Imagine a world where government regulation of gasoline, justified by scarcity of supply, allowed 20% of the gasoline in the U.S. to be used for farming; 20% for manufacturing; 20% for home use; 20% for government; and another 20% held in reserve for future potential government uses. In this world, prices would regulate the use of gasoline within each sector, but consumers would pay vastly diff...

Propelled by a national concern with social justice and health disparities, the notion of cultural competency is being incorporated into both government regulation and professional standards. Although most of the standards that are being developed nationally apply at the institutional level, it is in the clinical setting where the expectation of cultural competency is the most demanding. The re...

This feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specific goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Depar...

Regulations concerning different modes of transport of dangerous goods are well harmonized at global level: they were then looked at as a model for developing Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), (on which CLP Regulations is based). Transport regulations do not cover some hazard classes, such as germ cell mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxi...

Title of thesis: COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR PARAMETRIC MODELING AND ARCHITECTURE-ENERGY ASSESSMENT OF BUILDING FLOORPLANS Eddie Tseng, Master of Science, 2015 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor Mark Austin Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ISR Modern building systems can be exceedingly complex. In this research we develop a computational framework for the parametric mo...

Recently, there has been a noticeable increase of attention to regulatory compliance. As a result, more and more organizations are required to comply with the laws and regulations that apply to their industry sector. An important aspect of these regulations is directly related to the way by which software systems, used by regulated companies, are built, tested, and maintained. While some of the...

Production safety standards are the foundation of industry supervision, basic requirements and measurement scales for production enterprises to achieve management standardization, onsite operation standardization. They construction sanitary ceramics consolidate management, improve intrinsic equipment, strengthen personnel awareness, The implementation main responsibility enterprise necessary bu...

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) has initiated a paradigm shift in data protection toward greater choice and sovereignty for individuals more accountability organizations. Its strict rules have inspired regulations other parts of the world. However, many organizations are facing difficulty complying with EU-GDPR: these new types cannot be addressed by an adaptat...