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Weather instruments all at sea: meteorology and the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century
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Unsigning the Rome Statute: Examining the Relationship Between the United States and the International Criminal Court
Presently, 120 states are parties to the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC). A state that one will not find on the list, however, would be the United States. This project examines the relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United States. The United States took part in the negotiating process, signing the Rome Statute under President Bill Clinton, but was not fully satisfied with the agreement reached. Under President Bush, however, the Rome Statute was unsigned. Presently, the United States remains unsigned on the Rome Statute. The relationship between the Court and the United States is important in determining the future of the Court, in terms of effectiveness and legitimacy. I will begin with a brief historical background on the development of the ICC, its structure, and the extent of its jurisdiction. From there, I will detail several problems with the court from America’s perspective. These include third-party jurisdiction and constitutional issues. I will also examine the relationship between the United States and the ICC under the three Presidents in office since the court’s conception: Clinton, Bush, and Obama. Finally, I argue that the Court needs the support of the United States to survive, but that the problems with the Court from America’s perspective will continue to stand in the way of American support for the court until U.S. interests are met
The Formative Influence of French Colonialism on the Life and Thought of Malek Bennabi (Malik bn Nabi)
Malek Bennabi (1905–73) fut un intellectuel algérien de premier rang. Cet article étudie l’effet du colonialisme sur sa vie et ses idées. L’étude considère ses livres et offre une comparaison entre Bennabi et Frantz Fanon. Bennabi montre qu’il n’était pas « colonisable » à cause de sa formation et sa conscience historique
Using iPads as a learning tool in cross-curricular collaborative initial teacher education
Mobile technologies are becoming more and more prevalent in learning environments. This means that teacher education must keep pace with the use of mobile technologies. Baran (2014) argues that the ‘greatest added value of mobile learning vis-a-vis PC learning lies in the aspects that extend classroom interaction to other locations via communication networks’. (p. 18) This article outlines a pilot study developed to support collaborative working between the English and science pre-service teachers, in which mobile technologies were used to extend students interactions outside the classroom, using iPads in authentic, fieldwork situations
Quantum Fluctuations for de Sitter Branes in Bulk AdS(5)
The vacuum expectation value of the square of the field fluctuations of a
scalar field on a background consisting of {\it two} de Sitter branes embedded
in an anti-de Sitter bulk are considered. We apply a dimensional reduction to
obtain an effective lower dimensional de Sitter space equation of motion with
associated Kaluza-Klein masses and canonical commutation relations. The case of
a scalar field obeying a restricted class of mass and curvature couplings,
including massless, conformal coupling as a special case, is considered. We
find that the local behaviour of the quantum fluctuations suffers from surface
divergences as we approach the brane, however, if the field is {\it
constrained} to its value on the brane from the beginning then surface
divergences disappear. The ratio of between the Kaluza-Klein
spectrum and the lowest eigenvalue mode is found to vanish in the limit that
one of the branes goes to infinity.Comment: 14 pages, no figures, to appear in Prog. Theor. Phy
Schooling effects on subsequent university performance : evidence for the UK university population
From a unique data-set identifying the school attended prior to university for a full cohort of UK university students, we examine the determinants of final degree classification.
We exploit the detailed school-level information and focus on the influence of school characteristics,
such as school type, on subsequent performance of students at university. We
estimate that, on average, a male (female) graduate who attended an Independent school
is 6.5 (5.4) percentage points less likely to obtain a `good' degree than is a student who
attended an LEA (that is, state-sector) school, ceteris paribus. We also find considerable
variation around this average figure across different Independent schools. We find that, for
males, the variation in the probability of attaining a `good' degree across schools can largely
be explained by the level of school fees
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