One of two articles related to the current organ shortage, this article advocates the need for legislation to recognize organs and tissues separated from the body as a distinct category of personal property. After addressing the legislative history of organ procurement and psychological barriers to donor consent, the article examines the importance of separating the lifetime rights of ownership...

ystematic study of local politics in the Russian Federation has just begun. As a result, relatively little attention has been devoted to the legislative/representative bodies elected in many Russian cities during the 1990s.1 The following study of these institutions in Novosibirsk, an old industrial city in the geographic center of the Russian Federation, is based on the author’s direct observa...

Recorded votes in legislative bodies are an important source of data for political scientists. Voting records can be used to describe parliamentary processes, identify ideological divides between members and reveal the strength of party cohesion. We explore the problem of working with vote data using popular dimensionality reduction techniques and cluster validation methods, as an alternative t...

Legislative bodies and the general public both demand that suffering is minimized when animals are used for scientific purposes, which is important for both ethical and scientific reasons. In addition to refined experimental methods and good husbandry practice, the recognition of reduced wellbeing is a prerequisite to assure the welfare of laboratory animals. It is essential to be able to recog...

Nowadays, it is a common ascertainment that stormwater runoff in the urban and interurban road network consist non-point source pollution which contributes to the degrading of the quality of water of ground and surface water bodies. Taking into account the fact that water pollution has impacts to people and also to flora and fauna, the need to take measures in order to confront this environment...

In this paper we will present a method for mining information within legal texts, in particular in regards to corpora of statutes. Text mining, or more in general Information Extraction, can provide valuable help to people involved in research about the linguistic structure of statutes, and, as a side effect can be the seed for a new generation of applications for validation and conversion in t...

Abstract Background Licences to operate pharmacy premises are issued by statutory regulatory bodies. The Health Institutions and Facilities Act (Act 829) Professions Regulatory Bodies 857) regulate the business of supplying restricted medicines retail, respectively, this could create a potential overlap for practice in Ghana. We theorise that regulation duties stems from how law-makers framed i...