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Vascular healing : cell biology and rheologic factors
No full textIssued as Progress report summary, Project E-25-M44 (continued by E-25-M80)Progress report summary has author: Colin J. Schwart
Vascular healing : cell biology and rheologic factors
No full textIssued as Progress report summary, Project no. E-25-M80 (continued by E-25-M44; continues E-25-614)Progress report summary has author: Colin J. Schwart
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No full textThe productivity effects of decentralized reforms - an analysis of the Chinese industrial reforms
No full textThe empirical literature on the effects of ownership has not distinguished between the effects of ownership and the effects of control. It has also generally ignored the dynamic effects of various ownership and control rights. Using a rich set of panel data about changes in China's state-owned enterprises, the author examines the static and dynamic effects of decentralizing ownership and control rights. He finds that productivity and growth rates improved significantly when reform improved the incentives for managers and employees to learn and to work hard - for example by decentralizing the rights to control wages, make production decisions, and appoint new managers. Increasing profit-retention rates and adopting performance contracts - conventionally viewed as the most important reforms for China's state enterprises - did not improve productivity much. Overall, decentralization accounted for a least 42 percent of productivity growth in Chinese state enterprises in the 1980s. Much of that gain came from improvements in the growth rate of productivity rather than in improved levels of productivity.Labor Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Public Health Promotion,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Municipal Financial Management
Orbit design for future SpaceChip swarm missions in a planetary atmosphere
No full textThe effect of solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag on the orbital dynamics of satellites-on-a-chip (SpaceChips) is exploited to design equatorial long-lived orbits about the oblate Earth. The orbit energy gain due to asymmetric solar radiation pressure, considering the Earth's shadow, is used to balance the energy loss due to atmospheric drag. Future missions for a swarm of SpaceChips are proposed, where a number of small devices are released from a conventional spacecraft to perform spatially distributed measurements of the conditions in the ionosphere and exosphere. It is shown that the orbit lifetime can be extended and indeed selected through solar radiation pressure and the end-of-life re-entry of the swarm can be ensured, by exploiting atmospheric drag
Oregon statewide status and trends report
No full textReport -- Appendix A. Black Rock Desert-Humboldt -- Appendix B. Columbia River -- Appendix C. Deschutes -- Appendix D. Goose Lake -- Appendix E. Grande Ronde -- Appendix F. John Day -- Appendix G. Klamath -- Appendix H. Malheur -- Appendix I. Mid Coast -- Appendix J. Middle-Columbia-Hood -- Appendix K. North Coast-Lower Columbia -- Appendix L. Oregon Closed Basins -- Appendix M. Owyhee -- Appendix N. Powder-Burnt -- Appendix O. Rogue -- Appendix P. Sandy -- Appendix Q. Snake River -- Appendix R. South Coast -- Appendix S. Umatilla-Walla Walla-Willow -- Appendix T. Umpqua -- Appendix U. Willamette.prepared by: Colin Donald and Ryan Michie.Title from PDF cover (viewed on November 4, 2022).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Atherosclerosis and occlusive arterial disease / Colin John Schwartz.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.3 v. :A selection of research papers, reviews, books and book chapters ... considered representative of the works by the author over the years 1958-1993.Thesis (D.Sc.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Pathology, 199
Oregon statewide status and trends report
No full textChapter 1-3. Introduction and Methods -- Chapter 4-5. Results and Citations -- Appendix A. Black Rock Desert-Humboldt -- Appendix B. Columbia River -- Appendix C. Deschutes -- Appendix D. Goose Lake -- Appendix E. Grande Ronde -- Appendix F. John Day -- Appendix G. Klamath -- Appendix H. Malheur -- Appendix I. Mid Coast -- Appendix J. Middle-Columbia-Hood -- Appendix K. North Coast-Lower Columbia -- Appendix L. Oregon Closed Basins -- Appendix M. Owyhee -- Appendix N. Powder-Burnt -- Appendix O. Rogue -- Appendix P. Sandy -- Appendix Q. Snake River -- Appendix R. South Coast -- Appendix S. Umatilla-Walla Walla-Willow -- Appendix T. Umpqua -- Appendix U. Willamette.prepared by: Colin Donald, Yuan Grund, and Ryan Michie.Title from PDF cover (viewed on October 27, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Oregon statewide status and trends report
No full textReport -- Appendix A. Black Rock Desert-Humboldt -- Appendix B. Columbia River -- Appendix C. Deschutes -- Appendix D. Goose Lake -- Appendix E. Grande Ronde -- Appendix F. John Day -- Appendix G. Klamath -- Appendix H. Malheur -- Appendix I. Mid Coast -- Appendix J. Middle-Columbia-Hood -- Appendix K. North Coast-Lower Columbia -- Appendix L. Oregon Closed Basins -- Appendix M. Black Owyhee -- Appendix N. Powder-Burnt -- Appendix O. Rogue -- Appendix P. Sandy -- Appendix Q. Snake River -- Appendix R. South Coast -- Appendix S. Umatilla-Walla Walla-Willow -- Appendix T. Umpqua -- Appendix U. Willamette.prepared by: Colin Donald, Ryan Michie, and Yuan Grund.Title from PDF cover (viewed on March 20, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The contribution of directors and boards to the growth and development of SMEs
No full textEntrepreneurs typically have little interest in having boards of directors in their companies, and believe Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) would simply put constraints on them running their businesses, a qualitative study of 60 Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), published by ACCA, (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has shown.
The research, carried out by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas, author of ‘Developing Directors, a handbook for building an effective boardroom team’ found few SMEs even had working boards, and the handful of NEDs were usually relatives. Business owners liked to take the key decisions themselves and feared losing control and being constrained by ‘outsiders’. Even those who acknowledged that additional directors could fill existing skill gaps did not believe they would be able to afford them.
The study found that operational issues typically took priority over strategy with ‘getting through the next couple of years’ the key driver. Hardly any of the businesses studied had working boards which met regularly or addressed longer-term strategic issues. Boards and NEDs were seen as a ‘large company’ issue dealing with compliance rather than adding value to SMEs.
Colin Coulson-Thomas said: “Directors in many cases only tended to act as directors when required to do so, at AGM time, or when approving the audited accounts. But in the absence of independently-minded NEDs, whose duty is to the company rather than particular individuals, many found it difficult to step up from discussion of short-term operational issues to provide strategic direction.
“What was most striking – and sad – about my findings were that virtually no-one among the entrepreneurs were able to sum up succinctly what was special about their business or what their vision was. Some of them had real potential, which independent advice in the shape of new directors could help them realise, but they could not see it. Many found it hard to believe that anyone outside the company could be genuinely interested in helping the business succeed and grow, rather than just trying to get something out of it.”
He added: “Entrepreneurs have a negative view of issues such as governance, directors and strategy and see it as irrelevant to them. It is crucial if we are to help these businesses to thrive that a way is found to redefine the positive role that boards can play, in a way that is meaningful to them. Otherwise the growth of potentially successful companies will be limited by the aspirations and capabilities of the founders, who view the business as ‘theirs’”.
ACCA believes the research proves the need to redefine governance issues in such a way as to make them more meaningful to entrepreneurs. This is a practical, rather than theoretical issue, as each company surveyed was found to be held back by specific deficiencies or obstacles which a properly-constituted board could have addressed
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