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The US intelligence community has high confidence that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons on a small scale against opposition forces multiple times over the past year, the White House said in a June 13 statement. In the statement, Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, said that physiological samples and reporting from multiple sources within Syria were consistent with exposure to chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin. The US worked with its partners, allies, and individuals inside Syria to obtain and evaluate this information. Rhodes said the intelligence community findings cross clear redlines and violate international norms. Accordingly, Pres Barack Obama changed his calculus on Syria and already increased nonlethal assistance to the opposition, he said. A number of legal, financial, diplomatic and military responses also are available, according to Rhodes. In a follow-up press call June 13, Rhodes said that the US aim is provide assistance that has direct military purposes and is substantively different from past aid. Adapted from the source document.

We report on the polarization selection rules of inter-Landau-level transitions using reflection-type optical Hall effect measurements from 600 to 4000 cm-1 on epitaxial graphene grown by thermal decomposition of silicon carbide. We observe symmetric and antisymmetric signatures in our data due to polarization preserving and polarization mixing inter-Landau-level transitions, respectively. From field-dependent measurements, we identify that transitions in coupled graphene monolayers are governed by polarization mixing selection rules, whereas transitions in decoupled graphene monolayers are governed by polarization preserving selection rules. The selection rules may find explanation by different coupling mechanisms of inter-Landau-level transitions with free charge carrier magneto-optic plasma oscillations. ; Funding Agencies|Army Research Office|W911NF-09-C-0097|National Science Foundation|MRSEC DMR-0820521MRI DMR-0922937EPS-1004094DMR0907475|University of Nebraska-Lincoln||J. A. Woollam Foundation||Office of Naval Research||Swedish Research Council (VR)|20103848|Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) under the VINNMER international qualification program|2011-03486|

For almost two decades, the author's war correspondent's diet has been heavy on rice. In Central Asia, Arabia, Somalia, Kashmir -- and even in Chechnya, where noodles are the starch of choice -- a guest of honor occasionally will be treated to a platter of mutton pilaf. According to Rice Around the World in 300 Recipes: An International Cookbook, published by the United Nations, rice is a daily staple at more than half the world's tables. Much of that rice sustains people who live in war zones. Imagine a volatile belt that half-girdles the planet from Central Asia to West Africa, where women bend over their hearths handling precious grains, acolytes of an ancient order -- the Order of Rice Cooks. Likewise, no recipe can convey the elation of sitting down to eat with one's family after making it through another day during which the world did not kill you outright, of watching between bites as shooting stars slide down an enormous ink-black sky. Adapted from the source document.

As the China's remarkable rise continues and as Beijing's interests seem to clash more frequently with those of its neighbors and the US, the answer grows ever more important for American policy makers. Recently, a civilian analyst at the US Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii sought to shed light on the issue. The analyst, Timothy R. Heath, braved the notoriously turgid prose in Chinese official documents and identified the stated "desired end state" for the country. It is wrapped up in the term national rejuvenation. Despite its currency today, national rejuvenation is not an invention of the party. Its pedigree in China actually dates back to the formative period of Chinese nationalism, from the latter stages of the nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. Up to now, Chinese nationalism has been invoked generically to explain China's conduct in territorial and resource disputes, as well as in international forums such as climate-change negotiations. Adapted from the source document.

This article concerns governance and violence rates across the 'ungoverned' spaces of the African Sahel. We consider how the dominant narrative for Africa generally, and the Sahel specifically, 'securitizes' space, and presents poverty, underdevelopment, and 'ungoverned' spaces as security threats to be addressed (Abrahamsen 2005; Keenan 2008). We argue that the terms 'failed' and 'ungoverned' have become coterminous and common because they benefit various state and international powers within and across the Sahel, who avoid responsibility for the geo-political and economic processes within these spaces. Not only does the term 'ungoverned' obscure the actual practices of power within large states with significant under-populated spaces, but it wrongly assumes and accuses those within that space of being more likely to engage in forms of violence that are destabilizing to state structures and external interests. Actual practices of power across the Sahel reveal that large Sahelian states differ significantly in their types of governance, violence rates and trajectories, activities of opposition groups, and long-term prospects for peace.

The present paper addresses the issue of water governance, defining the term and addressing certain aspects of governance. Legal issues related to the topic are briefly reviewed and questions are discussed regarding trends in moving from a governability approach (focused on government action) to a governance approach (taking into account the society as a whole). Statistical data from international standards are used to compare countries with respect to their progress or status in the area of governance. ; En el presente artículo se aborda el concepto de la gobernanza del agua, definiendoel término al que se hace referencia y abordando algunas dimensiones de lagobernanza. Se hace una breve revisión de aspectos jurídicos relacionados con eltema y se argumentan las cuestiones relacionadas con las tendencias de tránsitoentre un enfoque de gobernabilidad (centrado en la actuación gubernamental) y unenfoque de gobernanza (que toma en cuenta a la sociedad en su conjunto), a travésde datos estadísticos entresacados de estándares internacionales, que permiten unacomparación entre países acerca del avance o estado de la gobernanza.

Alors que le délire et l'hallucination témoignent d'une discordance absolue avec le réel, le cas du malentendu nous entraine rarement dans ce rapport de dissension extrême. Il est révélateur d'un écart qui ne va pas jusqu'au hiatus ni à fortiori à la rupture. L'exemple des représentations croisées que les Français ont du Brésil et que les Brésiliens ont de la France sert ici de point d'appui à une réflexion plus générale sur l'essence du malentendu. Celui-ci n'est que l'une des conséquences du caractère résolument polysémique du langage ainsi que des limites de ce dernier. Il peut provoquer des situations qui présentent certes des inconvénients, dans les relations internationales et la diplomatie notamment. Mais son grand mérite est de laisser en permanence ouvert notre rapport au langage ainsi qu'aux images. Grace à lui, ces derniers n'ont rien de définitif. Ils ne peuvent être épuisés, réduits à des significations univoques avec lesquelles c'en serait fini de la recherche (au sens scientifique et au sens proustien).

The Luiza analysis framework for GLORIA is based on the Marlin package, which was originally developed for data analysis in the new High Energy Physics (HEP) project, International Linear Collider (ILC). The HEP experiments have to deal with enormous amounts of data and distributed data analysis is therefore essential. The Marlin framework concept seems to be well suited for the needs of GLORIA. The idea (and large parts of the code) taken from Marlin is that every computing task is implemented as a processor (module) that analyzes the data stored in an internal data structure, and the additional output is also added to that collection. The advantage of this modular approach is that it keeps things as simple as possible. Each step of the full analysis chain, e.g. from raw images to light curves, can be processed step-by-step, and the output of each step is still self consistent and can be fed in to the next step without any manipulation.

India is a nation with vast geographical diversities, providing a variety of mineral and metal resources, crucial for the economic development of a country. There are many public sector enterprises in India engaged in the business of these natural resources. Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation (MMTC) Ltd. is one of the leading public sector enterprises involved in the business of minerals and metals at international as well as national level. This paper aims to study the performance and efficiency of MMTC Ltd. during the period from 2000 to 01 to 2010-11 using various financial and statistical tools for analysis and interpretation of the data obtained basically from the published reports of the corporation. The study, in addition to checking the growth in business examines the liquidity, solvency, profitability and activity of the corporation and found it growing. The analysis further reveals that the liquidity position of the corporation is comfortable but profitability wise it is precariously placed.

The term reproductive health was introduced at the International Conference
on Population and Development held under the auspices of the United Nations
in Cairo in 1994. A new conceptual approach was established in order to
secure a balance between micro and macro reproductive needs and goals, as
well as individual rights and responsibilities in the sphere of health,
partner relationship and parenthood. The Programme of Action resulted from it
and was adopted on the same occasion. What effects did the messages from
Cairo have on the state of reproductive health of the population in Serbia?
An analysis of the state and trends of the ten most important indicators in
this field indicate that expected breakthroughs have not been made. If any
were made, they have been registered in the last few years and mostly dealt
with the stabilization of values of certain indicators, but on unfavourable
level. The continuing decrease of AIDS death rate makes a real exception.
However, this does not lessens the significance, but confirms the relevance
and topicality of the Programme of Action, especially in Serbia.

Family day care (FDC) is child care for a small group of children that occurs in the educator's home. Despite the important role it plays in the international early childhood education and care landscape, particularly for children under three years of age, FDC is currently under-researched. This article examines research about infants (under 19 months of age) in FDC from the past 20 years, using Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of smooth and striated space. These concepts open possibilities for moving beyond well-worn binaries such as qualitative/quantitative, researcher/researched, adult/infant and instead consider the methodological principles and theoretical perspectives that influence why particular methods are chosen, how they are used, and the research stories that result. The authors argue that the emerging FDC research space may be conceptualised as a smooth space, with greater powers of deterritorialisation than the striated, affording lines of flight towards new understandings about the lives of infants in FDC.

In the context of internationalisation the national issues regarding the restitution of nationalised immovable goods in different stages of history, the subject at hand, represents a pioneering analysis of a complex national reality. Recent practice of Romanian courts has revealed a delicate problem that is apparently the object of debate and resolve of the national and international academic environment. Through the analysis the author tackles the problem of discrimination that is committed by the national law that regulates the matter of restitution of goods that were abusively taken over by the state, from the point of view of the theoretician, as well as the practitioner, pointing out the necessity of direct cooperation with the European courts. The negative discrimination, resulting from the art. 36 of 18/1991 law, can be analysed as an objective and rational justification that would allow the direct practice of the European convention of human rights concerning the litigations about "Land Act" (Law no. 18/1991)