... of work in progress All RAND occasional papers undergo rigorous peer review to ensure that they meet high standards for research quality and objectivity The Legaland Economic Implicationsof ... corporations, trade and professional associations, and individuals; by government grants and contracts; and by private foundations ICJ disseminates its work widely to the legal, business, and research ... e-discovery This paper presents the results of an exploratory study to identify the most important legaland economic implicationsof e-discovery and to develop a plan of research to be conducted over the...
... Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson (Eds.) Handbook of Risk Theory Epistemology, Decision Theory, Ethics, andSocialImplicationsof Risk With 85 Figures and 62 Tables Editors ... Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands and Philosophy Department University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands Rafaela Hillerbrand Human ... Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands and Philosophy Department University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands Rafaela Hillerbrand Human...
... practices of the care professionals—not least in learning to operate and manage ICTs, individually and as part of a team In all of these different situations and contexts, the ethical, social, andlegal ... connectivity, equity, quality, cost, and safety offered by the various technology applications involved As some of the most obvious and yet profound ethical, legal, andsocial issues in healthcare information, ... grounding of health and medicine in the human condition, ethical, legal, andsocial issues did not remain long outside the field of endeavour, discussion, and debate United Kingdom and Finnish-based...
... number of new infections due to a combination of factors, HIV-Infection – Impact, Awareness andSocialImplicationsof Living with HIV/AIDS including HIV prevention efforts and the natural course of ... despite the concerns of risk compensation, the challenges of cultural andsocial acceptability, limited financial andhuman resources, poor infrastructure and systems for monitoring and evaluating ... chemoprophylaxis and incidence of sexually transmitted infections and 22 HIV-Infection – Impact, Awareness andSocialImplicationsof Living with HIV/AIDS HIV-1 infection in Kenyan sex workers: a randomized...
... requirements of ethics diYcult Ethical consequences are often likely to be negative for the dissemination of a technique It is easier to Wnd examples of techniques that Ethicalandsocial aspects of evaluating ... emphasize the health of the newborn population, public health or the health level of a given society And then we would have to face the dilemma of eugenics Ethical andsocial aspects of evaluating ... overall estimate of the health value of a technology, in isolation from the social situation and people This is relatively artiWcial even in regard to health eVects, and when socialandethical dimensions...
... to the history of land concessions in Laos, with an assessment and review of laws and policies related to forestry and land, and an analysis of the process of authorization of land concessions ... development of the meaning of “land”, the history of the land concessions, from the first beginnings to the present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, and the process of granting land ... to land and forest in 19791 with the objective of protection and preservation of the forest This Regulation defined land and forest as “land and forest land in the entirety of the territory of...
... PTFI’s operations and the success of its operations FREEPORT AND PTFI COMMITMENTS IN SEHR AND GPOI-1 I Promotion ofHuman Rights Policies and Prevention ofHuman Rights Abuses One of the most important ... Freeport’s Social, Employment, andHuman Rights Policy by enumerating practices and operational standards in Papua in the areas ofsocialand economic development of the indigenous people of Papua, ... protection ofhuman rights, and economic andsocial development of the local tribes in the area of operations They also set forth Freeport’s commitment for the welfare of the people of Papua and their...
... long-term leases of land However, since the irrigated lowlands of Java were mostly owned and controlled by the Dutch, new plantations were established in the central highlands As the numbers of planters ... phone adoption The purpose of the study is to better understand the social- cultural and economic phenomena that occur in the OMW families as the result of the presence of mobile phones A Background ... land use in the Andes, the government argued that there were people and places that are poor, underdeveloped and in need of development Those people and places became the target of development...
... the area The research team consisted of a staff from RIA No 1, DOFI and CSSH and officers of People's Committee of the District (PCD) and People's Committee of the Commune (PCC) The fieldwork was ... pollution by nutrients and organic wastes from effluents and wastes, chemicals and medicinal residues to water and soil, salinisation of agricultural land and introductions of non-native species ... in provincial and national agencies: the Ministry of Fisheries (MOFI), RIA No 1, Hai phong Institute of Oceanography (HIO), DOFI, Department of Resource and Environment (DOSTE), and Hue Science...
... of solid waste will be collected; Reduce the generated rate of solid waste; The amount of solid waste that requires land filling and incineration will be cut down to 40% of the total volume of ... andhuman resource for 3R implement The specific target until 2015: 80 % of solid waste will be collected; Reduce the generated rate of solid waste; The amount of solid waste that requires land ... agencies, business sector, and the general public; Rising cost of fossil fuels needs to raise the use of biomass and biogas; Development of researches on biological decomposition and new technologies...
... activity of the human enzyme was not regained upon removal of EDTA and addition of metal-ions Figure shows the hydrophobicity profiles ofhumanand P fluorescens ACMSD, performed according to Kyte and ... [21] From the sequence alignment ofhumanand bacterial ACMSD and the comparison of their three-dimensional structures, the presence of the metallocofactor in the human enzyme can be reliably predicted ... the mean of three independent experiments and are presented as copies of the target variant per 109 copies of 18S RNA Quantitation of ACMSD variants in liver, kidney and brain An isoform-specific...
... [20]: koff ẳ koff2ị ẵibuprofen=K2 ẵibuprofenị ỵ koff3ị ẵibuprofen=K3 ẵibuprofenịị ỵ kỵ off 7ị where koff(2) and koff(3) indicate values of koff occurring at K2 < [ibuprofen] < K3, and at ... functional and structural properties of domains I and II [i.e of the 1382 region of (t)HSA] l The values of the Hill coefcients (n1, n2, and n3) for ibuprofen binding to tHSAheme and HSAheme ... low-afnity sites of tHSAheme-Fe(III) and HSAheme-Fe(III) [represented by a and (1 a), respectively, in Eqn (1)] are 0.18 and 0.82, and 0.14 and 0.86, respectively (Table 1) Effect of ibuprofen on peroxynitrite...
... which offers protection to individuals, especially minors and other vulnerable groups Promote the secure and responsible use of the Internet that respects international socialandethical norms and ... enabling the connection of large amounts of heterogeneous machines and networks, and the furthering of an environment of innovation and cross-fertilisation 75 An example of a very creative intermediary ... product and price comparisons and creating downward pressure on prices or, in the case of auction platforms, meeting supply and demand and creating new markets Search engines, portals and participative...
... the development of the advanced functions ofhuman nervous system in light of the Gene Ontology (GO) profile ofhuman orthologs Results Characters and distribution of LIRs in human autosomes We ... rhesus monkey and mouse orthologs Our data suggest that most of the LIRs shared by humanand chimpanzee orthologs were developed and maintained by the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees ... large number of (CA)n and (GA)n repeats in the human genome, the frequency of their complementary repeats (TG)n and (CT)n is much lower [37] Therefore, the presence of the TG ⁄ CA-rich and TC ⁄ GA-rich...
... properties of SEPT2 for GTPcS and GDP, respectively, may also indicate different conformations in recognizing triphosphate and diphosphate guanine nucleotides The similarity of the Kd, koff and kcat of ... Huang et al GTPase properties ofhuman SEPT2 Table Summary of the GTPcS and GDP dissociation constants and stoichiometrical binding site (n) for wild-type SEPT2 and S218A mutant The data for ... [17] and yeast [22] Complexes comprised of different septin isoforms would reflect the binding and hydrolysis properties of each protein Indeed, it has been reported that yeast septins Cdc10 and...
... chromatography and chromatofocusing, as described previously [21] Results Expression and secretion of truncated variants of GCPII To analyze the contribution of individual domains ofhuman GCPII ... NaCl and 20 lL of the GCPII sample, were preincubated for 15 at 37 °C in a final volume of 225 lL A 25 lL mixture of 950 nM ÔcoldÕ NAAG (Sigma) and 50 nM H-labelled NAAG (51.9 CiÆmmol)1; New England ... transfected with 274/587 and 274/750 The presence of recombinant proteins in cell lysates was analyzed at 0, 4, and 12 h following the addition of inhibitors No immunoreactive bands of expected molecular...
... Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Sources: UNDCP country profiles United States Department of Health andHuman Services (Substance Abuse and Mental Health ... specific dates and magnitudes), cases of SARM increased by a factor of in Germany and Spain, and a factor of approximately in Austria, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland In France and the United ... abuse, creating something of a vicious circle D Trade and balance of payments The effects of the illicit drug industry on both the balance of trade and the balance of payments of a producer country,...