Rule of Procedure of the Assembly of States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

In this Essay, the author intends to elaborate only on those Rules that are unique, or were the subject of lengthy discussion in the working group. It is practically impossible to discuss all rules contained in the Rules of Procedure. Before beginning, one point needs to be clarified. There are a number of rules in the Rules of Procedure that simply repeat the provisions of the Statute. This was a conscious decision made by the working group, which included harmless repetitions in order to provide a handy set of rules for future delegates to the Assembly that will cover all aspects of its activities

Asymptotic Close To Optimal Joint Resource Allocation and Power Control in the Uplink of Two-cell Networks

In this paper, we investigate joint resource allocation and power control mechanisms for two-cell networks, where each cell has some sub-channels which should be allocated to some users. The main goal persuaded in the current work is finding the best power and sub-channel assignment strategies so that the associated sum-rate of network is maximized, while a minimum rate constraint is maintained by each user. The underlying optimization problem is a highly non-convex mixed integer and non-linear problem which does not yield a trivial solution. In this regard, to tackle the problem, using an approximate function which is quite tight at moderate to high signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) region, the problem is divided into two disjoint sub-channel assignment and power allocation problems. It is shown that having fixed the allocated power of each user, the subchannel assignment can be thought as a well-known assignment problem which can be effectively solved using the so-called Hungarian method. Then, the power allocation is analytically derived. Furthermore, it is shown that the power can be chosen from two extremal points of the maximum available power or the minimum power satisfying the rate constraint. Numerical results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach over the random selection strategy as well as the method proposed in [3] which is regarded as the best known method addressed in the literature

Developing Novel 3D Antennas Using Advanced Additive Manufacturing Technology

In today’s world of wireless communication systems, antenna engineering is rapidly advancing as the wireless services continue to expand in support of emerging commercial applications. Antennas play a key role in the performance of advanced transceiver systems where they serve to convert electric power to electromagnetic waves and vice versa. Researchers have held significant interest in developing this crucial component for wireless communication systems by employing a variety of design techniques. In the past few years, demands for electrically small antennas continues to increase, particularly among portable and mobile wireless devices, medical electronics and aerospace systems. This trend toward smaller electronic devices makes the three dimensional (3D) antennas very appealing, since they can be designed in a way to use every available space inside the devise. Additive Manufacturing (AM) method could help to find great solutions for the antennas design for next generation of wireless communication systems. In this thesis, the design and fabrication of 3D printed antennas using AM technology is studied. To demonstrate this application of AM, different types of antennas structures have been designed and fabricated using various manufacturing processes. This thesis studies, for the first time, embedded conductive 3D printed antennas using PolyLactic Acid (PLA) and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) for substrate parts and high temperature carbon paste for conductive parts which can be a good candidate to overcome the limitations of direct printing on 3D surfaces that is the most popular method to fabricate conductive parts of the antennas. This thesis also studies, for the first time, the fabrication of antennas with 3D printed conductive parts which can contribute to the new generation of 3D printed antennas

The analysis of fluid intelligence of adolescents based on their birth order and gender through the perceived parenting style

The present research has been conducted with the aim of studying the predicting power of the variables of birth order and gender through parenting style on the intelligence of high school adolescents. In order to achieve the above stated aim, 280 individuals of the adolescents of the high schools of the 1st region of Tehran, who were studying in the educational year of 2010-2011 were selected by using multi-stage cluster sampling and tested by using Raven's Progressive Matrices test, parenting Shrink styles and researcher -made demographic characteristics. The methodology of the present research is path analysis method and the obtained data were analyzed by using AMOS20 and SPSS software. The obtained results from this research indicates that the variables of birth order and gender which have been entered into the path analysis for prediction of the intelligence level by using loving and controlling parenting style have a direct and indirect significant effect on fluid intelligence of adolescents. Also, there is a reverse and significant relationship between birth order and adolescent’s intelligence which indicates that an increase in the birth order (middle and last children) leads to a decrease in their intelligence level. This reverse effect increases with mediating controlling parenting style. Furthermore, the female gender has a negative effect on intelligence and this negative effect increases through the controlling parenting style. In general, it can be said that the birth order and gender of the adolescents with mediation of controlling and loving parenting style is effective on their intelligence