Principles of European Insurance Contract Law: A Model Optional Instrument
Principles of European Insurance Contract Law: A Model Optional Instrument

Author: Project Group Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-05-31

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 3866539452

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Following the publication of the Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL) in 2009, there has been significant political and academic discussion on their possible use as an optional instrument. Experts' views on this topic were exchanged at a conference held in Vienna in January 2010. The distinguished speakers represented European politics, legal science, insurance industry, insurance intermediaries and consumers. These independent experts, who were not involved in drafting the PEICL, presented their critical, unbiased opinions on the project. This volume presents the proceedings of the Vienna conference. It also includes a postscript in commemoration of the late Professor Dr. Fritz Reichert-Facilides, whose visionary ideas led to the creation of the Project Group "Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law" and to the drafting of the PEICL.

Bankers Without Borders? Implications of Ring-Fencing for European Cross-Border Banks
Bankers Without Borders? Implications of Ring-Fencing for European Cross-Border Banks

Author: Ms.Anna Ilyina

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1455209473

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This paper presents a stylized analysis of the effects of ring-fencing (i.e., different restrictions on cross-border transfers of excess profits and/or capital between a parent bank and its subsidiaries located in different jurisdictions) on cross-border banks. Using a sample of 25 large European banking groups with subsidiaries in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (CESE), we analyze the impact of a CESE credit shock on the capital buffers needed by the sample banking groups under different forms of ring-fencing. Our simulations show that under stricter forms of ring-fencing, sample banking groups have substantially larger needs for capital buffers at the parent and/or subsidiary level than under less strict (or in the absence of any) ring-fencing.

Space–Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method
Space–Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method

Author: Chih-Yung Wen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-05-10

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9819908760

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This open access book introduces the fundamentals of the space–time conservation element and solution element (CESE) method, which is a novel numerical approach for solving equations of physical conservation laws. It highlights the recent progress to establish various improved CESE schemes and its engineering applications. With attractive accuracy, efficiency, and robustness, the CESE method is particularly suitable for solving time-dependent nonlinear hyperbolic systems involving dynamical evolutions of waves and discontinuities. Therefore, it has been applied to a wide spectrum of problems, e.g., aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, magnetohydrodynamics, multi-material flows, and detonations. This book contains algorithm analysis, numerical examples, as well as demonstration codes. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers who are interested in the fields such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), mechanical engineering, and numerical computation.

The Deconstruction of Employment as a Political Question
The Deconstruction of Employment as a Political Question

Author: Amparo Serrano-Pascual

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-20

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 3319936174

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The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of ‘work’ and the category of ‘worker’. Changes in the production models, economic downturn and increasing digitalisation have triggered a breakdown in the terms and assumptions that previously defined and shaped the notion of employment. This has made it more difficult to discuss, and problematise, issues like vulnerability in employment in such terms as unfairness, inequality and inadequate protection. Taking the ‘deconstruction of employment’ as a central idea for theorising the phenomenon of work today, this volume explores the emergence of new semantic fields and territories for understanding and regulating employment. These new linguistic categories have implications beyond language alone: they reformulate the very concept of waged employment (including those aspects previously considered intrinsic to the meaning of work and of being ‘a worker’), along with other closely associated categories such as unemployment, self-employment, and inactivity.

Children and Young People's Spaces
Children and Young People's Spaces

Author: Pam Foley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1137285338

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This reader takes debates about children's services forward by drawing on ideas based in social pedagogy and arguing that the concept of 'space' is crucial to relationships and practices with children and young people. It will stimulate students to question and rethink, and practitioners to innovate and challenge mainstream thinking.

Coronal Magnetometry
Coronal Magnetometry

Author: Sarah E. Gibson

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 2889452204

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Magnetism defines the complex and dynamic solar corona. It determines the magnetic loop structure that dominates images of the corona, and stores the energy necessary to drive coronal eruptive phenomena and flare explosions. At great heights the corona transitions into the ever-outflowing solar wind, whose speed and three-dimensional morphology are controlled by the global coronal magnetic field. Coronal magnetism is thus at the heart of any understanding of the nature of the corona, and essential for predictive capability of how the Sun affects the Earth. Coronal magnetometry is a subject that requires a concerted effort to draw together the different strands of research happening around the world. Each method provides some information about the field, but none of them can be used to determine the full 3D field structure in the full volume of the corona. Thus, we need to combine them to understand the full picture. The purpose of this Frontiers Research Topic on Coronal Magnetometry is to provide a forum for comparing and coordinating these research methods, and for discussing future opportunities.

Codification in International Perspective
Codification in International Perspective

Author: Wen-Yeu Wang

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-02-12

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 3319034553

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No aspect of legal formalism has interested comparative jurists as much as the extent of legislative codification across legal systems. This book looks at codification from a broad, international perspective, discussing general themes as well as various legal fields. The first of two volumes on this subject begins with a general theoretical and historical view of codification, followed by a series of other horizontal inquiries. It encompasses papers focusing on several significant contemporary issues in codification, including "codification of private law in post-soviet times", "criminal law codification beyond the nation state" and "soft codification of private law". In addition, this volume consists of general reports and national reports on administrative procedure and human rights, providing a comparative analysis of codification of law. This book is developed from papers presented at the 2012 Thematic Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

The Processes and Practices of Fair Trade
The Processes and Practices of Fair Trade

Author: Brigitte Granville

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1136231811

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Fairtrade is a pressing international issue and this interdisciplinary volume offers various perspectives from economic, business, law and ethics. Both editors have an excellent publishing record.

A Guide to IMF Stress Testing
A Guide to IMF Stress Testing

Author: Ms.Li L Ong

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2014-12-23

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 1484368584

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The IMF has had extensive involvement in the stress testing of financial systems in its member countries. This book presents the methods and models that have been developed by IMF staff over the years and that can be applied to the gamut of financial systems. An added resource for readers is the companion CD-Rom, which makes available the toolkit with some of the models presented in the book (also located at elibrary.imf.org/page/stress-test-toolkit).

Neurological rights/neuro-rights: We must protect the brain!
Neurological rights/neuro-rights: We must protect the brain!

Author: Sabine Ndzengue Amoa

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2024-04-29

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 2487682051

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Neurological rights or neuro-rights are atypical rights. Their legal framework is experiencing increasing development internationally and in national laws. These rights are a primordial necessity in order to channel the development of neurotechnologies. They are instruments serving not only the international community, States, individuals; but also, a guarantee of respect and protection of the brain; neurons, and mental integrity. Beyond legal regulation, they are the projection on international and national scales of scientific research which reconciles ethics, precaution and innovation. By presenting the different aspects of the legal framework of neurological rights, Sabine Ndzengue Amoa shows that they are not perfect and sheds light on their most current evolution in the light of the development of neurotechnological research.