In this work, we analyze the utility of two dimensional document maps for exploratory analysis of Polish case law. Such maps reflect the structure of analyzed collection by grouping similar documents in a neighbouring regions of 2D space. This visual aid could be useful for browsing and searching, finding anomalous documents or quickly gaining synthetic knowledge about large corpora. We started...

The gun death rates in New Zealand from suicide and homicide are considerably higher than in Australia. In 2005, these gun death rates per 100,000 people were .91 in Australia 1,2,3 and 1.3 in New Zealand.4 Are the higher death rates in New Zealand a result of your country’s relatively relaxed laws in relation to gun ownership? Apart from exceptions such as pistols, military-style semi automati...

not well distinguishing between question fact and question of law, by lawyers, experts and judges produces unfavorable consequences on civil procedural system, from which substantially, our current judicial system suffers. our judges don't know well their duty to the wrong qualifications made in the pleas; solely being damages, the subject of plea, they rapidly assign the whole case to the...

Database outsourcing is an emerging data management paradigm which has the potential to transform the IT operations of corporations. In this paper we address privacy threats in database outsourcing scenarios where trust in the service provider is limited. Specifically, we analyze the data partitioning (bucketization) technique and algorithmically develop this technique to build privacy-preservi...

the principle of freedom of contract is conceptually narrower than the will theory and as such it does not deny the state the right to put limits on contracts between individuals. on this ground some measures have been taking to strike a balance between the interests of the consumers and the producers. among these measures are the compulsory sales to consumers in the case law and on the basis o...