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by Patrick Hui Po-on. / Abstract in Chinese / Bibliography : leaves 77-78 / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1982

In the last decade, the European air transport industry has undergone a process in several stages of transition towards a single market. Liberalization has been closely linked to the effective application of the state aid rules of the EC Treaty. / In principle, direct aid to undertakings within the common market is not prohibited by the state aid rules in the Treaty. However, aid granted by Member States that distorts or threatens to distort competition by giving one airline an unfair advantage over its competitors, and in so far as it affects trade between Member States, is incompatible with the Treaty. Certain mandatory or discretionary exemptions may apply to aid to airlines providing that the measure fulfills the conditions and requirements as stated by the Treaty. The European Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority have a wide discretion in deciding whether or not certain aid measures fall within the stated exemptions. Where the market forces alone are not able to achieve the desired results or if they are only able to do so in a limited capacity, such exemptions may be warranted to the extent not contrary to the common interest. / A special mechanism is in place to ensure that state aid is properly scrutinized in the light of the demands of the Treaty and the EEA Agreement. The EC Commission or the EFTA Surveillance Authority must be notified of all aid measures in order to assess their compatibility with state aid rules.

After more than ten years from its initiation by the Canadian delegation in 1988, the UNIDROIT's legal reform in the area of international security and leasing interests in mobile equipment reached its final stage of discussion at the international level. A Preliminary Draft UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (" Convention") and a Preliminary Draft Protocol on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment ("Protocol") present an evolution of the international security law and the aircraft finance law in particular. The "Convention", as applied through the "Protocol", particularly aims at economic benefits for the aviation industry, which has to cope with considerable financing difficulties due to the uncoordinated national security laws. This thesis addresses legal and economic issues behind the UNIDROIT proposal. / The texts of the "Convention" and the " Protocol" as reviewed by the Drafting Committee of the First Joint Session (Rome, 1--12 February 1999), are attached in the Appendix. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Canadian airport authorities benefit from the right to seize and detain aircraft where airport charges remain unpaid. By objective measures, this right constitutes a preferred non-consensual right or interest that takes priority under Canadian law over all competing rights and interests in the aircraft subject to seizure and detention, including, for example, the interests of an owner, lessor or secured creditor. In this manner, airport authorities may recover outstanding user fees from both the airlines themselves and from the aircraft owners or lessors. / The Unidroit Convention attempts to harmonise the law applicable to aircraft finance transactions. As such, it targets private law rights. However, its breadth and scope touch upon the statutory rights of third parties with non-consensual interests in aircraft, including those of airport authorities to seize and detain aircraft. / The interplay between the Unidroit regime and the seizure and detention rights of Canada's airport is the focus of this academic discourse. It demonstrates that even though this right, recourse and remedy is of fundamental importance to Canada's National Airports System and its transportation infrastructure generally, the Unidroit Convention could, if implemented as drafted, effectively compromise the ability of Canadian airports to seize and detain aircraft.

In June 1998, a Steering and Revisions Committee of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) fleshed out the final version of a "Draft Unidroit Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment". / Framed by introductory and concluding remarks, the thesis is divided into five chapters. One after the other, these components will expound the generation and elaboration of the reform project, synchronise its jurisdictional aspects with the pre-existing law of international civil procedure and of conflict of jurisdictions, trace intimately related other harmonisation efforts, and briefly compare conventional and up-to-date substantive and conflict of law rules of selected Common and Civil Law jurisdictions that apply to secured transactions and their underlying contractual relationships. It will also review the essential legal characteristics of the 50 years old Geneva Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft and ascertain its qualities in the light of present-day demands, before turning to the gist of substantive and uniform security and assignment law as applicable on the basis of the newly created transnational registration mechanism. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Orientador: Eder Pires de Camargo / Banca: Silvia Regina Quijadas Aro Zuliani / Banca: Camila Silveira da Silva / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta uma análise sobre as Representações Sociais (RS) que licenciandos-bolsistas de um projeto Pibid-Química possuem acerca de aspectos da Educação Especial e da Educação Inclusiva, como conceitos que caracterizam um aluno com Necessidades Educacionais Especiais, sobre o processo de inclusão e o papel dos professores de Química para atuar com estes alunos. Os dados foram constituídos através de entrevistas individuais com 24 licenciandos-bolsistas e as análises foram fomentadas por meio de discussões feitas com dez bolsistas em um Grupo Focal, ambos registrados com gravador de voz. Com caráter qualitativo e utilizando a Análise de Conteúdo foram elaboradas três grandes categorias que representam os objetivos deste trabalho, e as subcategorias presentes em cada uma foram analisadas de acordo com a Teoria do Núcleo Central, de forma, a saber, quais conceitos se encontram no sistema central ou no sistema periférico das RS desses futuros professores. Considerando que há um déficit na formação de professores de Química para atuar com alunos que possuam alguma deficiência, transtorno global de desenvolvimento ou super habilidades/superdotação, o Pibid se torna um importante processo formativo e experiencial, embora tenha sido observado que conceitos, que seriam desejáveis estar no Núcleo Central do RS de futuros professores, ainda estão nos sistemas periféricos dos mesmos. Assim, conclui-se sobre a urgência de modificações na formação acadêmica de professores vol... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Mestre

Stakeholders are increasingly insistent that companies increase firm value. The problem is that stakeholders of financial services firms are unable to accurately determine firm value. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the accuracy of 4 valuation models in predicting the market value of equity of commercial finance companies. Study participating companies were 8 listed U.S. or Canadian commercial finance companies. The theoretical constructs of the study included the accuracy of valuation models, modern portfolio theory, and the correlation of book value of equity to market value of equity. Financial information on participating companies obtained from public filings were input data in 4 valuation models. Multiple regression analysis of valuation model results and book value of equity (the predictor variables) were used to determine the accuracy of the models in predicting the market value of equity (response variable). The findings of the study showed that all 4 valuation models in combination with the book value of equity were statistically significant predictors of the market value of equity of the participating companies at the p < .05 level. However, the dividend discount model (DDM) and residual income model (RIM) were statistically more accurate without the combination of book value of equity (p = .000 and p = .000, respectively) than the discounted cash flow and risk-adjusted discounted cash flow valuation models (p = .371 and p = .904, respectively). The results of this study contribute to positive social change by providing business leaders an ability to measure the effectiveness of their actions in creating firm value. Corporate social responsibility activities correlate to value creation for firms that engage in promoting employee welfare and other stakeholder welfare.

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