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Analysis, the resolution of a thing into its elements or component parts. By the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31) (see ADULTERATION), provision is made for the appointment in every district by the local authorities of one or more persons possessing competent medical, chemical, and miscroscopical knowledge as analysts of all Articles of food and drink. An article purchased for analysis under this Act must be divided into three parts (s. 18), each sufficiently large to afford reasonable facilities for analysis: see Lowery v. Hallard, 1906 (1) KB 398. The Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 45), contains analogous provisions for securing to agriculturists the purity of artificial manures and feeding stuffs for cattle, etc....
comparative market analysis (comps)
comparative market analysis (comps) a property evaluation that determines property value by comparing similar properties sold within the last year. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
break-even analysis
break-even analysis The method of determining the exact point at which a company makes neither a profit nor a loss ...
Food and sale
Food and sale, 'Food' is defined by S. 2(v) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 as meaning 'any article used as food or drink for human consumption other than drugs and water and includes:(a) any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of human food, and(b) any flavouring matter or condiments. 'Sale' is defined by S. 2(xiii) as follows: 'Sale' with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the sale of any article of food, whether for cash or on credit or by way of exchange and whether by wholesale or retail, for human consumption or use, or for analysis, and includes an agreement for sale, an offer for sale, the exposing for sale or having in possession for sale of any such article, and includes also an attempt to sell any such article; According to the definition of 'food' any used as food or drink for human consumption and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of hu...
Psychoanalysis
A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses based on the work of Dr Sigmund Freud 1856 1939 of Vienna The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent it consists in a close analysis of the patients mental history effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance In some variants stress is laid upon the dream life and of treatment by means of suggestion...
Energy audit
Energy audit, means the verification, monitoring and analysis of use of energy including submission of technical report containing recommendations for improving energy efficiency with cost benefit analysis and an action plan to reduce energy consumption. [Energy Conservation Act, 2001 (52 of 2001), s. 2(i)]...
Salary or wages
Salary or wages, means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment and includes dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments, by whatever name called, paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), but does not include--(i) any other allowance which the employee is for the time being entitled to;(ii) the value of any house accommodation or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of foodgrains or other articles.(iii) any travelling concession;(iv) any bonus (including incentive, production and attendance bonus);(v) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the employee under any law for t...
Bracton
Bracton, the author of the Latin treatise entitled De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angli'. He lived at the latter end of the reign of Henry the Third. Bracton's book, compared with that of Glanville, is a voluminous work. It is divided into five books, and these into tracts and chapters. See 2 Reeves' Hist. c. viii. 86, note (a), for an analysis of the several divisions of the chapters and a complete digest of the contents of this venerable code. The rules of property are explained; the proceedings in actions, through the minutest steps, are investigated and developed; while every proposition is supported by fair deduction, or corroborated by the authority of some adjudged case, so that the reader never fails in deriving instruction or amusement from the study of this scientific treatise on our ancient laws and customs. Bracton was deservedly looked up to as the first source of legal knowledge, even down to the time of Sir Edward Coke, who seems to have made this author his guide in all ...
Scandium
A rare metallic element of the boron group whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals euxenite and gadolinite It has not yet been isolated Symbol Sc Atomic weight 44...
Semeiology
The study of signs as an element of communication the analysis of systems of communication also called semiotics...
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