This diploma thesis deals with the topic of reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings. The main goal of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic and to explain fundamental aspects of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings as well. The diploma thesis focuses not only on the interpretation of legal provisions but also on the case law, which is cited throughout the text. The diploma thesis consists of an introduction, two main chapters, and a conclusion. The first chapter discusses reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and is systematically segmented according to corresponding phases of a trial proceeding. The first part of this chapter describes costs in trial proceedings. The following subchapters discuss principles of cost reimbursement in contentious proceedings. The subchapter 1.3.3 focuses on legal conditions for awarding costs with an emphasis on the discretionary power of the courts and pretrial notice. The subchapter 1.4 deals with reimbursement of costs in non-contentious proceedings. The last part of this chapter discusses remedies directed against decisions regarding costs in trial proceedings, including the constitutional complaint. Reimbursement of costs in enforcement proceedings under the Enforcement Regulations...

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) ermöglichen die Erstellung von leistungsfähigen, mehrschichtigen Client/Server-Anwendungen auf Basis der Programmiersprache Java. Eine grundlegende und wichtige Entscheidung, die häufig unterschätzt wird, ist die Art und Weise, wie Daten zwischen komplexen Java-Clients (Fat-Clients) und Servern transportiert werden sollen. Während der Implementierung kann ein fehlendes Konzept zur Übertragung von Daten dazu führen, daß Entwickler unterschiedliche Verfahren wählen, die verschiedenen Anforderungen an die Anwendung, wie z.B. ein möglichst gutes Leistungsverhalten, widersprechen und evtl. unter hohem Aufwand rückgängig zu machen sind. Verschiedene Übertragungsverfahren erschweren außerdem die Erweiterung und Wartung des Systems, da zu analysieren ist, wie in verschiedenen Fällen die Datenübertragung gelöst wird. In diesem Beitrag werden deshalb neue Vorgehensweisen vorgestellt, um Daten zwischen einer objektorientierten Applikationsschicht, die sich auf dem Server befindet, und den Clients zu übertragen. Aktive Daten-Container (ADCs) stellen einen einheitlichen Transportmechanismus bereit, der zusätzliche Funktionalität besitzt, um die Datenübertragung zu optimieren. Dazu gehört z.B. der automatische Datenaustausch mit Geschäftsobjekten, um das manuelle Beschreiben und Auslesen des Daten-Containers durch den Anwendungsentwickler einzusparen. Zusätzlich wird die Optimierung des Datenübertragungsvorgangs im Sinne des Leistungsverhaltens angestrebt. ADCs sind sehr flexibel und können in der Anwendungsentwicklung als universelles und zentral zur Verfügung gestelltes Datenübertragungskonzept dienen. Eine Untersuchung des Leistungsverhaltens zeigt, daß mit den vorliegenden Konzepten der Transaktionsdurchsatz hinsichtlich der Kommunikation bis zum Faktor 8 gesteigert werden kann. Im Rahmen eines Industrieprojekts konnte mit Hilfe der Konzepte Entwicklungsaufwand im Umfang von ca. 18% der erforderlichen Codezeilen einer komplexen Anwendung eingespart werden.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(経済学) / 甲第18638号 / 経博第500号 / 新制||経||271(附属図書館) / 31552 / 京都大学大学院経済学研究科経済学専攻 / (主査)教授 照山 博司, 教授 柴田 章久, 准教授 敦賀 貴之 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Economics / Kyoto University / DGAM

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The primary energy costs of building materials and structures are discussed and comparisons are made between typical dwelling types. The economics of alternative wall, roof and floor constructions, providing various levels of insulationy are examined. Costs are assessed for a number of periods from 1970 to early 1980 for heating by gas and night rate electricity. The effect of price changes-on the economic attractiveness of insulation is investigated and the likely effects of future price rises are considered. It is concluded that, in certain circumstances, higher levels of insulation than those normally used in the UK have been economically attractive for the last few years and may possibly become more so. A survey of over fifty local authority houses with central heating, carried out by the author in Spring 1978, is described. Three types of houses of similar size were involved, having gas-fired 'wet' systems, and ducted warm air heating from electric storage and gas-fired units respectively. The survey was designed to determine certain aspects of occupant behaviour relevant to fuel consumption. Using regression techniques, relationships are obtained which explain more than two thirds of the variance of mean useful energy input rate between the houses of a given type in cold weather in terms of hours of use of central heating window opening habits, and for warm air heating, the closing of outlet registers. It was also revealed that for the house types with gas-fired heating the number of hours of use of the central heating was strongly influenced by household size and occupancy patterns. The implications for building design of the effects of occupant behaviour and of financial and energy costs are discussed.

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Targeting farms with low costs of reducing agro-pollution has been suggested as a means to reduce control costs. The potential to use better information to reduce costs of achieving a regulatory performance standard was evaluated. Using the Lower Susquehanna watershed as a case study, three strategies to target reductions in nitrogen runoff from dairy farms were studied: 1) no information -- uniform allocation, 2) perfect information -- cost-effective allocation, and 3) partial information - estimated cost-effective allocation. From no information to perfect information, more detailed information about the farms’ marginal compliance costs with a reduced nitrogen runoff standard was collected. Two strategies to target the performance standards, the private and social cost-effective allocation (private cost-effective allocations minimized farm compliance costs while social cost-effective allocations minimized the sum of compliance plus transaction costs) were also compared. Each strategy's total control cost (compliance plus transaction costs) were estimated for a 237 dairy farm sample with a modified micro parameter (bieconomic) model which preserves the watershed heterogeneity. Because cost-effective performance standards involve large transaction costs, they were compared to two design standards which have lower transaction costs. It was found that targeting problem farms in the Lower Susquehanna watershed could save nearly $3 million for the sampled 237 farms. Extrapolating this result to the 6,662 dairy farms in the watershed could save the state more than $55 million over a uniform allocation of responsibility. Results also show that the social cost-effective allocation of control responsibilities (based on marginal compliance plus transaction costs) in targeting policies targets only 50 percent of the dairy farms with a mean control cost per pound of $11 compared to $47 per pound with the uniform performance standard applied to all the farms. This study suggests that a few farms in the Lower Susquehanna should be targeted a large reduction burden. Criteria to target these farms should be: somewhat larger farms with steep and long slopes, on soil hydrological groups C and D, close to surface water, that have no or few best management practices in place, and grow large amounts of corn. Cost-effective practices for dairy farmers in the Lower Susquehanna are manure incorporation and storage, eliminating or reducing winter manure spreading, and using more strip-cropping. The value of perfect information was found to exceed the value of partial information in the study area because the total control costs were lower. Compliance costs for perfect information under the social cost-effective allocation were $853,911 compared to $968,121 under the partial information strategy. Total transaction costs were $126,996 for the perfect information and $74,368 for the partial information strategy. Total control costs were $980,907 for the perfect information and $1,042,489 for the partial information strategy. Results for the private cost-effective allocation were similar. The private cost-effective targeting strategy did not differ significantly from the social cost-effective targeting strategy mainly because aggregate compliance costs make up 99% of the total control costs. The two regulatory design standards requiring manure storage and stripcropping on more erosive soils were also evaluated. However, neither design standard achieves the 40 percent nitrogen delivery reduction goal in the watershed. / Ph. D.

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This study has evaluated the effectiveness of the present taxation policies in Virginia's interstate and arterial highway systems. To do this, it has estimated the vehicle miles of travel for different classes of vehicles on each route, the maintenance costs (general and replacement) arisen from the use of each route by different classes of vehicles, and the revenues (fuels tax and registration fee) contributed by each class of vehicles on each route. Then, the expected revenues were compared to expected expenditures over a ten-year period ( from 1981 to 1990) to show when and in which class of vehicles the present taxation policies should be changed so that sufficient funds can be generated to cover the maintenance costs of the highways. The study has also provided enough information to show the degree of importance of the routes in the state highway system -- in terms of travel and financial viability -- which may help to set up a priority scheme for the maintenance and improvement of the routes. / M.S.