T his paper is one of four interrelated papers resulting from the National Summit on Legal Preparedness for Obesity Prevention and Control (Summit) convened in June 2008 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the American Society of Law, Medicine, & Ethics. Each of the papers deals with one of the four core elements of legal preparedness...

investment in oil and gas upstream activities is very important for the exploration and development of oil and gas fields. different and various laws and regulations deal with the investment in upstream operations. by reviewing these various laws and regulations, this research paper tries to discuss to what extent these laws and regulations have created legal confident for foreign investment up...

Biocosmology is based on the principle that the laws of the biological microcosm mimic the laws of the macrocosm. A number of observations show that rules governing the complexity of living beings, i.e. the principles of juxtaposition and integration leading to mosaic structures, can be found in several other fields involving complexity: memory, consciousness, language, drawing, music, technica...

In late 2001, during the aftermath of the anthrax letter attacks, model legislation was proposed to relevant state agencies to update their states' public health laws to meet the threat of bioterrorism. This legislation was the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. A concern underlying this and related efforts to address future bioterrorism threats was the perceived inadequacy of state laws ...

Modus ponens provides the central theme. There are laws, of the form A → C. A logic (or other theory) L collects such laws. Any datum A (or theory T incorporating such data) provides input to the laws of L. The central ternary relation R relates theories L; T and U , where U consists of all of the outputs C got by applying modus ponens to major premises from L and minor premises from T . Underl...

The prevalence of new cases of diabetes continues to increase, and the health burden for those with diabetes remains high. This is attributable, in part, to low adoption of evidence-based interventions for diabetes prevention and control. Law is a critical tool for health improvement, yet assessments reported in this paper indicate that federal, state, and local laws give only partial support t...

The Internet has revolutionized communication on a global level while creating a medium for stalking. Cyberstalking has emerged as a new form of stalking behavior. While 10 states have passed laws against electronic harassment, there has been great debate about whether electronic stalking constitutes criminal behavior or whether a perpetrator is entitled First Amendment protection. In the psych...

When the only force acting on a particle is always directed towards a fixed point, the motion is called central force motion. This type of motion is particularly relevant when studying the orbital movement of planets and satellites. The laws which govern this motion were first postulated by Kepler and deduced from observation. In this lecture, we will see that these laws are a consequence of Ne...

We study legal and policy issues surrounding crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, and how those issues interact with technical design options. With an interdisciplinary team, we consider in depth a variety of issues surrounding law, policy, and crypto currencies — such as the physical location where a crypto currency’s value exists for jurisdictional and other purposes, the regulation of anonymo...

The definition of what is being auctioned should cover all the specifications and incentives that govern the concession, whether they are included in the concession contract or in laws, regulations, or elsewhere. Where concessions are new, concession contracts may run to hundreds of pages and several volumes, as in the case of the Buenos Aires water concession. In France, by contrast, a long tr...