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Major Projects Branch
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF caption (viewed on December 26, 2014)Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in Englis
Major Projects Branch
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF caption (viewed on March 31, 2015).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
A Visit with Kevin Hawkes
No full textVideo about children\u27s book author and illustrator Kevin Hawkes, Peaks Island resident. Includes commentary by Joyce Martin, professor of children\u27s literature at University of Southern Maine.Hawkes discusses his work and the life of an illustrator. Video concludes with Hawkes reading to children at the Peaks Island Branch of Portland Public Library. Also includes sequences of Casco Bay Lines ferries arriving and departing from Peaks Island.Video Produced by Joyce MartinDirected by Caroline Hendryfor University of Southern Maine Productions.Running time: 20 minutes.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_vhs/1000/thumbnail.jp
Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability
No full textIt is often argued that branching stabilizes banking systems by facilitating diversification of bank portfolios; however, previous empirical research on the Great Depression offers mixed support for this view. Analyses using state-level data find that states allowing branch banking had lower failure rates, while those examining individual banks find that branch banks were more likely to fail. We argue that an alternative hypothesis can reconcile these seemingly disparate findings. Using data on national banks from the 1920s and 1930s, we show that branch banking increases competition and forces weak banks to exit the banking system. This consolidation strengthens the system as a whole without necessarily strengthening the branch banks themselves. Our empirical results suggest that the effects that branching had on competition were quantitatively more important than geographical diversification for bank stability in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Royal Canadian Legion in South Hill - Interview with Kevin Digby
No full textKevin Digby's grandparents were instrumental in opening of the South Hill Branch of the Canadian Royal Legion. Part of the Inside Stories program of the South Hill Neighbourhood House
A column by Kevin Donoghue, District 1 City Councilor, on neighborhood stability
No full textA column by Kevin Donoghue, District 1 City Councilor, on neighborhood stability and integrity, which mentions the demographics of the Portland Public Library\u27s Reiche branch area. That branch recently escaped being eliminated by budget cuts
Branch Banking as a Device for Discipline: Competition and Bank Survivorship During the Great Depression
No full textBecause California was a pioneer in the development of intrastate branching, we use its experience during the 1920s and 1930s to assess the effects of the expansion of large-scale, branch-banking networks on competition and the stability of banking systems. Using a new database of individual bank balance sheets, income statements, and branch establishment, we examine the characteristics that made a bank a more likely target of a takeover by a large branching network, how incumbent unit banks responded to the entry of branch banks, and how branching networks affected the probability of survival of banks during the Great Depression. We find no evidence that branching networks expanded by acquiring "lemons"; rather those displaying characteristics of more profitable institutions were more likely targets for acquisition. We show that incumbent, unit banks responded to increased competition from branch banks by changing their operations in ways consistent with efforts to increase efficiency and profitability. Results from survivorship analysis suggest that unit banks competing with branch bank networks, especially with the Bank of America, were more likely to survive the Great Depression than unit banks that did not face competition from branching networks. Our statistical findings thus support the hypothesis that branch banking produces an externality in that it improves the stability of banking systems by increasing competition and forcing incumbent banks to become more efficient.
Investigation of mosquito complaint, Berrimah Prison August 1990
No full textIn response to a complaint made by Kevin Fletcher of Berrimah Prison with regard to troublesome mosquitoes in the female section of the prison, an inspection was made of the effluent ponds and drainage system at the
adjoining Angliss Abattoir. Two officers of the Medical Entomology Branch made contact with Mr Donald Hoare, the proprietor of Angliss Abattoir, for permission to inspect the effluent system, and subsequently, in the company of Mr Glen Storer (Abattoir Manager), a larval survey of the effluent pond and the associated drain was conducted
The history of the Library of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (SBRAS) 1877-1923
No full textTraces the history of Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Library which was founded along with the society in 1877. The Library contained a wealth of knowledge pertaining to Malaysia and its surrounding regions, consisting of Malay manuscripts, books, maps, pamphlets, photographs and journals. However, the Library met its tragic end in 1923 whereby its entire collection was transferred on permanent loan to the Raffles Library, Singapor
Bidirectional branch and bound for controlled variable selection. Part II: exact local method for self-optimizing control
No full textThe selection of controlled variables (CVs) from available measurements through
enumeration of all possible alternatives is computationally forbidding for
large-dimensional problems. In Part I of this work [Cao, Y., & Kariwala, V.
(2008). Bidirectional branch and bound for controlled variable selection: Part
I. Principles and minimum singular value criterion. Comput. Chem. Eng., 32
(10),2306-2319], we proposed a bidirectional branch and bound (BAB) approach for
subset selection problems and demonstrated its efficiency using the minimum
singular value criterion. In this paper, the BAB approach is extended for CV
selection using the exact local method for self-optimizing control. By
redefining the loss expression, we show that the CV selection criterion for
exact local method is bidirectionally monotonic. A number of novel determinant
based criteria are proposed for fast pruning and branching purposes resulting in
a computationally inexpensive BAB approach. We also establish a link between the
problems of selecting a subset and combinations of measurements as CVs and
present a partially bidirectional BAB method for selection of measurements,
whose combinations can be used as CVs. Numerical tests using randomly generated
matrices and binary distillation column case study demonstrate the computational
efficiency of the proposed methods. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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