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Electricity Distribution Networks: Investment and Regulation, and Uncertain Demand
No full textElectricity distribution networks are capital intensive systems and timely investments are crucial for long-term reliability of their service. In coming years, in the UK, and elsewhere in Europe, many networks are in need of extensive investments in their aging assets. Also, aspects of energy policy concerning climate change, renewable energy, energy
efficiency, demand side management (DSM), network energy loss reduction, quality of service standards, and security of supply require active, flexible, and smart networks that can be achieved through investments. This paper is a chapter in the forthcoming book "Jamasb T. and Pollitt, M. G. (2011) Eds., The Future of Electricity Demand: Customers, Citizens and
Loads, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge" and describes a network investment assessment model developed as a tool to identify and assess the investment requirements of distribution networks. A broadening of the scope of network investments to include demand-related measures that can reduce the need for investments
Explaining contextual influences on the dynamics of public management reforms: reflections on some ways forward
No full textAs summed up by Christopher Pollitt in a co-authored paper based on a wide analysis of both academic and grey literature on the impact of (new public management [NPM]-type) public management reforms in Europe, the development of scholarly knowledge about the understanding of contextual influences on the dynamics of public management reforms has led to the recognition that certain ‘factors’, properly positioned along time and scale dimensions, exert an influence in a certain direction (facilitate vs. prevent) on certain contents of public management reform (Pollitt and Dan, 2011, pp. 35–47). This state of the art leaves the question ‘how can we then move forward and better qualify causal patterns?’ yet to be fully addressed, as it does for related questions such as ‘how can we bridge the stream of research on public management reform trajectories in different countries2 (which is by definition at a ‘macro’ level of analysis3) with strands of research in public management which aim at comprehending causes and effects in public management by uncovering what happens at more ‘micro’ a level (for example, the stream of research on Public Service Motivation [PSM] – see Perry and Hondeghem, 2008 and Vandenabeele and Hondeghem, 2008 – focused on the motivational structure of individuals working for the public sector)?’
September 18, 1838
No full text40 cm X 31.7 cmThe Republic of Texas
County of Nacogdoches
Be it known that on this eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight and of the Independence of Texas the Third, we Frost Thorn & George Pollitt of Nacogdoches, for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred dollars to us in hand paid by Missouri M. Fowler, late Missouri M. Porter, Widow & Administratrix of J. J. Porter, dec’d, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have this day granted, bargained & sold unto said Missouri M. Porter or Missouri M. Fowler, Administratrix as aforesaid, the following tract of land, to wit, one thousand and twenty three acres to be taken out of the North West corner of a certain league of land granted to Corildo[?] Aguilere by Commissioner Nixon on the thirtieth day of April Eighteen hundred & thirty five. Said land situate in Burnett’s Colony & a more particular description of which will be found in said title. The said league having been conveyed to us by said Aguielere[?] To have & to hold the said land unto the said Missouri M. Fowler Administratrix as aforesaid, for the use, benefit & advantage of the heirs & legal representatives [p. 2] of said J. J. Porter deceased. We hereby [covenanting?] that we are the true & lawful owners of said land, & that we have full right to sell the same & that we will defend the title of said land to said Missouri M. Porter Administratrix as aforesaid, against the claims of all persons claiming under us but no further.
In Testimony of all which we have herewith set our hands & seals the day & year first above written.
F. Thorn {seal}
G. Pollitt {seal}
Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of us
A. Hotchkiss
C. M. Gould
Republic of Texas }
County of Nacogdoches }
Personally came before me Daniel Lacey clerk of the county court of said county, C. M. Gould, one of the above signed witnesses who acknowledged his signature as such and being duly sworn saith that he saw F. Thorn and G. Pollitt sign and seal the foregoing instrument. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of September 1838.
Daniel Lacey
Clerk Co. Court
[p. 3]
Recorded in the office of the clerk of the county court of Nacogdoches County in Book #, Folio 230 &231
Daniel Lacey
Clerk Co. Court
[p. 4]
Thorn & Pollitt
Deed
M. M. Fowler
Admx of J. J. Porter
decd
Received for Record
September 1838
Daniel Lacey
Clerk Co. Court
N[acogdoches] C[ounty]
No. 17
Electricity Market Liberalisation and Integration in the European Union
No full textElektrizitätswirtschaft, Stromnetz, Reform, Deregulierung, Europäische Integration, EU-Staaten, Electric utility industry, Electricity grid, Reform, Deregulation, European integration, EU countries
Policy assessments and good practices
No full texthe aim of this research project has been to identify good and bad practices affecting the electricity industry in the EU. Benchmarking is one way in which we can make comparisons across countries, and can contribute to that task. The European Commission has already begun this process, publishing four benchmarking reports over the past three year
Who Influences Debates in Business Ethics? An Investigation into the Development of Corporate Governance in the UK since 1990.
No full textWe investigate the influences behind five major investigations into corporate governance in the UK since 1990: the Cadbury, Greenbury, Hampel and Turnbull Committees, and the Company Law Review. In each case we examine the roles of business, the authorities, public opinion and events in shaping the course of the investigation, its conclusions and its impact. We do this on the basis of interviews with members of the committees and analysis of newspaper coverage of the debates. The picture that emerges is one where the process of forming the investigating committee, its membership and its mode of operation strongly influence its recommendations and effectiveness. We draw conclusions that contrast the strong influence of the accountancy and legal professions in shaping the debate and the varied influence of the authorities, the media and events. Copyright Permission: Based on a chapter in Palgrave's forthcoming book: Jones, I & Pollitt, M (2002) Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop. Reprinted with kind permission of the publisher.corporate governance, business ethics, influences, Cadbury Report, Greenbury Report, Hampel Report, Turnbull Report,Company Law Review
Efficiency and environmental factors in the US electricity transmission industry
No full textThis research was partially funded by the Government of the Princi- pality of AsturiasandtheEuropean Regional DevelopmentFund (ERDF). The authors alsoacknowledge thesupport of theEnergyPolicy Research Group. Pollitt acknowledges the support of Ofgem in collecting the data
Technologies for a low-carbon electricity system: An assessment of the UK's technological issues and options
No full textDr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
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