infonet-economy

This chapter reviews the definition and characterization of the asset management contract, the determination of the applicable law, the regulation and self-regulation that apply, the duties of an asset manager and the relevant standards, and examines the liability of asset managers. It is the Swiss Chapter in an international comparative survey of these topics.

This paper applies digital PLL (Phase-locked loop) approach to the body movement classification problem. PLLs have been used efficiently in telecommunication to retrieve modulated signals from the background noise. Acceleration sensor signal processing often require the same kind of noise tolerance and the relevant movement patterns are frequently periodic, e.g. walking. The paper…

Inevitably, mobile applications and services on a growing scale assist us in our daily life situations, fulfilling our needs for leisure, entertainment, communication or information. However, user acceptance of a mobile application depends on the application's perceived quality of experience (QoE) and it also includes the criticality of the application to the user's context…

Until 2009. the holding and transfer of securities held through banks and other custodians were governed by traditional legal principles applying to movable,tangible property. But operational and commercial trends in the securities and custody business, such as the intermediation and dematerialization of securities, had been challenging these legal foundations for quite some time.…

This article addresses the question whether the provision of the 2009 UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities (or Geneva Securities Convention) interfers in the relationship between an issuer and its shareholders or bondholders. The question is central to many questions of corporate law and corporate governance. The article concludes that, except to the…

Inevitably, mobile applications and services on a growing scale assist us in our daily life situations, fulfilling our needs for leisure, entertainment, communication or information. However, user acceptance of a mobile application depends on the application's perceived quality of experience (QoE) and it also includes the criticality of the application to the user's context…