SUMITOMO KAGAKU 2008-I persistent organic pollutant (POP) together with dioxins and nine chlorine-based agricultural chemicals that have similar properties to PCBs, such as DDT and chlordane. Furthermore, in order to prevent pollution from spreading globally, an international convention concerning usage regulations and disposal of POPs (the Stockholm Convention: POPs Convention) was adopted in ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This study considers the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a tool for promoting the full social inclusion of people with a mental or intellectual disability. RECENT FINDINGS The United Nations Convention has ushered in a new era of discourse that moves beyond a consideration of individual impairments, to focus on the social and environme...

Over the past decades alliance activity among companies has reached unsurpassed levels. In spite of this strong increase in alliance activity, success rates of alliances have been surprisingly low. In this paper we study two main lines of research that aim to explain alliance performance; i.e. research that has stresses the role of trust and personal interaction in inter-organizational relation...

Explored the specific behavior of therapists contributing to a child client's perception of a therapeutic alliance with youth (n = 56) who received a manualized cognitive-behavioral treatment for anxiety disorders. The first 3 sessions were coded for 11 therapist behaviors hypothesized to predict ratings of alliance. Child, therapist, and observer alliance ratings were gathered after the 3rd an...

Sexually mature male bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay cooperate by pursuing distinct alliance strategies to monopolize females in reproductive condition. We present the results of a comprehensive study in a wild cetacean population to test whether male alliance membership is a prerequisite for reproductive success. We compared two methods for inferring paternity: both calculate a likelihood rat...

Strategic alliance represents an important business activity for firms to access desirable resources and to enhance their competitive advantages. An important task concerning strategic alliance is alliance formation prediction, which can help a firm anticipate possible alliance actions of its rivals and accordingly develop strategies to prevent their partnering opportunities or neutralize the a...

 This paper examines the two most important current efforts to devise new rules binding all nations the negotiations in the WTO of trade rules and the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to devise rules restricting the annual emissions of greenhouse gases. Both negotiations have failed after several years of intensive effort. There are remarkable parallels in these ...

In their paper, Nikogosian and Kickbusch show how the effects of the adoption by the World Health Organization (WHO) of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and its first Protocol extend beyond tobacco control and contribute to public health governance more broadly, by revealing new processes, institutions and instruments. While there are certainly good reasons to be optimisti...

Trend detection in hydrologic and water quality time series has received considerable attention in the recent past for pure research purposes on methodological development and/or assessment of ecological status [1,2]. Trend assessment is of particular interest because environmental changes have been sometimes unusual in the past few decades with consequences on the environment in general, inclu...