446 research outputs found
A Queen Amongst Women
Get PDFAn issue of The Leisure Hour Library featuring, A Queen Amongst Women. A Novel. By the Author of \u27Dora Thorne.\u27 New Series, Volume I, No. 89, June 26, 1886
Profile of John Thorne, producer of the newsletter Simple Cooking and author o
No full textProfile of John Thorne, producer of the newsletter Simple Cooking and author of three Maine cookbooks, all noted for their detailed historical investigation into simple foods. He decries the destruction of Maine culture and cooking, and the encroachment of mediocre food everywhere. He\u27s moving to Massachusetts himself
Joan Thorne, Analytic Ecstasy
Get PDFThe article focuses on American artist Joan Thorne. The author examines several of her abstract panitings, including Squazemo, Aahee, and Ananda, explores how her work relates to minimalism, non-composition, and postmodernism, and discusses her role in the women\u27s art movement of the 1970s in New York City
Eastern Europe's experience with banking reform : is there a role for banks in the transition?
Get PDFAre there lessons to be learned about how Eastern European countries have dealt with problems in their banking systems? What role have these countries assigned to banks during the transition? How have they used banks in dealing with the enterprise problem? The author addresses these questions by analyzing experience in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. Most of these countries have made substantial progress in restructuring their banking systems, but few have used their banking systems to improve the allocation of credit and hence stimulate the supply response. The author finds the following. The problem is not whether banks hold nonperforming loans but how banks can avoid accumulating more nonperforming loans. The underlying problem is how to close loss-making and nonviable enterprises. The countries that have encouraged the establishment of new private banks, that have introduced regulation and supervision, and that have tried to make banks more competitive have been more successful at improving the allocation of credit and achieving more control over loss-making enterprises. Banks must focus on assessing risk - and for this, capital, private ownership, and adequate regulation are crucial. How quickly banks achieve independence in credit decisions depends on how fast new governance structures can be introduced. In this, the five countries have been less successful. The objectives of bank recapitulation should be to prevent banks from accumulating more nonperforming loans (that is, dealing with the enterprise problem) and to give them the governance structure that would prevent them from incurring new nonperforming loans. This requires introducing a system of risk and reward - by making banks comply with capital adequacy requirements, by privatizing a critical number of banks, and by introducing strong regulation and supervision. Government should see that banks provide efficient payment systems, the basis for trust in banking systems. Introducing adequate regulation and supervision has been difficult as it requires knowing what the banks'role should be. Evidence strongly supports the need to recapitalize and privatize a critical number of banks. Authorities cannot rely on banks to exert control on enterprises early in the transition. In the early stages, control over state-owned enterprises should be exercised by a semipublic institution.Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Municipal Financial Management,Banking Law
Dr Love, Dr Thorne and Mr Popple, 2008
No full textLeft: Dr Peter Love, Lecturer in Politics and author of Swinburne centenary history publication.
Right: Dr Michael Thorne, Executive Director, Chancellery. Sitting: Mr Popple, who attended Swinburne for six years and graduated with a diploma in mechanical engineering in 1925. Pictured at the launch of the centenary history publication 'Practical measures : 100 years at Swinburne', 18 February 2008
Mr Popple, Dr Thorne and Dr Love, 2008
No full textLeft: Mr Popple, who attended Swinburne for six years and graduated with a diploma in mechanical engineering in 1925. Centre: Dr Michael Thorne, Executive Director, Chancellery. Right: Dr Peter Love, Lecturer in Politics and author of the Swinburne centenary publication. Pictured at the launch of the centenary history publication 'Practical measures : 100 years at Swinburne', 18 February 2008
Evaluating the hydraulic and hydro-morphodynamic performance of blue–green infrastructure over event and long-term timescales
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from ICE Publishing via the DOI in this recordTo evaluate the effectiveness of blue–green infrastructure (BGI) at multiple timescales requires a modelling tool that is capable of simulating the underlying hydraulic and morphodynamic processes within BGI. In this context, this study presents a hydro-morphodynamic modelling tool for systematic assessment of the multiple benefits of BGI on flood attenuation and sediment trapping. The model combines two-dimensional shallow-water equations with an advection–diffusion equation for fine sediment transport. The model can simulate the dynamic processes of erosion, transport and deposition of non-cohesive, fine-grained suspended sediments (i.e. fine sands and silts) under the action of flow hydraulics typical of those found in BGI. To demonstrate the model capability, it is applied to two case studies, including (a) the effects of a restored floodplain and (b) the effectiveness of an urban stormwater pond. The simulation results indicate that nature-based approaches, such as floodplain restoration and stormwater ponds, are effective for attenuating flow and retaining suspended sediments. More specifically, stormwater ponds are suitable for more-frequent smaller events (< 5-year), while floodplain restoration is more effective for extreme flood events (e.g. 30 to 100-year) where more floodwaters can be stored. From a longer-term viewpoint, stormwater ponds lose their storage capacity over a period of time; they require regular maintenance to uphold their hydraulic performance. The model developed in this study is an effective tool for the evaluation of BGI at various temporal and spatial scales, and could be applied to similar cases.Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)University of Hong Kon
On the dangers of decentralization
Get PDFThe author highlights some of the dangers of decentralizations. The benefits of decentralization in allocative efficiency are not as obvious as suggested by the standard theory of fiscal federalism. The assumptions of this theory are fragile. These doubtful benefits might carry a cost in production efficiency, but more empirical research is needed on this point. What is not doubtful is that decentralization runs counter to redistribution and stabilization. Decentralization makes redistributive policies, whether interpersonal or interjurisdictional, more difficult, if not impossible. Decentralization also makes macroeconomic stabilization programs more difficult to implement because subnational government fiscal policies can run counter to national policies. Serious drawbacks or potential drawbacks should be considered in designing any decentralization program. The arguments that the author develops make it easier to understand some of the real choices. These choices are not so much whether to decentralize in general but rather what functions to decentralize - in which sectors, and in which regions. Guidelines can be provided on this. Often, the problem is not so much whether a certain service should be provided by a central, regional, or local government, since the service often has to be provided with the intervention of all three levels of government. The real challenge is how to organize the joint production of the service. Decentralization refers simultaneously to a state and to a process. The virtues and dangers of decentralization are often discussed simultaneously for both concepts. This is a dangerous confusion because decentralization is path-dependent. What is desirable in a given country at a certain point in time depends on the present state of decentralization and the speed at which it has been reached. Much more work, particularly empirical work, is needed -- in review of decentralization (or centralization) experiences in general, as well as those encouraged or supported by the World Bank.National Governance,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management,Economic Theory&Research,Pharmaceuticals&Pharmacoeconomics
Leave the Dishes in the Sink: Adventures of an Activist in Conservative Utah
Get PDFAlison Thorne provides a small-town Utah perspective on the progressive social movements that in the mid to late twentieth century dramatically affected American society. A born activist, Thorne has fought for women\u27s rights, educational reform in public schools and universities, the environment, peace, and the war on poverty. Her efforts have been all the more challenging because of the conservative social and cultural environment in which she has undertaken them. Yet, Thorne, who has deep personal and familial roots in the politically conservative and predominantly Mormon culture of Utah and much of the West, has worked well with people with varied political and social perspectives and agendas. She has been able to establish effective coalitions in contexts that seem inherently hostile. She demonstrated this through her election to the local school board and through her appointment by both Republican and Democratic governors, eventually as chair, to the statewide Governor\u27s Committee on the Status of Women. Alison Thorne\u27s background prepared her to challenge restrictive social contexts, see the broader picture, and encourage progressive change. Educated in the field of consumption economics, which studies those aspects of consumption that operate outside the market system, especially government services and unpaid household production, primarily by women, she received a Ph.D. in economics after graduate study at the University of Chicago and Iowa State, a first for a woman at the latter. Moving with her husband after he was hired at Utah State University, she soon discovered that her education and abilities were undervalued and that tight nepotism rules kept her out of an academic position. She devoted herself to research and writing about alternatives to the narrow definitions of a housewife\u27s role and duties prevalent in the 1940s and 1950s. Both her scholarly work and her personal inclinations prepared her for the emergence of the second wave of feminism in the 1960s. Her participation in the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment honed her skills as an activist, which she applied to multiple other causes. But Alison Thorne\u27s style has never been mere protest of injustice; she has always been fully engaged with her communities, directly working for social change and betterment. Rather than be discouraged by initial rejection, she found ways to contribute to education on the USU campus, eventually achieved academic standing, and helped create women\u27s studies programs and a women\u27s center. She met other challenges in her city and state similarly, by taking her gloves off, reaching out to others, building coalitions, and getting to work.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1018/thumbnail.jp
The discomfort of Thorne v Kennedy: Law, love and money
No full text© The Author(s) 2019. The 2017 High Court case of Thorne v Kennedy highlighted and sparked discussion around the injustice of financial agreements and when they may constitute unconscionability and undue influence. However, the case also raises another important discussion about the relationship between love and money. This article picks up this conversation. How does society navigate the distinctions we make between economic exchange and romance? Between altruism and commodification? And how should this be manifested in the law in general, and the law governing financial agreements specifically
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