The right to internal self-determination offers a legal ‘checklist’ for the UN to provide both legitimacy and sustainability to peacebuilding processes. The right both clarifies the actors of postconflict reconstruction and also concretises to what extent these actors should be incorporated into peacebuilding processes. Although the concept of local ownership has become an often-cited concept i...

How do disagreements between judges on collegial (multimember) courts affect legal policy? We address this question by developing an account of the nature of judicial disagreements in the case-space model of judicial choice. We distinguish between different types of disagreement, from disagreements about case facts to disagreements about how legal rules should treat varying case facts, and cons...

How accurately can deterministic modes be identified from a finite record of noisy data? In this paper we answer this question by computing the Cramer-Rao bound on the error covariance matrix of any unbiased estimator of mode parameters. The bound is computed for many of the standard parametric descriptions of a mode, including autoregressive and moving average parameters, poles and residues, a...

The IRAF kpcoude.slit package is specialized for the extraction, sky subtraction, wavelength calibration, and flux calibration of Kitt Peak coude slit spectra. It contains the general tools needed for each of the reduction steps. However, the main emphasis of this package is the task doslit to streamline the complete data reduction. This guide describes what this task does, it’s usage, and para...

We consider the family of holomorphic maps ez + c and show that fibers of postsingularly finite parameters are trivial. This can be considered as the first and simplest class of non-escaping parameters for which we can obtain results about triviality of fibers in the exponential family.

For hypotheses of the type H0 : θ = θ0 vs H1 : θ 6= θ0 we demonstrate the equivalence of a Bayesian hypothesis test using a Bayes factor and the corresponding classical test, for a large class of models, which are detailed in the paper. In particular, we show that the role of the prior and critical region for the Bayes factor test is only to specify the type I error. This is their only role sin...

Let Q be the field of rational numbers and Q[u1, ..., ud, x1, ..., xs] the ring of polynomials in n indeterminates with coefficients in Q and d + s = n (0 ≤ d < n). The indeterminates are divided into two groups: u = (u1, ..., ud) and x = (x1, ..., xs), which are called parameters and variables, respectively. A polynomial set is a finite set of nonzero polynomials in Q[u,x]. The following syste...

There is increasing realisation that malnutrition is a complication of many illnesses, as well as a consequence of inadequate food intake. The report summarised below, provides recommendations and principles to guide health professionals facing dilemmas concerning patients' nutrition and hydration.

Many kinds of computer vision problems can be formalized as statistical estimation problems with nuisance parameters. In the past, such problems have been solved without making any distinction between the nuisance parameters and structural ones. However, a theory of statistics suggests that eliminating the nuisance parameters by assuming a probability distribution on them improves estimation ac...