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The origin of peace movements can be traced back to the early nineteenth century, with the foundation of the first peace societies in the Anglo-Saxon world. Issues addressed by the movements include the general fight against war and promotion of peace (including internationalism), antiwar mobilization, nuclear disarmament (including nuclear test ban), mobilization against military...

ABSTRACT Does it matter that almost all juries in England and Wales are all-White? Does it matter, even if this result is the unintended and undesired result of otherwise acceptable ways of choosing juries? Finally, does it matter that almost all juries are all-White if this has no adverse effect on the treatment of non-White defendants and victims of crime? According to Cheryl...

ThisarticleinvestigatesfiscalpolicyresponsestotheGreatRecessioninhistoricalperspective.It explores general trends in the frequency, size and composition of fiscal stimulus as well as the impact of government partisanship on fiscal policy outputs during the four international recessions of 1980–1981, 1990–1991, 2001–2002 and 2008–2009. Encompassing 17–23 Organisation for Economic...

Swiss–EU relations are based on a set of negotiated sector-specific agreements and lack central coordinating institutions or enforcement mechanisms. At first sight, this arrangement promises a much greater degree of autonomy and self-determination towards the EU than the comprehensive and legally constraining architecture of the EEA. This official depiction has been questioned in...

This PhD thesis concerns the modelling of time-varying causal relationships between two signals, with a focus on signals measuring neural activities. The ability to compute a dynamic and frequency-specific causality statistic in this context is essential and Granger causality provides a natural statistical tool. In Chapter 1 we propose a review of the existing methods allowing one to...

Nowadays, the increase in data size and model complexity has led to increasingly difficult estimation problems. The numerical aspects of the estimation procedure can indeed be very challenging. To solve these estimation problems, approximate methods such as pseudo-likelihood functions or approximated estimating equations can be used as these methods are typically easier to implement...

Les médecins pédiatres, pédopsychiatres, généralistes- internistes et autres spécialistes sont fréquemment amenés à traiter des patients mineurs, qu’il s’agisse d’enfants ou d’adolescents. Lors de toute relation thérapeutique, le médecin doit respecter les règles visant à protéger la personnalité du patient et à renforcer la relation de confiance entre le médecin et le patient. Le...

Un nombre croissant d'assureurs introduisent dans leurs polices d'assurance responsabilité civile professionnelle pour médecins des clauses visant à exclure de la couverture les litiges jugés selon le droit américain ou canadien, ou devant les tribunaux de ces pays. Ces clauses suscitent l'inquiétude de certains membres de l'AMG, qui craignent d'une part de...