EU citizenship and (fundamental) rights: Empirical, normative, and conceptual problems

International Law and State Socialization: Conceptual, Empirical, and Normative Challenges

Debates about how best to design international legal regimes inadequately attend to the ways in which law influences state behavior. As a consequence of this deficiency, much of international law is founded upon the flawed, and often unexamined, assumption that effective legal regimes must either coerce or persuade target actors to comply with their requirements. In How to Influence States: Soc...

semi-analytical solution for static and forced vibration problems of laminated beams through smooth fundamental functions method

در این پایان نامه روش جدیدی مبتنی بر روش حل معادلات دیفرانسیل پارهای بر اساس روش توابع پایه برای حل مسایل ارتعاش اجباری واستاتیک تیرها و صفحات لایه ای ارایه شده است که می توان تفاوت این روش با روش های متداول توابع پایه را در استفاده از توابع هموار در ارضاء معادلات حاکم و شرایط مرزی دانست. در روش ارایه شده در این پایاننامه از معادله تعادل به عنوان معادله حاکم بر رفتار سیستم استفاده شده است که مو...

Sherwood’s Plot: Fundamental or Empirical?

There are several examples of heuristic rules first proposed from empirical observation, which eventually earned physicochemical validity after the fundamental derivation of a posteriori. This may be the case of Sherwood’s plot – for which a sound rationalization from first principles, entailing enthalpy and mass balances, is provided here; it applies to (fine) chemicals undergoing concentr...

Empirical research in medical ethics: How conceptual accounts on normative-empirical collaboration may improve research practice

BACKGROUND The methodology of medical ethics during the last few decades has shifted from a predominant use of normative-philosophical analyses to an increasing involvement of empirical methods. The articles which have been published in the course of this so-called 'empirical turn' can be divided into conceptual accounts of empirical-normative collaboration and studies which use socio-empirical...

A conceptual framework for genetic policy: comparing the medical, public health, and fundamental rights models.