L'obiettivo di questo testo è di coniugare temi di attualità giuridica, oggetto di ricerca de... more L'obiettivo di questo testo è di coniugare temi di attualità giuridica, oggetto di ricerca della docente, con l'approccio didattico nello svolgimento delle lezioni di diritto privato comparato. Ci si è prefissati di andare oltre a quanto strettamente necessario ai fini del mero superamento dell'esame di fine corso, sviluppando spunti critici e di approfondimento. A questo proposito, il metodo comparatistico rappresenta uno strumento appropriato per affrontare tale compito, data la sua polivalenza. Infatti, da un lato esso si applica nell'ambito del confronto con gli aspetti non prettamente giuridici delle materie trattate, dato che ciascuna di essere attiene a regolamentazioni sue proprie. Dall'altro lato esso trova attuazione nell'ambito della stessa Tradizione Giuridica Occidentale (comunemente definita dai comparatisti Western Legal Tradition), poiché consente il confronto con esperienze nelle quali è già presente una regolamentazione spesso di diritto pos...
Experiencing the spread of false news that has assumed a value of unquestionable truths has many ... more Experiencing the spread of false news that has assumed a value of unquestionable truths has many authoritative historical precedents. Richard III, Lucrezia Borgia, and Marie-Antoinette might have so much to say if they could only tell what was the collective defamation in the destruction of their personal character. Indeed, all of them endured the ruin of their reputation at the hands of Shakespeare for the first, bad family company for the second, and the ultimate enlightenment pornographic libellists for the third. Today, in order to obtain similar results, we have social networks, but they work in different ways. Indeed, social networks have two innovative elements: the immediacy of information circulation, and the simultaneous possibility of forming groups among their members, who can count and recognize themselves, to act together towards a common goal. This can be positive, for instance crowfunding, aid, organizing a social campaign, or negative: pressuring, bullying, defamati...
Contributo sottoposto a valutazione. SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Liberta di religione ed espre... more Contributo sottoposto a valutazione. SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Liberta di religione ed espressione dell'identita culturale - 3. La costruzione delle moschee - 4. La vestizione del velo - 5. La pratica sommersa delle mutilazioni genitali femminili - 6. Il diritto di famiglia - 7. Il matrimonio - 8. I matrimoni poligamici - 9. I matrimoni forzati - 10. I diritti successori - 11. Ripudio e divorzio - 12. Kafalah e adozione - 13. Conclusioni. La necessaria unitarieta dell'ordinamento giuridico contro la discriminazione. Il caso delle giurisdizioni speciali shariaitiche: un’esperienza da non imitare. The Cultural Impact of Islamic Mass Immigration on the Italian Legal System ABSTRACT: Although Italy has been a country with a strong tradition of emigration, only in the last twenty-five years Italians have had to face the social, juridical and cultural problems related to high immigration hosted by this country. The majority of immigrants come from areas with Islamic religio...
2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an overall slowdown in hospital activities that might lead to... more The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an overall slowdown in hospital activities that might lead to delays in healthcare interventions, and the scarcity of resources can raise concerns about ventilators allocation criteria. These circumstances could lead to lawsuits against hospitals and healthcare professionals: together with Regions and States, they may be vulnerable to legal actions, due to the breach of right to health, to physical integrity and right to life, to the manifestation of the informed consent in the medical field or on the basis of contractual or Aquilian obligations. In this context, predicting the litigation rate could be useful to assess the economic impact of a dispute at a local and national level, so that hospital managers and public institutions can perform multi-dimensional and cost/benefit evaluations to decide whether to invest resources to increase critical care surge capacity. In this work we present CLIP (COVID-19 LItigation Prediction), a modeling approac...
THE FRONTIERS OF PHARMACOGENETICS RIASSUNTO : Il presente articolo illustra lo svilupparsi del di... more THE FRONTIERS OF PHARMACOGENETICS RIASSUNTO : Il presente articolo illustra lo svilupparsi del dibattito giuridico in tema di farmacogenetica, in particolare in relazione alla possibile brevettabilita dei geni umani purificati. La tesi sostenuta nell'articolo afferma che il patrimonio genetico umano e da considerarsi un bene comune e pertanto esso non sia brevettabile, ne sottoponibile ad altre regole inerenti alla proprieta intellettuale. La prima parte illustra le piu importanti teorie sul tema; la seconda parte spiega il collegamento esistente tra brevettabilita del patrimonio genetico e accesso ai farmaci, la terza parte riguarda i vantaggi ovvero gli svantaggi possibili della brevettazione dei farmaci studiati su misura del paziente; infine l'ultima parte riguarda i punti della Carta dei diritti dell'Unione Europea applicabili in materia. PAROLE CHIAVE : farmacogenetica; diritti umani; diritto dei brevetti; diritto alla riservatezza; patrimonio genetico quale bene ...
Sommario: 1. Premessa2. Stampa e social network: le conseguenze della (dis)intermediazione nella ... more Sommario: 1. Premessa2. Stampa e social network: le conseguenze della (dis)intermediazione nella diffusione delle (dis)informazioni – 3 Esiste una relazione tra crisi della rappresentanza ed esplosione dei social network? 4. Facebook tra propaganda politica e censura 5. I referendum e la contrapposizione delle realtà 5.1 Il caso irlandese: i referendum sui same-sex marriage e sul Trattato di Lisbona 5.2 Il referendum sul “Brexit” 6. Conclusioni 7. Riferimenti bibliografici
1. IntroductionIt is a truth universally acknowledged that in comparative law the pattern of judg... more 1. IntroductionIt is a truth universally acknowledged that in comparative law the pattern of judgments is very varied. For instance in civil law systems themselves, such as in France, nowadays, the ideology related to the juge est-il la bouche de la loi, implemented during the French Revolution, justifies the synthetic model of French judgments, showing only hints of the facts of the case and the legal reasoning of the judge. On the contrary, in Germany, according to the systematic and philosophical tradition, judges often describe the complexity of their logical and juridical reasoning. In the Common Law System in the case law method the "direct presence of facts distinguishes reasoning with previous decisions in the 'classical' common law context from reasoning statutes or the constitution" (Komarek, 2013, 157; Siems, 2014, 41), furthermore judges have to detail each logical step according to the distinguishing principle. According to this pattern of judgments it...
1. Introduzione al contesto Samuel Pepys raccontava Londra nel fulcro della peste del 1665. Si le... more 1. Introduzione al contesto Samuel Pepys raccontava Londra nel fulcro della peste del 1665. Si legge nei suoi diari: «But, ‘Lord!’ how sad a sight it is to see streets empty of people, and very few upon the Change – jealous of every door that one sees shut up, lest it should be the plague, and about us two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up.» (Pepys, The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary, Latham, ed., Berkeley, 1983, 88). Abbiamo percepito un analogo senso di disorientamento quando il Covid-19 è dilagato dall’Oriente fino alla soglia di casa nostra, in Italia. Si tratta di un nuovo virus altamente contagioso contro il quale il corpo umano è indifeso (Na Zhu et al., A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019, N Engl J Med 2020; 382:727). A gennaio, le autorità cinesi hanno imposto la chiusura forzata delle attività umane a Wuhan e nell’Hubei proibendo a circa sessanta milioni di persone di uscire da casa (Chinazzi et al., The effect of travel...
Uno de los temas más controversiales de los debates políticos en Italia se da acerca de la prohib... more Uno de los temas más controversiales de los debates políticos en Italia se da acerca de la prohibición del mandato vinculante, consagrado en el artículo 67 de la Constitución italiana. En un contexto de desconfianza colectiva en la política y en la administración de los negocios públicos; un nuevo partido, el movimiento Cinque Stelle, en lo sucesivo M5S, ha alcanzado una suma del 25% de los votos. Uno de los puntos en el programa de M5S fue la reclamación de sus diputados que son solo voceros de los votantes sin ninguna autoridad sobre estos. Una de las promesas de campaña concernía en presentar proyectos ante los juzgados públicos y parlamentarios a través del uso de una plataforma en línea. Para participar en estos debates los ciudadanos italianos deberían de registrarse en dicha plataforma con una copia escaneada del documento de identidad. Sin embargo, esta plataforma en línea no es neutral, porque pertenece al blog de Beppe Grillo’s, quien es el fundador y el líder político del...
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 2021
The intervention of medicine in human reproduction (contraception, abortion, artificial procreati... more The intervention of medicine in human reproduction (contraception, abortion, artificial procreation) has blurred the boundaries between nature and culture regarding the beginning of human life. This change has led to an unprecedented possibility to increase self-determination, and, therefore, individual responsibility with respect to the choice of giving birth, no longer a gift of God, but a realistic chance to accomplish a wish. This circumstance has opened a debate as to whether or not the right to parenthood and procreation is absolute, and if the person has the right to choose whether or not to conceive. Indeed, the Italian debate is related to two specular aspects of the same issue concerning the alleged absolute inviolability of the embryo: on the one hand, the request of infertile couples to be able to conceive a child through assisted reproduction, including through the use of biological materials external to the couple, subject to rulings of the Constitutional Court, and on the other hand, on the still controversial access to abortion, governed by a law that came into force in 1978, over 40 years ago.
Wearable devices (WDs) are a specific part of the general concept of the “Internet of Things”. Th... more Wearable devices (WDs) are a specific part of the general concept of the “Internet of Things”. This concept refers to infrastructure in which many sensors are designed to record, process, and store data locally, or interact with each other both in the medium range, through the use of radio frequency technologies (e.g. RFID, bluetooth, etc.), or through an electronic communications network. The devices involved are not only traditional computers or smartphones, but also daily life objects ("things"), such as wearable devices, home automation geo-referencing, and assisted navigation objects. Indeed, the “Internet of Things” refers to a further development of the Internet resulting from physical objects networking. These objects may be equipped with a unique identifier (for example, a serial number), recognizable even by radio frequency. However, the identification of these objects could also be made without resorting to radio tags, simply by combining sensors and automatic recognition procedures (for example, the recognition of a barcode carried out with a mobile phone connected to the Internet).<br><br>The current state of research on this issue concerns mainly the use of WDs in daily life, and the enforcement of privacy rules, due to the capacity of WDs for the massive collection of personal data, such as in the health care and labour contexts, both sensitive areas for discrimination.
For centuries art, music, and literature have described the individual and collective backlash du... more For centuries art, music, and literature have described the individual and collective backlash due to a pandemic, even though today our society has forgotten these circumstances, thanks to the medical and technological advancement, with all the systemic consequences entailed to the difficulty of stopping the contagion, including burials. In a small village in the Italian countryside an elderly person passed away, it is not known whether or not affected by COVID-19, but due to the contagion and the rules that prohibited public, religious or civil cerimonies, the lady's funeral was not able to take place according to the usual ritual and with the collective participation of family members and the local community. The announcement of her death and her leave-taking were given in a completely exceptional way: instead of the usual affiche published by the funeral home and payed by the family, the announcement was made through Facebook, from the mayor's page, in a participatory and emotional tone, with a mixture of secularism and religion: “This morning we gave our last farewell at the cemetary to Ms. XX, aged ..., mother of YX, her home was at …. Her remains were blessed by the priest. The Mayor was there in representation of all those who would have liked to participate, and who were unable since the restrictions for the ongoing coronavirus emergency. The condolences of all our community to the family. The Mayor". Another image that became well-known worldwide concerned the row of military trucks that carried the coffins of the deceased people from the cemetery of Bergamo (one of the most affected places in Italy) to the cremation sites in other regions. These sad episodes show of how much the ban forbidding public funeral of whom passed away was intrusive and affected entire communities, both in countryside villages, and in towns. The farewell cerimonies to deceased is a deeply felt moment, where the communities gather together with the affected family for helping each other to mourne the beloved one who passed away: in fact the burial of the deads is a universal rule. Between 9 March and 4 May 2020, Italian law was very intrusive in this severance, forbidding funerals with criminal penalties. Although the Italian state is increasingly secularized, the farewell cerimonies are still strongly linked to religious tradition, although secular rites are growing. The aim of this abstract is to verify what was the impact in Italy of the interdictive legal rules about funeral ceremonies on the life of people who have suffered individuals and, at the same time, collective mourning.
L'obiettivo di questo testo è di coniugare temi di attualità giuridica, oggetto di ricerca de... more L'obiettivo di questo testo è di coniugare temi di attualità giuridica, oggetto di ricerca della docente, con l'approccio didattico nello svolgimento delle lezioni di diritto privato comparato. Ci si è prefissati di andare oltre a quanto strettamente necessario ai fini del mero superamento dell'esame di fine corso, sviluppando spunti critici e di approfondimento. A questo proposito, il metodo comparatistico rappresenta uno strumento appropriato per affrontare tale compito, data la sua polivalenza. Infatti, da un lato esso si applica nell'ambito del confronto con gli aspetti non prettamente giuridici delle materie trattate, dato che ciascuna di essere attiene a regolamentazioni sue proprie. Dall'altro lato esso trova attuazione nell'ambito della stessa Tradizione Giuridica Occidentale (comunemente definita dai comparatisti Western Legal Tradition), poiché consente il confronto con esperienze nelle quali è già presente una regolamentazione spesso di diritto pos...
Experiencing the spread of false news that has assumed a value of unquestionable truths has many ... more Experiencing the spread of false news that has assumed a value of unquestionable truths has many authoritative historical precedents. Richard III, Lucrezia Borgia, and Marie-Antoinette might have so much to say if they could only tell what was the collective defamation in the destruction of their personal character. Indeed, all of them endured the ruin of their reputation at the hands of Shakespeare for the first, bad family company for the second, and the ultimate enlightenment pornographic libellists for the third. Today, in order to obtain similar results, we have social networks, but they work in different ways. Indeed, social networks have two innovative elements: the immediacy of information circulation, and the simultaneous possibility of forming groups among their members, who can count and recognize themselves, to act together towards a common goal. This can be positive, for instance crowfunding, aid, organizing a social campaign, or negative: pressuring, bullying, defamati...
Contributo sottoposto a valutazione. SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Liberta di religione ed espre... more Contributo sottoposto a valutazione. SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Liberta di religione ed espressione dell'identita culturale - 3. La costruzione delle moschee - 4. La vestizione del velo - 5. La pratica sommersa delle mutilazioni genitali femminili - 6. Il diritto di famiglia - 7. Il matrimonio - 8. I matrimoni poligamici - 9. I matrimoni forzati - 10. I diritti successori - 11. Ripudio e divorzio - 12. Kafalah e adozione - 13. Conclusioni. La necessaria unitarieta dell'ordinamento giuridico contro la discriminazione. Il caso delle giurisdizioni speciali shariaitiche: un’esperienza da non imitare. The Cultural Impact of Islamic Mass Immigration on the Italian Legal System ABSTRACT: Although Italy has been a country with a strong tradition of emigration, only in the last twenty-five years Italians have had to face the social, juridical and cultural problems related to high immigration hosted by this country. The majority of immigrants come from areas with Islamic religio...
2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an overall slowdown in hospital activities that might lead to... more The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an overall slowdown in hospital activities that might lead to delays in healthcare interventions, and the scarcity of resources can raise concerns about ventilators allocation criteria. These circumstances could lead to lawsuits against hospitals and healthcare professionals: together with Regions and States, they may be vulnerable to legal actions, due to the breach of right to health, to physical integrity and right to life, to the manifestation of the informed consent in the medical field or on the basis of contractual or Aquilian obligations. In this context, predicting the litigation rate could be useful to assess the economic impact of a dispute at a local and national level, so that hospital managers and public institutions can perform multi-dimensional and cost/benefit evaluations to decide whether to invest resources to increase critical care surge capacity. In this work we present CLIP (COVID-19 LItigation Prediction), a modeling approac...
THE FRONTIERS OF PHARMACOGENETICS RIASSUNTO : Il presente articolo illustra lo svilupparsi del di... more THE FRONTIERS OF PHARMACOGENETICS RIASSUNTO : Il presente articolo illustra lo svilupparsi del dibattito giuridico in tema di farmacogenetica, in particolare in relazione alla possibile brevettabilita dei geni umani purificati. La tesi sostenuta nell'articolo afferma che il patrimonio genetico umano e da considerarsi un bene comune e pertanto esso non sia brevettabile, ne sottoponibile ad altre regole inerenti alla proprieta intellettuale. La prima parte illustra le piu importanti teorie sul tema; la seconda parte spiega il collegamento esistente tra brevettabilita del patrimonio genetico e accesso ai farmaci, la terza parte riguarda i vantaggi ovvero gli svantaggi possibili della brevettazione dei farmaci studiati su misura del paziente; infine l'ultima parte riguarda i punti della Carta dei diritti dell'Unione Europea applicabili in materia. PAROLE CHIAVE : farmacogenetica; diritti umani; diritto dei brevetti; diritto alla riservatezza; patrimonio genetico quale bene ...
Sommario: 1. Premessa2. Stampa e social network: le conseguenze della (dis)intermediazione nella ... more Sommario: 1. Premessa2. Stampa e social network: le conseguenze della (dis)intermediazione nella diffusione delle (dis)informazioni – 3 Esiste una relazione tra crisi della rappresentanza ed esplosione dei social network? 4. Facebook tra propaganda politica e censura 5. I referendum e la contrapposizione delle realtà 5.1 Il caso irlandese: i referendum sui same-sex marriage e sul Trattato di Lisbona 5.2 Il referendum sul “Brexit” 6. Conclusioni 7. Riferimenti bibliografici
1. IntroductionIt is a truth universally acknowledged that in comparative law the pattern of judg... more 1. IntroductionIt is a truth universally acknowledged that in comparative law the pattern of judgments is very varied. For instance in civil law systems themselves, such as in France, nowadays, the ideology related to the juge est-il la bouche de la loi, implemented during the French Revolution, justifies the synthetic model of French judgments, showing only hints of the facts of the case and the legal reasoning of the judge. On the contrary, in Germany, according to the systematic and philosophical tradition, judges often describe the complexity of their logical and juridical reasoning. In the Common Law System in the case law method the "direct presence of facts distinguishes reasoning with previous decisions in the 'classical' common law context from reasoning statutes or the constitution" (Komarek, 2013, 157; Siems, 2014, 41), furthermore judges have to detail each logical step according to the distinguishing principle. According to this pattern of judgments it...
1. Introduzione al contesto Samuel Pepys raccontava Londra nel fulcro della peste del 1665. Si le... more 1. Introduzione al contesto Samuel Pepys raccontava Londra nel fulcro della peste del 1665. Si legge nei suoi diari: «But, ‘Lord!’ how sad a sight it is to see streets empty of people, and very few upon the Change – jealous of every door that one sees shut up, lest it should be the plague, and about us two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up.» (Pepys, The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary, Latham, ed., Berkeley, 1983, 88). Abbiamo percepito un analogo senso di disorientamento quando il Covid-19 è dilagato dall’Oriente fino alla soglia di casa nostra, in Italia. Si tratta di un nuovo virus altamente contagioso contro il quale il corpo umano è indifeso (Na Zhu et al., A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019, N Engl J Med 2020; 382:727). A gennaio, le autorità cinesi hanno imposto la chiusura forzata delle attività umane a Wuhan e nell’Hubei proibendo a circa sessanta milioni di persone di uscire da casa (Chinazzi et al., The effect of travel...
Uno de los temas más controversiales de los debates políticos en Italia se da acerca de la prohib... more Uno de los temas más controversiales de los debates políticos en Italia se da acerca de la prohibición del mandato vinculante, consagrado en el artículo 67 de la Constitución italiana. En un contexto de desconfianza colectiva en la política y en la administración de los negocios públicos; un nuevo partido, el movimiento Cinque Stelle, en lo sucesivo M5S, ha alcanzado una suma del 25% de los votos. Uno de los puntos en el programa de M5S fue la reclamación de sus diputados que son solo voceros de los votantes sin ninguna autoridad sobre estos. Una de las promesas de campaña concernía en presentar proyectos ante los juzgados públicos y parlamentarios a través del uso de una plataforma en línea. Para participar en estos debates los ciudadanos italianos deberían de registrarse en dicha plataforma con una copia escaneada del documento de identidad. Sin embargo, esta plataforma en línea no es neutral, porque pertenece al blog de Beppe Grillo’s, quien es el fundador y el líder político del...
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 2021
The intervention of medicine in human reproduction (contraception, abortion, artificial procreati... more The intervention of medicine in human reproduction (contraception, abortion, artificial procreation) has blurred the boundaries between nature and culture regarding the beginning of human life. This change has led to an unprecedented possibility to increase self-determination, and, therefore, individual responsibility with respect to the choice of giving birth, no longer a gift of God, but a realistic chance to accomplish a wish. This circumstance has opened a debate as to whether or not the right to parenthood and procreation is absolute, and if the person has the right to choose whether or not to conceive. Indeed, the Italian debate is related to two specular aspects of the same issue concerning the alleged absolute inviolability of the embryo: on the one hand, the request of infertile couples to be able to conceive a child through assisted reproduction, including through the use of biological materials external to the couple, subject to rulings of the Constitutional Court, and on the other hand, on the still controversial access to abortion, governed by a law that came into force in 1978, over 40 years ago.
Wearable devices (WDs) are a specific part of the general concept of the “Internet of Things”. Th... more Wearable devices (WDs) are a specific part of the general concept of the “Internet of Things”. This concept refers to infrastructure in which many sensors are designed to record, process, and store data locally, or interact with each other both in the medium range, through the use of radio frequency technologies (e.g. RFID, bluetooth, etc.), or through an electronic communications network. The devices involved are not only traditional computers or smartphones, but also daily life objects ("things"), such as wearable devices, home automation geo-referencing, and assisted navigation objects. Indeed, the “Internet of Things” refers to a further development of the Internet resulting from physical objects networking. These objects may be equipped with a unique identifier (for example, a serial number), recognizable even by radio frequency. However, the identification of these objects could also be made without resorting to radio tags, simply by combining sensors and automatic recognition procedures (for example, the recognition of a barcode carried out with a mobile phone connected to the Internet).<br><br>The current state of research on this issue concerns mainly the use of WDs in daily life, and the enforcement of privacy rules, due to the capacity of WDs for the massive collection of personal data, such as in the health care and labour contexts, both sensitive areas for discrimination.
For centuries art, music, and literature have described the individual and collective backlash du... more For centuries art, music, and literature have described the individual and collective backlash due to a pandemic, even though today our society has forgotten these circumstances, thanks to the medical and technological advancement, with all the systemic consequences entailed to the difficulty of stopping the contagion, including burials. In a small village in the Italian countryside an elderly person passed away, it is not known whether or not affected by COVID-19, but due to the contagion and the rules that prohibited public, religious or civil cerimonies, the lady's funeral was not able to take place according to the usual ritual and with the collective participation of family members and the local community. The announcement of her death and her leave-taking were given in a completely exceptional way: instead of the usual affiche published by the funeral home and payed by the family, the announcement was made through Facebook, from the mayor's page, in a participatory and emotional tone, with a mixture of secularism and religion: “This morning we gave our last farewell at the cemetary to Ms. XX, aged ..., mother of YX, her home was at …. Her remains were blessed by the priest. The Mayor was there in representation of all those who would have liked to participate, and who were unable since the restrictions for the ongoing coronavirus emergency. The condolences of all our community to the family. The Mayor". Another image that became well-known worldwide concerned the row of military trucks that carried the coffins of the deceased people from the cemetery of Bergamo (one of the most affected places in Italy) to the cremation sites in other regions. These sad episodes show of how much the ban forbidding public funeral of whom passed away was intrusive and affected entire communities, both in countryside villages, and in towns. The farewell cerimonies to deceased is a deeply felt moment, where the communities gather together with the affected family for helping each other to mourne the beloved one who passed away: in fact the burial of the deads is a universal rule. Between 9 March and 4 May 2020, Italian law was very intrusive in this severance, forbidding funerals with criminal penalties. Although the Italian state is increasingly secularized, the farewell cerimonies are still strongly linked to religious tradition, although secular rites are growing. The aim of this abstract is to verify what was the impact in Italy of the interdictive legal rules about funeral ceremonies on the life of people who have suffered individuals and, at the same time, collective mourning.
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