Telephone surveys made of 800-1,000 randomly selected residents of the United States and New Jersey in 2003 show a sharp decline in support for antipollution regulations, although pollution remains a major concern. This drop in support is associated with slowing of the economy, fear of terrorism, and other competing priorities. The leading proponents of maintaining strong environmental regulati...

An open multi-agent system should enable regulatory dynamics easily in order to provide updated information about the system enforcement for its law-aware agents. This work presents a case study where agents can dynamically adapt their behaviors according to current enforcements of contextual laws. The case study uses a flexible solution for contextual regulations, which includes a top-down con...

States have a duty under international human rights law to protect people's health. Nonetheless, while some health-related policies and laws protect basic human rights, others violate fundamental rights when they criminalize, prohibit, and restrict access to necessary health services. For example, laws and regulations related to protection of life from conception, contraception, actions of preg...

Regulatory compliance is increasingly viewed as an essential element of requirements engineering. Laws, but also regulations and policies, frame their provisions through complex structures made of conditions, derogations, exceptions, which together generate a high number of alternative compliance solutions. This paper addresses the problem of modeling, exploring and selecting among alternatives...

For nearly 40 years, federal law has barred certain individuals with a history of mental health treatment from purchasing, receiving, or possessing firearms. State laws are a patchwork of different regulations, some much more inclusive than the federal statute, others that parallel it closely. In some states, such laws are nonexistent. For the past 20 years, it has been possible to petition for...

PURPOSE Most states regulate abortion differently than other health care services. Examples of these regulations include mandating waiting periods and the provision of state-authored information, and prohibiting private and public insurance coverage for abortion. The primary purpose of this paper is to explore abortion patients' perspectives on these regulations. METHODS We recruited 20 parti...

The hierarchy of laws and regulations, as stipulated in Article 7 Law No. 12 2011, shows the types levels regulations force Indonesia. In addition to regulated 7, 8 paragraph (1) 2011 also regulates other that are legally recognized. existence 8, has reaped a number problems. One them is position regulation identification which state ministries/institutions entitled issue referred No.12 2011. T...