Commentary: Slovak case law on the responsibility of a bank for unauthorised financial transactions

Case Commentary by Rowan Legal.Regarding the judgment of the Trenčín District Court no. ref. no: 21C/143/2011 as confirmed by the judgment of the County Court Trenčín ref. no: 17Co/213/2012 on 19 June 201

From the outside looking in: reactions to the Better Public Services report

Policy Quarterly invited the leaders of some key external organisations that are stakeholders of the public sector to comment on the Better Public Services report. The following comprises their views.&nbsp

Narrating China's Governance

This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers the stories included in Xi’s speeches on various occasions, where they conveyed the essence of China’s history and culture, its reform and development, and the principles of China’s participating in global governance and cooperating with other countries to build a community of common destiny. The respective stories not only convey abstract and profound concepts of governance in comparatively straightforward language, but also create an immediate emotional connection between the narrator and the listener. In addition to the original stories, extensive additional materials are provided to convey the original context in which each was told, including when and to whom Xi told it, helping readers attain a deeper, intuitive understanding of their relevance

Do we need to know what we are doing? Discovering our “working model” of psychoanalytic practice using the Comparative Clinical Method

There is now an extensive and highly developed literature within psychoanalysis on how best to understand the patients we work with, and their impact on the analyst or therapist, but far less on the mind of the clinician and how he or she thinks while working with the patient. One method for studying this, the Comparative Clinical Method developed by a group of European psychoanalysts, consists of a two step model: after a careful description of the interventions made by the analyst, an attempt is made to construct what is taken to be the analyst’s implicit working model, the internal template which he or she tacitly employs to conduct the analysis. In this paper I describe this model, which I then illustrate by taking a piece of published clinical material to show what an approach based on the Comparative Clinical Method might look like. Finally I make some comments on applying this model to the work of psychoanalytic psychotherapists

Through Prisms

This article deals with the production process of the film PRISM. Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based filmmaker Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based filmmaker Eléonore Yaméogo from Burkina Faso to collaborate. Our skin color serves as a departure to explore our different experiences with the bias of the cinematographic medium, which favors Caucasian skin. An van. Dienderen proposed the system of “cadavre exquis”, the surrealist collective game. But this is a Eurocentric frame of reference, set by a white film maker, and backfired during the start of the collaboration. We therefore changed the format of the film in a chain letter, in which each filmmaker is invited to present her point of view. PRISM thus wishes to create multichronotopic links between different geographical and cultural groups so as to put the decolonial call by Walter Mignolo (2009) for epistemic disobedience into practice.Cet article traite du processus de production du film PRISM. Le cinéaste belge An van. Dienderen a invité la cinéaste Rosine Mbakam du Cameroun, installée à Bruxelles, et la cinéaste Eléonore Yameogo du Burkina Faso, établie à Paris, à collaborer. La couleur de notre peau sert de point de départ pour explorer nos différentes expériences avec le biais du support cinématographique, qui favorise la peau caucasienne. Une camionnette. Dienderen a proposé le système du "cadavre exquis", le jeu collectif surréaliste. Mais il s'agit d'un cadre de référence eurocentrique, établi par un réalisateur de films blancs, et qui s'est retourné contre lui au début de la collaboration. Nous avons donc changé le format du film en une lettre en chaîne, dans laquelle chaque cinéaste est invitée à présenter son point de vue. PRISM souhaite ainsi créer des liens multichronotopiques entre différents groupes géographiques et culturels afin de mettre en pratique l'appel décolonial de Walter Mignolo (2009) à la désobéissance épistémique.Este artículo trata sobre el proceso de producción de la película PRISM. El cineasta belga An Dienderen invitó a colaborar a la cineasta Rosine Mbakam de Camerún (residente en Bruselas) y a la cineasta Eléonore Yameogo de Burkina Faso (residente en París). Nuestro color de piel sirve como punto de partida para explorar nuestras distintas vivencias con el sesgo del medio cinematográfico, que favorece la piel caucásica. An propuso el sistema del “cadavre exquis” (cadáver exquisito), el juego colectivo surrealista. Pero este es un marco de referencia eurocéntrico, establecido por un cineasta blanco, y fracasó durante el inicio de la colaboración. Por lo tanto, cambiamos el formato de la película en una cadena de cartas, en la que se invita a cada cineasta a presentar su punto de vista. PRISM desea así crear vínculos multi-cronotópicos entre diferentes grupos geográficos y culturales para poner en práctica la llamada decolonial de Walter Mignolo (2009) para la desobediencia epistémica

Animal QTLdb:an improved database tool for livestock animal QTL/association data dissemination in the post-genome era

The Animal QTL database (QTLdb; http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb) is designed to house all publicly available QTL and single-nucleotide polymorphism/gene association data on livestock animal species. An earlier version was published in the Nucleic Acids Research Database issue in 2007. Since then, we have continued our efforts to develop new and improved database tools to allow more data types, parameters and functions. Our efforts have transformed the Animal QTLdb into a tool that actively serves the research community as a quality data repository and more importantly, a provider of easily accessible tools and functions to disseminate QTL and gene association information. The QTLdb has been heavily used by the livestock genomics community since its first public release in 2004. To date, there are 5920 cattle, 3442 chicken, 7451 pigs, 753 sheep and 88 rainbow trout data points in the database, and at least 290 publications that cite use of the database. The rapid advancement in genomic studies of cattle, chicken, pigs, sheep and other livestock animals has presented us with challenges, as well as opportunities for the QTLdb to meet the evolving needs of the research community. Here, we report our progress over the recent years and highlight new functions and services available to the general public