India, Russia and Iran: a New Study on “North — South” International Transport Corridor

The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) has made impressive progress in making boat, street, and rail courses that transport cargo between India, Iran and Russia and countries of the European Union and Central Asia. It connects India Ocean, Iran, the Persian Gulf nations, through the nations of the Caucasus and Central Asia with Russia and mainland Europe. This task was a reaction to Eurasian coordination, “Extraordinary Eurasian Partnership” (Russia, 2011) including “One Belt, One Road” (China, 2013) and The Silk Road. By rethinking the Integration and Economic Potential of the INSTC and its importance for the partaking nations, it is feasible to utilize the rationale of the aggregate game plan of the Eurasian space in light of a legitimate concern for all member states. However, the first trail train via INSTC, departing from Helsinki on June 21, 2021, arrived at its destination at twice the speed of the existing Suez Canal route, proving the timeliness and competitiveness but missing rout in Iran Rasht-Astara railway line still remain the challenging problem for the Iranian government as well as for India and Russia.

Review of COVID-19 Myocarditis in Competitive Athletes: Legitimate Concern or Fake News?

Since the first reported case of COVID-19 in December 2019, the global landscape has shifted toward an unrecognizable paradigm. The sports world has not been immune to these ramifications; all major sports leagues have had abbreviated seasons, fan attendance has been eradicated, and athletes have opted out of entire seasons. For these athletes, cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 are particularly concerning, as myocarditis has been implicated in a significant portion of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in athletes (up to 22%). Multiple studies have attempted to evaluate post-COVID myocarditis and develop consensus return-to-play (RTP) guidelines, which has led to conflicting information for internists and primary care doctors advising these athletes. We aim to review the pathophysiology and diagnosis of viral myocarditis, discuss the heterogeneity regarding incidence of COVID myocarditis among athletes, and summarize the current expert recommendations for RTP. The goal is to provide guidance for practitioners who will be managing and advising athletes in the COVID era.

Advancing Online Dispute Resolution in Nigeria: Current Opportunities, Legal Challenges and the Ways Forward

The outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted the Nigerian legal system with the introduction of virtual court hearing. Currently, there is no legislation on virtual court hearings in Nigeria. The foregoing notwithstanding, this article examines the constitutionality of this type of hearing and its practicability under the extant laws. Virtual court had been discouraged because of the concern that it may not pass the test of public trial, which is constitutionally guaranteed. This article analyses the provisions of the Constitution as well as available case laws, which suggest that if certain requirements are met, virtual courts may pass the constitutional test of publicity of trial. It is also submitted that the virtual court will not offend the law on territorial jurisdiction. Nonetheless there are some legitimate concern about the issue of evidence, especially examination of witnesses, which may not be best suited for virtual court. Among these are technological inadequacy necessary for virtual court hearings in Nigeria leading to recommendations arising from practices in other jurisdictions.

Getting Tough? The Effects of Discretionary Principal Discipline on Student Outcomes

Nationwide, school principals are given wide discretion to use disciplinary tools like suspension and expulsion to create a safe learning environment. There is legitimate concern that this power can have negative consequences, particularly for the students who are excluded. This study uses linked disciplinary, education, and criminal justice records from 2008 to 2016 in North Carolina to examine the impact of principal-driven disciplinary decisions on middle school student outcomes. We find that principals who are more likely to remove students lead to reductions in reported rates of minor student misconduct. However, this deterrence comes at a high cost – these harsher principals generate more juvenile justice complaints and reduce high school graduation rates for all students in their schools. Students who committed minor disciplinary infractions in a school with a harsh principal suffer additional declines in attendance and test scores. Finally, principals exhibiting racial bias in their disciplinary decisions also widen educational gaps between White and Black students.

Public Universities in Post-Socialist States Could Become ‘Un-Academic’ after 2020 Pandemic

Firm and verifiable signs give reason for legitimate concern and criticism of the path taken by public universities in European post-socialist states in the last two decades. Not fulfilling their social role and function, as guardians of knowledge, thought, critical reflection and open-mindedness, is a cause for serious concern. Universities have bowed to the aggressive logic of the market. Instead of resisting the purely bureaucratic and brutal administrative conditions and criteria imposed by the state, universities have completely and uncritically subjected themselves to the dictates of authorities and committees controlled by the state. Academics have become passive and apathetic slaves of robotised technocratic dehumanisation. These phenomena have led universities to considerably fail to take care of the education of critically thinking citizens, of moral personalities and courageous civil intellectuals equipped with authentic and high-quality knowledge, and with self-respect, combined with an appropriate ethical self-understanding of their systemic and social role. Academics have lost awareness of their most important public role in the maintenance and progress of genuine democracy and the political system’s legitimacy. It seems that these universities have become almost non-academic. And they could finally become ‘un-academic’ due to the 2020 pandemic.

Lessons for Future Excessive Pricing Cases From Economics and the Court of Appeal Judgment In Pfizer/Flynn†

I consider the lessons that can be drawn from economics and the recent Court of Appeal (CoA) judgment in Pfizer/Flynn for future excessive pricing cases under TFEU Article 102. In future, defendants will ask their economic experts to develop reliable evidence under both limbs of the United Brands test. The required economic analysis will involve developing a suitable price benchmark, describing what prices would have been under ‘normal and sufficiently competitive’ conditions. The benchmark can be based on various types of evidence including cost-plus and/or comparator evidence. The CoA highlights that the cellophane fallacy is a legitimate concern for competition agencies. They also accept the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT’)s conclusion that ‘some’ economic value might be relevant beyond the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA’)s cost-plus benchmark—without being prescriptive about whether or indeed how a competition agency should further take it into account. I provide a suggestion for doing so. Finally, I note that economists consider that competitive markets can result in economically efficient market outcomes but these can be consistent with high degrees of inequality. As a result, a competitive benchmark in excessive pricing cases will necessarily involve Article 102 only taking fairness into account to a limited extent.

The discovery of taxol: Wall, Horwitz, Holton

Taxol is a widely employed drug for chemotherapy of breast cancer and finds use for ovarian and lung cancer as well as for Kaposi’s syndrome. Getting from the discovery of taxol to approval for treatment of cancer took 30 years. The molecule was discovered in the Pacific yew tree, where it occurs in very small amounts. Early studies proved encouraging but not striking enough to generate real enthusiasm for pushing taxol forward. Then Susan Horwitz discovered its mechanism of action—it prevents the dissolution of microtubules—and enthusiasm strengthened. The problem at that stage was getting enough taxol to treat patients. Environmentalists were concerned that harvesting trees for taxol would destroy basically all of the Pacific yew trees in old forests, a legitimate concern. The discovery of a taxol precursor in the English yew, where it occurs in substantial amounts, coupled with the synthesis of taxol from that precursor solved the supply issue. It is now made by total synthesis. Determination by a few scientists over decades brought this important cancer drug into practice.

Guilty until proven innocent! Unexplained Wealth Orders: what are they and could they affect you and your clients?

Unexplained Wealth Orders (a.k.a. The “McMafia Law”) entered the UK’s anti-criminal arsenal on 31 January 2018 to huge fanfare. However, after a great deal of noise, only four have actually been issued to date…. Are they a legitimate concern for the Ultra-High-Net-Worth adviser? Or is the UK government just paying lip service to appease its international friends…?

HONEYPOT: Intrusion Detection System

The number of computers connecting to the internet is getting increased day by day, while the number of computers connected is increasing then it is obvious that the amount of network-based attacks will also increase. In this way, we use a honeypot that is a framework trap that is set to act against unapproved utilization of PCs and data frameworks. Around the globe, a huge number of individuals get to the web each day, honeypot which can likewise be called Intrusion Detection Technology is another time of security innovation that screens device to avoid malicious sports. The whole factor of this research paper is an Intrusion Detection System and Intrusion Prevention System, elements accomplished via honeypot and honeytrap methodologies. A great deal of research went into this review paper and the discoveries propose that the honeypots are drawing in light of a legitimate concern for analysts as a significant security system that can be actualized to stop or occupy the assaults the system assaults and give a chance to find out increasingly more about the source and nature of these assaults. Hence we can say that a honeypot can be utilized as an examination apparatus to accumulate increasingly more data about the expanding number of system assaults that are going on consistently.