Treaty-text Loyalists’ Burden with Subsequent State Practice

Practice Guidelines: Full Text

Andrew E. Epstein, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS, Chair*; John P. DiMarco, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS*; Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS*; N. A. Mark Estes, III, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS; Roger A. Freedman, MD, FACC, FHRS*; Leonard S. Gettes, MD, FACC, FAHA; A. Marc Gillinov, MD, FACC, FAHA*†; Gabriel Gregoratos, MD, FACC, FAHA; Stephen C. Hammill, MD, FACC, FHRS; David L. Hayes, MD, FACC, FAHA, F...

Constitutional Treaty Between Problem - Solving Treaty and Rights - Based Constitution

State-to-State Investment Treaty Arbitration: A Hybrid Theory of Interdependent Rights and Shared Interpretive Authority

Most investment treaties contain two dispute resolution clauses: one permitting investor-state arbitration for investment disputes and the other permitting state-to-state arbitration for disputes concerning the treaty’s interpretation and/or application. Despite this duality, the potential role of state-to-state arbitration, and its proper relationship with investor-state arbitration, have larg...

US Treaty-making with American Indians

Native Americans are unique among domestic actors in that their relations with the United States government involve treaty-making, with almost 600 such documents signed between the Revolutionary War and the turn of the twentieth century. We investigate the effect of constitutional changes to the treating process in 1871, by which Congress stripped the President of his ability to negotiate direc...

Current state of bone scintigraphy protocols and practice in Japan

Objective(s): Nuclear medicine technologists in Japan often perform additional single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with or without computed tomography (CT) after whole-body imaging for bone scintigraphy. In this study, we wanted to identify the bone scanning protocols used in Japan, together with the current clinical practices. Methods:...