Thirteenth Biennial Status Report

From Status to Agency: Abolishing

In response to challenges that the disparate impact doctrine violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, the Thirteenth Amendment provides a constitutional foundation that deflects the equal protection argument. Early interpreters of the Thirteenth Amendment envisioned the provision as a means to abolish chattel as well as civil slavery, which was the condition of subordinate s...

OVERALL PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION Current status of implementation

This report represents a summary of the full 2014 global progress report on implementation of the Convention, and has been prepared by the Secretariat in accordance with decision FCTC/COP4(16). In that decision, the Conference of the Parties (COP) requested that global progress reports be prepared based on the biennial implementation reports of Parties and submitted to each regular session of t...

Hilbert’s Thirteenth Problem

Some progress is made in Hilbert’s Thirteenth problem. Résumé Un certain progrès est réalisé dans le treizième problème de Hilbert.

Applications of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods

Ontologies aim at capturing domain knowledge in a generic way. An ontology, therefore, provides a commonly agreed understanding of a domain, which can be reused and shared across ■ The Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods (PSMs), held in conjunction with the Thirteenth Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI ’98), was held on 24 to 25 August 1...

Pakistan International Biennial Conference on ‘Ramadan and Health’ (9th – 11th October 2015; 26th – 28th Dhul Hijjah 1436 H)