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Siyasah Shar'iyah or the Policies of Islamic Government

American 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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The Interoperability Challenge in DFT Workflows Across Implementations

Advanced 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, Tushar Singh Thakur, Manuel Dillenz, Johan M. Carlsson, Celso R. C. Rêgo, Eibar Flores, Hamidreza Hajiyani, Felix Hanke, Juan María García Lastra, Wolfgang Wenzel, Nicola Marzari, Tejs Vegge, Giovanni Pizzi, Ivano E. Castelli   +13 more
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Drugs and discretionary power in prisons: The officer's perspective [PDF]

International 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,
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Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Courts: A Four‐Test Framework

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A structured framework for responsible AI applications relating to judicial decision‐making and the adjudicative functions of courts requires the satisfaction of multiple context‐specific safeguards. This article proposes a four‐test framework designed to evaluate whether AI systems used in courts operate in accordance with legal, procedural ...
Kwan Yiu Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

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

American 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
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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

American 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
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It's a Match, Isn't It? Developing a Checklist on Matching Secondary Data at the Example of Job Control

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Few datasets simultaneously capture occupational exposures and health outcomes in a general working population. To understand associations between occupational exposures and health, researchers often combine existing datasets. As occupation codes are available in many datasets, combining these datasets seems a straight‐forward option. However,
Franziska J. Kößler, Candice Y. Johnson, Amel Omari, Kaori Fujishiro   +3 more
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Empowering supervisors with more principles and discretion to implement them will not reduce the dangers of the prudential approach to financial regulation

PSL Quarterly Review, 2010
The paper addresses two main points: the deficiencies of the past regulatory design and the additional dangers coming from financial reforms that increase the regulatory powers of supervisors.
Mario Tonveronachi
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Discretion in Administrative Law

Osgoode 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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Discretionary Power: An Autocratic Tool in Migration Policies?

Hague 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.
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