A comparative critique of the practice of Irish neutrality in the 'unneutral' discourse [PDF]
, 2008 This article takes a comparative, empirical look at the practice of Irish neutrality during World War II. It critiques a model of neutrality presented in a thesis on Irish neutrality called Unneutral Ireland, consisting of factors derived from an ...
Devine, Karen
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The myth of 'the myth of Irish neutrality': deconstructing concepts of Irish neutrality using international relations theories [PDF]
, 2006 A number of academics, journalists and political elites claim that Irish neutrality is a 'myth', and many also characterise public support for Irish neutrality as 'confused' and 'nonrational'.
Devine, Karen
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Revisiting network neutrality [PDF]
, 2008 The paper discusses the topical subject of network neutrality, from a US and European legal perspective. The article will begin by first defining network neutrality before addressing the underpinning technology and will then compare the legal approaches ...
Garrie, DB, Loewenherz, DW, Wong, R
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On the Neutrality of Flowshop Scheduling Fitness Landscapes [PDF]
, 2011 Solving efficiently complex problems using metaheuristics, and in particular local searches, requires incorporating knowledge about the problem to solve. In this paper, the permutation flowshop problem is studied.
C.O. Wilke +15 more
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Enforced neutrality and color-flavor unlocking in the three-flavor Polyakov-loop NJL model [PDF]
, 2008 We study how the charge neutrality affects the phase structure of three-flavor PNJL model. We point out that, within the conventional PNJL model at finite density the color neutrality is missing because the Wilson line serves as an external ``colored ...
G. Nardulli +6 more
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Thermodynamic Prediction of Protein Neutrality [PDF]
, 2004 We present a simple theory that uses thermodynamic parameters to predict the probability that a protein retains the wildtype structure after one or more random amino acid substitutions.
Anfinsen +32 more
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Net Neutrality as Global Principle for Internet Governance [PDF]
, 2007 This paper discusses the concept of network neutrality (NN) and explores its relevance to global Internet governance. The paper identifies three distinct ways in which the concept of network neutrality might attain a status as a globally applicable ...
Milton Mueller
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NILS: a Neutrality-based Iterated Local Search and its application to Flowshop Scheduling [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents a new methodology that exploits specific characteristics from the fitness landscape. In particular, we are interested in the property of neutrality, that deals with the fact that the same fitness value is assigned to numerous ...
Dhaenens, Clarisse +4 more
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Net neutrality discourses: comparing advocacy and regulatory arguments in the United States and the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2004 Telecommunications policy issues rarely make news, much less mobilize thousands of people. Yet this has been occurring in the United States around efforts to introduce "Net neutrality" regulation.
Abate T. +36 more
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Prophylactic Neutrality, Oppression, and the Reverse Pascal's Wager [PDF]
, 2012 In Beyond Neutrality, George Sher criticises the idea that state neutrality between competing conceptions of the good helps protect society from oppression.
Clarke, Simon R.
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