Polish contemporary legal system and its movie depict

Favourite movie stars, their tobacco use in contemporary movies, and its association with adolescent smoking.

OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between adolescents' favourite movie stars, the portrayal of tobacco use by those stars in contemporary motion pictures, and adolescent smoking. DESIGN AND SETTING 632 students (sixth to 12th grade, ages 10-19 years) from five rural New England public schools completed a voluntary, self administered survey in October 1996. The survey assessed tobacco use, othe...

Legal Reform in Contemporary Japan

Unsupervised Keyword Extraction from Polish Legal Texts

In this work, we present an application of the recently proposed unsupervised keyword extraction algorithm RAKE to a corpus of Polish legal texts from the field of public procurement. RAKE is essentially a language and domain independent method. Its only languagespecific input is a stoplist containing a set of non-content words. The performance of the method heavily depends on the choice of suc...

A Jurisprudential Inquiry into Contemporary Legal Theory

TO FUNDAMENTAL JURISPRUDENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814 R II. THE FOUNDING BLOCKS OF CONTEMPORARY LEGAL THEORY: SCIENCE, POLICY, AND CULTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 R III. LAW BEYOND SCIENCE, POLICY, AND CULTURE: CASE STUDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825 R A. Law as Science and Codifi...

Legal status of revolutionary institutions in Iran's administrative legal system

The revolutionary institutions, due to the authority of the public power, form an important part of the administrative organization in Iran. the legal status of the institutions in question was ambiguous, The legislator tried to create a legal personality by adopting the Public Accounts Act of 1366 and the Law on the List of Non-Governmental Organizations and Public Institutions approved in 137...