In the financial sector, cryptographic algorithms are used as fundamental techniques for assuring confidentiality and integrity of data used in financial transactions and for authenticating entities involved in the transactions. Currently, the most widely used algorithms appear to be two-key...

Using large-scale individual-level Norwegian administrative register data on the total population of men, we study the offending rates five years prior to and after five different family-related transitions. Leading criminological theories predict that marriage and fatherhood has a preventive...

The Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA) came into effect in 1983 and the objective of bilateral free trade in goods between the two countries was achieved in 1990. This study provides a quantitative analysis of the Agreement’s impacts on specialisation,...

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Presents a case study on public participation in controversies on nanotechnologies in France, and proposes an analytical typology.

This paper provides an overview of important projects concerned with the development of databases on conflicts, crises and similar political events and those dealing with the structural characteristics of nation-states. The various databases are usually differently conceptualized, even when they...

In Argentina research into cooperativism has played a marginal role reflecting a weak relationship between research and the problems, needs and potential of this sector. This paper carries out a review of research undertaken into cooperativism and published in specialist magazines over the...

This article is a critical review of Adam Smith’s notion of an economic agent. Using Jean Jacques Rousseau’s arguments, I show the shortcomings of Smith’s hypothesis regarding individuals’ economic behaviour within market society. The morals of sympathy, understood as a social theory and...

From an inquiry about three fundamental modes of knowing, we propose an interpretation of rationality as "trilogical". We come out, from that point, to the hypothesis of a trilogy of value. This hypothesis, as articulating objectal values, relational values, and political values, offers new...

In der letzten Zeit häuften sich auch in Deutschland Vorfälle, die in der Öffentlichkeit den Verdacht aufkommen lassen, es sei Korruption involviert. Dass Korruption in Deutschland zum Normalfall wird, lässt sich zwar nach Ansicht von Prof. Dr. Christian Watrin, Universität zu Köln, nicht...