BACKGROUND Cesarean section on maternal request (CSMR) could represent an avoidable quota of cesareans. In Italy, this is a topical problem of health-policy, involving ethical, juridical and medical issues. AIM AND METHODS A 5-questions questionnaire to quantitatively assess the perspectives of medical, juridical and ethical issues of planned CSMR was administered to obstetricians and gynecol...

In this paper we present some aspects of an intelligent interface for a WWWeb legal information retrieval system. Our system is able to keep the context of the user interaction in order to supply suggestions for further refinement of the user queries. The set of documents obtained from the user queries is dynamically organised in clusters labeled with keywords from a juridical thesaurus. Since,...

Portuguese juridical documents from Supreme Courts and the Attorney General’s Office are manually classified by juridical experts into a set of classes belonging to a taxonomy of concepts. In this paper, a preliminary approach to develop techniques to automatically classify these juridical documents is proposed. As basic strategy, the integration of natural language processing techniques with m...

Electronic contracting is an essential service to develop electronic commerce. But this service is not very used because merchants and consumers do not trust in contracting by electronic means. For time we already have technical solutions that should allow to give trust to the actors implied in this new scenario. But the lack of international standards and of an appropriate juridical mark, supp...

The methods of information retrieval in textual bases, broadly used by the search machines, are based on techniques returned for collections of generic documents. In specific domains, as the juridical, the direct application of these methods takes the results of smaller quality than the expected. The basic reason is that such methods don't consider semantic information associated to the domain ...

We study in this article the Spanish legislation regulating the juridical status of the human embryo, in a comparative analysis with the International Right and the legislation in other countries of our cultural environment, leading to the conclusión that ours contradicts the international compromises of Spain and is less protective with the unborn human life than the juridical systems which ad...

during the pahlavid first period,ie after reza shah's ascencion to the throne,the modernization of all the pillars of state,including the juridical system was brought to government's attention.the government's approach in this process was keeping itself away from the religious legal system and inclining to secular structures.this approach aroused ulama's reaction,because they considered themsel...