Abstract The Convention on the Rights of Child is most widely ratified core United Nations human rights treaty. Does size matter for normativity and compliance? Size does sometimes in a positive way: quasi-universal ratification CRC gives that treaty unprecedented normative legitimacy legal reach. Often, adds however layer complexity: negotiations, implementation, monitoring. matters somewhat, ...

PURPOSE Calcaneocuboid arthrodesis was used during revision clubfoot surgery in order to maintain midfoot correction. The purposes of this study were to determine: (1) functional level at 17-year follow-up compared to 5-year follow-up; (2) patients' current functional level, satisfaction, and pain; and (3) current arthropometric measurements. METHODS Twenty patients (27 clubfeet) with clubfoo...

Abstract Critics and film theorists have frequently drawn attention to the use of J. S. Bach’s music in Accattone (1961), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first film. Many noted strangeness musical choice particular its sociocultural disconnection from film’s setting borgate, deprived areas on outskirts Rome. second film, Mamma Roma (1962), similarly focuses lives an underclass pimps, prostitutes, scroung...

In [3], we started the investigation of compactness in fuzzy function spaces in FCS, the category of fuzzy convergence spaces as defined by Lowen/Lowen/Wuyts [8]. This paper goes somewhat deeper in the investigation of fuzzy function spaces using the notion of splitting and conjoining structures on fuzzy subsets. We discuss the connection to the exponential law and give several examples of such...

The most interesting current open question in the theory of GRB afterglow is the propagation of jetted afterglows during the sideway expansion phase. Recent numerical simulations show hydrodynamic behavior that differs from the one suggested by simple analytic models. Still, somewhat surprisingly, the calculated light curves show a ‘jet break’ at about the expected time. These results suggest t...

Clustering is a somewhat confusing topic theoretically. In large part this is because there are many different kinds of clustering problems. In addition, the true goals in clustering are often difficult to measure, making the task seem not well-defined and under-specified. In this note we discuss one approach from [6] to theoretically formulating a certain broad class of clustering problems, an...

The standard method of curing industrial coatings has been accomplished by slow open air drying or somewhat faster gas heated convection air ovens. Electric infrared has also been used for curing paints for certain applications. While enhancing the rate of cure, the energy costs become excessive to operate. The introduction of gas fueled infrared catalytic thermoreactors is changing the way ind...

F.R.C.S. (Eng.) South Travancorc Medical Mission, L. M. S., Neyyoor Travancorc, South India The surgery of 100 years ago consisted for the most part in the somewhat barbaric removal of offending members; for operations had to ba rapid, and being always septic had to be followed by open wounds. In the absence of anaesthetics and antiseptics, anything beyond the removal of disease was almost impo...