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    The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics

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    This volume is a collection of the key writings of Professor Ramesh Thakur on norms and laws regulating the international use of force. The adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle by world leaders assembled at the UN summit in 2005 is widely acknowledged to represent one of the great normative advances in international politics since 1945. The author has been involved in this shift from the dominant norm of non-intervention to R2P as an actor, public intellectual and academic and has been a key thinker in this process. These essays represent the author's writings on R2P, including reference to test cases as they arose, such as with Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008. Comprising essays by a key thinker and agent in the Responsibility to Protect debates, this book will be of much interest to students of international politics, human rights, international law, war and conflict studies, international security and IR in general

    The Life Model of Nisargadatta Maharaj as Interpreted by Ramesh Balsekar

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    Ramesh Balsekar (1917–2009) was a disciple of Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981). Nisargadatta Maharaj lived in Bombay and taught what he realized: For doing our dharma everything is provided for us. Thus we can focus our attention on discovering “Who one is“ and let life flow. In 1996 the author of this article had a short conversation with Ramesh Balsekar, who presented his way of understanding the teaching of Nisargadatta Maharaj

    A novel design for an RF MEMS resistive switch on PCB substrate

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    Copyright @ 2008 Stimulation Action on MEM

    On the derived functors of the third symmetric-power functor

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    We compute the derived functors of the third symmetric-power functor and their cross-effects for certain values. These calculations match predictions by the first named author and largely prove them in general

    sj-docx-3-eso-10.1177_23969873231172559 – Supplemental material for Predicting risk of AF in ischaemic stroke using sinus rhythm ECG abnormalities: A meta-analysis

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    Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-eso-10.1177_23969873231172559 for Predicting risk of AF in ischaemic stroke using sinus rhythm ECG abnormalities: A meta-analysis by Alexander Berry-Noronha, Luke Bonavia, Duncan Wilson, Antti Eranti, Maria Uggen Rasmussen, Ahmad Sajadieh, Fabienne Kreimer, Michael Gotzmann and Ramesh Sahathevan in European Stroke Journal</p

    sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873231172559 – Supplemental material for Predicting risk of AF in ischaemic stroke using sinus rhythm ECG abnormalities: A meta-analysis

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    sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873231172559 for Predicting risk of AF in ischaemic stroke using sinus rhythm ECG abnormalities: A meta-analysis by Alexander Berry-Noronha, Luke Bonavia, Duncan Wilson, Antti Eranti, Maria Uggen Rasmussen, Ahmad Sajadieh, Fabienne Kreimer, Michael Gotzmann and Ramesh Sahathevan in European Stroke Journal</p

    sj-docx-2-eso-10.1177_23969873231172559 – Supplemental material for Predicting risk of AF in ischaemic stroke using sinus rhythm ECG abnormalities: A meta-analysis

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    sj-docx-2-eso-10.1177_23969873231172559 for Predicting risk of AF in ischaemic stroke using sinus rhythm ECG abnormalities: A meta-analysis by Alexander Berry-Noronha, Luke Bonavia, Duncan Wilson, Antti Eranti, Maria Uggen Rasmussen, Ahmad Sajadieh, Fabienne Kreimer, Michael Gotzmann and Ramesh Sahathevan in European Stroke Journal</p

    sj-pptx-4-eso-10.1177_23969873231172559 – Supplemental material for Predicting risk of AF in ischaemic stroke using sinus rhythm ECG abnormalities: A meta-analysis

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    sj-pptx-4-eso-10.1177_23969873231172559 for Predicting risk of AF in ischaemic stroke using sinus rhythm ECG abnormalities: A meta-analysis by Alexander Berry-Noronha, Luke Bonavia, Duncan Wilson, Antti Eranti, Maria Uggen Rasmussen, Ahmad Sajadieh, Fabienne Kreimer, Michael Gotzmann and Ramesh Sahathevan in European Stroke Journal</p

    Importance of marriage for Asian Indian women in the U.S.: an exploratory study

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    Throughout the past century and across various cultures, the concept of marriage has significantly changed from being a union between two families to a union between two individuals. The change has penetrated South Asia, despite collectivism being the norm in Asian Indian culture. The current exploratory study was done to investigate an unexamined area of research namely, the pressure experienced by unmarried Asian Indian women in the United States. A qualitative research design combining ethnographic and grounded theory was used. Ten interviews were conducted with heterosexual, Asian Indian, Hindu women, above the age of 25, and raised in the United States. Four main research questions were addressed: (1) What pressures do family and community put on Asian Indian women to get married (2) What effect does remaining unmarried have on Asian Indian women (3) How do certain factors (i.e., past relationships, religion, skin color, and education) affect how desirable these women are to others, and how desirable they feel? and (4) What are Asian Indian women’s perspectives on marriage? The interview data collected were analyzed to uncover qualitative themes. These themes included the following: the women interviewed felt that all Asian Indian women were born to be brides, that Asian Indian women did not go through a process of separation-individuation as defined in Western psychology, that parents experienced a great deal of shame if their daughters remained unmarried, that a great amount of interpersonal conflict with family and friends resulted from staying single, and that most women had felt that they needed to get married before the age of thirty. Although several of the women interviewed stated that they were ambivalent about the idea of marrying someone of Indian origin, the women felt that several factors affected how desirable they were to other members of the Indian community. The findings of this study suggest important implications for clinical psychology training for mental health clinicians. The study suggests that therapists should have an increased understanding of the difference in separation-individuation between Western and Asian Indian culture, the importance of an Asian Indian woman’s external presentation, and the extreme shame that these women may experience by remaining single.Psy. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Snigdha Ramesh Ratho

    Automated detection of ultrastructural features at neuronal synapses

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    Synaptic vesicles are the ultracellular structures responsible for carrying chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters from inside the axon of a neuron to the synaptic junction outside. The variation in size and location of these structures is important in the study of their use and reuse in neurons. We propose a method to locate and estimate the diameter of vesicles in electron microscope images of synapses. We train a U-Net inspired model to perform pixel-wise segmentation of the vesicles against background pixels. We then use contour detection on the resulting segmentation maps to determine individual vesicle centers and effective diameters. To our knowledge, there are no baselines in this task so we establish one on an in-house dataset. Our results show that the proposed model performed well on this task.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Ashwin Ramesh, accepted the attached license on 2020-05-12 at 19:48.The student, Ashwin Ramesh, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-05-12 at 20:03.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-05-13 at 10:06.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15370 on 2020-08-25 at 17:31:20Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-26T23:58:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 RAMESH-THESIS-2020.pdf: 13114758 bytes, checksum: 151b69806aae993f256f0ac16961f07c (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 53666105fa5ae3ac8d99cf87df33f38c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2020-05-13Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 115808 Lift date: 2022-08-26T23:58:55Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemAuthor requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemU of I Onl
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