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The Swiss government has recently submitted a bill amending the Stock Exchange and Securities Act of 1995. As far as takeover bids are concerned, the bill proposes to require that the price of a mandatory of- fer or any offer for all outstanding shares of the tar- get company be no less than the highest price paid by the offeror (and other persons acting in concert) over the...

Le nombre croissant d’ontologies disponibles sur le web a justifié l’apparition d’entrepôts d’ontologies. Cependant, peu d’entre eux intègrent également des ressources hétérogènes de type ontologique, textuelle, linguistique et terminologique. De plus, ils ne fournissent pas un ensemble complet d’opérateurs permettant la gestion et le traitement de ces ressources. Dans nos...

Happiness research findings are increasingly being taken into account in standard economics. However, most findings are based on a posteriori surveys trying to infer how happy people have been. In this paper, we argue that the advances in wearable computing, especially brain-computer interfaces, can lead to realtime measurements of happiness. We then propose a new kind of economy...

The WayFis project is the first European AAL project to help the elderly plan personalized routes and guide them in complex paths in different contexts including indoors, outdoors, pedestrian, and on public transport.

The aim or this paper is to present a practical manual prepared for the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to identify, collect, estimate and compare costs of the available technical options to provide access to safe drinking water in low-income communities.

The literature on the politics of inequality and redistribution in advanced democracies has become very large in recent years. This article focuses on several areas where important new arguments are being put forward. It reviews recent work on the interaction of unions and employers, the role of political parties and electoral institutions, and the effects of racial and religious...

Discussions about how public policies can promote more effectively the active engagement and participation of immigrants and their children1 in the political and civic life of the countries where they live are at the core of current scholarly and public debates. In advanced democracies, there are recurrent disputes about the appropriateness and potential benefits or shortcomings of...

Religion has often been found to be a strong predictor of political behaviour (Broughton and ten Napel, 2000; Lijphart, 1979; Lipset and Rokkan, 1967; Rose and Urwin, 1969; Rokkan, 1979; Tresch and Nicolet, 2010). Alongside social class and place of residence, religion was thought to be one of the primary sociological determinants of political behaviour and, especially, voting (...