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Submitted by Mariana Pereira de Morais Pacheco (marianapmpacheco@gmail.com) on 2018-02-15T18:45:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Thesis_final.pdf: 659810 bytes, checksum: 96b9dc5caecd59d87012b2db6362ec20 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Josineide da Silva Santos Locatelli (josineide.locatelli@fgv.br) on 2018-02-15T18:51:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Thesis_final.pdf: 659810 bytes, checksum: 96b9dc5caecd59d87012b2db6362ec20 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-16T11:43:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thesis_final.pdf: 659810 bytes, checksum: 96b9dc5caecd59d87012b2db6362ec20 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018 / This thesis discusses the financial, commercial, political and legal risks of international trade operations involving International Bank Guarantees. It starts by defining the most usual international trade instruments and, then, defining Standby Letters of Credit, Performance Bonds and Bid Bonds issued according to the ISP 98, URGD 758 or UCP 600 as International Bank Guarantees. Later, it explores each specific risk. The financial risks are divided into foreign exchange risk, applicant's default risk and bank reputation risk. It is considered as a commercial risks frauds and low quality products. Legal risks are legal battles and local legislation. There is a topic that discusses specifically the U.S. related risks, as the country has a very particular legislation when it comes to International Bank Guarantees. The political risks are related to commercial embargoes and sanctions, changes in foreign policy and to the deterioration of commercial reations. The following section discusses how to mitigate each of the risks discussed. It shows whether or not this risk can be mitigated and if it also affects internation trade operations that do not use International Bank Guarantees. Lastly, the thesis discusses about the ideal international trade instrument. At the moment, International Bank Guarantees are the best instrument, still not the perfect one as it has some limitations. / Esta tese debate os riscos financeiros, comerciais, políticos e legais relacionados a operações de comércio internacional. A tese começa definindo os principais instrumentos usados em transações de comércio internacional. Em seguida, define como Garantia Bancária Internacional as Standby Letters of Credit, Performance Bonds e os Bid Bonds, emitidos de acordo com a ISP 98, URGD 758 ou UCP 600. Depois, a tese explora os riscos específicos das Garantias Bancárias Internacionais. São considerados riscos financeiros o risco cambial, o risco de calote da parte que solicitou a garantia e o risco de reputação dos bancos envolvidos na transação. Riscos comerciais são as fraudes e produtos de má qualidade. Os riscos legais analisados são referentes a batalhas judiciais e legislação local. Além disso, há uma parte da tese dedicada a discutir especificamente os riscos relacionados a legislação americana, que é muito diferente dos outros países em relação a Garantias Bancárias Internacionais. São considerados riscos políticos embargos e sanções comerciais, mudanças na política externa e a deterioração das relações comerciais entre dois países. A última seção da tese discute como mitigar os riscos involvidos em transações com Garantias Bancárias Internacionais. Nesta parte, discute-se quais riscos podem ou não ser mitigados eq quais riscos são inerentes a transações comerciais internacionais, independentemente do uso de Garantias Bancárias Internacionais. Conclui-se que, no momento, Garantias Bancárias Internacionais ainda são o melhor instrumento para assegurar transações comerciais internacionais. Contudo, estes intrumentos ainda não são perfeitos e estão sujeitos a muitos riscos e limitações.

Magister Legum - LLM

Hos Coca‐Cola European Partners är efterfrågan hög på varierande produkter, vilket göratt flödet består av flera omställningar från att producera en viss produkt till en annan.För att säkerhetsställa att produktionseffektiviteten är hög, bör tiden på momenten somej är värdeadderande minimeras. Genom ställtidsreducering ökar maskinensutnyttjandegrad samt vid standardisering underlättas planeringsarbetet förproduktionsteamet. Som en ideologi användes LEAN‐filosofin som bygger på att maximera kundnyttan ochminimera slöserier genom effektivisering. För att eliminera moment som inte har någotvärde för kunden utnyttjades metoder som SMED, 5S och PDCA. SMED‐metodenanvändes på ett strukturerat arbetssätt för att hantera inre och yttre ställtider vilket skaeffektivisera produktionsprocessen. Dessutom användes förbättringsverktyget Ishikawa(orsak‐verkan‐diagram) för att åskådliggöra rotorsaker till det definierade problemet. Målet med examensarbetet var att identifiera förbättringsförslag för att reduceraproduktionens ställtider. För att grunda förbättringsförslagen utfördes observationer föratt begripa hur processen fungerar, och för en detaljerad förståelse utfördes intervjuermed relevant personal. Litteraturstudie genomfördes för att utvidgaproduktionskunskaper för att lättare kunna spåna idéer vilket i sin tur berikaderesultatet. Examensarbetet har resulterat i att införa ett kommunikationshjälpmedel för atteffektivisera kommunikationen mellan samtliga stationer. För att reducera operatörersbegripsvårigheter medfördes förbättringsförslaget att införa mer visuella manualhanböcker för maskiner. Vid rengöringsprocessen föreslogs införing av envalfunktion i styr‐ och reglersystemet, där tekniker har möjligheten att behandla berördarör från tidigare produktionskörning. Förbättringsförslagen estimeras spara företaget uppemot 1 040 000 kr årligen. / At Coca‐Cola European Partners, demand is high for varying products, which means that the flow consists of several switches from producing a particular product to another. To ensure that production efficiency is high, the time on moments that are not value‐editing should be minimized. With stand‐by reductions, the utilization rate of the machine increases, and in the case of standardization, the planning work for the production team is facilitated. As an ideology, the LEAN philosophy was used, based on maximizing customer benefits and minimizing waste through efficiency. To eliminate points that have no value for the customer, methods such as SMED, 5S and PDCA were used. The SMED method was used in a structured way of working to handle internal and external set times, which will streamline the production process. In addition, the Ishikawa enhancement tool (causeeffectdiagram) was used to illustrate rotor causes to the defined problem. The aim of the thesis was to identify improvement proposals to reduce production deadlines. In order to base the improvement proposals, observations were made to understand how the process works, and for a detailed understanding interviews were performed with relevant personnel. Literature study was conducted to expand production skills in order to more easily predicted ideas, which in turn enriched the results. The thesis work has resulted in the introduction of a communication aid to streamline communication between all stations. In order to reduce operator comprehension difficulties, the proposed improvement was introduced to introduce more visual manual manuals for machines. In the cleaning process, it was proposed to introduce a selection function in the control system, where technicians have the ability to process affected pipes from previous production run. The improvement proposals are estimated to save the company up to SEK 1,040,000annually.

<p>One of the most parts of VOIP management is fault management and, in having a good fault management, finding good mechanisms to detect faults in the network have to be considered.</p><p>The main focus of this project is to implement different types of fast fault recovery protocols in networks<strong>,</strong> especially networks that carry IP telephony. Having a complete understanding of some common link failure detection and fault recovery protocols<strong>,</strong> such as spanning tree protocol (STP), rapid spanning tree protocol (RSTP) and per-VLAN spanning tree protocol (PVSTP)<strong>,</strong> and also having a complete understanding of three other common techniques for fault detection and fault recovery, such as hot standby routing protocol (HSRP), virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) and gateway load balancing protocol (GLBP) will be regarded in the project. We are going to test some fault recovery protocols which can be used in IP telephony networks and choose the best. We intend to focus on this issue in LAN environment in theoretical descriptions and practical implementations.</p><p>The final outcome of the thesis is implementation in the Halmstad University’s lab environment to obtain the final result. For doing our thesis, we are going to use some technical tools as hardware tools (Cisco L3 and L2 switches, Routers, IP Phones) and tools which are used for network performance monitoring<strong>,</strong> like as CommVeiw.</p>

One of the most parts of VOIP management is fault management and, in having a good fault management, finding good mechanisms to detect faults in the network have to be considered. The main focus of this project is to implement different types of fast fault recovery protocols in networks, especially networks that carry IP telephony. Having a complete understanding of some common link failure detection and fault recovery protocols, such as spanning tree protocol (STP), rapid spanning tree protocol (RSTP) and per-VLAN spanning tree protocol (PVSTP), and also having a complete understanding of three other common techniques for fault detection and fault recovery, such as hot standby routing protocol (HSRP), virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) and gateway load balancing protocol (GLBP) will be regarded in the project. We are going to test some fault recovery protocols which can be used in IP telephony networks and choose the best. We intend to focus on this issue in LAN environment in theoretical descriptions and practical implementations. The final outcome of the thesis is implementation in the Halmstad University’s lab environment to obtain the final result. For doing our thesis, we are going to use some technical tools as hardware tools (Cisco L3 and L2 switches, Routers, IP Phones) and tools which are used for network performance monitoring, like as CommVeiw.

This thesis deals with designing a small hydraulic power plant, where a swirl turbine is conected to a unique synchronous working, which will offer a reliable and easy installation of the hydraulic power plant. As a result a wider potential of energy could be produced from renewable resources. The use of a narrow rottor as a holder of the permanent magnets is the biggest difficulties of this design.

Bank demand guarantees have become an established part of international trade. Demand guarantees, standby letters of credit and commercial letters of credit are all treated as autonomous contracts whose operation will not be interfered with by courts on grounds immaterial to the guarantee or credit itself. The idea in the documentary credit transaction/demand guarantee transaction is that if the documents (where applicable) presented are in line with the terms of the credit/guarantee the bank has to pay, and if the documents do not correspond to the requirements, the bank must not pay. However, over the years a limited number of exceptions to the autonomy principle of demand guarantees and letters of credit have come to be acknowledged and accepted in practice. In certain circumstances, the autonomy of demand guarantees and letters of credit may be ignored by the bank and regard may be had to the terms and conditions of the underlying contract. The main exceptions concern fraud and illegality in the underlying contract. In this thesis a great deal of consideration has been given to fraud and illegality as possible grounds on which payment under demand guarantees and letters of credit have been attacked (and sometimes even prevented) in the English, American and South African courts. It will be shown that the prospect of success depends on the law applicable to the demand guarantee and letter of credit, and the approach a court in a specific jurisdiction takes. At present, South Africa has limited literature on demand guarantees, and the case law regarding the grounds upon which payment under a demand guarantee might be prevented is scarce and often non-existent. In South Africa one finds guidance by looking at similar South African case law dealing with commercial and standby letters of credit and applying these similar principles to demand guarantees. The courts, furthermore, find guidance by looking at how other jurisdictions, in particular the English courts, deal with these issues. Therefore, how the South African courts currently deal/should be dealing/probably will be dealing with the unfair and fraudulent calling of demand guarantees/letters of credit is discussed in this thesis. / Jurisprudence / LL.D

Bank demand guarantees have become an established part of international trade. Demand guarantees, standby letters of credit and commercial letters of credit are all treated as autonomous contracts whose operation will not be interfered with by courts on grounds immaterial to the guarantee or credit itself. The idea in the documentary credit transaction/demand guarantee transaction is that if the documents (where applicable) presented are in line with the terms of the credit/guarantee the bank has to pay, and if the documents do not correspond to the requirements, the bank must not pay. However, over the years a limited number of exceptions to the autonomy principle of demand guarantees and letters of credit have come to be acknowledged and accepted in practice. In certain circumstances, the autonomy of demand guarantees and letters of credit may be ignored by the bank and regard may be had to the terms and conditions of the underlying contract. The main exceptions concern fraud and illegality in the underlying contract. In this thesis a great deal of consideration has been given to fraud and illegality as possible grounds on which payment under demand guarantees and letters of credit have been attacked (and sometimes even prevented) in the English, American and South African courts. It will be shown that the prospect of success depends on the law applicable to the demand guarantee and letter of credit, and the approach a court in a specific jurisdiction takes. At present, South Africa has limited literature on demand guarantees, and the case law regarding the grounds upon which payment under a demand guarantee might be prevented is scarce and often non-existent. In South Africa one finds guidance by looking at similar South African case law dealing with commercial and standby letters of credit and applying these similar principles to demand guarantees. The courts, furthermore, find guidance by looking at how other jurisdictions, in particular the English courts, deal with these issues. Therefore, how the South African courts currently deal/should be dealing/probably will be dealing with the unfair and fraudulent calling of demand guarantees/letters of credit is discussed in this thesis. / Jurisprudence / LL.D