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European Court of Human Rights: Cengiz and others v. Turkey
On 1 December 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a judgment dealing with a blocking order in Turkey of the popular video-sharing website YouTube. The Court found that the blocking of access to YouTube amounted to a violation of the right to receive and impart information under Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). The Court observed that YouTube, as an Internet platform, enabled information on political and social matters to be broadcast and citizen journalism to emerge. The Court found that there was no provision in the Turkish law allowing domestic courts to impose the blanket blocking order of YouTube at
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Cluster of Botulism among dutch tourists in Turkey, june 2008
In June 2008, three Dutch tourists participating in a mini-cruise in Turkey needed urgent repatriation for antitoxin treatment because of symptoms of botulism. Because there was a shortage of antitoxin in the Netherlands, an emergency delivery was requested from the manufacturer in Germany. An outbreak investigation was initiated into all nine cruise members, eight of whom developed symptoms. C. botulinum type B was isolated in stool culture from four of them. No other patients were notified locally. Food histories revealed locally purchased unprocessed black olives, consumed on board of the ship, as most likely source, but no leftovers were available for investigation. C. botulinum type D was detected in locally purchased canned peas, and whilst type D is not known to be a cause of human intoxication, its presence in a canned food product indicates an inadequate preserving process. With increasing tourism to areas where food-borne botulism is reported regularly special requests for botulism antitoxin may become necessary. Preparing an inventory of available reserve stock in Europe would appear to be a necessary and valuable undertaking
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Pornography, panopticism and the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
This is the accepted version of the following article: Petley, J. (2009), Pornography, Panopticism and the Criminal
Justice and Immigration Act 2008. Sociology Compass, 3: 417â432, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-
9020.2009.00212.x/abstract.In May 2008, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act was passed in the United Kingdom. Among other things, this made it an offence even to possess what it describes as an âextreme pornographic imageâ. This paper analyses the particular factors which gave rise to this measure, support for it amongst the police and politicians, and the problems which are likely to arise from attempts to enforce it. In particular, the paper argues that the measure is so ill-conceived that it is likely to criminalise the possession of a far wider range of images than was originally intended. More generally, the paper examines the Act in the context of (a) the increasing tendency on the part of governments both democratic and non-democratic to attempt to regulate the Internet and its users; (b) the development of the âsurveillance societyâ; and (c) New Labour's marked tendency to legislate for private and personal realms traditionally regarded as out-of-bounds in a democratic polity. The paper concludes that the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act is a disturbing symptom of the development of the United Kingdom as not simply a surveillance society but also a post-social democratic state
When Anonymous Controlling Professional Media: A Marginal Voice in Press Freedom Country
The emergence of citizen journalism get a skeptical response from professional journalists based on several reasons such as un-institutional, subjective and nonprofessional (Ošrnebring, 2013; Allan, 2009; Moyo, 2009). This study explores how mainstream media play dominant role in producing fact by excluding citizen journalist apart from their system. The object of the study is âDiscourseâ about the banned of a controversial article1 written by an anonymous2 citizen journalist named Jilbab Hitam (here in after referred to as the âJHâ)3 in kompasiana.com4. The issues widespread quickly in cyberspace produce pros cons among internet user including professional journalists, NGO, etc. This research employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on articles and twitter conversations relevant to the issue. The results of the study show how anonymity becomes dominant Discourse submerging other important issue such us media manipulation and media corruption. Negative representation of anonymity â hoax, liar, provocative â might tend to hamper struggling of internet user freedom of expression
Phase separation in a boson-fermion mixture of Lithium atoms
We use a semiclassical three-fluid model to analyze the conditions for
spatial phase separation in a mixture of fermionic Li-6 and a (stable)
Bose-Einstein condensate of Li-7 atoms under cylindrical harmonic confinement,
both at zero and finite temperature. We show that with the parameters of the
Paris experiment [F. Schrek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 080403 (2001)] an
increase of the boson-fermion scattering length by a factor five would be
sufficient to enter the phase-separated regime. We give examples of
configurations for the density profiles in phase separation and estimate that
the transition should persist at temperatures typical of current experiments.
For higher values of the boson-fermion coupling we also find a new phase
separation between the fermions and the bosonic thermal cloud at finite
temperature.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, new version of Fig. 4 and typos correcte
First record of an exotic hippolytid shrimp in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
The alien hippolytid shrimp Lysmatakempi Chace, 1997 (= Hippolysmatadentata Kemp, 1914) , never recorded after its original description fromthe Eastern Indian Ocean, is reported for the first time in the easternMediterranean Sea (Gulf of Antalya), with remarks on its taxonomy
Performance Analysis of Fifth-Generation Cellular Uplink
Fifth-generation cellular networks are expected to exhibit at least three
primary physical-layer differences relative to fourth-generation ones:
millimeter-wave propagation, antenna-array directionality, and densification of
base stations. In this paper, the effects of these differences on the
performance of single-carrier frequency-domain multiple-access uplink systems
with frequency hopping are assessed. A new analysis, which is much more
detailed than any other in the existing literature and accommodates actual
base-station topologies, captures the primary features of uplink
communications. Distance-dependent power-law, shadowing, and fading models
based on millimeter-wave measurements are introduced. The beneficial effects of
base-station densification, highly directional sectorization, and frequency
hopping are illustrated.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, IEEE Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), 201
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