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Система римскаго гражданскаго права. Вып. 1. Книга 1: Общая часть

1898

Система римскаго гражданскаго права. Вып. 3. Книга 4: Обязательственное право

1899

Travailler dans la recherche privée au sortir d'une école d'ingénieur

2011

In this paper, we analyse the incentives for graduates from engineering schools to work in R&D activities. First, we focus on the remuneration of R&D activities in private companies. The results suggest clearly a lower remuneration of R&D in comparison to other activities, all things being equal. Then, we test the hypothesis of a "taste of research". According this hypothesis, engineers working in R&D activities are willing to accept lower earnings due to intrinsic benefits they get from their work. The results do not fully validate this hypothesis. Indeed, engineers involved in R&D activities have a greater dissatisfaction about the remuneration they receive, but also concerning many aspec…

The apparent losses due to metering errors: a proactive approach to predict losses and schedule maintenance

2014

The effects of water meter age and private tanks on the apparent losses due to metering errors were evaluated by experimental and theoretical analyses. A monitoring campaign on a small district metered area (DMA) was carried out to determine the causes of apparent losses and implement a numerical model. Metering errors are affected by the flow rate passing through the meter, which is dependent on the network pressure and water level of the private tank. A node model that reproduces the effect of private tanks was coupled with EPANET and was applied to the DMA. The proposed modelling approach was used to identify where apparent losses are higher and to schedule maintenance. The model predict…

Upper bound on the communication complexity of private information retrieval

1997

We construct a scheme for private information retrieval with k databases and communication complexity O(n 1/(2k−1) ).

Efficacité comparée de l'enseignement public et privé au Cameroun

2010

In this thesis, we treat with the efficiency compared by the state education and by the private education in Cameroon. The current educational system carries the marks of colonial period. The school is crossed by three stages the school before the colonization, the school during the colonization and the school after the colonization. The current educational system is characterized by a strong educational request and an insufficient educational offer. The redoubling and the abandonments are frequent and raised. The educational system is little effective in general. Two educational sub-systems inherited from colonial period work, the one French speaker and the other English speaker. Two secto…

Assessment of Social Services’ Disaster Risk Management: Case Finland

2017

Local actors are crucial in disaster risk management; thus, their capacities should be assessed periodically. In this study, local social services’ preparedness plans were assessed using Emergency Management Program Measurement and quantitative document analysis. The specific aim was to study how social service areas of various sizes were prepared for disasters in Finland. The results showed that disaster risk management capacity varied significantly between large and small service areas. Larger areas were better prepared for supporting management, and had better procedures to activate their response, modern public information and deeper cooperation with the private sector and the civil soc…

Navigating efficiency and effectiveness relationships across local government services: Another step toward strategic resource management

2013

A major part of maintaining a well-managed performance measurement system in local government is providing the infrastructure for performance management. The problem is that local officials often struggle with moving from adopting performance measures to actually using them for improving services and for making resource allocation decisions. This article responds to this struggle by presenting information on the relationships between efficiency and effectiveness measures across six local government service areas, with the goal of providing guidance on using performance measures to support strategic resource management. Our research suggests that stronger correlations exist between efficienc…

A model of the filling process of an intermittent distribution network

2010

In many countries, private tanks are acquired by users to reduce their vulnerability to intermittent supply. The presence of these local reservoirs modifies the user demand pattern and usually increases user water demand at the beginning of the service period depending on the tank filling process. This practice is thus responsible for the inequality that occurs among users: those located in advantaged positions of the network are able to obtain water resources soon after the service period begins, while disadvantaged users have to wait much longer, after the network is full. This dynamic process requires the development of ad hoc models in order to obtain reliable results. This paper discus…

Damages claims for anticompetitive conduct after the Directive 2014/104/EU: Is it (still) worth talking about a private law remedy?

2019

Directive 2014/2014/EU puts the private law remedy of non-contractual liability as the pivot of the entire system of antitrust private enforcement. Neither exhaustive nor containing a “full-harmonization rule,” it promotes the approximation of national laws by introducing a set of substantial and procedural measures, whose main goal is granting the effectiveness of the individual rights to compensation conferred by the antimonopolistic provisions of the TFEU. Many elements, however, induce to wonder about the main features and ultimately the very nature of the remedy by means of which “any person” can claim for damages suffered as a consequence of anticompetitive conduct. The author argues …