One of the key issues in the current controversy over the hunting of wolves in Sweden is whether the wolf population has reached favourable conservation status (FCS). FCS is a legal concept, created and defined in law, but like many legal concepts within environmental law, can only be understood by reference to ecological concepts such as species viability. These ecological determinations in tu...

The effect of changes in operating conditions due to fault occurrences can alter performances in industrial processes. One way of preventing performances from degradation is to modify the control law in order to maintain the functioning of the process under acceptable operating conditions. In this paper, a Fault Tolerant Control of an Activated Sludge Process is presented. Free fault data are r...

The chemical policies of the 1970s were limited by the assumptions that lie at their foundation and focused narrowly on only the most hazardous chemicals. The effective management of chemicals requires policies that focus on the entire body of chemicals and the production systems that make them. The future will require comprehensive chemicals policies that work within a systems framework to pha...

The present study analyzes the results of 2001 survey of 81 CFOs of bt-500 companies and her most valuable PSUs in India to find out the determinants of the dividend policy decisions of the corporate India. It uses factor analytic framework on the CFOs' responses to capture the determinants of the dividend policy of corporate India. Most of the firms have target dividend payout ratio and divide...

it is disputed whether the law is an autonomous discipline or not? the adherents of the autonomy of law mainly are they, legal scholarship should be about distinctively legal topics and is not or should not be about other topics. the supporters of dependence of law mainly are legal realism, economic analysis of law, law and society, critical legal studies movement. they say the governing presup...

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it's obvious that there is a serious and powerful bond between different branches of humanities and social sciences. sociology of law is a good example in which law and sociology make an organized ensemble. sociology of law has emerged as an independent science which is, or should be, based on empiric rationality. the discipline is neither based on metaphysics (contrary to the philosophy of law...

BACKGROUND Participation in clinical trials can be useful for the health of a person, in who it is conducted, but it does not have to be - it can even be harmful. Therefore, primary motive to accept such risk is humanity and human wish to contribute to the progress of medicine; this is expressed by personal consent. The consent, however, can be an expression of personal humanity, and for this, ...