cement Labor Standards Enforcement and Low-Wage Immigrants: Creating an Effective Enforcement System By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 This Migration Policy Institute webinar discusses labor enforcement laws during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations and chronicles gaps in labor protection. Full Article
cement Labor Standards Enforcement and Low-Wage Immigrants: Creating an Effective Enforcement System By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 This webinar discusses labor enforcement laws during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations and chronicles gaps in labor protection, while also discussing the elements necessary for an effective labor standards enforcement system and why labor standards enforcement should become a pillar of immigration policymaking. Full Article
cement Examining 287(g): The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement in Immigration Law By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Testimony of Muzaffar Chishti, Director of MPI's Office at New York University Law School, before the House Homeland Security Committee. Full Article
cement America’s Immigration System: Opportunities for Legal Immigration and Enforcement of Laws against Illegal Immigration By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Testimony of Muzaffar Chishti, Director of MPI's office in New York, before the House Judiciary Committee. Full Article
cement Senate Judiciary Testimony on Immigration Enforcement Priorities and Use of Prosecutorial Discretion By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:11:11 -0500 Testimony of Marc Rosenblum before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the December 2, 2015 hearing on priorities for immigration enforcement and the use of prosecutorial discretion. Full Article
cement College student says inconsistent border enforcement makes no sense, leaves students confused By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 07:00:00 EDT The first time Robyn Hedden tried to cross the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border, she was turned away. The next day, she was waved through without much hassle. Full Article News/Canada/New Brunswick
cement Student Marshals | Penn State Altoona - Spring 2020 Commencement By news.psu.edu Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 11:49 -0400 Full Article
cement Hero Duet discontinued: What the replacement model could be By www.financialexpress.com Published On :: 2020-04-04T12:22:38+05:30 The Hero Duet could be replaced by something that was showcased at the Auto Expo 2016 but could still be undergoing development. Full Article
cement Striking-looking Ducati Panigale V2 teased for India: What makes the 959 Panigale replacement special! By www.financialexpress.com Published On :: 2020-04-29T14:43:52+05:30 The Ducati Panigale V2 draws power from a 955cc, V-twin Superquadro engine which is now BS6/Euro5 compliant and pumps out 151 horses. Full Article
cement Ambuja Cements Rating: ‘Neutral’ — Reduction in costs led to a margin beat By www.financialexpress.com Published On :: 2020-05-02T01:50:00+05:30 CY20e volumes cut by 6% due to Covid-19; limited upside from current levels; ‘Neutral’ maintained. Full Article Markets
cement Corporate bond issuances via private placements rise 76% By www.financialexpress.com Published On :: 2019-05-08T02:51:10+05:30 The total corporate bond issuance in FY19 was Rs 6.1 lakh crore, just slightly higher than `6 lakh crore mopped up in FY18. Full Article Markets
cement The Advancement of Ad Blockers By www.dmnews.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:34:22 GMT 69.8 million Americans will use an ad blocker this year, according to eMarketer. Full Article
cement Is Geothermal the Only Baseload Power Replacement that Makes Sense? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2013-11-28T15:00:00Z There are no plans for new coal plants to be built in the United States. This opens doors for the geothermal industry possibly more than ever before in U.S. history. In an Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast to 2018, coal was one of the top-cost commissioning technology options; geothermal was one of the lowest. Full Article Baseload
cement E-briefing - New China franchise regulations: replacement of approvals by registration? By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2007-03-06 Introduction The long-awaited regulations on the Administration of Commercial Franchise Operations (the 'New Regulations') were promulgated by the State Council of the PRC on 6 February 2007, and will take effect on 1 May 2007. They apply equally t... Full Article
cement From G7 announcement in August to Paris Peace Forum, Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) coalition gains momentum By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:29:00 GMT Powered by the OECD, spearheaded by Danone, and driven forward at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Biarritz in August 2019, B4IG, the ambitious initiative against inequality sponsored by French President Emmanuel Macron, is a coalition of leading multinational enterprises committed to tackling inequalities and promoting inclusive growth: economic growth that is distributed fairly across society and creates opportunities for all. Full Article
cement France - Profils de santé par pays 2019 : Présentation de lancement By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT France - Profils de santé par pays 2019 : Présentation de lancement. Les Profils de santé par pays, concis et pertinents pour l’action publique, reposent sur une méthodologie transparente et cohérente qui utilise des données tant quantitatives que qualitatives, tout en s’adaptant avec souplesse au contexte de chaque État membre de l’Union Européenne et de l’Espace Économique Européen. Full Article
cement Consumer protection enforcement in a global digital marketplace By dx.doi.org Published On :: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:15:00 GMT This report examines information on consumer protection enforcement authorities of OECD member and non-member countries, especially on the ability of these authorities to co-operate across borders. It is based on questionnaire responses from 31 countries, supplemented by additional research. Full Article
cement Germany’s strong anti-bribery enforcement against individuals needs to be matched by comparably strong enforcement against companies By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:00:00 GMT Germany continues to demonstrate a high level of anti-bribery enforcement having prosecuted and sanctioned 328 individuals and 18 companies in foreign bribery cases since 1999. Full Article
cement Reform of Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections in OECD Countries By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:28:00 GMT This report summarises the results of the survey on regulatory enforcement and inspections conducted among OECD countries in 2012. The report draws some general conclusions from this survey and provides theoretical background on the topic. It also suggests some recommendations for organising and reforming inspections. Full Article
cement Political finance needs tighter regulation and enforcement By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 10:30:00 GMT Many economically advanced countries are failing to fully enforce regulations on political party funding and campaign donations or are leaving loopholes that can be exploited by powerful private interest groups, according to a new OECD report. Full Article
cement OECD Conference on Enforcement and Inspection By www.oecd.org Published On :: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT Access the main conclusions and presentations of the OECD Conference on Enforcement and Inspections, held 9 November 2017 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. Full Article
cement Serious Concerns Remain over Japan’s Enforcement of Foreign Bribery Law, Despite Some Positive Developments By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Phase 3 Report on Japan by the OECD Working Group on Bribery evaluates and makes recommendations on Japan'simplementation and application of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and related instruments. Full Article
cement In support of its active enforcement efforts, Italy should urgently extend timeframe for prosecuting foreign bribery By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Phase 3 Report on Italy by the OECD Working Group on Bribery evaluates and makes recommendations on Italy's implementation and application of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and related instruments. Full Article
cement UK increases enforcement of foreign bribery, but concerns remain about transparency and resources By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT The United Kingdom has significantly boosted its foreign bribery enforcement efforts but needs to be more transparent when resolving cases. Full Article
cement Sweden's enforcement of foreign bribery laws far too weak By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:30:00 GMT More than twelve years after making foreign bribery a crime, Sweden needs to make much greater efforts to actively enforce its anti-bribery legislation, according to a new OECD report. Full Article
cement Austria’s enforcement of foreign bribery laws far too weak, but could pick up soon says OECD By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:00:00 GMT The OECD Working Group on Bribery regrets that Austria has not had a conviction of bribing foreign public officials despite a number of allegations, 13 years after ratifying the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. However, enforcement appears to be picking up, with one case being tried, two more cases soon to be tried, and four ongoing investigations. Full Article
cement Netherlands must significantly step up its foreign bribery enforcement, says OECD By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:27:00 GMT The Netherlands is failing to vigorously pursue foreign bribery allegations and must do more to enforce its foreign bribery laws. Fourteen out of 22 foreign bribery allegations have not triggered the opening of an investigation, calling into question the Netherlands’ ability and proactivity in investigating and prosecuting this crime. Full Article
cement Portugal needs proactive enforcement to tackle severe foreign bribery risks, says OECD By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:00:00 GMT Portugal’s enforcement of its foreign bribery laws has been extremely low. Not a single prosecution has resulted from 15 allegations of Portuguese companies bribing foreign officials in high-risk countries. Full Article
cement Lack of enforcement jeopardises South Africa’s fight against foreign bribery; OECD concerned that political and economic considerations may be an influence By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:00:00 GMT South Africa must take urgent steps to proactively investigate and prosecute foreign bribery. No foreign bribery cases have been prosecuted since South Africa joined the Convention in 2007. The 4 on-going investigations – out of only 10 allegations that have surfaced to date – are also far from reaching the prosecution stage, according to a new report by the OECD Working Group on Bribery. Full Article
cement Statement of OECD on Japan’s Efforts to Increase Foreign Bribery Enforcement By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:43:00 GMT Due to serious concerns about the extremely low level of enforcement of Japan’s offence of bribing foreign public officials – just three prosecutions since 1999 – the OECD Working Group on Bribery recommended in December 2013 that Japan establish an Action Plan to organise police and prosecution resources to be able to proactively detect, investigate and prosecute cases of foreign bribery by Japanese companies. Full Article
cement Brazil closes legal loophole on foreign bribery: OECD hopes this will now translate into stepped up enforcement By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:00:00 GMT Brazil must build on the positive momentum started with its new Corporate Liability Law and its first indictments in one foreign bribery case to investigate and prosecute more proactively foreign bribery. Full Article
cement Latvia’s fight against foreign bribery overshadowed by enforcement weaknesses By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:25:00 GMT Latvia has improved its laws since acceding to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in 2014. Yet serious personnel issues until recently as well as negative government commentary concerning KNAB, Latvia’s anti-corruption law enforcement agency, have cast doubts over its capacity to enforce those laws. Full Article
cement Data on enforcement of the Anti-Bribery Convention By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:42:00 GMT This enforcement data includes the number of criminal, administrative and civil cases of foreign bribery that have resulted in a final disposition, such as a criminal conviction or acquittal, or similar findings under an administrative or civil procedure. Full Article
cement Lithuania has made significant legislative reforms to fight foreign bribery and should now ensure effective anti-bribery enforcement By www.oecd.org Published On :: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:28:00 GMT Lithuania has taken significant steps to strengthen its legislative framework to combat foreign bribery. Yet further efforts are needed to ensure effective enforcement of anti-bribery laws with regard to corporate liability and imposing sanctions for foreign bribery, including confiscation, according to a new report by the OECD Working Group on Bribery. Full Article
cement Australia takes major steps to combat foreign bribery, but OECD wants to see more enforcement By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:00:00 GMT Australia has stepped up its enforcement of foreign bribery since 2012, when the OECD Working Group on Bribery last evaluated Australia’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, with seven convictions in two cases and 19 ongoing investigations. Full Article
cement Switzerland’s significant foreign bribery enforcement should be accompanied by harsher penalties and private sector whistleblower protection By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:00:00 GMT The OECD Working Group on Bribery has just completed a review of Switzerland's enforcement of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and related instruments. The Working Group welcomes the significant level of enforcement by the Federal Office of the Attorney General. Switzerland has cracked down on the bribery of foreign public officials in recent years. Full Article
cement Germany’s strong anti-bribery enforcement against individuals needs to be matched by comparably strong enforcement against companies By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:00:00 GMT Germany continues to demonstrate a high level of anti-bribery enforcement having prosecuted and sanctioned 328 individuals and 18 companies in foreign bribery cases since 1999. Full Article
cement Mexico must increase foreign bribery enforcement: full implementation of anti-corruption reforms could help By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:00:00 GMT Mexico needs to give more priority to foreign bribery enforcement, having yet to prosecute a case involving the bribery of foreign public officials 19 years after ratifying the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Full Article
cement Pesticide compliance and enforcement: new website By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:55:00 GMT Safeguarding people’s health and the environment through responsible marketing and use of pesticides in agriculture relies on regulation, and compliance with this regulation. OECD have launched an online resource to help regulators in different countries share their experiences and best practice and to act as a portal for information on pesticide compliance and enforcement. Full Article
cement President Trump drinks bleach, gives commencement speech to 'the class of COVID-19' in SNL cold open By Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 06:25:37 +0100 Alec Baldwin reprised his imitation of President Trump on the season finale of Saturday Night Live - this time with the Commander in Chief giving a commencement speech via Zoom. Full Article
cement President Trump drinks bleach, gives commencement speech to 'the class of COVID-19' in SNL cold open By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 05:25:37 GMT Alec Baldwin reprised his imitation of President Trump on the season finale of Saturday Night Live - this time with the Commander in Chief giving a commencement speech via Zoom. Full Article
cement Announcement of Dodge's Telegraph, Railway Accounting and Radio (Wireless) Institute. By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 06:33:00 EST Archives, Room Use Only - TK5255.D63 1926 Full Article
cement Credai alleges cartelisation, flags cement and steel prices By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:31:02 +0530 The Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India (Credai) has written to Housing and Urban Affairs minister Hardeep Puri and Commerce Full Article Business
cement Punjab CM terms Sitharaman's announcements as 'inadequate' to address concerns of people, industry By www.newkerala.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:12:01 +0530 Full Article
cement Punjab CM for strict enforcement of mask wearing By www.newkerala.com Published On :: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 07:55:02 +0530 Full Article
cement Credai reports 40-50% hike in cement, steel prices; alleges cartelisation By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:28:00 +0530 The association has written a letter to Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri seeking his intervention in the matter Full Article
cement Improved calibration of area detectors using multiple placements By scripts.iucr.org Published On :: 2019-10-23 Calibration of area detectors from powder diffraction standards is widely used at synchrotron beamlines. From a single diffraction image, it is not possible to determine both the sample-to-detector distance and the wavelength, but, with images taken from multiple positions along the beam direction and where the relative displacement is known, the sample-to-detector distance and wavelength can both be determined with good precision. An example calibration using the GSAS-II software package is presented. Full Article text
cement Molecular replacement using structure predictions from databases By scripts.iucr.org Published On :: 2019-11-19 Molecular replacement (MR) is the predominant route to solution of the phase problem in macromolecular crystallography. Where the lack of a suitable homologue precludes conventional MR, one option is to predict the target structure using bioinformatics. Such modelling, in the absence of homologous templates, is called ab initio or de novo modelling. Recently, the accuracy of such models has improved significantly as a result of the availability, in many cases, of residue-contact predictions derived from evolutionary covariance analysis. Covariance-assisted ab initio models representing structurally uncharacterized Pfam families are now available on a large scale in databases, potentially representing a valuable and easily accessible supplement to the PDB as a source of search models. Here, the unconventional MR pipeline AMPLE is employed to explore the value of structure predictions in the GREMLIN and PconsFam databases. It was tested whether these deposited predictions, processed in various ways, could solve the structures of PDB entries that were subsequently deposited. The results were encouraging: nine of 27 GREMLIN cases were solved, covering target lengths of 109–355 residues and a resolution range of 1.4–2.9 Å, and with target–model shared sequence identity as low as 20%. The cluster-and-truncate approach in AMPLE proved to be essential for most successes. For the overall lower quality structure predictions in the PconsFam database, remodelling with Rosetta within the AMPLE pipeline proved to be the best approach, generating ensemble search models from single-structure deposits. Finally, it is shown that the AMPLE-obtained search models deriving from GREMLIN deposits are of sufficiently high quality to be selected by the sequence-independent MR pipeline SIMBAD. Overall, the results help to point the way towards the optimal use of the expanding databases of ab initio structure predictions. Full Article text
cement How far are we from automatic crystal structure solution via molecular-replacement techniques? By scripts.iucr.org Published On :: 2020-01-01 Although the success of molecular-replacement techniques requires the solution of a six-dimensional problem, this is often subdivided into two three-dimensional problems. REMO09 is one of the programs which have adopted this approach. It has been revisited in the light of a new probabilistic approach which is able to directly derive conditional distribution functions without passing through a previous calculation of the joint probability distributions. The conditional distributions take into account various types of prior information: in the rotation step the prior information may concern a non-oriented model molecule alone or together with one or more located model molecules. The formulae thus obtained are used to derive figures of merit for recognizing the correct orientation in the rotation step and the correct location in the translation step. The phases obtained by this new version of REMO09 are used as a starting point for a pipeline which in its first step extends and refines the molecular-replacement phases, and in its second step creates the final electron-density map which is automatically interpreted by CAB, an automatic model-building program for proteins and DNA/RNA structures. Full Article text
cement Factors influencing estimates of coordinate error for molecular replacement By scripts.iucr.org Published On :: 2020-01-01 Good prior estimates of the effective root-mean-square deviation (r.m.s.d.) between the atomic coordinates of the model and the target optimize the signal in molecular replacement, thereby increasing the success rate in difficult cases. Previous studies using protein structures solved by X-ray crystallography as models showed that optimal error estimates (refined after structure solution) were correlated with the sequence identity between the model and target, and with the number of residues in the model. Here, this work has been extended to find additional correlations between parameters of the model and the target and hence improved prior estimates of the coordinate error. Using a graph database, a curated set of 6030 molecular-replacement calculations using models that had been solved by X-ray crystallography was analysed to consider about 120 model and target parameters. Improved estimates were achieved by replacing the sequence identity with the Gonnet score for sequence similarity, as well as by considering the resolution of the target structure and the MolProbity score of the model. This approach was extended by analysing 12 610 additional molecular-replacement calculations where the model was determined by NMR. The median r.m.s.d. between pairs of models in an ensemble was found to be correlated with the estimated r.m.s.d. to the target. For models solved by NMR, the overall coordinate error estimates were larger than for structures determined by X-ray crystallography, and were more highly correlated with the number of residues. Full Article text