scholarly journals THE GIST OF THE WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANIZATION

Author(s):  
Serhii Perepolkin ◽  
Polina Trostianska

In this article there is for the first time offered a theoretical justification for understanding the purpose (goals), tasks and functions of the World Customs Organization as interrelated categories. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the explanation of the essence of any international organization should begin with a description of its purpose (goals), objectives and functions. The position of the authors was formed taking into account the results of the generalization of doctrinal approaches of scientists to understand the essence of the World Customs Organization. Particular attention was paid to the characteristics of the provisions of the Convention establishing the Customs Cooperation Council of December 15, 1950, which is a constituent act of the World Customs Organization, as well as other international conventions, resolutions, declarations and recommendations adopted by this organization. It is emphasized that in contrast to the list of functions of the organization were specified in Art. III of the Convention establishing the Customs Cooperation Council of December 15, 1950, in its text there is no clear and unambiguous statement of the purpose (goals) and objectives of WCO. As a result of the study, the authors note that the purpose of WCO determines the desired result, the achievement of which should be aimed at the activities of the organization and is to promote cooperation between the governments of its members. And the achievement of this goal necessitates the solution of common tasks for WCO members, which specify the purpose of the organization. It was also investigated that the WCO objectives provided for in the Preamble to the Convention on the Establishment of Customs Cooperation Council do not exhaust their full list, the gradual expansion of which takes place through the adoption of legal acts by the WCO Council. It is also determined that objectives of WCO are subordinated to the functions of WCO.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Iraquitan de Oliveira Caminha

Resumo: Em 21 de fevereiro de 1848, foi publicado pela primeira vez em Londres o Manifesto Comunista, escrito por Marx em Engels.  Quando escreveram o manifesto, os dois parceiros estavam exilados na Bélgica. Eles dirigiam uma organização internacional chamada de “Liga dos Comunistas”. Esse documento foi produzido para orientar a classe operária na sua missão revolucionária. Não fazia sentido apenas compreender o mundo, era preciso transformá-lo. Em 2018, sob a coordenação do professor Marcos Érico de Araújo Silva da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), foi realizado um evento em que foram comemorados os 200 anos de nascimento de Karl Marx e 170 anos do Manifesto Comunista. Na ocasião, fiz uma fala sobre o Manifesto Comunista e o modo de conceber a dialética de Merleau-Ponty. Irei retomar essa fala aqui com o objetivo de analisar como a dialética sem síntese de Merleau-Ponty pode ser usada como referência para se pensar esse Manifesto e apontar um horizonte para sua atualidade.  Palavras-chave: Manifesto Comunista. Dialética. Merleau-Ponty.   Abstract: On February 21, 1848, the Communist Manifesto, written by Marx in Engels, was published for the first time in London. When they wrote the manifesto, the two partners were exiled in Belgium. They ran an international organization called the "Communist League." This document was produced to guide the working class in its revolutionary mission. It made no sense just to understand the world, it had to be transformed. In 2018, under the coordination of professor Marcos Érico de Araújo Silva from Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), an event was held in which 200 years of Karl Marx's birth and 170 years of Communist Manifesto were celebrated. At that time I gave a talk on the Communist Manifesto and the way of conceiving the dialectic of Merleau-Ponty. I will return to this speech here with the aim of analyzing how the dialectic without synthesis of Merleau-Ponty can be used as reference to think this Manifesto and to point a horizon for its present.  Keywords: Communist Manifesto. Dialectic. Merleau-Ponty.  REFERÊNCIAS  AREDT, Hannah. Origens do totalitarismo: antissemitismo, imperialismo, totalitarismo. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1989.   BLOCH, Ernst. O princípio esperança. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, Vol. I, 2005. CAMINHA, Iraquitan de Oliveira. Humanismo e Terror segundo Merleau-Ponty: em que medida é possível tolerar a violência? In: Saeculum: Revista de História, João Pessoa, Jul/Dez 2008.  MARX, Karl; ENGELS, Friedrich. Manifesto Comunista. Tradução de Álvaro Pina, e Ivana Jinkings. Organização e introdução de Osvaldo Coggiola. São Paulo: Boitempo,  2010.MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. As aventuras da dialética. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2016.  MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. Humanismo e Terror: ensaio sobre o problema comunista. Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro, 1968.  MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. Le visible et l’invisible. Paris, Gallimard, 1991.  


Author(s):  
Anusha P ◽  
Bankar Nandkishor J ◽  
Karan Jain ◽  
Ramdas Brahmane ◽  
Dhrubha Hari Chandi

INTRODUCTION: India being the second highly populated nation in the world. HIV/AIDS has acquired pandemic proportion in the world. Estimate by WHO for current infection rate in Asia. India has the third largest HIV epidemic in the world. HIV prevalence in the age group 15-49 yrs was an estimate of 0.2%. India has been classified as an intermediate in the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) endemic (HBsAg carriage 2-7%) zone with the second largest global pool of chronic HBV infections. Safety assessment of the blood supply, the quality of screening measures and the risk of transfusion transmitted infectious diseases (TTIs) in any country can be estimated by scrutinizing the files of blood donors. After the introduction of the blood banks and improved storage facilities, it became more extensively used. Blood is one of the major sources of TTIs like hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV, syphilis, and many other blood borne diseases. Disclosure of these threats brought a dramatic change in attitude of physicians and patients about blood transfusion. The objective of this study is to determine the seroprevalence of transfusion transmitted infections amidst voluntary blood donors at a rural tertiary healthcare teaching hospital in Chhattisgarh. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This retrospective study was carried out in Chandulal Chandrakar Memorial Medical College, Kachandur, Durg. Blood donors were volunteers, or and commercial donors who donated the blood and paid by patients, their families, or friends to replace blood used or expected to be used for patients from the blood bank of the hospital. After proper donation of blood routine screening of blood was carried out according to standard protocol. Laboratory diagnosis of HIV 1 and HIV 2 was carried out by ELISA test. Hepatitis B surface antigen was screened by using ELISA. RESULTS: A total of 1915 consecutive blood donors’ sera were screened at Chandulal Chandrakar Memorial Medical College, blood bank during study period. Of these 1914 were male and 1 female. The mean age of patients was found to be 29.34 years with standard deviation (SD) of 11.65 Years. Among all blood donors in present study, 759(39.63%) were first time donors and 1156(60.37%) were repeated donors. 1 patient was HIV positive in first donation group while 3 (75%) were positive in repeat donation group. 7 (38.9%) were HBsAg positive in in first donation group while 11(61.1%) were positive in repeat donation group. Two patients in first donation group had dual infection of HIV and HBsAg. CONCLUSION: Seropositivity was high in repeated donors as compared to first time donors. The incidence of HIV is observed to be 0.2% and that of HBsAg is 0.94%. Strict selection of blood donors should be done to avoid transfusion-transmissible infections during the window period.


ENTOMON ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-314
Author(s):  
A. Roobakkumar ◽  
H.G. Seetharama ◽  
P. Krishna Reddy ◽  
M.S. Uma ◽  
A. P. Ranjith

Rinamba opacicollis Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was collected from Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, India for the first time from the larvae of white stem borer, Xylotrechus quadripes Chevrolat infesting arabica coffee. Its role in the biological or integrated control of X. quadripes remains to be evaluated. White stem borer could be the first host record of this parasitoid all over the world.


Author(s):  
Lina Yurievna Lagutkina

The author of the article discloses the prospects of development of the world feed production for aquaculture based on the analysis of key innovative technological and market trends. The author specifies that shortage, high cost, low ecological compatibility of traditional raw materials - fish flour - are among major limiting factors in the development of production of feeds for aquaculture. This fact, in turn, limits sustainable development of aquaculture both in Russia, and in the world in general. The article presents the overview of a current status of the world industry of feed production in aquaculture, where the regional situation is studied, as well. For the first time, there is given the outlook of innovative technologies in feed production based on the alternative sources of protein (on the example of projects of leading aquabiotechnological companies) which will determine industry’s objectives for the mid-term perspective.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
Gunasekaran N ◽  
Bhuvaneshwari S

Salman Rushdie remains a major Indian writer in English. His birth coincides with the birth of a new modern nation on August 15, 1947. He has been justly labelled by the critics as a post-colonial writer who knows his trade well. His second novel Midnight’s Children was published in 1981 and it raised a storm in the hitherto middle class world of fiction writing both in English and in vernaculars. Rushdie for the first time burst into the world of fiction with subversive themes like impurity, illegitimacy, plurality and hybridity. He understands that a civilization called India may be profitably understood as a dream, a collage of many colours, a blending of cultures and nationalities, a pluralistic society and in no way unitary.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabin Archambault

This 5 km resolution grid presents groundwater storage in Africa (in mm). This parameter was estimated by combining the saturated aquifer thickness and effective porosity of aquifers across Africa. For each aquifer flow/storage type an effective porosity range was assigned based on a series of studies across Africa and surrogates in other parts of the world. Groundwater storage is given in millimeters. Detailed description of the methodology, and a full list of data sources used to develop the layer can be found in the peer-reviewed paper available here: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024009/pdf The raster and a high resolution PDF file are available for download on the website of British Geological Survey (BGS): http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/groundwater/international/africanGroundwater/mapsDownload.html Groundwater Storage


2017 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 232-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ya. Doroshina ◽  
E. Yu. Kuzmina ◽  
I. A. Nikolajev

Information on the Sphagnum mosses of the South Ossetia is generalized, the resulted list is presented. Nine species of Sphagnum are included in the list, whereabouts data and references to the publications are given, and the presence of a sample in the Herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS (LE) is noted. The species Sphagnum platyphyllum (Lindb. ex Braithw.) Warnst. rarely occurring in the Caucasus is reported in the South Ossetia for the first time. The species was found in the Caucasus, South Ossetia, at the side of the Ertso Lake (42°28ʹN, 43°45ʹE), 1720 m a. s. l., among sedge thickets at the margin of the overgrowing lake. The peculiarities of its occurrence and ecological conditions are considered. Its distribution in the Caucasus and in the world is discussed.


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Carlos Alberto Ríos-Reyes ◽  
German Alfonso Reyes-Mendoza ◽  
José Antonio Henao-Martínez ◽  
Craig Williams ◽  
Alan Dyer

This study reports for the first time the geologic occurrence of natural zeolite A and associated minerals in mudstones from the Cretaceous Paja Formation in the urban area of the municipality of Vélez (Santander), Colombia. These rocks are mainly composed of quartz, muscovite, pyrophyllite, kaolinite and chlorite group minerals, framboidal and cubic pyrite, as well as marcasite, with minor feldspar, sulphates, and phosphates. Total organic carbon (TOC), total sulfur (TS), and millimeter fragments of algae are high, whereas few centimeters and not biodiverse small ammonite fossils, and other allochemical components are subordinated. Na–A zeolite and associated mineral phases as sodalite occur just beside the interparticle micropores (honeycomb from framboidal, cube molds, and amorphous cavities). It is facilitated by petrophysical properties alterations, due to processes of high diagenesis, temperatures up to 80–100 °C, with weathering contributions, which increase the porosity and permeability, as well as the transmissivity (fluid flow), allowing the geochemistry remobilization and/or recrystallization of pre-existing silica, muscovite, kaolinite minerals group, salts, carbonates, oxides and peroxides. X-ray diffraction analyses reveal the mineral composition of the mudstones and scanning electron micrographs show the typical cubic morphology of Na–A zeolite of approximately 0.45 mμ in particle size. Our data show that the sequence of the transformation of phases is: Poorly crystalline aluminosilicate → sodalite → Na–A zeolite. A literature review shows that this is an unusual example of the occurrence of natural zeolites in sedimentary marine rocks recognized around the world.


Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 514
Author(s):  
Zonglei Liang ◽  
Christopher H. Dietrich ◽  
Wu Dai

Xestocephalus Van Duzee is among the most common and widespread genera of Cicadellidae in the temperate and tropical regions of the world. In the present study, 205 specimens of the genus Xestocephalus were collected in Thailand, whereas only a single species of the genus was recorded previously using Malaise trap field sampling, studied by comparative morphology. Seventeen species were recognized, including twelve new species: X. binarius sp. nov., X. chrysanthemum sp. nov., X. cowboyocreus sp. nov., X. densprint sp. nov., X. dimiprocessus sp. nov., X. exproiecturus sp. nov., X. gracilus sp. nov., X. limpidissimus sp. nov., X. malleus sp. nov., X. nonattribus sp. nov., X. recipinams sp. nov., and X. tenusis Liang sp. nov. Four species were recorded in Thailand for the first time: Xestocephalus abyssinicus Heller and Linnavuori, Xestocephalus asper Linnavuori, Xestocephalus ishidae Matsumura, and Xestocephalus toroensis Matsumura. Detailed morphological descriptions of all 17 species are given; photographs of external habitus and male genitalia of the species from Thailand are provided. A checklist of species of the genus is also given, and a key to all Thailand Xestocephalus species is also provided.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan N. Truong ◽  
Brayden D. Whitlock

AbstractControlling infections has become one of the biggest problems in the world, whether measured in lives lost or money spent. This is worsening as pathogens continue becoming resistant to therapeutics. Antimicrobial surfaces are one strategy being investigated in an attempt to decrease the spread of infections through the most common route of transmission: surfaces, including hands. Regulators have chosen two hours as the time point at which efficacy should be measured. The objectives of this study were to characterize the new antimicrobial surface compressed sodium chloride (CSC) so that its action may be understood at timepoints more relevant to real-time infection control, under two minutes; to develop a sensitive method to test efficacy at short time points; and to investigate antifungal properties for the first time. E. coli and Candida auris are added to surfaces, and the surfaces are monitored by contact plate, or by washing into collection vats. An improved method of testing antimicrobial efficacy is reported. Antimicrobial CSC achieves at least 99.9% reduction of E. coli in the first two minutes of contact, and at least 99% reduction of C. auris in one minute.


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