"Home Rule" in the German Parliament

Psychoacoustically-motivated Dereverberation for Recordings Taken in the German Parliament

In this paper, we discuss the application of speech dereverberation techniques for post-processing of recordings taken in the German parliament. Based on a novel psychoacoustically-motivated dereverberation concept, a significant improvement in terms of the perceived quality is obtained in comparison to a conventional dereverberation approach. Since time-varying changes of the acoustical enviro...

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The Politicians’ Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament

The Politicians’ Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG which is statistically and economic...

Parliament in the Thought of Akhund Khorasani

The legal and political concepts of constitutionalism are of great importance in the thoughts of the thinkers of that revolution. These concepts need to be defined and explained, because in most works related to constitutionalism; this aspect of their views has not been addressed. The notion of parliament is one of these very important concepts. Akhund Khorasani, as one of the leaders of the Co...

survey on the rule of the due & hindering relying on the sheikh ansaris ideas

قاعده مقتضی و مانع در متون فقهی کم و بیش مستند احکام قرار گرفته و مورد مناقشه فقهاء و اصولیین می باشد و مشهور معتقند مقتضی و مانع، قاعده نیست بلکه یکی از مسائل ذیل استصحاب است لذا نگارنده بر آن شد تا پیرامون این قاعده پژوهش جامعی انجام دهد. به عقیده ما مقتضی دارای حیثیت مستقلی است و هر گاه می گوییم مقتضی احراز شد یعنی با ماهیت مستقل خودش محرز گشته و قطعا اقتضاء خود را خواهد داشت مانند نکاح که ...