The actual text of the Swiss Federal Code of Obligations (CO) relating to contracts and tort was adopted on March 30, 1911, then presented as a supplementary part of the Civil Code (Zivilgesetzbuch, voted December 10, 1907), both entered in force as per January 1, 1912. Its text is to a large extent based on its predecessor, the ancient CO as adopted in 1881 and in force since January 1, 1883 (...

Code-division multiple-access (CDMA) cellular systems use soft handoff. Although the capacity of CDMA systems is interference-limited in nature, channel shortages may occur because soft handoff uses several channels simultaneously. To cope with this problem, we propose an improved handoff method that borrows channels from stationary calls participating in soft handoff and allocates the borrowed...