According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), smoking accounts for 5 million deaths annually and may reach 10 million a year in the next 15 years if nothing is done to prevent the expansion of tobacco consumption, currently concentrated in the developing countries. This scenario led 190 countries to propose, during the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 1999, the negotiation of the...

Abstract The prosecutorial independence of the Attorney General (AG) is a firmly established constitutional convention in Canada, but it also an evolving convention, subject to ongoing contestation and debate. This article contribution that It defends normative framework wherein AG’s authority make final decisions matters criminal prosecution balanced against corresponding duty consult with cab...

The diffusive dynamics of a particle in a medium with space-dependent friction coefficient is studied within the framework of the inertial Langevin equation. In this description, the ambiguous interpretation of the stochastic integral, known as the Itô-Stratonovich dilemma, is avoided since all interpretations converge to the same solution in the limit of small time steps. We use a newly develo...

Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin, a specialist firm based in Washington DC, has honed a niche as expert intelligence gatherers, helping tobacco companies such as Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds to damage tobacco control efforts, including the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

When arguments are repeated in a procedure call, aliasing arises and plays havoc with specification and reasoning. To prevent this aliasing, which renders the semantics of a language unclean even when all other sources of aliasing are avoided, we propose a simple new scheme for parameter passing that uses initial values for passing second and subsequent repeated arguments and localizes the effe...

SUMITOMO KAGAKU 2008-I persistent organic pollutant (POP) together with dioxins and nine chlorine-based agricultural chemicals that have similar properties to PCBs, such as DDT and chlordane. Furthermore, in order to prevent pollution from spreading globally, an international convention concerning usage regulations and disposal of POPs (the Stockholm Convention: POPs Convention) was adopted in ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This study considers the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a tool for promoting the full social inclusion of people with a mental or intellectual disability. RECENT FINDINGS The United Nations Convention has ushered in a new era of discourse that moves beyond a consideration of individual impairments, to focus on the social and environme...