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Siyasah Shar'iyah or the Policies of Islamic Government

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1989
Introduction Siyasah shar'iyah is a broad doctrine of Islamic law which authorizes the ruler to determine the manner in which the Shari'ah should be administered. The ruler may accordingly take discretionary measures, enact rules and initiate policies as
Mohamad Hashim Kamali
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Food Prices and Inflation Expectations in New Zealand

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food prices are conspicuous, and spending on food constitutes a considerable share of household expenditure. In this study, we use partially identified Bayesian structural vector autoregression models to analyze the effects of food price shocks on core inflation and 1‐ and 5‐year inflation expectations in New Zealand.
Puneet Vatsa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drugs and discretionary power in prisons: The officer's perspective [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Drug Policy, 2015
Drugs play an increasing role in contemporary prison life. Prisoners' drug use, drug smuggling and drug selling have also had a growing impact on the work routines and practices of prison officers. This has led to critiques that prison staff have become 'too lenient' regarding drug use.Based on observational data, qualitative interviews and survey data,
openaire   +2 more sources

Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Interoperability Challenge in DFT Workflows Across Implementations

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Interoperability and cross‐validation remain major challenges in the computational materials science. In this work, we introduce a common input/output standard that enables internal translation across multiple workflow managers—AiiDA, PerQueue, Pipeline Pilot, and SimStack—while producing results in a unified schema.
Simon K. Steensen   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
wiley   +1 more source

Discretion in Administrative Law

open access: yesOsgoode Hall Law Journal, 1979
If administrative law is seen as the study of the use of power, one of its most important interests is discretion, since the limits on discretion are at the same time the limits on the power that anyone can have in our type of democracy.
J. H. Grey
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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source

Recognizing the public right to healthcare: the approach of Brazilian courts

open access: yesRevista de Investigações Constitucionais, 2014
This paper considers aspects of the judicialization of health care policy in Brazil.  It discusses the issue in the context of the separation of the powers of government, judicial protection of the public right to healthcare, the so-called “technical ...
Ricardo Perlingeiro
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Discretionary Power: An Autocratic Tool in Migration Policies?

open access: yesHague Journal on the Rule of Law
Abstract This article examines whether and under what conditions discretionary power qualifies as an autocratic tool. While discretion is a pervasive and often unavoidable feature of migration governance, it is not inherently autocratic.
openaire   +2 more sources

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