There has been limited examination of the current and potential capacity of the UN human rights mechanisms to effectively engage in preventive measures. The international community, mainly through the UN Security Council, focuses on peaceful conflict resolution, mediation and political interventions, narrowing the scope of atrocity prevention to security, diplomacy and politics. However, by reassessing ...

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the establishment of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and its successive reformulations, focusing on the EU policy on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or beneficiaries of subsidiary protection. It analyses how hierarchies are constructed for the different policy target groups and how ...

This dissertation explores the European Union (EU) strategy on corporate responsibility in relation to sustainability reports and due diligence processes in human rights. The focus is on the French position in the area, as it was the first member state to legislate on the duty of vigilance. The aim is to examine the interaction with the EU and the member states in this issue-area using France as a ...

Exposure to peer aggression and bullying victimization are both expressions of peer victimization but distinct constructs among adolescents. This study examined the potential associations between peer victimization and individual/family/peer factors and assessed whether the factors associated with peer aggression differed from those related to bullying victimization. This cross-sectional study, ...

Deep generative models with latent variables have been used lately to learn joint representations and generative processes from multi-modal data, which depict an object from different viewpoints. These two learning mechanisms can, however, conflict with each other and representations can fail to embed information on the data modalities. This research studies the realistic scenario in which all ...

Security of supply refers to governmental policies that aim to secure the availability of critical products at all times. The COVID-19 pandemic brought to fore the importance of such policies, as suddenly there was an overwhelming need for critical medical supplies that the markets were not able to fulfil. Following the pandemic, the EU has started to construct its own security of supply policy, ...

A first DMRG/CASSCF–CASPT2 study of a series of paradigmatic {FeNO}⁶, {FeNO}⁷, and {FeNO}⁸ heme–nitrosyl complexes has led to substantial new insight as well as uncovered key shortcomings of the DFT approach. By virtue of its balanced treatment of static and dynamic correlation, the calculations have provided some of the most authoritative information available to ...

xploratory scalar-relativistic density functional theory (B3LYP*-D3/ZORA-STO-TZ2P) calculations have been used to examine the stability and bonding of pseudotetrahedral Group 8 (Fe, Ru, and Os) and Group 9 (Co, Rh, and Ir) terminal carbide complexes with dδ4 ground states and tripodal tris(N-heterocyclic-carbene) supporting ligands. The calculations predict relatively low adiabatic ionization ...

Multifrequency atomic force microscopy (AFM) enhances resolving power, provides extra contrast channels, and is equipped with a formalism to quantify material properties pixel by pixel. On the other hand, multifrequency AFM lacks the ability to extract and examine the profile to validate a given force model while scanning. We propose exploiting data-driven algorithms, i.e., machine learning packages, ...

The rapid weakening of snow layers that accumulate infiltrating liquid water is a well-known, but poorly quantified, mechanism for wet-snow slab avalanche formation. Therefore, quantifying this mechanical process is a crucial part of forecasting these snow avalanches accurately. Currently, studies do not agree on how snow strength should change as a function of volumetric liquid water content ( ) ...