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Professor Bruce Harris has left an indelible mark on public law in
New Zealand and across the common law world. In particular, his
suggestion that there exists a 'third source' of executive action,
in addition to statutory and prerogative powers, has influenced
scholarship and judicial decisions in New Zealand, the United
Kingdom, and elsewhere. In this Festschrift, leading commentators
explore key themes from his work. The first theme is the nature of
executive power. Claire Charters argues that the future New Zealand
constitution must pay greater attention to Maori legal concepts and
substantive protections for tangata whenua. She suggests that a
pressing concern is holding the Executive to account and
restraining its power, particularly vis-a-vis Maori. Edward Willis
examines the legitimate extent of 'third source' powers in the
context of constitutional pragmatism. Three sections discuss issues
concerning the judiciary. In the first section, Nicola Wheen
discusses the problems inherent in ambiguous standards of
environmental protection. The second section deals with judicial
method and creativity. John Ip argues that the remedy of
declarations of inconsistency with enumerated rights amounts to
justifiable judicial creativity; Taylor Burgess critiques courts'
unwillingness to lead social change, while Paul Rishworth examines
the creativity inherent in judicial restraint. Caroline Foster
extends the volume's analysis to international law, arguing that
creativity by international courts and tribunals has given rise to
global regulatory standards. The third section addresses judicial
appointment and accountability. Sir Edmund Thomas argues that more
independence is required in judicial appointments' processes, while
ATH Smith argues that more protections are needed to protect
judicial independence. The final theme concerns the future of the
unwritten constitution. John Dawson explores the place of Te Tiriti
o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi), the founding agreement between
the Crown and Maori, in New Zealand's constitutional arrangements.
Paul Craig explores the difference in the modalities of
constitutional change between written and unwritten constitutions.
Finally, Sam Bookman discusses the role of constitutional scholars
in the unwritten constitution. As courts and legislatures around
the world grapple with the changing demands made of public law,
this volume addresses important questions about the powers of the
state, the role of judges, and Crown-Indigenous relations. This
book engages with these questions through a distinctive approach
that is both pragmatic and nuanced. This volume is indispensable
for students, scholars and practitioners engaged in the study of
common law constitutions in New Zealand and beyond.
Codesign for Real-Time Video Applications describes a modern design
approach for embedded systems. It combines the design of hardware,
software, and algorithms. Traditionally, these design domains are
treated separately to reduce the design complexity. Advanced design
tools support a codesign of the different domains which opens an
opportunity for exploiting synergetic effects. The design approach
is illustrated by the design of a video compression system. It is
integrated into the video card of a PC. A VLIW processor
architecture is used as the basis of the compression system and
popular video compression algorithms (MPEG, JPEG, H.261) are
analyzed. A complete top-down design flow is presented and the
design tools for each of the design steps are explained. The tools
are integrated into an HTML-based design framework. The resulting
design data can be directly integrated into the WWW. This is a
crucial aspect for supporting distributed design groups. The design
data can be directly documented an cross referencing in an almost
arbitrary way is supported. This provides a platform for
information sharing among the different design domains. Codesign
for Real-Time Video Applications focuses on the multi-disciplinary
aspects of embedded system design. It combines design automation
and advanced processor design with an important application domain.
A quantitative design approach is emphasized which focuses the
design time on the most crucial components. Thus enabling a fast
and cost efficient design methodology. This book will be of
interest to researchers, designers and managers working in embedded
system design.
The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more
amazing than the Mira colligrophioe monumenta, a flamboyant
demonstration of two arts-calligraphy and miniature painting. The
project began when Rudolf's predecessor commissioned the master
calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a model book of calligraphy. A
preeminent scribe, Bocskay assembled a vast selection of
contemporary and historic scripts. Many were intended not for
practical use but for virtuosic display. Years later, at Rudolf's
behest, court artist Joris Hoefnagel filled the spaces on each
manuscript page with images of fruit, flowers, insects, and other
natural minutiae. The combination of word and images is rare and,
on its tiny scale, constitutes one of the marvels of the Central
European Renaissance. The manuscript is now in the collections of
the Getty Museum. Forty-eight of its pages are reproduced in this
book, containing samples of classic italic hands; historical,
invented, and exhibition hands; Rotunda, a classicizing humanist
script based on Carolingian miniscule; classically based scripts;
and Gothic blackletter and chancery.
Teil I, die monographischen Ausfuhrungen uber Hodlers Tag (1899),
beginnt mit der Eroerterung der Ikonographie des Bildes, der
Erweckung der Natur durch das helle Morgenlicht. In Hodlers
langwierigem Schaffensprozess bildet sich allmahlich die mittlere
der funf Frauen als Hauptfigur heraus. Teil II unterstreicht die
bedeutende Stellung des Tages in Hodlers OEuvre. Werke
pessimistischer Thematik weichen - als Folge der Anerkennung von
Hodlers Werk - Darstellungen, die Optimismus und Lebensfreude
vermitteln. Teil III: Symbolistische Aspekte von Hodlers Kunst
kommen besonders in seiner spezifischen Verbindung von
Parallelismus und symbolischen Gehalt zum Ausdruck. Dabei bilden
die Nacht und der Tag die Pole seiner symbolistischen Kunst.
Codesign for Real-Time Video Applications describes a modern design
approach for embedded systems. It combines the design of hardware,
software, and algorithms. Traditionally, these design domains are
treated separately to reduce the design complexity. Advanced design
tools support a codesign of the different domains which opens an
opportunity for exploiting synergetic effects. The design approach
is illustrated by the design of a video compression system. It is
integrated into the video card of a PC. A VLIW processor
architecture is used as the basis of the compression system and
popular video compression algorithms (MPEG, JPEG, H.261) are
analyzed. A complete top-down design flow is presented and the
design tools for each of the design steps are explained. The tools
are integrated into an HTML-based design framework. The resulting
design data can be directly integrated into the WWW. This is a
crucial aspect for supporting distributed design groups. The design
data can be directly documented an cross referencing in an almost
arbitrary way is supported. This provides a platform for
information sharing among the different design domains. Codesign
for Real-Time Video Applications focuses on the multi-disciplinary
aspects of embedded system design. It combines design automation
and advanced processor design with an important application domain.
A quantitative design approach is emphasized which focuses the
design time on the most crucial components. Thus enabling a fast
and cost efficient design methodology. This book will be of
interest to researchers, designers and managers working in embedded
system design.
Listening is clearly central to the practice of both counselling
and psychotherapy. Given this, it is quite extraordinary how little
thought has been given to the nature of therapeutic listening and
to the cultivation and evaluation of the therapist as listener.
Instead, listening is a subject marginalised in both the
theoretical literature on psychotherapy and in the practical
training of counsellors and psychotherapists .In this collection of
essays and articles by Peter Wilberg, the thinking of Martin
Heidegger provides the platform for an exploration of the deeper
nature of listening - not simply as a passive prelude to
therapeutic or diagnostic responses, but as a mode of active inner
communication with others. What Wilberg calls Maieutic Listening is
not a new form of psychotherapy, but the innately therapeutic
essence of listening as such - understood not as a mere therapeutic
'skill' but as a our most basic way of being and bearing with
others in pregnant silence.
Between 1561 and 1562 Georg Bocskay, secretary to Emperor Ferdinand
I, assembled a large selection of contemporary and historical
writings in the Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, in an attempt to
demonstrate his technical skill as a court scrivener. Around thirty
years later, Ferdinand’s grandson, Emperor Rudolf II commissioned
Joris Hoefnagel, one of the last great European manuscript
illuminators, to provide exclusive illuminations for the pages.
Currently in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, this
unique book—the only one worldwide—was fi rst published in
facsimile form in 1993, with extensive commentary by Lee Hendrix
and Thea Vignau-Wilberg. Now, at last, there is a newly produced
facsimile edition in German. Besides biographies of these two
exceptional artists, as well as an analytical observation of the
role the manuscript played in the careers of both, Hoefnagel’s
illuminations are examined more closely. An indispensable volume
for anyone interested in design, typography, manuscript
illumination, and exquisite craftsmanship. “The ultimate
book-lover’s gift book,†raves The Los Angeles Times.
Die im vorliegenden Buche gegebene Darstellung eigener und fremder
Arbeiten auf dem Gebiete der elektrischen Bildubertragung baut sich
restlos auf der Grundlage der punktweise erfolgenden Abtastung und
Wiedergabe auf, dem einzigen heute durchfuhrbaren und bewahrten
Prinzip. Dieses Prinzip wird ohne Zweifel die Technik der
Fernbildschrift und des Fernsehens auf dem Draht wie auf dem
Funkwege noch lange Zeit beherrschen. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass
eine neue, bedeutende Erfindung die Bemuhungen der Spezialisten
plotzlich in eine andere, grossere und schnellere Erfolge
versprechende Richtung lenken konnte, halte ich fur sehr gering. Es
gibt nichts Wunderbares. Ich mochte auf ein bekanntes Beispiel
hinweisen: In der Frequenzbandfrage war vor einiger Zeit durch
sensationelle Meldungen bis weit in die Fachkreise hinein die Hoff
nung auf eine neue Ara im Bau drahtloser Empfanger erweckt worden.
Sie sollte die in der Anwendung ausgedehnter
Modulationsfrequenzbander wurzeln den Schwierigkeiten mit einem
Schlage beseitigen. Auch fur die Bildubertragung ware eine solche
Erfindung von ausserster Tragweite gewesen. Heute ist diese
Hoffnung, die dem Wissenden von Anfang an im Widerspruch mit
gesicherten Naturgesetzen und Erfahrungen zu stehen schien, auch
von allen denen aufgegeben, die sich mit vollem Enthusiasmus, aber
ohne viel Kritik, fur die Neuerung begeistert hatten. Von der
grossartigen Verheissung, die Ausnutzung sowohl des Athers als auch
der Leitungswege fur die Ubertragung von Signalen in ungeahntem
Masse zu steigern, ist nichts ubrig geblieben, was die Grenzen des
bisher fur moglich Gehaltenen, wenn schon vielleicht noch nicht
vollig Erreichten, uberschritte."
Inspired by the work of Professor Michael Taggart, this collection
of essays from across the common law world is concerned with two
separate but related themes. First, to what extent and by what
means should review on substantive grounds such as unreasonableness
be expanded and intensified? Jowell, Elliott and Varuhas all agree
with Taggart that proportionality should not 'sweep the rainbow',
but propose different schemes for organising and conceptualising
substantive review. Groves and Weeks, and Hoexter evaluate the
state of substantive review in Australia and South Africa
respectively. The second theme concerns the broader (Canadian)
sense of substantive review including the illegality grounds, and
whether deference should extend to these grounds. Cane and Aronson
consider the relevance and impact of different constitutional and
doctrinal settings. Wilberg and Daly address questions concerning
when and how deference is to operate once it is accepted as
appropriate in principle. Rights-based review is discussed in a
separate third part because it raises both of the above questions.
Geiringer, Sales and Walters examine the choices to be made in
settling the approach in this area, each focusing on a different
dichotomy. Taggart's work is notable for treating these various
aspects of substantive review as parts of a broader whole, and for
his search for an appropriate balance between judicial scrutiny and
administrative autonomy across this entire area. By bringing
together essays on all these topics, this volume seeks to build on
that approach.
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