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Showing 1 to 20 of 317 for “"bills"”.
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Bills of lading and electronic equivalent
This thesis will examine bills of lading and their electronic equivalent offered currently to the commercial world. Accepting that electronic equivalent of bills of lading are a commercial reality, the aim of this study is to examine how these systems successfully operate on the current legal …
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State Bills of Rights: 1945-1955
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:26:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6100121.pdf: 10624587 bytes, checksum: 339ca347d71875c994e0e5175887d5a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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Incorporation of charterparty clauses into Bills of Lading
… of which are rarely provided together with the bills of lading. Besides, many people felt strongly that importing the provisions of an unseen contract creates a more risky international trade environment. Yet, it is an undeniable fact that incorporation clauses can make the holders subject to …
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The primary market for United States treasury bills
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Social Science, 1963.
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Glare Reduction by Dark Facial Markings and Bills in Birds
… researchers have proposed that dark eyestripes, bills, and facial masks aid in reducing glare, however, there have been relatively few tests of this hypothesis. Dark facial markings have been shown to have an adaptive glare-reduction function in recent field studies of a few species, but this …
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The stochastic properties of the market value of U.S. Treasury bills
… value of outstanding United States Treasury Bills are estimated using three different time disaggregation. The three calculated models with different sampling periods are compared to each other. A description of the investigation, the discussion of the selected models, and several …
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The impact of EDI on bills of lading: a global perspective on the dynamics involved
… the dynamics involved in implementing electronic bills of lading. The bill of lading is one of the compendium of documents used in carriage of goods by sea. The writer did therefore not attempt to isolate the bill of lading, although the emphasis is clearly placed on substituting the traditional …
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Asian and Asian American Racialization through Legislative Language in the 2023 State Alien Land Bills
… are racialized through the 2023 State Alien Land Bills. Previous scholarship has shown that Asians and Asian Americans are racialized through "yellow peril," "model minority myth," and "forever foreigner" tropes but little existing sociological research analyzes the usage of Asian and Asian …
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Developing consumption feedback principles for monthly utility bills informed by behavioural economics: evidence from controlled experiments
Better feedback principles for the utility bills in South Africa need to be developed. Utility providers might be able to "nudge" consumers towards more desirable consumption patterns by delivering simpler and better feedback informed by applied behavioural sciences. Two sets of controlled …
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The Liberal education bills: conflict and compromise in religious issues and Liberal Party educational policies 1906-1908
… which formed the background to the Education Bills of the Liberal Government in the period 1906-08. The role of the churches and their place in society in the 19th and early 20th Centuries is outlined. The problems of educational provision and lack of resources through the voluntary agencies …
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Judicial analysis of the contractual role of bills of lading as it stands in Greek, United States and English law
… of contract be applicable in the case of the bills of lading and the carriage of goods by sea? Has the use of the bill of lading changed in the three legal systems since its introduction in order to be attributed to a different contractual function? It is supposed that the contract is …
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Does blockchain technology offer a solution to the remaining impediments to the more widespread use of electronic negotiable bills of lading?
… preferred approach to the dematerialisation of bills of lading in electronic form, but that does not exist yet. Other researchers think that blockchain generally should be the genus of technology that should be recognised to facilitate the electronic equivalent of documentary bills of lading.1 I …
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Identifying the carrier - The effect and validity of demise- and identity of carrier clauses in bills of lading - a comparative study
… of demise and identity of carrier clauses in bills of lading, which may influence the question of whether a bill of lading is a shipowners or a charterers bill of lading. [...] It will be shown, that there is no uniform approach regarding this problem under international law and will comment …
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The Four Major Education GI Bills: A Historical Study of the Shifting National Purposes and Accompanying Changes in Economic Value to Veterans
… out of the changing economy whereas current GI Bills is intended as a recruiting incentive for an all-volunteer force. Correspondingly, the economic value to the individual veteran has changed. Data supporting this study were extracted from historical documents in primary and secondary scholarly …
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LOBBYING FOR ACCOUNTING LEGISLATION
… disclosure data. I focus on congressional bills aimed at changing accounting rules (“accounting bills”), which attracted over a billion dollars in lobbying from industries and firms between 1999 and 2022. Notably, 72 percent of the lobbying expenditures are for accounting bills that seek to …
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A descriptive analysis of dental legislation in Massachusetts in 1979
Every year thousands of bills are considered for legislative action in Massachusetts. The purpose of this study is to do a descriptive analysis of all dental bills submitted to the Massachusetts General Court in 1979. This will be accomplished by classifying each bill by subject matter. A select …
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"A father doesn’t just have to pay the bills and be all manly" : constructions of fathering among adolescents in a low-income, high violence community in Cape Town
In light of research which suggests that father involvement is associated with positive outcomes for children, including emotional, social and financial benefits, the high rate of father absence in South Africa has been interpreted as a ‘crisis’ of fatherhood (Ratele, Shefer, & Clowes, 2012). …
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Essays in Political Economics and Networks
… two measures of productivity: the number of new bills a legislator sponsored, and the number of new bills excluding bills copied from other legislatures or model legislation. This allows me to study the extent to which legislators introduce these bills to appear productive while putting in …
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