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Traditional taboos: informal and invisible protection of remaining patches of forest in Vhembe District in Limpopo, South Africa

Frontiers in Conservation Science
IntroductionSince 1990, there has been a global decline in forest areas. Between 2010 and 2020, the greatest annual net loss of forests was on the African continent.
Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule
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An Overview of the Extent of the Powers of South African Competition Authorities in the Regulation of Price Discrimination under the Competition Act 89 of 1998 in the Context of Digital Transformation

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
The purpose of the Competition Act 89 of 1998 as amended (the Competition Act) is, among others, to promote the efficiency, adaptability and development of the economy as well as to provide consumers with competitive prices and product choices.
Phemelo Magau
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Undisclosed Surgical Incentives Compromise Informed Consent

Voices in Bioethics, 2014
Rigorous oversight has achieved great success in ensuring fully informed consent from patients when choosing to take prescription drugs. As concerns about the influence of pharmaceutical gifts on physicians have increased, state legislatures have adopted
Randi Belisomo
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Certified Data Removal in Sum-Product Networks [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Data protection regulations like the GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act give users more control over the data that is collected about them. Deleting the collected data is often insufficient to guarantee data privacy since it is often used to train machine learning models, which can expose information about the training data.
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Web‐based application for threatened woodland caribou population modeling

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2019
Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are threatened in Canada, with population and distribution declines evident in most regions of the country.
Daniel R. Eacker, Mark Hebblewhite, Robin Steenweg, Mike Russell, Amy Flasko, Dave Hervieux   +5 more
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The Shape of Things to Come: Swedish Developments on the Protection of Privacy

SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, 2005
The article highlights the tensions that exist in the protection of privacy online in Sweden following the enactment of the Personal Data Act in 1998. It raises the question whether the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC is outdated (complementing the ...
Rebecca Wong
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Insights from linking police domestic abuse data and health data in South Wales, UK: a linked routine data analysis using decision tree classification

The Lancet Public Health, 2023
Summary: Background: Exposure to domestic abuse can lead to long-term negative impacts on the victim's physical and psychological wellbeing. The 1998 Crime and Disorder Act requires agencies to collaborate on crime reduction strategies, including data ...
Natasha Kennedy, PhD, Tint Lwin Win, MSc, Amrita Bandyopadhyay, MSc, Jonathan Kennedy, EngD, Benjamin Rowe, BSc, Cynthia McNerney, BBus, Julie Evans, MSc, Karen Hughes, ProfPhD, Mark A Bellis, ProfDSc, Angela Jones, MPH, Karen Harrington, MSc, Simon Moore, ProfPhD, Sinead Brophy, ProfPhD   +12 more
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Mining and Classifying Privacy and Data Protection Requirements in Issue Reports [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Digital and physical footprints are a trail of user activities collected over the use of software applications and systems. As software becomes ubiquitous, protecting user privacy has become challenging. With the increase of user privacy awareness and advent of privacy regulations and policies, there is an emerging need to implement software systems ...
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Zipime-Weka-Schista study protocol: a longitudinal cohort study and economic evaluation of an integrated home-based approach for genital multipathogen screening in women, including female genital schistosomiasis, human papillomavirus, Trichomonas and HIV in Zambia

BMJ Open
Introduction Multiplathogen home-based self-sampling offers an opportunity to increase access to screening and treatment in endemic settings with high coinfection prevalence of sexually transmitted (HIV, Trichomonas vaginalis (Tv), human papillomavirus ...
Richard Hayes, Helen Kelly, Philippe Mayaud, Virginia Bond, Emily Webb, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Amaya L Bustinduy, Bellington Vwalika, Nkatya Kasese, Helen Ayles, Paul L A M Corstjens, Kwame Shanaube, Barry Kosloff, Rhoda Ndubani, Olimpia Lamberti, Jennifer Fitzpatrick, Amy Sturt, Lisette Van Lieshout, Govert Van Dam, Bonnie Webster, Isaiah Hansingo   +20 more
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Freedom of Information: influence upon professional practice in recordkeeping

Acervo, 2012
A legislação referente à liberdade de informação existe atualmente em muitos países, seguindo precedentes e diretrizes de organismos internacionais. É provável que leis similares continuem a ser adotadas em mais países e organizações. Este artigo analisa
Michael Cook
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