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Human Rights in International Relations

David P. Forsythe • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2006)

This new edition of David Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in international politics in an age of terrorism. The book focuses on four central themes: the resilience of human righ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511808357

The English School of International Relations

Andrew Linklater, Hidemi Suganami • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2006)

What is the English School of International Relations and why is there increasing interest in it? Linklater and Suganami provide a comprehensive account of this distinctive approach to the study of world politics which highlights coexistenc...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511491528

International Law and International Relations

David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Hélène Lambert • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2007)

Events such as the legal arguments surrounding the 2003 Iraq War and the creation of the International Criminal Court highlight the significance of international law in the contemporary world. This new textbook provides an introduction to t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511808753

Realism and international relations

Jack Donnelly, Cambridge University Press • Choice Reviews Online (2001)

Realism and International Relations provides students with a critical yet sympathetic survey of political realism in international theory. Using six paradigmatic theories - Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, the Prisoners' Dilemma, Thucydides,...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.38-2981

Russian Language in the Central Asia Region

Ksenia Petrovna Borishpolets • Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta (2014)

He article is devoted to the role of the Russian language in Central Asia and its development perspectives in the context of the Eurasian integration processes. Russian language has a long historical tradition in Central Asia and hasn't los...

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Realism and International Relations

Jack Donnelly • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2000)

Realism and International Relations provides students with a critical yet sympathetic survey of political realism in international theory. Using six paradigmatic theories - Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, the Prisoners' Dilemma, Thucydides,...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511612510

The Effect of Health Literacy on a Brief Intervention to Improve Advance Directive Completion: A Randomized Controlled Study

Paige C. Barker, Neal P. Holland, Oliver Shore, Robert L. Cook et al. • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (2021)

Objective Completion of an advance directive (AD) document is one component of advanced care planning. We evaluated a brief intervention to enhance AD completion and assess whether the intervention effect varied according to health literacy...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/21501327211000221

Cost effective reproduction number based strategies for reducing deaths from COVID-19

Christopher Thron, Vianney Mbazumutima, Luis V. Tamayo, Léonard Todjihounde • Journal of Mathematics in Industry (2021)

Abstract In epidemiology, the effective reproduction number R e $R_{e}$ is used to characterize the growth rate of an epidemic outbreak. If R e > 1 $R_{e} >1$ , the epidemic worsens, and if R e < 1 $R_{e}< 1$ , then it subsides and eventual...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13362-021-00107-6

Narrative Medicine

Rita Charon • JAMA (2001)

The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine,...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.286.15.1897

Approaching quantum computing

Dan Cristian Marinescu, Gabriela M. Marinescu (2005)

1 Preface 2 Introduction 2.1 Computing and the Laws of Physics 2.2 Quantum Information 2.3 Quantum Computers 2.4 The Wave and the Corpuscular Nature of Light 2.5 Deterministic versus Probabilistic Photon Behavior 2.6 State Description, Supe...

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Milestones Toward Majorana-Based Quantum Computing

David Aasen, Michael Hell, Ryan V. Mishmash, Andrew Higginbotham et al. • Physical Review X (2016)

Preparing, manipulating, and reading out Majorana zero modes is important for quantum computing. A theoretically developed set of milestone experiments, if conducted successfully, may pave the way for fault-tolerant ``topological'' quantum ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.6.031016

Distributed Systems

Andreas Bolfing • Oxford University Press eBooks (2020)

Abstract Chapter 5 considers distributed systems by their properties. The first section studies the classification of software systems, which is usually distinguished in centralized, decentralized and distributed systems. It studies the dif...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198862840.003.0005