This article reviews the vibrant literature on policy growth in political science and adjacent disciplines, thus offering a conceptual framework for situating past future research efforts facilitating engagement between them. The first part presents important concepts that capture or aspects of it (rule growth, layering, mixes, accumulation, policyscapes, state) dominant measurement approaches....

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Surveillance is a triennial worldwide compendium of national rules and regulations for assisted reproductive technology. It was last published in 2007.

The main source of changing requirements of the dynamic business environment is response to changes in regulations and contracts towards which businesses are obligated to comply. At the same time, many organizations have their business processes specified independently of their business obligations (which include adherence to contracts laws an...

Gene Ontology (GO) provides a controlled vocabulary and hierarchy of terms to facilitate the annotation of gene functions and molecular attributes. Given a set of genes, a Gene Ontology Network (GON) can be constructed from the corresponding GO annotations and semantic relations among GO terms. Transitive rules can be applied to GO semantic relations to infer transitive regulations among genes....

Successful management of environmental quality via regulation by federal, state and local governments depends on citizen and stakeholder support. Without it, limited capabilities for enforcing compliance from unwilling citizens and legislative action to overturn unpopular regulations would doom attempts to regulate. Increasingly, public agencies responsible for formulating environmental regulat...