Browsing Theses by Subject "Law"
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ACHIEVING A VALID APPLICATION OF EU LAW IN INTRA- EU ENERGY CHARTER TREATY DISPUTES: A MATTER OF FUNCTIONS.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-08-23)The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) was extensively negotiated and signed by the European Union (EU). However, there are clear indications that legal and policy changes in the EU are gradually challenging the validity of the ... -
Achieving regulatory efficiency: a study of the Greek telecommunications authority
(Queen Mary University of London, 2009)This thesis is an original examination of the structural characteristics that render an administrative agency, entrusted with the regulation of the telecommunications sector, ‘efficient’ or ‘better’ in the sense of the ... -
Actualising economic development through privatisation legal reform: a general assessment of privatisation in Africa with a specific case study of Nigeria and sub focus on the Nigerian electricity sector
(2009)This dissertation analysed the outcome of the adoption and implementation of privatisation by Nigeria, of which a legal framework has been put in place by the government to legalise the process of transferring the ownership ... -
Algebraic Methods for Finite Linear Cellular Automata
(Queen Mary University of London, 1996)Cellular automata are a simple class of extended dynamical systems which have been much studied in recent years. Linear cellular automata are the class of cellular automata most amenable to algebraic analytic treatments, ... -
Analysing restrictive and liberal approaches towards assisted suicide and euthanasia
(2010)The ‘end of life’ issue in relation to assisted suicide and euthanasia is one of our prime concerns and a most widely discussed phenomenon not only in academic and official literature, but also in day-to-day life. Some ... -
Analysis of Alterations in Matrix Quality at Nanoscale in Metabolic Bone Diseases using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)Bone diseases such as osteoporosis and rickets cause significant reduction in bone quantity and quality, leading to mechanical abnormalities. While the reduction of bone quantity can be assessed using clinical tools like ... -
The Application of Article 101 of the Treaty of Lisbon to forms of horizontal collaboration in the Financial Services Sector
(Queen Mary University of London, 2011-07)Since the dawn of the European Union, insurance and banking undertakings claimed to be subject to a special status vis-à-vis the application of EU competition law, due to the quasi social nature of the services they ... -
Arbitration and third parties.
(2008)Modern international transactions have become extremely complicated, requiring the participation of several parties for the delivery of large-scale projects. However. multiparty commercial projects are invariably ... -
Article 31(3)(c) of the VCLT and the principle of systemic integration
(2010)The proliferation of international courts and tribunals combined with the expansion of the areas and density of regulation of international law has given rise to a debate on the issue of fragmentation of international ... -
Assembling Audiences
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)Street performers have to create and manage their own performance events. This makes street performance an ideal type of situation for studying how an audience is assembled and sustained in practice. This thesis uses ... -
Banking in MERCOSUR : liberalisation and integration : policy reflections
(Queen Mary University of London, 2006)This thesis studies MERCOSUR Agreements in the area of banking services. The core issue of this study is to examine whether the present and potential benefits arising from MERCOSUR Agreements - as they have been designed ... -
Banking regulation and deposit insurance: legal and comparative perspective.
(2008)A major point of debate in most financial systems is the relevance, form and scope of regulatory intervention, particularly on the trade-off between the benefits and costs of regulation. Deposit insurance is a prominent ... -
Barriers to the Use of Goal Directed Therapy in a High Risk Surgical Patient Group
(Queen Mary University of London, 13/09/2019)Background Goal directed therapy, the utilisation of fluids and inotropes to optimise cardiovascular performance of tissue oxygen delivery during surgery, has been shown in small studies to reduce complications after major ... -
A barrister’s role in the plea decision: an analysis of drivers affecting advice in the crown court
(2010)This thesis explores the reasons behind barristers' advice to defendants in the Crown Court on plea, primarily through interviews with criminal law practitioners themselves. Beginning with a critical overview of the ... -
Bayesian modelling of music : algorithmic advances and experimental studies of shift-invariant sparse coding
(Queen Mary University of London, 2005)In order to perform many signal processing tasks such as classification, pattern recognition and coding, it is helpful to specify a signal model in terms of meaningful signal structures. In general, designing such a ... -
Between Law and Social Movement Organizations: The Cycle of General Norms in World Society.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-05-13)This thesis addresses the problem of the dissonance between the formulation of highly generalized norms in world society and the failure of those norms to find accommodation in law. To construct this problem and its possible ... -
Bid rigging in the EU public procurement markets
(2010)EU competition law prohibits anti-competitive agreements between bidding companies which manipulate the outcome of tendering processes by pre-determining the winning bidder and suppressing competition among them thereby ... -
A Biomechanical Characterisation of Eccentric and Concentric Loading of the Triceps Surae Complex.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)This thesis presents a biomechanical characterisation of eccentric (EL) and concentric loading (CL) of the triceps surae. EL is commonly adopted as an effective treatment for Achilles tendinopathy, with notably better ... -
Boosting pharmaceutical innovation in the post-trips era; the real life lessons for developing world.
(2011)The process of globalization and the emergence of a rules-based multilateral trading system pose significant challenges to local pharmaceutical industries in developing countries. With the advent of global patent ... -
Bosonisations and Di erentials on Inhomogeneous Quantum Groups
(Queen Mary University of London, 05/12/2019)We dualise Majid's double bosonisation to nd a construction of coquasitriangular Hopf Bop>/ A .<B which we call codouble bosonisation, where B is a nite-dimensional braided Hopf algebra living in the category of comodules ...