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The sinking fund problem : optimal timing of bond purchases

Creator:: McVicar, Robert William
Abstract:: A sinking fund payment must be made each year to retire a bond issue. Instead of paying cash, the corporation will typically surrender bonds that it has purchased on the open market. The sinking fund problem is to determine an optimal strategy in the form of a stopping rule to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: year are generally applied as a credit against the sinking fund payment. Sometimes bond indentures for

Monitoring Restoration Impacts to Endemic Plant Communities in Soil Inclusions of Arid Environments

Creator:: Louhaichi, Mounir, Pyke, David A., Shaff, Scott E., and Johnson, Douglas E.
Abstract:: Slickspots are soil inclusions with unique loamy soils that provide habitats for many endemic plants worldwide, including those within sagebrush steppe. Sagebrush-dominated communities are declining and require restoration, but restoration techniques commonly used may impact negatively some intermixed communities found on soil inclusions including those on slickspot soils. Slickspot soils...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: . Shaff 2 and Douglas E. Johnson 3 1 International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

Transformational change: creating a safe operating space for humanity

Creator:: McAlpine, Clive A., Seabrook, Leonie M., Ryan, Justin G., Feeney, Brian J., Ripple, William J., Ehrlich, Anne H., and Ehrlich, Paul R.
Abstract:: Many ecologists and environmental scientists witnessing the scale of current environmental change are becoming increasingly alarmed about how humanity is pushing the boundaries of the Earth’s systems beyond sustainable levels. The world urgently needs global society to redirect itself toward a more sustainable future: one that moves intergenerational equity and...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: space for humanity Transformational change: creating a safe operating space for humanity McAlpine, C

Applying systematic evidence reviews in Oregon forest policy: opportunities and challenges

Creator:: Behan, Jeff, Crawford, Seth, Kleiner, Erica, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: Section I contains an introduction to the subject of Scientific Evidence Review. Section II reviews Oregon state mandates to use “best available science” in policymaking and summarizes ODF efforts to address these mandates. Section III provides an overview of Systematic Evidence Reviews and how they are conducted in the fields...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Erica Kleiner Acknowledgements The staff at Institute for Natural Resources thanks the Oregon

Virtual Reality Art As a Pathway to Social Justice and Humanity

Creator:: Egan, Haley
Abstract:: This paper contains a review of the literature that inspired and informed my final Master’s art project for Applied Ethics, as well as an explanation and analysis of the art project itself. The review of literature begins with a lens into modern development, and how a history of colonization and...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: “the pedagogy of people engaged in the fight for their own liberation.” 1 Seldom do we arrive at an

To the world!, James W. Nesmith

Creator:: Belknap, George N. (George Nicholas), 1905-, Nesmith, James Willis, 1820-1885, and University of Oregon. Library. Friends
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: to a duel, the challenge ,vas refused, and Nesmith published To t/ze TVorld! ! But the question

The Online Learning Community: Friend or Faux?

Creator:: Nolan, Mary and Kellar, Brenda
Abstract:: Everyone involved in online education talks about community – what is it, how is it created, do students really want it? Most researchers now agree that online education is enhanced through a greater sense of community within the online classroom; however, the factors that make for a substantive and quality...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: The Online Learning Community: Friend or Faux? Mary Nolan Brenda Kellar Oregon State

Case Study: California Fisheries Fund

Creator:: Higgins, Phoebe
Abstract:: The California Fisheries Fund (CFF) launched in 2008 as a public-private initiative aimed at demonstrating how to make financial investments in a growing, sustainable commercial fishing industry. Since then, CFF has operated as a nonprofit revolving loan fund, extending 34 loans totaling more than $4.2 million. CFF’s initial business model...
Resource Type:: Presentation
Full Text:: PowerPoint Presentation CALIFORNIA FISHERIES FUND

Honored values and valued objects : the Society for Creative Anachronism

Creator:: Turner, Althea L.
Abstract:: In this dissertation, I posited the need to understand how an invented community (the Society for Creative Anachronism) constructs symbolic meaning in material objects and value systems. Using ethnographic methods, I focused on the Knights and their regalia as this is the most widely accepted material symbolism. People go to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: THE DISSERTATION OF Althea L. Turner for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Design and Human

Chasing Tails: Stories for Refining Relationships Between Wolves & Humans

Creator:: Beggen, Kristina
Abstract:: As wolves return to their historic habitats both in Oregon and across the globe, emotions are running high between people either gladdened or disturbed by their homecoming. Prior to colonization, wolves occupied the entire Pacific Northwest alongside Indigenous peoples. However, European settlements that ultimately coalesced to form the state of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kristina Beggen for the degree of Master of Arts in Environmental

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The sinking fund problem : optimal timing of bond purchases

Monitoring Restoration Impacts to Endemic Plant Communities in Soil Inclusions of Arid Environments

Transformational change: creating a safe operating space for humanity

Applying systematic evidence reviews in Oregon forest policy: opportunities and challenges

Virtual Reality Art As a Pathway to Social Justice and Humanity

To the world!, James W. Nesmith

The Online Learning Community: Friend or Faux?

Case Study: California Fisheries Fund

Honored values and valued objects : the Society for Creative Anachronism

Chasing Tails: Stories for Refining Relationships Between Wolves & Humans

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