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Electronic Evidence
No full textIn this updated edition of the well-established practitioner text, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng have brought together a team of experts in the field to provide an exhaustive treatment of electronic evidence. This fourth edition continues to follow the tradition in English evidence text books by basing the text on the law of England and Wales, with appropriate citations of relevant case law and legislation from other jurisdictions. Stephen Mason (of the Middle Temple, Barrister) is a leading authority on electronic evidence and electronic signatures, having advised global corporations and governments on these topics. He is also the author of Electronic Signatures in Law and editor ofInternational Electronic Evidence, founding the innovative international open access journal Digital Evidence and Electronic Signatures Law Review in 2004. Stephen is an IALS Associate Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Tartu, Estonia. Daniel Seng (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore) teaches and researches on information technology law, infocommunications law, evidence and procedure, artificial intelligence, machine learning and legal reasoning. His research interests also include empirical legal studies and quantitative research and data analytics on big data sets. Between 2001 and 2003, he was concurrently the Director of Research, Technology Law Development Group at the Singapore Academy of Law. Daniel is also a special consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization, where he has researched, delivered papers and published monographs on copyright exceptions for academic institutions, music copyright in the Asia Pacific and the liability of Internet intermediaries. He is also a non-residential fellow with the Centre for Legal Informatics (CodeX), Stanford University. This book is also available online at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/humanities-digital-library/observing-law-ials-open-book-service-law
Assessing the effects of chloride deicer applications on groundwater near the Siskiyou Pass, southwestern Oregon, July 2018-February 2021
No full textby Stephen B. Gingerich, Daniel R. Wise, and Adam J. Stonewall ; prepared in cooperation with Oregon Department of Transportation.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
Stasis Amidst Change: Canadian Pension Reform in an Age of Retrenchment
No full textFaced with aging populations and especially heightened fiscal constraints, large scale pension reforms were implemented in many affluent democracies during the 1990s. Canadian reforms, by contrast, were quite modest and old age security benefits emerged largely unscathed. Drawing on the comparative experience of other OECD nations, we highlight four characteristics of the Canadian pension system and the policy environment to account for this relative stability:(1) the comparatively modest scale of Canadian public sector pension expenditures; (2) relatively greater reliance on general revenue as opposed to payroll taxes to finance these expenditures; (3) the availability of other expenditure targets, notably health care, post-secondary education and social assistance, that could be cut with less political backlash; and (4) a pension design that allocates the public sector share disproportionately to the bottom end of the income distribution, precluding the emergence of the oppositional politics that fueled public debate elsewhere.aging population; pension reform
Historical experiences, collective memory and willingness to fight for one’s country: Comments on Paez et al. (2008)
No full textThis paper considers Paez et al.’s (2008) article ‘“Remembering” World War II and willingness to fight: Sociocultural factors in the social representation of historical warfare across 22 societies.’ Despite the importance of their focus on social representations of history and willingness to fight for one’s country, it is argued that Paez et al.’s paper features a number of methodological flaws. Specifically, the way in which key variables (historical experience, collective memory and willingness to fight for one’s country) are operationalized is especially problematic. The implications of these weaknesses for their conceptual conclusions are discussed briefly, as are the more general limitations of statistical analyses of survey data for addressing these issues
Aspects of biological sequence comparison
No full textThesis (Ph. D)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1987.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Bibliography: leaves 165-168.by Stephen Frank Altschul.Ph.
The literary horror in Stephen King
No full textEl presente estado del arte fue un trabajo de recolección, organización y análisis alrededor de la obra de Stephen King. El elemento a abordar es cómo King redefine y re-contextualiza el concepto tradicional del horror literario,
esto, por medio de documentos desde la crítica literaria, la obra del autor y los ensayos del
mismo. Entre los resultados obtenidos, una serie de tópicos reiterados por los críticos fueron
organizados y crearon una distinción de la obra de King, los cuales fueron lo gótico literario, la
cultura mainstream, lo cotidiano y la infancia. En este sentido, la definición de King es la de un
horror constantemente transformado, no limitado a una sola emoción de terror, sino de variadas
sensaciones en lugares o situaciones inesperadas. También se indicó que una investigación como
la anterior es una oportunidad para examinar a un autor, su estilo y tendencias, de tal manera que
habrá una indagación más profunda de un género y un consecuente enriquecimiento de la
experiencia lectora.Licenciado en Español y Lenguas ExtranjerasPregradoThe present state of the art was a made through a documentary investigation, from the
collection, organization and analysis surrounding the work of Stephen King. The element to be
tackled is how King redefines and re-contextualizes the traditional concept of literary horror via
documents from literary criticism, the author's work and his essays. Among obtained results, a
series of topics reiterated by critics were organized and helped create a distinction of King's
work, which were: literary gothic, mainstream culture, everyday life and childhood. In this sense,
King's definition is that of a constantly transformed horror, not limited to a single emotion of
terror, but instead, of varied sensations in unexpected places or situations. It was also indicated
that an investigation like this one, is an opportunity to examine an author, his style and
tendencies, in such a way that there might be a deeper investigation of a genre and a consequent
enrichment of the reading experience
Zagreb Cathedral’s Reliquary Bust of Saint Stephen the King: the Context of its Commission and its Attribution
No full textThe 1635 Zagreb reliquary of Saint Stephen is a rare and exceptionally accomplished work of metal sculpture of the Roman Baroque. The author attributes the reliquary bust’s head to Alessandro Algardi and discusses the roles played by Francesco Barberini and Ivan Tomko Mrnavić in the commision of the reliquary
The Twelfth-Century Story of Daniel for Performance by Hilarius: An Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
No full textThis article introduces Hilarius’s underappreciated work Historia de Daniel Representanda [The Story of Daniel for Performance] to a wider readership by translating it into English for the first time. It summarizes what is known about the play’s author, sources, and manner of performance. Hilarius’s play is thematically complex, depicting the opposition between secular and spiritual kingship in ways that echo how medieval exegetes interpreted Daniel’s adventures at Belshazzar’s feast and in the lions’ den (Dan. 5–6) as prefigurations of the sacrament of the Eucharist. This work therefore represents a significant artistic achievement worthy of attention in its own right, not merely as the poor cousin of the Beauvais Ludus Danielis
Public Perceptions of UK Intelligence: Still In The Dark?
No full textCopyright © 2022 The Author(s). Opinion polling of public attitudes on the UK’s intelligence agencies reveals that Britons are often still ambivalent around issues of agency activity and powers despite increasing engagement and outreach activity. Drawing parallels with similar polling in North America and Europe, this article suggests that while public support for national agencies remains relatively strong, with high levels of ‘trust’, views on what intelligence agencies do – and who ‘does intelligence’ – remain deeply wedded to James Bond-like clichés. Daniel W B Lomas and Stephen Ward argue that, while popular perceptions of intelligence have traditionally offered cover and even increased awareness of agencies such as the Secret Intelligence Service, the lack of public awareness is dangerous as agencies build a ‘licence to operate’ in the 21st century
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