Rethinking Reserves in the Swiss Code of Obligations

This work examines reserves in the recently revised Swiss Code of Obligations, which will enter into force 1 January 2023. The analysis focuses on their creation and dissolution, and distinguishes between reserves formed by the board and reserves formed by the general assembly. By focusing on an instrument in the banking sector, the reserves for general banking risks, this work investigates the general assembly’s possibility to delegate the power to form further reserves to the board of directors based on the articles of the association. This question is analyzed in the context of companies limited by shares, limited liability companies, and cooperatives. Finally, the effects of such a delegation and the consequences in a practical view of going to court are analyzed through the Federal Supreme Court’s judgment in a similar topic of delegation

b-baryon mass measurements at LHCb

Hadrons are systems bound by the strong interaction, which is described at the fundamental level by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Several models and techniques, such as constituent-quark models or lattice-QCD calculations, attempt to reproduce the spectrum of b-hadron masses. On the experimental side, while the masses of all expected ground-state mesons are now well measured, baryon data are still sparse. The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is dedicated to bottom physics and CP violation. The first 1.0 fb−1 of pp collisions collected during the 2011 run allows the exploration of the b-baryon Sector with unprecedented precision. We present the most precise measurements of the Λ0b, Ξ−b and Ω−b baryon masses to date

b-baryon mass measurements at LHCb

Hadrons are systems bound by the strong interaction, which is described at the fundamental level by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Several models and techniques, such as constituent-quark models or lattice-QCD calculations, attempt to reproduce the spectrum of b-hadron masses. On the experimental side, while the masses of all expected ground-state mesons are now well measured, baryon data are still sparse. The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is dedicated to bottom physics and CP violation. The first 1.0 fb−1 of pp collisions collected during the 2011 run allows the exploration of the b-baryon Sector with unprecedented precision. We present the most precise measurements of the Λ0b, Ξ−b and Ω−b baryon masses to date

Rethinking Reserves in the Swiss Code of Obligations

This work examines reserves in the recently revised Swiss Code of Obligations, which will enter into force 1 January 2023. The analysis focuses on their creation and dissolution, and distinguishes between reserves formed by the board and reserves formed by the general assembly. By focusing on an instrument in the banking sector, the reserves for general banking risks, this work investigates the general assembly’s possibility to delegate the power to form further reserves to the board of directors based on the articles of the association

Identification of the active-site serine in human pancreatic lipase by chemical modification with tetrahydrolipstatin

AbstractA chemical modification approach was used in this study to identify the active site serine residue of human pancreatic lipase. Purified human pancreatic lipase was covalently modified by incubation with [3H], [14C]tetrahydrolipstatin (THL), a potent inhibitor of pancreatic lipase. The radiolabeled lipase was digested with thermolysin, and the peptides were separated by HPLC. A single THL-peptide-adduct was obtained which was identical to that obtained earlier from porcine pancreatic lipase. This pentapeptide with the sequence VIGHS is covalently bound to a THL molecule via the side chain hydroxyl group of the serine unit corresponding to Ser-152 of the lipase. The selective cleavage of the THL-serine bond by mild acid treatment resulted in the formation of the δ-lactone Ro 40–444] in high yield and clearly proves that THL is attached via an ester bond and with retention of stereochemistry at all chiral centers to the side chain hydroxyl group of Ser-152 of the lipase. The results obtained for human pancreatic lipase corroborate the inhibition mechanism of THL found on the porcine enzyme, and are in full agreement with the identification of the Ser-152…His-263…Asp-176 catalytic triad in the X-ray structure of human pancreatic lipase