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BALANCING SOFT AND HARD LAW FOR BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2018
In the wake of increasing corporate disasters, there has been an urgent need to address the impact of business on human rights. Yet business responsibilities for human rights are mainly voluntary and best understood as ‘soft law’.
B. Choudhury
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Formulating agencies: Working methods and cooperation between contemporary subjects of harmonization of International trade law [PDF]

Strani pravni život, 2018
Institutions in the form of so called formulating agencies have greatly contributed to the harmonization of international trade law. Their efforts in finding common principles in different national trade laws are all in the service of providing ...
Mijatović Marija
doaj  

Auditing Standards and the Accountability of the European Court of Auditors (ECA)

Utrecht Law Review, 2018
External auditors, both in the private and in the public sector, provide information to citizens and other stakeholders. The quality of this information – their auditing products – relies on ‘standards’.
Alex Brenninkmeijer, Gaston Moonen, Raphael Debets, Branislav Hock   +3 more
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Damage test and model study of soft and hard interbedded rock based on piezoelectric ceramics and DIC

Meikuang Anquan, 2023
In order to explore the damage evolution law of soft and hard interbedded rock after failure, three groups of rock-like test blocks (soft rock, interbedded rock and hard rock) were made by using the similar model theory.
Xianyin QI, Ting KE, Diandong GENG
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X-Ray Observations of XTE J1550-564 During the Decay of the 2000 Outburst - I. Chandra and RXTE Energy Spectra [PDF]

, 2001
We report on the evolution of the X-ray energy spectrum for the black hole candidate (BHC) X-ray transient XTE J1550-564 during the decay of the 2000 outburst.
Corbel, Stephane, Kaaret, Philip, Tomsick, John A.   +2 more
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Evidence for a compact jet dominating the broadband spectrum of the black hole accretor XTE J1550-564 [PDF]

, 2010
[abridged] The black hole X-ray binary XTE J1550-564 was monitored extensively at X-ray, optical and infrared wavelengths throughout its outburst in 2000.
Aref’ev, Belloni, Belloni, Blandford, Buxton, Cabanac, Cardelli, Casella, Charles, Corbel, Corbel, Corbel, Corbel, Corbel, Corbel, Coriat, D. M. Russell, D. Maitra, Done, Done, Dunn, Dunn, Falcke, Falcke, Falcke, Fender, Fender, Fender, Fender, Fender, Gallo, Gallo, Gallo, Gierliński, Gilfanov, Grove, Gültekin, Heinz, Heinz, Homan, Hynes, Hynes, Jain, Joinet, Kaaret, Kaiser, Kalemci, Kanbach, Körding, Körding, Körding, Maccarone, Maccarone, Maitra, Malzac, Markoff, Markoff, Markoff, Merloni, Migliari, Migliari, Migliari, Miller, Mirabel, Miyakawa, Motta, Narayan, Nowak, Orosz, R. J. H. Dunn, Reilly, Rodriguez, Russell, Russell, Russell, S. Markoff, Shahbaz, Sunyaev, Tomsick, Tomsick, Xue, Yuan, Zdziarski   +82 more
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The Fragility of Gender Equality Policies in Spain

Social Sciences, 2016
Within the last decade, Spain has become a model in legislative policies for gender equality at the international level. However, the economic crisis has led to a growth in inequality, which has revealed the weaknesses of the adopted instruments. Despite
Octavio Salazar Benítez
doaj   +1 more source

Hard Scattering and Gauge/String Duality [PDF]

, 2001
We consider high-energy fixed-angle scattering of glueballs in confining gauge theories that have supergravity duals. Although the effective description is in terms of the scattering of strings, we find that the amplitudes are hard (power law). This is a
A. Brandhuber, A. M. Polyakov, A. W. Peet, D. J. Gross, E. Witten, E. Witten, G. 't Hooft, I. R. Klebanov, J. Maldacena, J. Maldacena, J. Polchinski, J. R. Forshaw, Joseph Polchinski, M. B. Green, Matthew J. Strassler, R. A. Janik, S. B. Giddings, S. Rey, V. A. Matveev, V. Balasubramanian, V. Balasubramanian   +20 more
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Global Migration Law in Tunisia: The Potential of the Global Compact for Migration to Support the Ratification of the United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers Rights

Laws
While Tunisia endorsed the non-binding Global Compact for Migration (GCM), it has not yet ratified the binding International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW).
Younous Arbaoui, Amina Semaoui
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X-ray and Radio Monitoring of GX 339-4 and Cyg X-1

, 2004
Previous work by Motch et al. (1985) suggested that in the low/hard state of GX339-4, the soft X-ray power-law extrapolated backward in energy agrees with the IR flux level.
C. Motch, E. Gallo, H. Falcke, J. Homan, J. Wilms, K. Pottschmidt, M.A. Nowak, M.A. Nowak, Michael Nowak, R.P. Fender, S. Corbel, S. Heinz, S. Heinz, S. Markoff, S. Markoff, S. Markoff   +15 more
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