Le contrat de franchise organise la transmission d'un savoir-faire et prépare la réitération d'un succès commercial. Compte tenu de la nature complexe de la prestation caractéristique, les parties au contrat deviennent au fil du temps des véritables partenaires, si bien que le contrat de franchise acquiert une dimension relationnelle. Malgré cette spécificité, le droit français appréhende encore le contrat de franchise en utilisant le modèle cognitif classique offert par la théorie générale du contrat. Une telle démarche risque d'ignorer la réalité des problèmes que les partenaires peuvent rencontrer, ce qui peut conduire à l'application de solutions inadaptées. La proposition d'une analyse relationnelle vise à réduire un tel risque. En se fondant principalement sur les travaux de la doctrine nord-américaine, l'analyse relationnelle séduit de plus en plus les juristes français notamment parce que les raisonnements proposés sont souvent compatibles avec le droit positif. En envisageant le contrat de franchise grâce à la grille de lecture fournie par l'analyse relationnelle, il devient possible d'appréhender l'intégralité du contexte dans lequel ce contrat s'insère et de proposer des règles de droit en harmonie avec les besoins et préoccupations des partenaires contractuels. / The franchise agreement organizes the transmission of trade secrets and business plans. Given the complex nature of this performance , the contracting parties over time become true partners , so that the franchise agreement acquires a relational dimension. Despite the existence of a relational dimension, French contract law still rule the franchise agreement using the standard cognitive model offered by classic contract theory. Such an approach risks ignoring the real problems that partners can meet , which may lead to the application of inappropriate solutions. The proposal for a relational analysis aims to reduce such a risk. Based largely on the work of the North American contract law doctrine , the relational analysis is attracting more and more French scholars especially because the proposed arguments follow the French legal system's evolution. The relational analysis allows us to understand the franchise agreement's context and propose solutions in harmony with the needs and concerns of contractual partners.

En suivant la trajectoire de quatre leaders africains au temps des indépendances, Barthélémy Boganda (République centrafricaine), Patrice Lumumba (République du Congo), Félix Moumié et Ruben Um Nyobè (Cameroun), ce travail cherche à explorer par le biais de l’anthropologie historique, de la méthode comparative et à l’échelle de l’Afrique centrale, en quoi l’assassinat politique peut constituer un moyen de réguler les relations internationales et peut être un fondement de la construction nationale de leur pays d’origine. Au fil de l’itinéraire politique de ces leaders, seront évoquées leurs désillusions onusiennes et panafricaines qui resserrent sur eux l’étau mortel d’une Realpolitik entre bipolarisation et néocolonialisme. L’autre hypothèse explorée est la suivante : il serait possible par le biais de l’Histoire comparée de faire émerger des invariants à l’assassinat politique sous forme de processus récurrents comme l’arme judiciaire, l’arme médiatique, l’absence de sépultures décentes, la damnatio memoriae dont ils sont frappés qui aboutit a contrario à une inversion symbolique et iconique. L’étude s’appuie sur de nombreuses sources qui se sont complétées afin de reconstituer l’enchaînement des évènements et de nouvelles interprétations : archives privées inédites, archives publiques dont certaines ont été déclassifiées pour cette étude, sources audiovisuelles et imprimées, témoignages oraux inédits recueillis par l’auteure. / Through a close examination of the trajectory of four African leaders, Barthélémy Boganda (Republic of Central Africa), Patrice Lumumba (Republic of Congo), Félix Moumié et Ruben Um Nyobé (Cameroun), during the independence era, and by means of the historical anthropology, the comparative method and focusing on Central Africa, this study tries to explore to what extent political assassination could constitute a way of regulating international relationships and lay the foundations of the national construction of their country of origins. Along their political career path, their UN-related and Pan–Africanism disillusionment that tightens around them the lethal noose of a Realpolitik caught between bipolarization and neo-colonialism will be referred to. The other hypothesis developed here is as followed : it could be possible through comparative history to bring out invariance within political assassination under the forms of recurrent processes such as the judiciary weapon, the media weapon, the lack of a decent burial place and the damnatio memoriae they’ve been sentenced to which all contrastingly led to a symbolic and iconic reversal. The study relies on numerous sources that complete each other in order to reconstitute the chain of events and allow new interpretations: private exclusive archives, public archives, some of which having been declassified for this purpose, audio-visual and printed sources, exclusive oral narratives collected by the author.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliane Gurjao Silveira Alambert.pdf: 1296357 bytes, checksum: ea132bee705067dba38b1a8f84650ae3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-01 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This study aimed at discover, systematically, features in an awarded translation that could show the translator expertise. Thus, we used the winner of the União Latina in 2006, DNA- O segredo da Vida, translated by Carlos Afonso Malferrari from the originally English written book DNA- The secret of life of James D. Watson. Original and translation were scanned, producing two subcorpora that were aligned in a parallel corpus. The subcorpus containing the translated text was compared with a Portuguese general corpus in terms of vocabulary size, and the results showed that this feature is much alike for both corpora. Based on the fact that a word in English that has a cognate in Portuguese can influence the translation choices, we established two categories, one that presents a direct translation for Portuguese and other that doesn t present a direct translation. A sample with 40 words, 20 of each category, was taken from the parallel corpus to check the translations used for each one. We found that the translator use a number of words in Portuguese for each one in English and that the origin of the word is indifferent to the expert translator, so that it doesn t matter which category the word in English is fit in, for he uses a very similar number of words in Portuguese for each one in English despite its nature. Thus, the results show that the expert translator is committed to the context and is not attached to fixed formulas or predetermined solutions / Este estudo teve o objetivo encontrar, de modo sistemático, características de uma tradução premiada que revelassem a expertise do tradutor. Para tanto, foi selecionada a tradução que recebeu o prêmio União Latina de 2006, DNA- O segredo da Vida, traduzida por Carlos Afonso Malferrari a partir do original em inglês DNA- The secret of life de James D. Watson. O original e a tradução foram digitalizados, dando origem a dois subcorpora que foram alinhados para formar um corpus paralelo. O corpus com o texto traduzido foi comparado com uma amostra do Banco de Português em termos de tamanho de vocabulário, mostrando que a tradução tem tamanho de vocabulário muito próximo à amostra. Baseados no fato de que uma palavra em inglês cognata de outra em português pode exercer influência na escolha da tradução, determinamos duas categorias de palavras a serem investigadas, as que apresentam uma tradução imediata para o português e as que não apresentam tradução imediata para o português. Do corpus paralelo foi extraída uma amostra com 40 palavras, 20 de cada categoria, para o levantamento das traduções. Descobrimos que o tradutor usa traduções variadas para cada palavra do original e que a natureza da palavra na língua inglesa é indiferente ao tradutor experiente, não importando a sua semelhança com o português, pois ele atribui um número de escolhas uniforme entre ambas as categorias. Assim, os resultados mostram que o tradutor experiente tem compromisso com o contexto, não se prendendo a fórmulas ou soluções prédeterminadas

Actuellement, au Maroc, les conditions d’un procès pénal équitable semblent réunies. Pour aller vers sa protection effective, l’article 1er du Code de procédure pénale de 2002 stipule que « Toute personne accusée ou suspectée d’avoir commis une infraction est présumée innocente jusqu’à ce que sa culpabilité ait été juridiquement établie par une décision ayant acquis la force de la chose jugée, à l’issue d’un procès équitable où toutes les garanties légales sont réunies. Le doute profite à l’accusée ». Seulement, ces principes sont remises en cause par les procès-verbaux faisant foi jusqu’à inscription de faux ou vérification d’écriture. Ils sont enfin par toutes les dispositions procédurales qui excluent tout effet de l’intime conviction du juge soit en accordant une force probante particulière à certains modes de preuve soit en précisant à l’avance le moyen de preuve qui seul permet d’établir l’existence d’une infraction donnée. Certes, il n’est pas toujours facile pour un juge de déterminer l’authenticité et la loyauté des procès-verbaux. Mais les normes internationales sont une source de conseils sur la façon d’apprécier la loyauté des preuves. Pour éviter que de telles pratiques ne soient légalement autorisées, les juges marocains doivent accomplir leur mission aux yeux de la loi et exclure toute preuve arrachée par la contrainte ou la violence. Tout acte de procédure accompli en dehors de la loi ou en violation des modalités qu’elle précise doit pouvoir être sanctionné et exclu de la suite du procès (perquisitions irrégulières, interrogatoires sous contrainte, arrestations illégales, arbitraires ou secrètes…). Les atteintes inévitables aux droits de l’individu pendant l’enquête, la poursuite et l’instruction (privation de liberté, violation du secret de la correspondance et des communications, perquisitions au domicile et sur le lieu de travail, saisie des pièces à conviction...) doivent être limitées par la loi, scrupuleusement définies dans leurs conditions ainsi que dans les effets qu’ils produisent et doivent pouvoir faire l’objet d’une contestation devant un juge. Si les juges marocains prenaient ce devoir et ces principes au sérieux, les juges marocains porteraient un grand coup non seulement en faveur de l’équité des procès, mais aussi contre la torture et les mauvais traitements. / Currently, in Morocco, the conditions of an equitable criminal trial seem joined together. To go towards its effective protection, the article 1st of the Criminal procedure code of 2002 stipulates that: “Any person marked or suspected to have made an infringement is supposed innocent until its culpability was legally established by a decision having acquired the force of the judged thing, at the conclusion of a fair trial where all the legal warranties are joined together. The doubt benefits the defendant". Only, these principles are reconsiderations by the official reports being taken until registration of forgery or checking of writing. They are finally by all the procedural provisions which exclude any effect of the inward conviction from the judge is by granting a conclusive force particular to certain modes of proof is by specifying in advance the means of proof which only makes it possible to establish the existence of a given infringement. Admittedly, it is not always easy for a judge to determine the authenticity and the honesty of the official reports. But the international standards are a source of advices on the way of appreciating the honesty of the evidence. To prevent that such practices are not legally authorized. The Moroccan judges must achieve their mission with the eyes of the law and exclude any proof torn off by the constraint or violence. Any procedural document achieved apart from the law or in violation of the methods which it specifies must be able to (irregular searches, interrogations under constraint, illegal, arbitrary or secret arrests…). Inevitable infringements of the rights of the individual during the investigation, the continuation and the instruction (loss of liberty, violation of the secrecy of the correspondence and the communications, searches in the residence and on the workplace, seizure of the incriminating evidences…) must be limited by the law, scrupulously defined under their conditions as in the effects which they produce and must be able to be the object of a dispute in front of a judge. If the Moroccan judges took this duty and these principles with the serious one, the Moroccan judges would deal a great blow not only in favour of equity of the lawsuits, but also against torture and the ill-treatments.

A travers le concordat et les Articles organiques l’État contrôle l’Église. En revanche, les congrégations bénéficient d’une certaine autonomie. En effet, grâce à la tolérance des pouvoirs publics pendant une bonne partie du XIXe siècle, elles se sont affranchies pour la plupart de la législation existante, dont l’application est peu à peu tombée en désuétude. A partir de 1879, les Républicains majoritaires au Parlement, veulent promouvoir les valeurs républicaines dont, à leur sens, la plus importante d’entre elles : la laïcité. Tous les politiques ont conscience de la nécessité d’octroyer une liberté d’association la plus large possible en préservant les libertés individuelles. Le principal obstacle réside dans les congrégations qui aliènent ces libertés par des vœux. Comment les inclure dans une loi d’ensemble tout en contrôlant étroitement leurs activités ? Que leur reproche-t-on ? D’une part, en raison de leur prosélytisme teinté de conservatisme, les congrégations sont soupçonnées de mettre en péril l’existence de la République naissante par leur action dans l’enseignement et tout particulièrement l’enseignement secondaire et supérieur supposé former l’élite de la nation. D’autre part, elles accaparent des biens à travers la constitution d’une mainmorte supposée très conséquente. Pendant trente ans, les nombreux gouvernements successifs tentent de légaliser le droit d’association avec une forme de reconnaissance réglementée des congrégations à travers de nombreux projets et propositions de lois qui n’aboutissent pas avant la fin du siècle. La loi du premier juillet 1901 est donc la conclusion d’un long processus d’élaboration qui conduit à une loi de liberté accolée à une loi d’exception qui exclut les congrégations religieuses du droit commun très libéral applicable aux associations civiles. / Through the Concordat and the Articles of the organic law, the Sate keeps the Church under control. In return, the congregations have the benefit of a certain autonomy. In fact, thanks to the tolerance of the authorities during a large part of the 19th century, the congregations are liberated from the majority of existing legislation, which gradually fell into disuse. From the year 1879, the Republicans, representing the majority in Parliament, want to promote the republican values, among which according to them, the most important is secularity All the politicians are aware of the necessity of granting the widest possible freedom of association, while preserving individual liberties. The main obstacle to this lies with the congregations who alienate these liberties because of the monastic vows. How to include them in a general law yet keep a tight control of their activities ? What are they blamed for ? On the one hand, because of their proselytism tinged with conservatism, congregations are suspected to put in peril the newly born Republic due to their action in education, especially in secondary classes and superior ones expected to form the elite of the nation. On the other hand, they monopolize goods by establishing a probably important mortmain. For thirty years, the successive governments tried to legalize the right of association with a type of controlled recognition of the congregations via many projects and propositions of laws which led to something only at the end of the century. The law passed on the first of July 1901, is thus the conclusion of a long process of elaboration which led to a law of freedom coupled with an exception which excludes religious congregations from very the liberal common law applied to civil associations.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NILO DIAS DE OLIVEIRA.pdf: 1727773 bytes, checksum: b03ba624a4aba0f0a823cc2848061a2a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present dissertation has as objective to analyze practical of monitoring and the repression of the Private Service of the DOPS-SP through the analysis immanent of its reports during the period of 1950 -1961, giving emphasis to the action of this agency under the Armed Forces. The infiltration of its agents in the cupola of the military who, congregated the Military Club, debated the alternatives for the national development and the entailing of this repressive system with the segments politicians subordinated to the sectors of the dependent bourgeoisies, whose monopoly of domination if saw threatened by the magnifying of the civil laws, as well as unchains a persecution and expurgations of military of the organizations considered pernicious to the continuity of the monopolista capitalism dependent, under égide of this institutionalized bourgeois autocracy. This process has the political role of "sanitation" this sector of the State whose division prevented, at that moment, the bonapartist centralization, already pushed through by such segments bourgeois since the overthrowal dictatorship varguista / A presente dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a prática de vigilância e repressão do Serviço Secreto da DOPS-SP através da análise imanente dos seus relatórios durante o período de 1950 -1961, dando ênfase à ação deste órgão sob as Forças Armadas. A infiltração de seus agentes na cúpula dos militares que, reunidos no Clube Militar, debatiam as alternativas para o desenvolvimento nacional e a vinculação deste sistema repressivo com os segmentos políticos subordinados aos setores das burguesias dependentes, cujo monopólio de dominação se via ameaçado pela ampliação dos direitos civis, desencadeia uma perseguição e expurgos de militares como também das organizações consideradas perniciosas à continuidade do capitalismo monopolista dependente, sob a égide desta autocracia burguesa institucionalizada. Este processo tem a função política de sanear este setor do Estado cuja divisão impedia, naquele momento, a centralização bonapartista, já pleiteada por tais segmentos burgueses desde a derrubada da ditadura varguista

La doctrine pythagoricienne de la Tétractys est sans doute une des questions les plus délicates de l’histoire de la philosophie. Elle représente non seulement une des théories essentielles de l’arithmologie, mais aussi, ainsi que la doxographie ancienne en témoigne, « le plus grand secret et le fondement de la philosophie pythagoricienne ». Armand Delatte, dans ses classiques Etudes sur la littérature pythagoricienne, a souligné l’importance véhiculée par ce philosophème. Dans la première partie, « méthodologique », de notre étude, nous traitons du lien entre Platon et la pensée pythagoricienne, en prenant comme fil conducteur trois notions essentielles: le silence voué des initiés de l’ordre et la pratique du secret ; l’expression énigmatique et « symbolique » ; la pratique de l’allégorie (hyponoia), indissolublement associée, elle, à celle du mythe. La deuxième partie de notre travail est centrée sur le témoignage le plus ancien au sujet de la Tétractys, à savoir sur la fameuse maxime des Acousmatiques : « Qu’est-ce que l’oracle des Delphes ? La Tétractys, c'est-à-dire l’harmonie où se trouvent les Sirènes ». En outre, en modérant, d’une certaine manière, l’ « ésotérisme historique » de l’Ecole de Tübingen, dont nous nous prenons des distances quant à certains points (comme, par exemple, l’importance de la méthode allégorique), nous tentons, dans la troisième et dernière partie de notre étude, de lire certains passages mythiques de Platon comme des allégories susceptibles d’être comprises et de trouver leur cohérence à la lumière de la tradition indirecte, voire de la théorie platonicienne sur les nombres, théorie intimement liée à la doctrine pythagoricienne de la Tétractys. Dans cet ordre d’idées, à partir de la République et du Timée jusqu’au Phèdre et au Gorgias, la mathématisation platonicienne de la réalité se verrait intégrée aux mythes, dont la somptuosité poétique ne serait qu’une image de l’enchantement philosophique entraînant l’élévation de l’âme vers l’Un – Bien. Bien qu’ayant toujours présents à l’esprit les dangers auxquels notre étude s’expose, nous n’avons pas toujours su les éliminer. Nous ne méconnaissons aucunement ses lacunes et ses faiblesses. Nous considérons en revanche que son avantage réside en ce qu’elle tente de contribuer à éclairer d’une lumière nouvelle certains aspects méconnus. C’est sans doute là que se situe le danger, mais aussi son intérêt.

We are currently experiencing a rapid development of quantum information, a new branch of science, being an interdisciplinary of quantum physics, information theory, telecommunications, computer science, and many others. This new science branch was born in the middle of the eighties, developed rapidly during the nineties, and in the current decade has brought a technological breakthrough in creating secure quantum key distribution (QKD), quantum secret sharing, and exciting promises in diverse technological fields. Recent QKD experiments have achieved high rate QKD at 200 km distance in optical fiber. Significant QKD results have also been achieved in free-space. Due to the rapid broadband access deployment in many industrialized countries and the standing increasing transmission security treats, the natural development awaiting quantum communications, being a part of quantum information, is its migration into commercial switched telecom networks. Such a migration concerns both multiuser quantum key distribution and multiparty quantum secret sharing that have been the main goal of my PhD studies. They are also the main concern of the thesis. Our research efforts in multiuser QKD has led to a development of the five-user setup for transmissions over switched fiber networks in a star and in a tree configuration. We have achieved longer secure quantum information distances and implemented more nodes than other multi-user QKD experiments. The measurements have shown feasibility of multiuser QKD over switched fiber networks, using standard fiber telecom components. Since circular architecture networks are important parts of both intranets and the Internet, Sagnac QKD has also been a subject of our research efforts. The published experiments in this area have been very few and results were not encouraging, mainly due to the single mode fiber (SMF) birefringence. Our research has led to a development of a computer controlled birefringence compensation in Sagnac that open the door to both classical and quantum Sagnac applications. On the quantum secret sharing side, we have achieved the first quantum secret sharing experiment over telecom fiber in a five-party implementation using the "plug & play" setup and in a four-party implementation using Sagnac configuration. The setup measurements have shown feasibility and scalability of multiparty quantum communication over commercial telecom fiber networks.

本研究主要是陳述自白濫用之困境與解決途徑。過去法院在審理案件時，相當重視犯人的自白，然而過份強調自白容易違反無罪推定原則及公平法院原則，且易造成誤判。自白信用性應如何確定，一直是刑事法學及偵審實務上最具爭議且影響事實認定之重大的課題，但深入探討此議題的文獻有限。在台灣最著名的冤案之一就是江國慶案，其冤案成因，主要是法院與偵查機關過度依賴江國慶的自白，研究者為監察院調查官，於民國92年奉命調查此案，調查期間因案件需要，遂開始研究此議題。拉丁法諺明確說明「自白是證據之王」。過去常見使用非任意性自白作為裁判基礎，但對於如何獲取自白方式較不被重視，使用酷刑取得非任意性自白很常見。雖然現代社會使用拷問及酷刑方式取得非任意性自白並不多見，但法官與檢察官仍十分重視自白，因與其他證據相較，自白較容易勾畫犯罪事實之全貌，具有較優勢的地位。雖然自白之取得縱未經強暴、脅迫、利誘、詐欺或其他不正方法，然仍有許多案件顯示有虛偽自白情形。到底是何種原因產生虛偽自白，應該用何種分析方式與審查標準評價該自白，首先必須探討國家機關獲取自白之方式與過程對於犯罪嫌疑人心理影響，始能明瞭自白內容其實是偵訊者透過訊問與犯罪嫌疑人溝通互動之產物，存有偵訊者主觀的意念。因此，本研究之目的主要是藉由江國慶案件深入分析自白信用性，並訂定出審查標準。 本文引用日本有關自白信用性之學說、研究結果以及現行實務，配合我國實務現狀，再藉由江國慶案卷證，描繪自白信用性審查標準。江國慶案因受限軍事審判法規定，不得上述上訴最高法院審酌，其中有關江國慶自白部分具有相當疑義，包括自白之成立係在高壓偵訊環境中所生, 自白與證物不一致等。本案為密室偵訊之典型案例，其中雖自白任意性之爭議極大，但因任意性舉證極為困難，導致歷審軍事法院均三言兩語駁回被告有關任意性之調查證據之聲請，此即為自白任意性在實務操作最大的問題；就自白信用性部分，歷審法院認定方式較無標準，這也是我國實務上之通病。綜合文獻及實務，研究者認為在審查自白信用性的標準應包括：(1)自白成立過程 (2)自白內容變動之合理性 (3)體驗供述之陳述 (4)秘密的暴露 (5)自白與客觀證據之一致性 (6)可供證實之物證不存在與欠缺相關情況證據 (7)犯罪嫌疑人對犯行前後偵訊者以外之人言行與被告的辯解等7項標準。 希望藉由本研究所訂定之標準，提供從事司法實務者在審判審案件時有一清晰客觀的標準，以達成維護公共福祉與保障人權。 / The focus of this study was to describe the dilemma regarding the abusive use of confessions and its solution. In the past, a great emphasis has been placed in course on the confessions of the accused. However, an overemphasis on confessions may violate the principles of presumption of innocence and just court, resulting in miscarriage of justice. Determining the credibility of confessions has been one of the most controversial issues in the criminal law and in the investigation and trial practice. However, limited studies have explored on this issue. In Taiwan, one of the most well-known cases of injustice is the case of Chiang Kuo-Ching. The primary reason for the injustice was the over-reliance of the court and investigation agency on the confession of Chiang Kuo-Ching. As an inquisitor at the Control Yuan, the researcher was involved in the investigation of the case of Chiang Kuo-Ching in 2003. During the investigation, the researcher began a more in-depth study on the issue of abusive use of confessions. Latin law principles proclaim that “confession is the king of evidence”. Involuntary confessions have been commonly used in the past as a foundation for judicial judgment. However, the strategies for acquiring confessions were not stressed. Torture was used in the past for the acquisition of involuntary confessions, while it is not a current practice. Currently, judges and prosecutors greatly value confessions due to their greater capacity of providing an overall picture of the criminal facts, as compared to other strategies. In many cases, false confessions are commonly present. To understand the causes of false confessions and to develop standardized determining criteria for false confessions, it is critical to explore the psychological impacts of the processes and strategies of acquiring confessions on the criminal suspects. Such exploration will provide an understanding that a confession is the product of the interactive communications between the investigator and the suspect, involving the subjectivity of the investigator. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the credibility of confessions and to develop an evaluation criteria based on an analysis of the case of Chiang Kuo-Ching. A Japanese theory of credibility of confessions, research findings, current practice in Taiwan and the case of Chiang Kuo-Ching were used to develop credible evaluation criteria for confessions. Due to the restriction from the military trail law placed on the case of Chiang Kuo-Ching, appeal to the Supreme Court was not permitted. Several elements of the confession of Chiang Kuo-Ching were questionable, such as the highly stressful interrogation environment for the confession, and the inconsistency between the confession and evidences. The case of Chiang Kuo-Ching is a typical case of secret interrogation, which generates great controversial on the voluntary nature of confessions. Due to the difficulties in obtaining evidences for voluntary confessions, the requests to acquire evidence for voluntary confessions were denied by the military court. This is the greatest problem related to the practical operation of voluntary confessions. Currently, there are no standardized evaluation criteria to review the credibility of confessions, which has been a common issue in the practical judicial operation. Derived on the literature and practice experiences, the researcher proposed the application of seven criterions in the evaluation of the credibility of confessions: (1) process of acquiring confessions, (2) rationality of changes in the contents of confessions, (3) existence of criminal experiences, (4) exposure of secrets, (5) consistency between the confessions and objective evidences, (6) lack of evidence to proof the crime of the accused, and (7) the words and actions of the suspect toward the individuals other than the investigators before and after the crime, and the argument of the defendant. The finding of this study will provide an objective and standardized criteria for judicial practice for the purposes of protecting public welfare and human right.

Much recent scholarship in Victorian studies has viewed sexuality as historically contingent and constructed primarily within the realm of discourse or social organization. In contrast, the following study details species-typical and universal aspects of human sexuality that must be adequately theorized if an accurate model of the ideological forces impacting Victorian sexuality is to be fashioned. After a short survey of previous scholarly projects that examine literature through the lens of biology—much of it marred by an obvious antipathy toward all attempts to discover the involvement of ideology in human behavior—this study presents a lengthy primer to the modern study of evolutionary psychology, behavioral genetics, and human sexuality. Because the use of science is still relatively rare in literary studies, the first chapters are designed both to convince the reader of the necessity of considering biology and evolution in examining human sexuality, as well as to provide the general educated scholar in our field with the basic framework of knowledge necessary to follow the remainder of the text. Chapter three follows with a detailed examination of the sources of the political resistance to biological and genetic models of human behavior within liberal arts and social science departments, and chapter four presents an evolutionary and biochemical model for the apprehension of art that locates the origins of culture within the evolutionarily-fashioned brains of individuals and attempts to recuperate the concept of aesthetic emotion and foreground the special nature of erotica in its ability to produce immediate neurochemical effects in the brains of its consumers. Finally, the study examines works of Victorian literature, especially My Secret Life, to demonstrate the deficiencies in constructionist and interactionist theories of human sexuality while detailing the new readings that emerge when one is aware of the biological basis of human mate selection mechanisms.