THIS PAPER CONCERNS SOME JURISPRUDENTIAL ISSUES RAISED BY THE abolition of the mandatory life sentence for murder, a step undertaken in New South Wales in 1982— Crimes (Homicide) Amendment Act 1982, Crimes (Life Sentences) Amendment Act 1989— and Victoria in 1986— Crimes (Amendment) Act 1986. It starts, however, with more general issues of sentencing philosophy. The first main section of this p...

More often than not, spatial objects are associated with some context, in the form of text, descriptive tags (e.g., points interest, flickr photos), or linked entities semantic graphs Yago2, DBpedia). Hence, location-based retrieval should be extended to consider not only locations but also context objects, especially when retrieved too many and query result is overwhelming. In this article, we...

The proliferation of large High-Performance Computing clusters executing computation-intensive jobs on large data sets has made cluster power proportionality very important [13]. Despite publicly available traces showing that many clusters have a low average utilization, existing power-proportionality techniques have seen low adoption, a major reason being that these techniques require modifica...

Let X be a topological space, and let C(X) be the complex of singular cochains on X with coefficients in R. We denote by C c (X) (resp. C ∗ b (X)) the subcomplex of C(X) given by continuous (resp. locally bounded Borelian) cochains, i.e. by such cochains whose restriction to the space of simplices (endowed with the compact-open topology) defines a continuous (resp. locally bounded Borelian) rea...

This contribution considers the use of principle proportionality to review measures combatting international tax abuse (avoidance and evasion). Our claim is that proportionality, which tends be viewed as key analytical tool balance equity against interests taxpayers, ill-suited such measures. we will demonstrate from a theoretical angle, but also through analysis CJEU, investment tribunals WTO ...