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The Plastic treaty: What is in it for Africa?

open access: yesPublic Health Challenges, 2023
The new plastic treaty, slated for 2024, represents a shift in the global fight to address environmental pollution and degradation. The international agreement, unlike previous resolutions, covers the lifecycle of plastics and represents a legally ...
Deborah Oluwaseun Shomuyiwa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mongolia’s Diplomatic Efforts to Join the United Nations and the Changes in the Position of the Great Powers

open access: yesThe Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2021
This article discusses Mongolia’s 15 years of diplomatic efforts to join the United Nations, the main factors that influenced it, and the changing policies and positions of the Soviet Union, the Kuomintang of China, the United States, and other great ...
Ulambayar Denzenlkham
doaj   +1 more source

The Cytoplasmic MicroRNA‐Production Complex Regulates MicroRNA Sorting to Extracellular Vesicles During Synaptogenesis

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The mechanisms of microRNA cargo sorting to extracellular vesicles, important mediators of cell communication, are not fully understood. This study reveals that the microRNA‐production machinery acts as a ‘hub’ for the sorting of microRNAs to extracellular vesicles, a process regulated by dynamic organelle interactions.
Yuzhou Zeng   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Atlantic First Nations Water Authority: an Indigenous water utility guided by Etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing

open access: yesFACETS
The Atlantic First Nations Water Authority (AFNWA) is the first Indigenous-owned and operated water and wastewater utility in Canada, providing service to 12 First Nations (at the time of this publication), with a Board of Directors composed of Chiefs ...
Megan Fuller   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fatigue‐Driven Adaptive Assistance for a Semi‐Active Upper‐Limb Occupational Exoskeleton

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Physical fatigue during a physical activity is estimated in real time to enable adaptive exoskeleton assistance. By continuously adjusting the level of support according to the user’s fatigue, this approach reduces physical demand and provides a pathway toward personalized exoskeleton assistance.
Seemab Zakir   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Importance of Contracts and Oath Treaties of 10th and 11th Centuries in Analyzing Relations between Central State and Dominions [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2016
Treaty or Pledge is one of the official epistolary writings of the 10th and 11th centuries which are extant today. With analysis of the epistolary writings and historical texts of the aforementioned centuries, we can divide them in to two major ...
Ali Rezaeyan, Ghasem Salari
doaj   +1 more source

Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tax treaty interpretation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
PhDThis thesis analyses which principles should govern the interpretation of tax treaties. This field is complex - because tax treaties have a dual status.
Edwardes-Ker, Michael
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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Instruments for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: An Historical Appraisal

open access: yesDiversity, 2017
This paper critically reviews the evolution of concepts and principles that inspired the adoption and enforcement of international instruments related to the conservation, exchange and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture ...
Andrea Sonnino
doaj   +1 more source

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