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A New Protection Orientation and Framework for Refugees and Other Forced Migrants

Laws, 2017
The unprecedented current “refugee crisis,” with its 65 million plus uprooted people, demands a new protection orientation and framework for refugees and other forced migrants that are focused on the “root causes” of refugeehood, non-international ...
James C. Simeon
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Engineering Strategies for Stable and Long‐Life Alkaline Zinc‐Based Flow Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Alkaline zinc‐based flow batteries face persistent challenges from unstable zinc deposition, including dendrite growth, passivation, corrosion, and hydrogen evolution, which severely limit cycling stability. Current research addresses these issues through coordinated electrode structuring, electrolyte regulation, and membrane design to control zinc ...
Yuran Bai, Xiaoyu Huo, Xin Long, Enkang Fu, Xusong Gong, Lei Wei, Liang An   +6 more
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"Out of the loop": autonomous weapon systems and the law of armed conflict [PDF]

, 2013
The introduction of autonomous weapon systems into the “battlespace” will profoundly influence the nature of future warfare. This reality has begun to draw the attention of the international legal community, with increasing calls for an outright ban on ...
Schmitt, Michael N., Thurnher, Jeffreyn S.   +1 more
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On the 'inherent' character of the right of states to self-defence [PDF]

, 2015
While there is no lack of studies on the use of armed force by states in self-defence, its qualification as an ‘inherent right’ in article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations has received little scholarly attention and has been too quickly dismissed ...
Roscini, M., Roscini, M.
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Nanotherapies for Atherosclerosis: Targeting, Catalysis, and Energy Transduction

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Atherosclerosis management is hindered by poor drug targeting and plaque heterogeneity. Nanotechnology overcomes these barriers via three core strategies: (1) target‐engineered nanocarriers that achieve lesion‐specific precision via ligand modification, biomimetic camouflage, stimuli‐responsive release, and self‐propelling nanomotors; (2) catalytic ...
Yuqi Yang, Jingguo Qu, Tonghuan Xiao, Xinyang Han, Michael Tin‐Cheung Ying   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nepal: Earthquake Recovery Must Safeguard Human Rights [PDF]

, 2015
This briefing highlights some important areas of concern which Amnesty International believes could have an impact on the success of relief and reconstruction endeavours in Nepal.Protection and respect for human rights has been severely weakened by Nepal'

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Metamaterial Antennas Enhance MRI of the Eye and Occipital Brain

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A radiofrequency antenna platform comprising planar and bend configurations is developed, incorporating structurally integrated epsilon‐negative metamaterial unit cells to enhance MRI. These antennas enable high‐resolution in vivo human MRI of the eye, orbit, and occipital brain. Comprehensive validation, including simulations, phantom experiments, SAR,
Nandita Saha, Bilguun Nurzed, Mostafa Berangi, Andre Kuehne, Helmar Waiczies, Igor Fabian Tellez Ceja, Xiang Hu, Thomas Gladytz, Lisa Krenz, Dave Huebler, Beate Endemann, Claudia Brockmann, Ebba Beller, Oliver Stachs, Thoralf Niendorf   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Collateral Damage to Nature: Legal Analysis of Environmental Harm in Iran-Israel Conflicts [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
The intersection between armed conflict and environmental degradation constitutes a pressing yet underexplored challenge in international law. This research examines the ecological consequences of modern warfare through the Iran–Israel conflict as a case
Gunawan Yordan, Salim Andi Agus, Mareto Irvan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceptions of justice and hierarchies of rape:Rethinking approaches to sexual violence in Eastern Congo from the ground up [PDF]

, 2018
Based on extensive fieldwork research in South Kivu in eastern DRC, this article considers the questions of justice for survivors of sexual violence from the ground-up.
Aroussi, Sahla
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