Hernández v. Mesa: A Case for a More Meaningful Partnership with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Through an in-depth examination of Hernández, the Inter-American Human Rights System, and the success of Mexico’s partnership with said system, this Note will make a case for embracing human rights bodies— specifically, the Inter-American System on Human Rights—as an appropriate and necessary check on the structures that form the United States government. Part I will look closely at the reasoning and judicially created doctrine that guided the decision in Hernández, with the goal of providing a better understanding of the complicated path through the courts that led to a seemingly straightforward yet unsatisfying result. Part II will illustrate the scope and purpose of the Inter-American Human Rights system and highlight how the system has addressed harms that reflect the themes in Hernández in the past. Part II will also argue that the Inter-American system provides a positive and necessary check on the domestic justice system in the United States. Part III will discuss Mexico’s relationship with the Inter-American System, and how the country has used its relationship with the body to provide meaningful relief to individuals who have been unable to access redress through available domestic remedies. Overall, the Note will argue that if invested in and embraced, the Inter-American System for Human Rights can provide meaningful and independent oversight to claims and problems that present specific politically sourced challenges and ultimately, that the United States should take a more open and proactive approach to engaging with it

Entanglement-Assisted Coherent Control in Nonreactive Diatom-Diatom Scattering

Intriguing quantum effects that result from entangled molecular rovibrational states are shown to provide a novel means for controlling both differential and total collision cross sections in identical particle diatom-diatom scattering. Computational results on elastic and inelastic scattering of para--H$_2$ and para--H$_2$ are presented, with the collision energy ranging from 400 cm$^{-1}$ to the ultracold regime. The experimental realization and possible extension to other systems are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Journal of Chemical Physic

Extensible Automated Constraint Modelling

In constraint solving, a critical bottleneck is the formulationof an effective constraint model of a given problem. The CONJURE system described in this paper, a substantial step forward over prototype versions of CONJURE previously reported, makes a valuable contribution to the automation of constraint modelling by automatically producing constraint models from their specifications in the abstract constraint specification language ESSENCE. A set of rules is used to refine an abstract specification into a concrete constraint model. We demonstrate that this set of rules is readily extensible to increase the space of possible constraint models CONJURE can produce. Our empirical results confirm that CONJURE can reproduce successfully the kernels of the constraint models of 32 benchmark problems found in the literature

Librería y ciudad. Conversaciones con Naike Cassellini, Ricardo Artola y Diana Hernández en el Encuentro Nacional De Editores Independientes, 2016 [Castellón]

Conversaciones con Naike Cassellini, Ricardo Artola y Diana Hernández en el Encuentro Nacional De Editores Independientes, 2016 [Castellón

Towards the evaluation of cognitive models using anytime intelligence tests

Cognitive models are usually evaluated based on their fit to empirical data. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems on the other hand are mainly evaluated based on their performance. Within the field of artificial general intelligence (AGI) research, a new type of performance measure for AGI systems has recently been proposed that tries to cover both humans and artificial systems: Anytime Intelligence Tests (AIT; Hernández-Orallo & Dowe, 2010). This paper explores the viability of the AIT formalism for the evaluation of cognitive models based on data from the ICCM 2009 “Dynamic Stocks and Flows” modeling challenge

Relatos de un caribe “otro”: simulacros de lo monstruoso y lo distópico en obras narrativas y cinematrográficas recientes

A partir de textos narrativos de los escritores dominicanos Rita Indiana Hernández y Frank Báez, y de la reciente película del director cubano Alejandro Brugués, se analizará la monstruosidad y distopía tanto de los cuerpos, conductas y espacios caribeños. Para ello, se enfatizará en cómo estas propuestas estéticas, basadas en lo abyecto y grotesco, y que se sirven de procedimientos narrativos tanto literarios como audiovisuales, configuran una representación de un Caribe “otro” que se resiste al discurso exotista de lo caribeño y que a la vez legitima el discurso fundacional de violencia y bestialidad

Making sense of nonsense

The project focuses on the creation of supplemental teaching materials that can be used to support reading and writing activities in the science content curriculum taught in a bilingual fifth grade classroom. Mediated structures are used to link the curriculum in the language arts with science materials. They are also used to provide depth and complexity to the materials offered by textbooks adopted by the school district. The mediated structures discussed and developed in the project are included