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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Deferral"”.
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The use of options for tax deferral.
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Battery storage system sizing evaluation for utility distribution asset investment deferral
A need exists for systematic evaluation methods of battery storage sizing as an electric utility asset investment. Atlantic Electric, like many US utilities, has begun to consider battery energy storage systems for multiple applications, and will likely continue to evaluate potential investments in …
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Protecting Mobile Ad Hoc Networks from Spurious CTS Attacks 'Carrier Sensing based Deferral Mechanism'
… Our proposed solution, Carrier Sensing based Deferral (CSD) mechanism, asks nodes to perform carrier sensing in their deferral state. Therefore, when deferring nodes do not sense any carrier (of data packet transmission) after CTS packets, the CTS packet will be treated as spurious and they …
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Project selection and timing integrating project deferral, cash flow transferals, financing and investment functions
… available for the projects. They are project deferral, cash flow transferals, financing, and investment functions. The purpose is to increase the firm's wealth by selecting worthy projects which would otherwise be rejected. To make the right selection under this new situation, a modified …
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Habits, hassle, and health: how do blood donors respond to a temporary deferral due to low haemoglobin?
… the impact on whole blood donors of a six month deferral from giving blood due to a low haemoglobin (Hb) concentration. The aims were two-fold: first, to quantify the effect of a temporary deferral on donation patterns once eligible to return, and second, to identify the processes contributing to …
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Embracing difference and the deferral of self-government: a critical analysis of the framing and practice of contemporary peace building
This thesis analyses how dominant policy approaches to peacebuilding have moved away from a single and universalised understanding of peace to be achieved through a top-down strategy of democratisation and economic liberalisation, prevalent at the beginning of 1990s. Instead, throughout the 2000s, …
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Blood safety and resource allocation: economic analyses of donated blood safety initiatives
… Food and Drug Administration's expanded donor deferral criteria for European travel due to possible exposure to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Expanded European travel deferral will lead to the permanent deferral of 3,271 donors (95% Confidence Range, 2,600--3,973 donors) reducing the …
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Tenant-in-common capital in value added transactions
… supply of TIC offerings. Investors seeking deferral of capital gains are enticed by the flexibility of passive ownership, the access to institutional quality assets, and the comfort of professional third-party management. In attempt to tap into this growing source of equity, a feasibility …
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Short term evaluations of alternative investment and estate planning strategies on private nonindustrial forests
… estate tax provisions, special use valuation and deferral and extension of estate tax payments are reviewed. Requirements are discussed and the economic implications of electing these options are modeled for a simulated forest estate over a 15 year period. The preferred choice when the estate is …
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Relative valuation of alternative methods of tax avoidance
… is not associated with firm value and deferral of residual tax on foreign earnings is negatively associated with firm value. Prior studies that find the positive association between firm value and tax avoidance is attenuated in poorly governed firms suggest the discount results from …
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A Future Once Deferred: Re-envisioning Men Who Have Sex With Men as Prospective Blood Donors
… such as MSM who donate without triggering a deferral. More importantly, the papers in this section demonstrate the importance of MSM-specific experiences for understanding how this population engages with blood donation. While persistent negative views of policy were evident, seeing donation …
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Performing the Loop
… be got to; positioned within a loop of continual deferral and becoming in the chiasmic fold of flesh. To this end studio methods include the use of an ‘embodied’ lens, positioned physically and spatially within the momentum of my bodily activity. As such, private actions and sculptural endeavours …
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Recommended Interventions to Reduce the Risk of Iron Deficiency in Blood Donors
… to address this public health issue including deferral from donation due to decreased iron stores measured by ferritin levels, iron replacement therapy, education for donors regarding their iron status, extension of inter-donation interval, and restriction of number of donations within a year. …
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Speculative Economic Ideology and Dramatic Strategies in Susanna Centlivre's the Basset Table and the Busy Body
… and metaphorically replicate the process of deferral, continuation, and imaginative participation," Centlivre is able to situate, in her dramas The Basset Table and The Busy Body, traditionally disenfranchised characters, especially women, in socially elevated positions.
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The intersection of the HIV epidemic and blood donation in South Africa
… blood safety policies. The latter includes the deferral of persons at risk of recently acquired HIV and sensitive testing for HIV antibodies and RNA. Estimating HIV incidence in blood donors is a key measure of successful prevention strategies. Blood donation by PLWH on antiretroviral therapy …
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Economic Tools to Improve Forest Practices' Outcomes
… Chapter two involves an enhanced forest rotation deferral methodology for carbon dioxide sequestration, focusing on the forest's final product destination passed the Faustmann optimal rotation age. Instead of giving the same value for pulp wood and saw timber, the research acknowledges the benefit …
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Epidemiological studies of whole blood donation in the UK: Donor safety and retention
… of the blood supply through reduced deferrals and improved return rates. To achieve this objective, this thesis provides a portfolio of complementary quantitative epidemiological studies, which aimed to: (i) assess temporal trends and contemporary patterns in blood collection and …
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SKYAPI: structural-aware orchestration for LLM-based multi-agent systems
… mechanism with Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) deferral to maximize KV-cache reuse among collaborative agents. Extensive evaluations on complex benchmarks, including DeepResearch and Gama-Bench, demonstrate that SkyAPI significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, reducing operational …
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Innovation Under Stress
… that use competing innovation strategies. The deferral effect is mainly driven by joint ventures among potential market competitors and joint ventures among domestic firms. Furthermore, the deferral effect dies away when firms face a higher level of market competition. The results provide a …
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