The Social Dangers Of The Crime Of Abuse Of Power Or Position: Problems Of Theory And Practice

The article deals with the theoretical problems of social danger of the crime of abuse of power or official position (Article 205 of the Criminal Code), its place in criminal law, its connection with other official crimes. It also analyzes the increase in this crime in public life, corruption offenses and the origin of crimes. Signs of these and other official crimes are highlighted. Qualification issues in the competition of general and special official crimes are analyzed.

17. Competition law

This chapter examines the two core competition rules that govern anti-competitive agreements (Article 101 TFEU) and abuse of a dominant position (Article 102 TFEU). It begins with an overview of EU competition law. It then discusses the enforcement and consequences of infringement; who Articles 101 and 102 TFEU apply to and when they apply. It also identifies anti-competitive agreements and conduct.

Tailoring Bankruptcy Insolvency Education to Ensure Solvency Literacy

This position article proposes that bankruptcy counseling and education should be tailored so that bankrupts and consumer debtors can attain solvency literacy, a new construct developed for this initiative. They need to (a) handle their financial affairs during the insolvency process while (b) concurrently striving for a fresh start, rehabilitation (financial health), and reduced recidivism after discharge. Each of the Canadian and American insolvency education and counseling curricula is described with attendant discussions of financial education (literacy), consumer education (literacy), and credit education (literacy). Intending to keep bankruptcy insolvency education relevant and effective, a specially tailored curriculum is tendered for consideration. The curriculum represents a hybrid of consumer, financial, and credit education. It is relevant to immediate, situation-specific financial needs anticipating that people can strive for more generic consumer and financial literacy after they have attained solvency literacy.

Emerging regimes of value in distributed autonomous systems

This position article brings together perspectives from social sciences, computer science and economy to interrogate the emerging meanings of value produced by Distributed Autonomous Organizations (DAO). We explore this process in the context of the wider political economy enabled by Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Smart Contracts (SC). The article then questions the ways in which the current implementations of DAO reflect the various regimes of value and the emergent possibilities to rethink the social contract.

Pseudorandom Techniques for the Internet

Late advances in straight time calculations and omniscient modalities offer a reasonable option to 64-bit architectures[5],[20],[21],[16],[9]. Following quite a while of significant communication explore, we affirm the development of the Turing machine, which epitomizes the characteristic standards of calculations. Our concentration in this position article isn't on whether setting free sentence structure and Web administrations can interact.

Fungibility in the Academia

In this position article, we tackle fungibility, precariousness and separateness in the academia. Speaking as young humanities and social sciences scholar in North America, we argue that the current neoliberal conditions in higher education can be understood as alienation from work in the Marxian sense. Hence, the kind of intervention that challenges the fungibility has to be anti-alienation. Based on our collective organizing, we would delineate and call for a collective turn in terms of how new academics organize themselves and produce knowledge. Indeed, this piece should be read as a collective manifesto rather than a once and for all solution to profound problems in higher education. The true ‘for the people’ higher education needs to be constructed around collectivism and sustainable knowledge production.

Progress and Priorities in Research to Improve Outcomes for Students With or at Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

The Peacock Hill Working Group (PHWG) published a seminal position article nearly 30 years ago on the state of the field of special education for children with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). They concluded their discussion with a set of recommendations for practice, policy, and research. The purpose of the present article is to revisit the PHWG’s calls to the field with an emphasis on setting a research agenda related to children and youth with EBD. As a follow-up to the problems and promises identified by the PHWG, we identify progress and priorities for each of their six calls for research to improve outcomes for students with EBD. We address the broader context underlying each recommendation and how it has changed over time, describe research progress to date, and identify priorities to move the field forward. The overarching goal of this article is to inform and help shape the next phase of research on EBD, which in turn will advance the implementation and scale-up of effective programs and practices to better meet the needs of students with EBD in schools.

Art in the Sciences of the Artificial

This position article argues that the sciences of the artificial (artificial intelligence and artificial life) have a special relationship to art that is absent from much of science. Just as art is often a depiction or interpretation of nature, so are the algorithms in the sciences of the artificial. This observation is important because the discourse in these fields largely ignores the relevance of subjective resonance with nature to scientific progress. Yet progress is potentially stifled if scientists cannot discuss such resonance openly. To support this view, the author provides examples that illustrate how the subjective impression of such resonance led to novel encodings and algorithms in his own career. The author concludes that there may be more to gain than to lose by allowing some level of subjectivity to enter the discourse in the sciences of the artificial.