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Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development

In the face of mounting environmental degradation and persistent poverty over the previous decade, Johannesburg’s World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) of August and September 2002 inherited a number of unmet accords from the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. Consequently, the United Nations Stakeholder Forum Implementation Conference (IC) was convened to integrate civil society stakeh...

Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society

The Cold War’s end stimulated new interest in a long-standing UN institution: the World Summit. World summits are one-time conferences organized by the UN to address global issues such as environment, housing, or food. They involve thousands of policy makers working together over several years to develop consensual visions of principles and possible solutions to some of humankind’s most challen...

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The Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake and its Tsunami caused serious damage to the pacific coast in northeastern Japan including Iwate prefecture. We suppose it is important to present the serious situation in the disaster areas to gain public understanding and support. In this paper, we propose Reconstruction Watcher which presents visually reconstruction progress to gain public understan...

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The low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) represent a group of antithrombotic and anticoagulant drugs which were initially developed for the prophylaxis of surgical thrombosis some 20 years ago. Today these drugs are used in expanded indication including venous thrombosis, cardiovascular disorders, thrombotic and ischemic strokes, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Because of the polytherap...

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