Homosexual rights and the non-western world: a postcolonial reading of homosexual rights in international human rights law

This paper examines the calls for the international legal recognition and protection of rights for homosexual men and women. To undertake such an examination, the paper utilises theoretical paradigms from within the field of postcolonial studies. Opening with an overview of the theoretical bases and preconceptions of postcolonial analysis, the paper then examines the extant bases for the protection of the rights of homosexuals at international law. It then goes on to examine Dutch-American scholar Eric Heinze's calls for atreaty-based instrument to codify and enforce principles of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in international law. The paper argues that while homosexual rights are indeed worthy of protection at international law, the current means by which they are protected, and the current proposals for international legal reform in this area, articulate colonialist and specifically Western understandings of homosexuality and sexual orientation

Sexing up the international

This thesis takes sexuality as its subject matter and uses a methodology informed by postcolonial studies to explore new possibilities for thinking about the international, its construction, and its contemporary politics. I argue that postcolonial readings of sexuality can impel us to rethink the meanings and politics of international theory and to challenge notions that have come to appear fixed and unchanging. The thesis canvasses how such an intervention might occur – calling especially for a focus on the local and the everyday – and considers both the utility and the limits of the contributions sexuality might make to a rethinking of international theory. My arguments are made with reference to a series of specific examples from contemporary East and Southeast Asia: the nationalistically imbued gendered and sexed figures of the national serviceman and the Singapore Girl in Singapore; the political and social repercussions of the trial of former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on charges of sodomy; newly emerging homosexual identities in Hong Kong; and the connections between sexuality and disease that inform the Thai response to HIV/AIDS. These case studies exemplify some of the ways in which sexuality can work to recast traditional scholarly understandings of the international. They also illuminate a series of aspects that shape the encounter between sexuality and the international, encompassing issues of nationalism, globalization, metaphor, spatiality and knowledge politics. Through my analysis of these issues, I argue for a broadening out of the source materials that inform knowledge about the international and the pursuit of alternative modes of reading processes of international change and exchange. I contend that scholarship of the international needs to pay more attention to instances where the borders separating everyday, national and international spaces break down, and where we might detect new forms of knowledge about the nature, politics and functioning of the international realm

Data Cleaning Methods for Client and Proxy Logs

In this paper we present our experiences with the cleaning of Web client and proxy usage logs, based on a long-term browsing study with 25 participants. A detailed clickstream log, recorded using a Web intermediary, was combined with a second log of user interface actions, which was captured by a modified Firefox browser for a subset of the participants. The consolidated data from both records revealed many page requests that were not directly related to user actions. For participants who had no ad-filtering system installed, these artifacts made up one third of all transferred Web pages. Three major reasons could be identified: HTML Frames and iFrames, advertisements, and automatic page reloads. The experiences made during the data cleaning process might help other researchers to choose adequate filtering methods for their data

A survey for the presence of the amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in Tasmania

A survey confirmed the presence of the amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in a number of frog habitats dose to major cities and towns across Tasmania.The detection of chytrid infection in some remote wetlands at high altitude locations on the Tasmanian Central Plateau is of particular concern. The likely presence of chytrid infections was assessed by examining tadpoles for signs of depigmentation, thinning and asymmetry in their keratinized jaw sheaths using a hand lens. Assessing the jaw shearhs of up to 60 tadpoles combined with rhe application of rhe Taqman chytrid PCR test was a useful means of detecting the presence of chytridiomycosis at each frog habita

A re-examination of Dithyridium cynocephali Ransom 1905, a metacestode parasite from the thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus

Re-examination of Dithyridium cynocephali Ransom 1905, a metacestode parasite from the thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus, has revealed it to be morphologically indistinguishable from metacestodes of the tapeworm Anoplotaenia dasyuri found in the eastern quoll Dasyurus viverrinus and the spotted-tailed quoll D. maculatus, in Bennett's wallaby Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus and in the Tasmanian pademelon Thylogale billardierii. The Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii is the predominant definitive host for A. dasyuri, but the two quoll species can also serve as definitive hosts. It is considered likely that quolls may act as intermediate hosts through the occasional consumption of Tasmanian devil faeces containing infective A. dasyuri eggs. The thylacine may have become infected with A. dasyuri in a similar manner, by engaging in coprophagy in the wild or in captivity

The Model United Nations simulation and the student as producer agenda

The authors of this paper introduced an assessed Model United Nations simulation as a core component of the undergraduate politics and international relations programmes at the University of Lincoln. The authors use their experience of creating and delivering this module to reflect upon the institutional implementation of a student as producer agenda to guide curriculum development and pedagogy. They conclude that many existing trends within the teaching and learning of politics and international relations are congruent with the emerging focus within British higher education on research engaged teaching and learning and the development of students as producers of knowledge. They conclude by suggesting that these priorities are perhaps best implemented at degree programme level and that they should take greater account of a broad notion of internationalisation and the value of simulation-driven teaching and learning

Demonstration of immunochemical identity between the synaptic vesicle proteins synaptin and synaptophysin/p38

AbstractThe synaptic vesicle proteins synaptin and synaptophysin/p38 were shown to be immunochemically identical. Western immunoblot analysis of Triton X-100 extracts from rat brain showed that polyclonal polyspecific anti-synaptin antibodies and monoclonal antibody SY38 against synaptophysin both reacted with a band of 38 kDa. In two-dimensional immunoblots of chromaffin granule membranes from bovine adrenal medulla anti-synaptin and anti-synaptophysin antibodies also recognized the same component. Finally, in a Western immunoblotting experiment SY38 reacted with an immunoisolated synaptin antigen

Debt-Equity-Swap – Anwendung im Insolvenzplanverfahren – Rechtliche und praktische Probleme sowie Bewältigung von Hürden

Die Arbeit behandelt den Debt-Equity-Swap im Insolvenzplanverfahren. Sie geht dabei besonders auf die rechtlichen und praktischen Hürden des Debt-Equity-Swaps im Insolvenzplanverfahren ein und deren mögliche Bewältigung. Aufgrund der mutmaßlichen geringen Praxisrelevanz wird die Motivation der am Insolvenzplan Beteiligten besprochen. Hierfür beschäftigt sich ein der Teil der Arbeit mit einer Umfrage unter Berater*innen und Insolenzverwalter*innen. Die Arbeit schließt mit Vorschlägen zur Bewältigung von Hürden und einer abschließenden Betrachtung