Holding the Door Half (?) Open: the EU and Turkey 10 years on

A decade of accession negotiations with the EU has not brought Turkey significantly closer to EU membership. In part the reasons lie with Turkey. This article, however, explores the position of the EU and the ‘supply-side’ of enlargement. It reflects on developments in how the EU has engaged with Turkey on the question of membership, situating Turkey’s candidacy and the EU’s position within the broader comparative context of how the process and politics of EU enlargement have evolved over the last ten years. It focuses on a set of supply-side variables that are key to determining the progress that applicants can make towards membership: member state preferences, the activism of supranational institutional actors, the EU’s integration capacity, public opinion in the EU towards enlargement, and the narratives deployed in justification of enlargement. The article also considers the state of Turkey’s accession negotiations and how they have been and potentially will be affected, assuming they are meaningfully revived, by the evolving nature and substance of EU accession negotiations more generally and EU’s approach to conditionality.

Door to Bookland due date card

This is a due date card for the book titled Door to Bookland, with stamped dates from 1941.

"A Concert in Swing"; The Concert Band, The Pep Band, November 29, 1939

Concert program for "A Concert in Swing"; The Concert Band, The Pep Band, November 29, 1939

Genetic programming for the minimum time swing up and balance control acrobot problem

This work describes how genetic programming is applied to evolving controllers for the minimum time swing up and inverted balance tasks of the continuous state and action: limited torque acrobot. The best swing-up controller is able to swing the acrobot up to a position very close to the inverted ‘handstand’ position in a very short time, shorter than that of Coulom (2004), who applied the same constraints on the applied torque values, and to take only slightly longer than the approach by Lai et al. (2009) where far larger torque values were allowed. The best balance controller is able to balance the acrobot in the inverted position when starting from the balance position for the length of time used in the fitness function in all runs; furthermore, 47 out of 50 of the runs evolve controllers able to maintain the balance position for an extended period, an improvement on the balance controllers generated by Dracopoulos and Nichols (2012), which this paper is extended from. The most successful balance controller is also able to balance the acrobot when starting from a small offset from the balance position for this extended period.

Argyros Forum, detail of door

Detail of a door, Argyros Forum, Chapman University, Orange, California, ca. 1992.

Photograph - Car with Door Open

A photograph of a car with the door open on a gravel drive.

Our next-door neighbor : a winter in México Gilbert Haven.

UANL

Our next-door neighbor : a winter in México

UANL

Laser safety door signs

Laser safety door signs for 3R, 3B and class 4 laser areas

De rol van het Internationaal Strafhof in het voorkomen van internationale misdrijven door middel van tijdige interventie

De la Doctrina de Intervención Humanitaria y ex post facto Instituciones Judiciales a la noción de responsabilidad de proteger y el papel preventivo de la Corte Penal Internacional. Lección inaugural como Presidente en Derecho Penal Internacional y Procedimiento Penal Internacional en la Universidad de Utrecht, emitido el 18 de octubre 2010

Relación entre la potencia muscular de extremidades inferiores y tronco con la velocidad de salida de la bola en el swing de drive en golf.

Resumen tomado de la publicación

Have you seen who's just moved in next door to us?

Es un poema en el que hay variedad de monstruosos vecinos que habitan las casas de una rarísima calle. Aparecen personajes como King Kong, Drácula, La Cosa y además, fantasmas, extraterrestres, piratas, todos ellos y algunos más, conviven con humanos asustados y sorprendidos.

The swing ball.

La etapa uno se centra en las habilidades de lenguaje oral y prelectura que los niños necesitan para ser lectores competentes. Esta etapa es esencial para:la introducción de los personajes principales. Alentar a los niños a conversar acerca de ellos mismos y sus experiencias en relación con las historias. El desarrollo de destrezas de escuchar. Se presentan las primeras palabras clave. El desarrollo de una actitud positiva hacia la lectura. La enseñanza de habilidades de manipulación del libro. Estas historias de Bif, Chip y Kipper sirven de base para hablar de temas como las relaciones entre hermanos, apodos, cumpleaños, la hora del baño, aprender algo nuevo, y así sucesivamente. Al hablar de sus propias experiencias, los niños sienten una participación personal en los acontecimientos de las historias. A Biff y a Chip les gusta jugar a la pelota. Jugar a la pelota en un pequeño jardín a veces puede dar lugar a problemas. Biff y Chip tienen todo tipo de dificultades cuando juegan en su jardín, hasta que papá tiene una idea muy buena.