concept of “economic man” is one of the principal assumptions of economic approach to law. based on this assumption, economic approach, a modern and leading school of thought in legal philosophy, seeks to explain and predict individual behavior in legal framework and make recommendations and prescriptions so as to improve the effects of laws and regulations on legal actors. in this paper, in ad...

the new competitive environment changes the paradigm of power system operation. in the transmission area, open access process provides fair accessibility for all market participants. congestion management is one of the most important side effects of this new process. this paper proposes a new approach for congestion management which is based on both active and reactive re-dispatch of the networ...

In order to train distance learning students the discernment abilio, teachers often suggest to them web courseware on some specific topics, such as a controversial social issues, with different view points. Traditional discriminating strategies based on simple keyword matching often lead to low accuracy of discrimination. This paper proposes a method called DRSA (Discriminating via Representati...

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...