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The application of computerized data and text manipulation to manage and interpret large bodies of knowledge or find useful information in large bodies of data The study of methods for knowledge engineering is generally considered as a branch of artificial intelligence...
Engineering
Originally the art of managing engines in its modern and extended sense the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man whether in structures machines chemical substances or living organisms the occupation and work of an engineer In the modern sense the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions may be considered as engineering including such abstract tasks as designing software software engineering...
Profession
Profession, 'one of a limited number of occupation or vocations involving special learning and carry-ing a social prestige -- the learned professional, law, medicine, and the church', New Lexicon Webster Dictionary, p. 798.A profession ordinarily is an occupation requiring intellectual skill, often coupled with manual skill. Thus a teacher uses purely intellectual skill while a painter uses both. In any event, they are not engaged in an occupation in which employers and employees co-operates in the production or sale of commodities or arrangement for their production or sale or distribution and their services cannot be described as material services, Safdarjung Hospital v. Kuldip Singh Sethi, AIR 1970 SC 1407 (1413): (1970) 1 SCC 735; see also Sodan Singh v. NDNC, (1989) 4 SCC 155.Calling, vocation, known employment; divinity, physic, and law are called the learned professions.Includes business, Pioneer Motors v. Municipal Council Ngarcoil, AIR 1967 SC 684: 1961 (3) SCR 609.Profession,...
Profit motive
Professional institution, means organisations which import advanced learning in a particular field on profession such as law, medicine or engineering for attachment of special knowledge as distinguished from mere skill, Kannammal Educational Trust v. Union of Madras, AIR 1996 Mad 303. [See T.N. Private College (Regulations) Act, (19 of 1976), s. 3]...
Common employment
Common employment. The general rule that a master is liable for damage caused by the negligence of his servant has the exception that where the person injured is the fellow-servant of and engaged in common employment with the person whose negligence causes the injury, the master is not liable in an action at Common law. The principle upon which the exception rests is that 'a servant who engages for the performance of services for compensation does as an implied part of the contract take upon himself, as between himself and his master, the natural risks and perils incident to the performance of such services; the presumption of law being that the compensation was adjusted accordingly, or, in other words, that these risks are considered in the wages' [per Balckburn, J., Morgan v. Vale of Neath R. Co., (1864) 5 B&S 578]. For review of cases, see Bray, J., in Cribb v. Kynoch, Ltd., (1907) 2 KB 548. The doctrine applies in spite of difference in rank or grade between the two servants, e.g.,...
Life-rent
Life-rent, a rent received for a term of life. See SETTLED LAND.The doctrine of the lifting of the veil has been applied in the words of Palmer in five categories of cases; where companies are in the relationship of holding and subsidiary (or subsidiary) companies; where a shareholder has lost the privilege of limited liability and has become directly liable to certain creditors of the company on the ground that, with his knowledge, the company continued to carry on business six months after the number of its members was reduced below the legal minimum; in certain matters pertaining to the law of taxes, debts, duties and stamps, particularly where the question of the 'controlling interest' is in issue; in the law relating to exchange control; and in the law relating to trading with the enemy where the test of control is adopted, Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1965 SC 40 (47): (1964) 6 SCR 885. (Companies Act, 1956, s. 34)...
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