The article examines the prerequisites for organization and implementation of renovation modernization urban built environment in regions Russia. Since largest number multi- apartment panel residential buildings were Moscow, pilot projects reconstruction launched here. programs initially aimed at five-storey dilapidated block buildings. However, over time, 9-12-16–storey houses appear on queue,...

Since the early 2000s, terms ‘re-municipalization’ and ‘reverse privatization’ entered lexicon as several examples emerged of governments taking ownership assets services that had previously been privatized or outsourced. Various methods are used to implement re-municipalization decisions differences observed across countries sectors. The approaches most frequently adopted through contract term...

We explore a major European competition decision, the 2012-18 Gazprom case, using global gas market simulation model. find that access to LNG markets alone is insufficient counterbalance Gazprom’s strategic behaviour; central and eastern Europe (CEE) needs be well interconnected with bidirectional flow capability. ‘Swap deals’ created by decision facilitate CEE integration, while limiting...

Many of the provisions of the 1996 law overhauling the nation’s welfare system will expire at the end of the current fiscal year on September 30. The reauthorization process likely will set the stage for a major debate over one of the law’s main stated goals, reducing out-of-wedlock births, and how best to achieve it. Social conservatives favor programs and policies encouraging marriage and pro...

This paper presents and discusses a recent Israeli proposal to legislate on the rights of the dying patient. A gap exists between elitist biases of the committee proposing the law, and popular values and sentiments. The proposed law divides the dying patients into two groups: "those who wish to go on living" and "those who wish to die". The former will have a right to life prolonging extraordin...

The rapid advances in the Information and Communication Technologies have brought to the development of on-demand high quality applications and services allowing users to easily access resources anywhere anytime. Users can pay for a service and access the resources made available during their subscriptions until the subscribed periods expire. Users are then forced to download such resources if ...

ALBANY | New York state, in collaboration with several other states and Columbia University, is reviving an advisory committee on climate change that President Donald Trump’s administration disbanded. The move is aimed at helping local governments prepare for global warming. The federal advisory committee had been slated to provide guidance based on scientific findings of the latest National Cl...

There are a variety of assistance programs to replace lost earnings, some aimed at disability or illness, some aimed at low income families, and some at both. Federal disability benefits (Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)) receipt tends to be an all-absorbing state, with few recipients ever ending their benefits, but one that requires a difficult a...

This article presents a technique for Stream Reasoning, consisting in incremental maintenance of materializations of ontological entailments in the presence of streaming information. Previous work, delivered in the context of deductive databases, describes the use of logic programming for the incremental maintenance of such entailments. Our contribution is a new technique that exploits the natu...

In 1997 the Section on Breastfeeding of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published its first Policy Statement on breastfeeding. A revised statement was published in 2005 entitled ‘‘Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk.’’ Per the current regulations of the Academy, after 5 years, existing Policy Statements expire and no longer represent Academy Policy and thus must be renewed and/or r...