The Human Genome Project (HGP): Dividends and challenges: A review by F E Ejezie

“…Conclusion: Though the HGP has generated a lot of challenges and controversies, it is believed that with appropriate legislations in place, the totality of the human race stands to benefit from the dividends and promises of the HGP. …”
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Review of Renewable Energy Subsidy System in China by Dongdong Song, Boya Jia, Hongtao Jiao

“…At present, there are many problems with China’s renewable energy subsidy policy in practice, such as fragmented institutional policies, lack of procedural regulations, and lagging subsidy funds. The excellent legislative practice experience of foreign countries can be borrowed by China to make up for the corresponding loopholes and, on the basis of fully examining the specific conditions of China, to promote the progressive reform of China’s renewable energy subsidy system; form a trinity system of law, general strategy, and specific policies; strengthen collaboration; and enhance its scientific level. …”
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Russian Arctic Today: Substantive Novelties and Legal Collisions by Vladimir Nikolaevich Leksin, Boris Nikolaevich Porfiriev

“…We examine the primary changes in the organizational, managerial and legal support for the development of Russian Arctic zone, which are due to the above-mentioned legislative developments. We critically analyse plans to launch a State Governance Body, responsible for the significant part of the support zones, within the St. …”
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Response of Kenya Security Forces to Terrorist Attacks in the Post-Westgate Period by David Jirásek

“…The measures are analyzed from a legislative, technical and security point of view. The article is based on a conceptual analysis of P.C. …”
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Institutional Resistance to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Arguments and Realities Emerging in the Public Domain by Michelle Knox, Adrian Wagg

“…Our search yielded 89 relevant media articles and 22 legislative, policy, and other relevant documents published since 2016 in the English language. …”
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Theoretical and Methodological Bases for Defining the Category “State Regulatory Capacity”: Gnoseological Aspect by Shevchuk Sergii V.

“…There determined the standpoint of interpreting the maxim by scientists belonging to the Western economic school, who see the category “state regulatory capacity” mainly as human, financial resources, legislative base, and experience, unlike domestic researchers focusing on the opportunities and means that ensure efficiency of the regulation process. …”
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The opening of Croatia to the French influences in the legal and institutional order by Marc Gjidara

“…Neither these nor the models by which Croatian legislators were inspired were proven be suitable, in a certain type of “legal shopping” and mechanical transmission which also did not fit in well. …”
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Econometric Modeling of Electricity Consumption by Households as a Tool for the Calculation of Social Norms of Consumption by Yulia Vladimirovna Zaytseva

“…The received values of social norms are not quite consistent with the values regulated by the legislatively approved method. For some types of households, the values are underestimated. …”
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A Text-Mining Analysis of Research Trends in Animal-Assisted Therapy by Shin-Ja Lee, Geun-Hyeon Kim, Yea-Hwang Moon, Sung-Sill Lee

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Smartphone sensing for understanding driving behavior: Current practice and challenges by Eleni Mantouka, Emmanouil Barmpounakis, Eleni Vlahogianni, John Golias

“…Although the advantages of collecting data through smartphones are many (speed, accuracy, low cost etc.), the challenges including, but do not limited to, the preparation rate, the processing needs, as well as the methodological, legislative and security issues, are significant. The present paper aims to review the research dedicated to analyzing driving behavior based on smartphone sensors’ data streams. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: ÉRIC VUILLARD, "L’ORDRE DU JOUR", PARIS, ACTES SUD, 2017, 160 P. by Oana-Iustina GHIMBĂŞANU

“… Lauréat du prix Goncourt 2017, le dernier roman d’Éric Vuillard commence par une réunion de vingt-quatre directeurs de grandes entreprises allemandes avec Adolf Hitler et Herman Goering, avant qu’Hitler ne remporte les élections législatives. La puissance des uns et la faiblesse des autres nous sont exposées avec humour et ironie, caractéristiques propres à l’auteur, qu’il emploie tout au long du roman comme moyen de surpasser les moments affreux et gênants de l’Histoire. …”
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Sustainable investment strategies and a theoretical approach of multi-stakeholder communities by Hiroshige Tanaka, Chiharu Tanaka

“…Thirdly, this mathematical model explores the social welfare effects of initiatives to enhance standards, regulations, and legislations. Empirically, one finds that integration strategies have grown remarkably as a core part of social institutional reform for sustainability. …”
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University-company collaboration: what are the obstacles in Algeria? by Naga Nahla

“…The study also showed that although cooperation between universities and industrial institutions has become an urgent and confirmed necessity in political discourses and in legislative laws and has been the subject of discussions for several years. …”
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MEPs Political Communication Online: A Case Study of MEPs Elected in Lithuania by Ingrida Unikaitė-Jakuntavičienė, Sima Rakutienė

“…This paper examines the use of Facebook and other online communication channels by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) elected in Lithuania for the 9th legislative term. Its major goal is to explore the most popular channels of communication online with voters used by MEPs elected in Lithuania for providing the information about their activities at the European Parliament as well as the strategies of communication used by MEPs and interaction of Facebook online audiences. …”
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A Breakthrough Economy Management by I. D. Matskuluyak, D. I. Matskulyak

“…The goal of the research is to study the management that arises from the introduction of innovations and their combinations, as well as representing the entrepreneurs vision in the production process; drawing the attention of managerial personnel to this problem — state and economic authorities, legislators, scientists and employers. There have been formulated a number of tasks: to disclose the content of breakthrough management; to present its evolution and components; to formulate economic patterns of the implementation; to justify a number of improvement areas, including the core of the main components of the algorithm and the breakthrough management financial support. …”
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Problems in the Work of Mining Supervision in the Urals in the Early 20th Century by Evgeny Georgievich Neklyudov

“…If organisational issues were resolved by means of administrative measures, as a rule, finding understanding in the mining department itself, functional ones required the approval of legislative bodies which brought them to a level of discussion where the mining department was no longer of decisive importance. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: ÉRIC VUILLARD, "L’ORDRE DU JOUR", PARIS, ACTES SUD, 2017, 160 P. by Oana-Iustina GHIMBĂŞANU

“… Lauréat du prix Goncourt 2017, le dernier roman d’Éric Vuillard commence par une réunion de vingt-quatre directeurs de grandes entreprises allemandes avec Adolf Hitler et Herman Goering, avant qu’Hitler ne remporte les élections législatives. La puissance des uns et la faiblesse des autres nous sont exposées avec humour et ironie, caractéristiques propres à l’auteur, qu’il emploie tout au long du roman comme moyen de surpasser les moments affreux et gênants de l’Histoire. …”
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Establishing Worksite Wellness Programs for North Carolina Government Employees, 2008 by Suzanna Young, MPH, Jacquie Halladay, MD, MPH, Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, Casey Herget, MSW, MPH, Carolyn Dunn, PhD

“…Positive results of the program helped generate legislative support to expand the weight management program throughout state government.InterpretationStrong interagency partnership is essential to guide worksite wellness policy and program development in state government. …”
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The opening of Croatia to the French influences in the legal and institutional order by Marc Gjidara

“…Neither these nor the models by which Croatian legislators were inspired were proven be suitable, in a certain type of “legal shopping” and mechanical transmission which also did not fit in well. …”
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Workplace Bullying And Employee Reaction; Demographics, Work Position And Form Of Mistreatment by Andreas Petasis

“…Further studies can focus in which segments of the industry workplace bullying occurs more frequently, as well as in legislative matters.…”
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