With the emergence of global health comes governance challenges which are equally global in nature. This article identifies some of the initial limitations in analyses of global health governance (GHG) before discussing ...

This article argues that disarmament negotiations in Geneva played an important but hitherto little understood role in the evolution of French security policy after the First World War. While the majority of French ...

An approach to fuzzy rule induction inspired by the foraging behaviour of ants is presented. The implemented system - FRANTIC - is tested on a real classification problem against two other fuzzy rule induction algorithms, ...

John Rawls has been the most influential figure in Anglo-American political philosophy since publishing A Theory of Justice in 1971. The focus of this thesis is his later work, The Law of Peoples, which sets out his ideas ...

This paper formalizes overlapping free form shape registration as a minimization problem, which minimizes a weighted sum of registration errors of tentative correspondences with the weights subject to boundary conditions. ...

This book is about a major historical figure, Napoleon III, and a political regime. It examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of the first Napoleon) was able to secure election as President of the Republic and ...

A three-dimensional unilateral contact problem for thin viscoelastic layers bonded to rigid substrates shaped like elliptic paraboloids is considered. Two cases are studied: (a) Poisson's ratios of the layer materials are ...