This Comment illustrates how government regulation, criminal justice, private legal actions, and market forces contribute to the security of online transactions. Further, it argues that government regulation aimed at the prevention of cybercrime should be the primary focus of the efforts to improve online security. Ultimately, the Comment argues that as more businesses more online, securing onl...

The savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was a costly but important learning event for depository regulation in the United States. The origins of the debacle lay in restrictive government regulation that eventually led to financial difficulties for savings and loan institutions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Congress and at least three presidential administrations delayed for far too l...

This discussion is divided into two parts. The first, which addresses takings of private water rights, makes the following points: government regulation of private property for a public purpose, such as protection of species, raises important constitutional questions concerning whether a compensable “taking” of private property has resulted. This section discusses the property and liberty inter...

Private enforcement, or litigation, has played a historic role in protecting public health in the United States. Litigation is often employed as a means to protect public health when government regulation is absent or ineffectual. Litigation has been successfully employed to control both asbestos and tobacco and is poised for success in combating the obesity epidemic. Litigation is effective be...

This paper describes a technique to transform coordinates between map references based on NTv2 format grids. Using the grids rather than carrying out a transformation allows to avoid map archives doubling, thereby easing “on the fly” transformation between different map representations. The paper also includes a case-study on a highway stretch currently under construction, the ‘Pedemontana Lomb...

The proposal of Elisa Marengo’s thesis is to extend commitment protocols in order to (i) allow for expressing commitments to temporal regulations, and (ii) to supply a tool for expressing laws, conventions and the like, in order to specify legal interactions. These two aspects will be deeply investigated in the proposal of a unified framework. This proposal is part of ongoing work that will be ...

Palliative care is an important and challenging part of a practice nurse’s role. The appropriate and timely transition of a patient to palliative care can be stressful and difficult for the patient and all those involved in their care. Referral to palliative care services is a complex process. Its importance should not be underestimated, if the fear and misunderstandings around accepting pallia...

Regulations are a wide-spread and important part of government and business. They codify how products must be made and processes should be performed. Such regulations can be difficult to understand and apply. In an environment of growing complexity of, and change in, regulation, automated support for reasoning with regulations is becoming increasingly necessary. In this paper we report on ongoi...