THE INTERFERENCE OF EUROPEAN UNION LAW WITH PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

The European Union Law is an unique legal phenomenon developed in the process of European integration within the framework of the European Communities and the European Union; a result of the implementation of the supranational authority of the European institutions. The European Union law is a specific legal system having independent sources and principles that developed at the border-line of international law and domestic law of the EU’s Member States. The authonomy of the European Union law is affirmed by a case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.The European Union has its own legal order which is separate from international law and forms an integral part of the legal systems of the Member States. The legal order of the Union is founded on various different sources of law. The different nature of these sources has imposed a hierarchy among them. At the pinnacle of this hierarchy we find primary law, represented by the Treaties and general legal principles, followed by international treaties concluded by the Union and secondary law founded on the Treaties

GENERAL ASPECTS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU LEGAL ORDER, UNDER PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

We believe that achieving a uniform legal order, as the European Union order, is nothing new at international level, as long as at the basis of what today is forming the European Union law, we find several international treaties concluded under the existing regulations of international law. In this respect, we are considering, first of all, the three founding Treaties of the European Communities, which, from the point of view of international law, have at least three fundamental features, namely: firstly, they express the legal bond between member states of the Communities; secondly, they constitute an organized assembly of legal rules; thirdly, documents developed under these treaties, by bodies empowered in this regard, have legal effects in the states parties

CASE-LAW ASPECTS CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF STATES OBLIGATION TO MAKE GOOD THE DAMAGE CAUSED TO INDIVIDUALS, BY INFRINGEMENTS OF EUROPEAN UNION LAW

The priority principle of EU law in relation to the internal law of the Member States, a principle enshrined by the Court of Justice case-law and the principle of direct effect allow the national court to give full effect to EU law. Breaching the EU law by Member States draws under certain conditions their responsibilty for the breach thereof. Unlike public international law, the constitutive treaties do not contain provisions relating to liability of Member States for breach of EU law. As in other cases, the Court was the one that, over time, has defined a right of redress, which has its foundation in EU law and in the conditions necessary to engage the victims' right to repair

Numerical simulation of the interaction between an external flow, laminar or turbulent, and liquid/vapor phase change

In a launcher tank, the cryogenic fuel can suffer a liquid/vapor phase change due to a thermal gradient induced by solar radiation or by engines residual thermal diffusion. The quantity of vapor released by the phase change process can highly increase the internal pressure. Due to a poor knowledge of these phenomena, at present, the operations led to regulate the internal pressure induce fuel loss. It is therefore of great importance to investigate the liquid/vapor phase and the physical processes taking place at the interface. This is the context of the present thesis, thattakes place in an effort to extract better understanding of the above underlined phenomena by means of Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). The work is split into three studies : the interaction between a liquid pool at saturation and an external flow of subcooled or superheated vapor, both in laminar and turbulent regime flows, and the interaction between natural convection mouvements and liquid/vapor phase change. Firstly, the laminar regime flow is investigated. In this framework, a parametric study is conducted with the objective of finding behaviour laws for the heat transfer and the friction coefficient at the interface between a static liquid pool at saturation temperature and a laminar boundary layer flow of vapor. Both vaporization and condensation are studied. The second project was on the numerical simulation of a turbulent boundary layer flow of superheated vapor interacting with the velocity field induced by vaporization. To this extent, a turbulent fluctuations injector is implemented and validated for the spatial development of a boundary layer flow over a flat plate with heat transfer. A study on the influence of the velocity field induced by vaporization on the Nusselt number, the friction coefficient, the Stanton number and the turbulent quantities is conducted. Finally, we lead a preliminary numerical study on a configuration describing the interaction between natural convection flow and liquid/vapor phase change in a cryogenic tank. A new solver is implemented in the in house code to account for the density variations in the liquid. Preliminary results are obtained on the influence of the Grashof number on the thermal flux at the liquid/vapor interfac

ANALYSIS OF AXIAL RIGIDITY IN BEARINGS: SPINDLES FROM HIGH ROTATION SPEED TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

This paper presents a mathematical model for the variation of the axial rigidity of the main shaft in a CNC machine tool. It analyzes the main parameters on which the axial rigidity of the shaft depend and the way they influence the stability of functioning

Contrast‐Enhanced Ultrasound for the Assessment of Pancreatic Lesions

Transabdominal ultrasound (US) is the first‐line imaging method used to diagnose pancreatic lesions, but contrast techniques are needed to differentiate among inflammatory and malignant lesions, as well as between pseudocysts and cystic tumors. Contrast‐enhanced (CE) ultrasonography has been proven to be a useful tool in this regard with performance similar to contrast‐enhanced computer tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (CT/MRI), being also safer and nonirradiant. According to the EFSUMB guidelines on the nonhepatic use of contrast‐enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), this method is useful to improve characterization of ductal adenocarcinoma; to differentiate between pseudocysts and cystic tumors; to differentiate vascular (solid) from avascular (liquid/necrotic) components of a lesion; to better define the dimensions and margins of a lesion, including its relationship with adjacent vessels; and to help the choice for a next imaging technique

Quantification of Liver Steatosis

The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is increasing in the modern world. Fatty infiltration of the liver can be assessed by standard ultrasound, by controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) using the FibroScan device or, more recently, by ultrasound systems that evaluate the attenuation in the liver. Standard ultrasound (US) for steatosis evaluation was used for a long time as a semi-quantitative method for steatosis assessment in the liver. A “bright liver” with “posterior attenuation” is the typical US sign of liver steatosis. Considering the attenuation severity, steatosis is subjectively graded as mild, moderate or severe. Using the kidney/liver ratio, a more accurate evaluation can be made. Controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) was developed by EchoSens, France, and implemented into the FibroScan device. CAP manages an objective assessment of steatosis severity with rather good accuracy. More recently, ultrasound companies such as Hitachi, General Electric and Canon, implemented in their system algorithms which allow an objective assessment of liver steatosis, using the attenuation of the ultrasound beams

2D Shear Wave Elastography for Liver Fibrosis Evaluation

2D shear wave elastography is a technique embedded in ultrasound machines which allows the interrogation of the tissue by acoustic radiation force impulses induced into the tissues by focused ultrasonic beams and captures the propagation of resulting shear waves in real time. Elasticity is displayed using a color-coded image superimposed on a B-mode image, and at the same time, a quantitative estimation of liver stiffness (LS) can be performed in a certain region of interest (ROI). The published data showed a real value of this method for liver stiffness estimation in patients with chronic hepatitis. It has the following advantages: it is integrated into standard ultrasound systems; it is a real-time elastographic method; and it is also feasible in patients with ascites and with large and adjustable size of the ROI that will be evaluated

Liver Fibrosis Assessment by Point Shear-Wave Elastography Techniques

Point shear-wave elastographic (pSWE) techniques use acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) to stimulate the liver tissue and to generate shear waves that propagate into the liver. The shear-wave velocity (SWV) increases with the severity of fibrosis. The first type of pSWE was Virtual Touch Quantification (VTQ) developed by Siemens, followed by ElastPQ by Philips, and nowadays pSWE is available on other systems (Hitachi, Esaote, Samsung). To evaluate liver fibrosis by pSWE, ten valid measurements are performed in the right liver lobe; a median value is calculated, with the results expressed in meters/second or in kilopascals (kPa) (if the operator chooses). VTQ is a reproducible method, the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for inter- and intraobserver measurements ranging from 0.81 to 0.87. Confounding factors for VTQ are non-fasting conditions, elevated aminotransferases, congestive heart failure, and extrahepatic cholestasis. In patients with chronic hepatopathies, the AUROCs for predicting significant fibrosis range between 0.75 and 0.85 and for predicting cirrhosis between 0.85 and 0.95. There were promising results regarding the value of VTQ to predict liver cirrhosis complications, especially portal hypertension. ElastPQ is a newly developed point shear-wave elastographic method (from Philips). Only few data were published but with promising results