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The Shift in Power Distribution and its Influence on the Law of the Sea
Power and its distribution have always been the central themes of international law, yet international lawyers have paid limited attention to the correlation between power shifts and legal change. Notably, international law effectively operates when balance of power is sustained. With this qualification, this paper examines the relationship of international law with the change in power distribution, arguing that international law should proactively attend to power in order to contribute to the peaceful reconfiguration of the international system. Furthermore, this paper explores the mechanism of power shift being transmitted to law shift and specifically adduces the process and effectiveness of hegemonic international law change centered on UNCLOS
I\u27m Korean, living in the United States
This study explores the acculturation process of generation 1.5 Korean immigrants in the United States with special attention to their construction of ethnic identity as it influences their adjustment to the new culture. The researcher defines generation 1.5 Korean as those who were born in Korea and immigrated to the United States between age 5 and 16. For the purpose of this study, the researcher conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews on the participants\u27 immigration experiences, focusing on how they have developed their ethnic identities over time. Twenty Korean immigrants were recruited and interviewed in the area of San Jose, California
Are the Spratly Islands an Outlying Archipelago of China? Politico-Legal Implication of Proclaiming the Spratly Islands as a China’s Outlying Archipelago that International Lawyers Should Know
The issue of the outlying archipelago of continental states under the UNCLOS system has become a serious point of contention among international lawyers. This article shows what rules international lawyers in states possessing outlying archipelagos may have found for their outlying archipelagos, thereby assessing the Chinese claims to the Spratly Islands as an outlying archipelago. This article also explores how a future Chinese proclamation of special baselines for the Spratly Islands as an outlying archipelago negatively influences the development of the South China Sea dispute, harming Chinese national interests as opposed to conventional wisdom in China
Data Processing of the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory-2 [CII] Survey
The second flight of the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO-2) was a balloon mission to survey parts of the Galactic Plane at [CII] transition at 1.9 THz. STO-2 surveyed approximately 2.5 deg2 of the Galactic Plane at a spatial resolution of 1'. The STO-2 data suffer significant system drifts that are only partially addressed by the observing cadence. A slightly altered calibration scheme is presented to address these drifts. We show how it was possible to extract calibrated data from STO-2 scans and, based on the work presented here, make recommendations for the future GUSTO mission
Structure of the W3A Low Density Foreground Region
We present analysis of OI 63 micron and CO = 5-4 and 8-7 multi-position
data in the W3A region and use it to develop a model for the extended
low-density foreground gas that produces absorption features in the OI and
= 5-4 CO lines. We employ the extinction to the exciting stars of the
background HII region to constrain the total column density of the foreground
gas. We have used the Meudon PDR code to model the physical conditions and
chemistry in the region employing a two-component model with high density layer
near the HII region responsible for the fine structure line emission, and an
extended low density foreground layer. The best-fitting total proton density,
constrained largely by the CO lines, is (H) = 250 cm in the
foreground gas, and 510 cm in the material near the HII
region. The absorption is distributed over the region mapped in W3A, and is not
restricted to the foreground of either the embedded exciting stars of the HII
region or the protostar W3 IRS5. The low-density material associated with
regions of massive star formation, based on an earlier study by Goldsmith et
al. (2021), is quite common, and we now see that it is extended over a
significant portion of W3A. It thus should be included in modeling of fine
structure line emission, including interpreting low-velocity resolution
observations made with incoherent spectrometer systems, in order to use these
lines as accurate tracers of massive star formation
Determining the Shape, Size, and Sources of the Zodiacal Dust Cloud using Polarized Ultraviolet Scattered Sunlight
The solar system's Zodiacal Cloud is visible to the unaided eye, yet the
origin of its constituent dust particles is not well understood, with a wide
range of proposed divisions between sources in the asteroid belt and Jupiter
Family comets. The amount of dust contributed by Oort Cloud comets is
uncertain. Knowledge of the Zodiacal Cloud's structure and origins would help
with NASA's aim of characterizing potentially Earth-like planets around nearby
stars, since the exo-Earths must be studied against the light scattered from
extrasolar analogs of our cloud. As the only example where the parent bodies
can be tracked, our own cloud is critical for learning how planetary system
architecture governs the interplanetary dust's distribution. Our cloud has been
relatively little-studied in the near-ultraviolet, a wavelength range that is
important for identifying potentially-habitable planets since it contains the
broad Hartley absorption band of ozone. We show through radiative transfer
modeling that our cloud's shape and size at near-UV wavelengths can be measured
from Earth orbit by mapping the zodiacal light's flux and linear polarization
across the sky. We quantify how well the cloud's geometric and optical
properties can be retrieved from a set of simulated disk observations, using a
Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis. The results demonstrate that observations
with sufficient precision, covering a set of fields distributed along the
ecliptic and up to the poles, can be used to determine the division between
asteroidal, Jupiter Family, and Oort Cloud dust components, primarily via their
differing orbital inclination distributions. We find that the observations must
be repeated over a time span of several months in order to disentangle the
zodiacal light from the Galactic background using the Milky Way's rotation
across the sky.Comment: submitted to PAS
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