the study of rights of obligee in any commercial contract, particularly contract of sale, is very important for the theoretical and practical reasons, in case that the other party performs part of contract only and is not able or ready to perform the other part; because, on the one hand, the obligor wants to know whether he entitles to expect from the obligee to accept the executed part of cont...

Objective One of the most controversial issues related to human embryo is to determine the moment when the embryo is considered as a human being and acquires a moral status. Although personhood and moral status are frequently touched upon in medical ethics, they are considered interdisciplinary as concepts shaping the debate in Medical Law (Fiqh) since their consequences are influential in the ...

this paper presents a new bridge management system (j-bms). it is integrated with a concrete bridge rating expert system that can be used to evaluate the serviceability of existing concrete bridges. the proposed j-bms not only evaluates the performance of bridges, but also offers a rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization. in this ...

The word bridge is a symbol that contains many implicit meanings outside of the dictionary meaning. Searching for her symbolic past in cultural sphere like an excavation. For this, it necessary to examine how made meaningful mythologies, beliefs and holy books. While bridges rainbow as contract form bond between earth sky, there are seen threshold other world can be dangerous or easy cross pers...

The opinions, findings and conclusions expressed in this report are those of the principal investigator and the Missouri Department of Transportation. They are not necessarily those of the U. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report presents the results of a pilot study to apply externally bonded Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) sheets to strengthen a simple span reinforced concrete solid slab bridg...

We consider a financial contract that delivers a single cash flow given by the terminal value of a cumulative gains process. The problem of modelling such an asset and associated derivatives is important, for example, in the determination of optimal insurance claims reserve policies, and in the pricing of reinsurance contracts. In the insurance setting, aggregate claims play the role of cumulat...