Human Rights and English Revolution

Durante mucho tiempo se ha mantenido que el desarrollo de la cultura legal, política y social de respeto de los derechos humanos en Inglaterra y en el mundo Anglófono se originó en el siglo diecisiete, el siglo de la Revolución inglesa. Este trabajo cuestiona la idea de que hubo un discurso de derechos humanos, en el sentido de derechos que se abstraían de lugares, circunstancias y categorías sociales y que se asociaban a individuos qua individuos, durante ese periodo. Por el contrario, se sugiere que el desarrollo de dicho discurso se impedía porque se enfatizaban los derechos colectivos antes que los individuales; tanto la limitación legal de los derechos personales como la de los poderes ejecutivos de gobierno; los deberes antes que los derechos; y los imperativos religiosos además de los imperativos constitucionales.The development ofa legal, political and social culture ofrespect for human rights in England, and from thence in the Anglophone world, has long been held to have its origins in the seventeenth century, the century of the English Revolution. This essay challenges the perception that there was a discourse of human rights, in the sense of rights abstracted from particular places, circumstances and social categories and associated with individuals qua individuals, in this periodo Instead, it is suggested that the development of a discourse of human rights was impeded by an emphasis on collective, rather than individual, rights; on the legal limitation of personal rights as well as the executive powers of government; on duty rather than rights; and on religious as well as constitutional imperatives.Publicad

Range Grasses of Hawaii

This bulletin discusses the more important grasses growing on local ranges, their growth in other parts of the world, nature of growth, palatability, persistence, climatic requirements, and present importance and possibilities for Hawaii

Shoshonites in southern Tibet record Late Jurassic rifting of a Tethyan intraoceanic island arc

Detailed field mapping combined with a petrologic and geochemical investigation of the Zedong terrane within the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone provides insights to the evolution of now mostly subducted portions of Tethys during the Late Jurassic. The terrane is dominated by volcanic rocks of shoshonitic affinity, which were erupted in a submarine oceanic island arc setting. The volcanic island arc was built on a basement of oceanic crust, and the shoshonites locally overlie a thin section of pillowed island arc tholeiites and red ribbon-bedded radiolarian cherts. Geochemistry of the shoshonites suggests that their development occurred in a setting analogous to that of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Fiji and was associated with an arc rifting. We speculate that this event may have been a far-field response to developments associated with Gondwana breakup

Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Cavities for Quantum Fluids Experiments

The union of quantum fluids research with nanoscience is rich with opportunities for new physics. The relevant length scales in quantum fluids, 3He in particular, are comparable to those possible using microfluidic and nanofluidic devices. In this article, we will briefly review how the physics of quantum fluids depends strongly on confinement on the microscale and nanoscale. Then we present devices fabricated specifically for quantum fluids research, with cavity sizes ranging from 30 nm to 11 microns deep, and the characterization of these devices for low temperature quantum fluids experiments.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, Accepted to Journal of Low Temperature Physic

Modulated Amplitude Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates

We analyze spatio-temporal structures in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study the dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with mean-field interactions. A coherent structure ansatz yields a parametrically forced nonlinear oscillator, to which we apply Lindstedt's method and multiple-scale perturbation theory to determine the dependence of the intensity of periodic orbits (``modulated amplitude waves'') on their wave number. We explore BEC band structure in detail using Hamiltonian perturbation theory and supporting numerical simulations.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figs, revtex, final form of paper, to appear in PRE (forgot to include \bibliography command in last update, so this is a correction of that; the bibliography is hence present again

Safety and tolerability of NXY-059 for acute intracerebral hemorrhage: the CHANT trial

<p><b>Background and Purpose:</b> NXY-059 is a free radical-trapping neuroprotectant developed for use in acute ischemic stroke. To facilitate prompt administration of treatment, potentially before neuroimaging, we investigated the safety of NXY-059 in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).</p> <p><b>Methods:</b> We randomized 607 patients within 6 hours of acute ICH to receive 2270 mg intravenous NXY-059 over 1 hour and then up to 960 mg/h over 71 hours, or matching placebo, in addition to standard care. The primary outcome was safety: the mortality and the frequency of adverse events, and the change from baseline for a variety of serum, imaging, and electrophysiological measurements. We also studied the overall distribution of disability scores on the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) and the Barthel index.</p> <p><b>Results:</b> We treated 300 patients with NXY-059 and 303 with placebo. Treatment groups were well matched for prognostic variables including Glasgow Coma Scale, risk factors, and age. The mean National Institute of Health Stroke Scale score on admission was 14 in both groups. The baseline hemorrhage volume was 22.4±20.1 mL in the NXY-059 group and 23.3±22.8 mL in the placebo group (mean±SD). Most hemorrhages were related to hypertension or anticoagulant use. Mortality was similar in both groups: 20.3% for NXY-059 and 19.8% for placebo-treated patients. The proportion of patients who experienced an adverse event was the same for both groups, whereas for serious adverse events the proportion was slightly higher in the NXY-059 group. However, no pattern emerged to indicate a safety concern. Serum potassium fell transiently in both groups, lower in the NXY-059 group. There were no differences in 3-month function, disability, or neurological deficit scores. The odds ratio for an improved outcome in 3-month mRS scores in the NXY-059 group was 1.01 (95% CI 0.75, 1.35).</p> <p><b>Conclusions:</b> NXY-059 given within 6 hours of acute ICH has a good safety and tolerability profile, with no adverse effect on important clinical outcomes.</p&gt

Polarized Dirac fermions in de Sitter spacetime

The tetrad gauge invariant theory of the free Dirac field in two special moving charts of the de Sitter spacetime is investigated pointing out the operators that commute with the Dirac one. These are the generators of the symmetry transformations corresponding to isometries that give rise to conserved quantities according to the Noether theorem. With their help the plane wave spinor solutions of the Dirac equation with given momentum and helicity are derived and the final form of the quantum Dirac field is established. It is shown that the canonical quantization leads to a correct physical interpretation of the massive or massless fermion quantum fields.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX w AMS sym

Creating Ioffe-Pritchard micro-traps from permanent magnetic film with in-plane magnetization

We present designs for Ioffe-Pritchard type magnetic traps using planar patterns of hard magnetic material. Two samples with different pattern designs were produced by spark erosion of 40 $\mu$m thick FePt foil. The pattern on the first sample yields calculated axial and radial trap frequencies of 51 Hz and 6.8 kHz, respectively. For the second sample the calculated frequencies are 34 Hz and 11 kHz. The structures were used successfully as a magneto-optical trap for $^{87}$Rb and loaded as a magnetic trap. A third design, based on lithographically patterned 250 nm thick FePt film on a Si substrate, yields an array of 19 traps with calculated axial and radial trap frequencies of 1.5 kHz and 110 kHz, respectively.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures Revised and accepted for EPJD, improved picture