The Belt and Road Initiative has the potential to update current investment dispute settlement mechanism established by China its partner countries. According practical contexts of region, this article evaluates trade-offs associated with existing, emerging, proposed mechanisms, including informal means, domestic courts, interstate ISDS (Investor-State Dispute Settlement), regional court intern...

BACKGROUND Kidney paired donation (KPD) is an exchange of organs between two live donors, who are otherwise ABO incompatible or cross-match positive, and their intended recipients. The outcome is the generation of compatible transplants conferring an improvement in quality of life and longevity. METHODS Medline was searched for articles on KPD using a combination of keywords. Publications foc...

Informal settlements, sometimes called slums, are sites of significant environmental risk in developing cities. Despite its challenges, residents prefer to live informal settlements rather than planned allocated plots. This paper assesses the determinants households’ residential location decision an settlement Port Harcourt order gain understanding on what makes individuals consider a particula...

BACKGROUND As part of a larger dermatological investigation undertaken in 1999 - 2001 involving the Department of Dermatology, Groote Schuur Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nottingham University (UK), household pesticide use was investigated among Xhosa-speaking families living in three areas in South Africa (a rural area, an urban township and an informal settlement). OBJECTIVES The a...