The purpose of the present paper is to explore both the motivation for confiscating illegal gain and also to look at some of its legal aspects and economic effects. It is argued that the removal of illegal gain may be able to play a significant complementary role, if only by closing the gap between the maximum punishment the law will allow and fines sufficient to represent a credible deterrent....

A central concern of linguistic theory is to account for how the arguments of a given lexical item are associated with positions in a syntactic structure. Many theorists hold that this mapping is mediated by a so-called thematic hierarchy. In Principles-and-Parameters style theories this typically works as follows. A verb selects arguments with certain thematic (θ-) roles. These θ−roles are ran...

A set of type-(m, n) S is a set of points of a design with the property that each block of the design meets either m points or n points of S. The notions of type and of parameters of a k-set (there called characters) were introduced for the first time by Tallini Scafati in [M. Tallini Scafati, {k, n}-archi di un piano grafico finito, con particolare riguardo a quelli con due caratteri. Note I a...

In this article, we seek to summarize current practice concerning situational judgment tests in personnel selection. We begin by describing the manner in which situational judgment tests are developed and examining the diverse ways in which situational items are presented and scored. We then offer speculation concerning constructs assessed by situational judgment tests as well as discuss the le...

When choosing parameters for a tactile action, it is useful to be able to choose parameters that will optimize the discriminating power of the tactile data acquired during the action. We propose a way to extract this information about informative grasp parameters from a deep network trained to perform a classification task on the tactile data. We do this by defining a new cost function on the n...

Globalization and the rules it generates confront legal scholarship with a number of intricate issues. 1 One of these lies at the core of a hypothesis which has been

Although protocols vary from institution to institution in South Africa, there seem to be some common threads that raise persistent ethico-Iegal problems. Most institutions require that the patient's blood should be taken and be submitted for immediate testing along with the HCW's blood. This policy might lead to an HCW or patient being told in the middle of the night that he/she is HIV-positiv...

This paper explains the transformation of Pancasila as an institution that governs state religion relations in Indonesia. Why has Pancasila been stable at the national level but discontinuous at the subnational level since Indonesia’s democratic transition and decentralization? By tracing Pancasila’s history back to its origin, this paper demonstrates that territorial interest has been an impor...

without general principles, no system of law is conceivable. these principles have special position not only in domestic but also in international law. general principles would have been invoked even though those principles were not cited as the sources of international law in accordance with the statute of icj, article 38. those are taken into account as the independent source of international...