This book uses several case studies to demonstrate current problems with international extradition. These include political issues, time delays, jurisdictional problems, and conflict between surrender and the human rights of extraditees. The normative assumptions underpinning extradition ensure these procedures are more likely to prioritise international comity between nation states, rather than individual human rights protections. This creates a system with limited judicial relief for extraditees that require extensive proof of high human rights thresholds, as well as a prominent rule of non-inquiry, restrictive evidence regulations, and deference to the executive. The book argues that a defendant-centred approach to extradition reform is needed that prioritises a right to fairness as a core value for promoting global justice. This includes considering changes to enable greater post-extradition monitoring of extradited people and broadening rules for extraditees to submit evidence to support a claim against surrender. New and more viable extradition alternatives also involve transferring evidence to shift the trial to the location where most of the offending activity occurred and sentencing in the extraditee’s home jurisdiction. These proposals aim to counter the current unequal levels of authority that favour the power of both the requesting and requested state over the rights of the individual.
Many antiquated or legacy systems are still in operation today because they are critical to the organizations continued operations or are prohibitively expensive to replace. This book guides practitioners in managing the process of legacy system evolution. The author introduces a comprehensive method for managing a software evolution project, from its conception to the deployment of the resulting system. The book helps managers answer two critical decisions: What is the best way to evolve a particular legacy system? and How can the legacy system be migrated to a selected target architecture?
The Pen & Cape Society, in conjunction with Local Hero Press, is proud to present The Good Fight, an anthology of superhero fiction from some of the best authors working in the genre. Collected within this volume are stories by Scott Bachmann, Frank Byrns, Marion Harmon, Warren Hately, Drew Hayes, Ian Thomas Healy, Hydrargentium, Michael Ivan Lowell, T. Mike McCurley, Landon Porter, R. J. Ross, Cheyanne Young, and Jim Zoetewey. After enjoying the stories in The Good Fight, please be sure to check out the works of the individual authors, because they're just super!
A brand-new collection featuring four of our favorite stories from the Invader ZIM comics highlighting skool--a place where young, impressionable human minds are molded into... eh, we're not sure what happens after that. But now you can relive all the best moments of ZIM and Dib's skool days! From incorrect rumors of Ms. Bitters' demise (and origin) to the trials and tribulations of the National Phitness Test, and finally, a time-honored class assignment: pretending some inanimate object is a baby and trying not to kill it. Heck, you might even learn something! (Learning is not guaranteed.) Contains issues #15, 32, 37, and 45 of the Oni Press series Invader ZIM.
Treatment of Skin Disease: Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies has been thoroughly revised to give you the latest treatment options for dermatologic conditions. Mark G. Lebwohl, Warren R. Heymann, John Berth-Jones, and Ian Coulson present an intuitive and easy-to-use, definitive treatment reference that covers the full range of choices for each condition so that you are prepared even when your patients do not respond to primary or secondary therapies. With new chapters on today’s hot topics-methocillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, atypical nevi, autoimmune progesterone dermatitis, and more-and new contributions from international experts, you’ll have a global and current perspective on therapeutic options. Offer your patients the full range of choices and be prepared when your patients do not respond to primary or secondary therapies. Offers guidance for even the most difficult clinical problems by including third and fourth line therapies, as well as standard treatments, so you have options to try when all else fails. Features a summary of each treatment strategy along with detailed discussions of treatment choices so that you can apply the in-depth knowledge of the authors and editors. Presents each chapter in a tabular format, with checklists of diagnostic and investigative pearls and color-coded boxed text, for quick at-a-glance summaries of key details. Includes a full-color clinical photograph of each disease to help you diagnose more effectively. Includes access to the full text, Gold Standard drug database, and all the images online-fully searchable-at expertconsult.com. Covers new and more commonly presenting disorders in 12 new chapters on today’s hot topics, such as methocillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, atypical nevi, autoimmune progesterone dermatitis, and more. Presents up-to-date evidence and the latest treatments to keep you on the cutting edge of practice. Describes global best practice on the treatment of key disorders through new contributions from international experts.
Ian Warren's research into sports crowd culture and management takes us in new directions. First, he is concerned with the audience as an entity in context; a situational and comparative approach indicates a variety of behaviours dependant upon a complex interplay linking the nature of the sport, the norms of the society, and the characteristics of the fans. Second, Warren is concerned with the sports crowd in its fullest sense; in other words, he is as much interested in why Australian rules football has no tradition of segregation as with why English football has developed a culture of 'ends' and formal separation of rival fans. Third, Warren broadens the scholarly debate to take much greater account of the duties and responsibilities of stadium operators, state police, and private police in managing the environment of the sporting arena safely and responsibly.
The main purpose of this monograph is to provide a comprehensive study of the effects of thermal radiation on both man and materials, for use in the assessment of risks and hazards from fires and fireballs. The study was sponsored by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) with the aim of producing a useful reference document for work connected with major hazards assessment for land-use planning and in developing operational standards. The monograph is based on an earlier report (1984) and revised to include more recent information on the effects of atmospheric transmissivity on thermal radiation, the effects of thermal fluxes incident on clothing materials and the prognosis of burn-injury victims. The Glasstone method previously used to account for atmospheric transmissivity has been replaced by a model which considers the attenuation of radiation by both scattering and atmospheric absorption. A methodology has been included which enables ignition and melting times of fabrics to be predicted. Knowledge of how a fabric is likely to respond to a particular incident flux provides for a more comprehensive means of predicting the consequences of a person's exposure to thermal radiation. The assessment of thermal radiation consequences has been extended to include a section describing the prognosis of burn-injury victims. Given a particular level of injury, it is possible to estimate the mortality probability of a victim knowing the victim's age and percentage body area suffering from burn injury. The first IChemE monograph on thermal radiation, "Calculation of the Intensity of Thermal Radiation from Large Fires", dealt with classification of fires and methods of calculation of thermal radiation for different types of fires. It complements this monograph.
World's greatest investor's retirement advice Retirement income for life from 2 Vanguard fundsAvoid “high-fee managers” Warren Buffett's will provides for his family by directing that his cash assets be invested in just two Vanguard funds: One will provide cash for the coming year and the other will provide a sound future. The best way to protect your family's future is to be invested in the stock market. Pure and simple. When you have stock assets, your money compounds at higher rates when your account fees are 0.01-0.05%, not the retail rates of 1.5-3%. You don't have to settle for retail products that are structured to provide the firm with higher revenues. The average investor earns 2.56%, not the 10-12% market rates. (QAIB)
The United States (US) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Environment and Energy (AEE) has developed the System for assessing Aviation's Global Emissions (SAGE) with support from the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Logistics Management Institute (LMI). Currently at Version 1.5, SAGE is a high fidelity computer model used to predict aircraft fuel burn and emissions for all commercial (civil) flights globally in a given year. As part of SAGE development, this document has been prepared to provide detailed specifications of the model's methods, data, and assumptions. The information is provided within the context of using SAGE to develop global inventories of fuel burn and emissions.
Information technology decisions are usually made by IT experts who often lack the finance and accounting skills to fully understand the financial implications of this capital spending. This book is aimed at IT managers, addressing issues such as: how to budget and account for IT appropriately; how to build a financial case for IT investment; how to use investment appraisal techniques, as well as how to use numerous financial tricks of the trade.
Why do you have to go to the doctor?What will happen when you go to the doctor?What is a stethoscope?With fun photographs and fascinating facts, discover all the amazing things your body can do.
Design simple Flash applications, business applications, and games for pocket PCs; use eVB and eVC to deliver these applications on the PPC without the limitations of Pocket Internet Explorer; create Flash content for playback on DVD; and use Flash to construct interfaces for interactive TV. The CD- ROM includes code and examples from the book plus bonus developer tools for Pocket PC.
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