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1	Cooperating to compete : the role of regional powers in global nuclear governance Francesca, Giovannini January 2013 (has links) This thesis explores the role of regional powers in the development of regional nuclear regimes. Its central argument is that the devise of regional nuclear regimes through the leadership of regional powers is driven by both functional and strategic reasons. Functionally, regional nuclear institutions serve to provide more tailored solutions to respond to nuclear risks emerging at the local level. Strategically, the formation of sub-global institutions enables regional powers to exercise considerable influence on nuclear governance processes at both regional and global levels. And in situations where regional powers are dissatisfied with the global nuclear-institutional status quo, regional nuclear institution-building provides an incomparable opportunity to question that status quo and challenge, albeit indirectly, the preferences of the United States, their main architect. The type of leadership provided by regional powers in the establishment of regional nuclear regimes is affected dynamically by two relationships: the regional powers' relation with the United States and their relation with secondary regional players. The former relation is defined as 'global nuclear alignment' and refers to the degree of proximity of the regional power towards U.S. nuclear preferences. The latter is defined as 'regional embeddedness' and captures the degree of convergence of regional powers' nuclear preferences with those of its most proxy regional contender, as well as the level of commitment shown by the regional power vis-à-vis regional integration. The thesis argues that when both relations are low, divergence of the regional nuclear regime from global nuclear institutions is most acute. Conversely, when only one of the relations is high, the regional nuclear regime tends to converge with global nuclear institutions, either in goals or in methods. The theoretical framework is applied to investigate three cases of regional leadership as provided by Brazil, Indonesia and France in the establishment of the regional nuclear regimes in their respective regions. 333.792
2	A Hash Trie Filter Approach to Approximate String Match for Genomic Databases Hsu, Min-tze 28 June 2005 (has links) Genomic sequence databases, like GenBank, EMBL, are widely used by molecular biologists for homology searching. Because of the long length of each genomic sequence and the increase of the size of genomic sequence databases, the importance of efficient searching methods for fast queries grows. The DNA sequences are composed of four kinds of nucleotides, and these genomic sequences can be regarded as the text strings. However, there is no concept of words in a genomic sequence, which makes the search of the genomic sequence in the genomic database much difficult. Approximate String Matching (ASM) with k errors is considered for genomic sequences, where k errors would be caused by insertion, deletion, and replacement operations. Filtration of the DNA sequence is a widely adopted technique to reduce the number of the text areas (i.e., candidates) for further verification. In most of the filter methods, they first split the database sequence into q-grams. A sequence of grams (subpatterns) which match some part of the text will be passed as a candidate. The match problem of grams with the part of the text could be speed up by using the index structure for the exact match. Candidates will then be examined by dynamic programming to get the final result. However, in the previous methods for ASM, most of them considered the local order within each gram. Only the (k + s) h-samples filter considers the global order of the sequence of matched grams. Although the (k + s) h-samples filter keeps the global order of the sequence of the grams, it still has some disadvantages. First, to be a candidate in the (k + s) h-samples filter, the number of the ordered matched grams, s, is always fixed to 2 which results in low precision. Second, the (k + s) h-samples filter uses the query time to build the index for query patterns. In this thesis, we propose a new approximate string matching method, the hash trie filter, for efficiently searching in genomic databases. We build a hash trie in the pre-computing time for the genomic sequence stored in database. Although the size q of each split grams is also decided by the same formula used in the (k + s) h-samples filter, we have proposed a different way to find the ordered subpatterns in text T. Moreover, we reduce the number of candidates by pruning some unreasonable matched positions. Furthermore, unlike the (k + s) h-samples filter which always uses s = 2 to decide whether s matched subpatterns could be a candidate or not, our method will dynamically decide s, resulting in the increase of precision. The simulation results show that our hash trie filter outperforms the (k +s) h-samples filter in terms of the response time, the number of verified candidates, and the precision under different length of the query patterns and different error levels. global order genomic sequence databases local order approximate string match filter methods
3	Mark Lombardi's "Narrative Structures": The Visibility of the Network and the New Global Order Law, Jessica M. 25 July 2012 (has links) No description available. Art History Mark Lombardi Narrative Structures Network Antonio Negri Michael Hardt Empire Multitude Drawing New global order system Diagram
4	[en] EMERGING COUNTRIES IN THE POST-2008 CRISIS: FILLING THE GAP IN FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT / [pt] PAÍSES EMERGENTES NO PÓS-CRISE DE 2008: INVESTIMENTOS EM FINANCIAMENTO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO CLARICE FRAZAO ALEXANDRE 31 January 2019 (has links) [pt] Após a crise financeira e econômica de 2008, países emergentes buscaram traduzir seu novo peso econômico em influência política. Instituições tradicionais criadas após a II Guerra Mundial, em particular nas esferas econômicas e financeiras, não mais representativas do cenário econômico mundial, seriam questionadas por economias emergentes. China, Índia, Brasil, Rússia e África do Sul (os BRICS) defenderam a adoção de reformas à estrutura institucional da ordem mundial liberal, as quais não foram totalmente alcançadas. Essa dissertação analisa o engajamento dos países emergentes a ordem mundial após a crise de 2008, particularmente em relação à governança econômica e financeira. O argumento central baseia-se na percepção de que países emergentes vêm, desde a crise de 2008, articulando maneiras de impactar a atual ordem liberal mundial, como compreendido pelo conceito de mundo multiplex, desenvolvido por Amitav Acharya (2014; 2017). Ao longo da análise da nova posição dos países emergentes na ordem mundial, por meio de uma discussão do fortalecimento do seu papel em fóruns como o G20 e a criação de grupos como o do BRICS, essa dissertação tratará de dois estudos de caso: (i) a criação do Novo Banco de Desenvolvimento, em 2014, por Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul, e; (ii) a criação do Banco Asiático de Infraestrutura e Investimento, em 2015, por iniciativa da China. / [en] After the 2008 financial and economic crises, emerging countries channeled their newly found economic resilience into political leverage. Traditional institutions created after World War II, particularly those in the economic and financial spheres, which were no longer representative of the new economic setting, would be questioned by emerging economies. China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa (the BRICS) have championed reforms to the institutional structure of the liberal world order, which have not been entirely met. This dissertation aims to shed light on the engagement of emerging countries in world order after the 2008 crisis, particularly in the economic and financial global governance. The main argument is that emerging countries have, since the 2008 crisis, been articulating ways to impact the current liberal world order as captured by the concept of multiplex world, developed by Amitav Acharya (2014, 2017). Along the analyses of the current greater role of developing countries in world order, through a discussion of the new found role of forums such as the G20 and the creation of groups such as the BRICS, the dissertation will focus on two case studies: (i) the creation of the New Development Bank, in 2014 by the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and; (ii) the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, in 2015 fostered by China. [pt] MULTILATERALISMO [en] MULTILATERALISM [pt] ORDEM GLOBAL [en] GLOBAL ORDER [pt] NOVO BANCO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO [en] NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK [pt] BRICS [en] BRICS
5	The shape of things to come : global order and democracy in 1940s international thought Macdonald, Emily Jane Camilla January 2016 (has links) This thesis examines the role of democracy in British, French and American visions of global order in the 1940s. It argues that 'democracy' in a global context did not reflect 'Wilsonian' or 'Cosmopolitan' dreams, nor did it refer to the questions of state representation and institutional accountability that dominate contemporary debates. Instead, it shows that building a 'democratic' global order in the 1940s meant, above all, an attempt to address the challenge of democratic modernity, summarised by Karl Polanyi in 1944 as the search for 'freedom in a complex society', in the new global environment of the mid-century. This challenge was composed of five core concerns, ranging from the protection of the individual from the modern state and the transformation of democratic participation, to the use of expert planning and modern technology to secure economic justice. Achieving a balance between these competing and at times contradictory imperatives was seen as the key to securing a new democratic order that could resist the temptations of nationalism and totalitarianism and secure peace. Crucially, it was only through the structures of a new global order that, internationalists argued, there could be any chance of success. The task was not an easy one, and the historical investigation shows how the choices and trade-offs internationalists made in relation to these imperatives entailed costs in terms of inclusivity, participation and even rights within visions of democratic global order. The thesis has both historical and conceptual goals. First, it recovers important ideas about global order that have been largely written out of the history of this period by taking the language of democracy in world order debates seriously and understanding these visions in context. Conceptually, its aim is to contest and transform how we think about global order and democracy in the history of international thought and in the present day. Instead of Cosmopolitan, Wilsonian, liberal or other normative blueprints for a democratic world order, the conclusion argues that we should, following the example of the 1940s, reconceptualise the relationship between global order and democracy today in relation to the persistent dilemmas of democratic modernity. In a global context, these continue to have interlocking domestic and international dimensions and, more importantly, continue to require choices that entail normatively contestable costs in the construction of a democratic global order. Only then, it argues, will it be possible to think about how these shortcomings can be mitigated and whether and what kind of democratic order we want to pursue at all.
6	La structure de la réalité sociale abstraite inhérente aux sociétés prescrites : La quiddité des liens et des structures de coopérations intra-organisationnels issus de l’activité réelle, dans le cas du processus de co-construction de sens découlant des décisions stratégiques / The structure of abstract social reality inherent to prescribed societies : the quiddity of intraorganizational cooperation links and structures resulting from the actual activity, in the case of the sensemaking process deriving from strategic decisions Dandelot, Damien 15 May 2012 (has links) Partant de l’idée que des filiales d’une entreprise sont en mesure de remettre en cause les décisions de la direction générale (maison-mère), l’approche holistique développée dans ce travail part du principe qu’une organisation peut être un « être », laissant entendre ainsi que les informations dont elle dispose seraient extérieures aux individus qui la composent. Ce qui conduit à s'interroger s’il est concevable d’ignorer l’individu dans une telle relation de domination. Cette thèse propose justement un modèle autour de résultats qui montrent la difficile exclusion de l’individu dans un contexte méta-organisationnel (dans lequel les membres seraient des organisations et non des individus). Dans cette veine, ce sont les dynamiques humaines de l’organisation qui sont au cœur de ce travail : il existe par et au travers de l’individu une dynamique issue de l’activité réelle qui permet de faire vivre l’organisation par elle-même, mais également qui permet au prescrit de cette dernière d’évoluer. Bien que les résultats obtenus montrent que l’organisation n’est pas un objet mort et sans force et qu’elle a bien la possibilité de vivre par elle-même, ce sont les individus qui — par leurs engagements conditionnels — permettent cette existence propre de l’organisation comme structure intra-consciente qui impose des droits et des obligations. Dans cette perspective, le modèle proposé vise à dessiner les structures de la réalité sociale abstraite (dénommé dans la recherche menée, l’Entité X) en montrant les forces et les contraintes organisationnelles qui pèsent sur les individus-membres, tout en relevant les capacités humaines à sortir des structures prescrites par la co-construction de liens et de structures transversales de coopérations issus de l’activité réelle. / Based on the idea that the subsidiaries of a company are able to call into question the decisions of senior management (the parent company), the holistic approach developed in this study assumes that an organization can be a “being”, implying thereby that the information in its possession is external to the individuals who compose it. This raises the question of whether it is conceivable to ignore the individual in such a relationship of domination. This thesis proposes a model based on the results which show the difficult exclusion of the individual in a meta-organizational context (in which members would be organizations and not individuals). Along these same lines, the organization’s human dynamics are at the heart of this research: there exists by and through the individual a dynamic resulting from actual activity that allows the organization to live by itself, while also allowing prescribe to evolve. Although the results show that the organization is not a dead and strengthless object, and it has the opportunity to live by itself, it is the individuals who —through their conditional commitments— allow the separate existence of an organizational structure’s intra-consciousness, which imposes rights and obligations. In this perspective, the proposed model aims to draw the structures of abstract social reality (referred as Entity X in this study) by showing the strengths and organizational constraints that weigh on individual members, while raising the human capacity to emerge from the structures prescribed by the sensemaking of links and transversal structures for cooperation that originate from the actual activity. Co-construction de sens Décision stratégique Échanges transversaux méta Enaction « Entité X » Formes de régulation méta Gouvernance Holisme Individualbased organizations Intentionnalisme Intentionnalité collective Intra-conscience Inter-subjectif Individu vs organisation Individualisme L’invariance et le système Jeux de pouvoir / Stucture de jeux Légitimation inter-groupe / entité Management International Méta-organisation Ordre global Ordre social Organizing / Changing Plus structurel qu’organisationnel Phénomènes sociaux / Faits sociaux Réalité sociale humaine Résistance / Révolte Socio-pouvoir Sujet pluriel Violence symbolique Sensemaking Strategic decision Transversal Meta exchanges Enaction “Entity X” Forms of Meta regulations Governance Holism Individualbased organizations Individualism Collective intentionality Intra- conscience Inter-subjective Individual vs organization Individualism The invariance and the system Power games/Game structures Inter-group/entity legitimation International Management Meta-organization Global order Social order Organizing/Changing More structural than organizational More structural than organizational Human social reality Resistance/Revolt Social power Plural subject Symbolic violence 650

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