The complex moral and ethical debate surrounding the definition of the origins of human life, together with conflicting current and proposed legislation on state and federal levels, is hindering the course of research into the therapeutic uses of human embryonic stem cells. However, newly identified sources of adult stem cells, free from many of the ethical and legal concerns attached to embryo...

the purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to determine problems and success factors among members of water user associations (wuas) in moqan, tajan and varamin areas in northern iran. the population consisted of farmers who were members of water user associations (n= 2,500). using simple random sampling procedure, 262 farmers were selected for the study. a researcher made structur...

This document provides an overview of the requirements analysis, validation/verification and evaluation activities which were carried out during the construction of the MILE system. MILE stands for Maritime Information and Legal Explanation. The MILE system is an application of the generic CLIME architecture, where CLIME stands for Computerized Legal Information Management and Explanation. Both...

Reproductive tourism is the travelling by candidate service recipients from one institution, jurisdiction, or country where treatment is not available to another institution, jurisdiction, or country where they can obtain the kind of medically assisted reproduction they desire. The more widespread this phenomenon, the louder the call for international measures to stop these movements. Three pos...

In this paper we propose an on-line diagnosis algorithm for Time Petri Nets (TPN). The plant observation is given by a subset of transitions and the faults are modeled by a subset of unobservable transitions. The plant behavior is derived on-line and the diagnosis is obtained checking whether or not some or all of the traces in the behavior that obey the plant observation contain fault events. ...

The Mizar Mathematical Library (MML) is a large corpus of formalised mathematical knowledge. It has been constructed over the course of many years by a large number of authors and maintainers. Yet the legal status of these efforts of the Mizar community has never been clarified. In 2010, after many years of loose deliberations, the community decided to investigate the issue of licensing the con...

Negative and positive externalities pose symmetrical problems to social welfare. The law internalizes negative externalities by providing general tort liability rules. According to such rules, those who cause harm to others should pay compensation. In theory, in the presence of positive externalities, negative liability should apply: those who produce benefits should be paid a compensatory awar...

The world-wide growth of the mobile-telephony market opens the door for mobile commerce (m-commerce). For the restricted target platforms used for m-commerce such as mobile phones or personal digital assistants, domain solutions need to be lean but still secure. Especially mobile contracting and mobile payment as parts of m-commerce require solutions resting upon a sound legal basis. Electronic...

In this paper, we analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the various solutions to compensate intellectual property rights holders. Specifically we look at digital rights management (DRM) based systems, extensions to DRM to support fair uses, monitor-and-charge schemes, compulsory licensing schemes and alternative business models. Our main contribution is to provide a framework from which curre...

This paper gives an overview of recent developments in the German Reference Corpus DRK in terms of growth, maximising relevant corpus strata, metadata, legal issues, and its current and future research interface. Due to the recent acquisition of new licenses, DRK has grown by a factor of four in the first half of 2014, mostly in the area of newspaper text, and presently contains over 24 b...