Publications

Cooperation between military powers during wars is not a new phenomenon. However, due to the increased globalization and the newly available technologies, supportive acts take more complex forms and concern a wider variety of actors - both States and non-State actors. This study scrutinizes the position of supportive acts under international law. The central research question is formulated as follows: what are the possible consequences under jus ...

This article argues that to achieve a technology neutral law, technology specific law is sometimes required. To explain this we discriminate between three objectives, often implied in the literature on technological neutrality of law. The first we call the compensation objective, which refers to the need to have technology specific law in place whenever specific technological designs threated the substance of human rights. The second we call the ...

This chapter takes leave of the idea that lawyers can remain immersed in legal text. It takes a stand for a careful reflection on what data-driven architectures do to some of the assumptions of modern law that are mistakenly taken for granted. Merely enacting the presumption of innocence by means of legal code will not do in the present future. If the defaults of Big Data analytics all point in the direction of precrime punishment or the ...

Placental malaria is a major health problem for both pregnant women and their fetuses in malaria endemic regions. It is triggered by the accumulation of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (IE) in the intervillous spaces of the placenta and is associated with foetal growth restriction and maternal anemia. IE accumulation is supported by the binding of the parasite-expressed protein VAR2CSA to placental chondroitin sulfate A (CSA). ...

Placental malaria is a major health problem for both pregnant women and their fetuses in malaria endemic regions. It is triggered by the accumulation of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (IE) in the intervillous spaces of the placenta and is associated with foetal growth restriction and maternal anemia. IE accumulation is supported by the binding of the parasite-expressed protein VAR2CSA to placental chondroitin sulfate A (CSA). ...

This study evaluates the combination of mild heat with a natural surfactant for the inactivation of L. monocytogenes Scott A in low water activity (aw) model systems. Glycerol or NaCl was used to reduce the aw to 0.92, and different concentrations of rhamnolipids (RL) biosurfactant were added before heat treatment (60 °C, 5 min). Using glycerol, RL treatment (250-50 µg/mL) reduced bacterial population by less than 0.2 log and heat treatment up ...

© 1963-2012 IEEE. We investigate the dependence of Cu via resistance on via dimensions, shape, misalignment, and Co via prefill level by means of a novel resistivity model, calibrated to actual wires on silicon and integrated into the Synopsys Raphael tool. For this paper, we consider the case of 16 and 12nm self-aligned vias, which are representative for the 7 and 5nm logic technology nodes, respectively. Process emulations are performed by ...