The Global Slavery Index

The Global Slavery Index report is published by the Walk Free Foundation (“Walk Free”). Walk Free is committed to ending all forms of modern slavery in this generation. Modern slavery includes slavery, slavery-like practices (such as debt bondage, forced marriage and sale or exploitation of children), human trafficking and forced labour, and other practices described in key international treaties, voluntarily ratified by nearly every country in the world. Walk Free’s strategy includes mobilising a global activist movement, generating the highest quality research, enlisting business, and raising unprecedented levels of capital to drive change in those countries and industries bearing the greatest responsibility for all forms of modern slavery today. Walk Free was founded by Andrew and Nicola Forrest, global philanthropists. More information on Walk Free can be found at www.walkfreefoundation.org. Information is a critical driver of change. Over time, the Global Slavery Index report will fill gaps in information about the size and nature of the problem, risk factors, and the effectiveness of responses. The intention is to inform and empower civil society groups working on this issue, and to assist governments to strengthen their efforts to eliminate all forms of modern slavery

Modell för beskrivning av kollokationer i ett medicinskt lexikon (MedLex)

The paper presents a pilot study of the treatment of collocations in an electronic medicallexicon, MedLex, currently under construction at the University of Gothenburg, Departmentof Swedish. The lexicon is descriptive and intended to support both receptionand production. The study focuses on noun collocations, especially those which describediseases and medical conditions. We present an analysis model based on a combinationof semasiological and onomasiological premises. The model results in a classificationinto lexically conditioned collocations and type-related collocations. We also discuss howmedically related collocations may be described in the MedLex lexicon

Zajęcie nerek w przebiegu twardziny układowej

Twardzina układowa (SSc) jest chorobą autoimmunologiczną należącą do grupy układowych chorób tkanki łącznej. Choroba ta charakteryzuje się postępującym włóknieniem skóry i narządów wewnętrznych, prowadząc do ich niewydolności. Do zajęcia nerek dochodzi u około 10–40% chorych na SSc, co wiąże się z dużym ryzykiem chorobowości i śmiertelności. Najgroźniejszą manifestacją zajęcia nerek jest twardzinowy przełom nerkowy (SRC). Powikłanie to charakteryzuje się ostrym uszkodzeniem nerek oraz nadciśnieniem tętniczym. Bardzo rzadko dochodzi do wystąpienia przełomu normotensyjnego. Przedmiotem niniejszej pracy jest omówienie poszczególnych postaci zajęcia nerek w SSc, czynników ryzyka, patogenezy i ich obrazu klinicznego

Normotensyjny przełom nerkowy indukowany glikokortykosteroidami we wczesnej twardzinie układowej

Twardzina układowa to choroba tkanki łącznej, która charakteryzuje się postępującym włóknieniem skóry i narządów wewnętrznych prowadzącym do ich niewydolności. Do zajęcia nerek dochodzi u około 10–40% chorych na twardzinę układową, u około 5–10% chorych rozwija się przełom nerkowy. Powikłanie to jest najgroźniejszą manifestacją zajęcia nerek i charakteryzuje się ostrym uszkodzeniem nerek oraz nadciśnieniem tętniczym. W około 10% przypadków przełomu nerkowego nadciśnienie tętnicze nie występuje. Taki wariant określa się mianem przełomu normotensyjnego.Przedmiotem pracy było przedstawienie trudności diagnostycznych oraz terapeutycznych chorego z wczesną twardziną układową i normotensyjnym przełomem nerkowym. Forum Reumatol. 2015, tom 1, nr 1, 47–5

Building Relationships Through Learning Design as Signature Pedagogy: Re-connecting Mature-aged Online Students with Educators

The Commencing Student Success Program (CSSP) comprises 13 evidence-based strategies for online engagement underpinned by the Universal Design for Learning principles of inclusive access to improve learner retention and engagement (Sasson et al., 2021), promoting first year student engagement and retention at the tertiary level. The program's impact has led to it being adopted across the University's School of Education as its signature pedagogy. The University's unique regional context provides education to a high number of students studying by distance; often rural, mature-age, or first-in-family. Applying these strategic elements into online course design ensure a sense of support and connection is embedded, and reducing sense of isolation, throughout their studies

Automated analysis of pottery by QEM-EDS: A case study from Mansiri, Sulawesi

The analysis of raw materials and manufacturing techniques is central to the investigation of pottery assemblages. While various analytical techniques exists, petrography generally remains the go-to method to analyse the fabric of pottery. It combines relatively cheap and simple sample preparation protocol with the ability to yield very detailed information related to provenance and manufacturing technique. Here, we test the utility of performing QEM-EDS on archaeological pottery from the Mansiri site, Sulawesi, to complement petrographic observations. We identify the main non-plastic inclusions as plagioclase, quartz, calcic amphibole, iron oxides and volcanic rock fragments, consistent with the pottery being made locally. Quantitative analysis of inclusion size and direction suggests that the non-plastic inclusions were not manually added, and that in contrast to other Neolithic Sulawesi sites, coiling with beating/paddle and anvil was used to manufacture the pots

"In the interests of justice?" The International Criminal Court, peace talks and the failed quest for war crimes accountability in northern Uganda

This article analyzes the first peace talks to take place against the backdrop of an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation: the Juba Talks between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda (2006–2008). Drawing on field research and original source material, it departs from well-worn peace versus justice debates and provides new empirical material to explore how the presence of the court shaped domestic political dynamics at Juba. It argues that at the level of broad rhetoric, the presence of the court created significant discord between negotiating parties. On a practical level, however, it created space for consensus, but not the type envisaged by international justice promoters. The court came to be seen by both sides as an intervention that needed to be contained and controlled. This resulted in the politically expedient Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation, which showcased a transitional justice “tool-kit,” but was based on a shared desire to evade the jurisdiction of international criminal justice. Given its practical complexity, the transitional justice agreement was ultimately rejected by Joseph Kony, who became increasingly distrustful of his own negotiating team at Juba. In findings relevant to other contexts, the article presents in-depth analyses of how domestic political dynamics around the ICC intervention produced a national transitional justice framework designed to protect both parties from war crimes accountability

Хромоколоноскопия как метод улучшения эндоскопического изображения

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Using auroral streamers to remote sense radial transport in the nightside magnetosphere

Using one year of ground-based Meridian Scanning Photometer (MSP) data, a survey of auroral streamers was carried out. Streamers are understood to be signatures of bursty bulk flows (BBFs) in the central plasma sheet (CPS) which are responsible for the majority of Earthward energy, plasma, and magnetic flux transport in the magnetosphere [Zesta et al., 2000; Angelopoulos et al., 1994]. The primary objective of this project was to study the large-scale behaviour and statistics of BBFs in a fundamentally new way, using streamers. Superposed epoch keograms were created and distinct trends were observed coinciding with the appearance of streamers in both the 486 and 558 nm MSP data. A distribution of streamer penetration depths was created to investigate how frequently BBFs reach the inner magnetosphere. Using the 1989 Tsyganenko magnetosphere model, these events were traced to the CPS to approximate their speed and trajectories

Determination and visualization of the phase discrepancy between two voltage signals during synchronization of generators

Dokonano krytycznej oceny znanych urządzeń do wyznaczania i wizualizacji kąta niezgodności fazowej napięć podczas synchronizacji obiektów elektroeneretycznych. Opisano oryginalną, opatentowaną metodę przetwarzania napięć obiektów synchronizowanych na sygnał odpowiadający kątowi ich niezgodności fazowej oraz podano sposób wizualizacji tego sygnału za pomocą punktów świetlnych rozłożonych równomiernie na okręgu. Podano przykład zastosowania tej metody w synchronoskopie elektronicznym. Przytoczono wyniki badań synchronoskopu. Opisano też koncepcję systemu komputerowej wizualizacji procesu automatycznej synchronizacji. W zakończeniu sformułowano wnioski.The original and patented method of determination and indication of the phase discrepancy between two voltage signal with close frequencies is presented. This method can be applied to the electronic synchronoscopes with diode indicator. It is based on direct processing of the inputs signals in the steering signal for the diodes placed uniformly on the circle. The example of such device using the presented method is given. The results of laboratory tests are done. Primary conception of computer visualization is presented. Some conclusions are stated