Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Reconciliation System'

Early in 2012, the Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver released an open letter to Canadians where he identified 'an urgent matter of Canada's national interest': 'radical groups' were 'threaten[ing] to hijack [Canada's] regulatory system' for major projects and argued they should 'be accomplished in a quicker and more streamlined fashion'. This came on the eve of the first day of oral hearings for the public review into the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker project that would allow for oil sands from Alberta to access outside markets other than the United States. A few months later, Canada's environmental decision-making process was dramatically reformed, resulting in a significant outcry across the country over the likely effects on environmental oversight and Aboriginal rights. In Haida Gwaii, a series of islands off of the north coast of British Columbia (BC) around which the proposed tanker traffic would navigate, a process of reconciliation is in its early stages. The forestry sector is now subject to a collaborative provincial and Haida (First) Nation planning and decision process and a Haida-owned company is the biggest tenure holder and forestry sector employer. However, the Government of Canada has refused to participate in this reconciliation process in any meaningful way. It has, instead, encountered the Haida Nation through the court-like environmental review process for the proposed Enbridge project, the very same process that has been used to justify the dramatic environmental planning reforms. This research constructs a framework for tracing the spatial and institutional dynamics of the reconciliation process in planning. A significant amount of the Crown's approach to reconciliation relies upon the consultation that takes place within and alongside planning and regulatory decision making for natural resource developments. While the process does not, in itself, lead to any meaningful engagement over reconciliation, a central research question is: What opportunities might exist for reconciliation to take place in planning? And, how do these opportunities change? Contributing to the Indigenous planning literature, this dissertation examines some of the discursive and institutional factors that led to (a) the collaborative planning taking place on Haida Gwaii today and (b) the 2012 federal planning reforms. For each case, the opportunities available in planning for modifying the dominant view of reconciliation are considered. The dissertation begins with an overview of the very initial discussions on reconciliation between the Haida Nation and the Province of BC. It is argued that this move was facilitated by the Haida Nation shifting their concerns to various venues that were more or less receptive to their interests: the courts, a road blockade, collaborative planning, and bargaining. On the other hand, Canada has attempted to regain control by actively modifying the venues available to the Haida Nation in ways that excluded them or moved them to a venue that was less receptive to their concerns. It is reasoned that while planning spaces operate in ways that tend to be colonial, certain conditions and mechanisms are available in these systems that can be used to open up (perceived) opportunities for changing the way reconciliation is implemented across this system. These spaces reveal information about Indigenous-state power relations that are usually not observable until a conflict arises, at which point analysts may observe how actors respond to these perceived opportunities. Evidence is collected from numerous sources. Interviews with key informants, observation, and policy document review composed the bulk of the data collection for both cases. Four days of oral hearings in Haida Gwaii were observed in 2012, offering a window into the encounter between the Haida and Canada just as a streamlined environmental review process was being developed and implemented. In contrasting the two cases, this research finds that planning is used both to control development and as an opportunity to engage with the Crown over the long-standing dispute about overlapping title to and, thus, jurisdiction over Haida Gwaii. The process by which one use prevails over another is the central research problem; indeed, there remains an important disconnect between Indigenous political actors and the Crown (and, in some examples, industry) on how environmental planning institutions ought to be used. This tension is present within a planning venue and across the planning system, opening up potential opportunities, such as those used by the Haida Nation to regain control over Haida Gwaii, or closing down these opportunities. For these reasons, planning is one of the most useful arenas for influencing and for understanding the politics of reconciliation in Canada.

The University of Bristol has been developing a free-space, low cost, test-bed quantum cryptography system for the past five years, and the work in this thesis is 'concerned with the algorithms and protocols used in this system. The use scenario is that a hand-held, Alice, device can be used in conjunction with a fixed terminal, Bob, to expand an existing store of shared secret key bits between the two parties. This requires that both devices are compact and low-cost, but with the hand-held Alice device being more so, as there will be a high of ratio of these to Bob devices. To both satisfy the cost constraint and allow rapid prototyping, the physical setup uses off-the-shelf optical and electrical components. The first part· of the work in this thesis analyses the security and performance implications of implementation imperfections. In order to produce a secret key string, novel data processing and reconciliation algorithms are described, optimisation for the scenario where the Alice device has less computational power than that of Bob. Specifically, clock-period recovery, elimination of the background noise by temporal gating, and synchronisation, with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes being used for the error correction ·stage. In light of recent results on the security of quantum cryptography systems, estimates are calculated that show that the hardware needs to be further improved in order to expand the key store in a convenient period of time. Several improved models are simulated that explore the modifications required to bring the key expansion times into an acceptable range.

"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007."<br>Advisor(s): Jones, Lawrence ; Petross, Diana. "December 2007." "MBA professional report"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on January 10, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63). Also available in print.

Trabalho apresentado no âmbito do Mestrado em Engenharia Informática, como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática<br>The evolution of mobile phones has made these devices more than just simple mobile communication devices. Current mobile phones include such features as built-in digital cameras, the ability to play and record multimedia contents and also the possibility of playing games. Most of these devices have support for Java developed applications, as well as multiple wireless technologies (e.g. GSM/GPRS, UMTS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi). All these features have been made possible due to technological evolution that led to the improvement of computational power, storage capacity, and communication capabilities of these devices. This thesis presents a distributed data management system, based on optimistic replication,named FEW Phone File System. This system takes advantage of the storage capacity and wireless communication capabilities of current mobile phones, by allowing users to carry their personal data “in” their mobile phones, and to access it in any workstation, as if they were files in the local file system. The FEW Phone File System is based on a hybrid architecture that merges the client/server model with peer-to-peer replication, that relies on periodic reconciliation to maintain consistency between replicas. The system’s server side runs on the mobile phone, and the client on a workstation. The communication between the client and the server can be supported by one of multiple network technologies, allowing the FEW Phone File System to dynamically adapt to the available network connectivity. The presented system addresses the mobile phone’s storage and power limitations by allowing multimedia contents to be adapted to the device’s specifications, thus reducing the volume of data transferred to the mobile phone, allowing for more user’s data to be stored. The FEW Phone File System also integrates mechanisms that maintain information about the existence of other copies of the stored files (e.g. WWW), avoiding the transfer of those files from the mobile device whenever accessing those copies is advantageous. Due to the increasing number of on-line storage resources (e.g. CVS/SVN, Picasa), this approach allows for those resources to be used by the FEW Phone File System to obtain the stored copies of the user’s files.

This thesis is a work of Christian theology. Its purpose is twofold: firstly to develop an adequate understanding of reconciliation at the level of peoples and nations; and secondly to make a practical contribution to resolving the problems in Australia for the welfare of all the peoples, and of the land itself. The history of the relationships between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia has left many problems, and no matter what the non-Indigenous people try to do, the Indigenous peoples of Australia continue to experience themselves as being in a state of siege. Trying to understand what is happening, and what can be done to resolve the problems for the peoples of Australia and the land, have been the implicit drivers for the theological development in this thesis. This thesis argues that the present generation in any trans-generational dispute is likely to continue to sin in ways that are shaped by the sins of the past, which explains why Indigenous peoples in Australia find themselves in a stage of siege, even when the non-Indigenous peoples are trying to pursue policies which they believe are for the welfare of all. The only way to resolve this is for the peoples of Australia to seek reconciliation. In particular, the non-Indigenous peoples need to repent, both of their own sins, and the sins of their forebears. Reconciliation processes have become part of the international political landscape. However, there are real concerns about the justice of pursuing reconciliation. An important part of the theological development of this thesis is therefore to show that pursuing reconciliation establishes justice. It is shown that the nature of justice, and of repentance, can only be established by pursuing reconciliation. Reconciliation is possible because God has made it possible, and is working in the world to bring reconciliation. Because land is an essential part of Indigenous identity in Australia, the history of land in court cases and legislation in Australia over the past half century forms an important case study in this work. It is shown that, although there was significant repentance within the non-Indigenous legal system in Australia, the degree of repentance available through that legal system is inherently limited, and so a more radical approach is needed in order to seek reconciliation in Australia. A final chapter considers what the non-Indigenous people of Australia need to do in order to repent.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.<br>Committee Chair: Dimitri Mavris; Committee Member: Erwing Calleros; Committee Member: Hongmei Chen; Committee Member: Mark Waters; Committee Member: Vitali Volovoi.

Medication discrepancies frequently occur at transitions of care and can result in adverse drug events (ADEs) that may adversely impact patient safety, quality of care, and resources utilization. Medication reconciliation is an essential component of medication safety. The ultimate goal of medication reconciliation is to prevent ADEs related to medication discrepancies at all transitions of care, for all patients, by ensuring accurate and complete medication information transfer across various care settings. However, this process is hampered by the complexity, heterogeneity, and lack of standardised method for quantifying the outcomes of the medication reconciliation process. The rationale of this thesis includes conceptual and practical frameworks. These are standardisation and consistent measures (the taxonomy), and improvement strategies. Accordingly, we suggest that in order to monitor and measure changes that are associated with the implementation of medication reconciliation strategies, standardisation of medication discrepancy nomenclature will improve optimizing measurements and outcomes of medication reconciliation; and therefore, the overall aim of this thesis was to develop and validate a new taxonomy for medication discrepancies to enhance the consistency in the identification and classification of discrepancies, as a critical step in the medication reconciliation process. Findings from a systematic literature review showed significant inconsistencies in reporting, measuring and classifying medication discrepancies and the lack of a well-designed tool to evaluate medication reconciliation outcomes. Therefore, a new taxonomy of medication discrepancies was developed and tested for its content validity, reliability and usability. Additionally, four operational definitions (medication reconciliation, unintentional medication discrepancy, transition of care, and best possible medication list) and instructions were formulated and tested. The second part of this thesis demonstrated that the overall average content validity index (Ave-CVI) of the entire taxonomy was 0.93 and inter-rater reliability was 0.67 (multirater κfree), indicating substantial agreement. In addition, an excellent internal consistency of the taxonomy was established (Kuder–Richardson Formula 20 (KR-20) =0.92). The medication discrepancy taxonomy (MedTax) consists of 12 main types and 28 sub-types of discrepancies that have been arranged in an open hierarchy structure. The usability and test-retest study indicated that the new taxonomy (MedTax) performs as intended, and it is well utilised by the nurses and pharmacists groups. Overall, the (MedTax) provides a valid and reliable approach for various healthcare professionals to be used in different care settings to classify medication discrepancies and to fill an essential void in global endeavors to reinforce standardisation of medication reconciliation practices and to improve medication safety across transitions of care. Further research should be undertaken to investigate the usability and applicability of the tool in clinical practice.

This qualitative research case study explored the indigenous model of conflict resolution known as the “Judiyya,” in the South Darfur State, Sudan. The purpose of the study has been to understand the principles and practices of the Judiyya in maintaining peace among Darfuri tribal communities. Judiyya is a community-based, human-centered model that employs restorative and transformative principles in conflict resolution. The literature review provided context for a research project that addressed the following questions: What is the role of the Judiyya in the current situation? How does the model work? What are its decision-making processes? How does the Judiyya model relate to the International Human Rights Standards? The primary data sources include face-to-face interviews, researcher observations, and a review of document collections and archival records. Research findings explore five emergent themes: Religion or belief system, Elderly leadership, Trust, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy. These explain the model’s process and practices and offer to policymakers some new ideas and perspectives about how to understand and use the indigenous model, which is evaluated for strengths and challenges. The model remains relevant and continues to thrive around the greater Darfur area, helping tribal communities maintain harmony, coexistence, and peace. This research contributes to the emerging literature about the relevance of endogenous knowledge and indigenous models of conflict resolution, and the ongoing efforts to better understand the cultural context of conflict and its reconciliation process.

Mit aktuell vorhandenen Mitteln ist es schwierig, objektiv approximative Algorithmen zum Mengenabgleich gegenüberzustellen und zu vergleichen. Jeder Algorithmus kann durch unterschiedliche Wahl seiner jeweiligen Parameter an ein gegebenes Szenario angepasst werden und so zum Beispiel Bandbreiten- oder CPU-optimiert werden. Änderungen an den Parametern gehen jedoch meistens auch mit Änderungen an der Genauigkeit bei der Erkennung von Differenzen in den teilnehmenden Mengen einher und behindern somit objektive Vergleiche, die auf derselben Genauigkeit basieren. In dieser Arbeit wird eine Methodik entwickelt, die einen fairen Vergleich von approximativen Algorithmen zum Mengenabgleich erlaubt. Dabei wird eine feste Zielgenauigkeit definiert und im Weiteren alle die Genauigkeit beeinflussenden Parameter entsprechend gesetzt. Diese Methode ist universell genug, um für eine breite Masse an Algorithmen eingesetzt zu werden. In der Arbeit wird sie auf zwei triviale hashbasierte Algorithmen, einem basierend auf Bloom Filtern und einem basierend auf Merkle Trees angewandt, um dies zu untermauern. Im Vergleich zu vorherigen Arbeiten zu Merkle Trees wird vorgeschlagen, die Größe der Hashsummen dynamisch im Baum zu wählen und so den Bandbreitenbedarf an die gewünschte Zielgenauigkeit anzupassen. Dabei entsteht eine neue Variante des Mengenabgleichs mit Merkle Trees, bei der sich erstmalig die Genauigkeit konfigurieren lässt. Eine umfassende Evaluation eines jeden der vier unter dem Genauigkeitsmodell angepassten Algorithmen bestätigt die Anwendbarkeit der entwickelten Methodik und nimmt eine Neubewertung dieser Algorithmen vor. Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse erlauben die Auswahl eines effizienten Algorithmus für unterschiedliche praktische Szenarien basierend auf einer gewünschten Zielgenauigkeit. Die präsentierte Methodik zur Bestimmung passender Parameter, um für unterschiedliche Algorithmen die gleiche Genauigkeit zu erreichen, kann auch auf weitere Algorithmen zum Mengenabgleich angewandt werden und erlaubt eine objektive, allgemeingültige Einordnung ihrer Leistung unter verschiedenen Metriken. Der in der Arbeit entstandene neue approximative Mengenabgleich mit Merkle Trees erweitert die Anwendbarkeit von Merkle Trees und wirft ein neues Licht auf dessen Effektivität.<br>The objective comparison of approximate versioned set reconciliation algorithms is challenging. Each algorithm's behaviour can be tuned for a given use case, e.g. low bandwidth or computational overhead, using different sets of parameters. Changes of these parameters, however, often also influence the algorithm's accuracy in recognising differences between participating sets and thus hinder objective comparisons based on the same level of accuracy. We develop a method to fairly compare approximate set reconciliation algorithms by enforcing a fixed accuracy and deriving accuracy-influencing parameters accordingly. We show this method's universal applicability by adopting two trivial hash-based algorithms as well as set reconciliation with Bloom filters and Merkle trees. Compared to previous research on Merkle trees, we propose to use dynamic hash sizes to align the transfer overhead with the desired accuracy and create a new Merkle tree reconciliation algorithm with an adjustable accuracy target. An extensive evaluation of each algorithm under this accuracy model verifies its feasibility and ranks these four algorithms. Our results allow to easily choose an efficient algorithm for practical set reconciliation tasks based on the required level of accuracy. Our way to find configuration parameters for different, yet equally accurate, algorithms can also be adopted to other set reconciliation algorithms and allows to rate their respective performance in an objective manner. The resultant new approximate Merkle tree reconciliation broadens the applicability of Merkle trees and sheds some new light on its effectiveness.

Lors de cette thèse, je me suis intéressée aux modèles et aux algorithmes pour étudier l'histoire évolutive commune des hôtes et des symbiotes. Le premier objectif était d'analyser la robustesse des méthodes de réconciliation des arbres phylogénétiques, qui sont très utilisées dans ce type d'étude. Celles-ci associent (ou lient) un arbre, d'habitude celui des symbiotes, à l'autre, en utilisant un modèle dit basé sur des évènements. Les évènements les plus utilisés sont la cospéciation, la duplication, le saut et la perte. Les phylogénies des hôtes et des symbiotes sont généralement considérés comme donnés, et sans aucune erreur. L'objectif était de comprendre les forces et les faiblesses du modèle parcimonieux utilisé et comprendre comment les résultats finaux peuvent être influencés en présence de petites perturbations ou d'erreurs dans les données en entrée. Ici deux cas sont considérés, le premier est le choix erroné d'une association entre les feuilles des hôtes et des symbiotes dans le cas où plusieurs existent, le deuxième est lié au mauvais choix de l'enracinement de l'arbre des symbiotes. Nos résultats montrent que le choix des associations entre feuilles et le choix de l'enracinement peuvent avoir un fort impact sur la variabilité de la réconciliation obtenue. Nous avons également remarqué que l'evènement appelé “saut” joue un rôle important dans l'étude de la robustesse, surtout pour le problème de l'enracinement. Le deuxième objectif de cette thèse était d'introduire certains evènements peu ou pas formellement considérés dans la littérature. L'un d'entre eux est la “propagation”, qui correspond à l'invasion de différents hôtes par un même symbiote. Dans ce cas, lorsque les propagations ne sont pas considérés, les réconciliations optimales sont obtenues en tenant compte seulement des coûts des évènements classiques (cospeciation, duplication, saut, perte). La nécessité de développer des méthodes statistiques pour assigner les coûts les plus appropriés est toujours d'actualité. Deux types de propagations sont introduites : verticaux et horizontaux. Le premier type correspond à ce qu'on pourrait appeler aussi un gel, à savoir que l'évolution du symbiote s'arrête et “gèle” alors que le symbiote continue d'être associé à un hôte et aux nouvelles espèces qui descendent de cet hôte. Le second comprend à la fois une invasion, du symbiote qui reste associé à l'hôte initial, mais qui en même temps s'associe (“envahit”) un autre hôte incomparable avec le premier, et un gel par rapport à l'évolution des deux l'hôtes, celui auquel il était associé au début et celui qu'il a envahi. Nos résultats montrent que l'introduction de ces evènements rend le modèle plus réaliste, mais aussi que désormais il est possible d'utiliser directement des jeux de données avec un symbiote qui est associé plusieurs hôtes au même temps, ce qui n'était pas faisable auparavant<br>In this Ph.D. work, we proposed models and algorithms to study the common evolutionary history of hosts and symbionts. The first goal was to analyse the robustness of the methods of phylogenetic tree reconciliations, which are a common way of performing such study. This involves mapping one tree, most often the symbiont’s, to the other using a so-called event-based model. The events considered in general are cospeciation, duplication, host switch, and loss. The host and the symbiont phylogenies are usually considered as given and without any errors. The objective here was to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the parsimonious model used in such mappings of one tree to another, and how the final results may be influenced when small errors are present, or are introduced in the input datasets. This may correspond either to a wrong choice of present-day symbiont-host associations in the case where multiple ones exist, or to small errors related to a wrong rooting of the symbiont tree. Our results show that the choice of leaf associations and of root placement may have a strong impact on the variability of the reconciliation output. We also noticed that the host switch event has an important role in particular for the rooting problem. The second goal of this Ph.D. was to introduce some events that are little or not formally considered in the literature. One of them is the spread, which corresponds to the invasion of different hosts by a same symbiont. In this case, as when spreads are not considered, the optimal reconciliations obtained will depend on the choice made for the costs of the events. The need to develop statistical methods to assign the most appropriate ones therefore remains of actuality. Two types of spread are introduced: vertical and horizontal. The first case corresponds to what could be called also a freeze in the sense that the evolution of the symbiont “freezes” while the symbiont continues to be associated with a host and with the new species that descend from this host. The second includes both an invasion, of the symbiont which remains with the initial host but at the same time gets associated with (“invades”) another one incomparable with the first, and a freeze, actually a double freeze as the evolution of the symbiont “freezes” in relation to the evolution of the host to which it was initially associated and in relation to the evolution of the second one it “invaded”. Our results show that the introduction of these events makes the model more realistic, but also that it is now possible to directly use datasets with a symbiont that is associated with more than one host at the same time, which was not feasible before

Depuis plusieurs années, la mondialisation du marché, l'augmentation des exigences des clients, et la recherche permanente d'une baisse des coûts induisent un accroissement fort de la complexité du monde industriel. Ainsi, la collaboration inter-organisationnelle devient essentielle pour maintenir et renforcer la compétitivité des entreprises. Dans cette optique, le système d'information peut, selon sa flexibilité et sa robustesse, freiner ou faciliter cette collaboration. Cette problématique est le point de départ du projet MISE (Mediation Information System Engineering) qui propose une solution pour la conception et la réalisation d'un système d'information collaboratif. Cette solution se base sur une démarche d'ingénierie dirigée par les modèles, couplée à une approche Business Process Management (BPM) et reposant sur les Architectures Orientées Services (SOA). Cette démarche se déroule en deux étapes : (i) la génération d'une cartographie de processus répondant à une situation collaborative (niveau métier), et (ii) sa transformation en un système exécutable (niveau technique). Les travaux présentés dans ce manuscrit s'inscrivent dans cette démarche. Ils s'intéressent en particulier au passage du niveau métier vers le niveau technique en se focalisant sur les aspects non-fonctionnels. Nous présentons une approche permettant (i) d'annoter les activités métier à l'aide d'exigences non-fonctionnelles lors de la modélisation des processus collaboratifs, (ii) de rationaliser la gestion des services et leurs propriétés non-fonctionnelles au moyen de la Gouvernance SOA, et enfin (iii) de faire une réconciliation non-fonctionnelle entre les activités et les services. Nous avons validé les concepts de notre approche au travers de deux prototypes : Petals BPM-NFR pour la modélisation et l'annotation non-fonctionnelle des processus métier, et EasierGov-NFR pour la gouvernance des services et leurs propriétés non-fonctionnelles ainsi que la réconciliation non-fonctionnelle. Un cas d'étude illustre notre approche pour prouver son applicabilité. Ces travaux s'inscrivent au sein du projet européen FP7 CHOReOS<br>Over the last years, the globalization, the increase of customers requirements, and the constant search for lower costs, have induced a steep complexity of organization's management. Therefore, inter-organizational collaboration becomes essential to maintain and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. In this context, the information system may, depending on its flexibility and its robustness, hamper or facilitate this collaboration. One approach to resolve this problem has been taken by the MISE (Mediation Information System Engineering) project. It aims to provide an effective implementation of a collaborative information system, based on Model-Driven Engineering, coupled with a Business Process Management approach (BPM) and supported by Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This solution consists in two steps: (i) the generation of a business processes map from the description of a collaborative situation (business level), and (ii) the transformation of these process models into an executable system (technical level). The works detailed in this PhD take roots in this solution and improve it by adding non-functional aspects management during the transition from the business level to the technical level. We present an approach that: first (i) annotates the business activities with Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) in the processes modelling stage, second (ii) rationalizes the management of services and their non-functional properties through SOA Governance, and third (iii) makes a non-functional reconciliation between activities and services. We validate our approach through two prototypes: Petals BPM-NFR for modelling and non-functional annotation of business process, and EasierGov-NFR for the governance of services and their non- functional properties, and the non-functional reconciliation. A case study illustrates our approach to demonstrate its applicability. This work is supported by the FP7 European project CHOReOS

"Although the United Nations (UN) has often been pivotal in forging the international response to serious human rights crimes in such settings, the justice gap in countries such as the Democratic Republic [of] Congo (DRC) (the focus of this study) underscores the need for more systematic UN efforts. The war in the DRC has resulted in one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis with over 3.4 million displaced persons scattered throughout the country. An estimated 3.5 million people have died as a result of the war. The armed conflict has been characterised by appalling widespread and systematic human rights violations, including mass killings, ethnic cleansing, rape and the destruction of property. The most pressing need to be addressed is the question of justice and accountability for these human rights atrocities in order to achieve a durable peace in the country and also in the Great Lakes region (Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Angola and the DRC, to name just a few). In this respect, this study will address the grave human rights violations committed in the DRC and the mechanisms for dealing with them. It is particularly true in post-conflict situations where justice systems have been either partially or completely destroyed, that national courts are not capapble of arriving at a uniform stance, or willing to provide justice for atrocities in the immediate future. As a result, international justice seems to be a crucial and last resort that must continue to be fortified against efforts to undermine it. ... Chapter one will set out the content of the research, identify the problem and outline the methodology. Chapter two will discuss the state obligations in international law to prosecute gross violations of human rights and gives a summary of the human rights violations situation during the Congolese war. Chapter three will discuss the available naitonal mechanisms for accountaiblity in the DRC. It will discuss if national courts and TRC are able to deal with these atrocities committed in the DRC. Chapter four will analyse the extent to which the ICC could deal with the Congolese case and challenges. Chapter five will discuss the trends towards accountability in the DRC and the way forward. Chapter six will draw a conclusion on how to break the cycle of impunity in the DRC." -- Introduction.<br>Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2004.<br>Prepared under the supervision of Prof. Boukongou Jean Didier and Dr. Atangcho Akonumbo at the Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaounde, Cameroon<br>http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html<br>Centre for Human Rights<br>LLM

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 2001.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 122 p.; also contains graphics. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-121).

The methodologies of Modernism and Industrialization and the rigorous application thereof, in isolation, led to a condition where space and place is fragmented, segregated and disconnected by lost, decayed and left over space. It separated the spatial and experiential whole from the human user who inhabits; depends on and experience the space, and failed to contribute to a meaningful livable public realm. The loss in character; uniqueness and indigenous meaningfulness have led to a condition where humans are alienated from their original invention for community: the city. The inter-relational connection between ecological-; anthropological- and technological systems are disconnected resulting in a condition where resource consumption and availability are no longer in relational proportion to one another and where revolutionary intervention is needed to ensure the continuation of the current living standard and requirements of humanity without degrading the quality for future generations. This dissertation focuses on the reintegration of anthropological; ecological and technological systems into a holistic, co-habitational intervention on urban; building and detail scale and the establishment of a human and nature centric spatially orientated framework. Attempting to reconsolidate lost; fragmented; left over; mechanistic&decayed space and structure along the ecological corridor of Hammanskraal Industrial zone.<br>Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.<br>Architecture<br>MArch(Prof)<br>Unrestricted

This thesis contains evaluation of crucial operational indicators of a waste-to-energy plant. Above all, it is lower heating value of municipal solid waste and boiler efficiency. An approach for evaluation improvement by mathematical methods is proposed. The approach is implemented in a computational tool developed in Microsoft Excel. The approach is tested and subsequently used for operational data from a real waste-to-energy plant.

Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The growing need to improve accounting accuracy, precision and to standardise generally accepted measurement methods in the mining and processing industries has led to the joining of a number of organisations under the AMIRA International umbrella, with the purpose of fulfilling these objectives. As part of this venture, Anglo Platinum undertook a project on the material balancing around its largest smelter, the Waterval Smelter. The primary objective of the project was to perform a statistical material balance around the Waterval Smelter using the Maximum Likelihood method with respect to platinum, rhodium, nickel, sulphur and chrome (III) oxide. Pt, Rh and Ni were selected for their significant contribution to the company’s profit margin, whilst S was included because of its environmental importance. Cr2O3 was included for its importance in as far as the difficulties its presence poses in smelting of PGMs. The objective was achieved by performing a series of statistical computations. These include; quantification of total and analytical uncertainties, detection of outliers, estimation and modelling of daily and monthly measurement uncertainties, parameter estimation and data reconciliation. Comparisons were made between the Maximum Likelihood and Least Squares methods. Total uncertainties associated with the daily grades were determined by use of variographic studies. The estimated Pt standard deviations were within 10% relative to the respective average grades with a few exceptions. The total uncertainties were split into their respective components by determining analytical variances from analytical replicates. The results indicated that the sampling components of the total uncertainty were generally larger as compared to their analytical counterparts. WCM, the platinum rich Waterval smelter product, has an uncertainty that is worth ~R2 103 000 in its daily Pt grade. This estimated figure shows that the quality of measurements do not only affect the accuracy of metal accounting, but can have considerable implications if not quantified and managed. The daily uncertainties were estimated using Kriging and bootstrapped to obtain estimates for the monthly uncertainties. Distributions were fitted using MLE on the distribution fitting tool of the JMP6.0 programme and goodness of fit tests were performed. The data were fitted with normal and beta distributions, and there was a notable decrease in the skewness from the daily to the monthly data. The reconciliation of the data was performed using the Maximum Likelihood and comparing that with the widely used Least Squares. The Maximum Likelihood and Least Squares adjustments were performed on simulated data in order to conduct a test of accuracy and to determine the extent of error reduction after the reconciliation exercise. The test showed that the two methods had comparable accuracies and error reduction capabilities. However, it was shown that modelling of uncertainties with the unbounded normal distribution does lead to the estimation of adjustments so large that negative adjusted values are the result. The benefit of modelling the uncertainties with a bounded distribution, which is the beta distribution in this case, is that the possibility of obtaining negative adjusted values is annihilated. ML-adjusted values (beta) will always be non-negative, therefore feasible. In a further comparison of the ML(bounded model) and the LS methods in the material balancing of the Waterval smelter complex, it was found that for all those streams whose uncertainties were modelled with a beta distribution, i.e. those whose distribution possessed some degree of skewness, the ML adjustments were significantly smaller than the LS counterparts It is therefore concluded that the Maximum Likelihood (bounded models) is a rigorous alternative method of data reconciliation to the LS method with the benefits of; -- Better estimates due to the fact that the nature of the data (distribution) is not assumed, but determined through distribution fitting and parameter estimation -- Adjusted values can never be negative due to the bounded nature of the distribution The novel contributions made in this thesis are as follows; -- The Maximum Likelihood method was for the first time employed in the material balancing of non-normally distributed data and compared with the well-known Least Squares method -- This was an original integration of geostatistical methods with data reconciliation to quantify and predict measurement uncertainties. -- For the first time, measurement uncertainties were modeled with a distribution that was non-normal and bounded in nature, leading to smaller adjustments<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die groeiende behoefte aan rekeningkundige akkuraatheid, en om presisie te verbeter, en te standardiseer op algemeen aanvaarde meetmetodes in die mynbou en prosesseringsnywerhede, het gelei tot die samwewerking van 'n aantal van organisasies onder die AMIRA International sambreel, met die doel om bogenoemde behoeftes aan te spreek. As deel van hierdie onderneming, het Anglo Platinum onderneem om 'n projek op die materiaal balansering rondom sy grootste smelter, die Waterval smelter. Die primêre doel van die projek was om 'n statistiese materiaal balans rondom die Waterval smelter uit te voer deur gebruik te maak van die sogenaamde maksimum waarskynlikheid metode met betrekking tot platinum, rodium, nikkel, swawel en chroom (iii) oxied. Pt, Rh en Ni was gekies vir hul beduidende bydrae tot die maatskappy se winsmarge, terwyl S ingesluit was weens sy belangrike omgewingsimpak. Cr2O3 was ingesluit weens sy impak op die smelting van Platinum groep minerale. Die doelstelling was bereik deur die uitvoering van 'n reeks van statistiese berekeninge. Hierdie sluit in: die kwantifisering van die totale en analitiese variansies, opsporing van uitskieters, beraming en modellering van daaglikse en maandelikse metingsvariansies, parameter beraming en data rekonsiliasie. Vergelykings was getref tussen die maksimum waarskynlikheid en kleinste kwadrate metodes. Totale onsekerhede of variansies geassosieer met die daaglikse grade was bepaal deur ’n Variografiese studie. Die beraamde Pt standaard afwykings was binne 10% relatief tot die onderskeie gemiddelde grade met sommige uitsonderings. Die totale onsekerhede was onderverdeel in hul onderskeie komponente deur bepaling van die ontledingsvariansies van duplikate. Die uitslae toon dat die monsternemings komponente van die totale onsekerheid oor die algemeen groter was as hul bypassende analitiese variansies. WCM, ‘n platinum-ryke Waterval Smelter produk, het 'n onsekerheid in die orde van ~twee miljoen rand in sy daagliks Pt graad. Hierdie beraamde waarde toon dat die kwaliteit van metings nie alleen die akkuraatheid van metaal rekeningkunde affekteer nie, maar aansienlike finansiële implikasies het indien nie die nie gekwantifiseer en bestuur word nie. Die daagliks onsekerhede was beraam deur gebruik te maak van “Kriging” en “Bootstrap” metodes om die maandelikse onsekerhede te beraam. Verspreidings was gepas deur gebruik te maak van hoogste waarskynlikheid beraming passings en goedheid–van-pas toetse was uitgevoer. Die data was gepas met Normaal en Beta verspreidings, en daar was 'n opmerklike vermindering in die skeefheid van die daaglikse tot die maandeliks data. Die rekonsiliasies van die massabalans data was uitgevoer deur die gebruik die maksimum waarskynlikheid metodes en vergelyk daardie met die algemeen gebruikde kleinste kwadrate metode. Die maksimum waarskynlikheid (ML) en kleinste kwadrate (LS) aanpassings was uitgevoer op gesimuleerde data ten einde die akkuraatheid te toets en om die mate van fout vermindering na die rekonsiliasie te bepaal. Die toets getoon dat die twee metodes het vergelykbare akkuraathede en foutverminderingsvermoëns. Dit was egter getoon dat modellering van die onsekerhede met die onbegrensde Normaal verdeling lei tot die beraming van aanpassings wat so groot is dat negatiewe verstelde waardes kan onstaan na rekosniliasie. Die voordeel om onsekerhede met 'n begrensde distribusie te modelleer, soos die beta distribusie in hierdie geval, is dat die moontlikheid om negatiewe verstelde waardes te verkry uitgelsuit word. ML-verstelde waardes (met die Beta distribusie funksie) sal altyd nie-negatief wees, en om hierdie rede uitvoerbaar. In 'n verdere vergelyking van die ML (begrensd) en die LS metodes in die materiaal balansering van die waterval smelter kompleks, is dit gevind dat vir almal daardie strome waarvan die onserkerhede gesimuleer was met 'n Beta distribusie, dus daardie strome waarvan die onsekerheidsdistribusie ‘n mate van skeefheid toon, die ML verstellings altyd beduidend kleiner was as die ooreenkomstige LS verstellings. Vervolgens word die Maksimum Waarskynlikheid metode (met begrensde modelle) gesien as 'n beter alternatiewe metode van data rekosiliasie in vergelyking met die kleinste kwadrate metode met die voordele van: • Beter beramings te danke aan die feit dat die aard van die onsekerheidsdistribusie nie aangeneem word nie, maar bepaal is deur die distribusie te pas en deur van parameter beraming gebruik te maak. • Die aangepaste waardes kan nooit negatief wees te danke aan die begrensde aard van die verdeling. Die volgende oorspronklike bydraes is gelewer in hierdie verhandeling: • Die Maksimum Waarskynlikheid metode was vir die eerste keer geëvalueer vir massa balans rekonsiliasie van nie-Normaal verspreide data en vergelyk met die bekendde kleinste kwadrate metode. • Dit is die eerste keer geostatistiese metodes geïntegreer is met data rekonsiliasie om onsekerhede te beraam waarbinne verstellings gemaak word. • Vir die eerste keer, is meetonsekerhede gemoddelleer met 'n distribusie wat nie- Normaal en begrensd van aard is, wat lei tot kleiner en meer realistiese verstellings.

Data validation and reconciliation techniques have been extensively used in the process industry to improve the data accuracy. These techniques exploit the redundancy in the measurements in order to obtain a set of adjusted measurements that satisfy the plant model. Nevertheless, not many applications deal with closed cycles with complex connectivity and recycle loops, as in absorption refrigeration cycles. This thesis proposes a methodology for the steady-state data validation of absorption refrigeration systems. This methodology includes the identification of steady-state, resolution of the data reconciliation and parameter estimation problems and the detection and elimination of gross errors. The methodology developed through this thesis will be useful for generating a set of coherent measurements and operation parameters of an absorption chiller for downstream applications: performance calculation, development of empirical models, optimisation, etc. The methodology is demonstrated using experimental data of different types of absorption refrigeration systems with different levels of redundancy.<br>Los procedimientos de validación y reconciliación de datos se han utilizado en la industria de procesos para mejorar la precisión de los datos. Estos procedimientos aprovechan la redundancia enlas mediciones para obtener un conjunto de datos ajustados que satisfacen el modelo de la planta. Sin embargo, no hay muchas aplicaciones que traten con ciclos cerrados, y configuraciones complejas, como los ciclos de refrigeración por absorción. Esta tesis propone una metodología para la validación de datos en estado estacionario de enfriadoras de absorción. Estametodología incluye la identificación del estado estacionario, la resolución de los problemas de reconciliación de datos y estimación de parámetrosy la detección de errores sistemáticos. Esta metodología será útil para generar un conjunto de medidas coherentes para aplicaciones como: cálculo de prestaciones, desarrollo de modelos empíricos, optimización, etc. La metodología es demostrada utilizando datos experimentales de diferentes enfriadoras de absorción, con diferentes niveles de redundancia.

“In an ill-structured domain you cannot, by definition, have a pre-compiled schema in your mind for every circumstance and context you may find ... you must be able to flexibly select and arrange knowledge sources to most efficaciously pursue the needs of a given situation.” [57]<br>In order to interact and collaborate effectively, agents, whether human or software, must be able to communicate through common understandings and compatible conceptualisations. Ontological differences that occur either from pre-existing assumptions or as side-effects of the process of specification are a fundamental obstacle that must be overcome before communication can occur. Similarly, the integration of information from heterogeneous sources is an unsolved problem. Efforts have been made to assist integration, through both methods and mechanisms, but automated integration remains an unachieved goal. Communication and information integration are problems of meaning and interaction, or semantic interoperability. This thesis contributes to the study of semantic interoperability by identifying, developing and evaluating three approaches to the integration of information. These approaches have in common that they are lightweight in nature, pragmatic in philosophy and general in application.<br>The first work presented is an effort to integrate a massive, formal ontology and knowledge-base with semi-structured, informal heterogeneous information sources via a heuristic-driven, adaptable information agent. The goal of the work was to demonstrate a process by which task-specific knowledge can be identified and incorporated into the massive knowledge-base in such a way that it can be generally re-used. The practical outcome of this effort was a framework that illustrates a feasible approach to providing the massive knowledge-base with an ontologically-sound mechanism for automatically generating task-specific information agents to dynamically retrieve information from semi-structured information sources without requiring machine-readable meta-data.<br>The second work presented is based on reviving a previously published and neglected algorithm for inferring semantic correspondences between fields of tables from heterogeneous information sources. An adapted form of the algorithm is presented and evaluated on relatively simple and consistent data collected from web services in order to verify the original results, and then on poorly-structured and messy data collected from web sites in order to explore the limits of the algorithm. The results are presented via standard measures and are accompanied by detailed discussions on the nature of the data encountered and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the algorithm and the ways in which it complements other approaches that have been proposed.<br>Acknowledging the cost and difficulty of integrating semantically incompatible software systems and information sources, the third work presented is a proposal and a working prototype for a web site to facilitate the resolving of semantic incompatibilities between software systems prior to deployment, based on the commonly-accepted software engineering principle that the cost of correcting faults increases exponentially as projects progress from phase to phase, with post-deployment corrections being significantly more costly than those performed earlier in a project’s life. The barriers to collaboration in software development are identified and steps taken to overcome them. The system presented draws on the recent collaborative successes of social and collaborative on-line projects such as SourceForge, Del.icio.us, digg and Wikipedia and a variety of techniques for ontology reconciliation to provide an environment in which data definitions can be shared, browsed and compared, with recommendations automatically presented to encourage developers to adopt data definitions compatible with previously developed systems.<br>In addition to the experimental works presented, this thesis contributes reflections on the origins of semantic incompatibility with a particular focus on interaction between software systems, and between software systems and their users, as well as detailed analysis of the existing body of research into methods and techniques for overcoming these problems.

Temporal hierarchies are being increasingly used for forecasting purposes over the past years. They have been shown to produce accurate and coherent forecasts which are beneficial for enterprises. Reconciling forecasts of different aggregation levels to achieve coherence, supports aligned decisions between different organizational levels. Current research focuses on analytical reconciliation methods which have shown to be more beneficial than conventional Bottom-Up and Top-Down approaches. However, such methods rely on a number of assumptions, primarily due to estimation requirements. This work proposes a novel approach for forecasting with temporal hierarchies. It results in a non-linear reconciliation method inspired by the architecture of an encoder-decoder deep neural network. A trainable encoder combines base forecasts into the reconciled bottom level predictions, while a fixed, non-trainable decoder reconstructs the forecasts across all hierarchical levels. Two different reconciliation architectures are presented based on different optimization procedures. They both ensure coherence. This thesis suggests two alternative usages for the reconcilers. One, to replace analytical expressions and reconcile base forecasts produced by models such as Exponential Smoothing. Second, as a part of a deep neural architecture DTH-28, which mimics the general framework for forecasting with temporal hierarchies. The proposed framework outperforms established benchmarks on real data. Furthermore, this work discusses the general effect of coherence on forecast accuracy. Coherence affects accuracy in two ways. One as a regularizer and second as a stepwise function. Exploiting each usage offers different accuracy benefits.

On peut considérer que le démarrage du processus de démocratisation en Namibie a lieu en 1989 et au Congo Brazzaville en 1990 : pour le premier il s’agit, de la libération du joug sud-africain avec l’accession à l’indépendance et la mise en place d’un régime démocratique, pour le second la chute d’un régime de parti unique et l’instauration du multipartisme puis de la démocratie. Cette phase de bouleversement a été rendue possible par la mobilisation des forces sociales, notamment les organisations syndicales.La recherche consiste ici à considérer le rôle de ces forces sociales dans ce processus et à s’interroger sur leur nature, en particulier pour déterminer si elles constituent une société civile. Ainsi les Eglises jouent un rôle déterminant, et ce dans les deux pays. Au moment de l’ouverture démocratique, les associations se multiplient. La mise en place des premières institutions est marquée par une course au pouvoir, et se révèle la plus critique pour la société civile, dont le positionnement même est mis à mal ; les organisations sont soumises à rude épreuve. Certains meneurs des mouvements de contestations se retrouvent à la tête de partis politiques, dans un environnement à haut risque. Les rivalités ethniques ou tribales et le régionalisme s’enracinent dans la conscience populaire.Si la Namibie va poursuivre son chemin vers la démocratie, malgré la faiblesse de la société civile et les blessures du passé, le Congo va sombrer d’abord dans une guerre civile avant de chercher le chemin de la paix. La société civile anéantie au moment du conflit revient sur le devant de la scène à travers le Conseil œcuménique des Eglises mais échoue à consolider la démocratie<br>One can acknowledge that the democratisation process in Namibia started in 1989 and in Congo Brazzaville in 1990: for the first one it meant freeing itself from the South African rule as the country conquered its independence and established a democratic regime, for the second one, it meant the fall of a one-party rule and installing a multiparty system in a move to democracy. This upheaval phase was made possible through social forces mobilisation, especially trade unions. Our research consists in looking into the role played by these social forces in the process and in questioning their nature, particularly in order to determine whether they form some civil society. In both countries, churches are instrumental in the process. When democracy is introduced, associations flourish. As the first institutions are set, a struggle for power is engaged that soon proves to be critical for civil society, as even their position is challenged ; organisations are under deep stress. Some leaders of these social movements join or head political parties, in a high-risk context. Ethnic or tribal rivalries, as well as regionalism roots in the people's consciousness. If Namibia continues its path to democracy, despite the weakness of civil society and the wounds from the past, the Congo will first fall into civil war before searching for a way towards peace. Civil society, which has collapsed during the conflict, comes back to front stage through the Ecumenical Council of Churches but fails to consolidate democracy

Employing decolonized, Indigenous research methods, the author considers Métis Beadwork Practice through the analytical lens of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and establishes the practice as a holistic Indigenous Legal Pedagogy for knowledge creation and mobilization in legal education. The author agrees with Drs. Friedland and Napoleon who suggest that a significant challenge in and to Indigenous legal research is that such research occupies a space of “deep absence,” with the starting line moved back as a consequence of colonialism. Building on the work of Dr. Shawn Wilson, the author espouses an Indigenous Research Paradigm which requires a prioritization of the relationship to the ideas and making space for non-linear logic systems and Indigenous ways of knowing in scholarly research. In her work, the author prioritizes synthesis over deconstruction on the belief that deconstructing relationships to ideas for the purpose of analyzing them would have the effect of damaging the cognitive and emotional relationships developed through the research ceremony. While the work embodies the four essential elements of autoethnography, the author argues that the work of Indigenous scholars speaking in their own voices is sui generis in nature. She argues that Indigenous scholars who employ storytelling and other culturally-relevant knowledge mobilization practices are engaging a distinct Indigenous Research Method. This work ultimately progresses in a non-linear fashion and incorporates extra-intellectual knowledge including poetry, music, and photography. The use of multiple fonts and other formatting devices including right justification are used to underline shifts in voice and perspective throughout the work. These pedagogical choices valourize the ways of knowing of Indigenous women and honour the author’s Métis worldview, including her understanding that all things are interrelated. The author examines, and ultimately eschews, notions of neutral objectivity in research as colonial constructs that undermine Indigenous Knowledge Systems and contribute to the ongoing colonization of Indigenous peoples in post-secondary education. Following an introduction to the legal and social history of Forced Assimilative Education of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, the author reviews recent research into ongoing colonialism, racism, and ethno-stress experienced by Indigenous Learners in post-secondary education. The ii author subsequently explores the specific concern of the subjugation and erasure of Indigenous women’s knowledge in academia. She conducts a review of existing literature in the sphere of Feminist Legal Theory, examining and ultimately rejecting intersectionality and conceptualizations of sisterhood as possible remedies to discrimination faced by Indigenous women legal scholars. She argues that the lived experience of Indigenous women is situated not at an intersection, but rather in the centre of a colonialism collision. As a consequence, the author argues that existing Feminist Legal Theory does not create adequate space for Indigenous difference, experiences, or worldviews. Offering insight into legal education, legal ethics, and professionalization processes, the author also explores questions of lived experience of Indigenous lawyers beyond the legal academy. She argues that learning the language of law is but the first element in a complex professionalization process that engages structures of patriarchal hierarchy in addition to the other forces, including colonialism and racism, that shape the legal profession. She further argues that, for Indigenous peoples, learning to speak the linear, official language of legal education represents a collision of even more complex systems of dominance, with the regulated approach to learning and problem-solving standing in direct opposition to Indigenous ways of knowing. Consequently, Indigenous law Learners frequently experience an intellectual rupture when engaging in the professional assimilation process. The author offers an overview of Calls to Action 27, 28, 42, and 50 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and an introductory environmental scan of ongoing efforts to decolonize and indigenize law schools including land-based learning and the development of Indigenous Course Requirements (ICRs). The author subsequently considers the process of decolonizing the legal academy through the analytical lenses of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Therapeutic Jurisprudence+. She ultimately positions the act of decolonizing legal education as an act grounded in decolonial love with the potential for healing individuals and communities struggling with ongoing colonialism and racism in the academy. Building on the work of the late Professor Patricia Monture-Angus and contemporary Indigenous legal scholars including Drs. Tracey Lindberg, Darcy Lindberg, Val Napoleon, and John Burrows, the author considers possibilities for reimaging legal education through the development and use of Indigenous Legal Pedagogies. The author argues that Beadwork Practice holds a distinctive language of possibility as an Indigenous Legal Pedagogical practice as a result of deeply entrenched links between beads and law. The author explores the social and legal history of beads as a tool for legal knowledge production and mobilization in the context of wampum belts and beyond, including the use of Métis beadwork as a mnemonic device to facilitate intergenerational knowledge transfer of stories and songs that carry law. Further, she examines colonial law and policy that served to undermine the legal value of beads, and canvases emerging trends in the revitalization of community beadwork practice. Finally, the author positions Beadwork Practice as a holistic Indigenous Legal Pedagogy to support not only the revitalization of Indigenous Legal Orders and the development of cross-cultural competency as required under Calls to Action 27 and 28, but also therapeutic objectives of individual and community healing.

论文对中国的刑事和解制度进行了实证研究。刑事和解被官方视为通过加害方同受害方自愿达成和解促进社会和谐，并通过赋予案件当事人解决案件的权力实现“案结事了。这一程序也被认为弥补了以对抗制为基础的普通刑事司法程序的所谓的不足。<br>基于2008年和2010年在中国三个地区进行的案卷调查和访谈，论文指出这项制度严重侵害犯罪嫌疑人、被告人及被害人（统称“当事人）的权利并损害公平正义。虽然案卷显示刑事和解遵循为其设计的程序及确立的原则并取得了良好效果，访谈却揭示了完全相反的情况。访谈显示，自愿性，这一被视为刑事和解的主要优势的原则，遭到严重破坏。实践中，官员们主导着刑事和解全过程。此外，赔偿成为了这一程序的唯一焦点，造成其对经济上处于弱势地位的犯罪嫌疑人或被告人的不公平。研究发现在一些案件中，刑事和解程序结束后，矛盾依然存在甚至恶化了。<br>这些发现令刑事和解呈现出中国刑事司法制度的三个根本性问题。首先，保护当事人权利的法律规则常常被执行这些规则的法官或检察官忽视并取而代之“潜规则。 这些“潜规则主要是由政治目标驱动的绩效考核标准和来自诸如政法委的其他组织的干预而形成。此外，中国的刑事司法程序反映了专制主义、家长制及教育型（以思想改造为目的）的刑事司法体制，而当事人的权利被视为次于这一政治目的。最后，国家在保护当事人获得刑事附带民事诉讼赔偿的权利方面亦未承担应负的责任。<br>论文指出，依靠和解来解决刑事案件会令这些已影响普通刑事司法程序的问题更加严重，因为这一程序旨在弱化对程序性权利的保障及削弱刑事司法程序的对抗性。因此，刑事和解制度或是中国正逐渐远离其领导者曾明确确立的法治目标的一个信号。<br>This thesis examines the practice of ‘criminal reconciliation’ (xingshi hejie) in the People’s Republic of China by means of empirical research. ‘Criminal reconciliation’ is officially understood as a mechanism to promote a ‘harmonious society’ (hexie shehui) through voluntary offender-victim reconciliation and bringing ‘closure’ (an jie shi liao) to criminal case in a way that empowers the parties. It has been designed as a mechanism that overcomes perceived deficiencies of the ordinary, in principle adversarial criminal justice process.<br>Based on case examples and interviews conducted in three localities in mainland China in 2008 and 2010, however, this thesis argues that this mechanism may infringe the rights of suspects and defendants as well as of alleged victims (summarily referred to as ‘the parties’) in criminal cases, and that it may lead to injustice. While the case files accessed for the purpose of this research purport to document a well-functioning process of criminal reconciliation in accordance with the rules and principles supposed to govern it, interviews provide a drastically different picture. In practice, the criminal justice process was not characterized by the principle of voluntariness supposed to be one of its main advantages; rather, the officials in charge dominated the process. In addition, the entire process exclusively focused on compensation, so it was potentially unfair to economically weak suspects and defendants. It was also found in some cases that the conflict between the parties still existed or had worsened at the end of the criminal reconciliation programmes.<br>On the basis of these findings, it is argued that criminal reconciliation throws light on fundamental problems with the wider criminal justice system. First, officials in the criminal justice system, routinely ignore certain legal rules protecting the parties’ rights and to some extent replace these rules with ‘hidden rules’ (qian guize), whose content is largely shaped by politically driven performance assessment criteria, as well as in some cases by intervention from other entities such the Political-Legal Committee. Second, the criminal proceedings in China reflect an authoritarian, paternalistic and educational (thought-reform-based) approach to criminal justice; the parties’ rights are regarded as secondary to this political end. Third, the State does not take sufficient responsibility to protect the victim’s right to get compensation in the civil litigation collateral to criminal proceedings.<br>In conclusion, this thesis argues that resolving criminal cases through ‘criminal reconciliation’ may aggravate the problems already affecting the ordinary criminal justice process, because it is a mechanism designed to weaken procedural rights protections, and eliminate the adversarial character of the criminal justice process. Thus the promotion of ‘criminal reconciliation’ may be one of several signs that China is deviating from the path of rule of law development that was once the leadership’s clearly stated goal.<br>Detailed summary in vernacular field only.<br>Detailed summary in vernacular field only.<br>Detailed summary in vernacular field only.<br>Detailed summary in vernacular field only.<br>Jiang, Jue.<br>"December 2012."<br>Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.<br>Abstract and appendixes also in Chinese.<br>Chapter Chapter I: --- The Criminal Reconciliation System (xingshi hejie) In China --- p.1<br>Chapter 1.1 --- The idea of ‘criminal reconciliation’ (xingshi hejie) --- p.4<br>Chapter 1.2 --- The implementation of criminal reconciliation --- p.15<br>Chapter 1.2.1 --- The procedure and scope of application of criminal reconciliation --- p.16<br>Chapter 1.2.2 --- Criminal reconciliation and the normal criminal procedure --- p.24<br>Chapter 1.2.3 --- The involvement of lawyers in criminal reconciliation processes --- p.27<br>Chapter 1.2.4 --- Different criminal reconciliation practices nationwide --- p.29<br>Chapter 1.3 --- Further reported practices in criminal reconciliation --- p.40<br>Chapter 1.3.1 --- Practice of criminal reconciliation outside its stipulated scope --- p.42<br>Chapter 1.3.2 --- Cooperation among authorities: ‘duijie’ and ‘liandong’ mechanisms --- p.43<br>Chapter 1.3.3 --- Wider involvement of participants in criminal reconciliation --- p.46<br>Chapter 1.4 --- Summary --- p.48<br>Chapter Chapter II: --- The Scholarly Debate Around Criminal Reconciliation --- p.51<br>Chapter 2.1 --- Scholarly debates of criminal reconciliation practices --- p.52<br>Chapter 2.1.1 --- Positive appraisals --- p.52<br>Chapter 2.1.2 --- Criticisms --- p.60<br>Chapter 2.1.3 --- The debate concerning uses of criminal reconciliation outside its stipulated scope --- p.66<br>Chapter 2.1.4 --- The debate concerning lawyers’ role in criminal reconciliation processes --- p.68<br>Chapter 2.2 --- Scholarly debates of justifications for criminal reconciliation --- p.70<br>Chapter 2.2.1 --- Differences between criminal reconciliation and restorative justice --- p.72<br>Chapter 2.2.2 --- A critique of the theory of ‘private cooperation’ (sili hezuo) --- p.77<br>Chapter 2.2.3 --- A critique of the theory of ‘third realm’ (di san lingyu) --- p.79<br>Chapter 2.2.4 --- A critique of the theory of ‘civil mediation’ --- p.88<br>Chapter 2.3 --- Summary --- p.89<br>Chapter Chapter III: --- Criminal Reconciliation In Practice: Evidence From Official Case Files --- p.91<br>Chapter 3.1 --- The motivation for the empirical study --- p.91<br>Chapter 3.1.1 --- The deficiencies of doctrinal research --- p.91<br>Chapter 3.1.2 --- Existing empirical studies: findings and remaining concerns --- p.94<br>Chapter 3.2 --- An overview of criminal reconciliation practices in the three fieldwork locations --- p.100<br>Chapter 3.2.1 --- Selection of cases --- p.101<br>Chapter 3.2.2 --- The basic statistical facts --- p.103<br>Chapter 3.2.3 --- The cases eligible for criminal reconciliation --- p.105<br>Chapter 3.2.4 --- The suspects/defendants eligible for criminal reconciliation --- p.106<br>Chapter 3.2.5 --- The procedure of criminal reconciliation and follow-up programmes --- p.-106<br>Chapter 3.2.6 --- Duration of criminal reconciliation programmes --- p.127<br>Chapter 3.3 --- An analysis of the practice of criminal reconciliation relying on the evidence from official case files --- p.138<br>Chapter 3.3.1 --- The procedure of criminal reconciliation in practice --- p.138<br>Chapter 3.3.2 --- Achievements and failures of the official goals in practice --- p.141<br>Chapter 3.3.3 --- Questioning the official design of the criminal reconciliation procedure --- p.143<br>Chapter 3.3.4 --- Conflicting official goals --- p.145<br>Chapter Chapter IV: --- The Process Of Criminal Reconciliation Programmes: Evidence From Interviews --- p.147<br>Chapter 4.1 --- The initiation stage --- p.148<br>Chapter 4.1.1 --- Violations of eligibility requirements --- p.148<br>Chapter 4.1.2 --- No presumption of innocence --- p.155<br>Chapter 4.1.3 --- Violations of the principle of voluntariness --- p.156<br>Chapter 4.2 --- The criminal reconciliation meeting --- p.162<br>Chapter 4.2.1 --- Appropriate communication between the parties in some reconciliation meetings --- p.163<br>Chapter 4.2.2 --- Focus on bargaining over compensation --- p.166<br>Chapter 4.2.3 --- Private agreement reached prior to the formal reconciliation meeting --- p.-171<br>Chapter 4.2.4 --- Pressures on the parties to reach agreements --- p.172<br>Chapter 4.2.5 --- Compensation as the main content of criminal reconciliation agreements --- p.173<br>Chapter 4.2.6 --- Clauses added by officials into criminal reconciliation agreements --- p.174<br>Chapter 4.3 --- Factors affecting official decisions in criminal reconciliation processes --- p.175<br>Chapter 4.3.1 --- Focus on fulfillment of compensation obligations --- p.175<br>Chapter 4.3.2 --- The lack of judicial independence --- p.179<br>Chapter 4.4 --- Insights into follow-up programmes --- p.182<br>Chapter 4.4.1 --- Limited substantiation of findings in case file examination --- p.182<br>Chapter 4.4.2 --- The effects and problems of the follow-up programmes --- p.185<br>Chapter 4.4.3 --- The potential failure of the official aim of correcting the suspect/defendant in criminal reconciliation cases without follow-up programmes --- p.186<br>Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.187<br>Chapter Chapter V: --- The Participants Of Criminal Reconciliation Programmes: Evidence From Interviews --- p.191<br>Chapter 5.1 --- Official involvement in criminal reconciliation programmes --- p.191<br>Chapter 5.1.1 --- Officials’ leading and dominant role --- p.192<br>Chapter 5.1.2 --- Officials’ positive comments on criminal reconciliation --- p.200<br>Chapter 5.1.3 --- Officials’ negative comments on criminal reconciliation --- p.203<br>Chapter 5.1.4 --- Officials’ expressed concerns about criminal reconciliation --- p.205<br>Chapter 5.1.5 --- Difficulties faced by officials in charge of criminal reconciliation --- p.208<br>Chapter 5.2 --- The parties participating in criminal reconciliation programmes --- p.213<br>Chapter 5.2.1 --- The victim’s participation under coercion --- p.213<br>Chapter 5.2.2 --- No presumption of innocence --- p.218<br>Chapter 5.2.3 --- Active roles for parties only in private reconciliation --- p.222<br>Chapter 5.2.4 --- The parties’ comments on criminal reconciliation --- p.225<br>Chapter 5.2.5 --- The parties’ difficulties in criminal reconciliation programmes --- p.229<br>Chapter 5.3 --- The lawyers as actors (participants) in criminal reconciliation cases --- p.232<br>Chapter 5.3.1 --- Lawyers’ role as mediators between officials and the parties --- p.232<br>Chapter 5.3.2 --- Some lawyers’ comments on criminal reconciliation --- p.235<br>Chapter 5.4 --- The role of other participants in criminal reconciliation programmes --- p.237<br>Chapter 5.4.1 --- Serving officials’ purposes --- p.238<br>Chapter 5.4.2 --- Other participants’ comments on criminal reconciliation --- p.239<br>Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.241<br>Chapter Chapter VI: --- Understanding Wider Problems in the Criminal Justice System through the Lens of Criminal Reconciliation --- p.245<br>Chapter 6.1 --- Contradictory rules and ‘hidden rules’ (qian guize) --- p.246<br>Chapter 6.1.1 --- The prevalence of ‘hidden rules’ and ‘parallel systems’ --- p.247<br>Chapter 6.1.2 --- Internal and external pressures as the reason for ‘hidden rules’ and ‘parallel systems’ --- p.248<br>Chapter 6.1.3 --- Preliminary conclusions --- p.261<br>Chapter 6.2 --- Criminal justice through ‘correction’ (jiaozheng) and ‘thought reform’ (sixiang gaizao) --- p.263<br>Chapter 6.2.1 --- The concept of ‘correction’ in the wider criminal process --- p.264<br>Chapter 6.2.2 --- The ideology of ‘thought reform’ underlying ‘correction’ --- p.271<br>Chapter 6.2.3 --- A critique of thought reform --- p.274<br>Chapter 6.2.4 --- Preliminary conclusions --- p.277<br>Chapter 6.3 --- The State’s failure to enforce victims’ claims to compensation through civil litigation --- p.278<br>Chapter 6.3.1 --- The reason leading to the problem with enforceability --- p.280<br>Chapter 6.3.2 --- Preliminary conclusions --- p.282<br>Chapter Chapter VII: --- Conclusion --- p.283<br>Chapter Appendix I --- Sentencing Normalization Form of the Criminal Division of B District People’s Court [in Xi’an] --- p.288<br>Chapter Appendix II --- Article 277-279 of The Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China (2012 Revision) --- p.291<br>Chapter Appendix III --- Chapter 21of Supreme People’s Court Judicial Interpretation on Some Issues Concerning the Implementation of the Criminal Procedure Law (Draft Issued to Solicit Opinions) --- p.293<br>Chapter Appendix IV --- Opinions of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on the Handling of Minor Criminal Cases When the Parties Have Reached Reconciliation --- p.302<br>Chapter Appendix V --- Opinions of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Implementing the Criminal Policy of Combining Severity with Leniency in Procuratorial work --- p.314<br>Chapter Appendix VI --- Opinions of the Supreme People’s Court on Implementing the Criminal Policy of Combining Severity with Leniency --- p.335<br>Bibliography --- p.368

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>Between 1920 and 1940, South Carolina saw major changes in its education system both in response to low literacy rates in the state and as part of a national trend in education reform. The period also saw the emergence of one history textbook as the dominant history text for middle school students across the state. William Gilmore Simms and his granddaughter, Mary C. Simms Oliphant, the authors of this history text, had influence over middle school-aged children’s history education for over a century with their books being used in South Carolina schools in some capacity from around 1840 until 1985. These books exhibit strong influence from the Lost Cause Movement, as well as reconciliationist and white supremacist ideology, to present a more pro-southern point of view of the Civil War. Through heroification—the remaking of historical figures into heroes despite their flaws—revision/omission, and both implicit and explicit racism, Simms and Simms-Oliphant weaved narratives that twisted the facts of the Civil War era. These narratives implanted in the seventh and eighth grade students’ minds who typically read the textbooks’ false ideas about the events and people involved in the war. While research on history textbooks generally is widespread, there have been no in-depth studies of the influence of Simms and Simms-Oliphant on South Carolina’s education system. In the 1920s and 1930s, when students across the country on average completed eight to nine years of school, Simms’ and Simms-Oliphant’s books would have been the last history book many of those students would have read before ending their schooling. This gave these two authors immense power to influence public opinion in South Carolina. Ultimately, it appears that education is the primary tool through which South Carolina, and other southern states, have institutionalized Lost Cause, reconciliationist, and white supremacist narratives of the Civil War era that continue to influence public opinion in South Carolina and across the South. John Kaufman-McKivigan, Ph.D., Chair

Magnetic field lines within toroidal magnetic confinement systems can be described as orbits of one-and-a-half-degree-of-freedom Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems. In axisymmetric devices such as ideal tokamaks in equilibrium, all field lines lie within a smoothly nested set of invariant tori (magnetic surfaces) foliating the plasma volume, but this integrability is lost within non-axisymmetric devices such as stellarators. That is, not all field lines lie within magnetic surfaces and thus they cannot be described by conventional action-angle coordinates. However, according to the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theorem, some invariant tori, covered ergodically by quasiperiodic orbits, survive perturbation away from integrability. Furthermore, by the Poincare-Birkhoff theorem, two kinds of periodic orbits (closed field lines), called the action-minimax and action-minimising orbits, survive perturbation, and they can be incorporated into families of pseudo-orbits that provide best approximations to invariant tori within nonintegrable systems. The three candidates for such almost-invariant tori discussed in this thesis are quadratic-flux-minimising (QFMin) tori, which minimise the integral of the square of the action gradient over the poloidal and toroidal angles, action-gradient-minimising (AGMin) tori, which minimise the square of the action gradient over each periodic pseudo-orbit, and ghost tori, which join the action-minimax and action-minimising orbits via an action-gradient flow. Although none of these almost-invariant tori has any direct physical interpretation, it has been shown by Hudson and Breslau (Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 095001 (2008)) that ghost tori are in very close correspondence with temperature isotherms. There is also a very close relationship between QFMin, AGMin and ghost tori, which suggests that they could be made equivalent to each other or ""reconciled"" by making an appropriate coordinate transformation. By using the standard map as a discrete-time model for magnetic field lines via the kicked rotor, it is demonstrated using Mathematica that QFMin and ghost tori can be reconciled with each other up to at least k = 1.0 for all rational rotational transforms with denominator less than or equal to 13, where k denotes the nonlinearity parameter of the standard map. This is accomplished by expanding the coordinate transformation as a Fourier series and formulating a variational principle, which is used to numerically construct a set of almost-invariant curves that have rotational transforms equal to continued-fraction convergents of two minus the golden mean (i.e., 0.381966...). By calculating the flux between the curves, it is shown via a preliminary investigation that the reconciled QFMin-ghost tori are consistent with Greene's residue criterion and the existence of KAM tori within the standard map for k < 0.971635..., which is the value at which the last KAM curves are destroyed. It is also shown via the construction of a rigidity principle that the reconciled QFMin-ghost tori have also been reconciled with AGMin tori, by appealing to the fact that discrete-time dynamical systems are merely just Poincare sections of continuous-time dynamical systems, for which the rigidity principle was formulated. This provides an important first step towards constructing an almost-straight-field-line coordinate system for magnetic islands.

This research seeks to establish a methodology by which transitional justice strategies ought to be incorporated within the International Criminal Court (ICC) framework. The study is based on the situation in Uganda as an example of the state that has a situation and cases before the ICC. The aim of the thesis was achieved through the adoption of a combination of theoretical legal research and the non -doctrinal approaches. This research establishes that the primary responsibility to prosecute persons suspected of violating international law lies with the states. The importance of the concept of individual criminal responsibility, the idea that every person suspected of committing the most serious offences must be held accountable regardless of status. The principle of individual criminal responsibility is further developed with the creation of the ICC. This research clarifies that there are limitations in terms of what prosecutions can achieve during transitional periods; further, that trials in the ICC and national courts can be undertaken together with proceedings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions or indigenous mechasims. Such an approach will allow for confines of prosecutions to be addressed. Despite the existence of principles and institutional framework that are intended to ensure individuals are held accountable for the most serious offences of international concern, the majority of individuals are not held accountable. In order for the ICC to operate effectively it would need to seek to go beyond deterrence and retribution. This would require post – conflict states to devise transitional arrangements that compel with the ICC structure. Thus the research recommends that it would be better for judicial and non- judicial measures to be adopted in states that have cases before the ICC. Particularly Uganda must adopt the mato oput method formally as a tool to address the past human rights abuses in Uganda. All persons regardless of whether they have been granted amnesty or not must be held accountable under the mato oput measures. This implies all persons with exception to those that the ICC has issued the warrants of arrest against.<br>Public, Constitutional and International Law<br>LL. D.

This exploratory qualitative case study provides a description of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation’s practice in addressing deep-rooted conflict, from the Republic of Ireland. This research grew out of practical problems from the field of conflict resolution in Canada, in particular interest-based mediation, in addressing deep-rooted conflict. Using an extended epistemology, data is harvested from praxis to create naturalistic generalizations: guidelines for addressing deep-rooted conflict. The research findings are the result of a synthesis of three data sources: interviews with facilitators from Glencree, textual data, and nearly five months of onsite observation. The main themes derived from the research include: Glencree’s Diverse Practice; Glencree’s Approach to Conflict; Glencree’s Identity; Glencree’s Approach to Deep-Rooted Conflict; and Implementing Glencree’s Approach. This study is intended as a snapshot in time of a set of dynamic and emergent ideas addressing conflict in practice. Through an inductive research design, findings from praxis are related to theory from the field of conflict resolution. In addition, implications for addressing deep-rooted conflict are identified, including Glencree’s emphasis on the need for flexibility as a characteristic for conflict work, and an underlying worldview incorporating aspects of dynamic systems theory and chaos theory.

Countless millions of people in the world have little formally recognizable means for receiving any form of social justice. Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia, is a place that has seen some of the most brutal forms of poverty and violence. Over centuries, ethnic groups have been polarized and used by foreign powers to support their own agendas. In spite of this, the Lao people have consistently managed to recreate the peace and harmony that support their social relationships. Through the development and use of appropriate grassroots conflict resolution structures that do not require a formal court system, and exist outside the political arena, they have been able to resolve conflicts within and across cultural groups. Using in-depth interviews with different ethnic groups in Laos, this research examines traditional conflict resolution processes used in their communities. It identifies and discusses a Lao Conflict Resolution Spectrum, bringing particular attention to the Village Mediation Committee (Neoy Gai Geer). Laos' unique and most recognized conflict resolution ceremonies and rituals,the baci ceremony (soukhouan) and the reconciliation ceremony (soumma), are examined as tools for peacebuilding. These conflict resolution practices are significant in addressing conflict, repairing harm, rebuilding relationships, and restoring harmony to communities in conflict. The systems incorporate principles of effective conflict resolution, including transparency, accountability, inclusivity, flexibility, familiarity, accessibility, support networks, and relationship building. This research discovers how the conflict resolution systems of Laos are embedded in the fabric of grassroots life, and operate independently of the hierarchical structures that dominate governing institutions. It presents a case study of how people from a violent and impoverished past still manage to find ways to address their need for social justice and interconnectedness. The results provide greater understanding and appreciation of the contributions from diverse groups of people who are working daily to establish positive relationships, constructive and appropriate conflict resolution systems, and overall peace in their world. It demonstrates where peace can be found in difficult situations, among people who care little for political agenda and care a great deal about existing harmoniously with the people in their communities in order to mutually raise their quality of life.

This study was undertaken to establish whether rights of personality are known in indigenous law. Since indigenous law differs not only between tribes but is also affected by the degree of exposure to Western values, a micro-study has been done in a semi-rural environment in the Kingdom of Swaziland to establish to what extent own value systems have been influenced or altered when Western legal concepts are utilised. The information, obtained by interviewing a panel of experts, was compared with the available literature. During the process of gathering information, the aims of the research were not only to describe how the legal principles function, but also to take note of those socio-cultural processes which function outside of the law. Rights of personality were studied against a background of the culture and way of life of the peoples concerned. The importance of culture has been acknowledged in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, wherein the recognition and application of indigenous law generally rests on a constitutionally protected right to culture. Whilst the identifiable rights of personality may generally be classified according to specialised legal systems, the separation of rights to good name and to dignity may be inappropriate in the indigenous sphere. Dignity in indigenous legal systems is to be viewed as a comprehensive right of personality, into which should be subsumed the right to good name and reputation in the community. It is such dignity, embracing the ubuntu quality of humanness that is protected as a comprehensive indigenous right of personality. Although the indigenous law of personality is showing some signs of adapting to new developments, there is also proof that the established legal principles and human values are being retained. However, these changes are unique and are neither typically traditional nor Western. The indigenous law of personality, operating in a changing social environment, has to retain its flexibility and adaptability in order to remain ”living” law for the peoples concerned.<br>Jurisprudence<br>LL.D.