The Nitrate Exposure and Infant Risk Study (NEXIR) was performed by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Division of Environmental Health, with support from the Minnesota Future Resources Fund as recommended by the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCMR). The study investigated the occurrence of nitrate and bacteria in private drinking water wells and the potential health impa...

the formation of the expediency council was a new and innovate development which had not been foreseen in the ratified constitution of november 1979, perhaps the legislators of the constitution at that time, had anticipated in all good will, that all responsible executive and legislative authorities of all ranks and responsibilities, would while addressing specific demands inherent in any given...

1 This is a revised version of the first chapter of my dissertation and I stand in great debt to my dissertation supervisor Andrew Postlewaite, Stephen Coate, and Stephen Morris for comments, suggestions, encouragement, and patience. Two referees and an associate editor provided detailed comments and criticism that led to significant improvements of the paper. I also thank George Mailath, Andre...

a central problem ill empirical macroeconomics is to determine when and how much the exchange rate is misaligned. this paper clarifies and calculates the concept of’ the equilibrium real exchange rate, using a structural vector auto regression (var) model. by imposing long—run restrictions on a var model for iran, lour structural shocks are identified: nominal demand, real demand, supply and oi...

Good performances of food companies depend more and more on the organizational ability of the whole sector to promote common strategies. At the EU level national food sectors are oriented on the same strategic direction by common legislative acts. A new ex-ante regulations’ impacts assessment methodology is proposed as part of a decision support system for the policy maker in charge of the sect...

Coherence and alignment of the legislative language highly contribute to the quality of legislative processes, to the clarity of legislative texts and to their accessibility. DALOS aims at ensuring that legal drafters and decision-makers have control over the multilingual language of European legislation, and over the linguistic and conceptual issues involved in its transposition at national le...