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- The Commercial Prospects for Tidal Stream Power
- This paper is based on a conceptual design developed by IT Power Ltd ITP for a proposed demonstration scheme near Lynmouth. ITP extended this concept to a notional 1 MW baseline unit as part of the study and produced cost and energy output estimates for schemes with different numbers of...
- White papers 2001-08-31
- Alleged Fraudster Missing
- Officials are now investigating R. Allen Stanford, a prominent Texas financier now missing, who is accused of swindling investors, politicians and organizations out of billions. Bob Orr reports.
- Videos 2009-04-15
- One Example Of How Goldman's Trading Huddles Work
- Goldman Sachs's "trading huddles" smack of a scheme as near to legitimate outright market manipulation as you can get. by Daniel M. Harrison
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- UK Businesses Risk Falling Foul of Carbon Control Regulations
- The Carbon Reduction Commitment CRC is a new carbon emissions trading scheme that will affect large organisations in the UK. It is coming into force soon and businesses who flout the regulations risk a heavy fine. The CRCÂ forms part of the Climate Change Bill that was introduced...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Incentives For a Karma Workplace | BTalk Australia
- (Episode 284; 10 minutes 41) Ashley Rosshandler used to work in advertising, coming up with imaginative ways to sell two-minute noodles. Wanting to get more out of life he started Karma Currency, a scheme that enables employees to provide charity gift certificates to employees. The employees can select which not-for-profit...
- Blog posts 2009-07-11
- Guardian Going Ahead With Readers' Club
- By Chris Tryhorn: The Guardian is to hire a manager to run a planned readers’ club that could build a new revenue stream for the paper. Offered as a one-year contract, the job is advertised in the MediaGuardian print section and on its website today.The Guardian – owned by...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Electronic Peer Mentoring: A Scheme To Enhance Support And Guidance And The Student Learning Experience
- This paper describes an on-line peer 'e-mentoring' scheme for providing additional support and guidance to students. The development, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of the scheme are considered. Year 3 Psychology undergraduates in the UK were trained to undertake mentoring, via e-mail, of students in Year 1. Email communications were supported...
- White papers 2003-04-06
- Sarbanes Oxley Ethical Hotlines: CNIL Publish Draft Guidelines
- The CNIL recognises the recent development in France of procedures enabling employees to report their colleagues' alleged law or corporate policy breaching behaviours in the office and the CNIL recognises that such schemes are neither allowed nor banned under current labour code provisions. Many businesses have had in place whistleblowing...
- White papers 2005-11-07
- Using the Compensation Scheme to Signal the Ease of a Task
- Since Holmstrom, the optimal shape of an incentive scheme has been studied in both the economics and the marketing literatures. While much of the literature has either focused on - or assumed - the optimality of linear schemes, casual empirical observation of sales force contracts reveals that they are quite...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- The Taxation of High Earners' Pensions - Key Issues
- This paper focuses on the Finance Act 2004 that sets out how the Government intends the taxation of pension schemes will be changed from 6 April 2006 A day, including 'unapproved' schemes, such as funded unapproved retirement benefits schemes ('FURBS') and unfunded unapproved retirement benefit schemes ('UURBS'). It summarizes some...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Why People Don't Choose Private Pensions: The Impact of 'Contagion'
- Pension privatization requires that people exercise choice. They might have to choose whether to opt out of a public scheme into a private scheme, or whether to supplement public pension contributions with private pension contributions. If they do choose to participate in a private scheme, they are likely to have...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Employee Share Ownership Schemes in Australia: A Survey of Key Issues and Themes
- This paper surveys key issues and themes surrounding ESO schemes in Australia. It explores the varied policy rationales for these schemes, noting both broad bipartisan support and a generally limited conception of their fundamental purpose. The paper also outlines the current state of empirical research on their incidence and effects....
- White papers 2005-04-08
- Style Is Dead. Long Live Style!
- This paper believes that the popular frameworks for defining investment style existing till the year 2001 were not working well. Investors had been let down by the existing style classification schemes, benchmarks, and style peer groups. This paper reviews the evolution of style. It describes how the existing classification and...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- A Compression/Decompression Scheme for Embedded Systems Code
- This paper presents a compression scheme for embedded RISC microprocessors' code. The scheme achieves better compression ratios around 0.57) than other reported implementations, and as the Instruction Cache ICache holds compressed instructions its effective size is increased and the hit ratio is improved. Moreover, the processor remains unaware of the...
- White papers 2003-09-18
- Alternative Health Insurance Schemes: A Welfare Comparison
- This paper presents a simple model of health insurance with asymmetric information, where it compares two alternative ways of organizing the insurance market. Either as a competitive insurance market, where some risks remain uninsured, or as a compulsory scheme, where however, the level of reimbursement of loss is to be...
- White papers 2002-02-07
- Holocaust Survivor On Madoff
- CBS News Exclusive: An acclaimed author and Noble Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel tells Jeff Greenfield about how he has lost almost everything to the Bernie Madoff scandal.
- Videos 2009-05-16
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- Scrappage scheme helps slow decline in UK car market
- Oct 26 2009 by John Cranage, Birmingham Post Car production fell again last month – but at the lowest rate of decline for a year, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. The number of cars made in the UK in October 2009 totalled 119,616...
- News items 2009-10-26
- US to end cash-for-clunkers scheme
- The US cash-for-clunkers car scrappage scheme has become a victim of its own success, with the government announcing on Thursday that the incentives will come to an end on Monday evening, just a month after they were introduced.The decision was taken to ensure that payments under the scheme do...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Popular US clunkers scheme runs out of road
- Across the US this weekend, dealers were enjoying the last hurrah of the government's car scrappage programme ? the popular $3bn "cash-for-clunkers" scheme.The Keith Pierson Toyota dealership in Jacksonville, Florida has completed 70 rebate deals since the scheme to funnel money to car buyers started less than a month...
- External links 2009-08-23
- Backing for DSG pay scheme
- DSG International won the backing of investors for a controversial executive incentive scheme in spite of more than 10 per cent of the voting shareholder base failing to support the arrangement. The electricals retailer, which also on Wednesday offered hope that the trading environment was improving, said that 87.21 per...
- News items 2009-09-02
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