327 research outputs found
Il dibattito sulla valutazione nell’area giuridica, fra problemi reali e falsi miti
No full textThe article focuses on the problems related to the “Italian Research Assessment Exercise” in the field of legal research. The author stresses out that, when evaluating the quality of research, two important aspects must always be taken into account: first of all, there are basic differences among the different domains of scientific research and, therefore, there is a clear need of differentiating when choosing the assessment tools. As for legal research the very close relationship between language and law must therefore also be duly taken into account. Secondly (and more in general) the risks of performing an assessment of research quality, as well as the risks of not performing it, have to be duly taken into account
Procedural autonomy of EU member States : paradise lost? : a study on the “Functionalized Procedural Competence” of EU member States
No full textIs the procedural autonomy of EU Member State a myth or a reality? What should this concept be taken to mean? Starting from the analysis of requirements and principles regulating, generally speaking, the relationships between Member States’ and EU law, this book provides a definition of procedural autonomy able to account for the concept’s inherent limits. Out of an analysis of the more relevant EU jurisprudence, the author identifies the rationale underlying the interventions of the ECJ on issues of procedural autonomy and the common logic that emerges from it; and reveals how, in an unchanged context of ‘procedural autonomy’ of the Member States, national procedural law becomes more and more ‘functionalized’ to the requirements of effectiveness of substantive EU law. As such, we should speak of a ‘functionalized procedural competence’ rather than of procedural autonomy. But this is by no means a case of “Paradise Lost.” The book includes a foreword by Prof. Jürgen Schwarze, one of the founding fathers of European Administrative Law
The T-DNA Tagged POR Mutant have an Unique T-DNA Insert Which is Closely Linked to the Male Sterility.
No full textLes fondements de l'organisation d'un dictionnaire d'usages
No full textL'auteur discute de l'organisation d'un dictionnaire d'usages (D.U.). Comment l'idéologie des auteurs influence-t-elle l'information contenue dans un D.U. ? ; autour de quels objectifs le D.U. s'organise-t-il?; quels critères choisir pour établir la nomenclature? ; qu'en est-il de l'information grammaticale et quel est son rôle dans un D.U. ?The author addresses a number of issues regarding the conception of dictionaries of general usage: How does the author's ideology influence content? What should the objectives of such dictionaries be? What should the criteria for establishing nomenclature be? What kind of grammatical information should they provide, and for what purpose
Neuropsychological constraints to human data production on a global scale
No full textWhich are the factors underlying human information production on a global level? In order to gain an insight into this question we study a corpus of 252–633 mil. publicly available data files on the Internet corresponding to an overall storage volume of 284–675 Terabytes. Analyzing the file size distribution for several distinct data types we find indications that the neuropsychological capacity of the human brain to process and record information may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of globally stored information, with real-world economic constraints having only a negligible influence. This supposition draws support from the observation that the files size distributions follow a power law for data without a time component, like images, and a log-normal distribution for multimedia files, for which time is a defining qualia.
Author summary: The generation of new information is limited by two key factors, by the incurring economic costs and by the capacity of the human brain to process and store data and information; the controlling agent needs to retain an overall understanding even when data is generated by semiautomatic processes. These processes are reflected in the statistical properties of the data files publicly available on the Internet. Collecting a corpus of 252–633 mil. files we find that the statistics of the file size distribution are consistent with the supposition that data production on a global level is shaped and limited by the neuropsychological information processing capacity of the brain, with economic and hardware constraints having a negligible influence
Government in the digital era: can we do more with less?
No full textThe article deals with the role of interoperability in the process of digitizing public administrations. After a brief illustration of the advantages that the introduction of information and communications technology (ICT) tools can bring also in the public sector, the author assesses in what terms the technical concept of interoperability can be acquired in the legal categories of administrative law. To do this, a brief reconstruction of the technical notion of interoperability is first offered and then the role of interoperability in defining the ICT strategies of administrations is then evaluated. Taking advantage of the example offered by the Microsoft v. Commission case, the author investigates what consequences there may be when IT systems are not interoperable to conclude then by exposing the role of the administrative cooperation principle in choosing ITC solutions for PA
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