False friends are words from two different languages that have a great similarity in shape but whose meanings are different. When they have some common meanings, they are “partial false friends“. For example, in Italian, ricetta means “recipe (for kitchen)” … Read More
Casino industries in the EU Member States operate under tax regimes, ownership structures, and regulatory constraints that affect the industries’ size, market power, ability to service customers, and ability to attract financial capital. In many Member States, casinos are granted … Read More
Full name: Republic of Estonia. Official language: Estonian. Geography Cities Leave the names of urban centres, irrespective of size, in their original Estonian form, including diacritics (e.g. Pärnu, Kohtla-Järve, Võru, Põlva, etc.). Be aware that historical names exist for some … Read More
Items in a series Here, the comma may be considered to stand for a missing ‘and’ or ‘or’. John mowed the lawn, Mary did the cooking and Frank lazed around. He came, saw and conquered. The committee considered sugar, beef … Read More
The gambling games are very popular in Finland and their supply is diverse. The market is essentially governed by the law of 23.11.2001 on lotteries (Lotterilag 23.11.2001 / 1047). This applies to a wide range of activities and games like … Read More
Nodes and content types The node is the central element of content model used by Drupal. In its simplest version, a node is a generic object composed of a title and a text content. The power of Drupal is the … Read More
One of the player’s goal is to find an optimal method to win the game. We say that the players play a martingale. It should not be confused with the martingale probability which is a stochastic process such that its … Read More
Change > to carry out an evaluation of performance > evaluate performance conduct an investigation into fraud > investigate fraud perform an audit of operations > audit operations give consideration to consumers’ concerns > consider consumers’ concerns secure the involvement … Read More
(Genco Gulan, “Hermes Walker” (2009) 50 cm * 50 cm * 90 cm, Ozil Collection) Without a clear distinction, it can be argued that theories of art treat this subject in a more general way than aesthetics. For example, a … Read More
(Vauquois Triangle, model for the foundation of the machine translation) The translation process (in the human sense) can be divided into three phases: understanding: assimilation of the meaning conveyed by a text, the mean of a writer …; deverbalisation: forgetting … Read More
Technical specifications Technical specifications were adopted for electronic commerce with ebXML, short for Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language. These specifications are based on the XML markup language. This standard is published by OASIS. ebXML has become an international technical … Read More
Justifications in national legislative materials and court decisions There follows a list of examples of justifications actually advanced by the organs of Member States. Most of them list several of these justifications, often without drawing any precise distinctions between them: … Read More
