While China has imposed lighting efficiency standards on new buildings and is drafting similar standards for household appliances, construction of apartment and office buildings proceeds at a frenzied pace.
Judges who learned that a convicted assailant was genetically predisposed to violence imposed lighter sentences in a hypothetical case than they otherwise would have, researchers reported on Thursday, in the most rigorous study to date of how behavioral biology can sway judicial decisions.
Data in non-humans indicate that the near-24-h circadian period may be modified by prior environmental conditions, notably the period of the imposed light-dark cycle [26].
Entrainment at a normal phase angle requires daily phase shifts that compensate for the difference between the intrinsic circadian period and the imposed light-dark cycle (T-cycle) and result in the elevated production of the soporific hormone melatonin during the scheduled sleep episode and minimal melatonin production during the scheduled wake episode.
This frustration is behind recent innovations such as control orders, which impose light (and easily breached) restrictions on those who cannot be dealt with properly in court.
He did not mislead anyone, or disguise that he had used his discretion in a few drug cases to impose lighter sentences.
A grand piano — which turns out to have been suspended above the action — is slowly lowered onto center stage, with imposing lighting, a funny effect that on Tuesday won applause.
A shift toward determinate sentencing, Mr. Weisberg pointed out, has sharply reduced the ability of judges to impose lighter punishment, while strengthening the resolve of prosecutors who, in a case like Mr. Polanski's, cut tougher deals because they are backed by heavier and more definite sentences for each count, and a lessened opportunity to get probation.
Despite campaigns by local lobbies and charities, the penal code in Lebanon still imposes lighter sentences for crimes of honour.While praising the Syrian amendment, human-rights advocates point out that the law in Syria and elsewhere still accepts the basic notion that you can kill for honour, and argue for a more fundamental change in the attitudes of those who write the law and implement it.
As noted in the results, some of these gene mRNA rhythms underwent a complete phase inversion in DD, suggesting that LD cycles may impose light-driven rhythms for some genes via acute inhibition/induction by light.
