Just a few months ago, his foundation teamed up with that of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to support "best practices" regulation of shale gas production.
Praise economic initiatives called local content, best practice regulation, "indigenisation" (as Robert Mugabe does), empowerment, nationalisation and so on: they're models of Nobel prize-like perfection guaranteed to boost investment, FDI and someone else's economic growth.
TT do not only involve changes in technology, but also changes in user practices, regulation, industrial networks, infrastructure, and symbolic meaning or culture.
These transitions are co-evolution processes that are not only about technological discontinuities, but also about markets, user practices, regulation, culture, infrastructure and science.
For reasons of best practice, regulation and adherence to prevailing standards, the data generated in the course of cell therapy product processing must be recorded and retained in an organized manner.
Equally, though the abolition of the guilds formally remained, in practice regulation of crafts and trades was reimposed by local ordinances.
An online survey (covering 6 domains: demographics; practice characteristics; research; integrative practice; regulation and funding; contribution to national health objectives) was administered to naturopaths and herbal medicine practitioners.
In practice, regulations are easier to enforce this way, and in many countries they carry explicit requirements regarding employment of people from local communities wherever possible.
But in the past decade, as more states have relaxed their scope-of-practice regulations, the number of patients receiving care from nurse practitioners has increased fifteen-fold, and patient care doesn't seem to have suffered.
Either the airlines are a free market subject to accepted business practice regulations, or a public utility and the American public needs Congressional advocacy to be protected from an industry in shambles.
He is the first person imprisoned for violations of Britain's Good Laboratory Practice regulations, adopted in 1999. .
