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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Fundamental Principle"”.
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Legality Matters: Crimes Against Humanity and the Legitimacy of the Las Through a Fullerian Lens
The prohibition on retroactive law is a fundamental principle of international criminal law. It is also a fundamental principle in many domestic legal systems. The principle prohibits authorities from convicting individuals for acts (or omissions) which were not criminal at the time they were …
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Human Development in Populorum Progressio: Challenging Uganda's Development Claims
… Progressio and the requisite development principles, virtues and conditions or factors presented therein. In the study I have argued that the development claims of Uganda do not, to a significant degree, meet the standards of human development advocated by Paul VI in Populorum Progressio. …
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Risky business: Moral arguments againts the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987 Can consent be engineered?
… questions of assigning risk. In a democracy a fundamental principle for imposing risk is obtaining the consent of the governed. In the case of a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Congress has ignored this basic principle. An unwilling population in a …
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Adult attachment styles and the organization of behavioral strategies in threatening conditions
A fundamental principle of attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969/1982, 1973, 1980) is that people regulate distress in threatening situations by seeking proximity to others. The current research examines the way in which attachment styles predict individual differences in behavioral strategies in …
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Assessing the Reliability of Scores Produced by the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI).
<p>The fundamental principle that reliability is a property of scores and not of instruments provides the foundation of a meta-analytic technique called reliability generalization (RG). RG studies characterize the reliability of scores generated by a given instrument and identify methodological and …
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A Marginal Returns Theory of Politics
… social science rests on a basic, ``primitive'', principle that rational agents are motivated by a quest for marginal returns to investment of time, money, and other resources. In this manuscript we argue that an analogue fundamental principle guides much of modern political science, but has …
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Priority rights of creditors in insolvency
Although it is a fundamental principle of insolvency law that all creditors are treated equally (the par! passu principle), in practice this principle is subject to a number of important exceptions. The principal exceptions are the respective rights of secured creditors, preferential creditors, …
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Age discrimination in financial services. A comparative study between Italy, UK and Austria
… is possible to see that, although equality is a fundamental principle of European law, both direct and indirect age discrimination can be justified. Therefore, this analysis focuses on Article 6 of the Directive as it allows the Member States to objectively justify age discrimination for the …
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Beyond the Threshold of Protection: Examining Non-Refoulement's Erosion in Contemporary Refugee Law through the EU-Turkey Agreement
… relevance and practical implementation of the principle of non-refoulement as established in the 1951 Refugee Convention. While this fundamental principle of international refugee law prohibits the return of individuals to countries where they face persecution, torture, or human rights …
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Flood damage reduction techniques for wastewater treatment facilities
… of Virginia Sewerage Regulations contain the fundamental principle of avoiding construction within the 100-year flood plain. However, information is not included to discuss flood damage reduction measures or flood protective design standards. The Division of Water Programs within the Virginia …
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Holistic Treatment: A Qualitative Study Of The Integration Of Chinese Medicine With Psychoanalysis In China
<p>With its fundamental principle of body-mind unity, Chinese medicine has long been regarded as one of the most influential bedrocks of holistic treatment. Given its prevalence in China, Chinese medicine (CM) is a culturally appropriate way for therapists in China to integrate with psychoanalysis. …
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The Legality of Border Walls under International Law
… of wall construction with non-refoulement (the fundamental principle of refugee law), arguing that barrier-building States are obliged to set up reasonably accessible points of entry along these structures to allow internationally protected individuals to seek refuge. In addition, the thesis …
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O Tribunal de Justiça da Paraíba e a busca pela sustentabilidade: a eficiência contra o desperdício
… resources and that appreciates the economy as a fundamental principle to reduce costs, the scope of full environmental sustainability.
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The Carrier Readiness Team realizing the vision of the Naval Aviation Enterprise
… uses modern business process tools under the fundamental principle of alignment. This process showed remarkable results at the factory-level, with production efforts generating significant savings and process efficiencies. From that initial success, the enterprise model was enlarged to overall …
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Examining "colour" as a ground of prohibited discrimination in international human rights law with specific reference to the "intra-racial" colourism against persons with albinism in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Non-discrimination is a fundamental principle of international human rights law. As seen in several instruments, the principle is enumerated by grounds upon which differentiation is prohibited. An example of this is Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial …
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Punitive Damages: A comparative study of the U.S. and Qatari law.
… essential situations that compare reality to the fundamental principle of the Civil law of damages are discussed as well as the question of whether punitive damages have been reintroduced into the Civil legal system as an additional principle of compensatory damages. As 1 an objective, the …
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Could the values or value system of a competent person, disclosed in a living will, play a role in medical treatment decision-making processes under the Mental Capacity Act 2005?
… Accordingly, bodily inviolability is a fundamental principle of law and violation of it, even for benevolent reasons, is prima facie punishable. Instead of which a competent patient has a right to self-determine what shall happen to their own body. In this way the subjective …
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Finality of Arbitral Awards: Comparing Approaches in Sharia Law and International Law
… is a breakthrough in dealing with finality, a fundamental principle of Saudi law is that the new Saudi law Act conforms to Sharia and the Kingdom’s public policy. However, with a lack of empirical cases specifically involving the New Saudi Law, it is yet to be established that it has achieved …
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Governing bodies: a Maori healing tradition in a bicultural state
… and Pākehā and an idealized pre-contact past. A fundamental principle of Te Oo Mai Reia was that for the practitioners to harness the power of the various forces that sustained life they had to be in touch with their whakapapa [genealogy] for it was through their ancestors that they could commune …
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