Legislation grows in number and complexity, and so does the need to get informed about them, and to be able to infer the consequences of rules and requirements for particular situations. Access to legal sources has thus far been handled in the same way as information retrieval in general by using database technology. This misses out what is the crucial issue in legal information serving (LIS): ...

It is the concern of the author to arrange cogitations and experiences she gained by collaborating in relevant international project works, by conducting scientific studies regarding legal knowledge representation and by teaching legal information retrieval. The main focus is the demonstration of problems of communication within and between humans and legal information systems, which are often ...

Secured Credit Transactions (SCTs) are necessary and unavoidable transactions that business owners engage in to ensure their businesses thrive. However, because of the possibility a person seeking take loan may be desperate taken advantage time dire need, or on other hand, party present fake properties as security for loan, there legal requirements both debtor creditor must meet. This paper add...

bHowever, the concept of law has analytical and practical priority over the other two categories The different concepts of law indicate us what are law’s structural elements, the aims it should attain and/or the roles that the various legal actors (judges, legislators, and practitioners, for example) should play in legal practice. In this way, usually, law schools’ curricula and teaching method...

Information privacy requirements of patients and information requirements of healthcare providers (HCP) are competing concerns. Reaching a balance between these requirements have proven difficult but is crucial for the success of eHealth systems. The traditional approaches to information management have been preventive measures which either allow or deny access to information. We believe that t...

The analysis of the spatial–temporal variability and trends of aerosols over China based on∼11 years (February 2000 to December 2010) of Terra-Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Level 3 aerosol products is the focus. The study shows that the MISR aerosol optical depth (AOD) is in good agreement with corresponding AOD from AERONET stations and suggests that MISR aerosol products have hi...

BACKGROUND Advance directive law may compromise the clinical effectiveness of advance directives. PURPOSE To identify unintended legal consequences of advance directive law that may prevent patients from communicating end-of-life preferences. DATA SOURCES Advance directive legal statutes for all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia and English-language searches of LexisNexis, Westlaw...

Innovative deceased donor intervention strategies have the potential to increase the number and quality of transplantable organs. Yet there is confusion over regulatory and legal requirements, as well as ethical considerations. We surveyed transplant surgeons (n = 294), organ procurement organization (OPO) professionals (n = 83), and institutional review board (IRB) members (n = 317) and found ...

The texts of legislation and regulation must be structured and augmented in order to allow for semantic web services (querying, linking, and inference). However, it is difficult to accurately parse and semantically represent such texts due to conventional practices of the legal community, the length and complexity of legal language, and the textual ground of the law. Controlled natural language...