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Unsolved questions and preferred solution about living will

2018

Abstract Background Ethical problems about end-of-life medicine include a variety of issues approached in different ways by physicians and, more recently, special emphasis to this kind of ethical issues and possible answers has done by Italian National Ethical Committee in the issue named “Deep and continuous palliative sedation in the imminence of Death” (January, 2016). The debate is very critical in Intensive Care Units and Cancer Wards, where health care professionals face-off with terminally-ill patients is an outright routine; the Authors investigated their medical knowledge and ethical perception about patient critical and terminal condition to discuss the most relevant conclusions. …

Considerations Regarding the Analysis and Interpretation of Traumatic Lesional Mechanisms in Road Accidents

2021

According to statistics, road transportation is the most dangerous means of transportation and also the costliest in terms of human lives and material damage. The increase of road safety is a priority goal of the European Commission and an area of high interest for Romania, which is unfortunately placed very high in the hierarchy of countries with a high number of deaths resulting from road accidents. This study presents the mechanisms of the generation of traumatic injuries and also analyses the manner of interpreting these mechanisms in the case of road accidents, both from the perspective of law enforcement and from the perspective of specialists in road transportation, who analyse and i…

Marcel Boumans and Matthias Klaes, eds., Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013), pp. ix + 302, …

2015

Richard A. Peterson (1932 – 2010) und Paul J. DiMaggio (*1951)

2016

Richard A. Peterson (1932-2010) und Paul J. DiMaggio (*1951) sind zwei fuhrende Vertreter der U.S.-amerikanischen Soziologie der Kunste. Aufgrund mehrerer Gemeinsamkeiten werden sie hier zusammen behandelt, obwohl jeder von ihnen durchaus einen Einzelbeitrag verdient hatte. Gelegentlich wird von einem Lehrer-Schuler-Verhaltnis gesprochen, das 1971 mit einem Studienaufenthalt DiMaggios bei Peterson an der Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, begann.

Promoting self-employment: Does it create more employment and business activity?

2021

International audience; We assess the economic impact of reforms promoting self-employment in the three countries that have implemented such reforms since the early 2000s: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France. To that end, we use an unbalanced cross country-industry dataset of 4,226 observations, including 12 OECD countries and 20 market industries, over the 1995-2016 period. We first observe, using country-level data, that the share of self-employed workers in total employment is quite stable or declines over the period in all countries in our dataset, except in the three countries where large reforms promoting self-employment have been implemented, and only after these reforms. …

On Legal Cooperation and the Dynamics of Legal Convergence

2010

In this paper, we study the dynamics of legal convergence and the comparison between the different instruments of legal convergence based on cooperative strategies (i.e., harmonization and unification) or not. To study these questions we use a model with two nation-states which is inspired in part by that used in Carbonara and Parisi (2008) where preferences of each nation-state are such that it is costly to change the law, but it is also costly to have a different legal system from the other nation-state. We show that legal unification could be achieved in the long-run through small step by step changes despite the existence of huge harmonization costs in the short run. We also show that l…

Warner Winslow Gardner’s The Institutional Theory of John R. Commons (1933)

2011

Comment: What is Alternative Technology? A Reply to Professor Stanley Carpenter

1983

Modern man is dissatisfied with the technology we have and would replace it with another. Three very different reasons are given for this. I will divide my treatment of them under three headings, listing the reason in each case together with a reply.

Angus Campbell/Philip E. Converse/Warren E. Miller/Donald E. Stokes, The American Voter, New York 1960

2008

„American Voter“ gehort zu den am haufigsten zitierten Publikationen in der Wahlforschung. Seine herausragende Bedeutung erklart sich weniger aus den substantiellen Ergebnissen der Autoren — obwohl diese teils heute noch Gultigkeit haben — als vielmehr aus dem Erklarungsansatz, den die vier Autoren entwickelt haben. Zusammen mit Anthony Downs’ „Economic Theory of Democracy“ (→ Downs 1957) und „The People’s Choice“ von Lazarsfeld/Berelson/Gaudet (→ Lazarsfeld/Berelson/Gaudet 1944) bildet der „American Voter“ deshalb jene Trias von Klassikern, auf die sich die drei theoretischen Hauptstromungen der Wahlforschung — Rational Choice-Ansatz, (mikro-)soziologischer und sozialpsychologischer Ansatz…

The Barratry of the Shipmaster in Early Modern Law: The Approach of Italian and English Law Courts

2019

Summary For a long time, the concept of barratry (at least in its maritime meaning) was one and the same on both sides of the Channel. The barratry of the shipmaster was part of the mercantile usages, and it identified the intentionally blameworthy conduct of the master. When law courts began to decide on insurance litigation they were confronted with a notion quite alien to them. Broadly speaking, the shipmaster’s barratry could well be considered a fraud of sort. But in order to decide on its occurrence in a specific case, law courts had to analyse it in legal terms, and so according to the specific legal categories of their own system. The point ceases to be trivially obvious if we think…