Global justice reform [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative methodology / / Hiram E. Chodosh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783766003321
• Autore: Chodosh Hiram
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2005
• ISBN: 0-8147-9035-6; 1-4294-1392-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 340.2
• Soggetti: Justice, Administration of; Judicial power; Justice, Administration of - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The comparative method : which method? -- Comparing comparisons -- The most neglected branch -- Between rocks and hard places -- Emergence from the dilemmas -- Conclusion : the prospects for a comparative methodology in global justice reform.
• Sommario/riassunto: Global Justice Reform critiques and rethinks two neglected subjects: the nature of comparison in the field of comparative law and the struggles of national judicial systems to meet global rule of law objectives. Hiram Chodosh offers a candid look at the surprisingly underdeveloped methodology of comparative legal studies, and provides a creative conceptual framework for defining and understanding the whys, whats, and hows of comparison. Additionally, Chodosh demonstrates how theories of comparative law translate into practice, using contemporary global justice reform initiatives as a case study, with a particular focus on Indonesia and India. Chodosh highlights the gap between the critical role of judicial institutions and their poor performance (for example, political interference, corruption, backlog, and delay), discussing why reform is so elusive, and demonstrating the unavoidable and essential role of comparison in reform proposals.Throughout the book, Chodosh identifies several sources of comparative misunderstanding that impede successful reforms and identifies the many predicaments ; reformers face, detailing a wide variety of designs, methods, and social dilemmas. In response to these seemingly insurmountable challenges, Chodosh advances some novel conceptual strategies, first by drawing on a body of non-legal scholarship on self-regulating, emergent systems, and then by identifying a series of anti-dilemma strategies that draw upon insights about the nature of comparison.

Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics : Third IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2008, Melbourne, Australia, October 15-17, 2008. Proceedings / / edited by Madhu Chetty, Alioune Ngom, Shandar Ahmad

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483058103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008
• ISBN: 3-540-88436-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2008.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVI, 472 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, , 2366-6331 ; ; 5265
• Altri autori (Persone): ChettyMadhu; NgomAlioune; AhmadShandar
• Disciplina: 570.285
• Soggetti: Life sciences; Medical sciences; Data mining; Bioinformatics; Pattern recognition systems; Artificial intelligence; Life Sciences; Health Sciences; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computational and Systems Biology; Automated Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Protein: Structure, Function, and Interaction -- Sequence Based Prediction of Protein Mutant Stability and Discrimination of Thermophilic Proteins -- A Method to Find Sequentially Separated Motifs in Biological Sequences (SSMBS) -- Predicting SUMOylation Sites -- DFS Based Partial Pathways in GA for Protein Structure Prediction -- Evaluation of the Stability of Folding Nucleus upon Mutation -- Prediction of Protein Beta-Sheets: Dynamic Programming versus Grammatical Approach -- Using Multi-scale Glide Zoom Window Feature Extraction Approach to Predict Protein Homo-oligomer Types -- Extraction of Binding Sites in Proteins by Searching for Similar Local Molecular Surfaces -- Learning, Classification, and Clustering -- A Clustering Based Hybrid System for Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis -- A Modified Markov Clustering Approach for Protein Sequence Clustering -- Feature Selection and Classification for Small Gene Sets -- Pseudoknot Identification through Learning TAGRNA -- Support Vector Based T-Score for Gene Ranking -- Prediction of Transcription Factor Families Using DNA Sequence Features -- g-MARS: Protein Classification Using Gapped Markov Chains and Support Vector Machines -- Bio-Molecular Networks and Pathways Analysis -- Domain-Domain Interaction Identification with a Feature Selection Approach -- Dividing Protein Interaction Networks by Growing Orthologous Articulations -- Constraint Minimization for Efficient Modeling of Gene Regulatory Network -- Fusion of Gene Regulatory and Protein Interaction Networks Using Skip-Chain Models -- TopEVM: Using Co-occurrence and Topology Patterns of Enzymes in Metabolic Networks to Construct Phylogenetic Trees -- Generating Synthetic Gene Regulatory Networks -- Microarray and Gene Expression Analysis -- Gene Selection for Microarray Data by a LDA-Based Genetic Algorithm -- Sequential Forward Selection Approach to the Non-unique Oligonucleotide Probe Selection Problem -- On Finding and Interpreting Patterns in Gene Expression Data from Time Course Experiments -- Microarray Design Using the Hilbert–Schmidt Independence Criterion -- Identifying Non-random Patterns from Gene Expression Profiles -- A Study on the Importance of Differential Prioritization in Feature Selection Using Toy Datasets -- Weighted Top Score Pair Method for Gene Selection and Classification -- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery -- Identifying Conserved Discriminative Motifs -- Exploratory Data Analysis for Investigating GC-MS Biomarkers -- Multi-relational Data Mining for Tetratricopeptide Repeats (TPR)-Like Superfamily Members in Leishmania spp.: Acting-by-Connecting Proteins -- Heuristic Non Parametric Collateral Missing Value Imputation: A Step Towards Robust Post-genomic Knowledge Discovery -- Protein Expression Molecular Pattern Discovery by Nonnegative Principal Component Analysis -- Gene Ontology Assisted Exploratory Microarray Clustering and Its Application to Cancer -- Discovery of Biomarkers for Hexachlorobenzene Toxicity Using Population Based Methods on Gene Expression Data -- Applications of High Performance Computing -- Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism in the Phylogenetic Likelihood Function with MPI, Pthreads, and OpenMP: A Performance Study -- Massively Parallelized DNA Motif Search on the Reconfigurable Hardware Platform COPACOBANA -- GPU-MEME: Using Graphics Hardware to Accelerate Motif Finding in DNA Sequences -- Accelerating BLASTP on the Cell Broadband Engine.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, PRIB 2008, held in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2008. The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. ; The papers discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve problems in life sciences. The papers are organized in 6 topical parts on protein: structure, function and interaction; learning, classification and clustering; bio-molecular networks and pathways analysis; microarray and gene expression analysis; data mining and knowledge discovery; applications of high performance computing.