of 1970‚ President Richard Nixon founded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because he wanted to "transform our land into what we want it to become” through the utilization of an independent agency to regulate the environment. This organization protects the environment by enforcing regulations to support environmental laws created by Congress. The Environmental Protection Agency’s mission statement is "to support the protection of human health and the environment by advocating and advancing
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BRAND PROTECTION STRATEGIES: Defending Against Gray Market Diversion EXECUTIVE WHITE PAPER Solutions for Business Consulting. Technology. Results. Executive Summary In this rapidly changing global economy‚ gray market diversion has become an ever increasing issue facing many brand owners today. Unlike black market activity—where counterfeit‚ refurbished‚ or stolen goods are resold as genuine brand products—gray market activity involves the unauthorized movement of commerce through various
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1. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) were enacted in 1974 by the Children’s Bureau as a federal enacted Act of legislation. This was enacted to counteract the problem of child abuse to provide federal funding to states to help fight this problem. It is set out to help those children whom need help from abuse. 2. The key purpose of this Act of legislation is too give states the funds for the prevention of‚ assessment‚ investigation‚ prosecution‚ and treatment activities surrounding
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DSE BASED ZONE PROTECTION: The dynamic state estimation based protection (also known as setting-less protection) has been inspired from the differential protection function and can be considered as an extension and generalization as illustrated in Figure 1. In current differential protection the electric currents at all terminals of a protection zone are measured and their weighted sum must be equal to zero (generalized Kirchhoff’s current law). Thus the current differential protection function consists
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National Infrastructure Protection Plan and Risk Management Framework D’Juan L. Sanders Professor Rachelle Howard SEC 310 February 1‚ 2013 Protecting the Nations Critical Infrastructure The National Infrastructure Protection Plan’s risk management framework is a process structured to protect the Nation’s CIKR‚ DHS‚ and SSA’s assets‚ systems‚ networks‚ and functions by minimizing potential risks that may compromise integrity of these very important sectors. According to free dictionary.com
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Reduced Protection on the Global Economy Protection is essentially defined as any action by national governments that will give an artificial competitive advantage to domestic producers over foreign producers. The opposite of protection is free trade‚ which occurs when there are no limitations to the free movement of goods and services between different economies. The main reasons for nations to reduce protection is to increase efficiency and productivity levels‚ but in reducing protection also comes
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PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL OFFENCES: LAW AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS *INTRODUCTION Childhood is considered to be the most crucial phase of human growth and also the most memorable one. It is much more than just the space between birth and the attainment of adulthood. It is a precious time in which children should live free from fear‚ safe from violence and protected from abuse and exploitation. It’s time for children to be in school and at playground‚ to grow strong and confident with the love
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The importance of Confidentiality and Data Protection for home based childcare Childminder must handle all information that she has on the child as confidential and should be shared only with the child’s parents and the child. It is essential to handle data about children and families in a confidential way‚ due to that they have a legal right to privacy. It is equally important that information should not be passed on without written approval of the parents or carer‚ because they have the
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Why was the Decree for the Protection of people and state (Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat) introduced in February 1933? Popularly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree‚ it meant that Sections 114‚ 115‚ 117‚ 118‚ 123‚ 124‚ and 153‚ of the German constitution were suspended until further notice. The decree consisted of six articles. Article 1 suspended most of the civil liberties set forth in the Weimar Constitution — freedom of the person‚ freedom of expression‚ freedom
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The importance of confidentiality and Data Protection for home based childcare When working in a childcare setting it is often inevitable to come across confidential information about children and families you are working with. Confidential information is personal information‚ which should not be shared with unauthorised person or organisations. It also means a childminder should never discuss a child with a friend or other parents. Most common information held by childcare practitioner are
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