Non-native aquatic species can be introduced in new areas through emptying of the ballast tanks, with a high impact on health, economy and environment. This is considered by the International Maritime Organization (IMO): (i) in 2004, the IMO adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (BMW Convention) in orde...

suppressing the terrorism financing is one of the ways to combat the phenomenon of terrorism. to this end, the countries, whether directly or through the united nations, have paved the way to restrain the terrorism financing. according to the obligatory character, those measures could be classified in to three categories: 1. resolutions passed by the security council, particulary resolution 137...

379 1Project Manager, Department of Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 2Technical Officer (Legal), WHO Framework Convention Tobacco Control Secretariat, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 3Regional Adviser, Tobacco Free Initiative, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization, Regional Offic...

The General Board of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention Tuesday voted 101-9 to approve Wake Forest University's proposal to separate itself from the convention. chances before the whole convention are good. "There seems to be general approval for the proposal within the Baptist community," he said. According to Brantley, freedom to choose its own trustees would benefit Wake Forest's re...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the distribution of power in the Council of the enlarged European Union. By using generating funcions, we calculate the Banzhaf power indices for the european countries in the Council of Ministers under the decision rules prescribed by the Treaty of Nice and the new rules proposed by the European Convention. Moreover, we analyze the power of the European citi...

The Miami Conservancy District built five flood control dams after the catastrophic flood of 1913 in Dayton, Ohio. Lockington Dam was one of these five hydraulic fill structures. The Ohio State Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) issued new regulations in 1981 requiring that design flood for class I dams be considered equal to the Probable Maximum Flood (PMF). Flood routing studies performed...

In vitro reconstitution is the fundamental test for identification of the core components of a biological process. In this issue, Moriwaki and Goshima (2016. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201604118) reconstitute all phases of microtubule dynamics through the inclusion of five key regulators and demonstrate that Polo kinase activity shifts the system from an interphase mode into an e...

T terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 concentrated minds on the potential of terrorism with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), combining a timeless tactic with the most destructive weaponry. Th e margins of international tolerance of non-compliance with the WMD nonproliferation and disarmament norms and obligations narrowed dramatically after that date. Affi rming WMD proliferation as a thre...