Integrating Social and Environmental Considerations into Trade and Investment Agreements, for Sustainable Development

This chapter summarizes the findings of the research and draws together the explanations of these findings explored throughout the volume. Key findings include; the observation that States are adopting sustainable development as part of the ‘object and purpose’ of trade law, both in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in many regional trade agreements (RTAs); the observation that States are also adopting innovative operational provisions to prevent trade and investment law from constraining legitimate new environment and social development measures and the enhancement of trade and investment in more sustainable sectors; as well as the observation that that there is an important procedural aspect to the integration of environmental and social development concerns in trade and investment law and policy. Drawing on these findings, the chapter summarizes opportunities for States to address key tensions between trade, environmental and social development regulations through the adoption of integration measures for sustainable development in the treaties, and three steps that States can take towards meaningful integration.

3. Theory, scope, and practice

‘Theory, scope, and practice’ assesses the theoretical, substantive, and procedural aspects of Islamic law. The theoretical aspect engages with the jurisprudential rules relating to the sources, methods, principles, legal hermeneutics, and juristic methodologies of Islamic law. The substantive aspect deals with the scope of Islamic law, covering the textual provisions and juristic rulings on specific substantive issues. The procedural aspect deals with Islamic law in practice, covering its practical application as a functional legal system. Any examination of Islamic legal theory should consider the sources, methods, and principles of law and, in particular in this case, Islamic substantive law. Ijtihād is an important tool of independent juristic reasoning under Islamic legal theory.

Fatigue as a threat in civil aviation

Fatigue as a term does not represent a disease, but a state of reduced mental and/or physical potentials and requires an interdisciplinary approach to detecting and managing risks in mutually related and conditioned work processes. Knowing the principle of fatigue allows us to discover, understand, predict and reduce the possibility of escalation of problems in a timely manner. Today, fatigue is recognized in civil aviation as the direct cause of more than 20% of incidents. Security and safety management measures are mainly aimed at reducing threats from a technical or procedural aspect while ignoring the fact that inadequate management of the Human Factor causes 80% of injuries, loss of life and material damage.

SEARCH AND REMOVAL OF PROHIBITED ITEMS FROM THE HUMAN BODY: MEDICAL– PROCEDURAL ASPECT

The aim: Based on the research, to develop a scientific concept of medical and procedural aspects of restricting a person’s right to physiological integrity related to the removal of prohibited items from his/her body and formulate recommendations for their implementation in law enforcement practice. Materials and methods: The empirical basis of the study were five decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the results of a survey of prosecutors, investigators, and lawyers, processing of materials of criminal proceedings. The practical evidence of the authors, their advocacy, and service in the prosecutor’s office was also taken into account. To demonstrate the method of prohibited substances’ concealment in a human body, a photographic image was used based on the results of the examination of a person using a scanner conducted by customs officials. The methodological basis of the research is a complex combination of general-scientific and special methods, in particular, system-structural, comparative-legal; sociological; statistical; as well as the method of generalization. Conclusions: The removal of evidence from a person’s body is a strip search. The basis for this investigative action should be a court decision, and in urgent cases, the prosecutor. This investigative action must be carried out with the obligatory participation of a physician. To this end, it is necessary to develop an appropriate medical protocol.

The Path to Living Knowledge Based on the Application of Teaching Information Transformation Techniques

The author summarizes the author’s techniques used in psychology classes with the aim of meaningfully transforming educational information by bachelors into their personal knowledge. The methodology for developing techniques was based on idiographic and qualitative approaches. The productive ideas of V.P. Zinchenko about “living” knowledge and the fundamental difference between information and knowledge, his original and fruitful metaphor about the fifth dimension of being, which he associated with meaning; a consequence of this metaphor about the difficulties of the process of generating an affectively colored space of meanings by a person turned out to be useful. The procedural aspect and content of four specific techniques for transforming educational psychological information are described. Examples of the use of techniques in the study of specific psychological disciplines are given. A special technique of creating and accumulating knowledge about his person by transforming educational psychological information into verbal self-portraits is highlighted. The question is raised about the correspondence of the knowledge obtained by bachelors as a result of the application of the proposed techniques to the content of the concept of “living” knowledge in the understanding of V.P. Zinchenko. The author’s version of the answer to this question is offered. A hypothesis is formulated about the possible mechanisms of transformation of educational psychological information into meaningful knowledge of bachelors. Two promising directions for the continuation of the empirical research pre sented in the article are highlighted.

FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT. SYSTEM ANALYSIS. PROCESS ASPECT

This article examines a flexible architectural environment as a system that can change itsnparameters under the influence of various factors. These changes are motivated by the development or adaptation of the system to external environmental factors. A flexible architectural environment is considered as a system from the point of view of the procedural aspect, which determines changes in the system at various levels, as well as changes in the connections between the internal elements of the system. In this aspect, the internal elements of the system can be identified, with the help of which the flexibility of the architectural environment is achieved. Three levels of change and development of the system are considered in detail: material, functional, and aesthetic. The material and functional level involves changes in the system, which are achieved by structural elements and equipment. The aesthetic level implies changes in the system with elements such as color and light, materials, textures and decor. These groups of elements of the system undergo changes in internal connections, which are formal and aesthetic in nature.