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Emerging Nanotechnology Strategies for Obesity Therapy

Advanced Science, Volume 12, Issue 32, August 28, 2025.
Three types of nanomaterials used for obesity treatment are highlighted, including inorganic nanomaterials, organic nanomaterials and biomimetic nanomaterials. A detailed and comprehensive introduction to the recent nanotechnology strategies for obesity management is also provided, including drug delivery, photodynamic therapy, hyperthermia, gas ...
Weili Chang, Zhaoxu Meng, Yuezhu Zhao, Yake Qi, Zhou Li, He Lian   +5 more
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Addressing Climate Change and Advancing Green Development: Regional Transition Mechanisms for a Sustainable Future in Belt and Road Initiative Nations

Sustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 6139-6167, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of regional transition and multilateral cooperation mechanisms on green development (GD) and climate change mitigation across 64 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner nations (21 Asia, 22 Europe, 21 Africa and Middle East) from 2006 to 2021.
Atta Ullah, Haitham Nobanee, Saif Ullah, Saba Khan   +3 more
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Montenegro recap: The standard of fair and equitable treatment (FET) as a catalyst for investment disputes [PDF]

Strani pravni život
The fair and equitable treatment (FET) standard stands for one of the most significant yet debated principles in safeguarding foreign investments. While its wording is often broad and vague, its definition often emerges through arbitral awards based on ...
Tomović Nikolina
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Stringency and dissimilarity of Maximum Residue Levels affect bilateral agri‐food trade stability

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 1162-1190, July 2025.
Abstract Food standards are rising in both prevalence and stringency. They protect consumers and may enhance demand stability but also pose compliance challenges to producers, with ambiguous effects on the stability of trade relationships. We analyze the impact of importers' Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) along with bilateral MRL dissimilarity between ...
Helena Engemann, Yaghoob Jafari, Thomas Heckelei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legitimacy Crisis in Investment Arbitration: Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Africa’s Role in the Reform-Work

German Law Journal
This Article examines the legitimacy crisis in investment arbitration with a particular focus on Africa’s historical and contemporary experiences under the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system.
Chinedu Joachin Chinedum, Somtochukwu Arthur Attamah   +1 more
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China's instrumentalist greenisation of the new‐generation IIAs

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 550-565, July 2025.
Abstract In the context of the global trend of greening international investment agreements (IIAs) after Rio+20, China is taking a more active role in greening its IIAs than before, albeit with inconsistent patterns. This article analyses the driving factors for its change after Rio+20 and argues that China's IIA greenisation is instrumentalist at ...
Shixue Hu
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Bilateral investment treaties and sovereign default risk: Evidence for emerging markets

International Journal of Finance &Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 1803-1830, April 2025.
Abstract This paper analyses the impact of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on sovereign default risk using monthly data for 29 emerging markets from 1996 to 2016. Under a BIT, foreign investors can use an international arbitration scheme to enforce compensation claims against the host country's government.
Stefan Eichler, Jannik André Nauerth
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Improvements to the system of host country regulatory authority in the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Mechanism

Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023
As the ISDS mechanism has been widely applied, its shortcomings have been gradually magnified, and the host country's right to regulate has been constantly challenged by foreign investors in international investment dispute settlement, and the sovereignty and public interests of the host country have been undermined as a result. This paper examines the
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The Epistemology of Corporate Power: The Limits of the Firm–State Analogy

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 197-216, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Political theorists frequently utilize the ‘firm–state analogy’ (FSA) to support the arguments for democratic governance in firms. This article presents the FSA as an analogy with both justificatory and epistemic functions. Its justificatory function provides valid justificatory strategies for workplace democracy, while its epistemic function ...
Chi Kwok
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A Report on the Flawed Proposals for Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in TTIP and CETA

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
This discussion paper elaborates on five serious flaws with proposals for investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in proposed Europe-United States and Europe-Canada trade deals known by the acronyms TTIP and CETA. The issues elaborated in the paper are: the unjustified replacement of judges with arbitrators, the lack of institutional safeguards of ...
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