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Evaluasi Pengetahuan Dan Persepsi Obat Batuk Swamedikasi Oleh Perokok, Amelia Lorensia, Ananta Yudiarso, Rizkia Arrahmah Dec 2018

Evaluasi Pengetahuan Dan Persepsi Obat Batuk Swamedikasi Oleh Perokok, Amelia Lorensia, Ananta Yudiarso, Rizkia Arrahmah

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Coughing is one of the most common symptoms in smokers. Smokers who experience a lot of cough are
caused by exposure to cigarette smoke that enters the respiratory tract. The purpose of this study was to determine
how smokers perceive symptoms of cough, use of cough medicine, and self-medication services performed by pharmacists.
This study began in March to July 2016. This study used the mixed method method that uses sequential
explanatory research design. The research sample involved amounted to 100 people, and 12 studies conducted
for interviews were conducted to obtain supporting data. The sample were active smokers aged …

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Capsule Integrated Polypeptide Multilayer Films For Effective Ph-Responsive Multiple Drug Co-Delivery, Shichao Zhang, Malcolm Xing, Bingyun Li Dec 2018

Capsule Integrated Polypeptide Multilayer Films For Effective Ph-Responsive Multiple Drug Co-Delivery, Shichao Zhang, Malcolm Xing, Bingyun Li

Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Many applications using drug-carrying biomedical materials require on-demand, localized delivery of multiple therapeutic agents in precisely controlled and patient-specific time sequences, especially after assembly of the delivery vehicles; however, creating such materials has proven extremely challenging. Here, we report a novel strategy to create polypeptide multilayer films integrated with capsules as vehicles for co-delivery of multiple drugs using layer-bylayer self-assembly technology. Our approach allows the multilayered polypeptide nanofilms and preimpregnated capsules to assemble into innovative biomedical materials with high and controllable loading of multiple drugs at any time postpreparation and to achieve pH-responsive and sustained release. The resulting capsule-integrated polypeptide …

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Pulmonary Toxicity And Lung Tumorigenic Potential Of Surrogate Metal Oxides In Gas Metal Arc Welding–Stainless Steel Fume: Iron As A Primary Mediator Versus Chromium And Nickel, Lauryn M. Falcone, Aaron Erdely, Rebecca Salmen, Michael Keane, Lori Battelli, Vamsi Kodali, Aleksandr B. Stefaniak, Michael L. Kashon, James M. Antonini, Patti C. Zeidler-Erdely Dec 2018

Pulmonary Toxicity And Lung Tumorigenic Potential Of Surrogate Metal Oxides In Gas Metal Arc Welding–Stainless Steel Fume: Iron As A Primary Mediator Versus Chromium And Nickel, Lauryn M. Falcone, Aaron Erdely, Rebecca Salmen, Michael Keane, Lori Battelli, Vamsi Kodali, Aleksandr B. Stefaniak, Michael L. Kashon, James M. Antonini, Patti C. Zeidler-Erdely

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

In 2017, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified welding fumes as “car- cinogenic to humans” (Group 1). Both mild steel (MS) welding, where fumes lack carcino- genic chromium and nickel, and stainless steel (SS) increase lung cancer risk in welders; therefore, further research to better understand the toxicity of the individual metals is needed. The objectives were to (1) compare the pulmonary toxicity of chromium (as Cr(III) oxide [Cr2O3] and Cr (VI) calcium chromate [CaCrO4]), nickel [II] oxide (NiO), iron [III] oxide (Fe2O3), and gas metal arc welding-SS (GMAW-SS) fume; and (2) determine if these metal oxides can …

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Disparities In Social Determinants Of Health Outcomes And Behaviours Between Older Adults In Alaska And The Contiguous Us: Evidence From A National Survey, Steven A. Cohen, Ana X. Talamas, Natalie J. Sabik Dec 2018

Disparities In Social Determinants Of Health Outcomes And Behaviours Between Older Adults In Alaska And The Contiguous Us: Evidence From A National Survey, Steven A. Cohen, Ana X. Talamas, Natalie J. Sabik

Public Health Faculty Publications

Few studies have focused on understanding how sociodemographic factors impact healthy ageing in the rapidly growing population of Alaskan older adults. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to compare the health of Alaskan older adults to those in the contiguous US, and determine how the associations differ between older adults in Alaska and the contiguous US. We abstracted 165,295 respondents age 65+ from the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We used generalised linear models to assess the associations between sociodemographic factors and six health outcomes accounting for confounders and complex sampling. In the contiguous US, females were less …

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The Internet Of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, And Applications, Kun Wang, Yan Zhang, Song Guo, Mianxiong Dong, Rose Qingyang Hu, Lei He Dec 2018

The Internet Of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, And Applications, Kun Wang, Yan Zhang, Song Guo, Mianxiong Dong, Rose Qingyang Hu, Lei He

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

The energy crisis and carbon emissions have become two critical concerns globally. As a very promising solution, the concept of Internet of Energy has appeared to tackle these challenges. The Internet of Energy is a new power generation paradigm developing a revolutionary vision of smart grids into the Internet. The communication infrastructure is an essential component for implementing the Internet of Energy. A scalable and robust communication infrastructure is crucial in both operating and maintaining smart energy systems. The wide-scale implementation and development of Internet of Energy into industrial applications should take into account the following challenges:

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The Impact Of Hurricane Matthew On School Attendance: An Analysis From Rural Haiti, Amanda C. Cook, Donovan Beachy Dec 2018

The Impact Of Hurricane Matthew On School Attendance: An Analysis From Rural Haiti, Amanda C. Cook, Donovan Beachy

Economics Faculty Publications

This study identifies the impact of Hurricane Matthew on school attendance in an agricultural community in rural Haiti. We conducted a survey of parents whose children attended a rural school prior to Hurricane Matthew to determine the mechanism by which hurricanes impact school attendance. We determined the marginal effect of family size and school enrollment using a probit model. Parents identified two primary causes for their children leaving school: a loss of income—through crop damage and livestock deaths—and requiring the children’s labor on the family farm. In our sample 96 children, 46% of the children enrolled in school, stopped attending …

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A Closer Look At The Items Within Three Measures Of Evolution Acceptance: Analysis Of The Mate, I-Sea, And Gaene As A Single Corpus Of Items, William L. Romine, Amber Todd, Emily M. Walter Dec 2018

A Closer Look At The Items Within Three Measures Of Evolution Acceptance: Analysis Of The Mate, I-Sea, And Gaene As A Single Corpus Of Items, William L. Romine, Amber Todd, Emily M. Walter

Medical Education Faculty Publications

Background: Current direct Likert measures for evolution acceptance include the MATE, GAENE, and I-SEA. Pros and cons of each of these instruments have been debated, and yet there is a dearth of research teasing out their similarities and differences when they are used together in a single context beyond the fact that their measures tend to be highly correlated. We administered these to 452 college students in non-major biology classes at two research-intensive universities from the Midwestern and Western United States to investigate the measurement properties of the items within these instruments when combined as a single corpus.Results: Factor analysis …

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Usa V. Steven Grados Dec 2018

Usa V. Steven Grados

2018 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

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Jaroslawicz V. M&T Bank Corp Dec 2018

Jaroslawicz V. M&T Bank Corp

2018 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

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The Value Of Investing Time, Energy And Creativity To Comfort Others, Anjella Warnshuis Dec 2018

The Value Of Investing Time, Energy And Creativity To Comfort Others, Anjella Warnshuis

UCF Forum

When our loved ones die and their estates have been settled, we usually expect it to be the end of their giving. Sometimes it is, but oftentimes the ripples of their memories continue in ways we might not expect.

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When Equality Matters, John Thrasher Dec 2018

When Equality Matters, John Thrasher

Philosophy Faculty Books and Book Chapters

Equality is at the heart of liberal, democratic political theory. Despite this, there is considerable disagreement about how we should understand equality in the context of liberal politics. Several different conceptions of equality (e.g., equality of opportunity, equality of welfare outcomes, and equality of basic rights) will recommend different and often conflicting policies and institutions. Further, we can expect, in democratic societies, that citizens will disagree on the correct conception of equality. This leads to the diversity problem of equality— there is no one conception of equality that will be acceptable to all citizens. This is compounded by the complexity …

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Accessibility And Utility Of Library Resources In Research Methodology Course: A Case Of Non-Science Students At The University Of Malaya, Muhammad Danial Azman, Mashitah Hamidi, Siew Kian Ong Dec 2018

Accessibility And Utility Of Library Resources In Research Methodology Course: A Case Of Non-Science Students At The University Of Malaya, Muhammad Danial Azman, Mashitah Hamidi, Siew Kian Ong

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

This paper investigates the accessibility and utility of library resources when studying research methodology among the non-science students at the University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur. It addresses the primary concerns of accessibility and utility among students when engaging library resources and undertaking the core subject “Research Methodology” both at the faculty level, as well as at three departments under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In doing so, survey questionnaires were distributed among students doing research methodology across three distinct yet interrelated subfields of the Arts and Social Sciences, namely Anthropology and Sociology, Chinese Studies, and International and Strategic …

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Hematopoietic Stem And Progenitor Cells Are A Distinct Hiv Reservoir That Contributes To Persistent Viremia In Suppressed Patients, Thomas D. Zaikos, Valeri H. Terry, Nadia T. Sebastian Kettinger, Jay Lubow, Mark M. Painter, Maria C. Virgilio, Andrew Neevel, Frances Taschuk, Adewunmi Onafuwa-Nuga, Lucy A. Mcnamara, James Riddell, Dale Bixby, Norman Markowitz, Kathleen L. Collins Dec 2018

Hematopoietic Stem And Progenitor Cells Are A Distinct Hiv Reservoir That Contributes To Persistent Viremia In Suppressed Patients, Thomas D. Zaikos, Valeri H. Terry, Nadia T. Sebastian Kettinger, Jay Lubow, Mark M. Painter, Maria C. Virgilio, Andrew Neevel, Frances Taschuk, Adewunmi Onafuwa-Nuga, Lucy A. Mcnamara, James Riddell, Dale Bixby, Norman Markowitz, Kathleen L. Collins

Infectious Diseases Articles

Long-lived reservoirs of persistent HIV are a major barrier to a cure. CD4+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) have the capacity for lifelong survival, self-renewal, and the generation of daughter cells. Recent evidence shows that they are also susceptible to HIV infection in vitro and in vivo. Whether HSPCs harbor infectious virus or contribute to plasma virus (PV) is unknown. Here, we provide strong evidence that clusters of identical proviruses from HSPCs and their likely progeny often match residual PV. A higher proportion of these sequences match residual PV than proviral genomes from bone marrow and peripheral blood mononuclear …

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State V. Joslin Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45629 Dec 2018

State V. Joslin Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45629

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

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Fuzzy-Multiple Tasks Of Multicriterial Optimization In Risk Conditions ., T.F Bekmuratov, D.T Mukhamedieva Dec 2018

Fuzzy-Multiple Tasks Of Multicriterial Optimization In Risk Conditions ., T.F Bekmuratov, D.T Mukhamedieva

Chemical Technology, Control and Management

Approaches to solving the optimization problem and solving a fuzzy multicriteria optimization problem under risk conditions are considered. To assess risks in fuzzy conditions, it is proposed to supplement the system of constraints of a standard decision-making task with a set of restrictions on possible losses, namely, for selected scenarios, to build a model of their consequences (damages) as functions of control parameters and impose expert limitations on an acceptable level of relative damage for each scenario.

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Resource Extraction And Infrastructure Threaten Forest Cover And Community Rights, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Laura Sauls, John Rogan, Sumali Agrawal, César Gamboa, Aviva Imhof, Kimberly Johnson, Herman Rosa, Antoinette Royo, Tessa Toumbourou, Ricardo Verdum Dec 2018

Resource Extraction And Infrastructure Threaten Forest Cover And Community Rights, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Laura Sauls, John Rogan, Sumali Agrawal, César Gamboa, Aviva Imhof, Kimberly Johnson, Herman Rosa, Antoinette Royo, Tessa Toumbourou, Ricardo Verdum

Sustainability and Social Justice

Mineral and hydrocarbon extraction and infrastructure are increasingly significant drivers of forest loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and threats to the rights of forest communities in forested areas of Amazonia, Indonesia, and Mesoamerica. Projected investments in these sectors suggest that future threats to forests and rights are substantial, particularly because resource extraction and infrastructure reinforce each other and enable population movements and agricultural expansion further into the forest. In each region, governments have made framework policy commitments to national and cross-border infrastructure integration, increased energy production, and growth strategies based on further exploitation of natural resources. This reflects political settlements among …

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Quantifying Bee Assemblages And Attractiveness Of Flowering Woody Landscape Plants For Urban Pollinator Conservation, Bernadette M. Mach, Daniel A. Potter Dec 2018

Quantifying Bee Assemblages And Attractiveness Of Flowering Woody Landscape Plants For Urban Pollinator Conservation, Bernadette M. Mach, Daniel A. Potter

Entomology Faculty Publications

Urban and suburban landscapes can be refuges for biodiversity of bees and other pollinators. Public awareness of declining pollinator populations has increased interest in growing plants that provide floral resources for bees. Various publications and websites list “bee-friendly” plants, but such lists are rarely based on empirical data, nor do they emphasize flowering trees and shrubs, which are a major component of urban landscapes. We quantified bee visitation to 72 species of flowering woody landscape plants across 373 urban and suburban sites in Kentucky and southern Ohio, USA, sampling and identifying the bee assemblages associated with 45 of the most …

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Vibrational Analysis Of A Rate-Slowing Conformational Kinetic Isotope Effect, O. Maduka Ogba, Zichen Liu, Daniel J. O'Leary Dec 2018

Vibrational Analysis Of A Rate-Slowing Conformational Kinetic Isotope Effect, O. Maduka Ogba, Zichen Liu, Daniel J. O'Leary

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

An enthalpy-entropy approach to analyzing a rate-slowing conformational kinetic isotope effect (CKIE) in a deuterated doubly-bridged biaryl system is described. The computed isotope effect (kH/kD = 1.075, 368 K) agrees well with the measured value (kH/kD = 1.06, 368 K). The rateslowing (normal isotope effect) nature of the computed CKIE is shown to originate from a vibrational entropy contribution defined by the twenty lowest frequency normal modes in the ground state and transition state structures. This normal entropy contribution is offset by an inverse vibrational enthalpy contribution, which also arises from the twenty lowest frequency normal modes. Zero point vibrational …

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Understanding Urbanization: A Study Of Census And Satellite-Derived Urban Classes In The United States, 1990-2010, Deborah Balk, Stefan Leyk, Bryan Jones, Mark R. Montgomery, Anastasia Clark Dec 2018

Understanding Urbanization: A Study Of Census And Satellite-Derived Urban Classes In The United States, 1990-2010, Deborah Balk, Stefan Leyk, Bryan Jones, Mark R. Montgomery, Anastasia Clark

Publications and Research

Most of future population growth will take place in the world’s cities and towns. Yet, there is no well-established, consistent way to measure either urban land or people. Even censusbased urban concepts and measures undergo frequent revision, impeding rigorous comparisons over time and place. This study presents a new spatial approach to derive consistent urban proxies for the US. It compares census-designated urban blocks with proxies for landbased classifications of built-up areas derived from time-series of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) for 1990–2010. This comparison provides a new way to understand urban structure and its changes: Most land that …

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Efl Teachers’ Preparation And Beliefs In Niger, Peter Wiens, Bong Gee Jang, Katrina Liu, Billa Anassour, April Smith Dec 2018

Efl Teachers’ Preparation And Beliefs In Niger, Peter Wiens, Bong Gee Jang, Katrina Liu, Billa Anassour, April Smith

Teaching and Learning Faculty Research

Niger is a French-speaking country with a history of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in its middle and high schools. The teachers providing instruction in these programs have been trained in different ways including university-based programs, out of country programs, or no training at all. This study sought to examine the beliefs of Nigerien EFL teachers and analyze the relationship between their beliefs and their training. All EFL teachers in Niger were surveyed to understand their beliefs related to teaching. We found that training was related to teacher beliefs. As Niger determines how best to allocate its limited …

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Airport, Statesboro Dec 2018

Airport, Statesboro

Bulloch County Papers

This PDF has the scanned contents of the entire Airport folder of the Statesboro-Bulloch Public History Files. Many of the articles are from the Statesboro Herald Newspaper.

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The Impact Of Gangs On Community Life In Trinidad, Ericka Adams, Patrice Morris, Edward Maguire Dec 2018

The Impact Of Gangs On Community Life In Trinidad, Ericka Adams, Patrice Morris, Edward Maguire

Faculty Publications

Trinidad and Tobago has more than 100 criminal gangs, some of which engage in high levels of homicide and violence. Recent research has shown that gang members in Trinidad and Tobago are more likely than nongang members to be arrested for violent, property, and drug crimes. As gangs continue to proliferate throughout the Caribbean, there is a pressing need to understand the nature of these gangs and their impact on the communities in which they are entrenched. Using data from interviews with community members, police officials, and gang members, as well as ethnographic observations from 10 high crime, predominantly Black …

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Proteomic Analysis Discovers The Differential Expression Of Novel Proteins And Phosphoproteins In Meningioma Including Nek9, Hk2 And Set And Deregulation Of Rna Metabolism., Jemma Dunn, Sara Ferluga, Vikram Sharma, Matthias Futschik, David A. Hilton, Claire L. Adams, Edwin Lasonder, C. Oliver Hanemann Dec 2018

Proteomic Analysis Discovers The Differential Expression Of Novel Proteins And Phosphoproteins In Meningioma Including Nek9, Hk2 And Set And Deregulation Of Rna Metabolism., Jemma Dunn, Sara Ferluga, Vikram Sharma, Matthias Futschik, David A. Hilton, Claire L. Adams, Edwin Lasonder, C. Oliver Hanemann

School of Biomedical Sciences

BACKGROUND: Meningioma is the most frequent primary intracranial tumour. Surgical resection remains the main therapeutic option as pharmacological intervention is hampered by poor knowledge of their proteomic signature. There is an urgent need to identify new therapeutic targets and biomarkers of meningioma. METHODS: We performed proteomic profiling of grade I, II and III frozen meningioma specimens and three normal healthy human meninges using LC-MS/MS to analyse global proteins, enriched phosphoproteins and phosphopeptides. Differential expression and functional annotation of proteins was completed using Perseus, IPA® and DAVID. We validated differential expression of proteins and phosphoproteins by Western blot on a meningioma …

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High Affinity Binding Of H3k14ac Through Collaboration Of Bromodomains 2, 4 And 5 Is Critical For The Molecular And Tumor Suppressor Functions Of Pbrm1., Lili Liao, Nilda L. Alicea-Velázquez, Lauren Langbein, Xiaohua Niu, Weijia Cai, Eun-Ah Cho, Meiling Zhang, Celeste B. Greer, Qin Yan, Michael S. Cosgrove, Haifeng Yang Dec 2018

High Affinity Binding Of H3k14ac Through Collaboration Of Bromodomains 2, 4 And 5 Is Critical For The Molecular And Tumor Suppressor Functions Of Pbrm1., Lili Liao, Nilda L. Alicea-Velázquez, Lauren Langbein, Xiaohua Niu, Weijia Cai, Eun-Ah Cho, Meiling Zhang, Celeste B. Greer, Qin Yan, Michael S. Cosgrove, Haifeng Yang

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Polybromo-1 (PBRM1) is an important tumor suppressor in kidney cancer. It contains six tandem bromodomains (BDs), which are specialized structures that recognize acetyl-lysine residues. While BD2 has been found to bind acetylated histone H3 lysine 14 (H3K14ac), it is not known whether other BDs collaborate with BD2 to generate strong binding to H3K14ac, and the importance of H3K14ac recognition for the molecular and tumor suppressor function of PBRM1 is also unknown. We discovered that full-length PBRM1, but not its individual BDs, strongly binds H3K14ac. BDs 2, 4, and 5 were found to collaborate to facilitate strong binding to H3K14ac. Quantitative …

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Mutants Of Cocaine Esterase, Donald Landry, Chang-Guo Zhan Dec 2018

Mutants Of Cocaine Esterase, Donald Landry, Chang-Guo Zhan

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

Provided are mutant cocaine esterase polypeptides and PEGylated formulations thereof.

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The Constitution Of The Republic Of Uzbekistan – The Basis Of Improving Legislation Of Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations In The Implementation Of Public Ecological Control, O. Utegenov Dec 2018

The Constitution Of The Republic Of Uzbekistan – The Basis Of Improving Legislation Of Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations In The Implementation Of Public Ecological Control, O. Utegenov

Review of law sciences

this article is realted to particular qualities and conceptions of socio-ecological control, conclusions and offers on this problem are included.

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Elimination Of The Negative Consequences Of The Technogenic Civilization In Social Life, O. Yuldoshev Dec 2018

Elimination Of The Negative Consequences Of The Technogenic Civilization In Social Life, O. Yuldoshev

Review of law sciences

This article is devoted to the negative consequences of anthropogenic civilizations for social life, their causes and solutions.

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The Role Of The International Parliamentary Organizations (Ipo) As A Subject Of International Law, F. Eshmatova Dec 2018

The Role Of The International Parliamentary Organizations (Ipo) As A Subject Of International Law, F. Eshmatova

Review of law sciences

This article is dedicated to the issues of legal status and functions of International Parliamentary Institutions. The features of their structure and functioning, the place in system of the international relation are analyzed. In particular the legal status and functions of Inter-parliamentary Organization (IPU) are discussed.

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Cooperation Of Uzbekistan With International Organization In The Field Of Labour Migration, S. Ishanxodjaev Dec 2018

Cooperation Of Uzbekistan With International Organization In The Field Of Labour Migration, S. Ishanxodjaev

Review of law sciences

The article deals with the issues of institutional cooperation of Uzbekistan in the field of labor migration with international institutions and specialized agencies. A number of proposals are made to improve the cooperation of a bilateral agreement by introducing changes and additions as well as the accession of Uzbekistan to universal and other international treaties regarding labor migration.

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Assessing The Legal Base For Gender Neutral Society In Uzbekistan Using Un Sustainable Development Goals Framework, R. Arslonova Dec 2018

Assessing The Legal Base For Gender Neutral Society In Uzbekistan Using Un Sustainable Development Goals Framework, R. Arslonova

Review of law sciences

This article critically analyzes existing legal framework with respect to protecting women’s right; substantiating their equal status in society; creating new opportunities to promote better equality between men and women. Author researches UN Sustainable Development Goals framework with the intention of compiling a roadmap to further the agenda on women’s rights in Uzbekistan with global perspective.

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