Many communities are concerned about the reuse of potentially contaminated land (brownfields) and believe that environmental liability is a hindrance to redevelopment. However, with land price adjustments, liability might not impede the reuse of this land. This article studies state liability rules-specifically, strict liability and joint and several liability-that affect the level and distribu...

one of the special liability is the liability of proprietor of building.sometime the citizen sustain a loss from the destruction of a building and for this reason in evry legal systems the proprietor or the guard of building is responsible. in the law of rom the proprietor was responsible and this liability has been entered into the article 1386 of french civil code and article 333 of iranian c...

Background: Responsibility is a moral component. Liability usually arises from liability, according to which the person is legally liable for the damage he or she has caused to another. One of the most important parts of civil law is civil liability, and since the main purpose of civil liability rules is to compensate for material and moral damages and to repair the damage, the government is no...

The authors present the central capacity sharing (CCS) model and derive equations describing its behaviors to explain results from dual-task situations. The predictions of the CCS model are contrasted with those of the central bottleneck model. The CCS model predicts all of the hallmark effects of the psychological refractory period (PRP) pardigm: -1 slope of the PRP effect at short stimulus on...

Stimuli that are clearly positive or negative (hence valence-laden stimuli) have the potential to interrupt unrelated task processing. A typical example is the emotional Stroop effect (ESE) in which responding to a certain task feature (e.g., color) is delayed by the presentation of task-irrelevant valent stimuli (e.g., negative pictures) compared to valence-neutral stimuli. Here we scrutinize ...

In this paper, we explore how a firm’s reputation affects both the reaction of the market to that firm’s product defects, as well as the firm’s learning response. In contrast to a variety of arguments set out by information economists and market sociologists claiming that reputation serves as an organizational asset, we explore the possibility that reputation can be an organizational liability....

This research examines the liability of storing CO2 in geological formations. There is a potential tortious and contractual liability exposure if stored CO2 is not fully contained by the geological formation. Using a combination of case study and survey methods, this research examines the risks confronted by CO2 storage, the legal and regulatory regimes governing these risks, and liability arra...

among state`s duties are constructing roads, water pipelines and the likes. in order to do these the state sometimes has to utilize private owners` lands. this research, we seek to investigate this questions that is there any possibility of liability for usurpation for state if these formalities are not be observed? some researchers have questioned the possibility of this liability. in this res...