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The UK’s Modern Slavery Legislation: An Early Assessment of Progress [PDF]

Social Inclusion, 2017
In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as ‘world-leading’. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK.
Gary Craig
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Divorce reform and the image of the child [PDF]

, 1996
This article analyses the images of the child which underpinned debates on the Family Law Act 1996 and which justified particular provisions of that Act in relation to the substantive law and procedure of the divorce process.
Piper, CD
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'Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place': Anti-discrimination Legislation in the Liberal State and the Fate of the Australian Disability Discrimination Act [PDF]

, 2002
This article offers a critical analysis of some of the practical implications for disabled people of the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992. Specifically, it raises questions about politics and the role of the law as an instrument of social change ...
ACROD, ACROD, Attridge M., Banks R., Barnes C., Barry N., CAA [Community Aid Abroad], Cabassi J., Charlesworth H., Gooding C., Graham H.D., Greenwood G., Howe B., HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], Jones M., Jones M., Kanter A.S., Laski H., Mackimon C., Maddox G., Mason A., Menzies R., Mosley A., NSWADB [New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board], NSWADB [New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board], Pengelly K., Peter Handley, Riker W., Thornton M., UPIAS [Union of the Physically Impaired against Segregation], Yeatman A.   +33 more
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Nine years of comparative effectiveness research education and training: initiative supported by the PhRMA Foundation [PDF]

, 2018
The term comparative effectiveness research (CER) took center stage with passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009). The companion US$1.1 billion in funding prompted the launch of initiatives to train the scientific workforce capable of
Brixner, Diana I, Cannon, Eileen, Devine, Emily Beth, Gagnon, Jean Paul, Garrison, Louis P, Murray, Michael D, Perfetto, Eleanor, Pickard, A Simon, Schumock, Glen T, Segal, Jodi B   +9 more
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Physician Quality Reporting System Program Updates and the Impact on Emergency Medicine Practice

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2016
In 2007, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) created a novel payment program to create incentives for physician’s to focus on quality of care measures and report quality performance for the first time.
Jennifer L. Wiler, MD, MBA, Michael Granovsky, MD, Stephen V. Cantrill, MD, Richard Newell, MD, MPH, Arjun K. Venkatesh, MD, MBA, MHS, Jeremiah D. Schuur, MD, MHS   +5 more
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Should an institution that has commercial rights in a new drug or device be allowed to evaluate the technology? [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2005
BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE: In the United States, the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 encouraged universities to license inventions for commercial development.
Ross McKinney, David Korn
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The Bodybuilding Passage To The Act Of The Adolescent

, 2012
Objective: this work focuses on bodybuilding as narcissistic inscription of the relational dynamic of the ego and the body, in this sense we think that this symptomatic adolescent act highlights a defective image of the body, leading, by a sadistic passage exercized on the split body, to an Ego/body-ideal.
L. Chikhani, H. Issa
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Ideology, Electoral Incentives, PAC Contributions, and the Agricultural Act of 2014

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018
This paper examines the effects of interest group Political Action Committee (PAC) spending on the passage of the Agricultural Act of 2014. I use a mixed-process model to examine correlations between ideology, constituent characteristics, and PAC ...
Levi A. Russell
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Anti-Trafficking in the Time of FOSTA/SESTA: Networked Moral Gentrification and Sexual Humanitarian Creep

Social Sciences, 2021
Globally, sex workers have highlighted the harms that accompany anti-prostitution efforts advanced via anti-trafficking policy, and there is a growing body of social science research that has emerged documenting how anti-trafficking efforts contribute to
Jennifer Musto, Anne E. Fehrenbacher, Heidi Hoefinger, Nicola Mai, P. G. Macioti, Calum Bennachie, Calogero Giametta, Kate D’Adamo   +7 more
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A mesoscopic Tera-hertz pulse detector

, 1999
We show that, under the passage of an electromagnetic terahertz pulse, an asymmetric double barrier device may act as an on/off current switch, depending on the bias.
Claro, F., Orellana, P.
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