petroleum upstream service contracts possess different aspects of legal, contractual, fiscal, economic, technical and environmental nature. in this research, efforts have been made to review one of the aspects of the petroleum upstream contracts which have been far too little considered, namely the fiscal system of upstream service contracts. since every service contract possesses its own indep...

option contracts are one of the most important financial instruments which have been recently considered as a vehicle for management of risks and development of capital market. in iran, the importance of option contracts is increasingly recognized in the capital market. in this article the legal aspects of option contracts will be examined. for this purpose the views of islamic jurists and lawy...

Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly ...

Tectonic implications of subcrustal, normal faulting earthquakes in the western Shikoku region have been investigated in sorme detail, mainly based on the faulting mechanism of the Bungo channel earthquake of August 6, 1968 (M=6.6, h=45km) and its aftershocks. A synthetic study of the focal mechanism solution, spatial distribution of aftershocks, seismic waves observed in the near and far field...

A bank of Tn917-insertional mutants from the facultative intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes was screened by an original method based on bacterial growth on synthetic medium under iron-limiting conditions. One mutant, whose in vitro growth in synthetic medium was specifically dependent upon the availability of iron in its environment, was isolated and characterized. The insertional ev...

F iscal regime is one of the main differences between petroleum contracts. Fiscal regimes in oil contracts are divided to two main categories namely Concessionary and Contractual Systems. In contractual systems, the main difference between service and production sharing contracts is the way of compensation of contractor services which could be in cash or in kind. In production sharin...

April 1, 2004 version) Software contracts help programmers enforce program properties that the language’s type system cannot express. Unlike types, contracts are (usually) enforced at run-time. When a contract fails, the contract system signals an error. Beyond such errors, contracts should have no other observable (functional) effect on the program’s results. In most implementations, however, ...

The 75,000-dalton cell-binding domain of fibronectin (f75k) and synthetic peptides derived from its sequence have been used to examine the cell-surface fibronectin receptor. The spreading of baby hamster kidney fibrolasts on f75k-coated substrates and the direct binding of [3H]f75k to these cells were both competitively inhibited by a synthetic peptide of fibronectin with the sequence Gly-Arg-G...