Under the principle of freedom of contract, when two parties begin contract negotiations, they are under no obligation to actually arrive at an agreement and each one carries the risk for its own expenses and losses caused by the negotiations. However, even if the main rule says that each party bears the costs it might have incurred during the negotiations, if the parties do not reach an agreement

Abstract Concepts as flexible learning, lifelong learning, life wide learning, individualization, globalization are discussed. What does it mean and what are the consequences on HEI perspectives. The critical issue is who are the learners and the learning providers and what are their frames of references.

New particle accelerator based research facilities tend to be much more productive, but often in coincidence with higher energy consumption. The total energy consumption of mankind is steeply rising and this is mainly caused by quickly developing countries. Some European countries decided to terminate nuclear power generation and to switch to sustainable energy production. Also the CO2 problem giv

Decades of reforms focused on the deregulation of markets, have lead to disaggregation, competition and weakened political control. Today, the Western world is struggling to develop models to improve coordination: Whole-of-Government (WG) reforms are implemented. These reforms are focused in particular on the wicked issues that tend to appear in the boundaries between public and private, between p

We have extended recently reported hyperfine structure studies of 2D states in alkali atoms to several new states. The 2D states were populated in a two-step excitation scheme, involving a conventional RF lamp and a cw tunable dye laser. Using level crossing and optical double resonance techniques we have determined the hyperfine structure of the 8 2D3/2,5/a states in 8TRb and the 11, 12, 13, 14 a

The dielectric continuum model has rightfully been and continues to be a major workhorse for theory and modelling in Surface and Colloid Chemistry. Due to the implicit description of water, entering only as a scaling constant for charge-charge interactions, one would not expect it to work for short distances. However, considerable evidence has been accumulated over the years which shows that t

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