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    A Tool for Improving Occupational Safety and Health

    Series series Occupational Safety, Health, and Ergonomics
    Virtual reality (VR) techniques are becoming increasingly popular. The use of computer modeling and visualization is no longer uncommon in the area of ergonomics and occupational health and safety. This book explains how studies conducted in a simulated virtual world are making it possible to test new solutions for designed workstations, offering a high degree of ease for introducing modifications ... Read more

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  • Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law

    A Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism

    Translated by Malgorzata Kieltyka ...
    This book presents the theory of the validity of legal norms, aimed at the practice of law, in particular the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts. The postpositivist concept of the validity of statutory law, grounded on a critical analysis of the basic theories of legal validity elaborated up to now, is introduced. In the first part of the book a contemporary German nonpositivist conception ... Read more

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  • Legal Knowledge and Analogy

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    Law is traditionally conceived as consisting of norms of conduct and power-conferring norms. This conception, however, is unable to account for a variety of elements of modern legal systems that differ significantly from the classical notions. This book concerns the problem of which results of human activity can obtain legal validity. The author makes use of recent findings in speech act theory, ... Read more

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  • Semiotics of International Law

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    Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect.The diversity of languages and legal systems ... Read more

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  • Systematic Approaches to Argument by Analogy

    Edited by Henrique Jales Ribeiro ...
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    The present volume assembles a relevant set of studies of argument by analogy, which address this topic in a systematic fashion, either from an essentially theoretical perspective or from the perspective of it being applied to different fields like politics, linguistics, literature, law, medicine, science in general and philosophy. All result from original research conducted by their authors for ... Read more

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  • Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World

    Edited by Deirdre Golash ...
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  • Giving Reasons

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