Overview of energy policy in Iran: the proper path to clean energy by Maryam Hasheminejad, Hasan Raei, Abbas Maleki

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Following are the abstracts from the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging

“…Declaration of Financial Interests or Relationships To insure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all CME programs it is the policy of the meeting's joint sponsors that any speaker or poster presenter who makes a presentation at a program designated for AMA Physician's Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 or 2 credit must disclose any real or apparent financial interest or other relationship (i.e., grants, research support, consultant, honoraria) that the presenter may have with the manufacturers, distributors or providers of any commercial products or services that may be discussed in the presentation. …”
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Rehabilitation Legislation of Disabled Persons in the View of Health Rights by Juan ZHANG

“…In consideration of the relationship between medicine and law, the article points out that the concept of the health right in the civil law should be extend firstly; the health rights which have the dual nature with civil rights and basic rights should be recognized secondly; because of the attributes of their basic rights, the health rights should be written in the constitution thirdly; at last, based on the modern concept of rehabilitation, the disabled persons who want to realize their health rights need to pay attention to the legislation of social law, especially the community rehabilitation, and the establishment and improvement of social insurance'system. In the view of health rights, the article reviews the rehabilitation legislation of the disabled persons in the existing legal system, and seeks to provide some theories and policy resources for the improvement of our rehabilitation legislation of the disabled persons by comparing and learning from foreign advanced legislation.…”
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Att anmäla våld by Malin Åkerström

“…The variance in reporting is often explained in terms of either individual rational calculations by individuals (theft: insurance companies require that one report the stolen goods to the Police), or by general norms in society encouraging or inhibiting reporting practices (sexual harassment, rape etc. are often exemplifying a changing moral code reflected in an increased practice of reporting). …”
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Mediasi Melalui Pendekatan Mufakat Sebagai Lembaga Alternatif Penyelesaian Sengketa Untuk Mendukung Pembangunan Ekonomi Nasional by larensius Arliman S

“…The results of this study indicate that the role of mediation as an alternative institution of dispute resolution is important and some are not, especially in commercial court disputes; dispute that industrial relations courts; business competition; consumer disputes, and other disputes whose hearings in the hearing are determined by the deadline for settlement in the provisions of laws and regulations, such as disputes in banking and insurance. The approach of mufakat is very important in carrying out mediation of economic dispute resolution, because consensus is a symbol of the Indonesian nation. …”
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Unresolved Questions Regarding Lawyers’ Fees and the Restriction of Competition by Fabio Ferraro

“…In Italy, following the Cipolla judgment of the ECJ and the resulting abolition of the system of fixed remuneration (minimum and maximum fees), new measures were introduced by the State and professional organisations to protect members of the legal profession (particularly to safeguard lawyers in a weaker position in dealings with powerful clients such as banks and insurance companies) and to ensure fair remuneration. …”
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Handling Multicollinearity and Outliers in Logistic Regression Using the Robust Kibria–Lukman Estimator by Adewale F. Lukman, Suleiman Mohammed, Olalekan Olaluwoye, Rasha A. Farghali

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Decriminalising and legalising medical assistance in dying by J P van Niekerk, P Cluver, E Hertzog, M Kruger, K Moodley, J Myers, Dan Ncayiyana, J Snyman

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The role of skill and expertise and organizational resources along with the relevant components in the competitive environment of the organization (case study: Tehran Province Muni... by Mehdi Aghighi, Rashid Zolfegari Zaferani, Behzad Mashali

“…Jafari & Jafari (2022) analyzed the effect of human capital on competitiveness in an article titled "Analysis of the effect of human capital on competitiveness in the insurance industry" (case study: Dana Insurance Company, Khorram Abad branch) with the structural equation modeling method. …”
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Navigating the Digital Landscape: Digital Innovation Readiness in Ethiopia's Financial Sector by Shibiru Ayalew Melesse, Oliver Scholz, Abdi Yuya Ahmad

“…Primary data was collected from banks, insurance companies, and microfinance institutions, and analyzed using multiple regression and t-tests of equality between two means. …”
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The Path of Systematic Improvement of the Rules for Ships Under Construction in Maritime Law of the People's Republic of China by CAO Xingguo, SUN Ninglu

“…Maritime Law of the People's Republic of China has not established a system of rules for ships under construction, leading to disputes in practice such as whether relevant parties of ships under construction can apply for the limitation of liability for maritime claims, and whether the rules in relation to maritime liens and the marine insurance contract can be applied. The root of the such disputes lies in the fact that the current Chinese Maritime Code is absent on the legal status of ships under construction. …”
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Effect of Population Density on Timing of Oviposition and Brood Size Reduction in the Burying Beetle Nicrophorus pustulatus Herschel (Coleoptera: Silphidae) by Claudia M. Rauter, Renae L. Rust

“…If overproduction of offspring is an insurance against high mortality, females should reduce brood size as carcass value declines. …”
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Challenges to patients’ rights during the COVID-19 pandemic: survey of public perceptions in North Macedonia by Katerina Kuzmanova, Aleksandar Dimkovski, Evgenija Mihajloska, Aleksandra Grozdanova, Katerina Anchevska Netkovska

“…Although 72.4% felt adequately informed about their care throughout all phases, just under half (47.6%) were aware of their healthcare and insurance rights and the procedures to secure them. …”
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Les pratiques préventives auprès des travailleurs d’agences de location de personnel temporaire ou permanent : comparaison entre les travailleurs immigrants et non immigrants by Jessica Dubé, Sylvie Gravel

“…Neither the agencies nor the client companies insured adequate protection, and the permanent company workers often ignored them.…”
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Malpractice in Radiology: What Should You Worry About? by Alessandro Cannavale, Mariangela Santoni, Paola Mancarella, Roberto Passariello, Paolo Arbarello

“…These include (1) following the standard of care to the best of their ability, (2) cautious use of off-label devices, (3) better communication skills among healthcare workers and with the patient, and (4) ensuring being covered by adequate malpractice insurance. Lastly, we described definitions of some medicolegal terms and concepts that are thought to be useful for radiologists to know.…”
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Correlation Between Number of Retrieved Oocytes and Pregnancy Rate After In Vitro Fertilization/IntraCytoplasmic Sperm Infection by Tanya Timeva, Tanya Milachich, Irena Antonova, Tanya Arabaji, Atanas Shterev, Hatim A. Omar

“…The goal of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) is to supply enough oocytes with normal maturation to insure the consequent biological procedures. A variety of different stimulation protocols have been suggested and an individual selection of the correct stimulation protocol is mandatory. …”
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Outcome of surgical parathyroidectomy for tertiary hyperparathyroidism in kidney transplant recipients: tertiary hyperparathyroidism should not be ignored, for the sake of precious... by Michio Nakamura, Shinya Takiguchi, Saeko Uehara, Yusuke Tomita

“…Treatments include pharmacotherapy (mainly using calcimimetics) and parathyroidectomy, but calcimimetics are currently not covered by the national insurance system in Japan. Two types of parathyroidectomy can be performed: subtotal parathyroidectomy; and total parathyroidectomy with partial autograft. …”
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A Decimal Floating-Point Accurate Scalar Product Unit with a Parallel Fixed-Point Multiplier on a Virtex-5 FPGA by Malte Baesler, Sven-Ole Voigt, Thomas Teufel

“…Decimal Floating Point operations are important for applications that cannot tolerate errors from conversions between binary and decimal formats, for instance, commercial, financial, and insurance applications. In this paper, we present a parallel decimal fixed-point multiplier designed to exploit the features of Virtex-5 FPGAs. …”
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Painting a portrait: Analysis of national health survey data for cancer genetic counseling by Monica H. Stamp, Ora K. Gordon, Christopher P. Childers, Kimberly K. Childers

“…On bivariate analysis, there were significant differences in proportions undergoing genetic counseling by sex, race/ethnicity, insurance, citizenship, education, age, and cancer status (P < 0.01). …”
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Formulating a Blue Ocean Strategy in the Banking Services Industry: Enhancing Customer Satisfaction through Improved Demand Fulfillment and Presenting an Optimal Pattern by Manuchehr Ghanbari, Ali Sabzali Yameqani, Yousef Rabbani, Kobra Sabzali Yamaqani

“…Findings The results showed that providing facilities such as customer clubs in the form of loans, health insurance, etc., and designing innovative and up-to-date advertising campaigns, are the most significant needs of customers. …”
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