Fiddling with the ECT act – Electronic signatures

Fiddling with PageRank

This paper deals with the various changes that can be made to the basic PageRank model. We document the recent findings and add a few new contributions. These contributions concern (1) the sensitivity of the PageRank vector, (2) another method of forcing the Markov chain to be irreducible, and (3) a proof of the full spectrum of the PageRank matrix.

Fiddling with the Neural Code

Book Review how the stimulus changes over time introduces a complexity into the neural code that is often avoided by using static or stationary stimuli. The authors of Spikes Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code take the bull by the horns and deal directly with the problem of encoding time-varying stimuli. To under-Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, and William Bialek stand the issues involved, a music...

More fiddling with the definition of death?

Stanley contends that G.R. Gillett, in the last paragraph of an otherwise excellent article, "Why let people die?" (Journal of Medical Ethics 1986 Jun; 12(2): 83-86), is "fiddling about" with the definition of death when he argues that the patient in a persistent vegetative state is, in an ethical sense, no longer alive as a person; that what remains is a body in which the former patient has no...

Making Money with Mobile Qualified Electronic Signatures

In 1999 the directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council was enacted, providing a legal framework for a common introduction of electronic signatures in Europe. So far the signature market has failed miserably. Mobile electronic signatures could be a potential and promising way to increase the market acceptance of electronic signatures. In this contribution we used an infra...

Das Signaturgesetz in den USA - Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act