This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of potential portfolio companies. For a sample of VC-seeking German and British biotechnology companies we have...

Globally, corporal punishment is the most common form of violence against children. A large body evidence demonstrates that it has no positive long-term outcomes and predicts a wide range adverse effects in childhood adulthood. The United Nations declared violates children’s fundamental rights to protection called on all countries repeal laws allow or justify it. As June 2023, 65 have prohibite...

INTRODUCTION A common misconception pervades in the West that women are all mistreated in Arab societies due to the application of Islamic law (shari‛a). Scanning media articles, we see references to stoning as punishment for adultery in Iran and requiring of the burka for women under the Taliban. In Morocco, however, women are not obligated to wear the veil and stoning is not an acceptable pun...

Background: Islam as a comprehensive religion rooted in human nature and revealed in order to respond to basic human needs has broadened the ethics of its criminal policy to include crime, crime and punishment. In keeping with each other and with the other rules of this religion, it has set guidelines and values ​​based on ethics and principles for avoiding crime in the community if the Prophet...

the irony is a flexible structure in arabic and persian languages in which speaker can state his concerns ambiguously and addressee comprehend the favorite meaning of the irony according to his atmosphere and cultural situation this artistic and eloquent approach has various motives like shame and shyness, fear of saying beliefs freely, attraction of addressee, defamilarezation, running away fr...

This article is devoted to a comparative legal analysis of the procedure and conditions execution serving punishment in form detention disciplinary battalion Ukraine military corrective training center Great Britain. Legal regulation responsibility servicemen for committing offenses reflected laws on Armed Forces articles normative documents, such as criminal codes different countries world. Th...

Capital punishment in the United States is racialized: those convicted of murder Whites are much more likely to receive death penalty than for Blacks. commonly practiced places where lynching Blacks occurred frequently and states which slavery was legal as 1860. Accordingly, scholars have debated whether capital reflects a legacy or slavery. Our analysis shows that on its own significant predic...

In this work, I would like to question the canonical view of prison, which underlies the daily practice of law, and criminal law courses at law schools. Our criminal discourse excessively limits, or even forbids, the possibility of discussing imprisonment. In this way, imprisonment, a rudimentary and brutal tool, is criminal law ́s ordinary means of punishment, and there is no evidence that lega...