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Exploring the Role of Religious Actors in Generating Respect for the Laws of War: A Common Article 1 Perspective
Eve Massingham and Kirsty McRuvie
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2025, huad042, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huad042
Published: 01 February 2024
... by, and facilitated by, the State. In this way religious personnel, and religious actors more broadly, can contribute to reducing the humanitarian impacts of the global crisis of armed conflict. In the last decade, attention has refocused on the first provision of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, in part because...
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Devolution and the Prevent Strategy in Scotland: Constitutional Politics and the Path of Scottish P/CVE
Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 350–370, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsad007
Published: 21 March 2023
... government was able to leverage the devolution settlement and associated constitutional conventions to implement a modest P/CVE program—dropping some components of the English and Welsh Prevent programs entirely. The paper contributes to studies on British constitutional conventions and the nature of inter...
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Operationalizing Obligations to Prevent Mass Atrocities: Proposing Atrocity Impact Assessments as Due Diligence Best Practice
Federica D’Alessandra and Shannon Raj Singh
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 14, Issue 3, November 2022, Pages 769–793, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huac041
Published: 20 July 2022
... atrocities. Atrocity Impact Assessment atrocity prevention Draft Articles Crimes Against Humanity due-diligence duty to prevent Geneva Conventions Given developments in the system of ‘early warnings’ of the last two decades, it is extremely unlikely that modern atrocities will occur without prior...
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The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Emergency Responses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945
Michiko SUZUKI
Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 24, Issue 2, Summer 2021, Pages 347–367, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab026
Published: 23 July 2021
... nuclear weapons mass evacuation planning Geneva Conventions professionalism humanitarianism (jindō) The surviving records of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) narrate the colossal tale of the Red Cross personnel who carried out emergency aid during the immediate aftermath of the nuclear...
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Constitutional Conventions and the Judiciary
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Scott Stephenson
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 41, Issue 3, Autumn 2021, Pages 750–775, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaa047
Published: 14 February 2021
...Scott Stephenson It is well known that constitutional systems of government are regulated not only by provisions set out in a constitutional text, but also by unwritten rules, typically called constitutional conventions (or norms). Studies of constitutional conventions tend to focus on the rules...
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Conventions under Heterogeneous Behavioural Rules
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Jonathan Newton
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 88, Issue 4, July 2021, Pages 2094–2118, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa063
Published: 13 October 2020
... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Evolution Conventions Heterogeneity Representative agent Lemma 1 . C73 D01 D90 Lewis, (1969) argued that conventions, regularities in the behaviour of members of a population...
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Rational coordination with no communication or conventions
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Valentin Goranko and others
Journal of Logic and Computation, Volume 30, Issue 6, September 2020, Pages 1183–1211, https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exaa032
Published: 11 July 2020
... have identical payoffs, ‘win’ or ‘lose’. We identify and discuss a range of ‘purely rational principles’ guiding the reasoning of rational players in such games and compare the classes of coordination games that can be solved by such players with no preplay communication or conventions. We observe...
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No price without value: towards a theory of value and price
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Dave Elder-Vass
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 6, November 2019, Pages 1485–1498, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bez040
Published: 17 August 2019
... on a critical realist framework and findings from the economics of conventions and the sociology of valuation to develop a theory of value that returns to the relation between value and price. It argues that value is best understood as a view of the price that something ought to exchange...
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Social Group Effects on the Emergence of Communicative Conventions and Language Complexity
Mark Atkinson and others
Journal of Language Evolution, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzy010
Published: 30 October 2018
... of two social group factors—group size and amount of communally shared knowledge—on the brevity and transparency of linguistic conventions. In Experiment 1, we explored the effects of a manipulation of group size, comparing the conventions which develop from the interaction of two speakers, with those...
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The Dynamics of Constitutional Conventions in Westminster Democracies
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Nicholas Barry and others
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 2019, Pages 664–683, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsy027
Published: 12 July 2018
... is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Constitutional conventions are fundamental to the operation of Westminster...
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Modeling nonhuman conventions: the behavioral ecology of arbitrary action
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David W Stephens and Virginia K Heinen
Behavioral Ecology, Volume 29, Issue 3, May/June 2018, Pages 598–608, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary011
Published: 20 February 2018
..., they each get the full territory’s worth. This game is conventional because the players benefit from coordinating their behavior so they occupy different resources, but the solution is arbitrary; A can occupy T1 and B can occupy T2, or the reverse can occur, with no difference in payoff to the players...
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Conflicts in the calculation and use of the price index: the case of France
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Florence Jany-Catrice
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 4, July 2018, Pages 963–986, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bex067
Published: 31 October 2017
..., is not fully captured by the available tools, despite their sophistication. Economic aggregates Conventions Prices indices Distribution Representation of wealth Official statistics Since the 1950s, the index of the general evolution of prices (the Consumer Prices Index or CPI) has been one...
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The limits of ontological critique: from judgmental rationality to justification
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Ismael Al-Amoudi and John Latsis
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 41, Issue 5, August 2017, Pages 1303–1321, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bex039
Published: 28 August 2017
... is difficult to understand by mere reference to judgmental rationality and without reference to CSO’s ideological configuration. Our paper uses an économie des conventions framework to draw systematic comparisons between CSO’s ideological configuration and the ideological configurations of mainstream...
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Some institutions (social norms and conventions) of contemporary mainstream economics, macroeconomics and financial economics
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David Dequech
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 41, Issue 6, November 2017, Pages 1627–1652, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bex014
Published: 23 March 2017
...David Dequech Let us now consider conventions. Several mechanisms behind conformity characterize conventions in that the adoption of a rule by many agents plays a role in leading other agents to also adopt it, indicating the property of conformity with conformity. One of them is, again...
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Optimizing vitamin D naming conventions in computerized order entry to support high-value care
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Andrew A White and others
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2017, Pages 172–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocw038
Published: 23 April 2016
... factors engineering. For example, CPOE vendors could assist clients by recommending proven default test names. In addition to optimizing naming conventions, future search functions within CPOE might emulate Internet search engines by incorporating information about the user’s level of training, specialty...
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Constitutional Implications of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011
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Andrew Blick
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 19–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsv004
Published: 05 April 2015
.... Furthermore, in a process beginning with the lead up to the Iraq war of 2003, a convention has developed that, whenever practical, the deployment of armed forces overseas on operations that involve hostilities, or will possibly do so, is subject to prior, express approval from the Commons. Thus while...
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Beryllium Concentrations at European Workplaces: Comparison of ‘Total’ and Inhalable Particulate Measurements
Heiko Kock and others
The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Volume 59, Issue 6, July 2015, Pages 788–796, https://doi.org/10.1093/annhyg/mev009
Published: 25 March 2015
...) ‘total’ particulate method into exposure concentration values to be expected when sampling using the ‘Gesamtstaubprobenahmesystem’ (GSP) inhalable sampling convention. Workplaces selected to represent the different copper Be work processing operations that typically occur in Germany and the EU were...
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The Challenge of Periods of Caretaker Government in the UK
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Petra Schleiter and Valerie Belu
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 2, April 2015, Pages 229–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsu027
Published: 19 December 2014
... and the formation of another. Caretaker conventions exist to ensure that the country is never left without a fully functioning executive, and to prevent a government whose democratic mandate has expired from making decisions that will inappropriately bind the incoming government. This article examines the UK's...
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Deferral of a Cadentially Confirmed Tonic and Play with Changing Conventions in the First Movement of Haydn's F♯ Minor Piano Trio (Hob. XV:26)
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Lauri SuurpÄÄ
Music Theory Spectrum, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2014, Pages 228–246, https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtu018
Published: 01 December 2014
..., more generally, the devices encountered in the Piano Trio to other minor-mode works by Haydn, as well as to earlier repertoire and late eighteenth-century musical conventions. Haydn sonata form formal functions Schenkerian analysis Hepokoski and Darcy's Sonata Theory minor mode eighteenth-century...
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Negotiating conventions and creating community: the case of Cartoon and European animation
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Alexander Cole and David Barberá-Tomás
Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 14, Issue 5, September 2014, Pages 973–993, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbu025
Published: 08 July 2014
...Alexander Cole; David Barberá-Tomás Of course, network formation and the institutionalization of shared conventions and understandings of a given network do not happen independently of each other. Rather, the individual interactions that form the network and the repertoire of shared understandings...
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