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Social justice is a contested term, incorporated into the language of differing political positions. This text, drawing on international experience, addresses what the meaning of social justice is, & how it translates into the everyday concerns of public & social policy, in the context of both multiculturalism & globalisation

Legislative efforts for renewables-based energy decarbonisation hinge upon the support and commitment from different stakeholders holding often conflicting positions regarding disruptive processes of socio-technical transformation. However, the evolving acceptance of market actors on the policy-driven promotion of renewables over time remains under-scrutinised. Simultaneously, despite growing attention to power and politics in sustainability transitions, limited efforts remain invested for elucidating the political-economic nature of the market-based selection environments they are operationalised through, highlighting the need for a more systematic comprehension of the "politics of selection". To address these shortcomings, this paper provides a more refined understanding of the role of policy-driven markets and its participating agents in facilitating/hindering innovation diffusion and broader (system-wide) sustainability transitions. To do so, it showcases a longitudinal case study of the politics underlying Germany's evolving feed-in policy support framework for orchestrating a market-mediated diffusion of renewables (1980s–2020). Based on policy analysis and semi-structured interviews, the study traces the changing acceptance and ensuing strategic (re)actions of market actors to the emergence and evolution of Germany's market for electricity from renewable energy sources. Results show how different market participants effectively shape the selection environments they operate in by proactively contesting/deluding the design features of the support policies organising their economised relations (e.g., market entry conditions, exchange rules, remuneration levels, pricing schemes, etc.). Such efforts are undertaken through legal means and market framing strategies targeting the affordability of policy support costs, coupled with the strategic use of policy instrumentation as a vehicle to further expand/retain their market shares to the detriment of competing actors.

THE FORMATION OF INFORMATION SECURITY POLICY IN A MODERN ORGANIZATION SUMMARY The main object of work – creation of information security policy, in modern organization. The main purpose of this work – to analyze and in the end of this work give recomendations, that wuold be useful and wil help organization to know better what is security policy and implement this policy in organizaton. Main tasks, determined in the final work are: determinate conception of information security policy, to explore the main stages of security policy creation; review and introduce internationals standarts and formats which are available on market, to familiaraise with most imoportan steps of security strategy and documentaition; determinate main organization maturity models, which are used in security threats analysis. To analize, what size investition are allocated to secure company's information; to explore that situation is in Lithuanian market, which security metodics and products are available for Lithuanian organization. Successful implementation of security policy in organization depends, from that, how organization will perceive security importance, how they will identify most important information resources, and forecast how this new policy will impact business activity. Also very important is not to make mistakes, choosing methodic ant technologies, which would be adequate to organizations activity. According to the analysis of security methodic and most important security policy steps, is easier to asses the main problems in security process, and to identify reasons which may make security policy inefficient. Successful implementation of security policy, employees training, good manager's security understanding will help to avoid many problems. This work is systematized information about main security policy steps and process, most popular standards, occurring problems ant recommendations how to avoid them. So this work, can be used as a broad – brush and structures theoretical tool, about mains security process. It can be useful, to everyone who is interested in information security.

THE FORMATION OF INFORMATION SECURITY POLICY IN A MODERN ORGANIZATION SUMMARY The main object of work – creation of information security policy, in modern organization. The main purpose of this work – to analyze and in the end of this work give recomendations, that wuold be useful and wil help organization to know better what is security policy and implement this policy in organizaton. Main tasks, determined in the final work are: determinate conception of information security policy, to explore the main stages of security policy creation; review and introduce internationals standarts and formats which are available on market, to familiaraise with most imoportan steps of security strategy and documentaition; determinate main organization maturity models, which are used in security threats analysis. To analize, what size investition are allocated to secure company's information; to explore that situation is in Lithuanian market, which security metodics and products are available for Lithuanian organization. Successful implementation of security policy in organization depends, from that, how organization will perceive security importance, how they will identify most important information resources, and forecast how this new policy will impact business activity. Also very important is not to make mistakes, choosing methodic ant technologies, which would be adequate to organizations activity. According to the analysis of security methodic and most important security policy steps, is easier to asses the main problems in security process, and to identify reasons which may make security policy inefficient. Successful implementation of security policy, employees training, good manager's security understanding will help to avoid many problems. This work is systematized information about main security policy steps and process, most popular standards, occurring problems ant recommendations how to avoid them. So this work, can be used as a broad – brush and structures theoretical tool, about mains security process. It can be useful, to everyone who is interested in information security.

A strategy for sampling of animal tissues and a statistical approach for analyzing data on body burdens of a parent chemical and its metabolites is presented such that the data may be evaluated in relation to the detection limit(s)of the analytical techniques used and the criterion levels established for acceptable tissue concentrations.

A study of the prevalence of skin cancer among 40,421 persons consuming arsenic‐contaminated drinking water in Taiwan was used for a cancer dose‐response assessment of ingested arsenic. The numbers of persons at risk over three dose intervals and four exposure durations were estimated from the data in order to apply the method of maximum likelihood to a multistage‐Weibull time/ dose–response model. A constant exposure level since birth for each of the exposure categories was assumed. It was found that the cumulative hazard increases as a power of three in age, and is linear or quadratic (with a linear coefficient) in dose. Observations from a smaller epidemiologic survey in Mexico were similar to what would be predicted from the model of the Taiwan data. Assuming that the skin cancer risk from ingested arsenic in the American population would also be similar to the Taiwan population, an American male would have a lifetime risk of developing skin cancer of 1.3 × 10−3 (3.0 × 10−3) if exposed to 1 μg/kg/day for a 76‐year lifespan (median lifespan in the U.S.).

This study maps the evolution of enterprise agreements in Australia through the lens of complexity/simplicity. Drawing on Peter Schuck's four features of complexity - technicality, density, differentiation and uncertainty - the thesis develops a multi-dimensional framework to categorise the complexity of enterprise agreements and to assess whether these agreements have become more, or less, complex over time. Since the early debates about the introduction of formalised enterprise bargaining in the late 1980s, politicians and other policy makers have consistently argued that the bargaining process should produce 'simple' agreements. In essence, the goal was to set out workplace conditions in a single document, in a form that was easy for workers to understand and straightforward for businesses to apply. To date, this goal of simplifying workplace relations conditions via enterprise bargaining has received scant scholarly attention. In particular, very little work has been done to assess, classify or measure the ways in which enterprise agreements alleviate, or contribute to, the complexity of rules that govern the workplace. To address this gap, the thesis uses content analysis techniques to assess enterprise agreements made within the federal workplace relations system between 1993 and 2011 in the higher education and fast food sectors. The aim of the empirical study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy of simplicity by examining the extent to which these enterprise agreements have changed over the period of enterprise bargaining across the four categories of complexity. The study also explores some of the legislative and non-legislative factors that have contributed to the shifts in complexity and simplicity in these agreements. Part I of the thesis provides the foundation for the empirical study in Part II. Chapter One is an introductory chapter that explains the nature of the problem and the research questions. Chapter Two outlines the policy goal of obtaining a simple, integrated set of workplace conditions through enterprise bargaining. Chapter Three examines the evolution of the legislative framework for agreement-making from the time that formalised bargaining was introduced in 1992 through to the changes introduced by the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). Chapter Four concludes Part I by outlining the methods which are used in the empirical study of enterprise agreements. Part II of the thesis sets out the findings of the empirical study. Chapter Five outlines the findings relating to technicality and density in higher education and fast food agreements. Chapter Six presents the findings relating to differentiation and uncertainty. Finally, Chapter Seven summarises and reflects on the findings of the thesis before setting out some options for further research and suggesting some possible strategies to address complexity in enterprise agreements in the future. ; Awards: Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence in 2013.