Such institutions encompass informal [local and horizontal] and formal [hierarchical and vertical] associations and relationships.
Institutions encompass the "rules of the game": laws, technical standards, regulations, norms, routines, and shared expectations that guide and regulate interactions and relations between actors.
Labor institutions encompass labor taxation and regulation, freedom of unionization, forms of collective bargaining, minimum wages and other subtler active labor market policies that might reinforce the bargaining power of employees.
This area is now a core research discipline in our educational and research institutions, encompassing not only the "-omics" sciences and systems biology, but also in translational research and personalized medicine.
The library's current approach to the collection, and to its role as a cultural institution, encompasses broader goals.
That said, Mr. de Montebello, overseeing an institution encompassing the whole of human civilization, was never wrong to regard contemporary art as a blip on the time scale, or largely forgettable.
The first is a 'systemic' one and it concerns the goal of a society fully shaped by the market as an institution encompassing all aspects of human life.
The statistics of socio-medical institutions (SOMED) encompass nursing homes, homes for disabled, institutions for addiction patients and institutions for people with social problems.
Its laws and regulations apply equally to financial institutions, which encompass banks and capital market intermediaries.
For example, inadequate preparation for open disclosure encompassed institutions not having a complaints mechanism that activates incident disclosure, the disclosure process not being introduced with an appropriate level of formality and explanation, and incidents not being readily acknowledged to the patient and family.
