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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"human protection"”.
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Bridging the Gap in Human Protection: Contesting the Responsibility to Protect through the Protection of Civilians Norm: A Comparative Study of Brazil, China and South Africa
Human protection has been a high priority since the international community’s failure in the 1990s to respond adequately to instances of mass atrocities in Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Consequently, two human protection norms were developed: the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) and the ‘Protection …
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Accelerating Innovation: Assessing Nanotechnologies, Prototypes and Research Teams
… to transition innovative technologies to improve human protection, with soldiers as the first of many users. Using public information, I used qualitative and quantitative methodologies to assess the actor networks and research portfolio changes. These historical case studies extend STS with …
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Energy absorption of reticulated foams filled with shear-thickening silica suspensions
… energy absorption materials especially for human protection applications has fueled the interest in new and alternative energy absorbing composites. In this thesis a 'novel' energy absorbing fluid-composite that utilized a shear thickening fluid is developed. Shear-thickening fluids are a …
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Making a Difference? European Union’s Response to Conflict and Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1994-2009)
… added value for bettering EU intervention for human protection purposes in third places. Second, the ESDP supposedly enabled the EU to make a difference in its response to two bloody wars that broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) successively in 1996 and 1998. This thesis …
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Making a Difference? European Union’s Response to Conflict and Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1994-2009)
… added value for bettering EU intervention for human protection purposes in third places. Second, the ESDP supposedly enabled the EU to make a difference in its response to two bloody wars that broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) successively in 1996 and 1998. This thesis …
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Making a Difference? European Union’s Response to Conflict and Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1994-2009)
… added value for bettering EU intervention for human protection purposes in third places. Second, the ESDP supposedly enabled the EU to make a difference in its response to two bloody wars that broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) successively in 1996 and 1998. This thesis …
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Making a Difference? European Union’s Response to Conflict and Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1994-2009)
… added value for bettering EU intervention for human protection purposes in third places. Second, the ESDP supposedly enabled the EU to make a difference in its response to two bloody wars that broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) successively in 1996 and 1998. This thesis …
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High-rate deformation behavior and applications of fluid filled reticulated foams
… energy absorption materials especially for human protection applications has fueled the interest in new and alternative energy absorbing composites. In this thesis a 'novel' energy absorbing fluid-composite that utilized a shear thickening fluid is developed. Shear-thickening fluids are a …
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Study of Behaviour Change and Impact on Infectious Disease Dynamics by Mathematical Models
This thesis uses mathematical models to study human behaviour changes' effects on infectious disease transmission dynamics. It centers on two main topics. The first concerns how behaviour response evolves during epidemics and the effects of adaptive precaution behaviour on epidemics. The second …
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United Kingdom Interventions in Africa: Constructivist Cosmopolitan Foreign Policy Analysis
… post-war era, was the use of military force for human protection. The post-Cold War era made profound implications for international relations. Issues related to intervention have attained more prominence on the world stage particularly after the disintegration of USSR. In this context, security …
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Pain Management in Nursing Home Residents with Cancer and Dementia with and without Hospice Services
… study received exempt status from the office of human protection. </p> <p><strong>Results</strong>: Total EDU’s were significantly greater among hospice enrollees (<em>U</em> 226.5, p <.05). There is a significantly greater likelihood of being prescribed a scheduled narcotic analgesic (OR 5.5; …
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Social Determinants of Immature Phenotype and Survival in Wild Baboons and Other Mammals
… monitoring, experimental manipulation, nor human protection from the environment. </p><p>The goal of this dissertation is to bring us closer to that lofty target by providing insight into the role that the social environment plays in immature survival in populations of wild mammals. In it, I …