The War on Terror is Over--Now What? Restoring the Four Freedoms as a Foundation for Peace and Security

This article observes that the Global War on Terror as an organizing concept has been abandoned and proposes that the Obama Administration restore FDR\u27s Four Freedoms in its place

Using trauma as a lens to explore the experience of mothering a very premature infant in the first year after hospital discharge

Approximately 60,000 premature babies are born in England every year (Office of National Statistics ONS, 2017). Survival rates of babies weighing 800g and over have risen to 90% (WHO, 2018) resulting in an increasing number of mothers parenting very premature babies. Understanding the experiences and needs of these mothers is important for identifying and providing the most appropriate support. This is therefore an important area of developing research. The aim of this research is to understand how the trauma of a very premature birth affects the experience of mothering these infants in the first year after hospital discharge. A purposive sample was collected, comprising 8 mothers who had given birth between 28 and 32 weeks’ gestation within the previous 3-5 years. 8 face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were conducted and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was applied to analyse the transcribed data. The results elicited 7 superordinate themes: ‘The second set of horror’; ‘The isolation of limbo’; ‘Attachment to the NICU’; ‘Feeling like a mother came later’; ‘Bonding in the shadow of the threat of loss’; ‘Mourning an intangible loss’ and ‘Mothering in the wake of trauma’. These themes capture how the trauma of the very premature birth and the experience of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) influenced the way these women were able to relate to their babies, take care of them, bond with them, and develop their identity as a mother. The emergent themes are inherently existential and are explored from an existential perspective

Method and apparatus for producing an image from a transparent object

The contrast produced from a photographic transparency is controlled by placing the transparency between a pair of partially reflecting mirrors forming walls of an optical cavity. Mirrors trap a collimated laser beam illuminating the transparency so that at least a portion of the beam energy is passed through the transparency plural times. The distance that the light beam travels between the mirrors is controlled as a function of the wavelength of the beam energy to control the phase of light interference in the beam passing through the transparency, thereby controlling the intensity of the beam derived from the mirror downstream of the transparency

Optically activated magnetic recording tape

Optically activated data storage medium visually and electromagnetically reproduces a recorded signal. In an electric field, particles in heat-fluidized thermoplastic layer form a visible image of the recorded signal. Refluidizing the thermoplastic layer erases the signals. Very high data packing densities are achieved

Noise diffraction patterns eliminated in coherent optical systems

Lens rotation technique of noise diffraction pattern elimination spreads diffracted energy, normally concentrated over small area of image, over much larger annular area. Technique advantages include simplified lens selecting process, reduced clean room requirements, and low cost equipment requirements

China\u27s Implementation of the UN Sales Convention Through Arbitral Tribunals

This article examines implementation of the international sales law by arbitral tribunals in China. The leading Chinese arbitral tribunal -- CIETAC -- has recently released the full-text decisions issued in over 300 disputes involving international trade. Upon a careful examination of this decisions involving non-conformity of goods, the authors conclude that the decisions generally convey objective, non-biased jurisprudence (notwithstanding some caveats about the completeness of the available record). They go on to conclude that the ability to rely on a fairly predictable tribunal has been good for the development not only of China\u27s trade-based economy but also for its more general rule of law