‘Children not trophies’: an ethnographic study of private family law practice in England

The welfare of the child in the context of private family law proceedings is of significant international interest. This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of private law proceedings in England, which explored legal professionals’ experiences of and practice within space and place. Data are derived from interviews with professionals, and observations from the waiting areas, canteens, interview rooms and offices of lawyers who represent parents in private family law proceedings. The paper focuses on winners and losers in the area of private family law, and the ‘trophy’, the child, who appears to be lost in the battleground of legal proceedings, but remains the ultimate prize. The concept of space is explored before moving to reflect upon the data from the interviews. The themes that emerge from the data are the relationships between the public space of the court and the vulnerability of the parties as they attempt with greater or less ease, to navigate the complexities of this formal and procedurally driven space. This paper explores the idea of the child as the ultimate ‘trophy’ within private law proceedings to consider its significance for family justice practice in England, and to elicit a greater understanding of the importance of space and place in private law proceedings that have remained largely unexplored

Selection of Sampling Grid and Prefilter for Image Decimation Based on Spectral Extension Analysis

Signal decimation aimed at optimal spectral packing has a variety of applications in areas ranging from array pro cessing to image processing In this article we propose and discuss a new method for determining decimation grid and prelter that best t the spectral extension of any D signal dened on an arbitrary sampling lattice The method has been implemented and tested on digital images in order to evaluate quality degradation due to optimal spectral truncatio

Subpixel Edge Localization with Statistical Error Compensation

Subpixel Edge Localization (EL) techniques are often affected by an error that exhibits a systematic character When this happens their performance can be improved through compensation of the systematic portion of the localization error In this paper we propose and analyze a method for estimating the EL characteristic of subpixel EL techniques through statistical analysis of appropriate test images The impact of the compensation method on the accuracy of a camera calibration procedure has been proven to be quite signicant, which can be crucial especially in applications of low-cost photogrammetry and 3D reconstruction from multiple views

Don't confuse left and right exactness! A note correcting the distinction in the Proceedings of ANPA 27

A note correcting and enlarging on the distinction between the parities of exactness and adjointness in our paper Process as a World Transaction in the proceedings of ANPA 27

An applicative theory for FPH

In this paper we introduce an applicative theory which characterizes the polynomial hierarchy of time.Comment: In Proceedings CL&C 2010, arXiv:1101.520

Determination of QCD Backgrounds in ATLAS: A challenge for SUSY searches

In this paper we briefly discuss the estimation of uncertainties in QCD backgrounds to searches for Supersymmetry under development by the ATLAS collaboration.Comment: Proceedings of SUY09. Boston (USA