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Remarks by Tai-Heng Cheng
No full textIn the first place, the motion cannot get off the ground because there is no objective way to tell what jurisdictional decisions are “expansive.” In every contested jurisdictional proceeding, the respondent, at that phase of the case, will regard the court's decision as overly expansive if the court seizes jurisdiction. Whereas the claimant will not.</jats:p
Book Review: State Succession and Commercial Obligations by Tai-Heng Cheng
No full textReviewing State Succession and Commercial Obligations , by Cheng Tai-Heng, Published by Transnational Publishers (2006)
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When international law works ::realistic idealism after 9/11 and the global recession /
No full text"When International Law Works stands to change the way states and scholars look at this contentious topic. In this seminal work, Professor Tai-Heng Cheng addresses the current international law debates and transcends them. Working from influential statements on international law by such scholars as Goldsmith, Posner, O'Connell, and Guzman, Cheng presents a new framework that states should consider when they confront an international problem that implicates the often competing interests of both their own communities and the global legal order. Instead of advocating for or against international law as legitimate or binding, as many commentators do, Cheng acknowledges both its shortcomings and benefits while presenting a practical means of deciding whether compliance in a given circumstance is beneficial, moral, or necessary. To demonstrate how his new proposal for approaching international law would work in a real crisis, Cheng provides numerous case studies from contemporary history that test his theory. Ranging topically from the current global economic crisis to the West's war on jihadist terrorism, these detailed and demonstrative case studies set this book apart from similar works of international legal scholarship. By combining theory with practice, When International Law Works gives policymakers, academics, and students 'real world' guidance on how to face new global problems. In doing so, this new book challenges readers to rethink the role of law in an increasingly crisis-driven world"-
Cheng, Hsiang Tai
No full textHsiang Tai Cheng - Assistant Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/univ_photos/2011/thumbnail.jp
Numerical Mathematics: Theory , Methods and Applications Special issue on Image Processing and Computer Vision
No full textPreface
Special Issue on Image Processing and Computer Vision
Current developments in imaging and multimedia technologies and rapid advances in vision research have led to an explosive growth in the interdisciplinary field of imaging science. Mathematical and numerical techniques applied to vision and imaging problems llead to the solution of challenging problems and innovative applications. Its vast application
area touches many important industry fields that are important for our daily life include medical imaging and analysis, media formation and processing, internet communication, virtual reality, geophysical prospection and remote sensing as well as vision and data understanding.
This special issue focuses on the latest efforts and results in addressing numerical image processing and shape analysis issues. These articles cover in depth many of the mathematical techniques used in image processing and computer vision, including segmentation, surface registration and matching, image denoising and deblurring. They highlight a diverse
array of mathematical and numerical approaches: state-of-the-art algorithms for numerical schemes for image processing and vision analysis. Also described are cutting-edge methods for image registration and segmentation—indispensable steps in advanced image and vision applications. The content of this special issue gives a good introduction and
coverage of the newest developments in this field. We hope that the contents of this issue will pique the interest of mathematicians as well as real practitioners and imagers alike.
The articles in this special issue grow out from talks and contributions given at the SSVM 2011 (Third International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods In Computer Vision) as well as other contributions from our call for the special issue. All the articles have gone through a rigorous review procedure that is the same as other regular articles for the journal. The guest editors would like to thank the authors for their contributions
to the special issue and all the reviewers who provided their constructive criticism, thorough reviews, and their valuable time. We are also grateful to the journal editorial staff for their help in the preparation of this special issue.
Fiorella Sgallari
University of Bologna
Xue-Cheng Tai
University of Berge
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State succession and commercial obligations /
No full textState Succession and Commercial Obligations sets out to answer once and for all the age-old question: Do commercial obligations survive state succession? Tai-Heng Cheng accomplishes this goal via careful analyses of efforts by the United Nations to codify the law of state succession, as well as of recent state successions involving East Timor, Hong Kong, Macau, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. The insightful text identifies a common thread running through these seemingly disparate events. Because of globalization and our interdependence, transnational decision-makers have collectively shaped international law to protect the international infrastructure from being disrupted by state succession and to protect entities from being debilitated by post-succession obligations. State Succession and Commercial Obligations makes another major breakthrough by showing that the policy considerations and decision-making processes are similar in both state and government successions. Unlike prior theories that were bound by technical distinctions between state and government succession, this book's approach helps decision-makers bring order to both state and government successions that continue to be problematic today, such as the "regime changes" in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. State Succession and Commercial Obligations is the only major treatise in fifty years to appraise the global development of the law of state succession and commercial obligations. This treatise is indispensable to legal scholars seeking to understand contemporary international law, judges and arbitrators adjudicating succession disputes, and transactional and trial lawyers representing financial institutions, corporations and states when succession is imminent or has occurred. Because this book distills complex legal concepts into elegant ideas, it is also fascinating reading for a general audience that has an interest in global affairs and the transformative successions since the end of the Cold War. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint
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When international law works:realistic idealism after 9/11 and the global recession /
No full textThis title addresses the current international law debates and transcends them. Responding to influential scholarly statements on international law, the author presents a new framework that decision-makers should consider when they confront an international problem implicating the often-competing policies and interests of their own communities & global order. Instead of advocating for or against international law as legitimate or binding, Cheng acknowledges its shortcomings while presenting a practical means of deciding whether compliance in a given circumstance is beneficial, moral, or necessary
Photoinduced electron transfer reactions across rigid linear spacer groups of high symmetry
No full textClass invariants from a new kind of Weber-like modular equation
No full textA technique is described for explicitly evaluating quotients of the Dedekind eta function at quadratic integers. These evaluations do not make use of complex approximations but are found by an entirely `algebraic' method. They are obtained by means of specialising certain modular equations related to Weber's modular equations of `irrational type'. The technique works for certain eta quotients evaluated at points in an imaginary quadratic field with discriminant d1 (mod 8)
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