Full name: Republic of Cyprus. The long form may be used when contrasted with northern Cyprus, the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’. However, since the EU and its Member States do not recognise the latter and the Republic of Cyprus … Read More
Vanity press is for an author to publish his own works by a publisher that provides only the technical part of the publishing and distribution, outside the editorial proper choice. So the author pays the costs of printing and publicity … Read More
Most gambling games appeal to chance: pure gambling (lottery, roulette …) reasoned gambling practiced with cards like poker, or dice as backgammon. In pure gambling, strategies that attempt to increase the chances are called martingales. People who engage in these … Read More
The regulatory situation for on-line gambling is characterized by the fact that in 2006 the Commission, following a unanimous demand of the Council and the European Parliament in first reading, excluded gambling services from the scope of its modified proposal … Read More
A casino is a place offering games of chance and gambling or casino games. Access is regulated, although the identity control provisions vary from one country to another. In the United States, access to game rooms is not monitored, but … Read More
(Photo of first computer bug.) A computer bug is a fault in a computer program which prevents it from working correctly. Bugs arise from mistakes in either a program’s source code or its design. It is said that there are … Read More
Print on demand is a digital printing mode to offer in the shortest possible time and in small quantities (sometimes only one copy) works whose small circulation induce excessive costs in traditional printing. Benefits The advantage of printing on demand … Read More
Filename extension: .mp3Internet media type: audio/mpeg, audio/MPA, audio/mpa-robustInitial release: 1995Type of format: Audio compression format, audio file formatStandards: ISO/IEC 11172-3, ISO/IEC 13818-3 MPEG -1/ 2 Audio Layer 3, more commonly known by its abbreviation MP3, is the specification of the … Read More
The image given by the empirical evidence is rather opaque, firstly because of the lack of data, and partly because of the sharp contrasts between countries. However, the industrial organization tools help to identify the salient features of the organization … Read More
The judgment of the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) of 13 May 2014 Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González (C-131/12) sets a milestone for EU data … Read More
Cultural ecology is, in anthropology, a theory that studies the relationship between human societies and their environment to find out how the behaviors and lifestyles of men are shaped by their environment. This approach, developed in the 1950s and 1960s … Read More
Self-publishing is for an author to take himself in charge of the edition of his works, without going through a publishing house. It accurately distinguishes from publishing on publisher‘s account or author‘s account. In the first case, in fact, the … Read More
