Portuguese juridical documents from Supreme Courts and the Attorney General’s Office are manually classified by juridical experts into a set of classes belonging to a taxonomy of concepts. In this paper, a preliminary approach to develop techniques to automatically classify these juridical documents is proposed. As basic strategy, the integration of natural language processing techniques with m...

BACKGROUND Cesarean section on maternal request (CSMR) could represent an avoidable quota of cesareans. In Italy, this is a topical problem of health-policy, involving ethical, juridical and medical issues. AIM AND METHODS A 5-questions questionnaire to quantitatively assess the perspectives of medical, juridical and ethical issues of planned CSMR was administered to obstetricians and gynecol...

Since the 1980s, Islamic scholars and medical experts have used the tools of Islamic law to formulate ethico-legal opinions on brain death. These assessments have varied in their determinations and remain controversial. Some juridical councils such as the Organization of Islamic Conferences' Islamic Fiqh Academy (OIC-IFA) equate brain death with cardiopulmonary death, while others such as the I...

the main aim of this research is jurisprudential feasibility of receivable-backed securities dividends. liquidity management and correct guidance of them toward the productive sector is necessary for a developing country. due to the high percentage of receivable dividend in iran's capital market and the time-consuming nature of receivable dividend in investment companies, which leads to re...

In this paper we present some aspects of an intelligent interface for a WWWeb legal information retrieval system. Our system is able to keep the context of the user interaction in order to supply suggestions for further refinement of the user queries. The set of documents obtained from the user queries is dynamically organised in clusters labeled with keywords from a juridical thesaurus. Since,...

Electronic contracting is an essential service to develop electronic commerce. But this service is not very used because merchants and consumers do not trust in contracting by electronic means. For time we already have technical solutions that should allow to give trust to the actors implied in this new scenario. But the lack of international standards and of an appropriate juridical mark, supp...

Court-appointed Technical Consultants (CTCs) are fundamental figures in the Italian judicial system. CTCs are experts appointed by judges in order to supplement their activities by ascertaining, collecting and analyzing facts concerning the specific subject of a lawsuit. These experts formulate opinions, gather motivations and perform checks to provide clear, objective and irrefutable answers t...

The methods of information retrieval in textual bases, broadly used by the search machines, are based on techniques returned for collections of generic documents. In specific domains, as the juridical, the direct application of these methods takes the results of smaller quality than the expected. The basic reason is that such methods don't consider semantic information associated to the domain ...

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) represent a powerful strategic instrument increasingly applied in today’s business environment. Besides juridical, financial, and organizational challenges, it is crucial to rapidly integrate the existing application landscapes in order to capitalize the aspired synergies. Literature documents four commonly agreed strategies: ‘best-of-breed’, ‘absorption’, ‘co-exi...

We study in this article the Spanish legislation regulating the juridical status of the human embryo, in a comparative analysis with the International Right and the legislation in other countries of our cultural environment, leading to the conclusión that ours contradicts the international compromises of Spain and is less protective with the unborn human life than the juridical systems which ad...