LD2668 .T4 1950 C376 / Master of Science

This thesis is concerned with the reform of agricultural leases in Scotland. There is a review of selected topics in the history of legislation in this area concentrating upon the issue of security of tenure. It is argued that developments in 2010 with regard to prospective legislation and in case law have left open the road for renewed pressure for the creation of a compulsory “right to buy” for tenants with secure agricultural leases. Subsequent relevant developments are ‘noted up’. The thesis includes a Draft Bill which would introduce a new statutory structure for the tenure of certain farms currently held on “1991 Act tenancies”. The structure would rebalance the property law rights and duties of landlords and tenants with due regard to property rights and land management issues. Protections for the legitimate concerns of both former landlord and tenant are included and there is a major supervisory role for the Scottish Land Court. The Draft Bill includes detailed provisions on succession to the new form of tenure. The Draft Bill also innovates upon recently modified arrangements for fixed term farm tenancies Limited Duration Tenancies (“LDTs”) by the introduction of a degree of flexibility. Recent statistics on the take up of LDTs and the issue of a compulsory right to buy for secure agricultural tenants cast a shadow over the future of most of the currently available statutory forms of tenure. The new statutory structure and the innovation upon the LDT which would be introduced by the Draft Bill map out a future for Scottish agricultural tenancies which would enable the question posed in the title to be answered in the affirmative.

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Thesis(M.S.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2007. / "August 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-83). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Greifswald.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs Universitet, 2007. / Added t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1972. / Includes abstract. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-385).

Thesis (master's)--Thammasat University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69).

abstract: Cloud computing has received significant attention recently as it is a new computing infrastructure to enable rapid delivery of computing resources as a utility in a dynamic, scalable, and visualized manner. SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) provide a now paradigm in cloud computing, which goal is to provide an effective and intelligent way to support end users' on-demand requirements to computing resources, including maturity levels of customizable, multi-tenancy and scalability. To meet requirements of on-demand, my thesis discusses several critical research problems and proposed solutions using real application scenarios. Service providers receive multiple requests from customers, how to prioritize those service requests to maximize the business values is one of the most important issues in cloud. An innovative prioritization model is proposed, which uses different types of information, including customer, service, environment and workflow information to optimize the performance of the system. To provide "on-demand" services, an accurate demand prediction and provision become critical for the successful of the cloud computing. An effective demand prediction model is proposed, and applied to a real mortgage application. To support SaaS customization and fulfill the various functional and quality requirements of individual tenants, a unified and innovative multi-layered customization framework is proposed to support and manage the variability of SaaS applications. To support scalable SaaS, a hybrid database design to support SaaS customization with two-layer database partitioning is proposed. To support secure SaaS, O-RBAC, an ontology based RBAC (Role based Access Control) model is used for Multi-Tenancy Architecture in clouds. To support a significant number of tenants, an easy to use SaaS construction framework is proposed. As a summary, this thesis discusses the most important research problems in cloud computing, towards effective and intelligent SaaS. The research in this thesis is critical to the development of cloud computing and provides fundamental solutions to those problems. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Computer Science 2011