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Blockchain Tokens From the Perspective of German Civil Law: An Updated View

2020

Tokens are increasingly being generated on the basis of blockchain technology, which are intended to embody certain rights and obligations as cryptographically secured electronic coupons or digital coupons or vouchers . This paper provides an overview of the current state of affairs and the legal discussion of recent years and examines the extent to which blockchain tokens can be included under the existing German civil law framework of the BGB (German Civil Code). The key question is how goods can be legally represented ("tokenised") digitally and effectively by tokens instead of in documents. There are several approaches to make tokens marketable. Among them are also those that let the "r…

National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys…

2011

Summary Background Data for trends in glycaemia and diabetes prevalence are needed to understand the effects of diet and lifestyle within populations, assess the performance of interventions, and plan health services. No consistent and comparable global analysis of trends has been done. We estimated trends and their uncertainties in mean fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and diabetes prevalence for adults aged 25 years and older in 199 countries and territories. Methods We obtained data from health examination surveys and epidemiological studies (370 country-years and 2·7 million participants). We converted systematically between different glycaemic metrics. For each sex, we used a Bayesian hier…

How students evaluate university programmes for older people: A comparison between two models in Spain

2011

Abstract This study examines how older students evaluate the University Programme for Older People (UPOP) they participate in, and how such evaluation might vary depending on the type of UPOP. The sample was made up of 257 older students (mean age = 67.6 years) and was gathered from two UPOP models, one structured as Older People Classrooms (134 participants) and the second one as University of Experience (123 participants). Participants completed a questionnaire evaluating different dimensions of the programme and two incomplete sentences to identify its weak and strong points. Overall, results suggest that older students are very satisfied with the educational experience. Apart from attra…

Antioxidants in Translational Medicine.

2015

This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License.-- et al.

2006

The first world wide symposium on the topic of gender-specific medicine provided the latest research on differences in sex and/or gender in medicine and medical care. The presentations ranged beyond the topic of reproduction to encompass the entire human organism. This report critically reviews three issues that emerged during the Conference: gender mainstreaming, the concept of sex/gender differences and the issue of men's health. It suggests that the interdisciplinary concept of gender-specific medicine has to be mirrored by the integration of social and cultural studies into medical research and practice.

Pena "illegale", giudicato, Corte Europea: dall'affare "Scoppola c. Italia" alle Sezioni Unite "Ercolano"

2018

La crisi del principio di intangibilità del giudicato costituisce il punto di partenza di un'analisi che ha ad oggetto la nota pronuncia "Scoppola c. Italia", con la quale si è affermato a livello convenzionale il principio della retroattività della lex mitior. Molte le implicazioni sul piano della giurisprudenza, le cui sentenze vengono prese in rassegna onde restituire uno scenario che apre al controllo della legalità della pena in executivis, espressione delle nuove direttive votate alla necessaria flessibilizzazione del giudicato. The crisis of the principle of intangibility of the judged constitutes the starting point of an analysis that concerns the well-known dictum "Scoppola v. Ital…

La costituzione materiale e il compito dei giuspubblicisti oggi. Giuseppe Guarino e il "nuovo" diritto pubblico

2021

What makes Guarino’s figure so fascinating is the multiplicity of his interests, combined with the long activity of his life as a jurist, which ensure that there is not, just one Guarino, but as many as there are seasons and events that he has found to investigate with the strength of reason, clarity, objectivity, combined with a rigorous method of investigation that dissolves into an inexhaustible constructive fantasy. His thought is to separate time between a before and an after, producing a clear discontinuity with the past and creating new perspectives for the future.This essay wants to investigate two central points in Guarino's reflection: the costituzione materiale and the task of ju…

On the role of internationalization of firm-level corporate governance: The case of audit committees

2022

Research Question/IssueMotivated by the agency theory and the findings of linguistic studies, we analyze the association between the internationalization of a firm's audit committee and its corporate governance.Research Findings/InsightsBased on data from 2159 publicly traded European firms from 15 countries for the period 2000–2018, we find that firms with foreign directors on their audit committees are associated with lower financial reporting quality. The association is mitigated by stronger country-level investor protection and a higher similarity among intra-committee languages. We further find that foreign directors on the audit committee are related to stock prices being less informa…

Organized crime and public spending: a panel data analysis

2018

The aim of this paper is to investigate, empirically, what components of public spending imply a decreasing effect on organized crime and what components create opportunities for organized crime, discussing also the role of government efficiency. Using a panel data analysis, the results show a strikingly consistent pattern for the EU Member States. Organized crime mainly operates in the distribution of government spending for local public goods and public provision of private services. There is a decreasing effect on organized crime of the public expenditure devoted to education and social policy. Government efficiency in public spending is beneficial to limit the opportunities of the organ…

The Role of the Prefect in the Italian Legal System

2014

Any approach to the prefectoral institute, as it appears today as result of the recent changes introduced in the Italian legal system over the last years, cannot be reconstructed by starting from government representation, and consequently, from the fundamental character of several competences of the Prefect in Italy in the light of the deep reforms of the Italian public administration in the perspective of the “multi-level constitutionalism” the progressive emergence and developments of organs, structure and procedures that create legal norms and impose such norms on citizens of different national states3.