Finally, health and social changes may include changes in guidelines (National Guideline Clearinghouse 2009) or health legislation (from U.S. federal and state legislative databases) that may eventually result in behavioral changes for health care providers, health systems, families, schools, or other youth settings.
For example, legislative databases often include a legislative history and expert testimony in support of legislation, but in the most optimistic scenario, this background information takes the form of "research has shown that... ......... without actually citing any specific researcher's work.
Alternatively, websites of international organizations as well as national legislative databases will be consulted, such as the WHO International Digest of Health Legislation (IDHL), The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII), or the Foreign Law Guide (FLG).
Environmental impacts may include changes in regulations, policies, or legislation that eventually result in changes in environmental measures, such as outdoor or indoor air quality indicators derived from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) databases and U.S. federal legislative databases.
This article intends to contribute to the ongoing debate about forensic DNA databases, by considering European legislative dispositions that regulate these databases and analysing the person-stain match ratio in relation with the size of the database in European countries.
"This is the most anti-environment House in history," said Rep. Waxman (D-CA) as he unveiled a new searchable database of legislative votes.
This article aims to provide an overview of the different legislative models for DNA databasing in Europe and ponder if wider inclusion criteria – and, consequently, database size – translates into more matches between profiles of crime scene stains and included individuals (performance ratio).
Some countries had records available in the form of media communications, lists of members of the various committees, working groups or legislative commissions, and report databases.
The library has preserved many of its digital resources, including the full-text databases of the Thomas system for legislative information and its own bibliographic databases.
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