Unrealized potential of drug repositioning in Europe during COVID-19 and beyond: a physician’s perspective by A. B. Bayoumy, N. K. H. de Boer, A. R. Ansari, F. Crouwel, C. J. J. Mulder

“…The current framework for drug repositioning allows “venture capital” companies to abuse loopholes in the legislation to gain long-term market authorization among with excessive high pricing. …”
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VerificationTalk: A Verification and Security Mechanism for IoT Applications by Min-Zheng Shieh, Yi-Bing Lin, Yin-Jui Hsu

“…VerificationTalk also assists in building secure IoT applications by identifying security loopholes in network applications. By the appropriate design of the IoTtalk execution engine, the testing capacity of AFLtalk is three times that of traditional AFL approaches.…”
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Women and Malaysian Islamic Family Law: towards a women-affirming jurisprudential reform by Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah

“…Nevertheless according to critics, this legislative measure has not been free of pitfalls and loopholes, which have pathetically worked against womens` welfare in many ways. …”
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Assessing plastic waste green economy management via integrated life cycle environmental and costing framework by Phuang, Zhen Xin, Woon, Kok Sin, Mong, Guo Ren, Mohd. Hanafiah, Marlia, Liew, Peng Yen

“…Nevertheless, life-cycle circularity in PW management remains flawed in various countries, especially when issues such as economic loopholes, externality cost negligence, and free-ridership exist in the PW value chain. …”
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Cooking the books: The case of Malaysian Listed Companies by Abdul Hamid, Fathilatul Zakimi, Shafie, Rohami, Othman, Zaleha, Wan Hussin, Wan Nordin, Fadzil, Faudziah Hanim

“…We employ a qualitative research methodology as most prior research employs a quantitative methodology to investigate the determinant factors in businesses’ cooking-the-book activities.The result of the study shows that the managers have used their positions, prior experience, and regulatory loopholes in their activities.Furthermore, the financial report restatement and higher reported earnings are the early warning s ignals of their activities.As a result of this, the Malaysian Securities Commission has revised the corporate governance code, and among others incorporated the Audit Oversight Board, known in the US as the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.…”
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Forensic accounting and economic value added as panaceas for analysis firm value by Kabir, Musa Usman, Aripin, Norhani, Al-Dhamari, Redhwan Ahmed Ali

“…Purpose - In spite of the comprehensiveness of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in ensuring fair value accounting.There are still few loopholes in the accounting standards which provide sufficient opportunities for financial statement manipulations (Ikpefan, & Akande 2012).Thus, this practice undermine the “true and fair” view of the financial statement as a result of manipulating financial accounting records for selfish economic aggrandisement within the purview of applicable laws and prevailing accounting standards..The objectives of this paper is to examine the role of forensic accounting and economic value added in analysis the corporate value of firms.Mehodology - The conceptual framework sees forensic accounting practices and economic value added as the antecedent variables and the firm value as the outcome variable. …”
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The appointment of members to the shariah advisory council of central bank of Malaysia: Legal issues by Hussain, Mohammad Azam, Hassan, Rusni, Azhar, Alias, Hasan, Aznan

“…This study found that, several loopholes exist in the statutory requirement of the existing law which needs to be addressed by the respective authoritative body in order to avoid any legal conflict in the future. …”
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Did Forestland Restitution Facilitate Institutional Amnesia? Some Evidence from Romanian Forest Policy by Marian Drăgoi, Veronica Toza

“…After having described the legal process and the relative dependencies between laws and government ordinances we also showed that the three laws on forestland restoration (three fully operational laws and two bills submitted in 2019, one year before general elections) were produced by unintended policy arrangements. The legal loopholes of forestland restitution were described in details as well as the challenges brought about by nature conservation policy (Natura 2000 management plans <i>v</i> traditional forest planning), and the overwhelming bureaucratic burden developed to deter illegal logging, instead of fully implementing a modern system of forest watching based on volunteering. …”
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The Insider Trading Prohibition in Qatar: A Critical Comparative Study with US Law by Abdullah Ahmed Alkayat

“… The purpose of this research is to examine existing loopholes in Qatar’s insider trading laws as impediments to a functional stock market. …”
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ARE EFFECTIVE IN POLAND THE CENTRAL ANTICORRUPTION OFFICE AND JUDICIAL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION? by Mirosław Romański

“…The Central Anticorruption Bureau admittedly just enough efficiently is returning individual matters to courts, but the ones they unfortunately are suppressing fast sentencing the guilty. Here a law full of loopholes and vague connections deciding about discontinuing proceedings which in the first row should be brought to a conclusion aren’t helping. …”
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As interfaces entre cooperativismo e economia solidária by Reni Luiz Stahl, José Odelso Schneider

“…His main argument is that such methods, even occupying the “loopholes” of the system, could move towards a new social organization of socialist slant, through its multiplication. …”
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The FCTC dilemma on heated tobacco products by Margherita Melillo, Lukasz Gruszczynski

“…The paper also submits that the distinction made by the COP between HTPs and devices leads to unsatisfactory results as it creates loopholes in tobacco control standards. In addition, the paper contends, when addressing the normative question of suitability of the FCTC disciplines, that the answer depends not only on scientific evidence relating to health risks posed by HTPs, but also on the conceptualization of the FCTC ultimate objective-(s).…”
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A Causal Assessment of Nigeria’s Crude Oil Revenue, Health Expenditure, and Economic Growth by Olanike Bosede Awoyemi, Divine Amarachi Nwibe

“…Therefore, the government should make better use of oil revenue, close loopholes, and increase health spending. To increase productivity and economic growth, the government should increase public spending on health. …”
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Tracking and Repairing Damaged Healthcare Databases Using the Matrix by Sanaa Kaddoura, Ramzi A. Haraty, Ahmed Zekri, Mehedi Masud

“…Although prevention techniques are available, the history of system break-ins guarantees that there is no foolproof technique that totally eliminates security loopholes in a computer system. Hence, efficient damage assessment and recovery techniques are needed. …”
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Photon masses in the landscape and the swampland by Matthew Reece

“…I explain various caveats and weak points of the arguments, including loopholes that could be targets for model-building.…”
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Pediatricians view about oral health care and treatment needs of children in Bhopal city: Bridging the gap between pediatricians and pedodontist by Babita Niranjan, Shashikiran Nandihalli Devendrappa, Shilpy Singla, Ruchi Thakur

“…This study is yet another effort to detect the loopholes so that henceforth in future a better rapport and a better consultation program can be established between pediatricians and pedodontists. …”
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Developing an international public health cooperation mechanism for the cruise industry by Wei Wu, Lu Li

“…First, we analyzed the legal dilemma pertaining to pandemic prevention and control in cooperative situations; namely, the legal loopholes in the prevention, control, and rescue of cruise ships. …”
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Environmental accounting information disclosure from the perspective of game theory by Yang Liuxin

“…Based on these findings, this article presents some optimization suggestions and actionable plans to prevent publicly listed companies from exploiting policy loopholes and to encourage them to more actively fulfill their obligations in disclosing accounting information, thus improving the stability of the domestic market.…”
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“Functioning of autonomous weapons systems in the context of multilateral regulations” by Gabriela Garcia Vera

“…Results The result of the considerations is to indicate that regulating the issue of autonomous weapons systems at the international level is extremely problematic, because on the one hand, it is necessary to strive to introduce binding and rigorous regulations so that their development and use do not lead to serious humanitarian threats or the creation of legal loopholes in responsibility, but their definition should not impede progress or access to appropriate technologies for peaceful purposes. …”
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Coronavirus disease outbreak: Assessing the level of preparedness for containment in healthcare facilities in Nigeria: Qualitative research findings by Damilola Ayowole, Muhammed Abdul-Azeez, Ezinne O Uvere, Oladimeji Adebayo, Praise T Okunade, Josephine Oghenechodja

“…Meanwhile, there are still loopholes around financial, structural, and material provisions which are essential needs for better and sustainable pandemic containment.…”
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