6. Congress and the Iran Nuclear Deal Rational Reactor or Design Flaw?

2018 ◽  
pp. 104-121
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Author(s):  
Laurens Sion ◽  
Katja Tuma ◽  
Riccardo Scandariato ◽  
Koen Yskout ◽  
Wouter Joosen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Moffat ◽  
sarah klassen ◽  
Tiago Attorre ◽  
Damian Evans ◽  
Terry Lustig ◽  
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Ground penetrating radar, probing, and excavation were used to create a contour map of the topography of a buried laterite pavement forming the spillway of a large abandoned reservoir at the Angkorian‐period city of Koh Ker in Cambodia. Calculations of the flow velocity of water through the spillway, based on the topography of the laterite surface, demonstrate that this outlet was even less adequate for passing the flow of water from the Stung Rongea catchment than had been estimated previously by Lustig, Klassen, Evans, French, & Moffat (2018). We argue that this design flaw contributed substantially to the failure of the reservoir’s dike, possibly during the first rainy season after construction, which may have contributed to Koh Ker’s remarkably short‐lived tenure as the political center of the Khmer Empire.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesco Paskalev

On 22 April 2015 the European Commission published a review of the current GMO legislation (the GM Review) and tabled a proposal for its amendment (the GM Proposal). The GM Proposal aims to allow to the member states to ban on their territory the use of GMOs authorised under the EU legislation. This is very similar to the possibility for opting out from cultivation of authorised GMOs which was finally adopted earlier this year. While this may look like a new trend, all the more interesting in the context of possible Brexit, Grexit and Danish opt-out from the provisions on Justice and Home Affairs, the present article will focus only on the GM Review, which essentially admits that the existing GMO regime is a failure.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-297
Author(s):  
MARSHA WALKER

To the Editor.— I wish to comment on the article "Single Daily Bottle Use in the Early Weeks Postpartum and Breast-Feeding Outcomes."1 Several of the conclusions of this article contradict what I see in clinical practice as a lactation specialist. The selection and definition of the sample groups puzzle me. Specifically, there is no totally breast-fed group. This is a design flaw that many breast-feeding research studies exhibit. An infant being fed up to two bottles a week and infants fed by bottle in the hospital are not totally breast-fed and have experienced the use of an artificial nipple.


2020 ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Hélène Landemore

This chapter discusses the crisis of democracy. While this crisis can be attributed in part to specific empirical corruptions, which are themselves likely the result of contingent external shocks, the crisis of democracy can also be traced, more fundamentally, to an original design flaw: the restriction of democratic representation to “electoral” representation. The main problem is that representative democracy was designed on the basis of electoral premises that prevent even its best, most democratized contemporary versions from reaching the full potential of genuine “popular rule,” that is, a rule that empowers all equally. The chapter then looks at the internal problems to a core principle of representative government: the principle of elections. It also addresses the “realists'” objections that there is no crisis of democracy since representative democracy is working as intended.


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