Browsing by Subject "Public Policy"
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Analysis of educational materials and destruction/opt-out initiatives for storage and use of residual newborn screening samples.
(Genet Test Mol Biomarkers, 2010-10)In recent years, the storage and use of residual newborn screening (NBS) samples has gained attention. To inform ongoing policy discussions, this article provides an update of previous work on new policies, educational materials, ... -
Application description and policy model in collaborative environment for sharing of information on epidemiological and clinical research data sets.
(PLoS One, 2010-02-19)BACKGROUND: Sharing of epidemiological and clinical data sets among researchers is poor at best, in detriment of science and community at large. The purpose of this paper is therefore to (1) describe a novel Web application ... -
Collective action and individual choice: rethinking how we regulate narcotics and antibiotics.
(J Med Ethics, 2013-12)Governments across the globe have squandered treasure and imprisoned millions of their own citizens by criminalising the use and sale of recreational drugs. But use of these drugs has remained relatively constant, and the ... -
Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: intention, implementation, and impact.
(Conserv Biol, 2007-10)We evaluated the intention, implementation, and impact of Costa Rica's program of payments for environmental services (PSA), which was established in the late 1990s. Payments are given to private landowners who own land ... -
Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation.
(PLoS One, 2015)Quasi-experimental methods increasingly are used to evaluate the impacts of conservation interventions by generating credible estimates of counterfactual baselines. These methods generally require large samples for statistical ... -
North Carolina and Immigration Reform: Policy Options To Address Omnibus Immigration Legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly
(2012-04-10)Despite no significant movement toward comprehensive federal immigration reform since 2007, stakeholders from virtually all points on the political spectrum continue to call for an overhaul. In the meantime, states have ... -
Partitioning the Projects: Racial Segregation and Public Housing in Durham, North Carolina
(2010)Racial residential segregation is an enduring feature of America's urban landscape. Patterns of residence have become so divided along racial lines, in fact, that many social scientists have described this phenomenon as ... -
Promoting Investments in Ecosystem Services: the Case of the Peruvian Amazon
(2010-04-23)Natural capital and the Ecosystem Services (ES) that flow from it are essential to civilization as they provide both the conditions and the processes that sustain human life. Peru possesses the third largest tropical forest ... -
Should the patent system for new medicines be abolished?
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State of Discipline: A Snapshot of Discipline Allocation in North Carolina Public Schools
(2018-01)This report provides a detailed picture of the state of discipline allocation in North Carolina public and, to an extent, charter schools up until the 2016-2017 school year. It specifically examines suspensions, expulsions, ... -
Three Essays on Domestic Violence Related Firearms Regulations in the United States
(2018)Firearms regulation rarely passes in the United States due to the strength of the gun rights lobby. However, in the past several years, policymakers in traditionally pro-gun states have passed laws that restrict domestic ...
