novation is originally a roman law institution which has influenced the legal system of western countries. in roman law the obligation was a legal personal relationship that changing one of its element resulted in dissolution of obligation and consequently, the transmission of obligation became impossible; therefore, the novation, seeking to achieve the transmission of debt and credit, was esta...

the theory of efficient breach states that it is socially useful to breach a contract whenever the breach would leave no party worse off, while leaving at least one party better off. in other words, economic analyses of breach are mainly concerned with situations in which breach is pareto-superior, rather than just overall profit-maximizing. in contrast with moral theories that hold that breach...

The argument of Julian Savulescu’s 2001 paper, “Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children” is flawed in a number of respects. Savulescu confuses reasons with obligations and equivocates between the claim that parents have some reason to want the best for their children and the more radical claim that they are morally obligated to attempt to produce the best child possible....

The field of metabolomics studies the role of small molecules called metabolites. Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used for identification and quantitation of metabolites. Extracting knowledge from MS data is a difficult problem and a lot of research is done in the area of identification of metabolites. However, precise quantitation of the identified metabolites is still challenging. This disse...