"I think other countries will now be looking at India and saying, 'Well, hold on a minute — India stuck to its guns,' " said Tahir Amin, a director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge, a group based in New York that works on patent cases to foster access to drugs.
The reasoning behind the German law, cited by officials and in court cases, is to foster social integration, ensure exposure to people from different backgrounds and prevent what some call "parallel societies".
As he did in his previous two books, "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" and the best-selling "How We Decide," Lehrer surveys the current state of research and builds a host of anecdotes into a larger story about how the brain functions: in this case, to help foster our imaginations.
In at least one case, Erasmus' attempt to foster good will among his theological colleagues made tension worse in the long run.
The individual 'claims process' itself required resources that poor women lack; as such, SAHAYOG and allies decided to move away from conventional human rights work that often engages in litigation for individual cases, and attempted to foster a 'collective claims process'.
The research also vindicates the case for local initiatives to foster social exchange and build community relationships.
This seems to indicate that the product and labour markets are still operating with a substantial degree of imperfect competition, in which case policy measures implemented to foster competition and a larger responsiveness of market prices to the changing (regional) economic environment have, to a large extent, failed to achieve their target.
This study intends to explore the latter but to overcome the particularity of each case, a thematic analysis is conducted in order to foster cross-case comparisons along general themes found among the cases.
Some are more critical than others but in all cases the artists wish to foster an awareness of how our data is being used and what that means for our privacy, and subsequently our identities.
Given the lack of evidence of benefit for population screening, an alternative approach might be to foster case-finding in general practice, targeting vision assessments at individuals at highest risk of having undetected vision loss.
