Recommendations -- Methodology -- I. Background and Context -- The Porgera Joint Venture -- Box 1: An Altered Landscape -- Poor Living Conditions and Demands for Relocation -- Poisonous Local Politics: Barrick and the Porgera Landowners Association -- II. Violence and Illegal Mining: PJV's Security Challenges -- Illegal Mining on the Waste Dumps -- Organized Raids on the Mine -- Criminalization of Illegal Mining and its Limitations -- III. Gang Rape and Other Abuses by PJV Security Personnel -- The PJV Security Force -- A Legacy of Abuse? -- Box 2: Replicating Broader Patterns of Abuse -- Ongoing Patterns of Abuse by PJV Security Guards -- Gang Rape by APD Personnel -- Box 3: Another Investigation at Porgera -- Box 4: Retaliation at Home -- Box 5: A Gang Rape Survivor Tells Her Story -- Treatment of Detainees in APD Custody -- Excessive Use of Force -- IV. Barrick and the Mobile Police Deployment to Porgera -- V. Barrick's International Human Rights Obligations -- VI. Barrick's Response to Human Rights Concerns at the Porgera Mine -- Long Term Company Efforts to Implement the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights -- Falling Short -- Barrick's Response to Human Rights Watch's Allegations -- VII. Health and Environmental Concerns Regarding Riverine Tailings Disposal at Porgera -- Box 6: The Ok Tedi Disaster -- Transparency Concerns -- VIII. Mercury Use by Small-Scale and Illegal Miners -- IX. The Need for Canadian Government Regulation -- Box 7: No Oversight of APD in Porgera -- Bill C-300: A Missed Opportunity -- X. Acknowledgements -- Annex: Barrick's Response to Human Rights Watch.
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This is the first comprehensive book to address in-situ mechanics approach, which relies on real-time imaging during mechanical measurements of materials. The book presents tools, techniques and methods to interrogate the deformation characteristics of a wide array of material classes, and how the mechanics and the material microstructures are correlated. In-situ approach provides unprecedented ability to decipher the mechanical behavior of materials from atomic length scales all the way up to bulk-scale, which is not possible using conventional means. The book also addresses how to capture the deformation behavior of materials under different stress-states and extreme environments. The book will be useful to the new generation of students, scientists and researchers working on the frontiers of material design and innovation as they aim to develop new materials with predictable mechanical properties and technological applications. This book can also serve as a textbook aimed at upper-level undergraduates and graduate-level students who are beginning to delve into the mechanics of materials. Catering to a generation of students that appreciates videos as a didactic tool, this book contains numerous videos to supplement problems, solutions, and case studies.
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