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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Veto"”.
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Gamma Veto Detectors in the KOPIO Experiment
… will have to be screened out by means of a veto detector system, part of which is being designed here at Virginia Tech. This detector must be able to detect the passage of daughters of the undesired decay reactions (charged particles and gammas). It must be operational inside a magnetic …
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Explaining Multiculturalism's Survival: Electoral Outcomes, Policy Design, and Veto Players
… by policy design and by the actions of critical veto players. More precisely, it argues that multiculturalism is more likely to survive an ideological shift to the right in national level politics when (1) parties of the political right secure enough votes in national level elections to govern …
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Beyond the Veto: Chinese Diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council
Once described as a "diligent apprentice," China has emerged in the early 21st century as an active and sometimes contentious participant in the UN Security Council. For the U.S., China has complicated decision-making on a range of issues, including North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Burma, Zimbabwe …
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The United Nations Security Council: ways out of the Veto-Dilemma
… to block draft resolutions of the UNSC with a veto. The main responsibility of the UNSC is the maintenance of peace and security. To this end, the UNSC is allowed to order decisive peacekeeping measures. In the Russo-Ukrainian War, however, the UNSC is unable to do so because the relevant draft …
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Politics of the Veto in the Security Council of the United Nations
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The Senate's veto power over presidential appointments to the Supreme Court, 1916-1930
<p>It is a well known fact that in recent years the United States Senate has increasingly become more critical of presidential appointments to the Supreme Court branch. In this thesis the author has undertaken an intensive study of the several cases between 1916 and 1930 in which, serious …
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The Irish law on adverse possession: the case for a qualified veto system
… the case for the introduction of a qualified veto system of adverse possession which would govern land that has been registered in the Land Registry and also unregistered land.<br/><br/>This reform would permit the owner of land to veto an adverse possession application unless the applicant …
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Veto Syria: Explaining the Power of the United Nations Security Council and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
<p>The purpose of this research is to provide an analysis of the United Nations Security Council compliance with the Charter of the United Nations and the effectiveness of its Responsibility to Protect innocent civilians from crimes committed against them, particularly within the Syrian region in …
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Veto Players, Punctuated Equilibria, and Budgetary Dymanics: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, United Kingdom, and Denmark
Punctuated equilibrium and veto player theories are both well-established political science models. Punctuated equilibrium theory is a model of the public policy process which holds that policy changes typically occur in an incremental fashion, but this equilibrium incremental change is subject to …
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Exploring Veto Activity: DNAM-1-CD155 Axis in Overcoming NK Cell-Mediated Allo-Rejection and Applications for CAR-T Cell Therapy
<p>As Miller et al. defined veto activity, it enables cells to target host cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) precursors specific to veto cells' antigens, selectively eliminating anti- donor T cell clones without inducing rejection. By leveraging this unique immune property, two key research aims were …
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A critical analysis of the 'national security veto' in terms of section 18A of the Competition Act 89 of 1998
… approval. The committee, in this regard, has ‘veto’ powers when it comes to mergers including foreign acquiring firms. This thesis examines the rationale, justification and cogency of the ‘national security veto’ in terms of section 18A of the Competition Act. The research further investigates …
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Megfontolásra vissza. Az államfő politikai vétója Magyarországon = Back for consideration. The political veto of the head of state in Hungary
2006 és 2010 között a Köztársasági Elnöki Hivatal munkatársaként lehetőségem nyílt közvetlen közelről megfigyelni az államfő hatáskörgyakorlását, így a korszakra különösen jellemző politikai vétókat, azok elő-, valamint utóéletét. A doktori disszertáció alapötlete is ebből a megfigyelésből …
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Problems of music education: a comparative study
… the case for the introduction of a qualified veto system of adverse possession which would govern land that has been registered in the Land Registry and also unregistered land.<br/><br/>This reform would permit the owner of land to veto an adverse possession application unless the applicant …
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Attenuation of the scintillation light in liquid argon and investigation of the double beta decay of ⁷⁶Ge into excited states of ⁷⁶Se in the GERDA experiment
… (LAr) which serves as an additional background veto using the scintillation light that is created when energy is deposited in LAr. The signal signature of the decay into excited states can be enhanced with the application of the LAr veto, however, for that the efficiency of the LAr veto needs to …
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Keeping faith: secularisation and its influence on the governance of primary schools in Northern Ireland
… governance. Churches use opportunities to act as veto players to influence school governance. Governing bodies in both school types are powerful, and Church nominees within boards of governors can contest the distribution of power and exercise influence themselves. In exploring governors as veto …
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High-energy Neutron Backgrounds for Underground Dark Matter Experiments
… experiment SuperCDMS SNOLAB, an active neutron veto was developed. It is estimated that the current design of the neutron veto with a 40 cm thick layer of boron-doped liquid scintillator can achieve a >90% efficiency for tagging the single-scatter neutrons. In addition, a one-quarter scale …
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Three essays in collective choice theory
… combination of monotonic simple games with veto control. A dual characterization is also provided. Sufficient conditions for the existence of a PMAS include convexity and "increasing average marginal contributions". If the game is convex, its (extended) Shapley value is a PMAS. The third …
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