Constitutional principles of technical creation regulation

Constitutional constraints on the regulation of cloning.

E-voting: Constitutional and Legal Requirements and Their Technical Implications

This paper provides a systematic overview of the major constitutional and legal aspects of e-voting, together with their technical implications. All democracyoriented legal and constitutional requirements of an Internet-based voting system are identified. Such a voting system has to comply with these, in order to encourage and promote the participation of citizens, without violating any of thei...

Colonial Cousins: Explaining India and Canada's Unwritten Constitutional Principles

Principles of effective research Technical note 0404

This essay is intended as a letter to both myself and others, to hold up in the sharpest possible terms an ideal of research I believe is worth working toward. I’ve deliberately limited the essay to ten pages, hoping that the resulting omissions are compensated by the forced brevity. This is a rather personal essay; it’s not the sort of thing I’d usually make publicly available. I’ve made the e...

Principles of Transcriptional Regulation

In Chapter 12 we saw how DNA is transcribed into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase. We also described the sequence elements that constitute a promoter—the region at the start of a gene where the enzyme binds and initiates transcription. In bacteria the most common form of RNA polymerase (that bearing 70) recognizes promoters formed from three elements—the “ 10”, “ 35”, and “UP” elements— and we ...