The paper analyzes relevant concepts for command & control effectiveness in the German disaster response system. The concepts are derived from legal text review, an analogy between military and disaster response domain and interpretations of representatives from major German disaster response organizations. The concepts are integrated into a conceptual model.

The German Electronic Reporting System for Infectious Disease Control (DEMIS) aims at creating a reliable, knowledge-based platform that provides services for respective experts and decision makers. This fast-responsive system enables reporting in accordance with legal requirements by the German Law for Protection against Infection Act (IFSG). DEMIS is built on several components, one of which ...

We compare China’s financial system to those of the developed countries, in particular, the US system dominated by financial markets, and the German system dominated by the banking sector. We examine financial systems’ properties, including risk sharing, information provision, funding new and mature industries, financial crisis, corporate governance, and the relation between the financial and l...

Anesthesiologists perform a broad spectrum of tasks. However, in many countries, there is no legal basis for personnel staffing of physicians in anesthesia. Also, the German diagnosis related groups system for refunding does not deliver such a basis. Thus, in 2006 a new calculation base for the personnel requirement that included an Excel calculation sheet was introduced by the German Board of ...

The Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF), being developed in the European ESTRELLA project, defines a knowledge representation language for arguments, rules, ontologies, and cases in XML. In this article, the syntax and argumentation-theoretic semantics of the LKIF rule language is presented and illustrated with an example based on German family law. This example is then applied to show ho...

Controlled Legal German (CLG) is a subset of legal German specifically designed to facilitate the semantic processing of Swiss statutes and regulations. In this paper, we describe the strategies CLG employs to reduce ambiguity and underspecification in such texts, and the methods it uses to maintain proximity to conventional legal language. The presented discussion suggests that, if existing sy...

INTRODUCTION . The object of the research consists in specific procedure recognition foreign decrees divorce which exists German law. actuality is confirmed by keeping this during many decades, as well nowadays, regard recent reform law European Union about mutual decisions matrimonial matters. MATERIALS AND METHODS article based on Act Federal Republic Germany 2009 Proceedings Family Matters a...

The use of Bitcoins is increasing rapidly. Bitcoins are utilized in ecommerce to purchase both legal and illegal goods, they are transferred and traded and companies have invested their capital in the new digital currency. While the technical aspects of the system are well established, the legal framework remains unclear. Legislators all over the world are just starting to discover this new vir...