Bulletin number 2004-06

The South Carolina Department of Insurance issues periodic bulletins explaining different aspects and rule interpretations of state insurance.

Bulletin number 2004-07

The South Carolina Department of Insurance issues periodic bulletins explaining different aspects and rule interpretations of state insurance.

Bulletin number 2004-08

The South Carolina Department of Insurance issues periodic bulletins explaining different aspects and rule interpretations of state insurance.

Bulletin number 2004-09

The South Carolina Department of Insurance issues periodic bulletins explaining different aspects and rule interpretations of state insurance.

Bulletin number 2004-10

The South Carolina Department of Insurance issues periodic bulletins explaining different aspects and rule interpretations of state insurance.

Bulletin number 2004-11

The South Carolina Department of Insurance issues periodic bulletins explaining different aspects and rule interpretations of state insurance.

Bulletin number 2004-12

The South Carolina Department of Insurance issues periodic bulletins explaining different aspects and rule interpretations of state insurance.

Bulletin number 2004-13

The South Carolina Department of Insurance issues periodic bulletins explaining different aspects and rule interpretations of state insurance.

Estado Constitucional de Derecho y Democracia: ¿conceptos antagónicos?: revisando Centroamérica

El texto explora las concepciones sobre democracia y Estado Constitucional de Derecho. Intenta explicar las posibles diferencias entre ambas expresiones y sus puntos de encuentro. Recurre tanto a doctrina de ciencia política como de derecho constitucional.Se sostiene la conveniencia científica, desde una perspectiva también histórica, de hablar de estado constitucional de derecho entendido como una categoría más exacta de lo que debe entenderse como forma de acceder al poder y proteger los derechos fundamentales.Finalmente, se hace un análisis de la situación actual de Centroamérica y se relaciona aquella con la existencia real de estados constitucionales de derecho en la región. The article analyzes on the concepts about democracy and rule of constitutional law. It aims to explain the  possible differences and coincidences between these notions throughout the political sciences and constitutional law. From an historic view, it points out to the scientific convenience and correctness of the term ‘constitutional rule of law’, understood as a more precise category of what it must be defined as a means to access the power and the protection of fundamental rights.Finally, the article examines on the current situation of the Central American region emphasizing on whether these states embrace a true constitutional rule of law. 

Retrospectivity and the rule of law

This book analyses and refines the arguments for and against retrospective rule making, concluding that there is one really strong argument against it: the expectation that, if an individual's actions are considered by a future court, the legal consequences of that action will be determined by the law that was discoverable at the time the action was performed. This argument, which goes to the heart of the rule of law, is generally determinative. However, in some cases the argument does not run and this book suggests that, in some areas of law, reliance should be actively discouraged by prospective warnings that the law is subject to change.

Changing musical emotion : a computational rule system for modifying score and performance

When communicating emotion in music, composers and performers encode their expressive intentions through the control of basic musical features such as: pitch, loudness, timbre, mode, and articulation. The extent to which emotion can be controlled through the systematic manipulation of these features has not been fully examined. In this paper we present CMERS, a Computational Music Emotion Rule System for the control of perceived musical emotion that modifies features at the levels of score and performance in real-time. CMERS performance was evaluated in two rounds of perceptual testing. In experiment I, 20 participants continuously rated the perceived emotion of 15 music samples generated by CMERS. Three music works, each with five emotional variations were used (normal, happy, sad, angry, and tender). The intended emotion by CMERS was correctly identified 78% of the time, with significant shifts in valence and arousal also recorded, regardless of the works’ original emotion.

Digital constitutionalism and the role of the rule of law in the governance of virtual communities

This project proposes a new conceptual framework for the regulation of social networks and virtual communities. By applying a model based upon the rule of law, this thesis addresses the growing tensions that revolve around the public use of private networks. This research examines the shortcomings of traditional contractual governance models and cyberlaw theory and provides a reconstituted approach that will allow public constitutional-type interests to be recognised in the interpretation and enforcement of contractual doctrine.