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The legitimate expectations of the investor in contrast to the essential ‎security interests of the host state and its analysis as a political risk [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Khuṣūṣī, 2019
The governments is trying to reconcile between the two Targets to encourage and ‎support foreign investment on the one side and protect of their essential interests on the ‎other hand,Sometimes in conflict with each other, Manage have taken of inserting ...
mehdi meyhami
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Global and Regional Temporal Changes in Cross‐Country Inequalities of Site‐Specific Osteoarthritis Burden, 1990 to 2021

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study examined the global and regional temporal changes in cross‐country inequalities of site‐specific osteoarthritis (OA) burden from 1990 to 2021. Methods Age‐standardized years lived with disability rates (ASYRs) for site‐specific OA across 204 countries and territories were obtained from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and ...
Haowei Chen, Lei Si, David J. Hunter, Lei Zhang, Zhe‐Sheng Chen, Xiaomeng Wang, Vicky Duong, Zhounan Zhou, Peihua Cao, Han Cen, Su'an Tang, Tianyu Chen, Houjun Xue, Zhaohua Zhu, Changhai Ding   +14 more
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Responsible Business Conduct in the European Union’s Investment Policy

Comparative Economic Research
This paper aims to characterize the role of responsible business conduct (RBC)/corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the European Union’s (EU) common investment policy.
Janina Witkowska
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The Effects of BITs on Contract Execution in Developing Countries: Some Implications for the COVID-19 Crisis

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Bilateral investment agreements are bilateral treaties between capital exporting countries and host countries, which is specially used to protect international investment, and the contract execution is directly related to the daily operation of ...
Zhihan Yu, Chao Zhou, Chao Zhou, Qin Wang, Ke Hu, Ke Su, Mengqi Zhang   +6 more
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Physician Referral Patterns to Physical Therapists for Managing Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Analysis of Electronic Health Records From an Integrated Health System

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aims to describe the frequency and timing of physician referrals to physical therapists (PTs) and other treatments prescribed over 12 months in patients with recent onset of knee osteoarthritis (KOA). The study also aims to identify determinants of early PT referrals.
Samannaaz S. Khoja, Joel M. Stevans, Gustavo J. Almeida, Clair Smith, Janet K. Freburger   +4 more
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Corporate human rights obligations of investors in recent investment agreements: The progressive hardening process of CSR clauses

Heliyon, 2023
Since the earlier indirect Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provisions failed to hold investors responsible for human rights abuses, the recent hardening process of direct CSR clauses has resulted in incorporating CSR clauses under sections or ...
Belengar Francis Maïnkade
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Investment Discrimination and the Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements [PDF]

, 2010
The proliferation of bilateral and regional trade agreements has arguably been the main change to the international trading system since the end of the Uruguay Round in the mid- 1990s.
Baccini, Leonardo, Duer, Andreas
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Extensive Review of Materials for Next‐Generation Transparent Batteries and Their Design Strategies

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Review explores emerging materials and design strategies for transparent batteries, examining electrodes, electrolytes, separators, and device architectures optimized for high electrochemical performance, mechanical flexibility, and optical transparency.
Atul Kumar Mishra, Shuvaraj Ghosh, Malkeshkumar Patel, Sourov Hossain, Ju‐Hyung Yun, Joondong Kim   +5 more
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Trap‐Assisted Transport and Neuromorphic Plasticity in Lead‐Free 2D Perovskites PEA2SnI4

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An artificial retina built from lead‐free layered perovskite (PEA)2SnI4 converts light input into a persistent photocurrent and sums successive flashes over time. Micro/nanocrystals integrated on electrodes act as synapse‐like pixels that perform temporal integration directly in hardware. This in‐sensor preprocessing merges detection and computation on
Ofelia Durante, Valeria Demontis, Jonas Riisnaes Karl, Lam Hoi Tung, Sebastiano De Stefano, Daniela Marongiu, Adolfo Mazzotti, Aditya Bhardwaj, Francesco Mattana, Elisa Pili, Selene Matta, Federico Paolucci, Michele Saba, Andrea Mura, Giovanni Bongiovanni, Monica F Craciun, Saverio Russo, Antonio Di Bartolomeo   +17 more
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection in International Investment: Legal Risks and Strategic Responses for Multinational Companies

SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society
Against the backdrop of ongoing globalisation and the rapid development of the digital economy, the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has become a key factor in the overseas investment decisions of multinational companies (MNCs).
Jingyi Zhang
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