International perspectives on consumers' access to justice / / edited by Charles E.F. Rickett and Thomas G.W. Telfer [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783284103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-107-13730-6; 1-280-43665-4; 0-511-17914-6; 1-139-14903-2; 0-511-06222-2; 0-511-05589-7; 0-511-32607-6; 0-511-49483-1; 0-511-07068-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 418 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 343.07/1
• Soggetti: Consumer protection - Law and legislation; Conflict of laws - Consumer protection; Commercial law; Dispute resolution (Law)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Consumers' access to justice : an introduction / Charles E.F. Rickett, Thomas G.W. Telfer -- Consumer redress and access to justice / Iain Ramsay -- Consumer access to justice in common law countries : a survey of the issues from a law and economics perspective / Anthony J. Duggan -- Rethinking consumer protection policy / Michael J. Trebilock -- Standard form contracts in Europe and North America : one hundred years of unfair terms / Leone Niglia -- BSE, CJD, mass infections and the 3rd US restatement / Jane Stapleton -- Services of general interest and European private law / Thomas Wilhelmsson -- The new Financial Ombudsman Service in the United Kingdom : has the second generation got it right / Rhoda James, Philip Morris -- Economic appraisals of ; rulemaking in the new society : why, how, and what does it mean : the challenge for the consumer /Jenny Hamilton, Mik Wisniewski -- Access to the discharge in Canadian bankruptcy law and the new role of surplus income : a historical perspective / Thomas G.W. Telfer -- The death of consumer bankruptcy in the United States / Charles Jordan Tabb -- Privatisation and power : dispute resolution for the Internet / Elizabeth G. Thornburg -- Armageddon through aggregation : the use and abuse of class actions in international dispute resolution / Richard O. Faulk -- Adapting international private law rules for electronic consumer contracts / Lorna E. Gillies / Waving goodbye to conflict of laws : recent developments in European Union consumer law / Axel Halfmeier.
• Sommario/riassunto: Consumer protection law in the age of globalisation poses new challenges for policy-makers. This book highlights the difficulties of framing regulatory responses to the problem of consumers' access to justice in the new international economy. The growth of international consumer transactions in the wake of technological change and the globalisation of markets suggests that governments can no longer develop consumer protection law in isolation from the international legal arena. Leading scholars consider the broader theme of access to justice from socio-legal, law and economics perspectives. Topics include standard form contracts, the legal challenges posed by mass infections (such as mad-cow disease and CJD), ombudsman schemes, class actions, alternative dispute resolution, consumer bankruptcy, conflict of laws, and cross-border transactions. This book demonstrates that advancing and achieving access to justice for consumers proves to be a challenging, and sometimes elusive, task.

Algorithms in Bioinformatics : 7th International Workshop, WABI 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 8-9, 2007, Proceedings / / edited by Raffaele Giancarlo, Sridhar Hannenhalli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910768162703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2007
• ISBN: 3-540-74126-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 434 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, , 2366-6331 ; ; 4645
• Disciplina: 005.1
• Soggetti: Computer programming; Life sciences; Algorithms; Computer science; Artificial intelligence - Data processing; Computer science - Mathematics; Discrete mathematics; Programming Techniques; Life Sciences; Theory of Computation; Data Science; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science
• 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: Shotgun Protein Sequencing -- Locality Kernels for Protein Classification -- When Less Is More: Improving Classification of Protein Families with a Minimal Set of Global Features -- Fault Tolerance for Large Scale Protein 3D Reconstruction from Contact Maps -- Bringing Folding Pathways into Strand Pairing Prediction -- A Fast and Accurate Heuristic for the Single Individual SNP Haplotyping Problem with Many Gaps, High Reading Error Rate and Low Coverage -- Two Birds, One Stone: Selecting Functionally Informative Tag SNPs for Disease Association Studies -- Genotype Error Detection Using Hidden Markov ; Models of Haplotype Diversity -- Haplotype Inference Via Hierarchical Genotype Parsing -- Seeded Tree Alignment and Planar Tanglegram Layout -- Inferring Models of Rearrangements, Recombinations, and Horizontal Transfers by the Minimum Evolution Criterion -- An ?(n 2/logn) Speed-Up of Heuristics for the Gene-Duplication Problem -- Incremental Discovery of Irredundant Motif Bases in Time O(/?/n 2 logn) -- A Graph Clustering Approach to Weak Motif Recognition -- Informative Motifs in Protein Family Alignments -- Topology Independent Protein Structural Alignment -- Generalized Pattern Search and Mesh Adaptive Direct Search Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction -- Alignment-Free Local Structural Search by Writhe Decomposition -- Defining and Computing Optimum RMSD for Gapped Multiple Structure Alignment -- Using Protein Domains to Improve the Accuracy of Ab Initio Gene Finding -- Genomic Signatures in De Bruijn Chains -- Fast Kernel Methods for SVM Sequence Classifiers -- On-Line Viterbi Algorithm for Analysis of Long Biological Sequences -- Predicting Protein Folding Kinetics Via Temporal Logic Model Checking -- Efficient Algorithms to Explore Conformation Spaces of Flexible ProteinLoops -- Algorithms for the Extraction of Synteny Blocks from Comparative Maps -- Computability of Models for Sequence Assembly -- Fast Algorithms for Selecting Specific siRNA in Complete mRNA Data -- RNA Folding Including Pseudoknots: A New Parameterized Algorithm and Improved Upper Bound -- HFold: RNA Pseudoknotted Secondary Structure Prediction Using Hierarchical Folding -- Homology Search with Fragmented Nucleic Acid Sequence Patterns -- Fast Computation of Good Multiple Spaced Seeds -- Inverse Sequence Alignment from Partial Examples -- Novel Approaches in Psychiatric Genomics -- The Point Placement Problem on a Line – Improved Bounds for Pairwise Distance Queries -- Efficient Computational Design of Tiling Arrays Using a Shortest Path Approach -- Efficient and Accurate Construction of Genetic Linkage Maps from Noisy and Missing Genotyping Data -- A Novel Method for Signal Transduction Network Inference from Indirect Experimental Evidence -- Composing Globally Consistent Pathway Parameter Estimates Through Belief Propagation.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2007, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA in September 2007. The 38 revised full papers presented together with the abstract of a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. All current issues of algorithms in bioinformatics are addressed, ranging from mathematical tools to experimental studies of approximation algorithms and reports on significant computational analyses. Numerous biological problems are dealt with, including genetic mapping, sequence alignment and sequence analysis, phylogeny, comparative genomics, and protein structure. Furthermore the papers feature high-performance computing approaches to computationally hard learning and optimization problems in bioinformatics and cover methods, software and dataset repositories for development and testing of such algorithms and their underlying models.