Zusammenfassung Diese Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit dem ehelichen Güterrecht; einem Thema, das sowohl für den Alltag der Ehegatten wichtig ist, als auch für diejenigen, die mit einer verheirateten Person rechtlich handeln. Die Arbeit richtet sich vor allem auf den Vergleich der gegenwärtigen rechtlichen Regelung, am 1. 1. 2014 in Kraft getreten, mit der vorherigen Rechtsregelung. Diese Arbeit besteht aus drei Teilen, die in Kapitel unterteilt werden, sowie aus der Einleitung und der Schlussfolgerung. Der erste Teil behandelt die historische Entwicklung der rechtlichen Regelung der Vermögensbeziehungen zwischen Ehegatten auf unserem Rechtsgebiet seit der Gültigkeit des Allgemeinen bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches vom Jahr 1811, über das Gesetz über Familienrecht vom Jahr 1949, bis zum bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch vom Jahr 1964, wirksam bis 31. 12. 2013. Der zweite, zugleich wichtigste und umfangreichste Teil analysiert ausführlich das eheliche Güterrecht im bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch vom Jahr 2012, das mit dem 1. 1. 2014 in Kraft getreten ist. Die einzelnen Kapitel befassen sich mit der Gütergemeinschaft einerseits was Entstehung, Auflösung, Vergleich und Schutz dritter Personen betrifft, andererseits was die Regelungen betrifft, denen sie sowohl vom Umfang als auch verwaltungsrechtlich unterliegen kann. Diese sind: die...

Regulations are often an object of interest of the economists. Some of them criticize regulations because they deform the market. The others appreciate their ability to redistribute the wealth in the society. The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the regulations in a specific agriculture market - production of milk. I supposed this part of agriculture market to be very interesting. There are some reasons: milk is a product of daily requirement, it is hardly to substitute, but still there are two levels of regulation - the European and the Czech one. The thesis is composed of six chapters. They are ordered from the general to particular facts. The used methods are mainly description and historical method. Interdisciplinary approach is also used. The first chapter focuses on the economic theory of regulation. The chapter is subdivided into parts that are dealing with market failures, capture theory, public interest, competition and monopoly. The conclusion of this chapter is as follows: the regulation in our economies exists because of the capture theory. Chapter Two explains the regulations on the European level. The conclusions of the previous chapter are proved and the reasons for regulation creating as well as its main problems are described. It also explains the reform of common agriculture...

The purpose of this research was to master several unfamiliar concepts and bring them together in one cohesive project. DroidCDF is an application for the Android operating system to create, write data to, and read data from netCDF format files. DroidCDF uses Unidata’s NetCDF Java Library and can write files in netCDF-3 format but read from any netCDF format files. As mobile devices become more powerful and commonplace, DroidCDF provides a convenient tool for researchers. An incremental methodology was applied; the application was built from a rough workflow to eventually a robust and fully functional program. The produced files are fully portable and can be used as the input for other applications. The application has been tested with several large netCDF files with varying conventions and has handled each one remarkably well. Upon submission of this thesis, DroidCDF will be released onto the open market.

Memoria (licenciado en ciencias jurídicas y sociales) / Esta tesis buscará, en primer lugar, otorgar una somera descripción de los contratos, para entrar después a los contratos internacionales; en ambos casos con un enfoque hacia la compraventa, principal instrumento mediante el cual se desarrolla el comercio internacional. Una vez propuesta una definición de los contratos internacionales, detallaremos los distintos métodos que ha distinguido la doctrina para determinar la ley que se aplicará a los conflictos que puedan surgir en su celebración, ejecución o terminación. El de mayor aplicación práctica se remite a normas nacionales, lo que hace necesario estudiar los distintos enfoques de los contratos comerciales en el derecho comparado, específicamente en el sistema legal presentado como opuesto al nuestro, el Common Law.

The present investigation develops the notion of sociality based on Emmanuel Levinas’s thought, and proposes an understanding of sociality that resists becoming a common foundation: an un-common sociality which interrupts the reciprocal shared common, and thereby, paradoxically, makes it possible. By engaging in the larger debate on community, this work gives voice to Levinas on the question of community without a common ground, a topic and a debate where he has previously been underestimated. In this way, the aim is to reveal new directions opened up by Levinas’s philosophy in order to think an un-common sociality.

Magister Legum - LLM / The global financial crisis resulted in a corporate collapse in different parts of the world. The global financial crisis was caused by poor governance. Consequently many countries, including South Africa, began to place more emphasis on good governance. The framework and guidelines for the development of good governance in South African company law was published by the Department of Trade of Trade and Industry (hereafter DTI) in a document referred to as The South African Company Law for the 21st Century: Guidelines for Corporate Law Reform (hereafter the DTI Policy Document) published by the DTI. The DTI Policy Document recognised the need for a regulatory framework within which enterprises operate to promote growth, employment, innovation, stability, good governance, confidence and international competitiveness. In order to further develop governance, the effectiveness of directors’ standards as well as the liability of directors was also said to have developed. Prior to the development of South African corporate law, liability of directors was to a large extent governed by the common law and the King Codes, despite the existence of the Companies Act 61 of 1973 (as amended). As of the 1st of May 2011, corporate law in South Africa appears to have dramatically changed the duties and liabilities of directors. The 1st of May 2011 marked the implementation of Companies Act 71 of 2008 (hereafter the Act). The Act is written in plain language in an attempt to make it more accessible and align it with international trends. The Act has also theoretically changed the roles and duties of directors as well as the liability that they may face in that it potentially changes the existing common law and alters policies and philosophies of corporate law in general. The Act partially codifies the common law and introduces the business judgement rule to South Africa. The business judgment rule will draw a balance between the directors’ ability to steer a company and the shareholders' right to hold directors accountable for their decisions. It is perceived as a mechanism that can be used to balance the tension between these opposing rights.

This thesis deals with a common cause failure analysis (CCF) for space devices. This analysis belongs among dependability analyses, which have not been sufficiently developed in a field of space industry in corresponding technical and normative documents. Therefore, we focused on devising a new procedure of a qualitative and quantitative common cause failure analysis for the space applications herein. This new procedure of the qualitative and quantitative CCF analysis was applied on redundant systems of a special space device microaccelerometer (ACC), which was developed in VZLÚ. Performance of the qualitative CCF analysis can lead to recommendations to change design of the system, making the system less susceptible to the common cause failures. Performance of the quantitative CCF analysis and its inclusion into the computation of the system reliability can lead to a more accurate estimation of the reliability (in most cases it leads to decreasing the system reliability). During the development of the ACC there were not defined any requirements to perform the CCF analysis within general dependability requirements (defined by the customer and by ECSS standards). Hence, we compared computations of the ACC reliability with and without considering the CCFs. When the CCFs were considered, the reliability of the ACC was decreased according to our assumption. On our example of the ACC we showed advantages of the performance of the CCF analysis within the dependability analyses during development of the space devices.

This thesis is submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management in Finance and Investment. Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management 2017 / The vicious quest for higher risk-adjusted returns through diversification of portfolios has seen an enormous amount of foreign capital flows into new emerging markets. However, the success of any strategy profoundly depends on the degrees of comovements among markets - higher comovements limit the possible gains from diversification. It has been argued that the very act of chasing after these diversification benefits, which mainly includes financial globalisation, has actually resulted in the erosion of the benefits themselves. In addition, aspects such as international trade, the establishment of trade blocs and liberalisation of market controls has further reduced these diversification benefits. In this study, the long-run cointegration, short-run causality and volatility linkages were examined using six COMESA markets indices. The goal of the study was to ascertain whether the establishment of this bloc has resulted in increased association among the member markets. The astonishing rate at which globalisation has been growing at has drawn with it both opportunities and risks for investors. The Engle-Granger, the Johansen cointegration technique and the ARDL test methods revealed that the markets integrated in the long run, a result indicative of low diversification benefits across COMESA markets. However, the weak short-run causality from the causality tests revealed that despite the strong long-run relationship, an active investment strategy that seeks to diversify portfolios in the short-run could still yield enormous diversification benefits. A subsequent examination of the volatility linkages using generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models revealed that uniformity of volatility structures in terms volatility persistence, leverage effects and risk premium across the markets, indicative of the high likelihood of volatility spill-overs across the markets. This implies that, despite the weak short-run causality, the benefits from short-run diversification can still be quite low due to the high likelihood of volatility spillovers across these markets. In light of these results, investors within the COMESA markets should rather focus on other markets outside the COMESA as diversification destinations. / MT2017

A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. November 2016, Johannesburg. / Drought stress is one of the major limitations to crop production worldwide and has been predicted to become more severe in the future due to global climate change. Research has often been focused on genetic engineering to improve the tolerance of plants to abiotic and biotic stresses. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are an alternative mechanism to improve the tolerance of plants to many stresses and is crucial for developing and third world countries. In this study, Helianthus annuus was inoculated with Pseudomonas koreensis and subjected to drought stress. The germination and growth characteristics, leaf water content, leaf electrolyte leakage and leaf area, substrate water content, phenolic compounds and proline concentration, root bacterial counts, as well as recovery and regrowth, were compared between uninoculated and inoculated plants. In addition, the phosphatase activity, siderophore and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) production, as well as growth at -0.73 MPa was compared between P. koreensis and P. fluorescens. It was found that inoculated plants were significantly taller plants and had a larger leaf area; and had significantly higher phenolic and proline concentration and a higher colonised root surface under drought stress. However, inoculation negatively affected germination and chlorophyll fluorescence. These plants also had a lower substrate water content under drought stress. P. koreensis outperformed P. fluorescens in all parameters studied, except for growth under osmotic stress. It can be concluded that P. koreensis generally improves the drought stress tolerance of H. annuus, however, further investigations are needed to determine the reasons for some of the negative effects. / LG2017

Dwelling on Thresholds reflects upon different modes of living/being, how we feel in different rooms and whom we decide to share space with. It asks how the spaces we dwell in affect our ability to access common and private spheres when needed or wanted. Along the way, tactility has come to play a big part in the work which has visually crystallized into a 30 m2 threshold curtain made up of floor plans of all apartments I have lived in over the past 10 years. An abstract information graphics with textures and colour nuances reflecting levels of well-being, alienation and moods in-between. The accompanying publication investigates our constructed environment as well as modes of thinking and dwelling in ‘the common’.