What makes some acts immoral? Although Western theories of morality often define harmful behaviors as centrally immoral, whether this is applicable to other cultures is still under debate. In particular, Confucianism emphasizes civility as fundamental to moral excellence. We describe three studies examining how the word immoral is used by Chinese and Westerners. Layperson-generated examples wer...

There is a significant need to understand the law that relates to credit cards, both civil and criminal, especially, in the context of ever increasing credit card frauds, and the way in which the civil law has contributed to it, and the insufficient way in which the criminal law has sought to combat it. It cannot be denied that credit card misuse is a global problem. It will also indicate some ...

I will start off with theoretical linkages between law and development. Despite all the slides you see on the board, very little in fact is known about the linkage between law, or the rule of law, and development. Wescott (2001) has referred to certain correlations between the rule of law and high income. The jury is still out regarding the robustness of this juxtaposition, especially with resp...

The Ampère theorem and the Biot–Savart law are well known tools used to calculate magnetic fields created by currents. Their use is not limited to the case of magnetostatics; they can also be used in time-dependent problems. We show in this paper that the highly classical example of a straight wire,generally treated as a simple magnetostatics problem, should be considered in the framework of ti...

The actual Italian legislation on medically assisted procreation (Law 40 – February 192004) is one of the most restrictive in Europe. Following an anthropological approach,this paper seeks to analyze the text of this law in relation to the respective public debate.The objective of the analysis is to highlight the moral values legislators want to convey,the role they attribute to...

A well-known folk-law in biology is that there is no general law in biology because of exceptions. In her recent elegant essay E.F. Keller gave a particular nice presentation on the exceptions to rules or laws in biology [1]. Her example of scaling laws was especially illuminating. Nevertheless, for this cherished folk-law the present author is wondering about its exceptions, too. Several examp...

Abstract—The presence of bubbles in the boundary layer introduces corrections into the log law, which must be taken into account. In this work, a logarithmic wall law was presented for bubbly two phase flows. The wall law presented in this work was based on the postulation of additional turbulent viscosity associated with bubble wakes in the boundary layer. The presented wall law contained empi...

The current study empirically demonstrates the widely discussed gap between copyright law and social norms. Theoretically founded in the sociology of law, the study uses a well-defined concept of norms to quantitatively measure changes in the strength of social norms before and after the implementation of legislation. The ‘IPRED law’ was implemented in Sweden on 1 April 2009, as a result of the...

Whereas e-government mainly focuses on strengthening the efficiency of public government processes, it is the goal of e-democracy to improve democratic processes. Law can be defined as a communication-system between the legislative authority and the people. Using electronic media for democratic instruments can make this communication process easier. But there are also dangers and risks. The top...