32 research outputs found
Human-Rights Discourse: An Examination of Shifting Conceptions of Human Rights within the Netherlands
No full textThe thrust of this research focuses on the dynamic ways in which conceptions of human rights, culture, and identity change in relation to increased inflows of allochthonous, non-western migration. Focusing on the Netherlands, this paper examines the Dutch public’s varied responses to migration – whether welcoming or antipathic – through two separate frames. First, an analysis of case law that focuses on the Dutch government’s response to personal family law within Islamic religious situations and the “free-speech trials” of Geert Wilders is undertaken to examine situational responses to perceived changes in culture and identity. Second, an exploration of migration within news coverage is attempted with an understanding that news framing – while “uncovering” certain truths, creates fictions through the single-storied fetishization of, in this case, the incompatibility of migrant culture with Dutch culture. Finally, this research concludes that human rights – while not explicitly discussed within public contexts – constitute a process-oriented part of the Netherland’s “culture of rights” while still at risk of being ignored in larger debates surrounding cultural compatibility
E. R. Hooton, Stalin’s Claws: From the Purges to the Winter War, Red Army Operations before Barbarossa 1937-1941.
No full textE. R. Hooton is a defence journalist who has written respected books on theLuftwaffe, the Spitfire and also the 1914-18 air war on the western front and despiteits rather lurid title Stalin’s Claws is a valuable addition to Red Army studies, thehistory of Stalinism and Russia’s contribution to World War Two in general. Its focusis the evolution of Red Army operations between the catastrophic self-wound ofStalin’s military purge in 1937 and the German invasion of Soviet Russia in June 1941.A key theme of the book is the enduring atmosphere of fear engendered by Stalin’spurges, which run like a bloody thread throughout the work. These did not begin andend with the Ezhovchina (named after Nikoli Yezhov, the diminutive and murderousPeoples Commissar for Internal Affairs) but continued right up until 1942 whensenior generals were still being executed, this time for incompetence and cowardice,rather than political unreliability. The author spares few details of how ghastly andbrutal the whole bloody business was; he has a particularly gruesome description ofBeria, Stalin’s notorious security chief, personally torturing Blyukher (one of the firstfive Marshals of the Soviet Union) to death. Never was the precariousness of Russia’sservice state more aptly demonstrated
Microwave self-healing technology as airfield porous asphalt friction course repair and maintenance system
No full textA problem increasingly faced by airport authorities is the maintenance of runways. Due to their large aircraft loadings associated with take-off and landing operations, runways experience surface deterioration. Poor quality runway surfaces cannot be tolerated in such an environment. Maintenance issues must be carried out to maximise safety and minimise the risk of aircraft damage. A recent development has been the introduction of self-healing technologies such as rejuvenator encapsulation, induction and microwave heating to address these issues. This paper summarises a laboratory investigation to determine the effectiveness of microwave self-healing for crack repair of Porous Friction Course (PFC) used for airfields. Four mixtures containing varying percentages of conductive steel fibre were tested. Their relative performance was assessed using the Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus (ITSM) and Indirect Tensile Strength (ITS) test methods. The results show that the addition of conductive steel fibre increases initial stiffness and strength of the mix. A combination of micro-wave heating and steel fibre addition to the mix indicates that it is possible to significantly improve asphalt performance by making it self-healing to structural problems such as cracking.Materials and Environmen
Bibliographics for the 983 eprints in the live archives of E-LIS : trends and status report up to 7th July 2004, based on author-self-archiving metadata
No full textThe priority for ideas and philosophy related to "Network Theory" have been traced back and documented by Braun(2004),and credit goes to Karinthy(1929).The IT has empowered to realise it, as the most practical phenomena and it is no more a humour. The OAI (Open Archives Initiatives)and ACIS (Academic Contributor Information System)are progressive in the direction ,which may lead to realise the "Collective Genius" at global level. Focus of present study is on Author-Self-Archiving (A-S-A)Metadata of the 983 Eprints in the Live Archives of the E-LIS (EPrints of Library and Information Science),which were approved till 7th July 2004.The A-S-A Metadata was used for librametric analysis. Self-explanatory bibliographics are illustrated.The highlights include: Conference papers (34%); highest approval, June 2004 (28%); published archives (76%);not refereed (52%); not in public domain (60%); highest self-archiving-author (De Robbio, Antonella).The Nos. of EPrints having single JITA domain specifications were: Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information(27); Information use and sociology of information(80);Users,literacy and reading(13);Libraries as physical collections(30);Publishing and legal issues(57);Management(13);Industry, profession and education(36);Information sources, supports, channels(113) ; Information treatment for information services, Information functions and techniques (101); Technical services libraries, archives and museums(25); Housing technologies(1); Information technology and library technology(92); and Inter-domainery (395) i.e. having specifications of two or more than two JITA classes
Author Correction: Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing
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Does reading a book in bed make a difference to sleep in comparison to not reading a book in bed? : The People's Trial- an online, pragmatic, randomised trial
No full textAcknowledgements The People’s Trial team members acknowledge with gratitude the study participants. We would also like to acknowledge and thank Claire O’Connell, Simone Lepage, Aoife O’Shaughnessy and Louise Foley for their support with the research project. Trial funder This research was funded by the Health Research Board in Ireland, through the Health Research Board – Trials Methodology Research Network as part of a Knowledge Exchange and Dissemination Scheme Award 2018 (grant reference KEDS-2018-012). The funder of the study had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The corresponding author had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit.Peer reviewe
Foreign direct investment and China's bilateral intra-industry trade with Japan and the US
No full textThis paper analyzes dynamic changes of China's intra-industry trade with its major trading partners, Japan and the US, from 1980 to 2004. It also investigates to what extent foreign direct investment promoted intra-industry trade. The empirical results show that, while shares of China's intra-industry trade with both Japan and U.S rose substantially, its intra-industry trade with Japan has reached 35 per cent of the overall trade, considerably larger than 10 per cent with the US. Sino-Japan intra-industry trade concentrated in the electrical and machinery sectors accounted for 52 per cent and 46 per cent of overall trade respectively. On the other hand, it is in the chemical and food sectors where intra-industry trade represented a relatively large proportion of Sino-US trade, 50 per cent and 30 per cent accordingly in each sector. In addition, the analysis indicates that Japanese direct investment in China performed a significant role in enhancing intra-industry trade between Japan and China. However, it found no evidence that the US direct investment in China contributed to the growth of the bilateral intra-industry trade between the two countries.intra-industry trade; FDI; China
Innovation in Pain Management
No full textThe transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, on 12 December 2002.First published by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004.©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2004.All volumes are freely available online at: www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/wellcome_witnesses/.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 12 December 2002. Introduction by Dr Christina Faull; edited interview with Professor Patrick Wall.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 12 December 2002. Introduction by Dr Christina Faull; edited interview with Professor Patrick Wall.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 12 December 2002. Introduction by Dr Christina Faull; edited interview with Professor Patrick Wall.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 12 December 2002. Introduction by Dr Christina Faull; edited interview with Professor Patrick Wall.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 12 December 2002. Introduction by Dr Christina Faull; edited interview with Professor Patrick Wall.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 12 December 2002. Introduction by Dr Christina Faull; edited interview with Professor Patrick Wall.Unrelieved pain caused by cancer is experienced by more than 5 million people worldwide, and over the past 50 years has been accepted as unnecessary by both clinicians and politicians. Major innovations in the understanding of pain and our ability to treat it have been made. This Witness Seminar, chaired by Professor David Clark, describes the development of pain clinics, the introduction of the hospice in Britain, and global implementation of innovative technologies for cancer pain relief and advances in research during the latter part of the twentieth century. International health planners argue that the outstanding challenge is to put this knowledge into practice in healthcare settings around the world, often where resources are limited. Reynolds L A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2004) Innovation in pain management, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 21. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London is funded by the Wellcome Trust,which is a registered charity, no. 210183
Custodians of the Earth: The Peasant Woman in Alice Taylor’s Work
No full textA escritora irlandesa Alice Taylor está a adicar a súa producción literaria a reproducir o modo de vida das comunidades rurais do oeste de Irlanda, prestando especial atención á contribución das mulleres, de xeito que a súa obra pode considerarse coma unha testemuña dun modo de vida a piques de extinguirse. O presente traballo reivindica a obra de Alice Taylor, analiza textos representativos dos diferentes xéneros utilizados pola autora (poemas, relatos, novelas e escritos autobiográficos), e tenta buscar unha explicación ao feito de que a a crítica literaria ten descuidado o estudo da aportación dunha autora que, nembargantes, é moi popular entre o público lector.Propoñemos un estudo de textos representativos da súa obra aplicando os conceptos Bergerianos de “autor(a) testemuña” e “memoria histórica”.La escritora irlandesa Alice Taylor ha dedicado su producción literaria a reproducir el modo de vida de las comunidades rurales del oeste de Irlanda, prestando especial atención a la contribución de las mujeres, de forma que su obra puede considerarse testimonio de un modo de vida a punto de extinguirse. El presente trabajo reivindica la obra de Alice Taylor, analiza textos representativos de los diferentes géneros utilizados por la autora (poemas, relatos, novelas y escritos autobiográficos), e intenta buscar una explicación al hecho de que la crítica literaria haya descuidado el estudio de la aportación de una autora que, sin embargo, es muy popular entre el público lector.Proponemos un estudio de textos representativos de su obra aplicando los conceptos Bergerianos de “autor(a) testigo” y de “memoria histórica”.Irish writer Alice Taylor has dedicated her literary oeuvre to represent the rural communities of the West of Ireland, paying particular attention to women’s peasants. Her work can be considered as a well documented record of a way of living in danger of extinction. Taylor has published novels, collections of poems and memoirs, focusing in all of them on the activities of male and female peasants, and emphasizing the close relationship that is established between humans and the environment in the communities that she so minutely describes. It is our intention to vindicate the interest of Alice Taylor’s work, to analyse representative texts by the author (poems, memoirs and novels), and to explain the reasons why criticism has ignored the work of an author who is very popular and widely read. We propose to study Taylor’s works taking into account the concepts of “the author as witness” and “historical memory” that have been applied to the study of the also peasant writer John Berger, and to deploy how ecofeminist principles and attitudes are privileged in the relationship between women and nature that Taylor describes.
