state compensation to crime victims means paying money by the governmental institutions to victims or his/her families, when restitution by the offender and other financial sources is accessible. in the legal system of england, law of criminal damages includes all aspects of state compensation such as: conditions of eligibility related to victims, crimes, damages, perpetrators as well as proced...

It is important for legal education to develop a student’s capability to reason what kind of right and duty relations come to exist as a result of an application of law to a concrete case problem. A legal knowledge base system which logically infers the legal state of affairs as a conclusion from law together with the facts of a case and which clearly shows the reasoning process, is to be a use...

We participated in the ACL WMT 2009 shared task for translation of German to English, and English to German. We used the Moses open source system, combined with morphological processing. For German to English, we had the only constraint system comparable with the open-data systems. One of the reasons the system performed well was strong reduction of the German vocabulary, through a simplistic c...

Abstract This review critically assesses the book Legal theory and media of law, by Thomas Vesting. The author seeks to present a multidisciplinary conception jurisprudence, analyzing coevolution between legal phenomena, their self-descriptions dissemination communication, from oral cultures computer networks. paper posits Vesting’s contribution in modern path German jurisprudence philosophy law.

Abstract The German system of public sector employment (including civil servants and employees) qualifies as a classical European continental service model moulded in traditional forms Weberian bureaucracy. Its features include career-based with entry based on levels formal qualification. Coordinated by legal frames centralised collective bargaining, the is, at same time, decentralised flexible...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Physicians are often confronted with ethical and legal questions at the end of life. In this study we asked medical students at the universities of Mainz and Berlin (Charité) about the "Guidelines on Physicians' Aid to the Dying" issued by the German Medical Association: their moral attitude and legal knowledge regarding the limitation of medical procedures at the end o...

the financial crisis have caused many writers to become concerned with the effectiveness of existing bankruptcy laws, which encompasses both the usefulness of reorganization and liquidation laws, as well as efficiency of the judicial system to uphold the laws in court. this concern accompanied in our legal system with the privatization movement has caused many banks owned by the government to b...

This paper investigates the need for applying English prosody when synthesising English portions of mixed English/German texts using a German-based polyglot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system. The polyglot system is based on a monolingual German TTS system, which uses a phone mapping from English to German to synthesise English texts. Two systems with varying degrees of assimilation to Engli...