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    Kajian Undang-Undang Nomor 36 Tahun 2009 Tentang Kesehatan dan Peraturan Perundangundangan Lain Terkait Hak Kesehatan Reproduksi dan Keluarga Berencana (Review Of Law No. 36 Year 2009 Concerning The Regulation Of Health And Other Legislation Related To Re

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    Background: Law No. 36 in the year of 2009 consists of reproductive health and family planning has been exist. Thestudy is aimed to elucidate the regulation on human right issues. Method: It was an applied study to obtain operationalprogram and review of relevant law and regulation. Data were collected by observation and interviews with offi cials offamily planning services in primary health centers in Malang Municipality, East Java Province and Sampit District, Centerof Kalimantan. Discussions with stakeholders to review the Law No. 36 of 2009 associated with results of the issues.Results: It concludes that health service performed at family planning clinic still did not meet quality of services as expected,specially providing information and counseling contains the patient rights on reproductive health and family planning (therights and obligations of governments, local governments, health professionals and other skilled personnel and community participants of Family Planning), article 71, 72, 73, 74, 78 in Law 36 years of Health in 2009. Conclusions: The formulation of regulations to Law No. 36 of Health and other relevant government regulations on reproductive health and family planning is ideal, but the application still has not fully complied. Recommendations: Health service quality should be improved to provide counseling services in addition to enhance awareness about the rights and obligations to health personels and clients by socialization the Law 36 of 2009. Furthermore, it suggests to reevaluate the Health Act after a period of 5 yearto assess the effectiveness of implementation in the next 3 years with the expectations the family planning program hasbeen socialized in accordance with Law No. 36 of 2009 to providers and clients

    Thermodynamics of Heat Shock Response

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    Production of heat shock proteins are induced when a living cell is exposed to a rise in temperature. The heat shock response of protein DnaK synthesis in E.coli for temperature shifts from temperature T to T plus 7 degrees, respectively to T minus 7 degrees is measured as function of the initial temperature T. We observe a reversed heat shock at low T. The magnitude of the shock increases when one increase the distance to the temperature T023oT_0 \approx 23^o, thereby mimicking the non monotous stability of proteins at low temperature. Further we found that the variation of the heat shock with T quantitatively follows the thermodynamic stability of proteins with temperature. This suggest that stability related to hot as well as cold unfolding of proteins is directly implemented in the biological control of protein folding. We demonstrate that such an implementation is possible in a minimalistic chemical network.Comment: To be published in Physical Review Letter

    Equation of Motion for a Spin Vortex and Geometric Force

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    The Hamiltonian equation of motion is studied for a vortex occuring in 2-dimensional Heisenberg ferromagnet of anisotropic type by starting with the effective action for the spin field formulated by the Bloch (or spin) coherent state. The resultant equation shows the existence of a geometric force that is analogous to the so-called Magnus force in superfluid. This specific force plays a significant role for a quantum dynamics for a single vortex, e.g, the determination of the bound state of the vortex trapped by a pinning force arising from the interaction of the vortex with an impurity.Comment: 13 pages, plain te

    Political Regimes and Sovereign Credit Risk in Europe, 1750-1913

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    This article uses a new panel data set to perform a statistical analysis of political regimes and sovereign credit risk in Europe from 1750 to 1913. Old Regime polities typically suffered from fiscal fragmentation and absolutist rule. By the start of World War I, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited government. Panel regressions indicate that centralized and?or limited regimes were associated with significant improvements in credit risk relative to fragmented and absolutist ones. Structural break tests also reveal close relationships between major turning points in yield series and political transformations

    Warfare, Fiscal Capacity, and Performance

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    We exploit differences in casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to estimate the impact of fiscal capacity on economic performance. In the past, states fought different amounts of external conflicts, of various lengths and magnitudes. To raise the revenues to wage wars, states made fiscal innovations, which persisted and helped to shape current fiscal institutions. Economic historians claim that greater fiscal capacity was the key long-run institutional change brought about by historical conflicts. Using casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to instrument for current fiscal institutions, we estimate substantial impacts of fiscal capacity on GDP per worker. The results are robust to a broad range of specifications, controls, and sub-samples

    Risks, alternative knowledge strategies and democratic legitimacy: the conflict over co-incineration of hazardous industrial waste in Portugal.

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    The decision to incinerate hazardous industrial waste in cement plants (the socalled ‘co-incineration’ process) gave rise to one of the most heated environmental conflicts ever to take place in Portugal. The bitterest period was between 1997 and 2002, after the government had made a decision. Strong protests by residents, environmental organizations, opposition parties, and some members of the scientific community forced the government to backtrack and to seek scientific legitimacy for the process through scientific expertise. The experts ratified the government’s decision, stating that the risks involved were socially acceptable. The conflict persisted over a decade and ended up clearing the way for a more sustainable method over which there was broad social consensus – a multifunctional method which makes it possible to treat, recover and regenerate most wastes. Focusing the analysis on this conflict, this paper has three aims: (1) to discuss the implications of the fact that expertise was ‘confiscated’ after the government had committed itself to the decision to implement co-incineration and by way of a reaction to the atmosphere of tension and protest; (2) to analyse the uses of the notions of ‘risk’ and ‘uncertainty’ in scientific reports from both experts and counter-experts’ committees, and their different assumptions about controllability and criteria for considering certain practices to be sufficiently safe for the public; and (3) to show how the existence of different technical scientific and political attitudes (one more closely tied to government and the corporate interests of the cement plants, the other closer to the environmental values of reuse and recycling and respect for the risk perception of residents who challenged the facilities) is closely bound up with problems of democratic legitimacy. This conflict showed how adopting more sustainable and lower-risk policies implies a broader view of democratic legitimacy, one which involves both civic movements and citizens themselves

    A comparative framework: how broadly applicable is a 'rigorous' critical junctures framework?

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    The paper tests Hogan and Doyle's (2007, 2008) framework for examining critical junctures. This framework sought to incorporate the concept of ideational change in understanding critical junctures. Until its development, frameworks utilized in identifying critical junctures were subjective, seeking only to identify crisis, and subsequent policy changes, arguing that one invariably led to the other, as both occurred around the same time. Hogan and Doyle (2007, 2008) hypothesized ideational change as an intermediating variable in their framework, determining if, and when, a crisis leads to radical policy change. Here we test this framework on cases similar to, but different from, those employed in developing the exemplar. This will enable us determine whether the framework's relegation of ideational change to a condition of crisis holds, or, if ideational change has more importance than is ascribed to it by this framework. This will also enable us determined if the framework itself is robust, and fit for the purposes it was designed to perform — identifying the nature of policy change

    Methods for variational computation of molecular properties on near term quantum computers

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    In this thesis we explore the near term applications of quantum computing to Quantum Chemistry problems, with a focus on electronic structure calculations. We begin by discussing the core subroutine of near-term quantum computing methods: the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). By drawing upon the literature, we discuss the relevance of the method in computing electronic structure properties, compare it to alternative conventional or quantum methods and outline best practices. We then discuss the key limitations of this method, namely: the exploding number of measurements required, showing that parallelisation will be relevant for VQE to compete with conventional methods; the barren plateau problem; and the management of errors through error mitigation - we present a light touch error mitigation technique which is used to improve the results of experiments presented later in the thesis. From this point, we propose three methods for near term applications of quantum computing, with a focus on limiting the requirements on quantum resources. The first two methods concern the computation of ground state energy. We adapt the conventional methods of complete active space self consistent field (CASSCF) and energy-weighted density matrix embedding theory (EwDMET) by integrating a VQE subroutine to compute the electronic wavefunctions from which reduced density matrices are sampled. These method allow recovering additional electron correlation energy for a given number of qubits and are tested on quantum devices. The last method is focused on computing excited electronic states and uses techniques inspired from the generative adversarial machine learning literature. It is a fully variational method, which is shown to work on current quantum devices
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