Elements of the law of contract Catharine MacMillan Richard Stone 2009 LLB 2650040 Diploma in Law 2690040 page 2 University of London External System This subject guide was prepared for the University of London External System by: u Catharine MacMillan BA (Victoria) , LLB (Queen’s, Canada), LLM (Cantab), Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London and u Richard Stone LLB (Soton), LLM (Hull), Barrister, Professor and Head of Law, Lincoln Law School
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Introduction Human knowledge, refined by many generations, has not yet revealed all mysteries of the brain. The human mind is so complex that it becomes almost impossible to understand it through a mere set of rules. Still, thousands of attempts have been made to completely understand the mind and have control over it. Added to the list of thousands, here is one more proposal to gain a better understanding of the incomprehensible human mind through gamification. Evaluating individual performance
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What should you do when two epistemic peers have the same evidence and disagree? The debate about disagreement is a controversial one. Disagreements form when a person believes in something that another person does not believe to be true. This mainly occurs because when people adopt different attitudes. Philosophers, including Feldman, Kelly and Christensen, have tried to determine the best approach for dealing with disagreements. This is an important issue because it causes people to question themselves
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The cost of capital, corporation finance and the theory of investment Modigliani & Miller – 1958 Introduction In a world of certainty investment decision should be in line with either profit maximization or market value maximization. - According to profit maximization, a physical asset is worth acquiring if it increases the net profit of the owners of the firm. But net profit increases only if the expected rate of return on the asset exceeds the rate of interest - According to
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concreted by the Certainty Equivalent Life Cycle Permanent Income Model (CE-LC-PI). There are a few additional factors that may have caused this rise in savings rate including debt reduction causing a decline in available credit and real wealth and changes in investment risk. The Life Cycle Model under Certainty (LCM), as stated by Modigliani and Brumberg (1954) suggests that individuals plan their consumption and savings behaviour over their lifetime in order to maximise their utility. Under the CE-LC-PI
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some the factors which influence our thinking, judgement and decision-making Our everyday lives are filled with many choices and decisions which will impact on our lives both in the short and long-term. Our perception of the impact of these decisions on our own lives and those around us will affect how much time and effort is given to arriving at these decisions. There are several factors which impact on thinking, judgement and decision-making and it is important to note that often these occur simultaneously
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Methods-II, focuses on ‘Operations Research’ tools which helps in solving problems in different functional domain of business. It also helps to optimize business operations/processes. The Quantitative Method-II tools act as aids to decision makers to take best decision for effective & efficient use of resources which ultimately lead to profit maximization or to achieve multiple goals or objective. | Course must be aligned with a strategic objective of the program Prerequisites/Co-requisites
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certain previous decisions. This obligation arises when a prior case A yields a proposition of law in circumstances which are indistinguishable from those confronting the judge in case B, and by a formal rule the judge in case B stands in an inferior relationship to the court which decided case A. Stare decisis requires three conditions: (1) an earlier case, and thus an element of 'priorness' or 'pastness', (2) factual similarity, and (3) a particular relationship between the decision-making authorities
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Chapter 7 Supply Chain Management _______ Types of inventory * By stages of production and value added * Raw materials (RM) * Work-in-progress (WIP) * Finished goods (FG) * They’re not equally costly * Finished goods are more valuable * They need to be managed differently * By function * Cycle stock (working stock): amount of inventory that you expect to sell * Safety stock (buffer stock): amount of inventory that you don’t expect to
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There are moral system used by school of thoughts that governs our behaviour or actions, and they are all different toward another. There are number of this moral system but it is beyond the scope of this essay to compare and contrast all but to compare and contrast between deontology the centers on the principles of 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant, And utilitarianism which is the brainchild of philosophers John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham. As a result, the essay has been organised as
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