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'ESCAPE CLAUSE' IN INTERNATIONAL FAMILY, PROPERTY AND SUCCESSION LAW
This article discusses the regulation of the escape clause in private international family, property and succession law from the perspective of the jurisdiction of a Polish court or other authority, like a notary public. In cases concerning family, property and succession, the predictability of the applicable law is of particular importance as private ...
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The New Economics of Cape Slavery
ABSTRACT In this survey, I argue that the Cape Colony has become one of the most useful settings for studying the economics of unfree labour. The Cape offers a distinctive combination: a slavery regime linking the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds, an urban and agrarian economy, overlapping labour regimes and archives rich enough for linked micro‐data ...
Johan Fourie
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The Motive of Duty and Kantian Moral Worth
ABSTRACT In this article, it is argued that action from duty has special moral worth on Kant's account because (i) it is an instance of good willing, and (ii) the good will is the only unconditional good. This is used to argue, contrary to various commentators, that Kant's doctrine of moral worth is central, not only to Kantian ethics, but to any ...
Samuel Kahn
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Small Clauses in Swedish : Towards a Unified Account [PDF]
In this thesis I offer a unified syntactic account of the small clauses involved in Swedish object-with-infinitive constructions (ECM), object predicative constructions and absolute constructions. In the present framework, this similarity is conceptually
Lundin Åkesson, Katarina(viaf)65985637 +1 more
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Ising machines are emerging as specialized hardware solvers for computationally hard optimization problems. This review examines five major platforms—digital CMOS, analog CMOS, emerging devices, coherent optics, and quantum systems—highlighting physics‐rooted advantages and shared bottlenecks in scalability and connectivity.
Hyunjun Lee, Joon Pyo Kim, Sanghyeon Kim
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Ultra-fast escape of a deformable jet-propelled body
In this work a cephalopod-like deformable body that fills an internal cavity with fluid and expels it to propel an escape manoeuvre, while undergoing a drastic external shape change through shrinking, is shown to employ viscous as well as mainly inviscid
Triantafyllou, M.S., Weymouth, G.D.
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Reframing Colonial Korea's Forests Through Protection Forests: The Forests of Joseon (1938)
This study examines The Forests of Joseon (1938), a forestry survey compiled by Tokumitsu Nobuyuki under Japanese colonial rule, as a key site of epistemic negotiation between imperial forestry science and Korean indigenous knowledge. Focusing on bíbo forests—geomantic forests believed to regulate energy flow between mountains and villages—the paper ...
Soyeong Park, Jeong‐Hann Pae
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Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs? [PDF]
We examine the implications for borrowing costs of including collective-action clauses in loan contracts. For a sample of some 2,000 international bonds, we compare the spreads on bonds subject to UK governing law, which typically include collective ...
Barry Eichengreen, Ashoka Mody
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ABSTRACT This article argues that China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance represents neither progress toward rule of law nor retreat from it. I propose instead that we are witnessing something I call “calibrated autonomy”—the strategic construction of spaces for private ordering that remain tethered to Party‐State oversight through multiple ...
M. Francis Cao
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The End of the Observable Infodemic: Privatised Observability and Public Health Monitoring
ABSTRACT Infodemiology and infodemic management rest on a premise so foundational that it is rarely stated: health information behaviour leaves traces that researchers and public institutions can observe. This paper argues that the premise is dissolving.
Christoph Dockweiler
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