EU membership or oligarchic rule: The choice facing Georgia

Unveiling the texture of a European Research Area: emergence of oligarchic networks under EU Framework Programmes

The paper provides a contribution to the recent debate about targets and effectiveness of network policies at the EU level, by presenting a detailed analysis of the large R&D network that has emerged over Framework Programmes. Social network analysis and graph theory are employed to describe structural properties and dynamics of the emerging network, which appears to be rather dense and pervasi...

Problems Facing Group Membership Specifications for X-by-Wire Protocols

A guarantee is only as good as its assumptions. Three group membership areas defy firm, practical guarantees: transient faults, reintegration, and large groups. We show why these areas are problematic, discuss current approaches, and illustrate alternative approaches that may lead to a more dependable system. Ultimately, designs should be tested against a comprehensive fault model, and a probab...

Oligarchic Growth of Protoplanets

and N-body calculations (e.g., Ida 1990, Ida and Makino 1992b). It is shown that dynamical friction is effective in We investigate the growth and the orbital evolution of proa Keplerian potential as well as in a free space. Kokubo toplanets embedded in a swarm of planetesimals using threedimensional N-body simulations. We find that among protoplaand Ida (1996), hereafter referred to as Paper I,...

The HIPAA Privacy Rule and the EU GDPR: Illustrative Comparisons.

rule of law or rule of judge

as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...