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Maldivas y el delicado equilibrio entre India y China
2019
Maldivas es la nación más pequeña de Asia Meridional en términos de población, superficie y PBI. A pesar de ello, este pequeño archipiélago tiene una gran importancia estratégica, en virtud de su ubicación en medio de las rutas marítimas internacionales del océano Índico, y en su cercanía a las costas de la India. La propuesta de este artículo es exponer los cambios que se produjeron en Maldivas durante la presidencia de Abdulla Yameen en cuanto a la política interna, como así también a las relaciones exteriores, y observar en qué momento estas dos tendencias se cruzan para formar parte de una misma trama. A su vez, analizar finalmente las consecuencias que esto tiene para el país y para la…
Current caselaw discrepancies in the protection of national symbols and state representatives between the European Court of Human Rights and Spanish …
2021
Despite the general consensus about freedom of expression being a basic fundamental right on every democratic society, the debate about its boundaries has never found such a pacific agreement. Thus, the Spanish Penal Code has several articles that punish its abuse that are highly contested, like articles 490.3 and 543 that penalize the offenses directed towards national symbols or State representatives. This being so, this article examines the controversy generated by the application of this articles through the analysis of two judgements issued by the European Court of Human Rights against Spain, and a third one issued by the Spanish Constitutional Court that could follow the same path. Th…
Terroryzm islamski a bezpieczeństwo globalne
2016
Gwałtowny wzrost liczby zamachów terrorystycznych na przełomie XX i XXI w. w wymiarze międzynarodowych wyraźnie wskazuje na zwiększenie aktywności ugrupowań terrorystycznych o charakterze religijnym, który kojarzony był z ugrupowaniami terrorystycznymi o rodowodzie islamskim. Aktywność tych ugrupowań była ukierunkowana na przeprowadzanie różnego typu ataków w wielu częściach świata, co w naturalny sposób odczytane było jako prowadzenie działań terrorystycznych w skali globalnej. Z jednej strony ataki terrorystyczne powodowały liczne ofiary wśród ludności cywilnej oraz ogromne straty materialne, z drugiej fundamentaliści islamscy osiągnęli inny bardzo ważny dla nich cel propagandowy – wywoła…
Unravelling Church Land : Transformations in the Relations between Church, State and Community in Uganda
2019
Christian churches control substantial areas of land in Africa. While intensifying struggles over their holdings are partly due to the increased pressure on land in general, they also reflect transformations in the relations through which churches’ claims to land are legitimized, the increased association of churches with business, and churches’ unique positioning as both institutions and communities. This article presents the trajectory of relations between church, state and community in Uganda from the missionary acquisition of land in the colonial era to the unravelling of church landholding under Museveni. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork, the authors argue that claims to chu…
Prezidenta Džo Baidena inugurācijas dienas tiešsaistes ziņu multimodālā analīze
2022
Amerikas Savienoto Valstu prezidenta inaugurācija ir viens no visvairāk dokumentētajiem notikumiem pasaulē, kuru plaši apraksta tiešsaistes mediju avoti. Ņemot vērā notikuma nozīmi un tiešsaistes ziņu lomu informācijas nodošanā mūsdienās, šī pētījuma mērķis bija parādīt lingvistisko un vizuālo līdzekļu integratīvo lomu nozīmes veidošanā, attēlojot Amerikas Savienoto Valstu prezidenta Džo Baidena inaugurāciju kā svarīgu notikumu tiešsaistes ziņās. Lai sasniegtu izvirzīto mērķi, tika apkopots un analizēts ziņu rakstu korpuss, kas publicēts dažādās starptautiskās ziņu vietnēs, izmantojot lingvistisko un vizuālo līdzekļu modeli un multimodālo diskursa analīzi. Rezultāti atklāja, ka izmantotie v…
What matters more in open access journal publishing : Scientific rigor or financial vigor?
2021
Academics and librarians around the world are raising concern about the current state of scholarly journal publishing in that the majority of journals are under the control of five multinational commercial journal publishing companies. Some are advocating for scholars to take back control of scholarly communication, particularly because it is the academics who are supplying and managing most of the content for journals. Open access publishing is one option, but the question of sustainability in funding streams raises concerns. Also the roles of scholarly societies, academic association, and universities in looking for stability in nonprofit journal publishing are discussed.
Family related variables effect on later educational outcome: a further geospatial analysis on TIMSS 2015 Finland
2020
AbstractFamily-related factors, like parent’s educational level, their values and expectations have a significant impact on child’s early skills and later educational outcomes. Further, parents provide their child, alongside with other learning environments, a broad mathematical and early literacy input. This study investigates the relationship between family-related socio-economic and other factors like, parental education, amount of books at home, parental attitudes towards mathematics and science, parental perception of child’s early skills and student’s later academic achievement. This is studied in the light of the Finnish data collected for Trends in International Mathematics and Scie…
Energy Drink Consumption Among Finnish Adolescents: Prevalence, Associated Background Factors, Individual Resources, and Family Factors.
2020
Objectives: Energy drink consumption among adolescents has become a notable global phenomenon, and has been associated with numerous negative health outcomes. In order to understand the popularity of energy drinks among adolescents, and to target interventions, it is important to identify the determinants underpinning consumption. Methods: The nationally representative data (cross-sectional) were drawn from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) surveys, conducted in 2014 and 2018, each comprising 13- and 15-year-old Finnish adolescents (n = 7405). Results: Weekly energy drink consumption increased among Finnish adolescents between 2014 (18.2%) and 2018 (24.4%), especially amon…
Joke’s on You : So-called undocumented students in the US
2018
This chapter focuses on the experience of undocumented college students in the USA. While K‐12 education has been opened to undocumented students, at least on paper, since the landmark case Plyler vs. Doe, college education remains a highly precarious terrain for undocumented students, which offers little to no legal protection. Within the United States, the situation of undocumented college students differs greatly among individual states. This chapter provides an overview of national‐level policies or nationally relevant work in the area, as well as insights into some successful local initiatives. peerReviewed
Photoluminescence time decay of surface oxygen deficient centers in un‐doped and Ge‐doped silica
2005
We report a study of the emission decay from the singlet excited state of two fold coordinated Si and Ge centers stabilized on the surface of silica and Ge-doped silica. The PL lifetimes are of the order of nanoseconds and increase on decreasing the temperature. The results suggest that, for the surface centers, the phonon assisted intersystem-crossing process linking the excited states affects the decay rates, is effective down to low temperatures and is distributed because of the inhomogeneity of the defects. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)