This essay explores some of the reasons why recognition by UN General Assembly human right to a healthy environment could catalyze codification ecocide as crime under international law. It argues that even though two concepts fall within distinct areas law, their potential for synergistic interaction derives from right's rhetorical and normative aspects. The dimension refers communicative value...

Two main arguments are presented in current debates on women and economic empowerment. The right-based argument focuses on increasing women's job opportunities and their freedom to work in security and dignity. The economic argument emphasises women's economic capacities and potential contribution to economic growth. The economic argument draws on the fact that women tend to reinvest their inco...

The Choice of the Agenda in Labor Negotiations: Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations The labor economics literature has shown that the “efficient bargaining” model, in which wage and employment are negotiated simultaneously, is less frequently used on unionized markets than the less efficient “right-to-manage” model, in which wage is determined via bargaining and employment determined subse...

What problems do e-documents with mathematical expressions in an Arabic presentation present? In addition to the known difficulties of handling mathematical expressions based on Latin script on the web, Arabic mathematical expressions flow from right to left and use specific symbols with a dynamic cursivity. How might we extend the capabilities of tools such as MathML in order to structure Arab...

A composition of a positive integer n consists of an ordered sequence of positive integers whose sum is n. A palindromic composition is one for which the sequence is the same from left to right as from right to left. This paper shows various ways of generating all palindromic compositions, counts the number of times each integer appears as a summand among all the palindromic compositions of n, ...