English Writing

1.Humanities
Efforts to define the nature and scope of business responsibilities concerning internationally recognized human rights standards and to utilize international law generally as a means of influencing corporate behavior have taken a more central place on the corporate responsibility agenda in recent years. A growing number of company policy statements and operating practices reflect corporate leaders’ increasing acknowledgement of some level of human rights responsibilities.

2. Social Sciences
  Bird and Gendron rightly and repeatedly stress that VATs differ quite fundamentally.  This makes statements about the merits or otherwise of “the VAT” relative to other taxes (which of course show similar variety) dangerous: a bad VAT may be worse than a good tariff, and a bad tariff worse than a good VAT. While broad comparisons across tax instruments can thus be an overly simplistic guide to policy making—no tax is perfect—thinking them through can help understand the instruments’ intrinsic strengths and limitations.

3. Science and Technology
                This paper reports on a cropping system experiment that was set up to evaluate the efficiency of IWM principles.  We compared five cropping systems that were designed to meet different economic and environment criteria and therefore characterized by contrasted levels of herbicide use.  The objective was to assess whether or not any of the combinations of IWM principles tested in the cropping systems would be efficient enough to control weeds in the long term.  The main criterion for assessing the performance of IWM regarding long-term weed control was the temporal variation in weed infestation over the course of the experiment.  Weed management in a given field was considered successful if no increases in the overall weed density, nor in the density of each weed species (or group of species) separately, were observed.  The issues of economic profitability and of other environmental impacts such as global warming, eutrophication and biodiversity are not addressed in this paper.

: