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By conceiving identity as endogenously defined and construing other central political concepts according to this assumption, constructivism has proven apt to understand and explain phenomena that eariler were hard to grasp. Constructivist ideas have here been used in order to analyze the events surrounding the Single European Act as a contrast to the more conventional rationalist approach used by
With China's open door policy in the late of 1978 and accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the progress of globalization has accelerated the comprehensive development of China's society, in which the progress of intellectual property protection just is a typical example, because the reform and evolution of intellectual property protection not only reflects the China's dev
In May of 2005 the government of Zimbabwe initiated an eviction campaign called Operation Murambatsvina which rendered approximately 700,000 Zimbabweans homeless. The international community condemned the action and a UN Special Envoy was sent to assess the scope and extent of the Operation. This envoy, as well as numerous NGO reports, touched upon the subject of a ?crimes against humanity? charge
In this paper, the role of inequality in growth economics is investigated. Barro (2000) found a positive interaction between inequality and GDP on the growth rate, using data for 1960-2000. This paper focuses on a robustness check of his results due to a revision of the Ginis from Deininger and Squire (1997) in the WIID2 dataset. My regressions cover the same time periods and include additional da
Remittances are the second largest inflow of capital to the Philippines after Foreign Direct Investment. The Philippines are a lower middle income country with about 33 percent of its 76.5 million population living in poverty. Earlier research on remittances and poverty agrees on the positive effects of remittances on poverty. This thesis’ objective is to show how remittances are distributed among
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent "disciplining mechanisms" of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question of victimhood amo
Compact automated warehouse solutions are a challenge for conventional fire protection systems, such as sprinklers. As an option to sprinkler systems some warehouses employ an Oxygen Reduction System (ORS). When designing an ORS, the most important parameter is the limiting oxygen concentration (LOC). The level of protection attained is directly proportional to the oxygen level applied, which is a
Let (Formula presented.) be a (Formula presented.) -adic analytic pro- (Formula presented.) group of dimension (Formula presented.), with lower (Formula presented.) -series (Formula presented.). We produce an approximate series which descends regularly in strata and whose terms deviate from (Formula presented.) in a uniformly bounded way. This brings to light a new set of rational invariants (Form
UNLABELLED: Systemic targeted therapy in prostate cancer is primarily focused on ablating androgen signaling. Androgen deprivation therapy and second-generation androgen receptor (AR)-targeted therapy selectively favor the development of treatment-resistant subtypes of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), defined by AR and neuroendocrine (NE) markers. Molecular drivers of doubl
The rise of social media platforms in the early 2010’s marked a shift in public diplomacy practice resulting in the emergence of “digital public diplomacy.” This chapter explores the evolution of digital public diplomacy by emphasizing digital culture as a significant source of social and political change in a broader societization of diplomacy. Moving beyond a narrow focus on digitalization, it a
Environmental stress can alter not only trait means but also trait variances - an often-overlooked evolvable feature with ecological and evolutionary relevance. We examine how dietary stress affects both the mean and variance of morphological and reproductive traits across two generations in clonal Daphnia. We manipulated maternal and offspring environments with high- (algae) or low-quality (cyano
Acoustofluidic particle manipulation has attracted considerable interest in biomedical applications due to its non-contact and label-free characteristics. However, existing computational models for predicting particle motion in acoustofluidic systems mainly focus on single-particle behavior, often neglecting particle–particle interactions and the impact of particle distribution on the acoustic and
This special issue deals with temporalities in migration law with particular emphasis on the European context. At the crossroads of several legal fields, including public law, human rights law, EU law and public international law, the topic is cutting-edge in migration law. The articles collected were originally presented at a conference organized at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in June 2023 an
The fire behaviour of bio-based insulation materials is studied by comparing results from Cone Calorimeter and small-scale furnace tests. Clear differences in fire behaviour were observed between wood fibre and hemp fibre insulation. The analysis reveals that smouldering plays a critical role, particularly in furnace tests. Limitations of current fire resistance tests are highlighted, particularly
Fragmentomics based analysis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has recently emerged as a method to infer epigenetic and transcriptional data. Many of these reports analyze whole genome sequencing (WGS) which is not readily available clinically. Targeted exon panels are used for clinical cfDNA variant calling. In this report, we conduct an investigation of multiple published fragmentomics methods for WGS, b
The adsorption of soft microgels at interfaces is a key phenomenon in numerous applications, including emulsification, interfacial stabilization, and responsive coatings. In this work, we employ a combination of in situ atomic force microscopy and numerical simulations to systematically investigate the structural behavior of individual microgels at liquid-liquid and solid-liquid interfaces. By dir
Context. Studies of the internal kinematics of the LMC have provided a detailed view of its structure, largely thanks to the exquisite proper motion data supplied by the Gaia mission. However, line-of-sight (LoS) velocities, the third component of the stellar motion, are only available for a small subset of the current Gaia data, thus limiting studies of the kinematics perpendicular to the LMC dis
Droplets are sophisticated micro-compartments crucial for lab-on-a-chip and bio-medical applications. There have been significant efforts towards generating monodisperse droplets as the uniformity of droplets affects performance. Recently, we introduced a new method to continuously reform existing emulsions improving monodispersity in an ultrasound-actuated microcavity via a trap-coalesce-split me
The energetics and dynamics of ion assembly in solution has broad influence in nanomaterials and inorganic synthesis. To investigate the fundamental processes involved, we present a time-resolved x-ray solution scattering (TR-XSS) study of the trinuclear silver and thallium complexes of the diplatinum ion PtPOP [Pt2(H2P2O5) 4 4 − ] in aqueous solution. These complexes, their structural properties,
