A ‘right to have rights’ in the EU public sphere? An Arendtian justification for the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

This paper discusses the Court’s reasoning in interpreting the EU Charter, using recent case law on horizontal effect as a case study. It identifies two possible means of interpreting the provisions of the Charter: firstly, an approach based on common values (e.g. equality or solidarity) and, secondly, an approach based on access to the public sphere. It argues in favour of the latter. Whereas an approach based on common values is more consonant with the development of the case law so far, it is conceptually problematic: it involves subjective assessments of the importance and degree of ‘sharedness’ of the value in question, which can undermine the equal constitutional status of different Charter provisions. Furthermore, it marginalises the Charter’s overall politically constructional character, which distinguishes it from other sources of rights protection listed in Art 6 TEU. The paper argues that, as the Charter’s provisions concretise the notion of political status in the EU, they have a primarily constitutional, rather than ethical, basis. Interpreting the Charter based on the very commitment to a process of sharing, drawing on Hannah Arendt’s idea of the ‘right to have rights’ (a right to access a political community on equal terms), is therefore preferable. This approach retains the pluralistic, post-national fabric of the EU polity, as it accommodates multiple narratives about its underlying values, while also having an inclusionary impact on previously underrepresented groups (e.g. non-market-active citizens or the sans-papiers) by recognising their equal political disposition.

D2.3 First bundle of client-side components

This document describes the first bundle of core WP2 (user data analytics) client side components, including their specifications, usecases, and working prototypes. Included assets contain a description of their current status, and links to their full designs and downloadable versions. This deliverable only describes operational SW assets (even though beta) that are tested and documented. It should be noted, however, that various additional software assets (2.2d Cognitive Capacity Measurement and 2.3a Realtime Emotion Detection) are near completion for inclusion in games during the first pilot round. Those assets are still scheduled for inclusion in the final bundle deliverable D2.2.

D2.1 - First bundle of server-side components

This document describes the first bundle of core WP2 (user data analytics) serverside components, including their specifications, usecases, and working prototypes. Included assets contain a description of their current status, and links to their full designs and downloadable versions.

D3.1 – First Bundle of Core Social Agency Assets

This deliverable presents and describes the first delivery of assets that are part of the core social agency bundle. In total, the bundle includes 16 assets, divided into 4 main categories. Each category is related to a type of challenge that developers of applied games are typically faced with and the aim of the included assets is to provide solutions to those challenges. The main goal of this document is to provide the reader with a description for each included asset, accompanied by links to their source code, distributable versions, demonstrations and documentation. A short discussion of what are the future steps for each asset is also given. The primary audience for the contents of this deliverable are the game developers, both inside and outside of the project, which can use this document as an official list of the current social agency assets and their associated resources. Note that the information about which RAGE use cases are using which of these assets is described in Deliverable 4.2.

D2.5 - First bundle of dashboard components

This document describes the core components to create customizable game analytics and dashboards: their present status; links to their full designs and downloadable versions; and how to configure them, and take advantage of the analytics visualizations and the underlying architecture of the platform. All the dashboard components are working with data collected using the xAPI data format that the RAGE project has developed in collaboration with ADL Co-Lab.

Comportamento da equipe multiprofissional frente ao Bundle do Cateter Venoso Central na Terapia Intensiva

Objetivo: Analisar o comportamento das equipes de enfermagem e médica relacionada ao Bundle de inserção e às boas práticas no manejo do Cateter Venoso Central. Métodos: Estudo transversal analítico realizado entre junho a setembro de 2014. Aplicou-se um questionário em 76 profissionais de um Setor de Terapia Intensiva. Realizada estatística descritiva e Odds Ratio para avaliar a associação. Resultados: Na pré-inserção do cateter há 1,6 mais chances dos procedimentos de higienização antisséptica das mãos e opção pela veia a ser puncionada, serem questionados, quando não atendem as recomendações vigentes, se forem acompanhados por profissional de nível superior. Na manutenção do cateter, a avaliação diária de sua permanência apresenta 12 vezes mais chance de ser realizadas por profissionais de nível superior (p < 0,05). Conclusão: Demonstrada necessidade de melhoria da prática assistencial. Novos estudos sobre prevenção de infecções e programas educacionais dirigidos a equipe multidisciplinar podem contribuir nesse sentido.

The Riemann sphere in GeoGebra

The stereographic projection is a bijective smooth map which allows us to think the sphere as the extended complex plane. Among its properties it should be emphasized the remarkable property of being angle conformal that is, it is an angle measure preserving map. Unfortunately, this projection map does not preserve areas. Besides being conformal it has also the property of projecting spherical circles in either circles or straight lines in the plane This type of projection maps seems to have been known since ancient times by Hipparchus (150 BC), being Ptolemy (AD 140) who, in his work entitled "The Planisphaerium", provided a detailed description of such a map. Nonetheless, it is worthwhile to mention that the property of the invariance of angle measure has only been established much later, in the seventeenth century, by Thomas Harriot. In fact, it was exactly in that century that the Jesuit François d’Aguilon introduced the terminology "stereographic projection" for this type of maps, which remained up to our days. Here, we shall show how we create in GeoGebra, the PRiemannz tool and its potential concerning the visualization and analysis of the properties of the stereographic projection, in addition to the viewing of the amazing relations between Möbius Transformations and stereographic projections.