... 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 ... implicationsof our results for future research ix x The Legaland Economic Implicationsof Electronic Discovery: Options for Future Research Results of Interviews Our interviews highlighted a number of ... available cost data, and an evaluation of early indicators such as numbers of sanctions and the form of e-discovery requests and required productions Assessment of Effects of E-Discovery on Business...
... to Andreas Pfennig, Nick Shackel, and Peter Taylor for numerous fruitful discussions on the topic Per Sandin’s work for this handbook was done in the Department of Plant Physiology and Forest Genetics, ... Department of Medical Ethics Lund University Lund Sweden and Center for Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA USA Per Sandin Department of Plant Physiology and Forest Genetics ... belonging and calls for further research in this area She also calls for further research in the form of critical examination of the function of stereotypes in risk issues, and in the form of investigation...
... 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 ... trials and tribulations of informatics xvi deployment in the health sector so far, the legaland professional imperatives for improving performance, and the emerging standards and best practice that ... refers to the law (formal social rules guiding behaviour), ethical principles (personal andsocial views of behaviour), andsocial aspects The .Legal. Perspective Regulation.in.the.UK .and. U.S Online...
... 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 ... Awareness andSocialImplicationsof Living with HIV/AIDS andsocial instability in many countries have impacted and aided the spread of HIV The country level epidemics are described and classified ... Awareness andSocialImplicationsof Living with HIV/AIDS interface contains an antiparallel β-sheet formed by the interdigitation of the N- and Cterminal β-strands in each subunit and by an...
... test performance for real-time reverse-transcriptase (RT2-) PCR, EM, and EIA for norovirus using both LCM and CRS; and (ii) to evaluate the implicationsof these characteristics for outbreak testing ... 10,000 realizations performed for sensitivity and specificity of each test, andfor population prevalence of infection Combined test characteristic estimates and prevalence for each realization ... intervals for predictive values Implicationsfor Laboratory Practice We evaluated the implicationsfortesting practice of test characteristic estimates, based on the assumption that that testing...
... 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 ... to various ethical problems, forgetting the societal perspective of consequences and control The myth of the objectivity of research is strong among health and economic researchers, and they may ... 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...
... 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 ... on land and forests: the Prime Minister’s Decree on the Management and Use of Land and Forests 1993, the Decree on Land and Forest Classification for planting trees and conservation of the forest ... definitions of forest and forest land and the more detailed classification of types of forest appears in the Prime Ministerial Decree on the Management and Use of the Forest and Forest land in 19933...
... the land 19 was taken for the sake of development while development was said to be for the sake of the people themselves As Bebbington (2000) recalls in a post-structural critique of land use ... 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 ... tool for managing business and a commodity for trading Last but not least, mobile phones assist information exchange in ways that can provide benefits Approved: Don M Flournoy Professor of Media...
... 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 ... of the impacts of shrimp farming in the community, and identified key informants for interviewing and respondents for household surveys Selective PRA tools and prepared topics such as key informant ... 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...
... 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 ... and incineration will be cut down to 70% of the total volume of collected waste while 30% will be reused and recycled To 2020, the general objectives are set: To form sustainable production and ... and human 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...
... very high growth resulting from demand for more efficient search functions andfor the expanding array of services they offer on one side, and from demand for online advertising, on the other ... common definition and understanding of what Internet intermediaries are, of their economic function and economic models, of recent market development, and to discuss the economic andsocial uses that ... function and economic models, of recent market developments, and discusses the economic andsocial uses that these actors satisfy The overall goal of the horizontal report of the Committee for Information,...
... Annex III for 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 ... Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Sources: UNDCP country profiles United States Department of Health and Human Services (Substance Abuse and Mental Health ... a variety of medical, ethicalandlegal questions, one of which concerns balancing policies for reduction and eradication of drug abuse with policies that aim at limiting the spread of diseases...
... other hand, accounted for about percent of credit card loans, but they accounted for less than percent of construction and land development loans and almost none of any other type of loan Grandfathered ... corporation Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Office of Thrift Supervision savings and loans Securities and Exchange Commission Summary of Deposits Department of the Treasury This is a work of ... availability and allocation of credit, the stability of the financial system and the economy, and the safe and sound operations of such institutions To determine the number of certain types of financial...
... lowering the cost of information and thus enhancing the ability of low-income men and women to gain human capital, find and compete for good jobs, and otherwise enhance their life chances (Anderson et ... “information age” in which digital information technology “provides the material basis” for the “pervasive expansion” of what he calls “the networking form of organization” in every realm ofsocial ... programs, industry structure and pricing policies, and approaches to the provision and organization of content Impact on Time Use and Community: Social Isolation or Social Capital Formation Initial enthusiasts...
... trips between the offshore islands and Fujian Province, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands as of February 29, 2004 ... allowed residents of the Taiwanese-held offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu to travel directly to the mainland and permitted some direct shipping between the offshore islands and China The mini-three ... between the two offshore islands and the mainland As part of that expansion of the mini-three links, the Taiwanese government also expanded the list of products that the offshore islands can import...
... protection of human 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 ... been accused of not doing enough to prevent the use of excessive force by the military andof acquiescing to military demands for cooperation through provision of transportation and other support ... enormous economic wealth and opportunities to help both the nation and the local community to gain and sustain an improved standard of living and quality of life for the current and future generations...