Lessons From Early REDD+ Experiences in the Philippines by Rodel D. Lasco, Neil Aldrin D. Mallari, Florencia B. Pulhin, Ailene M. Florece, Edmund Leo B. Rico, Romnick S. Baliton, Joan P. Urquiola

“…The critical factors emerging from these early REDD+ actions are the following: external support, local participation, free prior and informed consent, capacity building, sustainability, national laws and policies, biodiversity conservation, and use of safeguards. …”
Get full text

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF URBAN AGGLOMERATION: THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS by N. Musinova, N. Popadyuk

“…At the same time, at the level of Federal legislation, there are no Federal laws, nor any normative legal acts designed to streamline the processes of coordinated development of municipalities included in the urban agglomeration. …”
Get full text

Communicating with Local Elected Officials by Ricky W. Telg, Shelli Rampold

“…Elected officials at the local, state, and national levels create policies and laws that can impact the agricultural and natural resources (ANR) sector in Florida. …”
Get full text

ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF SIMULATIVE MODELLING OF THE INFORMATION SECURITY SYSTEM IN THE CORPORATE NETWORKS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS by Vagif Gasimov, Balami Ismailov

“…The process of obtaining simulation results was implemented in the GPSS World modeling system and comparative analyzes of the main characteristics of the ISS were carried out for various laws of distribution of output parameters. At the same time, UA requests were the simplest flows, and the service time was subject to exponential, constant and Erlang distribution laws. …”
Get full text

From Science to Utopia: Marcuse and Critical Utopianism by L. A. Agamalova

“…When Marcuse writes that a utopia in the strict sense can now be called a project that violates the laws of nature, he means the “impossible” into which utopia turns after the catastrophes of the 20th century, betraying the truth of its concept contained in the simple possibility of another world. …”
Get full text

LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE MINOR GUARDIANSHIP SYSTEM IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES USING THE EXAMPLE OF UFA PROVINCE by Timur T. Khasanov

“…The state regulated the activities of orphanages and guardianship bodies through laws, such as the Code of Laws of the Russian Empire. …”
Get full text

Assessing the Effects of Land Use Practices and Environmental Conservation in Rubanda District: A Case Study of Hamurwa Sub-County. by Mutesigensi, Samuel

“…The study was guided by three objectives; to identify effects of land use practices on environmental conservation in Hamurwa sub-county Rubanda district, to establish policies/laws that govern land and environment in Hamurwa sub-county Rubanda district and to identify the activities that degrade the environment in Hamurwa sub-county Rubanda district. …”
Get full text

Arthur Danto and Art world by I. N. Nekhaeva

“…The concept of Art as the independent World with its laws and transformations allowed Arthur Danto not only to eliminate the problem of definition of art, but also to present a holistic picture of the development of art of the late 20th century…”
Get full text

Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: A Policy Overview of Maintaining Land in Agriculture by Rodney L. Clouser, W. David Mulkey

“…Collectively, the fact sheets will provide an overview of common land use conflicts, laws that influence land use at the rural-urban fringe, situational and policy issues related to land use, and the techniques used by governments to deal with these issues. …”
Get full text

Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: A Policy Overview of Maintaining Land in Agriculture by Rodney L. Clouser, W. David Mulkey

“…Collectively, the fact sheets will provide an overview of common land use conflicts, laws that influence land use at the rural-urban fringe, situational and policy issues related to land use, and the techniques used by governments to deal with these issues. …”
Get full text

Florida Solid and Hazardous Waste Regulation Handbook: Federal Legislation by Michael T. Olexa, Aaron Leviten, Kelly Samek

“… This document discusses the important federal laws and regulations that impact solid waste management. …”
Get full text

« No ifs or buts. / I didn’t say if or but, I said no » : Le sujet et son désir contre le discours de la psychiatrie by Nicolas Pierre Boileau

“…The body that was once abused, exposed, mistreated in Blasted, to the extent that it was unbearable in performance, is reduced to a voice, in 4.48 Psychosis, whose language defies the laws of grammar and which seems to circulate like a bodiless soul. …”
Get full text

Reconstructing discrete measures from projections. Consequences on the empirical Sliced Wasserstein Distance by Tanguy, Eloi, Flamary, Rémi, Delon, Julie

“…The measure $\gamma _Z$ being fixed, assuming that the rows of the matrices $P_i$ are independent realizations of laws which do not give mass to hyperplanes, we show that if $\sum _i d_i > d$, this reconstruction problem has almost certainly a unique solution. …”
Get full text

Thermodynamics in Loop Quantum Cosmology by Li-Fang Li, Jian-Yang Zhu

“…This result comes from the energy definition in cosmology (the Misner-Sharp gravitational energy) and is consistent with thermodynamic laws. We prove that within the framework of loop quantum cosmology, the elementary equation of equilibrium thermodynamics is still valid.…”
Get full text

Time-Scale Version of Generalized Birkhoffian Mechanics and Its Symmetries and Conserved Quantities of Noether Type by Jin-Yue Chen, Yi Zhang

“…The time-scale version of Noether symmetry and conservation laws for three Birkhoffian mechanics, namely, nonshifted Birkhoffian systems, nonshifted generalized Birkhoffian systems, and nonshitfed constrained Birkhoffian systems, are studied. …”
Get full text

Hydrodynamic scaling limit of continuum solid-on-solid model by Anamaria Savu

“…What distinguishes our model from other models discussed so far is the presence of two conservation laws for the dynamics in a nonperiodic box and the complex dynamics that is not nearest-neighbor interaction. …”
Get full text

A brief agricultural history of cannabis in Africa, from prehistory to canna-colony by Chris S. Duvall

“…Third, twentieth-century drug laws changed the economics of production, causing cannabis farming to become particularly attractive to resource-poor farmers. …”
Get full text

Controller Design for a Second-Order Plant with Uncertain Parameters and Disturbance: Application to a DC Motor by Alejandro Rincón, Fredy E. Hoyos, Fabiola Angulo

“…The controller design achieves mainly the following two benefits: upper or lower bounds of the time-varying parameters of the model are not required, and the formulation of the control and update laws and stability analysis are simpler than closely related works that use the Nussbaum gain method. …”
Get full text

Adaptive Neural Control Approach for Switched Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems With Actuator Faults and Input Dead Zone by Ymnah Alruwaily, Mohamed Kharrat

“…Under arbitrary switching signals, the suggested controller and adaptive laws ensure that all signals remain bounded and the system output tracks the reference signal with a small bounded tracking error. …”
Get full text

Ukraine: Party politics, the Left and President Zelensky: An interview with Professor Olexiy Haran by Marina Slhessarenko Barreto

“…The discussion portrays both social and institutional features of politics, encompassing social movements and political parties; it goes from fight against corruption to lustration laws; from civil criticism to war decisions. Throughout the interview, the scholar also cites relevant material for further readings and concludes by summarizing some paradoxes inherent to the current situation of the country. …”
Get full text