Privacy and Data Protection in Elderly Healthcare: Threats and Legal Warranties

The progressive aging of the population requires new kinds of social and medical intervention and the availability of different services provided to the elder population. New applications have been developed and some services are now provided at home, allowing the older people to stay home instead of having to stay in hospitals. But an adequate response to the needs of the users will imply a high percentage of use of personal data and information, including the building up and maintenance of user profiles, feeding the systems with the data and information needed for a proactive intervention in scheduling of events in which the user may be involved. Fundamental Rights may be at stake, so a legal analysis must also be considered.

Criminal Liability of Organizations, Corporations, Legal Persons, and Similar Entities on Law of Portuguese Cybercrime: A Brief Discussion on the Issue of Crimes of “False Information,” the “Damage on Other Programs or Computer Data,” the “Computer-Software Sabotage,” the “Illegitimate Access,” the “Unlawful Interception,” and “Illegitimate Reproduction of the Protected Program”

Abstract: in Portugal, and in much of the legal systems of Europe, «legal persons» are likely to be criminally responsibilities also for cybercrimes. Like for example the following crimes: «false information»; «damage on other programs or computer data»; «computer-software sabotage»; «illegitimate access»; «unlawful interception» and «illegitimate reproduction of protected program». However, in Portugal, have many exceptions. Exceptions to the «question of criminal liability» of «legal persons». Some «legal persons» can not be blamed for cybercrime. The legislature did not leave! These «legal persons» are v.g. the following («public entities»): legal persons under public law, which include the public business entities; entities utilities, regardless of ownership; or other legal persons exercising public powers. In other words, and again as an example, a Portuguese public university or a private concessionaire of a public service in Portugal, can not commit (in Portugal) any one of cybercrime pointed. Fair? Unfair. All laws should provide that all legal persons can commit cybercrimes. PS: resumo do artigo em inglês.

«Corruption» and social and economic criminal law: criminology, criminal policy, political science and law&economics - a new idea about criminal liability of legal entities

Abstract: If we think there is a significant number of legal offshore in the globalized world, then there is not even a global consensus about what «corruption» is. The «illegal corruption» in a country may be legal in another. Moreover, the great global corruption is above the law or above democratic States. And not all democratic States are «Rule of Law». Therefore, the solution is global earlier in time and space law, democratic, free and true law. While the human being does not reach a consensus of what «corruption» really is, the discussion will not go further than a caricature. One of the other problems about «corruption» is that it is very difficult to establish the imputation of crimes, including «corruption» (v.g. Portugal) on some «companies», corporations. We have a juridical problem in the composition of the art. 11. of the Portuguese Penal Code.

O Sistema de Contabilidade de Custos nos Municípios Portugueses: o impulso do enquadramento legal

O Sistema de Contabilidade de Custos (SCC) tem-se revelado um instrumento fundamental no apoio ao processo de tomada de decisão de qualquer organização, seja pública ou privada, podendo constituir um factor crítico de sucesso. Também nas autarquias locais, onde o ambiente é cada vez mais competitivo, o acesso a informação útil e oportuna em contexto de decisão torna-se essencial para uma gestão mais moderna e eficiente. Acompanhando o contexto de reforma vivido na Administração Pública em geral, os municípios Portugueses têm sido pressionados no sentido de aumentar a transparência e a accountability perante a sociedade e os eleitores, bem como os níveis de eficácia e de eficiência. É em prol destes objectivos que se tem defendido a introdução da Contabilidade de Custos na gestão autárquica.

Preliminary Overview over Requirements Regarding Tools and Methods Derived from LUDA Cases

LUDA is a research project of Key Action 4 "City of Tomorrow & Cultural Heritage" of the programme "Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development" within the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission

“Confessionários or Manuals of Confession: Missionary tools and their colonial uses – The case study of Goa

Existem referências aos manuais de bem confessar que os Jesuitas utilizaram na Índia desde os inícios da sua actividade missionária, mas até agora não se tinha publicado nenhum para os séculos XVI-XVII. Encontrei alguns na British Library em Londres em 1994, e estão aqui analisados, dando a conhecer como a nova religião ajudava a criar cidadãos responsáveis do império colonial e a cumprir as suas leis. Para além de ajudar-nos a compreender o vocabulário e o estilo da língua vernácula destes tempos, alguém que evitasse pagar impostos ao Estado ou manipulasse os livros de contas da aldeia encorria em pecados a confessar.

Using Modern Tools to Explain the Use of the Smith Chart

The concept of explaining the use of an old tool like the Smith chart, using modern tools like MATLAB [1] scripts in combination with e-learning facilities, is exemplified by two MATLAB scripts. These display, step by step, the graphical procedure that must be used to solve the double-stub impedance-matching problem. These two scripts correspond to two different possible ways to analyze this matching problem, and they are important for students to learn by themselves.

Tsunami vulnerability assessment of Casablanca-Morocco using numerical modelling and GIS tools

Earthquakes and tsunamis along Morocco's coasts have been reported since historical times. The threat posed by tsunamis must be included in coastal risk studies. This study focuses on the tsunami impact and vulnerability assessment of the Casablanca harbour and surrounding area using a combination of tsunami inundation numerical modelling, field survey data and geographic information system. The tsunami scenario used here is compatible with the 1755 Lisbon event that we considered to be the worst case tsunami scenario. Hydrodynamic modelling was performed with an adapted version of the Cornell Multigrid Coupled Tsunami Model from Cornell University. The simulation covers the eastern domain of the Azores-Gibraltar fracture zone corresponding to the largest tsunamigenic area in the North Atlantic. The proposed vulnerability model attempts to provide an insight into the tsunami vulnerability of building stock. Results in the form of a vulnerability map will be useful for decision makers and local authorities in preventing the community resiliency for tsunami hazards.

Tools for testing the Solvency Capital Requirement for life insurance

Longevity risk is one of the major risks that an insurance company or a pension fund has to deal with and it is expected that its importance will grow in the near future. In agreement with these considerations, in Solvency II regulation the Standard formula furnished for calculating the Solvency Capital Requirement explicitly considers this kind of risk. According to the new European rules in our paper we suggest a multiperiod approach to evaluate the SCR for longevity risk. We propose a backtesting framework for measuring the consistency of SCR calculations for life insurance policies.

A certificação legal das contas na internet nas empresas do PSI20

Este trabalho pretende ilustrar o papel das Novas Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação (NTIC) como instrumento apropriado de divulgação dos documentos de prestação de contas, por parte das empresas portuguesas do PSI20. Procurou-se aferir em que medida o documento que induz credibilidade ou confiança quanto à conformidade das contas ou demonstrações financeiras - Certificação Legal das Contas - é devidamente divulgado por aquelas empresas na Internet, através das suas páginas website (em português sitio). Para tal analisou-se com detalhe a Certificação Legal das Contas, em termos dos tipos de opinião, de ênfases e de reservas emitidas pelo Revisor Oficial de Contas (ROC) ou Sociedade de Revisores Oficiais de Contas (SROC), quer para as contas individuais, quer para as contas consolidadas das empresas objecto do presente estudo. A estrutura do trabalho baseia-se nas seguintes linhas fundamentais: - a informação financeira na Internet, os documentos de prestação de contas e um estudo empírico sobre a certificação legal das contas nas empresas do PSI20. Conclui-se que a totalidade das empresas que integraram o PSI20 (em Março de 2004) dispõem de site, o qual contém informação financeira histórica e presente (suportada pelos documentos de prestação de contas, a maioria relativa às contas consolidades), e apresenta a Certificação Legal das Contas (a maioria sem reservas). Constatou-se que não há nenhuma relação entre os sites da empresas e da entidade certificadora das contas.

As insuficiências do regime legal do capital social e das reservas na cooperativa

A comunicação, que me proponho apresentar no Congresso Direito das Sociedades, centrar-se-á na análise das insuficiências das funções de garantia e de produtividade do capital social e das reservas na cooperativa, tendo sempre como parâmetro de comparação as funções que aquelas figuras desempenham na sociedade comercial. Tal comparação permitir-nos-á aferir do diferente papel que quer o capital quer as reservas desempenham naquelas duas entidades jurídicas.

Technology for creativity and innovation: tools, techniques and applications

It is widely accepted that organizations and individuals must be innovative and continually create new knowledge and ideas to deal with rapid change. Innovation plays an important role in not only the development of new business, process and products, but also in competitiveness and success of any organization. Technology for Creativity and Innovation: Tools, Techniques and Applications provides empirical research findings and best practices on creativity and innovation in business, organizational, and social environments. It is written for educators, academics and professionals who want to improve their understanding of creativity and innovation as well as the role technology has in shaping this discipline.

A reserva legal das cooperativas

Este artigo visa contribuir para o conhecimento do regime jurídico da reserva legal das cooperativas no direito português...