La lucha contra la impunidad: la asistencia letrada en Darfur

El vacío del Estado de derecho en Darfur es mayor que en cualquier otra región de Sudán. El Programa de PNUD para el Estado de Derecho ayuda a los funcionarios judiciales y a los encargados de velar por el cumplimiento de la ley en el ejercicio de sus responsabilidades conforme al derecho nacional e internacional, al mismo tiempo que trabaja con ellos para acabar con el actual clima de impunidad

My life, my Home: Reasserting the connection between home and occupant

The intent of this paper is to uncover an architectural typology for a people who have none. An architectural typology that speaks to a culture and life of the people that live at the margins. I uncovered and have experienced that there is a lack of architectural representation of the people that live at the margins. I have taken on this responsibility to uncover an appropriate typology for these people. The reason for this lack of representation is that the people at the margins endured a plethora of cultural influences some their own some not. It is for this reason hybridity is required for this representation. To further enrich the outcome of this study, this paper will be examining the housing typology in various incarnations in different locals and times in history. Looking at different incarnations of the housing typology I would like to understand the role architecture plays in the facilitation of social interaction and the aid it brings to societal ills. I am particularly interested in the housing typology because housing in my view is the singular typology people encounter every day. Housing and the community it implies has the biggest impact on the human experience

Measurement of the top quark mass from top quarks produced in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV that decay to dimuons via a J/ψ

The top quark mass is measured using tt → lepton + J/ψ(→ µ +µ −) events, using proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 13 TeV, during 2015-2018. The data corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 139.0 fb−1 . This lepton + J/ψ channel is statistically limited due to the low branching ratio of the b → J/ψ → µ +µ −. The top quark mass is measured from template fits over the m(lepton,J/ψ) distribution. The top quark mass is measured to be 172.03 ± 0.76 (stat) ± 2.14 (syst) GeV

Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner

Includes bibliography.White South African author Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) are well-known and celebrated literary figures in their own right, but are seldom read side by side. Furthermore, these authors and their works are traditionally placed on different spectrums of feminist literary genealogies despite writing during a similar time-frame and sharing converging feminist agendas. This thesis analyses The Story of an African Farm (1883), Schreiner’s first completed novel, alongside Hopkins’ first full-length novel, the romance Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900). Individually, these novels and their authors do radical work in liberating their female characters from the patriarchal and racial oppression prevalent in each context. This thesis argues that reading the two in tandem offers unique insight into a specifically transnational and transracial feminist consciousness emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century. Identifying multiple links between the novels’ feminist concerns and their intersecting negotiations with race and empire, this comparative literary study establishes temporal, spatial and conceptual links between the two works, arguing that these links transcend both the space and race of their novels’ local contexts in order to suggest a definitive transnational and transracial feminist awareness. Such a reading moreover disrupts traditional genealogies of western feminism, urging scholars to look beyond the narrow scope of feminist “waves” and schools in order to detect nuances, convergences and relationships between texts which such genealogies disregard

The tooth of time:Procedural sedation in nursing homes for frail, elderly patients

The group of frail elderly people with a major neurcognitive disorder is growing worldwide. Common problems associated with advanced stages of dementia include anxiety and the resulting inability to undergo medical or dental treatment. A possible solution to this problem is to offer anxiolysis or sedation. This should preferably take place in the patient's own, familiar environment. This dissertation contains studies into the possibility of helping elderly, vulnerable patients to undergo treatment in their own environment by providing safe, adequate procedural sedation

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and asthma : a study on the impact of RSV infection on allergic airway inflammation in a mouse model

For many years animal studies are performed to investigate the immunity induced by an RSV infection and the immune regulatory role of RSV infections on the development and exacerbation of respiratory allergies. Since different strategies of allergen sensitisation and challenge, moments of virus infection during allergen-sensitisation and -challenge, and timing of analysis after challenge are chosen, the precise role of RSV infection in allergic inflammation is still not clear. The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether RSV infection modulates respiratory allergy. In addition, the immune mechanisms which determine the influence of RSV infection on respiratory allergy are investigated. The research questions addressed in this thesis are: • What is the influence of RSV infection on the parame