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Who holds (intermediated) securities ? Shareholders, account holders, and nominees

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...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

La LFus : chronique d'un échec ?

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Université de Genève

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Testing the Usability of Information Visualization Techniques in Interactive 3D Virtual Environments: a Toolkit

Augmenting 3D virtual environments (3DVEs) with additional abstract information, with different data types (such as numbers, texts, images and videos) amplifies and enhances the user's spatial cognition and understanding of geometrical objects in order to perform specific tasks which require both abstract information and a 3D scene. Many interactive information visualization...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Mobile user experience beyond the laboratory: Towards methodology for QoE-QoS evaluation in natural user environments

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...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Disentangling Market Access Effects of Preferential Trading Arrangements with an Application for ASEAN Members under an ASEAN–EU FTA

The paper develops two synthetic measures at the HS-10 level to depict effective market access for a country receiving preferential access and applies these to the market access ASEAN members would receive following the implementation of an FTA with the EU. First, the measures show that current effective market access for ASEAN EBA members is cut in half by the preferences granted by...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Experience Report in Developing and Applying a Method for Self-Organisation to Agile Manufacturing

The design and implementation of distributed, self-organising and self-adaptive systems are challenging. This article details our experience gained during the development of self-organising assembly systems, which provide solutions for user-friendly agile manufacturing systems. More specifically, we describe how both a development method for self-organising systems, called MetaSelf,...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Towards mobile/wearable device electrosmog reduction through careful network selection : 1st Augmented Human International Conference

There is some concern regarding the effect of smart phones and other wearable devices using wireless communication and worn by the users very closely to their body. In this paper, we propose a new network switching selection model and its algorithms that minimize the non-ionizing radiation of these devices during use. We validate the model and its algorithms with a proof-of-concept...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

emoBAN: Improving Quality of Life via Psychophysiological Mobile Computing

Our daily affective states are a key element in the analyse is of our quality of life (QoL). Yet, to date a reliable and accurate solution for an affect analysis in our daily environments does not exist. This paper draws a research path towards a development of a Body Area Network (emoBAN) that enables long-term monitoring and analysis of affective states, as well as provision of...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Long distance care

As mobile devices pave the way for mobile healthcare services that put long-distance patients at the helm of their own diagnoses and treatment, its important to evalue user requirements and expectations.

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Hovering Information: A Self-Organising Infrastructure-Free Information Storage and Retrieval Service

This paper introduces the Spatial Memory concept which defines any geographical location as a memory where information can be stored and retrieval by user-applications. The Hovering Information Middleware is also introduced as a constrained implementation of the Spatial Memory concept. This middleware is based on results presented on previous works related with Hovering Information....

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

The contentious politics of unemployment in Europe: welfare states and political opportunities

This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

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