A Plan for the Economic Development for the Gaza Strip: Free Industrial Zone on Land and on Artificial Islands

Presents a plan for the sustainable economic development of the Gaza Strip with primary concerns discussing job creation, sustainable economic development, and environmental security

A new catalogue of Stroemgren-Crawford uvbybeta photometry

A new all-sky catalogue of all available uvbybeta measurements from the literature was generated. The uvbybeta photometric system is widely used for the study of various Galactic and extragalactic objects. It measures the colour due to temperature differences, the Balmer discontinuity, and blanketing absorption due to metals. The data for the individual stars were cross-checked on the basis of the Tycho-2 catalogue. This catalogue includes very precise celestial coordinates, but is magnitude and spatial resolution limited. However, the loss of objects is only marginal and is compensated for by the gain of homogeneity. In total, 298 639 measurements of 60 668 stars were used to derive unweighted mean indices and their errors. Photoelectric and CCD observations were treated in the same way. The presented data set can be used for various applications such as new calibrations of astrophysical parameters, the standardization of new observations, and as additional information for ongoing and forthcoming all-sky surveys.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics: 3 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl

International Migration as Absolute Natural Law: An Inquiry into International Migration from the Perspective of Legal Philosophy

This paper investigates to what extent international migration law is coherent with the concept of migration as a natural human right. Based on the assumption that migration is an inherently human behavior, beneficial to humankind, and therefore natural law, an analysis of the most prominent sources of international migration law is undertaken. The result of the analysis shows that modern international migration law is largely in line with the concept of natural law, and that the criminalization of migration happens on the domestic level, where economic and populist motivations inform policy makers and shape the law