This special issue of Utilities Policy on 'Redrafting Water Governance' aims to be a stepping stone toward an improved approach to water governance, by gathering different perspectives and insights from different stakeholders (e.g. regulators, water utilities, and customers) and disciplines (from law to engineering).
Conclusions: While the literature is replete with studies concerning new methods and a few regarding physician understanding, there are none that we could find that thoroughly, objectively, and fully addressed the issues of utility and cost-effectiveness.
Such a step would open the gates of competition without our getting bogged down in the thorny issue of what utilities charge others for the use of their lines, or in dealing with the question of so-called stranded costs.
As per the topic guide, issues of content, utility, and feasibility were addressed in turn, followed by a discussion of perceived benefits and burdens.
Again there are huge issues to consider including issues of practical utility, but it is noteworthy that in his book on the DNA revolution in personalized medicine, Collins (2010) is a proponent of direct-to-consumer genetic testing.
A book that encapsulates, that does an overview of the issues, could be of utility to someone".
The three remaining test characteristics (together) do lead to ELSI that are of importance to the current debate on personal genome testing in a direct-to-consumer context: informational problems, risks, regulatory issues and notions of utility.
Since negotiators refer to salient information [61], we assume that negotiators with graph support will be more focused on the task at hand, with knowledge of the entire process and the ability to discuss issues in terms of utility values.
In the late afternoon, Mr. Flaherty said that some progress had been made on the issue of wages — the utility had proposed increases of up to 1.5percentt — but that the company continued to push for a 401 k -style plan for new workers, rather than the traditional pensions, something the union vigorously opposes.
In order to model the complicated interaction between each participant, we will first address this issue from the aspect of utility function.
