, it would be useful to empower the courts in different categories of administrative acts, even though the right to a fair trial does not demand as such
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How failed attempts to amend the Constitution mobilize political change /
No full text"Since the Constitution's ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Congress for the convening of a constitutional convention. Only twenty-seven amendments have been approved in 225 years. Why do members of Congress continue to introduce amendments at a pace of almost two hundred a year? This book is a demonstration of how social reformers and politicians have used the amendment process to achieve favorable political results even as their proposed amendments have failed to be adopted. For example, the ERA 'failed' in the sense that it was never ratified, but the mobilization to ratify the ERA helped build the feminist movement (and also sparked a countermobilization). Similarly, the Supreme Court's ban on compulsory school prayer led to a barrage of proposed amendments to reverse the Court. They failed to achieve the requisite two-thirds support from Congress, but nevertheless had an impact on the political landscape. The definition of the relationship between Congress and the President in the conduct of foreign policy can also be traced directly to failed efforts to amend the Constitution during the Cold War. [The author] examines familiar examples like the ERA, balanced budget amendment proposals, and pro-life attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, but also takes the reader on a three-century tour of lesser-known amendments. [The author] explains how often the mere threat of calling a constitutional convention (at which anything could happen) effected political change."-
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