This study explored the legal parameters of sovereign immunity and its waivers for employees of public institutions of higher education in the state of Texas. This empirical study examined the decisions of the Texas Judiciary concerning public university litigation in the area of sovereign immunity, with a review of major state court decisions. Legal research methodology was used in this study. The data for this study included case study review of six cases decided by the Texas judiciary. Information about each of the cases and the important legal inferences from the cases was discussed. A review of the history of sovereign immunity and the current status of the application of the Texas Tort Claims Act was also included. Based on the review of the relevant case law and scholarly commentary, the study findings suggest that a) Texas courts recognize and apply the doctrine of sovereign immunity, unless the application of the doctrine is restricted by the Texas Tort Claims Act; b) the Texas Tort Claims Act establishes limited waivers to sovereign immunity applicable only under specified circumstances and subjects; c) Texas courts were consistent in applying the circumstances by which an institution or its actors waived sovereign immunity. Practice recommendations are included for education professionals at Texas state institutions of higher education.

The input collected from warranty claims data links customer feedback with product quality. Results from warranty claim analysis can potentially improve product quality, customer relationships and positively affect business. However working on warranty claims data holds many challenges that requires a significant share of time devoted to data cleaning and data processing. The purpose of warranty claims analysis is to get the comprehensive overview of the reliability, costs and quality of household appliances produced by ASKO. While there are different ways to approach this problem, we will focus on non-parametric and semi-parametric methods, by using Kaplan-Meier estimators and Cox proportional hazard model respectively. These kinds of models are time dependent and therefore used for prediction of household appliance reliability. Even though non-parametric models are quite informative they cannot handle additional characteristics about observable product hence the semi-parametric Cox proportional hazard model was proposed. Apart from the reliability analysis, we will also predict warranty costs with probit model and observe inequality in household appliances part failures as a part of quality control analysis. Described methods were selected due to the fact that the warranty claims analysis will be practiced in future by ASKO’s quality department and therefore straight forward methods with very informative results are needed.

Denna kvalitativa intervjustudie syftar till att undersöka hur samverkan ser ut mellan skola, Barn och ungdomspsykiatrin (BUP) samt socialtjänsten i arbetet med att hjälpa barn och ungdomar i åldrarna 0 till 18 år som lider av psykisk ohälsa. Studien grundar sig i sex stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer med två skolkuratorer, två socialsekreterare från socialtjänsten samt två kuratorer från BUP. Resultaten visar att det finns flertal hindrande och möjliggörande faktorer vid samverkan. Resultaten visar att då professionella konsulterar med varandra kring svåra frågor rörande unga som lider av psykisk ohälsa främjas samsyn och samverkan möjliggörs. Vidare visar resultaten att förutsättningar för samverkan inom organisationer bygger på att ledningar uppnår domänkonsensus, för att på så sätt komma överens om hur aktörer skall samverka / This qualitative interview study aims to investigate the collaboration between school, children and adolescent psychiatry and the social service with the intent to help children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 who suffer from mental health problems. The study is based on six semistructured interviews with two school counselors, two employees from the social services and two counselors from children and adolescent psychiatry (BUP). The results show that there are several obstructive and enabling factors when collaborating. The results show that when professionals consult with each other about difficult issues regarding young people suffering from mental illness, it promotes consensus and enables cooperation. Furthermore, the results show the prerequisites for collaboration within organizations is based on the fact that the management reaches domain consensus, in order to agree on how professionals shall collaborate.

Le coût des biomédicaments impacte lourdement le fardeau financier déjà important imposé par la polyarthrite rhumatoïde (PR) à la société. Le but de ce travail était de rechercher les motivations de la prescription des médicaments biosimilaires en rhumatologie, tout particulièrement pour prendre en charge les patients atteints de PR. Les travaux effectués ont permis d’estimer les économies annuelles réalisables en France avec le médicament biosimilaire de l’infliximab à 13,6 millions d’EUR, pour la seule prise en charge de la PR. Par ailleurs, une enquête menée auprès des rhumatologues et pharmaciens a permis d’identifier les principaux enjeux liés à l’utilisation de ces médicaments. Enfin, le suivi de leur utilisation en région Grand Est entre 2015 et 2016 rend compte de leur utilisation encore modeste. La mise sur le marché régulière de médicaments biosimilaires, combinée à l’expérience croissante des acteurs et aux dispositifs d’incitation mis en place, devraient permettre de faire progresser la part d’utilisation de ces médicaments dans les prochaines années, et de s’assurer qu’ils tiennent bien leurs engagements sur le plan des économies réalisées. / Biological drugs are associated with high procurement costs and heavily impact the financial burden imposed by rheumatoid arthritis on society. The purpose of this work was to investigate the benefits of using biosimilar drugs in rheumatoid arthritis patients. This work showed the introduction of biosimilar infliximab could lead to substantial annual cost savings of up to €13.6 million nationally, to treat rheumatoid arthritis patients only. Moreover, a biosimilar survey involving rheumatologists and pharmacists allowed us to identify the main issues at stake. Finally, the monitoring of their use in Grand Est region between 2015 and 2016 account for their relatively low utilization rate. The regular launch of new biosimilar medicines, together with growing experience of healthcare players and incentive policies, should allow to increase biosimilar uptake in the future, and also to make sure they meet well their commitments in terms of savings generated.

This thesis deals with a description of three claims reserving methods - with stochastic models for Chain ladder, Bornhuetter/Ferguson and multiplicative method. There are mentioned their assumptions, parameter estimates, their properties and formulas for loss reserves in the first part. The second part of the text is devoted to formulas for the mean squared error of prediction and its estimate. Finally, a numerical example shows comparison of these methods.

La thèse propose de retracer l’histoire de l’utilisation et de l’encadrement des informations relatives à la qualité nutritionnelle des produits alimentaires circulant sur les marchés. Elle s’inscrit ainsi dans le cadre de la sociologie économique en s’intéressant plus particulièrement et dans une perspective historique à l’émergence de dispositifs visant à « équiper » le choix nutritionnel des consommateurs. Parmi ces dispositifs, l’étiquetage nutritionnel et les allégations nutritionnelles et de santé, correspondant, pour le premier, à la manifestation scripturale et réglementaire de la qualité nutritionnelle des produits agroalimentaires et, pour les secondes, à son utilisation marketing, sont au cœur de l’étude. Après avoir retracé les débuts de l’utilisation marketing de la dimension santé des aliments, à travers l’exemple des campagnes publicitaires de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle de la marque américaine d’avoine pour le petit déjeuner Quaker Oats, la thèse se concentre sur l’évolution des règlements encadrant à la fois étiquetage et marketing nutritionnels. Elle prend ainsi comme point de départ l’Amérique des années quarante pour arriver finalement à la situation européenne actuelle et opère donc un déplacement à la fois chronologique et géographique entre l’Amérique et l’Europe, en passant par l’Angleterre. Ce déplacement permet de mesurer les difficultés propres à la mesure nutritionnelle des aliments, à son expression et à sa mobilisation dans le cadre de stratégies aussi bien privées que publiques qui visent à orienter, persuader et équiper les individus dans leurs choix de vie et de consommation. L’étude montre en outre qu’au niveau européen, les notions de santé et de bonne alimentation, au-delà des avancées et controverses scientifiques en la matière, ont aussi des déclinaisons différentes selon les pays et les secteurs d’activités. Ainsi, en matière de réglementation des informations nutritionnelles marchandes, les pays du Nord tels que le Royaume-Uni ou les pays Nordiques ont depuis une vingtaine d’années au moins, intégré cette réglementation dans le cadre de politiques de santé publique plus globales, contrairement aux pays du Sud comme la France ou l’Italie. Ces différences se retrouvent ainsi au niveau européen, comme en témoigne le règlement européen n°1169/2011, voté en 2011. Ce règlement, bien qu’ayant rendu l’étiquetage nutritionnel obligatoire, est marqué par des incohérences et des faiblesses qui reflètent bien les difficultés propres à la « capture » des caractéristiques nutritionnelles des produits et à leur « mise en boîte ». / The question of the display of nutritional information on food products has been largely dealt with from an Anglo-Saxon perspective, especially in the United States; this study aims to examine the problem from a European perspective. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of economic sociology, this dissertation focuses on the social and historical factors surrounding the emergence of apparatus that aim to « equip » consumers’ nutritional choices. Among these devices, nutritional labeling and health and nutrition claims are central to the study. The former is the scriptural and regulatory description of nutritional quality and the latter, the expression of this quality in a marketing context. After an in depth consideration of early examples of the use of nutrition based rhetoric in marketing through the example of the Quaker Oats brand's advertising campaigns of the late nineteenth century, the dissertation studies the evolution of the rules and regulations on labeling and nutritional marketing. Mapping this historical trajectory means drawing a line from the United States in the 40s to the current situation in the European Union. This analysis thus operates a chronological and geographical movement from America to Europe via the United Kingdom. This movement sheds light on the specific difficulties attached to the nutritional measuring of food products, to its expression and to its use in private and public strategies aimed at guiding, persuading and equipping individuals faced with lifestyle and consumption choices. The study also shows how inside the European Union, the definition of notions such as good health and proper alimentation, as well as being informed by scientific knowledge and controversies, is also subjected to both geographical and socio-professional variations. For example, Northern European countries such as the United Kingdom or Scandinavia have been integrating the question of the regulation of nutritional information on food products into public health policies unlike southern countries such as France or Italy. These differences have an effect on European food labeling policy, as in the case of the European regulation n°1169/2011, voted in 2011. Although it does make nutrition labels compulsory on a majority of products, this ruling bares incoherencies and flaws that deeply reflect the problems linked to the “capturing” and “boxing” of food products' nutritional characteristics.

The thesis aims to analyze customer satisfaction in the airlines Travel Service in claiming damages. The theoretical part provides the basic concepts of air transport, legislation on civil aviation, the importance of the position of airlines in Czech and foreign aviation market and the introduction of airline Travel Service. The practical part deals with the definition of fundamental rights of air passengers in claiming damages, especially when claiming baggage and delayed or canceled flights. The practical part has been prepared based on the survey of customers Airlines Travel Service In the final part of this thesis compares Travel Service with selected airlines. This thesis uses descriptive method especially in its theoretical part, analysis and comparison method in the practical part.

The aim of the thesis The role of independent loss adjusters in the insurance market is to analyze various situations and cases, that the independent loss adjusters during their praxis solve, and clarify procedures, including calculations of insurance settlement. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part focuses on the specifics of the insurance and technical reserves. Thesis also describes job content of the independent loss adjusters including all the aspects, that are associated with it. The practical part deals with real situations with fictitious names and data.

In British Columbia, fifty-one First Nations have filed Statements of Intent signifying their interest in negotiating a treaty with Canada and the Province of British Columbia since the establishment of the British Columbia Treaty Commission in 1993. Twenty-seven of these First Nations participants claim ocean spaces within their traditional territories. Academic research and writing over the last decade has focussed on Aboriginal title to land, with little, if any reference, to ocean spaces. The concept of Aboriginal title was recently recognized by the courts in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia. My research will explore what information and legal principles could be utilized to recognize Aboriginal title to ocean spaces within the Canadian legal context, and therefore provide some bases for First Nations in substantiating their claims. My analysis will begin with a review of international law principles surrounding title to and jurisdiction over ocean spaces. Following which, I will delineate the sources available for recognizing such a theory, starting with a review of the concepts of Aboriginal title as determined in Delgamuukw and their applicability to ocean spaces. Delgamuukw has affirmed Aboriginal perspectives are an integral part of the investigation of Aboriginal title, and voices of members of two particular First Nations being the Haida Nation and the Tsawwassen First Nation, with whom I visited, will be included. Rounding out the sources will be a review of comparative legal concepts drawn from the United States and Australian experiences, and the principles espoused within international human rights materials. Having established the avenues for recognition of this concept, I then turn to discussion of its reconciliation within the Canadian legal context by reviewing theories of co-management and examining a number of settlement instruments that have yielded some degree of reconciliation between the federal government and the particular First Nation or Province involved. Comments from First Nations in respect of the obstacles that hold back reconciliation will be noted. In conclusion, my research will deduce Aboriginal title to ocean spaces is a viable legal concept in Canada, and First Nations have the resources necessary to substantiate their claims. Comments about the possibilities that may result at the treaty table or in the courts upon recognition of this concept will also be discussed. This analysis is timely and important as many First Nations are nearing the stage of the treaty process where discussions will be directed towards what territories these First Nations groups will retain and what ownership, jurisdiction and rights they will enjoy as to ocean spaces and resources. Such issues directly relate to the continued way of life, culture, and sustainable economic growth and stability of First Nation communities into the twenty-first century. / Law, Peter A. Allard School of / Graduate

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:18:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_tarcisio_barros.pdf: 2305891 bytes, checksum: d106f3a9ef79c11e3e1039d73f8f5d7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-07 / This work analyses two juridical questions that are strongly related: the issue of social rights efficacy and the matter of procedure. celerity when related with them. In the beginning, the study examined how the fundamental rights was born in the juridical western societies e how they developed to became one of the most substantial attributes of contemporary constitutional democracies. It was affirmed in the text that 1988 Brazilian Federal Constitution fully adopted the profile of Social State, as happened in Western Europe after the Second World War finished in 1945. In that time and after, new constitutional doctrines passed to consider the Constitution as a arder of values directed to satisfy human dignity, what have taken the State to act more efficiently in favor of equality among mankind, by the recognition of state social duties. Lastly, the study analyzed if the Brazilian federal small claims courts are suitable to observe the right to procedure celerity, which is laid in Brazilian Constitution. The conclusion was that, after the study of the laws that regulate the federal small claims and from the view of statistics, the legal changes adopted by Federal Law 10.259/2001 admitted major celerity in law suits concerning to social rights / Este trabalho enfoca duas questões jurídicas que se relacionam fortemente: a questão da eficácia dos direitos fundamentais, n.otadamente no que tange aos direitos fundamentais sociais, e o problema da celeridade da prestação jurisdicional na concretização desses direitos. Procurou-se, inicialmente, mostrar de que forma os direitos fundamentais surgiram nas ordens jurídicas ocidentais e como se desenvolveram para enfim se tornarem uma das características jurídicas essenciais das democracias constitucionais contemporâneas Ressaltou-se no texto que a Constituição Federal brasileira de 1988 adotou de forma plena o ideário do Estado Social, amplamente aceito, também, na Europa Ocidental do pós-Guerra de 1945, pois, a partir da segunda metade do século passado, doutrinas neoconstitucionalistas passaram a tratar da Constituição como uma ordem de valores direcionada à satisfação da dignidade humana e isto repercutiu no reconhecimento da existência de direitos prestacionais de cunho social exigíveis do Estado como fator de promoção da igualdade real entre todos os membros da comunidade. Por outro lado, o estudo abordou a questão da intervenção do Poder Judiciário na concretização de direitos sociais, afirmando que não existe óbice constitucional absoluto quanto à essa atuação, exceto no que tange à inexistência de recursos financeiros. Por fim, procurou-se analisar se os juizados especiais federais estão aptos a atender ao princípio da celeridade processual ou da razoável duração do processo. A análise do suporte normativo dos juizados especiais federais, juntamente com o estudo dos dados estatísticos oficiais, mostraram que as mudanças legais introduzidas pela Lei n. 10.259/2001 permitiram uma maior celeridade processual nas causas envolvendo os direitos sociais