How do international economic adjudicators approach the question of systemic integration? Systemic integration could be a powerful tool in defragmentation legal order. Yet, it is complex tool, coalescing between rule interpretation and normative ideal coherent By undertaking an empirical doctrinal review decisions World Trade Organization (WTO) investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms, pape...

Abstract Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has been framed as crisis . This introductory essay maps these recent developments elaborates conceptual potentials limitations “crisis” frame. It also brief...

One of the visual tasks adopted as an "exemplar" for techniques by the Alvey MMI-007 consortium has been the detection and identification of vehicles in natural scenes. We have adopted a knowledge-based approach to the task, which seeks to explain the 2-D image in terms of known context and known geometry of the 3-D object being identified. This approach differs markedly from the more familiar ...

football participation requires considerable utilization of both aerobic and anaerobic energy systems to match the high energetic demands of the sport. the consequent stresses imposed on the physiological and metabolic systems carries players to the threshold of exhaustion during match-play, from which they are required to recover in preparation for the subsequent game. a high number of players...

introduction: chronic hepatitis b and c will result in limitations of physical and mental functions which in turn reduces the quality of life of the patients. this study examines the quality of life in patients with chronic hepatitis b and c in rasht razi hospital between the period of 2003-2004. materials and methods: in this cross- sectional study, 74 patients with chronic hepatititis living ...