Essays about: "permissive conditions"

Found 3 essays containing the words permissive conditions.

  1. 1. Assessing the relationship between hypoxia and life on Earth, and implications for the search for habitable exoplanets

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Thomas Evan Smith; [2022]
    Keywords : hypoxia; hypoxia-inducible factors; atmospheric oxygen; multicellularity; embryogenesis; exoplanets; white dwarfs; oxygen fugacity; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Atmospheric oxygen at the level of present-day Earth (21%) is generally regarded as permissive for the development and survival of complex multicellular life, such as animals. The hypothesis that oxic conditions are conducive for multicellular life has subsequently been applied to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, with planets exhibiting atmospheric oxygen of a similar level to Earth being considered as candidates for habitability. READ MORE

  2. 2. Adding New Rules above the Old Ones – Institutional Change of The Water Sector in Moldova

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Irina Iurcisin; [2011]
    Keywords : institutional change; institutions; permissive conditions; generative causes; gradual change mode; layering; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this case study was to explore the process of institutional change in the water in Moldova, with the ambition of contributing to the under-theorized discussion on the way this process unfolds since two decades ago. Institutional change was conceptualised as the process of making improvements and amendments of what is wrong or unsatisfactory about water institutions, with the aim of achieving a better state. READ MORE

  3. 3. Law, Morality, and Armed Conflict: Preventive War and Humanitarian Intervention

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Nils Råby; [2010]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I analyze the relationship between law and moral in the field of armed conflict, focusing on two controversial uses of force: preventive war and humanitarian intervention. I find that the legal status of humanitarian intervention is uncertain; it is hard to reconcile with the language of the UN Charter, but a more permissive norm may be developing in customary law. READ MORE