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Terpenes and Terpenoids: How can we use them?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Organic Chemistry, Volume 28, Issue 24, June 24, 2025.
The transition from petroleum‐based to renewable bio‐based chemicals has led to increased interest in terpenes and terpenoids. This overview highlights their chemistry, focusing on their reactivity and applications in polymerizations, total syntheses, pharmaceuticals, and bio‐based chemical conversions; promoting sustainable and green chemical ...
Jay Hanssens   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining Sovereignty: An Analysis of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s Rhetoric on the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This essay examines United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s rhetoric concerning the responsibility to protect doctrine (R2P). This essay seeks to rhetorically map the arguments concerning the nature of R2P and what its specific components are ...
Edwards, Jason
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Environmental Just Wars: Jus ad Bellum and the Natural Environment

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 620-638, May 2025.
ABSTRACT War is bad for the environment, yet the environmental ramifications of warfare have not been widely addressed by just war theorists and revisionist philosophers of war. The law and legal scholars have paid more attention to protecting nature during armed conflict.
Tamar Meisels
wiley   +1 more source

R2P: Concept, Aspirational Norm or Principle? Interview with Professor Alex J. Bellamy, University of Queensland (Australia)

open access: yesVestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2018
Professor Alex J. Bellamy is Director Asia Pacific Centre for R2P, Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, Non-Resident Senior Advisor, International Peace Institute (New York).
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doaj   +1 more source

Expanding the UN’s Collective Security System

open access: yesPolitikon, 2020
The United Nations’ 60th anniversary has prompted discussion and debate as to how best to improve this weakened organization. These discussions have included the adoption of two new doctrines to the existing collective security system.
Andrea Charron
doaj   +1 more source

Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, 2000–2009: Massive Human Rights Violations and the Failure to Protect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article reviews human rights violations in Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2009, under the rule of Robert Mugabe. It argues that these violations, including state-induced famine, illegal mass expulsions, and systemic rape, constituted crimes against humanity.
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
core   +2 more sources

Detection of Quality Deterioration of Packaged Raw Beef Based on Hyperspectral Technology

open access: yesFood Science &Nutrition, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 2025.
A rapid nondestructive detection of fresh meat after packaging based on hyperspectral imaging was proposed. Gaussian filtering was applied to reduce the interference effect caused by the packaging film. Multivariate combinatorial modeling based on echo‐neural networks optimized by vulture optimization algorithms.
Cheng Wu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laying Bare: Agamben, Chandler, and The Responsibility to Protect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper demonstrates the hidden similarities between Raymond Chandler’s prototypical noir The Big Sleep, and the United Nations Responsibility to Protect (R2P) document. By taking up the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben, this paper shows that the
Quigley, Gabriel
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Natural Rights, Constituent Power, and the Stain of Constitutionalism

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 4, Page 864-893, July 2024.
The power to make constitutions (the so‐called constituent power) is predominantly understood today as a legally unlimited power belonging to the people. This understanding sits uncomfortably with constitutionalism: the idea that public powers are legally limited.
Raffael N. Fasel
wiley   +1 more source

ASEAN’s Response to the Myanmar Military Coup: From Non-Intervention to Responsibility to Protect

open access: yesRevista UNISCI, 2022
This article examines how ASEAN has reacted to the military coup in Myanmar. The February 1, 2021 coup was appalling because Myanmar was progressing toward democracy especially since Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory ...
Ali Muhammad, Ahmad Sahide
doaj  

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