In: Obesity, 2011, p. -
We have investigated whether altered hepatic mitochondrial energetics could explain the differential effects of high-fat diets with low or high ω6 polyunsaturated fatty acid content (lard vs. safflower oil) on the efficiency of body fat recovery (catch-up fat) during refeeding after caloric restriction. After 2 weeks of caloric restriction, rats were isocalorically refed with a low-fat diet (LF)...
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In: Journal Of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 2011, vol. 137, no. 10, p. 1409-1418
Chemical compounds that interfere with an enzymatic function of kinases are useful for gaining insight into the complicated biochemical processes in mammalian cells. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) play an essential role in the control of the cell cycle and/or proliferation. These kinases as well as their regulators are frequently deregulated in different human tumors. Aberrations in CDK...
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In: Jusletter, 2008, p. 1-9
La Journée d’étude annuelle de la Section suisse de la Commission internationale de juristes sur le thème « Eine Menschenrechtsinstitution für die Schweiz ? Une institution des droits de l’homme pour la Suisse ? » a eu lieu le 3 avril 2008 à Berne. En première partie de journée, différents intervenants ont présenté la question du rôle et du mandat des institutions nationales...
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In: European Law Journal, 2004, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 257-281
This article examines whether and how the moral principle of legal coherence or integrity, which has recently been developed further as a response to disagreement in the national legal context, applies to European law. According to the European integrity principle, all national and European authorities should make sure their decisions cohere with the past decisions of other European and national...
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In: Jusletter, 2005, vol. 1, p. 39-71
Die Frage, ob jedem von uns ein von der Rechtsordnung geschützter Anspruch auf Kenntnis seiner eigenen biologischen Abstammung und damit auch seiner leiblichen Eltern zusteht, hat in der Schweiz zu einer der schwierigsten Gesellschaftsdebatten in den letzten zwanzig Jahren geführt. Nach einer langen Kontroverse wurde das Grundrecht auf Kenntnis der eigenen Abstammung schliesslich 2002...
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In: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2007, vol. 21, p. 137-159
The justifi cation of the child’s right to know her origins and the fundamental interests underlying it have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. This article goes one step further and assesses that right’s enforcement in practice together with its guiding principles. It starts by restating what the right consists in and what interests it protects according to different...
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In: European Law Journal, 2007, vol. 13, no. 5, p. 573-590
Object of a burgeoning literature in the past decade, the topic of Union citizenship has been sidelined in the past few years by the enlargement process and the constitutional debate in Europe. This apparent academic neglect does not reflect the legal, social and political reality, however, given the crucial development of EU citizenship rights in the legislation and case-law since 2002 and...
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In: Retfaerd - Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift, 2007/30/1/116/3-21
The question of democratic legitimacy in Europe has resurfaced with a particular gravity after the French and Dutch rejection of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in 2005. By concentrating on the supranational or international level of governance in the EU, accounts of European democracy propounded since the early 1990s have diverted attention away from the national level. Since...
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In: Jusletter, 2005, p. 1-22
L´arbitrage international d´investissement, tel qu´il est pratiqué à l´heure actuelle, souffre d´un problème de légitimité. Le problème tient à ce qu´en voulant remédier aux défaillances politiques et judiciaires des pays d´investissement et protéger les intérêts des investisseurs, on a transposé sans autre une méthode de résolution des différends entre particuliers à...
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In: Jusletter, 2006, p. 1-10
Réapparue récemment dans le débat sur la neutralité suisse, la neutralité active séduit. Tels les nouveaux habits de l’empereur, la neutralité active ne doit cependant pas mettre en péril le respect des valeurs et droits que la Suisse est désormais en mesure d’assurer sur le plan international. Par référence à une conception coopérative de la souveraineté, l’auteur conclut...
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