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"This book analyses patterns and causes of state cooperation with the International Criminal Court. The work focuses on several African cases, including those against leading state officials, to dive into current debates about compliance with international law and resistance to international courts. The book, which draws on interview data collected in The Hague, Kenya, and South Africa, reveals the diversity of state behaviors ranging from full compliance and diplomatic support to partial compliance to resistance and exit. This redirects the widespread narrative about African resistance against the ICC to include evidence of continued Court support. It is argued that the degree of cooperation the Court receives is affected by a government's perceived costs and benefits of executing an ICC request: a cooperation request is considered high-cost or low-cost depending on the suspect's position, the type of action requested, and the government's domestic and regional policy objectives. In response, the Court has been careful not to alienate states further, thus highlighting that the Court is both above and below the state: having the power to charge individuals including state officials, but relying on governments-sometimes those from which suspects hail-to provide critical information about the same suspects. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of international law, human rights, international criminal justice, and international relations"--

The article is devoted to the study of the issues of restrictions on the freedom of information that has arisen under the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Another goal of the paper is identifying ways to protect such rights or to indicate which amendments to the law might be of use. The research methodology is based on general and special scientific methods, in particular: analytical, comparative-legal, systemic, and structural. The structure of the work includes: the review of international and Ukrainian legislation related to the freedom of information; the possibilities of its restriction; possible ways to enabling safe and secure management of the freedom of information during the coronacrisis. An analysis of international experience was carried out, as well as aspects of the protection of civil liberties such as freedom of speech, the right of peaceful assembly, etc. Several problematic issues were identified. Although, the general results of the study can be interpreted as alarming trends in the field of human rights and civil liberties. Particularly, it is multiple violations of the freedom of information all around the world under quarantine restrictions.

This paper reviews recent corporate financial literature dealing with family business issues. It discusses research papers that explain the nature and type of agency problems in family firms. It provides empirical evidence of the association of family ownership with information asymmetry. It also portrays the influence of family firms over corporate disclosures. We have analyzed literature to explain the empirical association between family ownership, and so ownership control, and firm performances. This paper also attempts to find out the research gap based on reviewed papers and tries to give the future directions of research in this regard.

This book contains the refereed post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Exploring Services Science (IESS) in Geneva, Switzerland, in February 2010. The goal of the conference was to build upon the growing community to further study and understand this emerging discipline, which leverages methods, results and knowledge stemming from management, social and cognitive science, law, ethics, economics, and computer science towards the development of own concepts, methods, techniques and approaches and thus creating the basis for the production of transdisciplinary results. The 19 f.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Virtual Testing Environment for Smart Automations in the Internet of Things -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Contribution -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Case Scenarios -- 4 Software Architecture -- 5 Virtual Smart Devices -- 5.1 Automatic GUI Generation for Smart Devices -- 5.2 Simulating Smart Device Operations with Visual Programming -- 5.3 Virtual Smart-Device Access and Control -- 6 Testing Toolbox -- 6.1 Action Calendar and Virtual-Time Tool -- 6.2 Live Dashboard and Activity History -- 6.3 Input/Output Console -- 6.4 Block-Based Debugger -- 6.5 Embedded Explanations -- 6.6 Custom Conditional Breakpoints -- 6.7 Authoring of Test Suites -- 6.8 Introducing Check Blocks -- 7 Discussion - Digital Twinning of IoT Ecosystems -- 8 Usability Evaluation -- 8.1 Participants -- 8.2 Process -- 8.3 Results -- 9 Conclusions -- References -- Machine Learning Based Finding of Similar Sentences from French Clinical Notes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Proposed Approach -- 3.1 Feature Extraction -- 3.2 Models -- 4 Evaluation -- 4.1 Datasets -- 4.2 Results -- 5 Discussion -- 5.1 Findings -- 5.2 Comparison with Other Participating Systems -- 5.3 Analysis of CONCORDIA Performance -- 5.4 Limitations and Future Work -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- A Comparative Study of Energy Domain Ontologies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Energy Domain and Semantic Modelling -- 3 Review of Ontologies for the Energy Domain -- 4 Experimental Evaluation -- 4.1 Metrics -- 4.2 Issues -- 5 Experimental Results -- 6 Related Works -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- Semantic Label Representations with Lbl2Vec: A Similarity-Based Approach for Unsupervised Text Classification -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lbl2Vec -- 3 Experimental Design -- 3.1 Datasets -- 3.2 Label Keywords -- 3.3 Text Classification Approaches -- 4 Evaluation -- 4.1 Classification Results.

"Traditional techniques for detecting deception, such as the 'lie-detector test' (or polygraph), are based upon the idea that lying is associated with stress. However, it is possible that people telling the truth will experience stress, whereas not all liars will. Because of this, the validity of such methods is questionable. As an alternative, a knowledge-based approach known as the 'Concealed Information Test' has been developed which investigates whether the examinee recognizes secret information - for example a crime suspect recognizing critical crime details that only the culprit could know. The Concealed Information Test has been supported by decades of research, and is used widely in Japan. This is the first book to focus on this exciting approach and will be of interest to law enforcement agencies and academics and professionals in psychology, criminology, policing and law"--