Variety of wood species and complexity of their structure make the reliable material properties of cross-laminated timber (CLT) difficult to obtain, which can lead to inaccurate prediction of CLT behavior. Due to high stiffness-to-weight ratio, CLT floors can suffer from vibration serviceability issues. This paper aims to quantify the uncertainties induced by material properties and investigate their effect on vibration performance of CLT floors. Analysis based on Monte Carlo simulations, considering material properties as random variables, is developed. Based on the conducted analysis, appropriate conclusions have been derived.

In this paper, the author discovers the connection between service law and criminal procedural law which had never been examined in the domestic lеgal literature so far. He studies and presents the institutes of the criminal procedural law which serve to the subjects of the criminal procedure ex officio, that have elements of the service law that are especially distinguished and analyzed by the author. The concept of services, given in the plea agreement, as well as in the application of the principle of opportunity-particularily in the, so called, conditional opportunity, is delivered. In this way, the institutes of the criminal procedural law are observed from the different point of view, and the accent is on their serviceable character. The modern age criminal procedure is trasforming, losing on its rigidity, and, as it seems, is more turned to the arbitrarity and randomness, than to the traditional need of the state for repression of the perpetrators. The author highlights the perils that could appear in the future if this transformation trend continues.

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The paper presents a continuation of the research on the problem of realization of compensation for damage caused by the commission of criminal offense. In the first paper created within the same project, the author laid the foundations of the problem, dealing with the theoretical notion of damage caused by a criminal offense, the notion of civil torts and tortious liability, and the distinction between the notion of damage and the consequence of a criminal offence. This time, the author will concentrate on settling the receivables for damages by presenting the entire path that one claim for damages should take. Namely, obtaining a property claim should occur primarily in criminal proceedings, but it is most often adjudicated in litigation because in most cases the subject entitled to it is referred to litigation in order to exercise his right to compensation. After the judgement in the civil procedure is rendered, which orders the defendant-convict in the criminal procedure to compensate the caused damage either by compensating the damage in money or by returning the thing, or by annulling a certain legal deal, the concrete execution of the verdict in the executive procedure begins. While studying the manner of collecting the claims of the entitled subject through all three different procedures for the damage caused by the commission of criminal offense, the author also deals with controversial issues that may arise (the issue of statute of limitations for property claim, the issue of subjects who may be holders of property claims, the adequacy of the procedure in which the property claim is exercised, the means of execution of a monetary claim for damages caused by the commission of criminal offense, etc.).

The author gives an overview of the judicial system through the prism of the French legal theory of public services, according to which the state is a set of public services, namely legislative, administrative and judicial public services. The paper contains a theoretical analysis of the notion of state power and then the notion of public service, services of general interest and French legal theory. Within the concept of public service, the author gives an overview of the history of the emergence of public services. Furthermore, the notion of the judicial system is defined as a type of judicial power and as a type of judicial public service on the other hand for the purpose of their mutual comparison and more detailed analysis. Emphasis is also placed on criminal justice as a part of the judiciary that also provides services of general interest. The aim of the paper is to point out that the judiciary is not only a power, a syntagm that most often appears in the legal literature and practice, but that it also contains elements of public service and represents a kind of "citizen service".