the united nations has a multiplex criminal policy to fight against genocide, judicial criminal policy being one of the aspects of this policy. rationally, justice requires that the guilty of genocidal acts be punished, the means of redress be provided for victims of such crimes and finally, the international peace and security be established. un judicial criminal policy regarding genocide is r...

∗ National University of Singapore. Corresponding author: Ivan Png, Dept of Information Systems, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Tel: +65 6516-6807, http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ipng/. We thank participants at ... seminars at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Oxford University, ... for helpful advice. Ivan Png thanks Nuffield College for k...

This article explores how religion as a political force shapes and deflects the struggle for gender equality in contexts marked by different histories of nation building and challenges of ethnic diversity, different state-society relations (from the more authoritarian to the more democratic), and different relations between state power and religion (especially in the domain of marriage, family ...

Vegetation indices (VIs) are among the oldest tools in remote sensing studies. Although many variations exist, most of them ratio the reflection of light in the red and NIR sections of the spectrum to separate the landscape into water, soil, and vegetation. Theoretical analyses and field studies have shown that VIs are near-linearly related to photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by a p...

Four decades of forensic research have left unanswered a fundamental issue regarding the best conceptualization of competency to stand trial vis-à-vis the Dusky standard. The current study investigated three competing models (discrete abilities, domains, and cognitive complexity) on combined data (N = 411) from six forensic and correctional samples. Using the Evaluation of Competency to Stand T...

Recent studies have shown that Internet graphs and other network systems follow power-laws. Do artiicial network topologies commonly used in network simulation studies obey these power-laws? In this paper we show that current topology generators do not obey all of the power-laws, and we present two new topology generators that do. Finally, we re-evaluate a multicast study to demonstrate the imp...

Machine Translation (MT) systems are now in active use around the world. This paper investigates the applicability of current and foreseeable MT technology to translation between one or more of modern Western European languages and Arabic. After an introduction in which we briefly sketch the history and current status of MT and comment on the situation vis-a-vis Arabic translation, we present s...

A significant episteric ("around a solid") distortion of the hydrogen-bond structure of water is promoted by solutes with nanoscale surface detail and physico-chemical complexity, such as soluble natural proteins. These structural distortions defy analysis because the discrete nature of the solvent at the interface is not upheld by the continuous laws of electrostatics. This work derives and va...

Dr Kevin J Dalton LLM FRCOG FCLM Dept Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital (Box 223), Cambridge CB2 2QQ, [email protected] It is rare for a pregnant woman to refuse a recommended intervention to protect the life of her viable fetus, and few obstetricians have ever come across the problem. Nevertheless, a number of cases of such a refusal have gone to court for ...