contracts

Contracts

A contract can be defined as an agreement between two or more parties to create legal obligations between them'. Some contracts are made 'under seal': in other words, they are signed and sealed (stamped) by the parties involved. Most contracts are made verbally or in writing. The essential elements of a contract are: (a) that an offer made by one party should be accepted by the other; (b) consideration; (c) the intention to create legal relations. The terms of a contract may be express ...

Curs Elements of contracts

All valid contracts must have and usually have the following elements: Terms: A set of clauses defining the exact set of promises agreed to Mutual agreement: There must be an express or implied agreement -    The essential requirement is that there has to be evidence that the parties had each from an objective perspective engaged in conduct manifesting their assent, and a contract will be formed when the parties have met such a requirement (Notice that the objective manifesta...

United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

During the course, the student will be introduced to, and gain confidence with, the structure, principles and rules of the CISG and at the end of the course must be able to apply the CISG to concrete cases. The whole convention and its rules will be examined and the interplay between the general part I and part II and III will be emphasised and analysed.   Moreover, the students will be introduced to the connected issues of Private International Law (choice of law), which will be rele...

PhD position deep web entity monitoring

A large part of the web, the invisible web or deep web, cannot be indexed by web crawlers, for instance dynamic web pages that are returned in response to filling in a web form, or performing a search in a search engine. Instead of crawling deep web data, the approach will monitor web pages for certain (types of) queries.   The objective is to develop approaches for monitoring web data that allow users to see a page's full history of relevant/important changes by identifying entities: p...

PhD position community tagging

In engineering projects, like building a highway, several interest groups must be involved and the aim is to achieve a good consensus between the varies interest groups and get a feasible solution. This consensus process is based on discussing various design alternatives often sketched in a spatial representation (e.g. a map). During this process several alternatives are discussed, modified, rejected and adjusted over time. To keep the spatial representation readable, separate temporal tendenci...

PhD position geoprofile-driven social network enrichment

Internet technologies have created a fabric for information exchange far beyond the original intent to share information between humans. It has become a landscape where entities (people, sensors, devices, observatories) generate events bound in time and by location, carving out event trajectories within a domain of activity. We are especially interested in serving space/time understanding in social networks.   The proper characterization of the where-and-when of social network member ac...

Financial Markets

By Robert Shiller - Yale UniversityLicence: Open Yale Courses Terms of UseCourse Description: Financial institutions are a pillar of civilized society, supporting people in their productive ventures and managing the economic risks they take on. The workings of these institutions are important to comprehend if we are to predict their actions today and their evolution in the coming information age. The course strives to offer understanding of the theory of finance and its relation to the history,...

Game Theory

By Benjamin Polak - Yale UniversityLicence: Open Yale Courses Terms of UseCourse Description: This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.Lectures: ...

Google Analytics: Think Big and Look Big

By Brett Crosby - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Persistence and Simplicity When Google Analytics' Group Product Marketing Manager Brett Crosby was landing his first big deal, it took three simple clicks of the send key to make the right contact - and a white paper crafted overnight.  His point: tenacity and quick response time are the keys to forward motion. ...

PhD Opportunities at Open University Business School

The Open University Business School is offering a number of research studentships (currently circa 15,000 per annum) from 1 October 2011. Funding is available for a range of research projects. Areas - Marketing - Strategic management - Human resource management, organization studies and organizational behaviour - Finance  - Managing knowledge and innovation - Public leadership and social enterprise Strategic marketing as practice Strategic marketing as practice is an eme...

Applied Environmental and Regulatory Economics

The Summer School (XIV Edition) is designed to offer two weeks "full immersion" in user charges regulation of local public services (e.g. waste, water, public transport, district heating, sport facilities) and is addressed to undergraduate students at their last year, graduate students and officials from the Public Administration (municipalities, counties, regional bodies) and regulatory agencies.The course lasts two weeks and is articulated in three parts:- theoretical module- indu...

AFR PhD Grants

In October 2008, the new FNR funding instrument Aides la Formation - Recherche (AFR) came into existence. The AFR scheme provides grants for PhD and postdoctoral research training. It replaces the BFR (Bourse Formation - Recherche) formerly managed by the Ministry of Research (MCESR). AFR Contributions For AFR beneficiaries with work contracts, the FNR pays a contribution to the annual salary costs of the Host Institution as follows : PhD Postdoc max. AFR contribution (including emp...

Call for applications for the Research Doctoral schools at Ca Foscari University of Venice

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice starts the 27thcycle of the following research doctoral courses for the 2011/2012 academic year:   School, Research Doctorate, Field of specialisationAvailable places With ScholarshipWithout scholarshipExtra places Inter-University Doctoral School in "Global Change Science and Policy" Research Doctorate in Science and Management of Climate Change Doctoral School in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research Doctorate in Modern Lan...

Call for Phd Admission in the Saarbrucken Graduate School of Computer Science

Supported by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments The Graduate School at a Glance     - An integrated program from BSc or MSc to PhD     - Top-notch academic and research training       in computer science     - Unparalleled concentration of computer science       research expertise in Europe     - International program run entirely in English...

Four Year Engineering Doctorate Student with The University of Manchester A constitutive model for the prediction of microstructure and welding residual stresses in ferritic steels

The project: Engineering Critical Assessment calculations for welded joints must include provision for the effect of residual stresses on welding defects. Distributions of welding residual stress are generally not known, so very conservative profiles are needed. Computer predictions are possible, but their accuracy relies on an accurate knowledge of the mechanical material behaviour at high temperature during very fast thermal cycles.   The objective of this project is to develop a con...

Call for Interest for Grantholders at the IES, PhD Postdoc and Senior Researcher Positions

Located in Ispra (Italy), the Institute for Environment and Sustainability is one of the seven institutes that constitute the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.   In line with the JRC mission, the aim of IES is to provide scientific and technical support to the European Union strategies for the protection of the environment contributing to a sustainable development. The IES works in close collaboration with official laboratories, research centres and industries of the EU's...

Hofstra Law School offers scholarships to international students

Hofstra Law School is now offering need- and merit-based scholarships for international students in our Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree programs. Located in the greater New York City region, Hofstra Law School's mission is to prepare passionate students to make an impact in their communities and beyond. Accredited by the American Bar Association and Bar Council of India, Hofstra is a proud member of the International Association of Law Schools. We offer both full-time a...

10th Winter School on Mathematical Finance

In recent years, the mathematical theory associated with financial risk management and the pricing of contingent claims has been a highly active field of research. The area has established itself as one of the most vigorously growing branches of applied mathematics.   Model-based analysis of contracts and portfolios has become a standard in the finance industry, and the number of academic institutions offering curricula in financial mathematics is increasing rapidly. In this context, th...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Evolutionary Biology 2010

A postdoctoral fellowship in evolutionary biology is available in the laboratory of Andreas Wagner at the University of Zurich. The Wagner lab studies biological evolution on all levels of organization, from genes, genomes, and genetic networks to whole organisms. Ongoing projects involve laboratory evolution of yeast, E. coli and fruit-flies, as well as in vitro evolution of ribozymes. A sample of the laboratory’s research can be found at http://www.bioc.uzh.ch/wagner/. Lab members a...

Intangible assets IAS 38

The objective of IAS 38 is to prescribe the accounting treatment for intangible assets that are not dealt with specifically in another Standard. For example, it does not apply to: (a) intangible assets held by an entity for sale in the ordinary course of business (see IAS 2, Inventories, and IAS 11, Construction contracts); (b) deferred tax assets (see IAS 12, Income taxes); (c) leases that fall within the scope of IAS 17, Leases; (d) financial assets as defined in IAS 32, Financial ins...

Final Phase Fair Trade Management

Final Phase Fair Trade Management Bachelor of Agri Systems Management Make a difference There are great disparities in the world. Though the fastest growing economies are now in countries...

Construction Management

Programme Description This course is primarily designed for people employed in the construction industry, such as those working in large contracting organisations and commercial developers; and local authority or...

MA in Supervisory Practice

Programme Description The practice of regular supervision for those working in the caring and social service professions has become essential for wellbeing and firm ethical and professional foundations. This...