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The threat of destitution as a deterrent against asylum seeking in the European Union
The problematization of asylum has detrimentally impacted on the provision of support for asylum seekers in host countries. The threat of destitution has become instrumental in restrictive asylum policies and is increasingly used as a deterrent against asylum seeking. The EU experience reveals acute tensions between the EU asylum agenda and the EU Member States' obligations under international refugee and human rights law. The provision of support for asylum seekers challenges narrow approaches to the realization of socio-economic rights for "others" and to host countries' duties in that respect. The EU Reception Conditions Directive, which aims to set out standards for the reception of asylum seekers across the Union, exemplifies this predicament. Yet international refugee and human rights law provides a legal framework that establishes minimum standards critical to dignified living for asylum seekers and the protection of the right to seek refugee status in the EU and beyond
Public Health Powers in Relation to Tuberculosis in England and France: A Comparison of Approaches
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Optimized Large Hyperuniform Binary Colloidal Suspensions in Two Dimensions
The creation of disordered hyperuniform materials with potentially
extraordinary optical properties requires a capacity to synthesize large
samples that are effectively hyperuniform down to the nanoscale. Motivated by
this challenge, we propose a fabrication protocol using binary
superparamagnetic colloidal particles confined in a 2D plane. The strong and
long-ranged dipolar interaction induced by a tunable magnetic field is free
from screening effects that attenuates long-ranged electrostatic interactions
in charged colloidal systems. Specifically, we find a family of optimal size
ratios that makes the two-phase system effectively hyperuniform. We show that
hyperuniformity is a general consequence of low isothermal compressibilities,
which makes our protocol suitable to systems with other long-ranged soft
interactions, dimensionalities and/or polydispersity. Our methodology paves the
way to synthesize large photonic hyperuniform materials that function in the
visible to infrared range and hence may accelerate the discovery of novel
photonic materials
Phase behaviour of the confined lattice gas Lebwohl-Lasher model
The phase behaviour of the Lebwohl-Lasher lattice gas model (one of the
simplest representations of a nematogenic fluid) confined in a slab is
investigated by means of extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The model is known
to yield a first order gas-liquid transition in both the 2D and 3D limits, that
is coupled with an orientational order-disorder transition. This latter
transition happens to be first order in the 3D limit and it shares some
characteristic features with the continuous defect mediated
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in 2D. In this work we will analyze
in detail the behaviour of this system taking full advantage of the lattice
nature of the model and the particular symmetry of the interaction potential,
which allows for the use of efficient cluster algorithms.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
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