29 CFR 1471.335 - What information must I provide before entering into a covered transaction with the Federal...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... covered transaction with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service? 1471.335 Section 1471.335 Labor Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE GOVERNMENTWIDE DEBARMENT... covered transaction with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service? Before you enter into a covered...

12 CFR 40.14 - Exceptions to notice and opt out requirements for processing and servicing transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... one of the lawful or appropriate methods, to enforce the bank's rights or the rights of other persons... is a usual, appropriate or acceptable method: (i) To carry out the transaction or the product or service business of which the transaction is a part, and record, service, or maintain the consumer's...

12 CFR 573.14 - Exceptions to notice and opt out requirements for processing and servicing transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

...) Required, or is one of the lawful or appropriate methods, to enforce your rights or the rights of other...) Required, or is a usual, appropriate or acceptable method: (i) To carry out the transaction or the product or service business of which the transaction is a part, and record, service, or maintain the consumer...

75 FR 39707 - Prohibited Transaction Exemptions and Grant of Individual Exemptions Involving D-11448, The PNC...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-07-12

... DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Employee Benefits Security Administration Prohibited Transaction Exemptions and Grant of Individual Exemptions Involving D-11448, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., 2010-19... Financial Services Group, Inc. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2010-19...

Transactions of the Chinese Solar Energy Society (Selected Articles),

DTIC Science & Technology

1983-08-04

iDAld- 870 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHINESE SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY i/i ’A1 (SELECTED ARTICLES)<U) FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIV I WRIGHT-PRTTERSON RF8 OH 7 SUN ET...34 . -.-. - - - - , " ’ ’-. . .. .. ...- " . ’ " FTD-ID(RS)T-1067-83 10 00 FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHINESE SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY (Selected Articles...l067-83 4 August 1983 MICROFICHE NR: FTD-83-C-000960 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHINESE SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETYI(Selected Articles) English pages: 16 Source: Acta

Object Management Group object transaction service based on an X/Open and International Organization for Standardization open systems interconnection transaction processing kernel

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Liang, J.; Sédillot, S.; Traverson, B.

1997-09-01

This paper addresses federation of a transactional object standard - Object Management Group (OMG) object transaction service (OTS) - with the X/Open distributed transaction processing (DTP) model and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) open systems interconnection (OSI) transaction processing (TP) communication protocol. The two-phase commit propagation rules within a distributed transaction tree are similar in the X/Open, ISO and OMG models. Building an OTS on an OSI TP protocol machine is possible because the two specifications are somewhat complementary. OTS defines a set of external interfaces without specific internal protocol machine, while OSI TP specifies an internal protocol machine without any application programming interface. Given these observations, and having already implemented an X/Open two-phase commit transaction toolkit based on an OSI TP protocol machine, we analyse the feasibility of using this implementation as a transaction service provider for OMG interfaces. Based on the favourable result of this feasibility study, we are implementing an OTS compliant system, which, by initiating the extensibility and openness strengths of OSI TP, is able to provide interoperability between X/Open DTP and OMG OTS models.

7 CFR 1927.58 - Closing the transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... Agriculture Regulations of the Department of Agriculture (Continued) RURAL HOUSING SERVICE, RURAL BUSINESS-COOPERATIVE SERVICE, RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, AND FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PROGRAM... other necessary parties to arrange the time and place of closing. The transaction may be closed when the...

7 CFR 1927.58 - Closing the transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... Agriculture Regulations of the Department of Agriculture (Continued) RURAL HOUSING SERVICE, RURAL BUSINESS-COOPERATIVE SERVICE, RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, AND FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PROGRAM... other necessary parties to arrange the time and place of closing. The transaction may be closed when the...

77 FR 27021 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Quarterly Survey of Financial Services...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-05-08

... Request; Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers [email protected] . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Abstract Form BE-185, Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign Persons, obtains quarterly data from U.S...

22 CFR 208.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOVERNMENTWIDE DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION (NONPROCUREMENT) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other Persons § 208.315 May I use the services of an... transaction unless the U.S. Agency for International Development grants an exception under § 208.120. ...

22 CFR 208.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOVERNMENTWIDE DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION (NONPROCUREMENT) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other Persons § 208.315 May I use the services of an... transaction unless the U.S. Agency for International Development grants an exception under § 208.120. ...

26 CFR 157.5891-1 - Imposition of excise tax on structured settlement factoring transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... settlement factoring transactions. 157.5891-1 Section 157.5891-1 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE... SETTLEMENT FACTORING TRANSACTIONS Tax on Structured Settlement Factoring Transactions § 157.5891-1 Imposition of excise tax on structured settlement factoring transactions. (a) In general. Section 5891 imposes...

17 CFR 401.3 - Exemption for financial institutions that are engaged in limited government securities brokerage...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... services on or off the premises of the financial institution, provided that: (A) The transacting government... government securities broker or dealer; and (D) Such services are provided on a fully disclosed basis by the transacting government securities broker or dealer, i.e., the transacting government securities broker or...

17 CFR 401.3 - Exemption for financial institutions that are engaged in limited government securities brokerage...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... services on or off the premises of the financial institution, provided that: (A) The transacting government... government securities broker or dealer; and (D) Such services are provided on a fully disclosed basis by the transacting government securities broker or dealer, i.e., the transacting government securities broker or...

31 CFR 560.206 - Prohibited trade-related transactions with Iran; goods, technology, or services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Prohibited trade-related transactions with Iran; goods, technology, or services. 560.206 Section 560.206 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY IRANIAN TRANSACTIONS AND SANCTIONS...

77 FR 54862 - Integrated Hedging Transactions of Qualifying Debt

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-09-06

... Integrated Hedging Transactions of Qualifying Debt AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION... certain integrated transactions that involve a foreign currency denominated debt instrument and multiple... foreign currency denominated debt instrument and multiple associated hedging transactions. The text of...

What can transaction costs tell us about governance in the delivery of large scale HIV prevention programmes in southern India?

PubMed

Guinness, Lorna

2011-06-01

This paper aims to understand the transaction costs implications of two different governance modes for large scale contracting of HIV prevention services to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in 2 states in India as part of the National AIDS Control Programme between 2001 and 2003. Interviews at purposively selected case study NGOs, contracting agencies and key informants as well as document review were used to compile qualitative data and make comparisons between the states on five themes theoretically proposed to shape transaction costs: institutional environment, informational problems, opportunism, scale of activity and asset specificity (the degree to which investments made specifically for the contract have value elsewhere). The State AIDS Control Society (SACS) in state Y used a management agency to manage the NGO contracts whereas the SACS in state X contracted directly with the NGOs. A high level of uncertainty, endemic corruption and weak information systems served to weaken the contractual relationships in both states. The management agency in state Y enabled the development of a strong NGO network, greater transparency and control over corrupt practises than the contract model in state X. State X's contractual process was further weakened by inadequate human resources. The application of the transaction cost framework to contracting out public services to NGOs identified the key costs associated with the governance of HIV prevention services through NGO contracts in India. A more successful form of relational contract evolved within the network of the contract management agency and the NGOs. This led to improved flows of information and perceived quality, and limited corrupt practises. It is unlikely that the SACS on its own, with broader responsibilities and limited autonomy can achieve the same ends. The management agency approach therefore appears to be both transaction cost reducing and better able to cope with the large scale of these contracting programmes. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

What can transaction costs tell us about governance in the delivery of large scale HIV prevention programmes in southern India?

PubMed Central

Guinness, Lorna

2011-01-01

This paper aims to understand the transaction costs implications of two different governance modes for large scale contracting of HIV prevention services to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in 2 states in India as part of the National AIDS Control Programme between 2001 and 2003. Interviews at purposively selected case study NGOs, contracting agencies and key informants as well as document review were used to compile qualitative data and make comparisons between the states on five themes theoretically proposed to shape transaction costs: institutional environment, informational problems, opportunism, scale of activity and asset specificity (the degree to which investments made specifically for the contract have value elsewhere). The State AIDS Control Society (SACS) in state Y used a management agency to manage the NGO contracts whereas the SACS in state X contracted directly with the NGOs. A high level of uncertainty, endemic corruption and weak information systems served to weaken the contractual relationships in both states. The management agency in state Y enabled the development of a strong NGO network, greater transparency and control over corrupt practises than the contract model in state X. State X’s contractual process was further weakened by inadequate human resources. The application of the transaction cost framework to contracting out public services to NGOs identified the key costs associated with the governance of HIV prevention services through NGO contracts in India. A more successful form of relational contract evolved within the network of the contract management agency and the NGOs. This led to improved flows of information and perceived quality, and limited corrupt practises. It is unlikely that the SACS on its own, with broader responsibilities and limited autonomy can achieve the same ends. The management agency approach therefore appears to be both transaction cost reducing and better able to cope with the large scale of these contracting programmes. PMID:21349622

17 CFR 160.14 - Exceptions to notice and opt out requirements for processing and servicing transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... or authorizes, or in connection with: (1) Processing or servicing a financial product or service that... persons engaged in carrying out the financial transaction or providing the product or service; or (2...'s account in the ordinary course of providing the financial service or financial product; (ii) To...

75 FR 50791 - Bureau of Political-Military Affairs: Directorate of Defense Trade Controls; Notifications to the...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-08-17

... services in the amount of $50,000,000 or more. The transaction contained in the attached certification... technical data, and defense services in the amount of $50,000,000 or more. The transaction contained in the... $100,000,000 or more. The transaction contained in the attached certification involves the export of...

31 CFR 560.206 - Prohibited trade-related transactions with Iran; goods, technology, or services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... with Iran; goods, technology, or services. 560.206 Section 560.206 Money and Finance: Treasury... transactions with Iran; goods, technology, or services. (a) Except as otherwise authorized pursuant to this... to: (1) Goods or services of Iranian origin or owned or controlled by the Government of Iran; or (2...

12 CFR 716.14 - Exceptions to notice and opt out requirements for processing and servicing transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... or processing a financial product or service that a consumer requests or authorizes; (2) Maintaining... maintain the consumer's account in the ordinary course of providing the financial service or financial... transaction, or information on the status or value of the financial service or financial product to the...

31 CFR 19.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction? 19.315 Section 19.315 Money and Finance: Treasury...) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other Persons § 19.315 May I use the...

31 CFR 19.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction? 19.315 Section 19.315 Money and Finance: Treasury...) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other Persons § 19.315 May I use the...

31 CFR 19.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction? 19.315 Section 19.315 Money and Finance: Treasury...) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other Persons § 19.315 May I use the...

31 CFR 19.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction? 19.315 Section 19.315 Money and Finance: Treasury...) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other Persons § 19.315 May I use the...

31 CFR 19.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction? 19.315 Section 19.315 Money and Finance: Treasury...) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other Persons § 19.315 May I use the...

5 CFR 919.405 - May I enter into a covered transaction with a participant if a principal of the transaction is...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... with a participant if a principal of the transaction is excluded? 919.405 Section 919.405 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED) CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED... § 919.405 May I enter into a covered transaction with a participant if a principal of the transaction is...

17 CFR 250.83 - Exemption in the case of transactions with foreign associates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... become engaged in the performance of any service, sales, or construction contract for any associate... thereunder, relating to the performance of any service, sales, or construction contract for such associate... Service, Sales and Construction Contracts § 250.83 Exemption in the case of transactions with foreign...

31 CFR 103.20 - Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... immediate attention, such as ongoing money laundering schemes, the money services business shall immediately... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions. 103.20 Section 103.20 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to...

75 FR 10997 - Cuban Assets Control Regulations; Sudanese Sanctions Regulations; Iranian Transactions Regulations

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-03-10

... Iranian Transactions Regulations to authorize the exportation of certain services and software incident to... authorize the exportation to persons in Sudan and Iran, respectively, of certain services and software... specific license, or otherwise exempt, the exportation of such services and software from the United States...

26 CFR 1.985-3 - United States dollar approximate separate transactions method.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... transactions method. 1.985-3 Section 1.985-3 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE... dollar approximate separate transactions method. (a) Scope and effective date—(1) Scope. This section describes the United States dollar (dollar) approximate separate transactions method of accounting (DASTM...

42 CFR 455.105 - Disclosure by providers: Information related to business transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... subcontractor with whom the provider has had business transactions totaling more than $25,000 during the 12... business transactions. 455.105 Section 455.105 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES... related to business transactions. (a) Provider agreements. A Medicaid agency must enter into an agreement...

The impact of the prospective payment system for skilled nursing facilities on therapy service provision: a transaction cost approach.

PubMed

Zinn, Jacqueline S; Mor, Vincent; Intrator, Orna; Feng, Zhanlian; Angelelli, Joseph; Davis, Jullet A

2003-12-01

To examine skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) "make-or-buy" decisions with respect to rehabilitation therapy service provision in the 1990s, both before and after implementation of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for SNFs. Longitudinal On-line Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) data (1992-2001) on a sample of 10,241 freestanding urban SNFs. We estimated a longitudinal multinomial logistic regression model derived from transaction cost economic theory to predict the probability of the outcome in each of four service provision categories (all employed staff, all contract, mixed, and no services provided). Transaction frequency, uncertainty, and complexity result in greater control over therapy services through employment as opposed to outside contracting. For-profit status and chain affiliation were associated with greater control over therapy services. Following PPS, nursing homes acted to limit transaction costs by either exiting the rehabilitation market or exerting greater control over therapy services by managing rehabilitation services in-house. The financial incentives associated with changes in reimbursement methodology have implications that extend beyond the boundaries of the health care industry segment directly affected. Unintended quality and access consequences need to be carefully monitored by the Medicare program.

47 CFR 32.27 - Transactions with affiliates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 47 Telecommunication 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Transactions with affiliates. 32.27 Section 32.27 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES UNIFORM SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES General Instructions § 32.27 Transactions with...

47 CFR 32.27 - Transactions with affiliates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 47 Telecommunication 2 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Transactions with affiliates. 32.27 Section 32.27 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES UNIFORM SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES General Instructions § 32.27 Transactions with...

47 CFR 32.27 - Transactions with affiliates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 47 Telecommunication 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Transactions with affiliates. 32.27 Section 32.27 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES UNIFORM SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES General Instructions § 32.27 Transactions with...

31 CFR 561.404 - Significant transaction or transactions; significant financial services; significant financial...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... conducting or facilitating the financial transaction described in paragraph (b) of § 561.204 and the National Iranian Oil Company (“NIOC”), the Naftiran Intertrade Company (“NICO”), any entity owned or controlled by... Human Rights Act of 2012 (“TRA”), or of the financial transaction on the objectives of the National...

A Megawatt Power Module for Ship Service - Supplement. Volume 1: Program Technical Report

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-06-01

Alternator” otherwise known as an “AC Homopolar ” or “Synchronous Homopolar ” machine for this application. The various motor /generator machine...After reviewing alternative motor /generator technologies as discussed above, a Homopolar Inductor Alternator (HIA) was selected for the technology...integrated flywheel energy storage system with homopolar inductor motor /generator and high-frequency drive”, Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on

47 CFR 20.20 - Conditions applicable to provision of CMRS service by incumbent Local Exchange Carriers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... terms and conditions of the transaction on the Internet within 10 days of the transaction through the... Radio Service (Broadband CMRS). For the purposes of this section, “broadband CMRS” means Cellular Radiotelephone Service (part 22, subpart H of this chapter), Specialized Mobile Radio (part 90, subpart S of this...

47 CFR 20.20 - Conditions applicable to provision of CMRS service by incumbent Local Exchange Carriers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... terms and conditions of the transaction on the Internet within 10 days of the transaction through the... Radio Service (Broadband CMRS). For the purposes of this section, “broadband CMRS” means Cellular Radiotelephone Service (part 22, subpart H of this chapter), Specialized Mobile Radio (part 90, subpart S of this...

47 CFR 20.20 - Conditions applicable to provision of CMRS service by incumbent Local Exchange Carriers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... terms and conditions of the transaction on the Internet within 10 days of the transaction through the... Radio Service (Broadband CMRS). For the purposes of this section, “broadband CMRS” means Cellular Radiotelephone Service (part 22, subpart H of this chapter), Specialized Mobile Radio (part 90, subpart S of this...

47 CFR 20.20 - Conditions applicable to provision of CMRS service by incumbent Local Exchange Carriers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... terms and conditions of the transaction on the Internet within 10 days of the transaction through the... Radio Service (Broadband CMRS). For the purposes of this section, “broadband CMRS” means Cellular Radiotelephone Service (part 22, subpart H of this chapter), Specialized Mobile Radio (part 90, subpart S of this...

5 CFR 919.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... person as a principal under a covered transaction? 919.315 Section 919.315 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED) CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) GOVERNMENTWIDE DEBARMENT... with Other Persons § 919.315 May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a...

22 CFR 201.13 - Eligibility of delivery services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... COMMODITY TRANSACTIONS FINANCED BY USAID Conditions Governing the Eligibility of Procurement Transactions... commodities may be financed under the implementing document provided the delivery services meet the.... USAID will finance inspection of USAID-financed commodities when inspection is required by USAID, or in...

The Impact of the Prospective Payment System for Skilled Nursing Facilities on Therapy Service Provision: A Transaction Cost Approach

PubMed Central

Zinn, Jacqueline S; Mor, Vincent; Intrator, Orna; Feng, Zhanlian; Angelelli, Joseph; Davis, Jullet A

2003-01-01

Objective To examine skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) “make-or-buy” decisions with respect to rehabilitation therapy service provision in the 1990s, both before and after implementation of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for SNFs. Data Sources Longitudinal On-line Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) data (1992–2001) on a sample of 10,241 freestanding urban SNFs. Study Design We estimated a longitudinal multinomial logistic regression model derived from transaction cost economic theory to predict the probability of the outcome in each of four service provision categories (all employed staff, all contract, mixed, and no services provided). Principal Findings Transaction frequency, uncertainty, and complexity result in greater control over therapy services through employment as opposed to outside contracting. For-profit status and chain affiliation were associated with greater control over therapy services. Following PPS, nursing homes acted to limit transaction costs by either exiting the rehabilitation market or exerting greater control over therapy services by managing rehabilitation services in-house. Conclusions The financial incentives associated with changes in reimbursement methodology have implications that extend beyond the boundaries of the health care industry segment directly affected. Unintended quality and access consequences need to be carefully monitored by the Medicare program. PMID:14727783

Contracting for health services in New Zealand: a transaction cost analysis.

PubMed

Ashton, T

1998-02-01

The splitting of the functions of purchaser and provider in the New Zealand health system in 1993 necessitated the use of explicit contracts between the two parties. This paper examines contracting experiences during the first two years of operation. The study focuses on four services: rest homes, primary care clinics, surgical services, and acute mental health services. The insights of transaction cost economics form the theoretical framework. The objective of this study was to examine whether the transaction costs associated with contracting vary across the four different services, and whether different types of contracts and contractual relationships are emerging as transactors attempt to reduce these costs. Information was collected in a series of 53 interviews with purchasers and providers, together with any relevant documentation. The results suggest that the costs of contracting are indeed greater for some services than for others. Other variables such as the style of negotiations, the type and specificity of contracts and the degree of monitoring also differ across the four services. At this early stage of the reform process, there was little evidence that purchasers and providers were attempting to reduce transaction costs by negotiating more flexible, longer-term, relational contracts. The main benefit from contracting to date has been improved accountability of service providers.

31 CFR 560.405 - Transactions incidental to a licensed transaction authorized.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... any transportation services to or from Iran not explicitly authorized in or pursuant to this part... leasing in Iran of any containers or similar goods owned or controlled by United States persons after the performance of transportation services to Iran; (d) Financing of licensed sales for exportation or...

31 CFR 357.29 - Time required for processing transaction request.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Time required for processing transaction request. 357.29 Section 357.29 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE REGULATIONS...

31 CFR 1022.320 - Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions. 1022.320 Section 1022.320 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY...

31 CFR 1022.320 - Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions. 1022.320 Section 1022.320 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY...

31 CFR 1022.320 - Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions. 1022.320 Section 1022.320 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY...

31 CFR 1022.320 - Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Reports by money services businesses of suspicious transactions. 1022.320 Section 1022.320 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY...

47 CFR 43.21 - Transactions with affiliates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... file, by April 1 of each year, a report designed to capture trends in service quality under price cap... report designed to capture trends in service quality under price cap regulation. The report shall contain...) REPORTS OF COMMUNICATION COMMON CARRIERS AND CERTAIN AFFILIATES § 43.21 Transactions with affiliates. (a...

47 CFR 43.21 - Transactions with affiliates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... file, by April 1 of each year, a report designed to capture trends in service quality under price cap... report designed to capture trends in service quality under price cap regulation. The report shall contain...) REPORTS OF COMMUNICATION COMMON CARRIERS AND CERTAIN AFFILIATES § 43.21 Transactions with affiliates. (a...

31 CFR 560.405 - Transactions incidental to a licensed transaction authorized.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... any transportation services to or from Iran not explicitly authorized in or pursuant to this part... leasing in Iran of any containers or similar goods owned or controlled by United States persons after the performance of transportation services to Iran; (d) Financing of licensed sales for exportation or...

31 CFR 560.405 - Transactions incidental to a licensed transaction authorized.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... any transportation services to or from Iran not explicitly authorized in or pursuant to this part... leasing in Iran of any containers or similar goods owned or controlled by United States persons after the performance of transportation services to Iran; (d) Financing of licensed sales for exportation or...

Community Currency Trading Method through Partial Transaction Intermediary Process

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kido, Kunihiko; Hasegawa, Seiichi; Komoda, Norihisa

A community currency is local money that is issued by local governments or Non-Profit Organization (NPO) to support social services. The purpose of introducing community currencies is to regenerate communities by fostering mutual aids among community members. In this paper, we propose a community currency trading method through partial intermediary process, under operational environments without introducing coordinators all the time. In this method, coordinators perform coordination between service users and service providers during several months from the start point of transactions. After the period of coordination, participants spontaneously make transactions based on their trust area and a trust evaluation method based on the number of provided services and complaint information. This method is especially effective to communities with close social networks and low trustworthiness. The proposed method is evaluated through multi-agent simulation.

31 CFR 1022.310 - Reports of transactions in currency.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Reports of transactions in currency. 1022.310 Section 1022.310 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance... BUSINESSES Reports Required To Be Made By Money Services Businesses § 1022.310 Reports of transactions in...

31 CFR 1022.310 - Reports of transactions in currency.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Reports of transactions in currency. 1022.310 Section 1022.310 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance... BUSINESSES Reports Required To Be Made By Money Services Businesses § 1022.310 Reports of transactions in...

31 CFR 1022.310 - Reports of transactions in currency.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Reports of transactions in currency. 1022.310 Section 1022.310 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance... BUSINESSES Reports Required To Be Made By Money Services Businesses § 1022.310 Reports of transactions in...

31 CFR 1022.310 - Reports of transactions in currency.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Reports of transactions in currency. 1022.310 Section 1022.310 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance... BUSINESSES Reports Required To Be Made By Money Services Businesses § 1022.310 Reports of transactions in...

"Making Do": Adapting Transaction Systems to Organizational Needs.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Barreau, Deborah K.

2001-01-01

Discusses transaction systems that are designed for rapid data entry and task completion, and describes a study of three organizations that use commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) products for providing customer service as well as for processing transactions. Concludes that organizations made do with systems designed for one application to…

31 CFR 561.404 - Significant transaction or transactions; significant financial services; significant financial...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... Central Bank of Iran, or a designated Iranian financial institution in a direct customer relationship..., or financial transaction is performed with the involvement or approval of management or only by... Iran, or a designated Iranian financial institution indirectly or in a tertiary relationship. (e...

31 CFR 561.404 - Significant transaction or transactions; significant financial services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... institution provides brokerage or clearing services to such a blocked person in a direct customer relationship...) are performed with the involvement or approval of management or only by clerical personnel; and (2... institution provides to such a blocked person in an indirect or tertiary relationship. (e) Impact. The impact...

Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence

PubMed Central

Alston, Lee J.; Andersson, Krister; Smith, Steven M.

2014-01-01

The use of payment for environmental services (PES) is not a new type of contract, but PES programs have become more in vogue because of the potential for sequestering carbon by paying to prevent deforestation and degradation of forestlands. We provide a framework utilizing transaction costs to hypothesize which services are more likely to be provided effectively. We then interpret the literature on PES programs to see the extent to which transaction costs vary as predicted across the type of service and to assess the performance of PES programs. As predicted, we find that transaction costs are the least for club goods like water and greatest for pure public goods like carbon reduction. Actual performance is difficult to measure and varies across the examples. More work and experimentation are needed to gain a better outlook on what elements support effective delivery of environmental services. PMID:25143798

The development of internationally managed information systems and their prospects.

PubMed

East, H

1978-12-01

This paper reviews a selection of international collaborative efforts in the production of information services and attempts to characterize modes of cooperation. Information systems specifically discussed include: international nuclear information system (INIS); Nuclear Science Abstract (NSA); EURATOM; AGRIS; AGRINDEX; Information Retrieval Limited (IRL); IFIS (International Food Information Service); Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS); MEDLARS; and TITUS. 3 methods of international information transfer are discussed: commercial transactions; negotiated (bilateral) barter arrangements; and contribution to internationally managed systems. Technical, economic, and professional objectives support the rationale for international cooperation. It is argued that economic and political considerations, as much as improved technology or information transfer, will determine the nature of collaboration in the future.

31 CFR 560.518 - Transactions in Iranian-origin and Iranian Government property.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... Iran, all domestic transactions with respect to Iranian-origin goods located in the United States are... services of Iranian origin or owned or controlled by the Government of Iran that are located or to be... owned or controlled by the Government of Iran, except that the following transactions are authorized: (1...

31 CFR 560.518 - Transactions in Iranian-origin and Iranian Government property.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... Iran, all domestic transactions with respect to Iranian-origin goods located in the United States are... services of Iranian origin or owned or controlled by the Government of Iran that are located or to be... owned or controlled by the Government of Iran, except that the following transactions are authorized: (1...

31 CFR 560.518 - Transactions in Iranian-origin and Iranian Government property.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... Iran, all domestic transactions with respect to Iranian-origin goods located in the United States are... services of Iranian origin or owned or controlled by the Government of Iran that are located or to be... owned or controlled by the Government of Iran, except that the following transactions are authorized: (1...

76 FR 66872 - International Services Surveys: Amendments to the BE-150, Quarterly Survey of Cross-Border Credit...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-10-28

...-Border Credit, Debit, and Charge Card Transactions AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Commerce. ACTION... information on the BE-150, Quarterly Survey of Cross-Border Credit, Debit, and Charge Card Transactions... change the survey title from Quarterly Survey of Cross-Border Credit, Debit, and Charge Card Transactions...

The Mobile Reference Service: a case study of an onsite reference service program at the School of Public Health.

PubMed

Tao, Donghua; McCarthy, Patrick G; Krieger, Mary M; Webb, Annie B

2009-01-01

The School of Public Health at Saint Louis University is located at a greater distance from the library than other programs on the main medical center campus. Physical distance diminishes the ease of access to direct reference services for public health users. To bridge the gap, the library developed the Mobile Reference Service to deliver on-site information assistance with regular office hours each week. Between September 2006 and April 2007, a total of 57 in-depth reference transactions took place over 25 weeks, averaging 2 transactions per week in a 2-hour period. Overall reference transactions from public health users went up 28%, while liaison contacts with public health users doubled compared to the same period the year before. The Mobile Reference Service program has improved library support for research and scholarship, cultivated and strengthened liaison relationships, and enhanced marketing and delivery of library resources and services to the Saint Louis University School of Public Health.

The Mobile Reference Service: a case study of an onsite reference service program at the school of public health*

PubMed Central

Tao, Donghua; McCarthy, Patrick G.; Krieger, Mary M.; Webb, Annie B.

2009-01-01

The School of Public Health at Saint Louis University is located at a greater distance from the library than other programs on the main medical center campus. Physical distance diminishes the ease of access to direct reference services for public health users. To bridge the gap, the library developed the Mobile Reference Service to deliver onsite information assistance with regular office hours each week. Between September 2006 and April 2007, a total of 57 in-depth reference transactions took place over 25 weeks, averaging 2 transactions per week in a 2-hour period. Overall reference transactions from public health users went up 28%, while liaison contacts with public health users doubled compared to the same period the year before. The Mobile Reference Service program has improved library support for research and scholarship, cultivated and strengthened liaison relationships, and enhanced marketing and delivery of library resources and services to the Saint Louis University School of Public Health. PMID:19159004

The consequences of hospital autonomization in Colombia: a transaction cost economics analysis.

PubMed

Castano, Ramon; Mills, Anne

2013-03-01

Granting autonomy to public hospitals in developing countries has been common over recent decades, and implies a shift from hierarchical to contract-based relationships with health authorities. Theory on transactions costs in contractual relationships suggests they stem from relationship-specific investments and contract incompleteness. Transaction cost economics argues that the parties involved in exchanges seek to reduce transaction costs. The objective of this research was to analyse the relationships observed between purchasers and the 22 public hospitals of the city of Bogota, Colombia, in order to understand the role of relationship-specific investments and contract incompleteness as sources of transaction costs, through a largely qualitative study. We found that contract-based relationships showed relevant transaction costs associated mainly with contract incompleteness, not with relationship-specific investments. Regarding relationships between insurers and local hospitals for primary care services, compulsory contracting regulations locked-in the parties to the contracts. For high-complexity services (e.g. inpatient care), no restrictions applied and relationships suggested transaction-cost minimizing behaviour. Contract incompleteness was found to be a source of transaction costs on its own. We conclude that transaction costs seemed to play a key role in contract-based relationships, and contract incompleteness by itself appeared to be a source of transaction costs. The same findings are likely in other contexts because of difficulties in defining, observing and verifying the contracted products and the underlying information asymmetries. The role of compulsory contracting might be context-specific, although it is likely to emerge in other settings due to the safety-net role of public hospitals.

Organizational boundaries of medical practice: the case of physician ownership of ancillary services

PubMed Central

2012-01-01

Physician ownership of in-office ancillary services (IOASs) has come under increasing scrutiny. Advocates of argue that IOASs allow physicians to supervise the quality and coordination of care. Critics have argued that IOASs create financial incentives for physicians to increase ancillary service volume. In this paper we develop a conceptual framework to evaluate the tradeoffs associated with physician ownership of IOASs. There is some evidence supporting the existence of scope and transaction economies in IOASs. Improvement in flow and continuity of care are likely to generate scope economies and improvements in quality monitoring and reductions in consumer transaction costs are likely to generate transaction economies. Other factors include the capture of upstream and downstream profits, but these incentives are likely to be small compared to scope and transaction economies. Policy debates on the merits of IOASs should include an explicit assessment of these tradeoffs. This research was supported in part by funding from the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). PMID:22828324

76 FR 78958 - Bureau of Political Military Affairs: Directorate of Defense Trade Controls; Notifications to the...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-12-20

..., including technical data, and defense services abroad in the amount of $25,000,000 or more. The transaction... data, and defense services abroad in the amount of $50,000,000 or more. The transaction described in.... Sincerely, David S. Adams, Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs. July 25, 2011 (Transmittal Number 11...

77 FR 10958 - International Services Surveys: BE-150, Quarterly Survey of Cross-Border Credit, Debit, and...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-02-24

...-Border Credit, Debit, and Charge Card Transactions, to change the survey title, and to collect data in... from Quarterly Survey of Cross-Border Credit, Debit, and Charge Card Transactions to Quarterly Survey... Survey of Cross-Border Credit, Debit, and Charge Card Transactions to Quarterly Survey of Payment Card...

5 CFR 919.305 - May I enter into a covered transaction with an excluded or disqualified person?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED) CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) GOVERNMENTWIDE DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION (NONPROCUREMENT) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other...

41 CFR 105-68.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction? 105-68.315 Section 105-68.315 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management Regulations System (Continued...

12 CFR 12.5 - Notification by agreement; alternative forms and times of notification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... for a periodic plan (except for a cash management sweep service) shall give or send to its customer... account involved in the transaction. (2) A national bank effecting a securities transaction for a cash management sweep service or other periodic plan as defined in § 12.2(j)(2) shall give or send its customer a...

7 CFR 1773.43 - Capital and equity accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... must include analyses of all stock transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's... analysis of the membership transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of...

7 CFR 1773.43 - Capital and equity accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... must include analyses of all stock transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's... analysis of the membership transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of...

7 CFR 1773.43 - Capital and equity accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... must include analyses of all stock transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's... analysis of the membership transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of...

7 CFR 1773.43 - Capital and equity accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... must include analyses of all stock transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's... analysis of the membership transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of...

7 CFR 1773.43 - Capital and equity accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... must include analyses of all stock transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's... analysis of the membership transactions during the audit period. Based upon the CPA's determination of...

2 CFR 180.315 - May I use the services of an excluded person as a principal under a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... as a principal under a covered transaction? 180.315 Section 180.315 Grants and Agreements OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET GOVERNMENTWIDE GUIDANCE FOR GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS Reserved OMB GUIDELINES TO AGENCIES... person as a principal under a covered transaction? (a) You as a participant may continue to use the...

Zero tolerance for incorrect data: Best practices in SQL transaction programming

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Laiho, M.; Skourlas, C.; Dervos, D. A.

2015-02-01

DBMS products differ in the way they support even the basic SQL transaction services. In this paper, a framework of best practices in SQL transaction programming is given and discussed. The SQL developers are advised to experiment with and verify the services supported by the DBMS product used. The framework has been developed by DBTechNet, a European network of teachers, trainers and ICT professionals. A course module on SQL transactions, offered by the LLP "DBTech VET Teachers" programme, is also presented and discussed. Aims and objectives of the programme include the introduction of the topics and content of SQL transactions and concurrency control to HE/VET curricula and addressing the need for initial and continuous training on these topics to in-company trainers, VET teachers, and Higher Education students. An overview of the course module, its learning outcomes, the education and training (E&T) content, virtual database labs with hands-on self-practicing exercises, plus instructions for the teacher/trainer on the pedagogy and the usage of the course modules' content are briefly described. The main principle adopted is to "Learn by verifying in practice" and the transactions course motto is: "Zero Tolerance for Incorrect Data".

12 CFR 704.12 - Permissible services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... teller machines, online transaction processing through a website, website hosting services, account... liquidity planning and balance sheet modeling and analysis. (6) Operational services. Operational services...

Straight talk: new approaches in healthcare. Are you ready to send HIPPA-compliant transactions? Your cash flow is at stake. Panel discussion.

PubMed

Barrett, Lee B; Hanks, Tom; Zubeldia, Kepa; Cramer, Richard

The deadlines are looming for compliance with the transaction and code set requirements set forth in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). If your hospital filed for an extension in October 2002, you need to begin testing transactions by April 2003 and sending transactions by October 2003. But don't rely on your technology vendors to give you the ability to send compliant transactions. While vendors can provide the correct computer data format, they can't gather the correct information. If you can't send a compliant transaction, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could reject your claims, drying up a big percentage of your cash flow.

Listen to What They Have to Say! Assessing Distance Learners' Satisfaction with Library Services Using a Transactional Survey

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Alewine, Michael C.

2012-01-01

This paper examines the evolution and findings of an on-going longitudinal study that is assessing the satisfaction of distance education students with library reference services through the use of a transaction-level survey. The survey's purpose is two-fold: first, it is used to garner valuable input from these students; and second, it also…

41 CFR 302-11.2 - Am I eligible to receive an allowance for expenses incurred in connection with my residence...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... connection with your residence transactions under this subpart if you have signed a service agreement as... States and; (1) You have completed your service agreement time period for your overseas tour of duty; and... TRANSACTIONS General Rules § 302-11.2 Am I eligible to receive an allowance for expenses incurred in connection...

Controlling supply expenses through capitated supply contracting.

PubMed

Kowalski, J C

1997-07-01

Some providers dealing with the financial challenges of managed care are attempting to control supply expenses through capitated supply contracting and similar risk/reward sharing arrangements. Under such arrangements, a supplier sells products and services to a provider for a fixed, prospective price in exchange for the provider's exclusive business. If expenses exceed the prospectively established amount, the supplier and provider share the loss. Conversely, if expenses are less than the fixed amount, they share the savings. For a capitated supply arrangement to be successful, providers must be able to identify and track supply expense drivers, such as clinical pathways, technology utilization, and product selection and utilization. Sophisticated information systems are needed to capture data, such as total and per-transaction product usage/volume; unit price per item; average and cost per item; average and total cost per transaction; and total cost per outcome. Providers also will need to establish mutually cooperative relationships with the suppliers with whom they contract.

Transformational and Transactional Leadership: Association With Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Practice

PubMed Central

Aarons, Gregory A.

2006-01-01

Objective Leadership in organizations is important in shaping workers’ perceptions, responses to organizational change, and acceptance of innovations, such as evidence-based practices. Transformational leadership inspires and motivates followers, whereas transactional leadership is based more on reinforcement and exchanges. Studies have shown that in youth and family service organizations, mental health providers’ attitudes toward adopting an evidence-based practice are associated with organizational context and individual provider differences. The purpose of this study was to expand these findings by examining the association between leadership and mental health providers’ attitudes toward adopting evidence-based practice. Methods Participants were 303 public-sector mental health service clinicians and case managers from 49 programs who were providing mental health services to children, adolescents, and their families. Data were gathered on providers’ characteristics, attitudes toward evidence-based practices, and perceptions of their supervisors’ leadership behaviors. Zero-order correlations and multilevel regression analyses were conducted that controlled for effects of service providers’ characteristics. Results Both transformational and transactional leadership were positively associated with providers’ having more positive attitudes toward adoption of evidence-based practice, and transformational leadership was negatively associated with providers’ perception of difference between the providers’ current practice and evidence-based practice. Conclusions Mental health service organizations may benefit from improving transformational and transactional supervisory leadership skills in preparation for implementing evidence-based practices. PMID:16870968

Allocation and management issues in multiple-transaction open access transmission networks

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Tao, Shu

This thesis focuses on some key issues related to allocation and management by the independent grid operator (IGO) of unbundled services in multiple-transaction open access transmission networks. The three unbundled services addressed in the thesis are transmission real power losses, reactive power support requirements from generation sources, and transmission congestion management. We develop the general framework that explicitly represents multiple transactions undertaken simultaneously in the transmission grid. This framework serves as the basis for formulating various problems treated in the thesis. We use this comprehensive framework to develop a physical-flow-based mechanism to allocate the total transmission losses to each transaction using the system. An important property of the allocation scheme is its capability to effectively deal with counter flows that result in the presence of specific transactions. Using the loss allocation results as the basis, we construct the equivalent loss compensation concept and apply it to develop flexible and effective procedures for compensating losses in multiple-transaction networks. We present a new physical-flow-based mechanism for allocating the reactive power support requirements provided by generators in multiple-transaction networks. The allocatable reactive support requirements are formulated as the sum of two specific components---the voltage magnitude variation component and the voltage angle variation component. The formulation utilizes the multiple-transaction framework and makes use of certain simplifying approximations. The formulation leads to a natural allocation as a function of the amount of each transaction. The physical interpretation of each allocation as a sensitivity of the reactive output of a generator is discussed. We propose a congestion management allocation scheme for multiple-transaction networks. The proposed scheme determines the allocation of congestion among the transactions on a physical-flow basis. It also proposes a congestion relief scheme that removes the congestion attributed to each transaction on the network in a least-cost manner to the IGO and determines the appropriate transmission charges to each transaction for its transmission usage. The thesis provides a compendium of problems that are natural extensions of the research results reported here and appear to be good candidates for future work.

18 CFR 250.16 - Format of compliance plan for transportation services and affiliate transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... distribution company, an interstate pipeline, an intrastate pipeline, an end-user, a producer, a marketer, or a... affiliate's role in the transportation transaction (i.e., shipper, marketer, supplier, seller); the duration...

Effects of Transactional and Transformational Governance on Academic Teaching: Empirical Evidence from Two Types of Higher Education Institutions

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Wilkesmann, Uwe

2013-01-01

The leadership literature distinguishes two modes of governance, which can also be applied to the governance of universities: transactional and transformational. Transactional governance encompasses all forms of managerial governance, including selective incentives and monitoring capacity. The theoretical underpinning of this mode can be found in…

47 CFR 43.21 - Transactions with affiliates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

....21 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES (CONTINUED) REPORTS OF COMMUNICATION COMMON CARRIERS AND CERTAIN AFFILIATES § 43.21 Transactions with affiliates. (a) Communication common carriers having annual operating revenues in excess of the indexed revenue threshold, as...

47 CFR 43.21 - Transactions with affiliates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

....21 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES (CONTINUED) REPORTS OF COMMUNICATION COMMON CARRIERS AND CERTAIN AFFILIATES § 43.21 Transactions with affiliates. (a) Communication common carriers having annual operating revenues in excess of the indexed revenue threshold, as...

47 CFR 43.21 - Transactions with affiliates.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

....21 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES (CONTINUED) REPORTS OF COMMUNICATION COMMON CARRIERS AND CERTAIN AFFILIATES § 43.21 Transactions with affiliates. (a) Communication common carriers having annual operating revenues in excess of the indexed revenue threshold, as...

27 CFR 6.101 - Merchandise.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... costs of the merchandise appears on the industry member's purchase invoices or other records; and (4... single transaction can be determined from commercial documents covering the sales transaction. (b) Things..., fixtures, signs, glassware, supplies, services, and advertising specialties to retailers does not...

27 CFR 6.101 - Merchandise.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... costs of the merchandise appears on the industry member's purchase invoices or other records; and (4... single transaction can be determined from commercial documents covering the sales transaction. (b) Things..., fixtures, signs, glassware, supplies, services, and advertising specialties to retailers does not...

78 FR 10639 - Proposed Amendment to Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2006-06 (PTE 2006-06) for Services...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-02-14

...The Department of Labor (the Department) is extending the comment period for a proposed amendment to PTE 2006-06, a prohibited transaction class exemption issued under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). PTE 2006-06 provides an exemption for certain transactions entered into on behalf of individual account pension plans that have been abandoned by their sponsors.

78 FR 41158 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated; Notice of Filing and...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-07-09

... separate fees structure for transactions in AMD, BAC, MU, NOK and SIRI (the ``Select Symbols'') that is different than the fees for transactions in all other symbols (all fees discussed in this proposed rule change apply to transactions in securities priced $1 or greater; CBSX does not propose to amend any fees...

Other Defense Organizations and Defense Finance and Accounting Service Controls Over High-Risk Transactions Were Not Effective

DTIC Science & Technology

2016-03-28

Management (DHA- CRM ), agreed with Recommendations 1 and 2. The Chief stated that the service-level agreements should be updated to provide...descriptive language on the defined roles and responsibilities. In some instances, DHA- CRM personnel find it difficult to identify responsible parties at...that it maintains a universe of all accounting transactions processed daily to include disbursements. Additionally, DHA- CRM personnel perform a

Eliminating traditional reference services in an academic health sciences library: a case study

PubMed Central

Schulte, Stephanie J

2011-01-01

Question: How were traditional librarian reference desk services successfully eliminated at one health sciences library? Setting: The analysis was done at an academic health sciences library at a major research university. Method: A gap analysis was performed, evaluating changes in the first eleven months through analysis of reference transaction and instructional session data. Main Results: Substantial increases were seen in the overall number of specialized reference transactions and those conducted by librarians lasting more than thirty minutes. The number of reference transactions overall increased after implementing the new model. Several new small-scale instructional initiatives began, though perhaps not directly related to the new model. Conclusion: Traditional reference desk services were eliminated at one academic health sciences library without negative impact on reference and instructional statistics. Eliminating ties to the confines of the physical library due to staffing reference desk hours removed one significant barrier to a more proactive liaison program. PMID:22022221

22 CFR 1508.220 - Are any procurement contracts included as covered transactions?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Are any procurement contracts included as covered transactions? 1508.220 Section 1508.220 Foreign Relations AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.... (3) The contract is for federally-required audit services. ...

31 CFR 1022.314 - Structured transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Structured transactions. 1022.314 Section 1022.314 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY RULES FOR MONEY SERVICES BUSINESSES Reports...

31 CFR 1022.314 - Structured transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Structured transactions. 1022.314 Section 1022.314 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY RULES FOR MONEY SERVICES BUSINESSES Reports...

31 CFR 1022.314 - Structured transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Structured transactions. 1022.314 Section 1022.314 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY RULES FOR MONEY SERVICES BUSINESSES Reports...

31 CFR 1022.314 - Structured transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Structured transactions. 1022.314 Section 1022.314 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY RULES FOR MONEY SERVICES BUSINESSES Reports...

75 FR 53740 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Regulation Project

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-09-01

... Request for Regulation Project AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION: Notice and... Transactions Involving Computer Programs (Sec. 1.861-18). DATES: Written comments should be received on [email protected] . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Classification of Certain Transactions Involving Computer...

From Transactional to Transformational Accounting.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Cooper, Bruce S.; Randall, E. Vance

1998-01-01

Accurate transactional financial data are necessary for governmental compliance; transformational information is crucial for measuring and improving school performance. Some districts are shifting from a systems to a service, focus, from partial to full-cost accounting, from centralized to decentralized reporting procedures and facilities, and…

A flexible geospatial sensor observation service for diverse sensor data based on Web service

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Chen, Nengcheng; Di, Liping; Yu, Genong; Min, Min

Achieving a flexible and efficient geospatial Sensor Observation Service (SOS) is difficult, given the diversity of sensor networks, the heterogeneity of sensor data storage, and the differing requirements of users. This paper describes development of a service-oriented multi-purpose SOS framework. The goal is to create a single method of access to the data by integrating the sensor observation service with other Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services — Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW), Transactional Web Feature Service (WFS-T) and Transactional Web Coverage Service (WCS-T). The framework includes an extensible sensor data adapter, an OGC-compliant geospatial SOS, a geospatial catalogue service, a WFS-T, and a WCS-T for the SOS, and a geospatial sensor client. The extensible sensor data adapter finds, stores, and manages sensor data from live sensors, sensor models, and simulation systems. Abstract factory design patterns are used during design and implementation. A sensor observation service compatible with the SWE is designed, following the OGC "core" and "transaction" specifications. It is implemented using Java servlet technology. It can be easily deployed in any Java servlet container and automatically exposed for discovery using Web Service Description Language (WSDL). Interaction sequences between a Sensor Web data consumer and an SOS, between a producer and an SOS, and between an SOS and a CSW are described in detail. The framework has been successfully demonstrated in application scenarios for EO-1 observations, weather observations, and water height gauge observations.

A process to establish and use base period prices for national forest system transaction evidence timber appraisal

Treesearch

Richard W. Haynes; Kenneth E. Skog; Richard Aubuchon

2016-01-01

The USDA Forest Service is required to appraise timber prior to it being offered for sale. Currently the Forest Service uses a transaction evidence based approach, but concerns have been raised about availability—both in number and applicability—of timber sales used as the basis of this approach. In addition to the problem of few sales, in certain situations a notable...

17 CFR 200.735-5 - Securities transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... Service position in the Division of Investment Management or the Office of Compliance Inspections and... the Division of Investment Management and the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, in... cause to be effected any transaction in a security except for bona fide investment purposes. Therefore...

12 CFR 564.5 - Appraiser independence.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... financial services institution, if: (i) The appraiser has no direct or indirect interest, financial or... the federally related transaction, and have no direct or indirect interest, financial or otherwise, in... direct or indirect interest, financial or otherwise, in the property or the transaction. (2) A regulated...

Visualizing multiattribute Web transactions using a freeze technique

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Hao, Ming C.; Cotting, Daniel; Dayal, Umeshwar; Machiraju, Vijay; Garg, Pankaj

2003-05-01

Web transactions are multidimensional and have a number of attributes: client, URL, response times, and numbers of messages. One of the key questions is how to simultaneously lay out in a graph the multiple relationships, such as the relationships between the web client response times and URLs in a web access application. In this paper, we describe a freeze technique to enhance a physics-based visualization system for web transactions. The idea is to freeze one set of objects before laying out the next set of objects during the construction of the graph. As a result, we substantially reduce the force computation time. This technique consists of three steps: automated classification, a freeze operation, and a graph layout. These three steps are iterated until the final graph is generated. This iterated-freeze technique has been prototyped in several e-service applications at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. It has been used to visually analyze large volumes of service and sales transactions at online web sites.

Longitudinal transactions between personality and occupational roles: a large and heterogeneous study of job beginners, stayers, and changers.

PubMed

Denissen, Jaap J A; Ulferts, Hannah; Lüdtke, Oliver; Muck, Peter M; Gerstorf, Denis

2014-07-01

Social norms are central to theoretical accounts of longitudinal person-environment transactions. On the one hand, individuals are thought to select themselves into social roles that fit their personality. On the other hand, it is assumed that individuals' personality is transformed by the socializing pressure of norm demands. These 2 transactional directions were investigated in a large and heterogeneous 5-year longitudinal subsample of job beginners (n = 640, M age = 21.24), job stayers (n = 4,137, M age = 46.63), and job changers (n = 2,854, M age = 44.68) from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Role demands were coded by both students and labor market experts. To demonstrate transactional effects, cross-lagged structural equation models were estimated. Substantial selection effects were found for both job beginners and job changers. There was also evidence for socialization effects, especially for participants who did not change jobs. Depending on the trait and the subsample that was investigated, selection effects were sometimes corresponsive with socialization effects. Personality role demands were temporally consistent across a 4-year period even when individuals changed jobs (heterotypic continuity). This is one of the first empirical demonstrations of the transactional processes that lead to the formation of social niches. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

Pathways to Male Transactional Sex in Mumbai, India.

PubMed

Srivastava, Ankur; Goldbach, Jeremy T

2017-10-27

The article explores pathways to male transactional sex, focusing on entering, soliciting practices, role of pimps, client characteristics, and negotiations. Little scientific literature exists regarding male transactional sex in India, who represent a high-risk group for HIV infection. Case studies with 10 men who engage in transactional sex were conducted, who were recruited using purposive snowball sampling and interviewed at a social service organization. Participants differed in their sexual identity, sex roles, soliciting practices, and clients. Most of them listed economic crisis as their reason for entering transactional sex. Strategies to find clients included self-solicitation and referrals, while pimps played a major role in solicitation, negotiations, and events of crisis. The relationship among men who engage in transactional sex, pimps, and clients involves points of negotiation, opportunities, and limitations. HIV prevention should focus on identifying and addressing the groups' unique needs and working with pimps on risk-reduction strategies and crisis interventions.

Do transactive memory and participative teamwork improve nurses' quality of work life?

PubMed

Brunault, Paul; Fouquereau, Evelyne; Colombat, Philippe; Gillet, Nicolas; El-Hage, Wissam; Camus, Vincent; Gaillard, Philippe

2014-03-01

Improvement in nurses' quality of work life (QWL) has become a major issue in health care organizations. We hypothesized that the level of transactive memory (defined as the way groups collectively encode, store, and retrieve knowledge) and participative teamwork (an organizational model of care based on vocational training, a specific service's care project, and regular interdisciplinary staffing) positively affect nurses' QWL. This cross-sectional study enrolled 84 ward-based psychiatric nurses. We assessed transactive memory, participative teamwork, perceived organizational justice, perceived organizational support, and QWL using psychometrically reliable and valid scales. Participative teamwork and transactive memory were positively associated with nurses' QWL. Perceived organizational support and organizational justice fully mediated the relationship between participative teamwork and QWL, but not between transactive memory and QWL. Improved transactive memory could directly improve nurses' QWL. Improved participative teamwork could improve nurses' QWL through better perceived organizational support and perceived organizational justice.

76 FR 76029 - International Services Surveys: Amendments to the BE-120, Benchmark Survey of Transactions in...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-12-06

... services; (20) Legal services; (21) Management, consulting, and public relations services (includes... international investment and trade in services and publish for the use of the general public and United States...

22 CFR 1006.220 - Are any procurement contracts included as covered transactions?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... covered transactions? 1006.220 Section 1006.220 Foreign Relations INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION GOVERNMENTWIDE... the consent of a(n) Inter-American Foundation official. In that case, the contract, regardless of the... appendix to this part. (3) The contract is for federally-required audit services. ...

77 FR 6615 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board; Notice of Filing of...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-02-08

... reporting requirements. Thus, concurrently with the elimination of the intermediate dealer reporting...-Time Transaction Reporting System February 2, 2012. Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities... the Real-Time Transaction Reporting System (``RTRS'') information system and subscription service (the...

45 CFR 162.1701 - Health plan premium payments transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Health plan premium payments transaction. 162.1701 Section 162.1701 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Plan Premium Payments § 162.1701 Health plan...

45 CFR 162.1701 - Health plan premium payments transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Health plan premium payments transaction. 162.1701 Section 162.1701 Public Welfare Department of Health and Human Services ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Plan Premium Payments § 162.1701 Health plan...

CICS Region Virtualization for Cost Effective Application Development

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Khan, Kamal Waris

2012-01-01

Mainframe is used for hosting large commercial databases, transaction servers and applications that require a greater degree of reliability, scalability and security. Customer Information Control System (CICS) is a mainframe software framework for implementing transaction services. It is designed for rapid, high-volume online processing. In order…

The admissible portfolio selection problem with transaction costs and an improved PSO algorithm

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Chen, Wei; Zhang, Wei-Guo

2010-05-01

In this paper, we discuss the portfolio selection problem with transaction costs under the assumption that there exist admissible errors on expected returns and risks of assets. We propose a new admissible efficient portfolio selection model and design an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm because traditional optimization algorithms fail to work efficiently for our proposed problem. Finally, we offer a numerical example to illustrate the proposed effective approaches and compare the admissible portfolio efficient frontiers under different constraints.

Transactive System: Part I: Theoretical Underpinnings of Payoff Functions, Control Decisions, Information Privacy, and Solution Concepts

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Lian, Jianming; Zhang, Wei; Sun, Y.

The increased penetration of renewable energy has significantly changed the conditions and the operational timing of the electricity grid. More flexible, faster ramping resources are needed to compensate for the uncertainty and variability introduced by renewable energy. Distributed energy resources (DERs) such as distributed generators, energy storage, and controllable loads could help manage the power grid in terms of both economic efficiency and operational reliability. In order to realize the benefits of DERs, coordination and control approaches must be designed to enable seamless integration of DERs into the power grid. Transactive coordination and control is a new approach for DERmore » integration, where individual resources are automated and engaged through market interaction. Transactive approaches use economic signals—prices or incentives—to engage DERs. These economic signals must reflect the true value of the DER contributions, so that they seamlessly and equitably compete for the opportunities that today are only available to grid-owned assets. Value signals must be communicated to the DERs in near-real time, the assets must be imbued with new forms of distributed intelligence and control to take advantage of the opportunities presented by these signals, and they must be capable of negotiating and transacting a range of market-driven energy services. The concepts of transactive energy systems are not new, but build upon evolutionary economic changes in financial and electric power markets. These concepts also recognize the different regional structures of wholesale power markets, electricity delivery markets, retail markets, and vertically integrated service provider markets. Although transactive energy systems are not revolutionary, they will be transformational in their ability to provide flexibility and operational efficiency. A main goal of this research is to establish useful foundation for analysis of transactive energy systems and to facilitate new transactive energy system design with demonstrable guarantees on stability and performance. Specifically, the goals are to (1) establish a theoretical basis for evaluating the performance of different transactive systems, (2) devise tools to address canonical problems that exemplify challenges and scenarios of transactive systems, and (3) provide guidelines for design of future transactive systems. This report, Part 1 of a two part series, advances the above-listed research objectives by reviewing existing transactive systems and identifying a theoretical foundation that integrates payoff functions, control decisions, information privacy, and mathematical solution concepts.« less

Solving portfolio selection problems with minimum transaction lots based on conditional-value-at-risk

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Setiawan, E. P.; Rosadi, D.

2017-01-01

Portfolio selection problems conventionally means ‘minimizing the risk, given the certain level of returns’ from some financial assets. This problem is frequently solved with quadratic or linear programming methods, depending on the risk measure that used in the objective function. However, the solutions obtained by these method are in real numbers, which may give some problem in real application because each asset usually has its minimum transaction lots. In the classical approach considering minimum transaction lots were developed based on linear Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD), variance (like Markowitz’s model), and semi-variance as risk measure. In this paper we investigated the portfolio selection methods with minimum transaction lots with conditional value at risk (CVaR) as risk measure. The mean-CVaR methodology only involves the part of the tail of the distribution that contributed to high losses. This approach looks better when we work with non-symmetric return probability distribution. Solution of this method can be found with Genetic Algorithm (GA) methods. We provide real examples using stocks from Indonesia stocks market.

77 FR 3070 - Electric Engineering, Architectural Services, Design Policies and Construction Standards

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-01-23

... Engineering, Architectural Services, Design Policies and Construction Standards AGENCY: Rural Utilities..., engineering services and architectural services for transactions above the established threshold dollar levels... Code of Federal Regulations as follows: PART 1724--ELECTRIC ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES AND...

Mission and Safety Critical (MASC): An EVACS simulation with nested transactions

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Auty, David; Atkinson, Colin; Randall, Charlie

1992-01-01

The Extra-Vehicular Activity Control System (EVACS) Simulation with Nested Transactions, a recent effort of the MISSION Kernel Team, is documented. The EVACS simulation is a simulation of some aspects of the Extra-Vehicular Activity Control System, in particular, just the selection of communication frequencies. The simulation is a tool to explore mission and safety critical (MASC) applications. For the purpose of this effort, its current definition is quite narrow serving only as a starting point for prototyping purposes. (Note that EVACS itself has been supplanted in a larger scenario of a lunar outpost with astronauts and a lunar rover). The frequency selection scenario was modified to embed its processing in nested transactions. Again as a first step, only two aspects of transaction support were implemented in this prototype: architecture and state recovery. Issues of concurrency and distribution are yet to be addressed.

5 CFR 919.325 - What happens if I do business with an excluded person in a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false What happens if I do business with an... PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED) CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) GOVERNMENTWIDE DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION (NONPROCUREMENT) Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions Doing Business with Other...

31 CFR 538.408 - Offshore transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Offshore transactions. 538.408 Section 538.408 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE... effective date, or with respect to goods, technology or services which the U.S. person knows, or has reason...

31 CFR 586.407 - Offshore transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Offshore transactions. 586.407 Section 586.407 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) OFFICE... dealing in, within such locations, goods, technology or services in which the U.S. person knows, or has...

45 CFR 162.1401 - Health care claim status transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Health care claim status transaction. 162.1401 Section 162.1401 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Care Claim Status § 162.1401 Health care claim...

45 CFR 162.1401 - Health care claim status transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Health care claim status transaction. 162.1401 Section 162.1401 Public Welfare Department of Health and Human Services ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Care Claim Status § 162.1401 Health care claim...

31 CFR 357.29 - Time required for processing transaction request.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Time required for processing transaction request. 357.29 Section 357.29 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT REGULATIONS...

31 CFR 357.29 - Time required for processing transaction request.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Time required for processing transaction request. 357.29 Section 357.29 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT REGULATIONS...

31 CFR 357.29 - Time required for processing transaction request.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Time required for processing transaction request. 357.29 Section 357.29 Money and Finance: Treasury Regulations Relating to Money and Finance (Continued) FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT REGULATIONS...

7 CFR 1782.15 - Mergers and consolidations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 12 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Mergers and consolidations. 1782.15 Section 1782.15... AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED) SERVICING OF WATER AND WASTE PROGRAMS § 1782.15 Mergers and consolidations. Mergers... transaction under consideration and the unique facts involved in each transaction. Mergers occur when two or...

Information Commons Help Desk Transactions Study

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Wong, Gabrielle K. W.

2010-01-01

With the purpose of designing a training program for a new team serving at a technology service point, the author analyzed the transactions log using a new, multi-faceted, taxonomy. The resulting list of competencies and the methodology would be useful for managers of information or learning commons. (Contains 5 tables.)

Performing Resource Usage Analysis for a NOTIS System.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Hinnebusch, Mark

1991-01-01

Outlines methods that the Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) has developed to estimate transaction costs and overall demand for NOTIS services. Transaction resource usage analysis is discussed, record structures are explained, institution collection size is considered, and usage and response time by hour of day is described. (six…

26 CFR 1.482-0 - Outline of regulations under section 482.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... transfer pricing rules for other transactions. (1) Services transactions that include other types of.... (iii) Subleases. (d) Transfer of property. (e) [Reserved] For further guidance, see § 1.482-0T, the... in connection with a transfer of tangible property. (a) In general. (b) Comparable uncontrolled price...

Embedded promotions in online services: how goal-relevance ambiguity shapes response and affect.

PubMed

Brasel, S Adam

2010-09-01

Adding promotions to online services is increasingly commonplace, yet consumers may have difficulty determining whether service-embedded promotions are goal-relevant, due to the linear and transactional nature of online services. This contextual effect of goal-relevance ambiguity on promotions is explored across three studies. An exploratory study utilizing actual service websites and a broad range of consumers as participants showed promotional elements in online services generated considerable confusion, and instructions labeling promotions as optional did little to relieve goal-relevance ambiguity. A second study using student participants inserted promotions into an online airline ticket service, a shopping site, a local news blog, and a news headline aggregator, to explore how linear and transactional sites such as online services compared to more exploratory or informational online environments. Results showed that service-embedded promotions enjoyed initial compliance far beyond promotions in traditional websites but also generated increased confusion, frustration, and anger. A third study utilizing student participants explored how varying levels of online service experience created differing responses to promotions in services; novices were less able to judge promotional goal-relevance and experienced more confusion, whereas experienced searchers were more likely to respond with frustration and anger. Many participants complied with promotional offers at the time of the service transaction, but stated intentions to use the promotion postservice were very low. The overall results spotlight goal-relevance ambiguity as an important driver of consumer response to online promotions, and highlight the role website context can play in the processing of online promotional elements. PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved.

Early experiences with e-health services (1999-2002): promise, reality, and implications.

PubMed

Fung, Vicki; Ortiz, Eduardo; Huang, Jie; Fireman, Bruce; Miller, Robert; Selby, Joseph V; Hsu, John

2006-05-01

E-health services may improve the quality and efficiency of care; however, there is little quantitative data on e-health use. The objective of this study was to examine trends in e-health use and user characteristics. This was a longitudinal study of e-health use (1999-2002) within an integrated delivery system (IDS). We classified 4 e-health services into transactional (drug refills and appointment scheduling) and care-related (medical and medication advice) services. Approximately 3.3 million members of a large, prepaid IDS. Amount and frequency of e-health use over time and characteristics of users. The number of members registered for access to e-health increased from 20,617 (0.7% of all members) in Q1 1999 to 270,987 (8.6%) in Q3 2002. Between Q1 and Q3 2002, 42,845 members (1.3%) used the drug refill service and 55,901 (1.7%) used the appointment scheduling service compared with 10,756 members (0.3%) who used the medical advice service and 3069 (0.1%) who used the medication advice service. Over the same period, transactional service users averaged 3.5 uses/user versus 1.6 uses/user among care-related service users. Members most likely to use e-health services had a high level of clinical need, a regular primary care provider, were 30 to 64 years old, female, white, and lived in a nonlow socioeconomic status neighborhood. These findings were consistent across e-health service types. Although use of all e-health services grew rapidly, use of care-related services lagged significantly behind use of transactional services. Subjects with greater clinical need and better ties to the health system were more likely to use both types of e-health services.

Ancillary-service costs for 12 US electric utilities

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Kirby, B.; Hirst, E.

1996-03-01

Ancillary services are those functions performed by electrical generating, transmission, system-control, and distribution-system equipment and people to support the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission defined ancillary services as ``those services necessary to support the transmission of electric power from seller to purchaser given the obligations of control areas and transmitting utilities within those control areas to maintain reliable operations of the interconnected transmission system.`` FERC divided these services into three categories: ``actions taken to effect the transaction (such as scheduling and dispatching services) , services that are necessary to maintainmore » the integrity of the transmission system [and] services needed to correct for the effects associated with undertaking a transaction.`` In March 1995, FERC published a proposed rule to ensure open and comparable access to transmission networks throughout the country. The rule defined six ancillary services and developed pro forma tariffs for these services: scheduling and dispatch, load following, system protection, energy imbalance, loss compensation, and reactive power/voltage control.« less

A Model for Determining Optimal Governance Structure in DoD Acquisition Projects in a Performance-Based Environment

DTIC Science & Technology

2011-03-09

task stability, technology application certainty, risk, and transaction-specific investments impact the selection of the optimal mode of governance...technology application certainty, risk, and transaction-specific investments impact the selection of the optimal mode of governance. Our model views...U.S. Defense Industry. The 1990s were a perfect storm of technological change, consolidation , budget downturns, environmental uncertainty, and the

Value-cell bar charts for visualizing large transaction data sets.

PubMed

Keim, Daniel A; Hao, Ming C; Dayal, Umeshwar; Lyons, Martha

2007-01-01

One of the common problems businesses need to solve is how to use large volumes of sales histories, Web transactions, and other data to understand the behavior of their customers and increase their revenues. Bar charts are widely used for daily analysis, but only show highly aggregated data. Users often need to visualize detailed multidimensional information reflecting the health of their businesses. In this paper, we propose an innovative visualization solution based on the use of value cells within bar charts to represent business metrics. The value of a transaction can be discretized into one or multiple cells: high-value transactions are mapped to multiple value cells, whereas many small-value transactions are combined into one cell. With value-cell bar charts, users can 1) visualize transaction value distributions and correlations, 2) identify high-value transactions and outliers at a glance, and 3) instantly display values at the transaction record level. Value-Cell Bar Charts have been applied with success to different sales and IT service usage applications, demonstrating the benefits of the technique over traditional charting techniques. A comparison with two variants of the well-known Treemap technique and our earlier work on Pixel Bar Charts is also included.

7 CFR 1773.42 - Clearing accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... Clearing accounts. The CPA's workpapers must contain an analysis of all clearing accounts. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions should be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that transactions were reviewed for proper allocation between...

26 CFR 1.857-5 - Net income and loss from prohibited transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

.... 1.857-5 Section 1.857-5 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED) INCOME TAX (CONTINUED) INCOME TAXES Real Estate Investment Trusts § 1.857-5 Net income and loss... than those provisions of part II of subchapter M which relate to prohibited transactions, no inference...

26 CFR 1.857-5 - Net income and loss from prohibited transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

.... 1.857-5 Section 1.857-5 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED) INCOME TAX (CONTINUED) INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED) Real Estate Investment Trusts § 1.857-5 Net... than those provisions of part II of subchapter M which relate to prohibited transactions, no inference...

45 CFR 73.735-803 - Prohibition against involvement in financial transactions based on information obtained through...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Prohibition against involvement in financial transactions based on information obtained through Federal employment. 73.735-803 Section 73.735-803 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION STANDARDS OF CONDUCT Financial...

31 CFR 363.145 - May I delete a pending transaction involving a zero-percent certificate of indebtedness?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... involving a zero-percent certificate of indebtedness? 363.145 Section 363.145 Money and Finance: Treasury... FISCAL SERVICE REGULATIONS GOVERNING SECURITIES HELD IN TREASURYDIRECT Zero-Percent Certificate of Indebtedness Zero-Percent Certificate of Indebtedness § 363.145 May I delete a pending transaction involving a...

12 CFR 334.24 - Reasonable opportunity to opt out.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... Internet Web site at which the consumer has obtained a product or service. The consumer acknowledges... the time of an electronic transaction, such as a transaction conducted on an Internet Web site. The... indicate that they do not want to opt out. (5) By including in a privacy notice. The opt-out notice is...

31 CFR Appendix C to Part 510 - Executive Order 13570

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS REGULATIONS Pt. 510, App. C... Transactions With Respect to North Korea By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the... goods, services, or technology from North Korea is prohibited. Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United...

31 CFR Appendix C to Part 510 - Executive Order 13570

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS REGULATIONS Pt. 510, App. C... Transactions With Respect to North Korea By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the... goods, services, or technology from North Korea is prohibited. Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United...

31 CFR Appendix C to Part 510 - Executive Order 13570

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS REGULATIONS Pt. 510, App. C... Transactions With Respect to North Korea By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the... goods, services, or technology from North Korea is prohibited. Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United...

31 CFR Appendix C to Part 510 - Executive Order 13570

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS REGULATIONS Pt. 510, App. C... Transactions With Respect to North Korea By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the... goods, services, or technology from North Korea is prohibited. Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United...

5 CFR 919.320 - Must I verify that principals of my covered transactions are eligible to participate?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Must I verify that principals of my... OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED) CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) GOVERNMENTWIDE DEBARMENT... with Other Persons § 919.320 Must I verify that principals of my covered transactions are eligible to...

77 FR 72416 - Foreside Advisor Services, LLC, et al.; Notice of Application

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-12-05

... Units''); (b) secondary market transactions in Shares to occur at negotiated market prices; (c) certain.... Applicants anticipate that the price of a Share will range from $15 to $25, and that Creation Units will... price of Shares will be based on a current bid/ offer in the secondary market. Transactions involving...

31 CFR 561.404 - Significant transaction or transactions; significant financial services; significant financial...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... financial institution, NIOC, or NICO in a direct customer relationship generally would be of greater... performed with the involvement or approval of management or only by clerical personnel; and (2) Whether the... designated Iranian financial institution, NIOC, or NICO indirectly or in a tertiary relationship. (e) Impact...

45 CFR 162.1702 - Standards for health plan premium payments transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Standards for health plan premium payments transaction. 162.1702 Section 162.1702 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Plan Premium Payments § 162.1702 Standards for health plan premium...

45 CFR 162.1702 - Standards for health plan premium payments transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Standards for health plan premium payments transaction. 162.1702 Section 162.1702 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Plan Premium Payments § 162.1702 Standards for health plan premium...

45 CFR 162.1702 - Standards for health plan premium payments transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Standards for health plan premium payments transaction. 162.1702 Section 162.1702 Public Welfare Department of Health and Human Services ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Plan Premium Payments § 162.1702 Standards for health plan premium...

45 CFR 162.1702 - Standards for health plan premium payments transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Standards for health plan premium payments transaction. 162.1702 Section 162.1702 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Plan Premium Payments § 162.1702 Standards for health plan premium...

Sunshine Act: shedding light on inaccurate disclosures at a gynecologic annual meeting.

PubMed

Thompson, Jennifer C; Volpe, Katherine A; Bridgewater, Lindsay K; Qeadan, Fares; Dunivan, Gena C; Komesu, Yuko M; Cichowski, Sara B; Jeppson, Peter C; Rogers, Rebecca G

2016-11-01

Physicians and hospital systems often have relationships with biomedical manufacturers to develop new ideas, products, and further education. Because this relationship can influence medical research and practice, reporting disclosures are necessary to reveal any potential bias and inform consumers. The Sunshine Act was created to develop a new reporting system of these financial relationships called the Open Payments database. Currently all disclosures submitted with research to scientific meetings are at the discretion of the physician. We hypothesized that financial relationships between authors and the medical industry are underreported. We aimed to describe concordance between physicians' financial disclosures listed in the abstract book from the 41st annual scientific meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons to physician payments reported to the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services Open Payments database for the same year. Authors and scientific committee members responsible for the content of the 41st annual scientific meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons were identified from the published abstract book; each abstract listed disclosures for each author. Abstract disclosures were compared with the transactions recorded on the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services Open Payments database for concordance. Two authors reviewed each nondisclosed Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services listing to determine the relatedness between the company listed on the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services and abstract content. Abstracts and disclosures of 335 physicians meeting inclusion criteria were reviewed. A total of 209 of 335 physicians (62%) had transactions reported in the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, which totaled $1.99 million. Twenty-four of 335 physicians (7%) listed companies with their abstracts; 5 of those 24 physicians were concordant with the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services. The total amount of all nondisclosed transactions was $1.3 million. Transactions reported in the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services associated with a single physician ranged from $11.72 to $405,903.36. Of the 209 physicians with Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services transactions that were not disclosed, the majority (68%) had at least 1 company listed in the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services that was determined after review to be related to the subject of their abstract. Voluntary disclosure of financial relationships was poor, and the majority of unlisted disclosures in the abstract book were companies related to the scientific content of the abstract. Better transparency is needed by physicians responsible for the content presented at gynecological scientific meetings. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

7 CFR 1773.42 - Clearing accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... § 1773.42 Clearing accounts. The CPA's workpapers must contain an analysis of all clearing accounts. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions should be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that transactions were reviewed for proper...

7 CFR 1773.42 - Clearing accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... § 1773.42 Clearing accounts. The CPA's workpapers must contain an analysis of all clearing accounts. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions should be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that transactions were reviewed for proper...

7 CFR 1773.42 - Clearing accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... § 1773.42 Clearing accounts. The CPA's workpapers must contain an analysis of all clearing accounts. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions should be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that transactions were reviewed for proper...

7 CFR 1773.42 - Clearing accounts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... § 1773.42 Clearing accounts. The CPA's workpapers must contain an analysis of all clearing accounts. Based upon the CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions should be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that transactions were reviewed for proper...

31 CFR 344.3 - What provisions apply to the SLGSafe Service?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... to the SLGSafe Service? (a) What is the SLGSafe Service? SLGSafe is a secure Internet site on the World Wide Web through which subscribers submit SLGS securities transactions. SLGSafe Internet... (Continued) FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE U.S. TREASURY SECURITIES...

10 CFR 766.3 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... Enrichment Services System, which is the database that tracks uranium enrichment services transactions of the... invoicing and historical tracking of SWU deliveries. Use and burnup charges mean lease charges for the...

41 CFR 105-68.325 - What happens if I do business with an excluded person in a covered transaction?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What happens if I do business with an excluded person in a covered transaction? 105-68.325 Section 105-68.325 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management Regulations System (Continued) GENERAL SERVICES...

26 CFR 1.6011-4 - Requirement of statement disclosing participation in certain transactions by taxpayers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... disclosure protects the confidentiality of that advisor's tax strategies. A transaction is treated as... paragraph (b)(3), in determining the minimum fee, all fees for a tax strategy or for services for advice... taxpayer's tax return reflects tax consequences or a tax strategy described in the published guidance that...

User Satisfaction and Service Transactions for a Reference Department in an Illinois Community College Learning Resources Center.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Cornish, Nancy M.

Users of the reference library at Blackhawk Community College (Illinois) were surveyed to determine user satisfaction and the total number of transactions. The survey's objective was to pinpoint problem areas, supply objective information, develop guidelines and standards, and support needed improvements or the continued maintenance of good…

26 CFR 1.6662-6 - Transactions between persons described in section 482 and net section 482 transfer price...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... transaction price initially reflected in the taxpayer's books and records. The results of controlled..., including an analysis of the economic and legal factors that affect the pricing of its property or services... the economic analysis and projections relied upon in developing the method. For example, if a profit...

12 CFR 222.24 - Reasonable opportunity to opt out.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... at an Internet Web site at which the consumer has obtained a product or service. The consumer... consumer at the time of an electronic transaction, such as a transaction conducted on an Internet Web site... one that allows consumers to indicate that they do not want to opt out. (5) By including in a privacy...

77 FR 36914 - Modification to Consolidated Return Regulation Permitting an Election To Treat a Liquidation of a...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-06-20

... * * * * * Steven T. Miller, Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement. Approved: June 11, 2012. Emily S...)(1) and (2)) generally apply to transactions in which T's liquidation into B occurs on or after October 25, 2007. For transactions in which T's liquidation into B occurs before October 25, 2007, Sec. 1...

15 CFR 801.11 - Rules and regulations for the BE-80, Benchmark Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... companies that own or influence, and are principally engaged in making management decisions for these firms... intermediary, and who had transactions (either sales or purchases) directly with unaffiliated foreign persons... providers or intermediaries. Because the $3,000,000 threshold applies separately to sales and purchases, the...

45 CFR 162.1602 - Standards for health care payment and remittance advice transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Standards for health care payment and remittance advice transaction. 162.1602 Section 162.1602 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Care Payment and Remittance Advice § 162.1602 Standards for...

45 CFR 162.1502 - Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction. 162.1502 Section 162.1502 Public Welfare Department of Health and Human Services ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Enrollment and Disenrollment in a Health Plan § 162.1502...

45 CFR 162.1502 - Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction. 162.1502 Section 162.1502 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Enrollment and Disenrollment in a Health Plan § 162.1502...

45 CFR 162.1502 - Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction. 162.1502 Section 162.1502 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Enrollment and Disenrollment in a Health Plan § 162.1502...

45 CFR 162.1502 - Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction. 162.1502 Section 162.1502 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Enrollment and Disenrollment in a Health Plan § 162.1502...

45 CFR 162.1602 - Standards for health care payment and remittance advice transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Standards for health care payment and remittance advice transaction. 162.1602 Section 162.1602 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Health Care Payment and Remittance Advice § 162.1602 Standards for...

45 CFR 162.1502 - Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Standards for enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan transaction. 162.1502 Section 162.1502 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Enrollment and Disenrollment in a Health Plan § 162.1502...

Outsourcing and benchmarking in a rural public hospital: does economic theory provide the complete answer?

PubMed

Young, S H

2003-01-01

The ideology and pronouncements of the Australian Government in introducing 'competitive neutrality' to the public sector has improved efficiency and resource usage. In the health sector, the Human Services Department directed that non-clinical and clinical areas be market tested through benchmarking services against the private sector, with the possibility of outsourcing. These services included car parking, computing, laundry, engineering, cleaning, catering, medical imaging (radiology), pathology, pharmacy, allied health and general practice. Managers, when they choose between outsourcing, and internal servicing and production, would thus ideally base their decision on economic principles. Williamson's transaction cost theory studies the governance mechanisms that can be used to achieve economic efficiency and proposes that the optimal organisation structure is that which minimises transaction costs or the costs of exchange. Williamson proposes that four variables will affect such costs, namely: (i) frequency of exchange; (ii) asset specificity; (iii) environmental uncertainty; and (iv) threat of opportunism. This paper provides evidence from a rural public hospital and examines whether Williamson's transaction cost theory is applicable. Case study research operates within the interpretivism paradigm and is used in this research to uncover why the outsourcing decision was made. Such research aims to study real-life experiences by examining the way people think and act and, in contrast to positivism, allows the interviewer to participate to better understand the details and features of the experiences. In the present research, individual interviews were conducted with managers of the hospital and owners and staff of the vendor organisations using semi- and unstructured questions to ascertain the extent of, and processes used in, outsourcing specific functional areas, and areas that were not outsourced. Pathology, radiology, dental technician services and lawn mowing were outsourced while food services was retained internally. The outsourcing of radiology was due to the hospital being unable (or unwilling) to finance new equipment and the problematical relationship between the existing radiologists, and hospital management and staff. Outsourcing resulted in increased staff morale, upgraded capital equipment and improved services. The outsourcing of pathology and dental technical services aimed to increase labour flexibility, thereby decreasing costs. Additional drivers in pathology were the changing nature of the funding arrangements rendering it profitable for the private sector to move into the provision of pathology and the increasing power of the medical scientists' union. The outsourcing of lawn mowing was simply to reduce costs. Food services was not outsourced because there was a lack of evidence that costs could be reduced. In addition, the existing relationships with food services staff were regarded as important because they had previously made immense changes to work practices, reduced staff numbers and decreased costs. Transaction costs are important when analysing how managers make the outsourcing decision, but the evidence from this case is that not all transaction costs are included in the decision, and that such costs are more complex than can be included in the type of analysis often undertaken by decision-makers. Taking into account Williamson's variables, the research shows that the outsourcing of services did not comply solely with the levels of transaction frequency or the requirement of asset specificity. In addition, opportunistic behaviour was evident on the part of all parties and was used in some cases as a reason for outsourcing, and in others to sway the decision to the manager's predisposed choice. A variety of arrangements were used to reduce environmental uncertainty, such as the transfer of staff to the contractor and the use of long-term contracts. Indeed the case shows that relationships between the hospital, its staff and the vendor are an important consideration that may not always be factored into an analysis that relies solely on transaction costs.

15 CFR 801.4 - Response required.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES BETWEEN U.S. AND... writing on the form that the person has no international services transactions within the purview of the...

Transactional interactive multimedia banner

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Shae, Zon-Yin; Wang, Xiping; von Kaenel, Juerg

2000-05-01

Advertising in TV broadcasting has shown that multimedia is a very effective means to present merchandise and attract shoppers. This has been applied to the Web by including animated multimedia banner ads on web pages. However, the issues of coupling interactive browsing, shopping, and secure transactions e.g. from inside a multimedia banner, have only recently started to being explored. Currently there is an explosively growing amount of back-end services available (e.g., business to business commerce (B2B), business to consumer (B2C) commerce, and infomercial services) in the Internet. These services are mostly accessible through static HTML web pages at a few specific web portals. In this paper, we will investigate the feasibility of using interactive multimedia banners as pervasive access point for the B2C, B2B, and infomercial services. We present a system architecture that involves a layer of middleware agents functioning as the bridge between the interactive multimedia banners and back-end services.

Identifying Bitcoin users by transaction behavior

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Monaco, John V.

2015-05-01

Digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, offer convenience and security to criminals operating in the black marketplace. Some Bitcoin marketplaces, such as Silk Road, even claim anonymity. This claim contradicts the findings in this work, where long term transactional behavior is used to identify and verify account holders. Transaction timestamps and network properties observed over time contribute to this finding. The timestamp of each transaction is the result of many factors: the desire purchase an item, daily schedule and activities, as well as hardware and network latency. Dynamic network properties of the transaction, such as coin flow and the number of edge outputs and inputs, contribute further to reveal account identity. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology for identifying and verifying Bitcoin users based on the observation of Bitcoin transactions over time. The behavior we attempt to quantify roughly occurs in the social band of Newell's time scale. A subset of the Blockchain 230686 is taken, selecting users that initiated between 100 and 1000 unique transactions per month for at least 6 different months. This dataset shows evidence of being nonrandom and nonlinear, thus a dynamical systems approach is taken. Classification and authentication accuracies are obtained under various representations of the monthly Bitcoin samples: outgoing transactions, as well as both outgoing and incoming transactions are considered, along with the timing and dynamic network properties of transaction sequences. The most appropriate representations of monthly Bitcoin samples are proposed. Results show an inherent lack of anonymity by exploiting patterns in long-term transactional behavior.

31 CFR 321.27 - Instructions and guidance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... process redemption transactions. This information is available online at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service... instructions and guidance are available online at the Federal Reserve Bank Services Web site at www.FRBservices...

7 CFR 1773.39 - Utility plant and accumulated depreciation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that he/she: (1) Examined direct labor and material transactions to.... The CPA must note on the summary any unusual or nontypical projects. (2) Based upon the CPA's...

7 CFR 1773.39 - Utility plant and accumulated depreciation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that he/she: (1) Examined direct labor and material transactions to.... The CPA must note on the summary any unusual or nontypical projects. (2) Based upon the CPA's...

7 CFR 1773.39 - Utility plant and accumulated depreciation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that he/she: (1) Examined direct labor and material transactions to.... The CPA must note on the summary any unusual or nontypical projects. (2) Based upon the CPA's...

7 CFR 1773.39 - Utility plant and accumulated depreciation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... CPA's determination of materiality, an appropriate sample of transactions must be selected for testing. The CPA's workpapers must document that he/she: (1) Examined direct labor and material transactions to.... The CPA must note on the summary any unusual or nontypical projects. (2) Based upon the CPA's...

12 CFR 712.8 - What transaction and compensation limits might apply to individuals related to both an FCU and a...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false What transaction and compensation limits might apply to individuals related to both an FCU and a CUSO? 712.8 Section 712.8 Banks and Banking NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS AFFECTING CREDIT UNIONS CREDIT UNION SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS (CUSOs...

22 CFR 126.1 - Prohibited exports, imports, and sales to or from certain countries.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... transactions that are prohibited by the embargo and that involve U.S. persons (see § 120.15 of this subchapter... specifying different measures. This would include, but is not limited to, transactions involving trade by U.S. persons who are located inside or outside of the United States in defense articles or services of U.S. or...

31 CFR 344.3 - What provisions apply to the SLGSafe Service?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... to the SLGSafe Service? (a) What is the SLGSafe Service? SLGSafe is a secure Internet site on the World Wide Web through which subscribers submit SLGS securities transactions. SLGSafe Internet... (Continued) FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT U.S. TREASURY SECURITIES...

31 CFR 344.3 - What provisions apply to the SLGSafe Service?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... to the SLGSafe Service? (a) What is the SLGSafe Service? SLGSafe is a secure Internet site on the World Wide Web through which subscribers submit SLGS securities transactions. SLGSafe Internet... (Continued) FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT U.S. TREASURY SECURITIES...

Recruitment of physicians to rural America: a view through the lens of Transaction Cost Theory.

PubMed

Fannin, J Matthew; Barnes, James N

2007-01-01

Many rural hospitals in the United States continue to have difficulties recruiting physicians. While several studies have examined some of the factors affecting the nature of this problem, we know far less about the role of economic incentives between rural providers and physicians. This conceptual article describes an economic theory of organization called Transaction Cost Theory (TCT) and applies it to rural hospital-physician relationships to highlight how transaction costs affect the type of contractual arrangement used by rural hospitals when recruiting physicians. The literature is reviewed to introduce TCT, describe current trends in hospital contracting with physicians, and develop a TCT contracting model for analysis of rural hospital-physician recruitment. The TCT model predicts that hospitals tend to favor contractual arrangements in which physicians are full-time employees if investments in physical or other assets made by hospitals cannot be easily redeployed for other services in the health care system. Transaction costs related to motivation and coordination of physician services are the key factors in understanding the unique contractual difficulties faced by rural providers. The TCT model can be used by rural hospital administrators to assess economic incentives for physician recruitment.

7 CFR Appendix A to Part 3015 - Definitions

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... gives advice or services for a fee, but not as an employee. The term includes guest speakers when not..., contracts and subgrants awarded, services received, and similar transactions during a given period, which...

A transactional framework for pediatric rehabilitation: shifting the focus to situated contexts, transactional processes, and adaptive developmental outcomes.

PubMed

King, Gillian; Imms, Christine; Stewart, Debra; Freeman, Matt; Nguyen, Tram

2018-07-01

A paradigm shift is taking place in pediatric rehabilitation research, practice, and policy - a shift towards the real-life contexts of clients rather than requiring clients to navigate the world of pediatric rehabilitation. This article proposes a conceptual framework to bring about a broader awareness of clients' lives and transactional processes of change over the life course. The framework draws attention to transactional processes by which individuals, situated in life contexts, change and adapt over the life course and, in turn, influence their contextual settings and broader environments. This framework is based on (a) basic tenets derived from foundational theories taking a life course perspective to change, and (b) transactional processes identified from relevant pediatric rehabilitation models that bring these foundational theories into the pediatric rehabilitation sphere. The framework identifies three types of transactional processes relevant to pediatric rehabilitation: facilitative, resiliency, and socialization processes. These processes describe how contexts and people mutually influence each other via opportunities and situated experiences, thus facilitating capacity, adaptation to adversity, and socialization to new roles and life transitions. The utility of the framework is considered for research, practice, service organizations, and policy. Implications for Rehabilitation The framework supports practitioners going beyond person and environment as separate entities, to provide services to the "situated person" in real-life contexts The framework shifts the focus from "body structures/functions" and "person in activity" to "person in changing and challenging life contexts" Working from a transactional perspective, practitioner-client conversations will change; practitioners will view client situations through a lens of opportunities and experiences, assess client experiences in real-life contexts, and strive to create context-based therapy opportunities The framework suggests the benefit of greater focus on resiliency processes to support client self-efficacy, self-determination, and autonomy, and socialization processes to enhance ability to enact new life roles at times of transition.

17 CFR 250.81 - Exempted transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... orders of the Commission pertaining to the performance of services or construction or the sale of goods shall not be applicable to the sale of water, telephone service, transportation, or a similar commodity... RULES AND REGULATIONS, PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935 Service, Sales and Construction...

17 CFR 250.81 - Exempted transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... orders of the Commission pertaining to the performance of services or construction or the sale of goods shall not be applicable to the sale of water, telephone service, transportation, or a similar commodity... RULES AND REGULATIONS, PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935 Service, Sales and Construction...

12 CFR 741.222 - Credit union service organizations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Credit union service organizations. 741.222 Section 741.222 Banks and Banking NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS AFFECTING CREDIT UNIONS..., including check cashing services, sale of negotiable checks, money orders, and electronic transaction...

5 CFR 919.300 - What must I do before I enter into a covered transaction with another person at the next lower tier?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED) CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) GOVERNMENTWIDE... Business with Other Persons § 919.300 What must I do before I enter into a covered transaction with another... lower tier, you must verify that the person with whom you intend to do business is not excluded or...

17 CFR 240.3a5-3 - Exemption from the definition of “dealer” for banks engaging in securities lending transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

..., corporate action, recordkeeping or other services incidental to the administration of the securities lending... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 3 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Exemption from the definition of âdealerâ for banks engaging in securities lending transactions. 240.3a5-3 Section 240.3a5-3...

17 CFR 240.3a5-3 - Exemption from the definition of “dealer” for banks engaging in securities lending transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

..., corporate action, recordkeeping or other services incidental to the administration of the securities lending... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 3 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Exemption from the definition of âdealerâ for banks engaging in securities lending transactions. 240.3a5-3 Section 240.3a5-3...

17 CFR 240.3a5-3 - Exemption from the definition of “dealer” for banks engaging in securities lending transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

..., corporate action, recordkeeping or other services incidental to the administration of the securities lending... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 3 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Exemption from the definition of âdealerâ for banks engaging in securities lending transactions. 240.3a5-3 Section 240.3a5-3...

17 CFR 240.3a5-3 - Exemption from the definition of “dealer” for banks engaging in securities lending transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

..., corporate action, recordkeeping or other services incidental to the administration of the securities lending... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 3 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Exemption from the definition of âdealerâ for banks engaging in securities lending transactions. 240.3a5-3 Section 240.3a5-3...

17 CFR 240.3a5-3 - Exemption from the definition of “dealer” for banks engaging in securities lending transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

..., corporate action, recordkeeping or other services incidental to the administration of the securities lending... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 4 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Exemption from the definition of âdealerâ for banks engaging in securities lending transactions. 240.3a5-3 Section 240.3a5-3...

Defense Infrastructure: In-Kind Construction and Renovation Projects Initiated by DOD during Fiscal Year 2013

DTIC Science & Technology

2015-09-01

property conveyed by the Navy. Installation officials generally have more flexibility in real-estate transactions. According to officials of the...Air Force Civil Engineer Center, in-kind payment projects offer installation officials greater flexibility in executing real-estate transactions...air conditioning, fire protection, utility connections, pavement , and information systems. Agreement between Army and Air Force Exchange Services

Scientific and Technological Information in Transactional Files in Government Records and Archives: A RAMP Study.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Wimalaratne, K. D. G.

This long-term Records and Archives Administration Programme (RAMP) study is designed to assist archivists, records managers, and information specialists in identifying for current use and possible archival selection those transactional or case files that contain scientific and technical information (STI), particularly in those instances where…

17 CFR 250.85 - Service, sales, and construction by registered holding companies.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 3 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Service, sales, and... ACT OF 1935 Service, Sales and Construction Contracts § 250.85 Service, sales, and construction by...; or (c) Such transaction consists of performance of a contract made before August 26, 1935, for the...

17 CFR 250.85 - Service, sales, and construction by registered holding companies.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 3 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Service, sales, and... ACT OF 1935 Service, Sales and Construction Contracts § 250.85 Service, sales, and construction by...; or (c) Such transaction consists of performance of a contract made before August 26, 1935, for the...

Embedded Promotions in Online Services: How Goal-Relevance Ambiguity Shapes Response and Affect

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Brasel, S. Adam

2010-01-01

Adding promotions to online services is increasingly commonplace, yet consumers may have difficulty determining whether service-embedded promotions are goal-relevant, due to the linear and transactional nature of online services. This contextual effect of goal-relevance ambiguity on promotions is explored across three studies. An exploratory study…

31 CFR 560.206 - Prohibited trade-related transactions with Iran; goods, technology, or services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... with Iran; goods, technology, or services. 560.206 Section 560.206 Money and Finance: Treasury... Iran; goods, technology, or services. (a) Except as otherwise authorized pursuant to this part, and... services of Iranian origin or owned or controlled by the Government of Iran; or (2) Goods, technology, or...

31 CFR 560.206 - Prohibited trade-related transactions with Iran; goods, technology, or services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... with Iran; goods, technology, or services. 560.206 Section 560.206 Money and Finance: Treasury... Iran; goods, technology, or services. (a) Except as otherwise authorized pursuant to this part, and... services of Iranian origin or owned or controlled by the Government of Iran; or (2) Goods, technology, or...

31 CFR 560.206 - Prohibited trade-related transactions with Iran; goods, technology, or services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... with Iran; goods, technology, or services. 560.206 Section 560.206 Money and Finance: Treasury... Iran; goods, technology, or services. (a) Except as otherwise authorized pursuant to this part, and... services of Iranian origin or owned or controlled by the Government of Iran; or (2) Goods, technology, or...

Real Time Business Analytics for Buying or Selling Transaction on Commodity Warehouse Receipt System

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Djatna, Taufik; Teniwut, Wellem A.; Hairiyah, Nina; Marimin

2017-10-01

The requirement for smooth information such as buying and selling is essential for commodity warehouse receipt system such as dried seaweed and their stakeholders to transact for an operational transaction. Transactions of buying or selling a commodity warehouse receipt system are a risky process due to the fluctuations in dynamic commodity prices. An integrated system to determine the condition of the real time was needed to make a decision-making transaction by the owner or prospective buyer. The primary motivation of this study is to propose computational methods to trace market tendency for either buying or selling processes. The empirical results reveal that feature selection gain ratio and k-NN outperforms other forecasting models, implying that the proposed approach is a promising alternative to the stock market tendency of warehouse receipt document exploration with accurate level rate is 95.03%.

Information Transfer in 1990.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Hough, Roger W.

Results of a recent study of potential demand for electronic information transfer services in 1970-1990 are presented. Projections are made for new services such as electronic mail, remote library browsing, checkless society transactions, video telephone and others, as well as conventional services such as telephone, telegraph and network program…

78 FR 12372 - UBS AG, et al.; Notice of Application and Temporary Order

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2013-02-22

... financial planning and wealth management consulting, asset-based and advisory services and transaction-based... Limited (``ESC GP''); UBS Financial Services Inc. (``UBSFS''); UBS Alternative and Quantitative... Switzerland, is a Swiss-based global financial services firm. UBS AG and its subsidiaries provide global...

A pricing rule for affiliate transactions: Room for consensus

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Costello, K.W.

1998-12-01

Because it conforms to politically acceptable notions of fairness, state and federal regulators have relied heavily on the concept of fully distributed cost to govern affiliate transactions. This should be leavened by alternative transfer-pricing measures to balance the goals of economic efficiency and fairness. This discussion, particularly the principles set down, although focusing on products or services, is also relevant to the outright sale of assets by a utility to an affiliate or vice versa. The author also proposes language for the pricing of affiliate transactions that attempts to accommodate the widely divergent positions currently being debated in the regulatorymore » arena.« less

31 CFR 537.518 - Transactions incident to exportations to Burma.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... incident to an exportation to Burma of goods, technology or services, other than financial services, are... property are blocked pursuant to § 537.201(a). This section does not authorize a financial institution that...

Avoiding Service Station Fraud.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Burton, Grace M.; Burton, John R.

1982-01-01

High school students are warned against service station fraud. A problem-solving section is designed to help students calculate consumer costs for various fraudulent transactions. Several ways of reducing fraud or of lessening the chances of problems are noted. (MP)

Hospital efficiency and transaction costs: a stochastic frontier approach.

PubMed

Ludwig, Martijn; Groot, Wim; Van Merode, Frits

2009-07-01

The make-or-buy decision of organizations is an important issue in the transaction cost theory, but is usually not analyzed from an efficiency perspective. Hospitals frequently have to decide whether to outsource or not. The main question we address is: Is the make-or-buy decision affected by the efficiency of hospitals? A one-stage stochastic cost frontier equation is estimated for Dutch hospitals. The make-or-buy decisions of ten different hospital services are used as explanatory variables to explain efficiency of hospitals. It is found that for most services the make-or-buy decision is not related to efficiency. Kitchen services are an important exception to this. Large hospitals tend to outsource less, which is supported by efficiency reasons. For most hospital services, outsourcing does not significantly affect the efficiency of hospitals. The focus on the make-or-buy decision may therefore be less important than often assumed.

75 FR 53171 - Prohibited Transaction Exemption Procedures; Employee Benefit Plans

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... fiduciaries, sponsoring employers, unions, service providers, and other persons who may be in a position to..., exchanges, or leases of property; loans or extensions of credit; and the furnishing of goods, services, or... relief for, among other things, loans to participants, the provision of services necessary for the...

12 CFR 226.39 - Mortgage transfer disclosures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... to the loan or it is assigned to the servicer solely for the administrative convenience of the servicer in servicing the obligation. (2) A “mortgage loan” means any consumer credit transaction that is secured by the principal dwelling of a consumer. (b) Disclosure required. Except as provided in paragraph...

77 FR 50083 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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...: Bureau of Economic Analysis. Title: Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign Persons. OMB Control Number: 0608-0065. Form Number(s): BE-185.... Needs and Uses: The data are needed to monitor U.S. international trade in financial services, analyze...

75 FR 34394 - Management of Federal Agency Disbursements

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... industry has continued to improve and expand its electronic services to the customer, more people now... growth rate of transactions of 17.5% from 2003 to 2006. Many financial service providers offer general... DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Fiscal Service 31 CFR Part 208 RIN 1510-AB26 Management of Federal...

31 CFR 545.408 - Offshore transactions.

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2010-07-01

...) With respect to goods, software, technology, or services which the U.S. person knows, or has reason to... States of goods, software, technology or services owned or controlled by the Taliban or persons whose... dealing in such blocked goods, software, technology, or services. (c) Example. A U.S. person may not...

17 CFR 229.914 - (Item 914) Pro forma financial statements: selected financial data.

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2011-04-01

... transaction. (b) Provide pro forma financial information (including oil and gas reserves and cash flow... fiscal year and the latest interim period; (3) Statement of cash flows for the most recent fiscal year... to be included in a roll-up transaction provide: Ratio of earnings to fixed charges, cash and cash...

17 CFR 229.914 - (Item 914) Pro forma financial statements: selected financial data.

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2012-04-01

... transaction. (b) Provide pro forma financial information (including oil and gas reserves and cash flow... fiscal year and the latest interim period; (3) Statement of cash flows for the most recent fiscal year... to be included in a roll-up transaction provide: Ratio of earnings to fixed charges, cash and cash...

17 CFR 229.914 - (Item 914) Pro forma financial statements: selected financial data.

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2014-04-01

... transaction. (b) Provide pro forma financial information (including oil and gas reserves and cash flow... fiscal year and the latest interim period; (3) Statement of cash flows for the most recent fiscal year... to be included in a roll-up transaction provide: Ratio of earnings to fixed charges, cash and cash...

17 CFR 229.914 - (Item 914) Pro forma financial statements: selected financial data.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... transaction. (b) Provide pro forma financial information (including oil and gas reserves and cash flow... fiscal year and the latest interim period; (3) Statement of cash flows for the most recent fiscal year... to be included in a roll-up transaction provide: Ratio of earnings to fixed charges, cash and cash...

17 CFR 229.914 - (Item 914) Pro forma financial statements: selected financial data.

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2013-04-01

... transaction. (b) Provide pro forma financial information (including oil and gas reserves and cash flow... fiscal year and the latest interim period; (3) Statement of cash flows for the most recent fiscal year... to be included in a roll-up transaction provide: Ratio of earnings to fixed charges, cash and cash...

The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Rosenblatt, Louise M.

Transactional literary theory centers on the reader's contribution in the two-way relationship with the literary text, lifting the reader to a prominent, essential position along with the author and the text. It develops the premise that the reader evokes a literary work through selective attention to the details of the author's "paper and…

Weaving Silos--A Leadership Challenge: A Cross-Functional Team Approach to Supporting Web-Based Student Services

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Kleemann, Gary L.

2005-01-01

The author reviews the evolution of Web services--from information sharing to transactional to relationship building--and the progression from first-generation to fourth-generation Web sites. (Contains 3 figures.)

[Vertical integration and contracting-out in generic hospital services in Spain].

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Puig-Junoy, J; Pérez-Sust, P

2002-01-01

This study examines the factors that influence make or buy decisions corresponding to four generic services (housekeeping, laundry, food services, and maintenance and security) in Spanish hospitals (3,160 transactions in 790 hospitals). The empirical estimation of a logistic model based on hospital utility maximization is presented. Factors included in the model are not only those related to transaction costs, but also those related to public intervention and the political dimension. A total of 55.7% of hospitals contracted-out at least one of the generic services. The services most frequently contracted-out were housekeeping and maintenance and security(45.1 and 32.5%, respectively). In contrast, the services (94.3% and 80.1%, respectively). Hospital size (economies of scale), measured by the number of beds, was one of the most important factors influencing make or buy decisions. We find evidence that economies of scale are related to a higher level of vertical integration, while specialization and for-profit objectives favor the decision to contract-out. The choice of organizational model for laundry services presents a different pattern from that of the other three services. Empirical results show that some asset specificity could be present in laundry services.

Leadership in Academic Health Centers: Transactional and Transformational Leadership.

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Smith, Patrick O

2015-12-01

Leadership is a crucial component to the success of academic health science centers (AHCs) within the shifting U.S. healthcare environment. Leadership talent acquisition and development within AHCs is immature and approaches to leadership and its evolution will be inevitable to refine operations to accomplish the critical missions of clinical service delivery, the medical education continuum, and innovations toward discovery. To reach higher organizational outcomes in AHCs requires a reflection on what leadership approaches are in place and how they can better support these missions. Transactional leadership approaches are traditionally used in AHCs and this commentary suggests that movement toward a transformational approach is a performance improvement opportunity for AHC leaders. This commentary describes the transactional and transformational approaches, how they complement each other, and how to access the transformational approach. Drawing on behavioral sciences, suggestions are made on how a transactional leader can change her cognitions to align with the four dimensions of the transformational leadership approach.

A Taxonomical Structure for Classifying the Services Procured by the Federal Government

DTIC Science & Technology

1991-12-01

is the Direct Recipient of I,J the Service? People versus Things 2. Relationships with Customers a. Nature of Service Delivery. U Continuous delivery...versus Discrete transactions b. Type of Relationship between the Service Organization and Its Customers . "Membership" versus No Formal relationship 3...were conducted to determine the relationship between characteristics and services. Cluster analysis was used to group services into categories with

An Infrastructure for Multi-Level Secure Service-Oriented Architecture (MLS-SOA) Using the Multiple Single-Level Approach

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-12-17

IEEE TDKE, 1996. 8( 1). 14. Garvey, T.D., The inference Problem for Computer Security. 1992, SRI International. 15. Chaum , D ., Blind Signatures for...Pervasive Computing Environments. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2006. 55(4). 17. Chaum , D ., Security without Identification: Transaction...Systems to make Big Brother Obsolete. Communications of the ACM 1985. 28(10). 18. Chaum , D ., Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital

31 CFR 515.572 - Authorization of transactions incident to the provision of travel services, carrier services, and...

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2011-07-01

... who use their services information showing compliance with the relevant remittance provisions of this.... Note to paragraph (a)(3): A suggested form for the collection of information showing compliance with... state of applicant's organization, if a juridical entity, the address of its principal place of business...

Longitudinal Transactions between Personality and Occupational Roles: A Large and Heterogeneous Study of Job Beginners, Stayers, and Changers

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Denissen, Jaap J. A.; Ulferts, Hannah; Lüdtke, Oliver; Muck, Peter M.; Gerstorf, Denis

2014-01-01

Social norms are central to theoretical accounts of longitudinal person-environment transactions. On the one hand, individuals are thought to select themselves into social roles that fit their personality. On the other hand, it is assumed that individuals' personality is transformed by the socializing pressure of norm demands. These 2…

Design and Promotion Strategy of Marketing Platform of Aquatic Auction based on Internet

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Peng, Jianliang

For the online trade and promotion of aquatic products and related materials through the network between supply and demand, the design content and effective promotional strategies of aquatic auctions online marketing platform is proposed in this paper. Design elements involve the location of customer service, the basic function of the platform including the purchase of general orders, online auctions, information dissemination, and recommendation of fine products, human services, and payment preferences. Based on network and mobile e-commerce transaction support, the auction platform makes the transaction of aquatic products well in advance. The results are important practical value for the design and application of online marketing platform of aquatic auction.

The Marketing of Public Library Services.

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Dragon, Andrea C.

1983-01-01

Defines the concept of marketing and relates models involving the exchanges and transactions of markets and charities to services offered by libraries. Market segmentation, understanding the behavior of markets, competition, and movement toward a market-oriented library are highlighted. Nineteen references are cited. (EJS)

78 FR 48771 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Regulation Project

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2013-08-09

... DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Internal Revenue Service Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Regulation Project AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION: Notice and request for comments... INFORMATION: Title: Excise Taxes on Excess Benefit Transactions. OMB Number: 1545-1623. Regulation Project...

The provision and impact of online patient access to their electronic health records (EHR) and transactional services on the quality and safety of health care: systematic review protocol.

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Mold, Freda; Ellis, Beverley; de Lusignan, Simon; Sheikh, Aziz; Wyatt, Jeremy C; Cavill, Mary; Michalakidis, Georgios; Barker, Fiona; Majeed, Azeem; Quinn, Tom; Koczan, Phil; Avanitis, Theo; Gronlund, Toto Anne; Franco, Christina; McCarthy, Mary; Renton, Zoë; Chauhan, Umesh; Blakey, Hannah; Kataria, Neha; Jones, Simon; Rafi, Imran

2012-01-01

Innovators have piloted improvements in communication, changed patterns of practice and patient empowerment from online access to electronic health records (EHR). International studies of online services, such as prescription ordering, online appointment booking and secure communications with primary care, show good uptake of email consultations, accessing test results and booking appointments; when technologies and business process are in place. Online access and transactional services are due to be rolled out across England by 2015; this review seeks to explore the impact of online access to health records and other online services on the quality and safety of primary health care. To assess the factors that may affect the provision of online patient access to their EHR and transactional services, and the impact of such access on the quality and safety of health care. Two reviewers independently searched 11 international databases during the period 1999-2012. A range of papers including descriptive studies using qualitative or quantitative methods, hypothesis-testing studies and systematic reviews were included. A detailed eligibility criterion will be used to shape study inclusion. A team of experts will review these papers for eligibility, extract data using a customised extraction form and use the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) instrument to determine the quality of the evidence and the strengths of any recommendation. Data will then be descriptively summarised and thematically synthesised. Where feasible, we will perform a quantitative meta-analysis. Prospero (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews) registration number: crd42012003091.

78 FR 76101 - Meetings

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... Board meetings in Washington, DC, Monday through Wednesday, January 13-15, 2014 at the times and...-Service Transaction Machines; Information and Communications Technologies; Classroom Acoustics; Emergency...

76 FR 50158 - International Services Surveys: Amendments to the BE-120, Benchmark Survey of Transactions in...

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..., alteration, and training services; (20) legal services; (21) management, consulting, and public relations[email protected] , or by FAX at 202-395-7245. Public Inspection: All comments received are a part of the public record and will generally be posted to http://www.regulations.gov without change. All personal...

Student Service and SEM: Training as the Tool to Sharpen Your Competitive Edge

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Leigh, Susan

2014-01-01

The Challenge: After years of investments on structures and systems that improve and integrate student transactional experiences, we discover that we have neglected to train our staff in customer service competencies that match student expectations. The Answer: Invest in your student service staff to ensure they possess the professional skills to…

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Bishop, J.

This paper reports on site assessment services in support of real estate transactions which appear to be an answer to marketing managers' dreams. It is a service that sells itself. Although the consensus among assessment consultants is that lenders and property developers currently are only dimly aware and somewhat resentful of the need for site assessments, the potential market for these services, they say, seems nearly boundless.

76 FR 78080 - Watco Holdings, Inc. and Watco Transportation Services, L.L.C.-Acquisition of Control Exemption...

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..., Inc. and Watco Transportation Services, L.L.C.-- Acquisition of Control Exemption--Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, L.L.C. Watco Holdings, Inc. (Watco Holdings) and Watco Transportation Services, L.L.C... Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, L.L.C., a Class II railroad. Watco intends to consummate the transaction on...

A Transactional Systems Model of Autism Services

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Cuvo, Anthony J; Vallelunga, Lori R

2007-01-01

There has been an escalation in the number of children identified with autism spectrum disorders in recent years. To increase the likelihood that treatments for these children are effective, interventions should be derived from sound theory and research evidence. Absent this supportive foundation, intervention programs could be inconsequential if not harmful. Although atypical, the development of children with autism should be considered initially from the perspective of the same variables that affect the development of typical children. In addition, the developmental deviations that characterize autism must be considered when developing intervention programs. Behavioral systems models describe both typical and atypical development and emphasize dynamic multidirectional person–environment transactions. The environment is viewed as having multiple levels, from the individuals with autism themselves, to larger societal and cultural levels. Behavioral systems models of human development can be generalized to a transactional systems model of services for children with autism. This model is the foundational theoretical position of the Southern Illinois University Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders. The center's programs are described to illustrate the application of the model to multiple levels of the social ecology. PMID:22478495

From NHS Choices to the integrated customer service platform.

PubMed

Gann, Bob; Grant, Maria J

2013-03-01

In 2013 the NHS Commissioning Board launches its new integrated customer service platform. The new service utilises the full range of channels (web, telephone, apps etc) to provide access to information to support transparency, participation and transactions. Digital health services have proven benefits in informed choice, shared decision making and patient participation. © 2013 The authors. Health Information and Libraries Journal © 2013 Health Libraries Group.

Transaction costs of access to health care: Implications of the care-seeking pathways of tuberculosis patients for health system governance in Nigeria

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Abimbola, Seye; Ukwaja, Kingsley N.; Onyedum, Cajetan C.; Negin, Joel; Jan, Stephen; Martiniuk, Alexandra L.C.

2015-01-01

Health care costs incurred prior to the appropriate patient–provider transaction (i.e., transaction costs of access to health care) are potential barriers to accessing health care in low- and middle-income countries. This paper explores these transaction costs and their implications for health system governance through a cross-sectional survey of adult patients who received their first diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) at the three designated secondary health centres for TB care in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The patients provided information on their care-seeking pathways and the associated costs prior to reaching the appropriate provider. Of the 452 patients, 84% first consulted an inappropriate provider. Only 33% of inappropriate consultations were with qualified providers (QP); the rest were with informal providers such as pharmacy providers (PPs; 57%) and traditional providers (TP; 10%). Notably, 62% of total transaction costs were incurred during the first visit to an inappropriate provider and the mean transaction costs incurred was highest with QPs (US$30.20) compared with PPs (US$14.40) and TPs (US$15.70). These suggest that interventions for reducing transaction costs should include effective decentralisation to integrate TB care with services at the primary health care level, community engagement to address information asymmetry, enforcing regulations to keep informal providers within legal limits and facilitating referral linkages among formal and informal providers to increase early contact with appropriate providers. PMID:25652349

Transaction costs of access to health care: Implications of the care-seeking pathways of tuberculosis patients for health system governance in Nigeria.

PubMed

Abimbola, Seye; Ukwaja, Kingsley N; Onyedum, Cajetan C; Negin, Joel; Jan, Stephen; Martiniuk, Alexandra L C

2015-10-01

Health care costs incurred prior to the appropriate patient-provider transaction (i.e., transaction costs of access to health care) are potential barriers to accessing health care in low- and middle-income countries. This paper explores these transaction costs and their implications for health system governance through a cross-sectional survey of adult patients who received their first diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) at the three designated secondary health centres for TB care in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The patients provided information on their care-seeking pathways and the associated costs prior to reaching the appropriate provider. Of the 452 patients, 84% first consulted an inappropriate provider. Only 33% of inappropriate consultations were with qualified providers (QP); the rest were with informal providers such as pharmacy providers (PPs; 57%) and traditional providers (TP; 10%). Notably, 62% of total transaction costs were incurred during the first visit to an inappropriate provider and the mean transaction costs incurred was highest with QPs (US$30.20) compared with PPs (US$14.40) and TPs (US$15.70). These suggest that interventions for reducing transaction costs should include effective decentralisation to integrate TB care with services at the primary health care level, community engagement to address information asymmetry, enforcing regulations to keep informal providers within legal limits and facilitating referral linkages among formal and informal providers to increase early contact with appropriate providers.

Valuation of imaging centers: alternative methods and detailed description of the discounted cash flow approach.

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Russell, Philip J

2007-01-01

Medical imaging centers are an increasingly integral part of the medical services landscape in America. There are many instances in which owners and potential buyers of these enterprises want to ascertain the value of the businesses. There is an industry of professionals who provide expert valuation services for many types of businesses using various recognized alternative methods, some of which are more appropriate than others when valuing an imaging center. The federal government has prescribed parameters for all valuations if they lead to transactions in which fair market value is mandated, and it also expects transactions to adhere to more generalized laws relating to entities that provide services to Medicare patients. Radiologists who own, or who are contemplating ownership of, imaging center operations need to understand the principles of valuation, specifically the factors that are involved in a discounted cash flow determination of fair market value.

Models of Dynamic Relations Among Service Activities, System State and Service Quality on Computer and Network Systems

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-01-01

Service quality on computer and network systems has become increasingly important as many conventional service transactions are moved online. Service quality of computer and network services can be measured by the performance of the service process in throughput, delay, and so on. On a computer and network system, competing service requests of users and associated service activities change the state of limited system resources which in turn affects the achieved service ...relations of service activities, system state and service

To make or buy patient safety solutions: a resource dependence and transaction cost economics perspective.

PubMed

Fareed, Naleef; Mick, Stephen S

2011-01-01

For almost a decade, public and private organizations have pressured hospitals to improve their patient safety records. Since 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has no longer been reimbursing hospitals for secondary diagnoses not reported during the point of admission. This ruling has motivated some hospitals to engage in safety-oriented programs to decrease adverse events. This study examined which hospitals may engage in patient safety solutions and whether they create these patient safety solutions within their structures or use suppliers in the market. We used a theoretical model that incorporates the key constructs of resource dependence theory and transaction cost economics theory to predict a hospital's reaction to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "never event" regulations. We present propositions that speculate on how forces conceptualized from the resource dependence theory may affect adoption of patient safety innovations and, when they do, whether the adopting hospitals will do so internally or externally according to the transaction cost economics theory. On the basis of forces identified by the resource dependence theory, we predict that larger, teaching, safety net, horizontally integrated, highly interdependent, and public hospitals in concentrated, high public payer presence, competitive, and resource-rich environments will be more likely to engage in patient safety innovations. Following the logic of the transaction cost economics theory, we predict that of the hospitals that react positively to the never event regulation, most will internalize their innovations in patient safety solutions rather than approach the market, a choice that helps hospitals economize on transaction costs. This study helps hospital managers in their strategic thinking and planning in relation to current and future regulations related to patient safety. For researchers and policy analysts, our propositions provide the basis for empirical testing.

7 CFR 4279.144 - Appraisals.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... servicing transactions will meet the requirements contained in the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery... value of the collateral. For additional guidance and information concerning the completion of real...

7 CFR 4279.144 - Appraisals.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... servicing transactions will meet the requirements contained in the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery... value of the collateral. For additional guidance and information concerning the completion of real...

A transaction costs analysis of changing contractual relations in the English NHS.

PubMed

Marini, Giorgia; Street, Andrew

2007-09-01

The English National Health Service has replaced locally negotiated block contracting arrangements with a system of national prices to pay for hospital activity. This paper applies a transaction costs approach to quantify and analyse the nature of how contracting costs have changed as a consequence. Data collection was based on semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders from hospitals and Primary Care Trusts, which purchase hospital services. Replacing block contracting with activity based funding has led to lower costs of price negotiation, but these are outweighed by higher costs associated with volume control, of data collection, contract monitoring, and contract enforcement. There was consensus that the new contractual arrangements were preferable, but the benefits will have to be demonstrated formally in future.

TBOR2 compliance plans: from rebuttable presumption to enforcement.

PubMed

Griffith, G M

2001-01-01

This Article analyzes the implications and strategies of incorporating the Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2 ("TBOR2") into tax-exempt healthcare organizations' compliance plans. Beginning with a brief overview of TBOR2, the author examines the presumption of fair market value, how such organizations establish safe harbors, the current Internal Revenue Service (IRS or Service) position regarding enforcement of TBOR2, and the lurking potential for "whistleblowers" to start auditory procedures with an eye toward IRS bounties. Mr. Griffith concludes that the best advice for exempt organizations is to follow the rebuttable presumption procedure for all transactions involving potential disqualified persons, including staff and employed physicians, and seek to fit within the safe harbors for the less routine and larger of those transactions.

78 FR 79412 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

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2013-12-30

... Defense Finance and Accounting Service proposes to alter a system of records, T7205, General Accounting and Finance System--Report Database for Financial Statements, in its inventory of record systems... transaction-driven financial statements in support of Defense Finance and Accounting Service financial mission...

75 FR 59611 - Iranian Transactions Regulations

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2010-09-28

... Regulations AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Department of... United States of, and dealings in, certain foodstuffs and carpets of Iranian origin and related services... importation of goods or services of Iranian origin directly or indirectly into the United States and on the...

78 FR 57250 - Federal Credit Union Ownership of Fixed Assets

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2013-09-18

..., branch office, suboffice, service center, parking lot, facility, real estate where an FCU transacts or... waiver request and suggested that the automatic approval provision in the current rule should be... office, suboffice, service center, parking lot, other facility, or real estate where the federal credit...

76 FR 59434 - Proposed Exemptions From Certain Prohibited Transaction Restrictions

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2011-09-26

...This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). This notice includes the following proposed exemptions: D- 11676 The Kemper Corporation Pension Plan (the Plan); L-11618 Oregon- Washington Carpenters Employers Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund (the Plan); and L-11647 R+L Carriers Shared Services, LLC

Conservation economics. Comment on "Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot".

PubMed

Finney, Christopher

2015-02-13

Banks-Leite et al. (Reports, 29 August 2014, p. 1041) conclude that a large-scale program to restore the Brazilian Atlantic Forest using payments for environmental services (PES) is economically feasible. They do not analyze transaction costs, which are quantified infrequently and incompletely in the literature. Transaction costs can exceed 20% of total project costs and should be included in future research. Copyright © 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Visualizing Dynamic Bitcoin Transaction Patterns.

PubMed

McGinn, Dan; Birch, David; Akroyd, David; Molina-Solana, Miguel; Guo, Yike; Knottenbelt, William J

2016-06-01

This work presents a systemic top-down visualization of Bitcoin transaction activity to explore dynamically generated patterns of algorithmic behavior. Bitcoin dominates the cryptocurrency markets and presents researchers with a rich source of real-time transactional data. The pseudonymous yet public nature of the data presents opportunities for the discovery of human and algorithmic behavioral patterns of interest to many parties such as financial regulators, protocol designers, and security analysts. However, retaining visual fidelity to the underlying data to retain a fuller understanding of activity within the network remains challenging, particularly in real time. We expose an effective force-directed graph visualization employed in our large-scale data observation facility to accelerate this data exploration and derive useful insight among domain experts and the general public alike. The high-fidelity visualizations demonstrated in this article allowed for collaborative discovery of unexpected high frequency transaction patterns, including automated laundering operations, and the evolution of multiple distinct algorithmic denial of service attacks on the Bitcoin network.

Visualizing Dynamic Bitcoin Transaction Patterns

PubMed Central

McGinn, Dan; Birch, David; Akroyd, David; Molina-Solana, Miguel; Guo, Yike; Knottenbelt, William J.

2016-01-01

Abstract This work presents a systemic top-down visualization of Bitcoin transaction activity to explore dynamically generated patterns of algorithmic behavior. Bitcoin dominates the cryptocurrency markets and presents researchers with a rich source of real-time transactional data. The pseudonymous yet public nature of the data presents opportunities for the discovery of human and algorithmic behavioral patterns of interest to many parties such as financial regulators, protocol designers, and security analysts. However, retaining visual fidelity to the underlying data to retain a fuller understanding of activity within the network remains challenging, particularly in real time. We expose an effective force-directed graph visualization employed in our large-scale data observation facility to accelerate this data exploration and derive useful insight among domain experts and the general public alike. The high-fidelity visualizations demonstrated in this article allowed for collaborative discovery of unexpected high frequency transaction patterns, including automated laundering operations, and the evolution of multiple distinct algorithmic denial of service attacks on the Bitcoin network. PMID:27441715

Addressing Security Challenges in Pervasive Computing Applications

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-10-10

Personalized Privacy for Location - Based Services ", Transactions on Data Privacy, 2(1), 2009. 22. Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray and Sudip Chakraborty, "An...Dewri, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray and Darrell Whitley, "Query m-Invariance: Pre- venting Query Disclosures in Continuous Location - Based Services ", Proceedings...location information is used to provide better services. Often such applications need continuous location - based services (LBS) where the mobile object must

7 CFR 772.17 - Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements... SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SPECIAL PROGRAMS SERVICING MINOR PROGRAM LOANS § 772.17 Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements. With respect to any aspect of a credit transaction, the...

7 CFR 772.17 - Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements... SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SPECIAL PROGRAMS SERVICING MINOR PROGRAM LOANS § 772.17 Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements. With respect to any aspect of a credit transaction, the...

7 CFR 772.17 - Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements... SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SPECIAL PROGRAMS SERVICING MINOR PROGRAM LOANS § 772.17 Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements. With respect to any aspect of a credit transaction, the...

7 CFR 772.17 - Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements... SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SPECIAL PROGRAMS SERVICING MINOR PROGRAM LOANS § 772.17 Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements. With respect to any aspect of a credit transaction, the...

7 CFR 772.17 - Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements... SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SPECIAL PROGRAMS SERVICING MINOR PROGRAM LOANS § 772.17 Equal opportunity and non-discrimination requirements. With respect to any aspect of a credit transaction, the...

77 FR 15033 - Privacy Act Systems of Records; APHIS Veterinary Services User Fee System

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-03-14

... UFS tracks the accuracy of expenditures and collections transactions of credit accounts. Information obtained in the credit account application is entered into the Foundation Financial Information System... information about the user's credit account, including charges and payments made, date(s) and type of service...

12 CFR 303.41 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands at which deposits are received or checks paid or money... relating to transactions in which deposits are received or checks paid or money lent. A messenger service... with the FDIC to determine if the messenger service constitutes a branch. (2) A mobile branch, other...

12 CFR 303.41 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands at which deposits are received or checks paid or money... relating to transactions in which deposits are received or checks paid or money lent. A messenger service... with the FDIC to determine if the messenger service constitutes a branch. (2) A mobile branch, other...

12 CFR 303.41 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands at which deposits are received or checks paid or money... relating to transactions in which deposits are received or checks paid or money lent. A messenger service... with the FDIC to determine if the messenger service constitutes a branch. (2) A mobile branch, other...

12 CFR 303.41 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands at which deposits are received or checks paid or money... relating to transactions in which deposits are received or checks paid or money lent. A messenger service... with the FDIC to determine if the messenger service constitutes a branch. (2) A mobile branch, other...

12 CFR 303.41 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands at which deposits are received or checks paid or money... relating to transactions in which deposits are received or checks paid or money lent. A messenger service... with the FDIC to determine if the messenger service constitutes a branch. (2) A mobile branch, other...

31 CFR 515.572 - Authorization of transactions incident to the provision of travel services, carrier services, and...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... characteristics as race, color, religion, sex, citizenship, place of birth, or national origin. Authorization... state of applicant's organization, if a juridical entity, the address of its principal place of business... of incorporation, partnership agreements, management agreements, or other documents pertaining to the...

31 CFR 545.407 - Services performed in the territory of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban. 545.407 Section 545.407 Money and Finance: Treasury... TREASURY TALIBAN (AFGHANISTAN) SANCTIONS REGULATIONS Interpretations § 545.407 Services performed in the territory of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban. The prohibitions on transactions involving blocked...

22 CFR 228.38 - Miscellaneous service transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... Section 228.38 Foreign Relations AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RULES ON SOURCE, ORIGIN AND... rules governing certain miscellaneous services. (a) Commissions. The nationality rules in subparts C and... guarantees. The nationality rules in subparts C and D of this part, with the exception of § 228.36, do not...

12 CFR Appendix B to Part 573 - Sample Clauses

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... “your name, address, social security number, assets, and income”]; • Information about your transactions...—Service provider/joint marketing exception You may use one of these clauses, as applicable, to meet the... perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint...

17 CFR 250.90 - Transactions limited to cost.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

...) GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS, PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935 Service, Sales and Construction... service or construction for, or sell any goods to, any associate company thereof which is a public utility... construction for, or selling goods to, associate public utility companies, or enter into any contract to do so...

31 CFR 539.204 - Exempt transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... informational materials, or to the provision of marketing and business consulting services. Examples of... magazines and other periodical publications that are widely-circulated); importation into the United States...

31 CFR 539.204 - Exempt transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... informational materials, or to the provision of marketing and business consulting services. Examples of... magazines and other periodical publications that are widely-circulated); importation into the United States...

31 CFR 539.204 - Exempt transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... informational materials, or to the provision of marketing and business consulting services. Examples of... magazines and other periodical publications that are widely-circulated); importation into the United States...

31 CFR 539.204 - Exempt transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... informational materials, or to the provision of marketing and business consulting services. Examples of... magazines and other periodical publications that are widely-circulated); importation into the United States...

22 CFR 228.40 - Local procurement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... transaction does not exceed $5,000. (c) Professional services contracts estimated not to exceed the local... available locally: (1) Utilities, including fuel for heating and cooking, waste disposal and trash...

Feature selection for examining behavior by pathology laboratories.

PubMed

Hawkins, S; Williams, G; Baxter, R

2001-08-01

Australia has a universal health insurance scheme called Medicare, which is managed by Australia's Health Insurance Commission. Medicare payments for pathology services generate voluminous transaction data on patients, doctors and pathology laboratories. The Health Insurance Commission (HIC) currently uses predictive models to monitor compliance with regulatory requirements. The HIC commissioned a project to investigate the generation of new features from the data. Feature generation has not appeared as an important step in the knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) literature. New interesting features for use in predictive modeling are generated. These features were summarized, visualized and used as inputs for clustering and outlier detection methods. Data organization and data transformation methods are described for the efficient access and manipulation of these new features.

Alcohol consumption and risky sexual behaviour in the fishing communities: evidence from two fish landing sites on Lake Victoria in Uganda.

PubMed

Tumwesigye, Nazarius M; Atuyambe, Lynn; Wanyenze, Rhoda K; Kibira, Simon Ps; Li, Qing; Wabwire-Mangen, Fred; Wagner, Glenn

2012-12-11

The fishing communities are among population groups that are most at risk of HIV infection, with some studies putting the HIV prevalence at 5 to 10 times higher than in the general population. Alcohol consumption has been identified as one of the major drivers of the sexual risk behaviour in the fishing communities. This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption patterns and risky behaviour in two fishing communities on Lake Victoria. Face-to-face interviews were conducted among 303 men and 172 women at the fish landing sites; categorised into fishermen, traders of fish or fish products and other merchandise, and service providers such as casual labourers and waitresses in bars and hotels, including 12 female sexual workers. Stratified random sampling methodology was used to select study units. Multivariable analysis was conducted to assess independent relationship between alcohol consumption and sexual risky behaviour. Measures of alcohol consumption included the alcohol use disorder test score (AUDIT), having gotten drunk in previous 30 days, drinking at least 2 times a week while measures for risky behaviour included engaging in transactional sex, inconsistent condom use, having sex with non-regular partner and having multiple sexual partners. The level of harmful use of alcohol in the two fishing communities was quite high as 62% of the male and 52% of the female drinkers had got drunk in previous 30 days. The level of risky sexual behaviour was equally high as 63% of the men and 59% of the women had unprotected sex at last sexual event. Of the 3 occupations fishermen had the highest levels of harmful use of alcohol and risky sexual behaviour followed by service providers judging from values of most indicators. The kind of alcohol consumption variables correlated with risky sexual behaviour variables, varied by occupation. Frequent alcohol consumption, higher AUDIT score, having got drunk, longer drinking hours and drinking any day of the week were strongly correlated with engaging in transactional sex among fishermen but fewer of the factors exhibited the same correlation among traders and service providers. Fishermen who drank 2 or more times a week were 7.9 times more likely to have had transactional sex (95% CI: 2.05-30.24) compared to those who never drank alcohol. A similar pattern was observed for traders and service providers at the landing sites. Inconsistent condom use or none use of condoms was not significantly correlated with any of the alcohol consumption indicator variables in multivariate analysis except for day of drinking among men. Alcohol consumption is strongly correlated with having multiple sexual partners, sex with non-regular partner and engagement in transactional sex but not with consistent condom use at fish landing sites. However, the pattern and strength of this correlation differs by occupation. HIV risk reduction programs targeting the fishing communities should address alcohol consumption, particularly alcohol consumption before sexual contact. Different occupations may need different interventions.

Transactional Sex Involvement: Exploring Risk and Promotive Factors Among Substance-Using Youth in an Urban Emergency Department

PubMed Central

Patton, Rikki A; Cunningham, Rebecca M; Blow, Frederic C; Zimmerman, Marc A; Booth, Brenda M; Walton, Maureen A

2014-01-01

Objective: The current study aims to evaluate individual, relational, and community-level risk and promotive factors for transactional sex involvement among substance-using youth. Method: Youth (ages 14–24 years) presenting for care in an urban emergency department, who reported drug use within the past 6 months, were surveyed as part of a larger study assessing violence. Of the 600 youth enrolled in this study, 350 presented to the emergency department with violent injury. Based on youth presenting with violent injury, a proportionally selected (age and gender) comparison group of youth (n = 250) presenting without violent injury were enrolled. Participants were queried about both risk and promotive factors at the individual, relational, and community levels. Results: Of the sample, 7.3% reported involvement in transactional sex within the past month. Regression analyses indicated that being African American or other race (as compared with White), having more than one sexual partner, depressive symptoms, negative peer influence, and substance use treatment utilization were positively associated with transactional sex involvement. Increased school involvement was negatively related to involvement in transactional sex. Conclusions: Drug-using youth who reported recent transactional sex involvement are more likely to experience increased HIV risk, depressive symptoms, and negative peer influence and are less likely to experience the promotive factors of school involvement. Future research is needed to better understand the bidirectional relationship between transactional sex involvement and both risk and promotive factors at multiple ecological levels. PMID:24988256

31 CFR 560.509 - Certain transactions related to patents, trademarks, and copyrights authorized.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... intellectual property protection in the United States or Iran are authorized, including importation of or dealing in Iranian-origin services, payment for such services, and payment to persons in Iran directly... Government or the Government of Iran, or of the reasonable and customary fees and charges currently due to...

31 CFR 560.509 - Certain transactions related to patents, trademarks, and copyrights authorized.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... intellectual property protection in the United States or Iran are authorized, including importation of or dealing in Iranian-origin services, payment for such services, and payment to persons in Iran directly... Government or the Government of Iran, or of the reasonable and customary fees and charges currently due to...

Moving beyond Assumptions: The Use of Virtual Reference Data in an Academic Library

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Nolen, David S.; Powers, Amanda Clay; Zhang, Li; Xu, Yue; Cannady, Rachel E.; Li, Judy

2012-01-01

The Mississippi State University Libraries' Virtual Reference Service collected statistics about virtual reference usage. Analysis of the data collected by an entry survey from chat and e-mail transactions provided librarians with concrete information about what patron groups were the highest and lowest users of virtual reference services. These…

The Effectiveness of Commercial Internet Web Sites: A User's Perspective.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bell, Hudson; Tang, Nelson K. H.

1998-01-01

A user survey of 60 company Web sites (electronic commerce, entertainment and leisure, financial and banking services, information services, retailing and travel, and tourism) determined that 30% had facilities for conducting online transactions and only 7% charged for site access. Overall, Web sites were rated high in ease of access, content, and…

Early Services for Children with Special Needs: Transactions for Family Support.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Healy, Alfred; And Others

The book is intended to link knowledge and application in early intervention services for very young disabled and at-risk children. An introductory chapter analyzes major issues and sources of controversy in the field: family support and the nature of early intervention, parental empowerment and involvement, the science of early intervention,…

75 FR 65805 - Transfer and Reorganization of Bank Secrecy Act Regulations

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-10-26

... lies not only with the products and services the covered institution offers, but also with the specific... bank routinely posts a particular transaction to its customer's account. (j) Commodity. Any good... service offered. (l) Contract of sale. Any sale, agreement of sale, or agreement to sell as described in...

75 FR 39721 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; National Securities Clearing Corporation; Notice of Filing and...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-07-12

... Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Amend Rules Regarding Membership and Mutual Fund Services July 1, 2010... third party administrators access to NSCC's mutual fund services. II. Self-Regulatory Organization's... processing and settlement of mutual fund transactions, NSCC is proposing to establish a new member category...

Journey Mapping the User Experience

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Samson, Sue; Granath, Kim; Alger, Adrienne

2017-01-01

This journey-mapping pilot study was designed to determine whether journey mapping is an effective method to enhance the student experience of using the library by assessing our services from their point of view. Journey mapping plots a process or service to produce a visual representation of a library transaction--from the point at which the…

31 CFR 132.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... transaction provider, or any interactive computer service or telecommunications service); and (5) Does not include— (i) Any activity governed by the securities laws (as that term is defined in section 3(a)(47) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(47)) for the purchase or sale of securities (as...

12 CFR 233.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... transaction provider, or any interactive computer service or telecommunications service); and (5) Does not include— (i) Any activity governed by the securities laws (as that term is defined in section 3(a)(47) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(47)) for the purchase or sale of securities (as...

12 CFR 233.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... transaction provider, or any interactive computer service or telecommunications service); and (5) Does not include— (i) Any activity governed by the securities laws (as that term is defined in section 3(a)(47) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(47)) for the purchase or sale of securities (as...

31 CFR 132.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... transaction provider, or any interactive computer service or telecommunications service); and (5) Does not include— (i) Any activity governed by the securities laws (as that term is defined in section 3(a)(47) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(47)) for the purchase or sale of securities (as...

12 CFR 233.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... transaction provider, or any interactive computer service or telecommunications service); and (5) Does not include— (i) Any activity governed by the securities laws (as that term is defined in section 3(a)(47) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(47)) for the purchase or sale of securities (as...

12 CFR 233.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... transaction provider, or any interactive computer service or telecommunications service); and (5) Does not include— (i) Any activity governed by the securities laws (as that term is defined in section 3(a)(47) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(47)) for the purchase or sale of securities (as...

Freshman Admissions Predictor: An Interactive Self-Help Web Counseling Service

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Head, Joe F.; Hughes, Thomas M.

2004-01-01

Colleges and universities must seek or develop the most competitive enrollment management tools in order to reach and admit qualified students. However, institutions that utilize transactional Web features are more effective if they can personalize services by providing useful customized information in real time for the prospect. Well crafted high…

Conservation economics. Response to Comment on "Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot".

PubMed

Banks-Leite, Cristina; Pardini, Renata; Tambosi, Leandro R; Pearse, William D; Bueno, Adriana A; Bruscagin, Roberta T; Condez, Thais H; Dixo, Marianna; Igari, Alexandre T; Martensen, Alexandre C; Metzger, Jean Paul

2015-02-13

Finney claims that we did not include transaction costs while assessing the economic costs of a set-aside program in Brazil and that accounting for them could potentially render large payments for environmental services (PES) projects unfeasible. We agree with the need for a better understanding of transaction costs but provide evidence that they do not alter the feasibility of the set-aside scheme we proposed. Copyright © 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Comments by the Editors

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Fleetwood, Dan M.; Brown, Dennis; Girard, Sylvain; Gerardin, Simone; Quinn, Heather; Kobayashi, Daisuke; Esqueda, Ivan Sanchez; Robinson, William; Moss, Steven

2017-08-01

The August 2017 special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science contains more than 40 selected, peer-reviewed, journal articles that were prepared on the basis of presentations made at the 2016 Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS) held on September 19-23, 2016, in Bremen, Germany. A few additional papers may appear in subsequent issues of the Transactions. A full conference record of RADECS 2016 will also be available in the IEEE Xplore.

On-site remediation shakes out

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Morris, G.D.L.

1996-01-03

Consolidation in several segments of the environmental services industry is being driven by continued sluggishness. Process engineering and construction company Fluor Daniel (Irvine, CA) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in environmental remediation firm Groundwater Technology Inc.. Fluor Daniel will combine its environmental services unit with GTI. Fluor Daniel/GTI will be headquartered in Norwood and remain a publicly traded entity. The transaction is subject to approval by GTI`s shareholders and other customer conditions and is expected to be completed in the next few months. Fluor Daniel/GTI will operate as a subsidiary of Fluor Daniel and willmore » become one of the world`s largest on-site remediation companies. David Myers, president of Fluor Daniel`s environmental services unit, will become chairman, while Walter C. Barber, chairman and CEO of GTI, will continue as the company`s president and CEO. Certain Fluor Daniel environmental business components, specifically the Department of Energy management and operations business, will not be included in the transaction and will operate separately.« less

31 CFR 321.27 - Instructions and guidance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... process redemption transactions. This information is available online at the Bureau of the Public Debt's... instructions and guidance are available online at the Federal Reserve Bank Services Web site at www.FRBservices...

31 CFR 321.27 - Instructions and guidance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... process redemption transactions. This information is available online at the Bureau of the Public Debt's... instructions and guidance are available online at the Federal Reserve Bank Services Web site at www.FRBservices...

77 FR 50082 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-08-20

...: Bureau of Economic Analysis. Title: Quarterly Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S. Insurance.... commercial policy on insurance services, conduct trade promotion, and improve the ability of U.S. businesses...

Engaging adolescent girls in transactional sex through compensated dating.

PubMed

Cheung, Chau-Kiu; Jia, Xinshan; Li, Jessica Chi-Mei; Lee, Tak-Yan

2016-10-01

Transactional sex through so-called compensated dating in adolescent girls is a problem in need of public concern. Compensated dating typically involves the use of information communication technology to advertise, search, bargain, and eventually arrange for transactional sex. The technology enables the sexual partners to maintain privacy and secrecy in transactional sex. Such secrecy necessitates the girls' disclosure about their life experiences in order to address the concern. The disclosure is the focus of the present qualitative study of 27 girls practicing the dating in Hong Kong, China. Based on the disclosure, the study presents a grounded theory that epitomizes engagement in compensated dating by referential choice. Such a referential choice theory unravels that choice with reference to the family push and social norms sustains the engagement. Meanwhile, the choice rests on expectancy and reinforcement from experiential learning about compensated dating. The theory thus implies ways to undercut the engagement through diverting the referential choice of the dating. Copyright © 2016 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

The Association between Incarceration and Transactional Sex among HIV-infected Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States.

PubMed

Philbin, Morgan M; Kinnard, Elizabeth N; Tanner, Amanda E; Ware, Samuella; Chambers, Brittany D; Ma, Alice; Fortenberry, J Dennis

2018-04-09

Criminal justice practices in the USA disproportionately affect sexual and racial/ethnic minority men, who are at higher risk of incarceration. Previous research demonstrates associations between incarceration and sexual risk behaviors for men who have sex with men (MSM). However, little of this work focuses on young MSM (YMSM), particularly HIV-infected YMSM, despite nearly one-third reporting engagement in sexual risk behaviors, such as transactional sex. We therefore explored the association between incarceration and transactional sex among HIV-infected YMSM. We recruited 97 HIV-infected YMSM across 14 clinical sites in urban centers from August 2015 to February 2016. We used multivariate logistic regression to examine the relationship between incarceration and transactional sex among YMSM. The majority was 24 years old (78%) and racial/ethnic minority (95%); over half were not in school and reported an annual income of < $12,000. In the multivariate model, having ever been incarcerated (aOR = 3.20; 95% CI 1.07-9.63) was independently associated with a history of transactional sex. Being 24 years vs. younger (aOR = 9.68; 95% CI 1.42-65.78) and having ever been homeless (aOR = 3.71, 95% CI 1.18-11.65) also remained independently associated with a history of transactional sex. This analysis fills a gap in the literature by examining the relationship between incarceration and transactional sex among HIV-infected YMSM. Facilitating youths' engagement with social services available in their HIV clinic may serve as a key strategy in promoting health. Public health efforts need to address social-structural factors driving disproportionate rates of arrest and incarceration and related harms among this population.

77 FR 65052 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-10-24

... respect to business travel, entertainment, and gift expenses be substantiated with adequate records in... settlement of merchant card and third party network transactions for purchases of goods and/or services made...

Best Practice Guide for Procuring Services, Supplies, and Equipment Under EPA Assistance Agreements

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The Interim Procurement Guide describes the financial transactions covered by the competitive contracting requirements and other rules you must follow when awarding and administering EPA funded contracts.

17 CFR 250.87 - Subsidiaries authorized to perform services or construction or to sell goods.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935 Service, Sales and Construction Contracts § 250.87 Subsidiaries authorized to... consists of performance of a contract made before August 26, 1935, for the construction of a specific..., 1935; or (4) Such transaction consists of the sale, at not more than cost less depreciation, of goods...

75 FR 54541 - Treatment of Services Under Section 482; Allocation of Income and Deductions From Intangibles

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2010-09-08

... Register on September 10, 2003 (68 FR 53448), related to the treatment of controlled services transactions under section 482 and the allocation of income from intangibles, in particular with respect to contributions by a controlled party to the value of an intangible that is owned by another controlled party. The...

78 FR 71038 - Proposed Collection: Resolution for Transactions Involving Treasury Securities

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2013-11-27

... U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). Currently the Bureau of the Fiscal Service within the Department of the.... ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Bruce A. Sharp, 200 Third Street A4-A, Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328, or bruce.sharp@bpd.treas.gov . The opportunity to make comments...

76 FR 44640 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NASDAQ OMX PHLX LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-07-26

... to cap fees and even with the added Service Fee, Firms should generally pay less once they reach the Cap because they will not pay the normally applicable transaction fees. This Service Fee would reduce the discrepancy that exists today between Firms and other market participants. For example, Firms who...

29 CFR 779.316 - Establishments outside “retail concept” not within statutory definition; lack first requirement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... Exemptions for Certain Retail or Service Establishments Making Sales of Goods and Services ârecognized As Retailâ § 779.316 Establishments outside “retail concept” not within statutory definition; lack first requirement. The term “retail” is alien to some businesses or operations. For example, transactions of an...

29 CFR 779.316 - Establishments outside “retail concept” not within statutory definition; lack first requirement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... Exemptions for Certain Retail or Service Establishments Making Sales of Goods and Services ârecognized As Retailâ § 779.316 Establishments outside “retail concept” not within statutory definition; lack first requirement. The term “retail” is alien to some businesses or operations. For example, transactions of an...

29 CFR 779.316 - Establishments outside “retail concept” not within statutory definition; lack first requirement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... Exemptions for Certain Retail or Service Establishments Making Sales of Goods and Services ârecognized As Retailâ § 779.316 Establishments outside “retail concept” not within statutory definition; lack first requirement. The term “retail” is alien to some businesses or operations. For example, transactions of an...

Xenoestrogenic and dioxin-like activity in blood of East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus).

PubMed

Erdmann, Simon E; Dietz, Rune; Sonne, Christian; Bechshøft, Thea Ø; Vorkamp, Katrin; Letcher, Robert J; Long, Manhai; Bonefeld-Jørgensen, Eva C

2013-07-01

The aims of the project were to (i) extract the lipophilic persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from the blood of 99 East Greenland polar bears and assess the combined mixture effect on the estrogen receptor (ER) and the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) mediated transactivity; (ii) To evaluate whether the receptor transactivities were associated with selected POP markers, and (iii) compare the receptor transactivities in polar bears with earlier studies on Greenlandic Inuit. Lipophilic POPs were extracted using a combination of solid-phase extraction (SPE) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). ER mediated transactivity was determined using the ER luciferase reporter MVLN cell assay. The extracts were tested alone (XER) and together with 17β-estradiol (E2) as a physiological mimic (XERcomp). Dioxins and dioxin-like (DL) compounds were extracted by a combination of SPE and the Supelco Dioxin Prep System®. AhR mediated dioxin-like transactivity was determined using the AhR luciferase reporter Hepa 1.12cR cell assay. Agonistic ER transactivity was elicited by 19% of the samples, and a further increased E2 induced ER response was found for 52%, whereas 17% antagonized the E2 induced ER response. Positive correlations were found in subadult bears between XER and several POP biomarkers. XER and XERcomp correlated positively to each other. A total of 91% of the polar bear blood extracts elicited agonistic AhR transactivity. The AhR-TCDD equivalent (AhR-TEQ) median levels were higher among adult bears compared to subadult bears, but not significantly. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Multi-objective possibilistic model for portfolio selection with transaction cost

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Jana, P.; Roy, T. K.; Mazumder, S. K.

2009-06-01

In this paper, we introduce the possibilistic mean value and variance of continuous distribution, rather than probability distributions. We propose a multi-objective Portfolio based model and added another entropy objective function to generate a well diversified asset portfolio within optimal asset allocation. For quantifying any potential return and risk, portfolio liquidity is taken into account and a multi-objective non-linear programming model for portfolio rebalancing with transaction cost is proposed. The models are illustrated with numerical examples.

Timing of Clinical Billing Reimbursement for a Local Health Department.

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McCullough, J Mac

2016-01-01

A major responsibility of a local health department (LHD) is to assure public health service availability throughout its jurisdiction. Many LHDs face expanded service needs and declining budgets, making billing for services an increasingly important strategy for sustaining public health service provision. Yet, little practice-based data exist to guide practitioners on what to expect financially, especially regarding timing of reimbursement receipt. This study provides results from one LHD on the lag from service delivery to reimbursement receipt. Reimbursement records for all transactions at Maricopa County Department of Public Health immunization clinics from January 2013 through June 2014 were compiled and analyzed to determine the duration between service and reimbursement. Outcomes included daily and cumulative revenues received. Time to reimbursement for Medicaid and private payers was also compared. Reimbursement for immunization services was received a median of 68 days after service. Payments were sometimes taken back by payers through credit transactions that occurred a median of 333 days from service. No differences in time to reimbursement between Medicaid and private payers were found. Billing represents an important financial opportunity for LHDs to continue to sustainably assure population health. Yet, the lag from service provision to reimbursement may complicate budgeting, especially in initial years of new billing activities. Special consideration may be necessary to establish flexibility in the budget-setting processes for services with clinical billing revenues, because funds for services delivered in one budget period may not be received in the same period. LHDs may also benefit from exploring strategies used by other delivery organizations to streamline billing processes.

77 FR 13377 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NASDAQ OMX PHLX LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness...

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... Change Relating to Fees and Rebates for Adding and Removing Liquidity in Select Symbols February 29, 2012...'s Fee Schedule titled ``Rebates and Fees for Adding and Removing Liquidity in Select Symbols,'' specifically to amend the Select Symbols \\3\\ and transaction fees for Single contra-side orders. \\3\\ The term...

17 CFR 240.17g-4 - Prevention of misuse of material nonpublic information.

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2010-04-01

... otherwise benefiting from any transaction in securities or money market instruments when the person is aware... services that affects the securities or money market instruments; and (3) The inappropriate dissemination...

7 CFR 1260.314 - Certification of non-producer status for certain transactions.

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2010-01-01

...) AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF... was due, has been collected and has been remitted, or will be remitted in a timely fashion. (b) Each...

Utility negotiating strategies for end-users

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Studebaker, J.M.

This exciting new book discusses how retail electricity and natural gas consumers can learn to negotiate a concessionary rate with their utility service -- new, and post-deregulation. This includes survey resources that are available to the retail customer and negotiation processes that one should become familiar with in the electric utility industry. The contents include: Electricity -- an overview; Regulation of electricity -- now; Basic procedures for reducing electricity costs; Negotiation of electricity costs; Negotiation on electricity that is provided by marketers; The retail wheeling transaction; The retail wheeling contract process; Natural gas negotiation strategies; Regulation of natural gas utilities;more » Developing a strategy for reducing natural gas costs; Process of getting the natural gas to the customer; How to select an agent; and Negotiating with an agent.« less

Commissioning healthcare for people with long term conditions: the persistence of relational contracting in England's NHS quasi-market.

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Porter, Alison; Mays, Nicholas; Shaw, Sara E; Rosen, Rebecca; Smith, Judith

2013-01-01

Since 1991, there has been a series of reforms of the English National Health Service (NHS) entailing an increasing separation between the commissioners of services and a widening range of public and independent sector providers able to compete for contracts to provide services to NHS patients. We examine the extent to which local commissioners had adopted a market-oriented (transactional) model of commissioning of care for people with long term conditions several years into the latest period of market-oriented reform. The paper also considers the factors that may have inhibited or supported market-oriented behaviour, including the presence of conditions conducive to a health care quasi-market. We studied the commissioning of services for people with three long term conditions - diabetes, stroke and dementia - in three English primary care trust (PCT) areas over two years (2010-12). We took a broadly ethnographic approach to understanding the day-to-day practice of commissioning. Data were collected through interviews, observation of meetings and from documents. In contrast to a transactional, market-related approach organised around commissioner choice of provider and associated contracting, commissioning was largely relational, based on trust and collaboration with incumbent providers. There was limited sign of commissioners significantly challenging providers, changing providers, or decommissioning services.In none of the service areas were all the conditions for a well functioning quasi-market in health care in place. Choice of provider was generally absent or limited; information on demand and resource requirements was highly imperfect; motivations were complex; and transaction costs uncertain, but likely to be high. It was difficult to divide care into neat units for contracting purposes. As a result, it is scarcely surprising that commissioning practice in relation to all six commissioning developments was dominated by a relational approach. Our findings challenge the notion of a strict separation of commissioners and providers, and instead demonstrate the adaptive persistence of relational commissioning based on continuity of provision, trust and interdependence between commissioners and providers, at least for services for people with long-term conditions.

Commissioning healthcare for people with long term conditions: the persistence of relational contracting in England’s NHS quasi-market

PubMed Central

2013-01-01

Background Since 1991, there has been a series of reforms of the English National Health Service (NHS) entailing an increasing separation between the commissioners of services and a widening range of public and independent sector providers able to compete for contracts to provide services to NHS patients. We examine the extent to which local commissioners had adopted a market-oriented (transactional) model of commissioning of care for people with long term conditions several years into the latest period of market-oriented reform. The paper also considers the factors that may have inhibited or supported market-oriented behaviour, including the presence of conditions conducive to a health care quasi-market. Methods We studied the commissioning of services for people with three long term conditions - diabetes, stroke and dementia - in three English primary care trust (PCT) areas over two years (2010-12). We took a broadly ethnographic approach to understanding the day-to-day practice of commissioning. Data were collected through interviews, observation of meetings and from documents. Results In contrast to a transactional, market-related approach organised around commissioner choice of provider and associated contracting, commissioning was largely relational, based on trust and collaboration with incumbent providers. There was limited sign of commissioners significantly challenging providers, changing providers, or decommissioning services. In none of the service areas were all the conditions for a well functioning quasi-market in health care in place. Choice of provider was generally absent or limited; information on demand and resource requirements was highly imperfect; motivations were complex; and transaction costs uncertain, but likely to be high. It was difficult to divide care into neat units for contracting purposes. As a result, it is scarcely surprising that commissioning practice in relation to all six commissioning developments was dominated by a relational approach. Conclusions Our findings challenge the notion of a strict separation of commissioners and providers, and instead demonstrate the adaptive persistence of relational commissioning based on continuity of provision, trust and interdependence between commissioners and providers, at least for services for people with long-term conditions. PMID:23735008

78 FR 4725 - Escrow Requirements Under the Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z)

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...The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is publishing a final rule that amends Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) to implement certain amendments to the Truth in Lending Act made by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). Regulation Z currently requires creditors to establish escrow accounts for higher-priced mortgage loans secured by a first lien on a principal dwelling. The rule implements statutory changes made by the Dodd-Frank Act that lengthen the time for which a mandatory escrow account established for a higher-priced mortgage loan must be maintained. The rule also exempts certain transactions from the statute's escrow requirement. The primary exemption applies to mortgage transactions extended by creditors that operate predominantly in rural or underserved areas, originate a limited number of first-lien covered transactions, have assets below a certain threshold, and do not maintain escrow accounts on mortgage obligations they currently service.

77 FR 68834 - Proposed Exemptions From Certain Prohibited Transaction Restrictions

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...This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). This notice includes the following proposed exemptions: D-11610, UBS Financial Services, Inc. D- 11666, Central Pacific Bank 401(k) Retirement and Savings Plan (the Plan); D-11672, Studley, Inc. Section 401(k) Plan Profit Sharing Plan (the Plan); and D-11724, EquiLend Holdings LLC (EquiLend).

Faster Finances

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1976-01-01

TRW has applied the Apollo checkout procedures to retail-store and bank-transaction systems, as well as to control systems for electric power transmission grids -- reducing the chance of power blackouts. Automatic checkout equipment for Apollo Spacecraft is one of the most complex computer systems in the world. Used to integrate extensive Apollo checkout procedures from manufacture to launch, it has spawned major advances in computer systems technology. Store and bank credit system has caused significant improvement in speed and accuracy of transactions, credit authorization, and inventory control. A similar computer service called "Validata" is used nationwide by airlines, airline ticket offices, car rental agencies, and hotels.

Care Models of eHealth Services: A Case Study on the Design of a Business Model for an Online Precare Service.

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van Meeuwen, Dorine Pd; van Walt Meijer, Quirine J; Simonse, Lianne Wl

2015-03-24

With a growing population of health care clients in the future, the organization of high-quality and cost-effective service providing becomes an increasing challenge. New online eHealth services are proposed as innovative options for the future. Yet, a major barrier to these services appears to be the lack of new business model designs. Although design efforts generally result in visual models, no such artifacts have been found in the literature on business model design. This paper investigates business model design in eHealth service practices from a design perspective. It adopts a research by design approach and seeks to unravel what characteristics of business models determine an online service and what are important value exchanges between health professionals and clients. The objective of the study was to analyze the construction of care models in-depth, framing the essential elements of a business model, and design a new care model that structures these elements for the particular context of an online pre-care service in practice. This research employs a qualitative method of an in-depth case study in which different perspectives on constructing a care model are investigated. Data are collected by using the visual business modeling toolkit, designed to cocreate and visualize the business model. The cocreated models are transcribed and analyzed per actor perspective, transactions, and value attributes. We revealed eight new actors in the business model for providing the service. Essential actors are: the intermediary network coordinator connecting companies, the service dedicated information technology specialists, and the service dedicated health specialist. In the transactions for every service providing we found a certain type of contract, such as a license contract and service contracts for precare services and software products. In addition to the efficiency, quality, and convenience, important value attributes appeared to be: timelines, privacy and credibility, availability, pleasantness, and social interaction. Based on the in-depth insights from the actor perspectives, the business model for online precare services is modeled with a visual design. A new care model of the online precare service is designed and compiled of building blocks for the business model. For the construction of a care model, actors, transactions, and value attributes are essential elements. The design of a care model structures these elements in a visual way. Guided by the business modeling toolkit, the care model design artifact is visualized in the context of an online precare service. Important building blocks include: provision of an online flow of information with regular interactions to the client stimulates self-management of personal health and service-dedicated health expert ensure an increase of the perceived quality of the eHealth service.

Care Models of eHealth Services: A Case Study on the Design of a Business Model for an Online Precare Service

PubMed Central

2015-01-01

Background With a growing population of health care clients in the future, the organization of high-quality and cost-effective service providing becomes an increasing challenge. New online eHealth services are proposed as innovative options for the future. Yet, a major barrier to these services appears to be the lack of new business model designs. Although design efforts generally result in visual models, no such artifacts have been found in the literature on business model design. This paper investigates business model design in eHealth service practices from a design perspective. It adopts a research by design approach and seeks to unravel what characteristics of business models determine an online service and what are important value exchanges between health professionals and clients. Objective The objective of the study was to analyze the construction of care models in-depth, framing the essential elements of a business model, and design a new care model that structures these elements for the particular context of an online pre-care service in practice. Methods This research employs a qualitative method of an in-depth case study in which different perspectives on constructing a care model are investigated. Data are collected by using the visual business modeling toolkit, designed to cocreate and visualize the business model. The cocreated models are transcribed and analyzed per actor perspective, transactions, and value attributes. Results We revealed eight new actors in the business model for providing the service. Essential actors are: the intermediary network coordinator connecting companies, the service dedicated information technology specialists, and the service dedicated health specialist. In the transactions for every service providing we found a certain type of contract, such as a license contract and service contracts for precare services and software products. In addition to the efficiency, quality, and convenience, important value attributes appeared to be: timelines, privacy and credibility, availability, pleasantness, and social interaction. Based on the in-depth insights from the actor perspectives, the business model for online precare services is modeled with a visual design. A new care model of the online precare service is designed and compiled of building blocks for the business model. Conclusions For the construction of a care model, actors, transactions, and value attributes are essential elements. The design of a care model structures these elements in a visual way. Guided by the business modeling toolkit, the care model design artifact is visualized in the context of an online precare service. Important building blocks include: provision of an online flow of information with regular interactions to the client stimulates self-management of personal health and service-dedicated health expert ensure an increase of the perceived quality of the eHealth service. PMID:25831094

Reference Reviewed and Re-Envisioned: Revamping Librarian and Desk-Centric Services with LibStARs and LibAnswers

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Stevens, Christy R.

2013-01-01

The first section of this article reviews the literature on the changing face of reference, beginning with a discussion of the national decline in reference transactions, its causes, and the likelihood that online reference services might one day halt or reverse the decline. It then analyzes definitions of the term "reference," pointing…

2 CFR 417.215 - Which nonprocurement transactions, in addition to those listed in 2 CFR 180.215, are not covered...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... of Federal timber governed by the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990, 16 U... interest of public health and safety, and animal and plant health and safety. (4) The receipt of official grading and inspection services, animal damage control services, public health and safety inspection...

2 CFR 417.215 - Which nonprocurement transactions, in addition to those listed in 2 CFR 180.215, are not covered...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... of Federal timber governed by the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990, 16 U... interest of public health and safety, and animal and plant health and safety. (4) The receipt of official grading and inspection services, animal damage control services, public health and safety inspection...

2 CFR 417.215 - Which nonprocurement transactions, in addition to those listed in 2 CFR 180.215, are not covered...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... of Federal timber governed by the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990, 16 U... interest of public health and safety, and animal and plant health and safety. (4) The receipt of official grading and inspection services, animal damage control services, public health and safety inspection...

2 CFR 417.215 - Which nonprocurement transactions, in addition to those listed in 2 CFR 180.215, are not covered...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... of Federal timber governed by the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990, 16 U... interest of public health and safety, and animal and plant health and safety. (4) The receipt of official grading and inspection services, animal damage control services, public health and safety inspection...

Mooring in safe harbors. Proposed rules set out what's legal, what's not under Medicare fraud and abuse laws.

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MacKelvie, C F; Sanborn, A B

1989-04-01

The 1977 Fraud and Abuse Amendments, which prohibit business relationships that increase Medicare utilization, have created uncertainty among healthcare providers as to which commercial arrangements are legal and which are not. In response to this uncertainty, Congress enacted the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987, which required the Department of Health and Human Services to develop regulations that would specify allowable practices. The regulations proposed Jan. 23, 1989, specify "safe harbors" from criminal and civil penalties in the following areas: sales of physician practices, rental agreements, investments by providers, and personal services and management contracts. In addition, the Fraud and Abuse Amendments exempted referrals arising out of a bona fide employment relationship, properly disclosed discounts, and group purchasing arrangements. The proposed regulations attempt to clarify these exemptions. Unfortunately, the proposals do little to calm a healthcare industry that is jumpy about which transactions are permitted and which are not. This is partly because the Internal Revenue Service, Health and Human Services, and the Department of Justice often issue conflicting pronouncements regarding prohibited business transactions by tax-exempt providers.

Providing animal health services to the poor in Northern Ghana: rethinking the role of community animal health workers?

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Mockshell, Jonathan; Ilukor, John; Birner, Regina

2014-02-01

The Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) system has been promoted as an alternative solution to providing animal health services in marginal areas. Yet, access to quality animal health services still remains a fundamental problem for livestock dependent communities. This paper uses the concepts of accessibility, affordability, and transaction costs to examine the perceptions of livestock keepers about the various animal health service providers. The empirical analysis is based on a survey of 120 livestock-keeping households in the Tolon-Kumbungu and Savelugu-Nanton districts in the Northern Region of Ghana. A multinomial logit model was used to determine the factors that influence households' choice of alternative animal health service providers. The results show that the government para-vets are the most preferred type of animal health service providers while CAHWs are the least preferred. Reasons for this observation include high transaction costs and low performance resulting from limited training. In areas with few or no government para-vets, farmers have resorted to self-treatment or to selling sick animals for consumption, which has undesirable health implications. These practices also result in significant financial losses for farmers. This paper finds that the CAHWs' system is insufficient for providing quality animal health services to the rural poor in marginal areas. Therefore, market-smart alternative solutions requiring strong public sector engagement to support livestock farmers in marginal areas and setting minimum training standards for animal health service providers merit policy consideration.

24 CFR 235.1214 - Mortgage lien.

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2010-04-01

...: Contract Rights and Obligations; Assistance Payments Contracts; Servicing Responsibilities-Refinancing... unpaid obligations contracted in connection with the mortgage transaction or the purchase of the mortgaged property, except obligations that are secured by property or collateral owned by the mortgagor...

26 CFR 1.482-9 - Methods to determine taxable income in connection with a controlled services transaction.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... or other similar arrangement. (vi) Research, development, or experimentation. (vii) Engineering or... property development activities. All of Company P's research and development (R&D) activity is devoted to...

Measuring the efficiency of large pharmaceutical companies: an industry analysis.

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Gascón, Fernando; Lozano, Jesús; Ponte, Borja; de la Fuente, David

2017-06-01

This paper evaluates the relative efficiency of a sample of 37 large pharmaceutical laboratories in the period 2008-2013 using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. We describe in detail the procedure followed to select and construct relevant inputs and outputs that characterize the production and innovation activity of these pharmaceutical firms. Models are estimated with financial information from Datastream, including R&D investment, and the number of new drugs authorized by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considering the time effect. The relative performances of these firms-taking into consideration the strategic importance of R&D-suggest that the pharmaceutical industry is a highly competitive sector given that there are many laboratories at the efficient frontier and many inefficient laboratories close to this border. Additionally, we use data from S&P Capital IQ to analyze 2071 financial transactions announced by our sample of laboratories as an alternative way to gain access to new drugs, and we link these transactions with R&D investment and DEA efficiency. We find that efficient laboratories make on average more financial transactions, and the relative size of each transaction is larger. However, pharmaceutical companies that simultaneously are more efficient and invest more internally in R&D announce smaller transactions relative to total assets.

Advances in Irrigation: Select Works from 2010 Decennial Irrigation Symposium

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This paper is an introduction to the Advances in Irrigation Special Collection in this issue of Transactions ASABE and the next issue of Applied Engineering in Agriculture of 14 papers selected from 88 papers and presentations at the ASABE 5th Decennial National Irrigation Symposium, December 2010, ...

Lysophosphatidylcholine up-regulates human endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene transactivity by c-Jun N-terminal kinase signalling pathway

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Xing, Feiyue; Liu, Jing; Mo, Yongyan; Liu, Zhifeng; Qin, Qinghe; Wang, Jingzhen; Fan, Zhenhua; Long, Yutian; Liu, Na; Zhao, Kesen; Jiang, Yong

2009-01-01

Human endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) plays a pivotal role in maintaining blood pressure homeostasis and vascular integrity. It has recently been reported that mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are intimately implicated in expression of eNOS. However detailed mechanism mediated by them remains to be clarified. In this study, eNOS gene transactivity in human umbilical vein endothelial cells was up-regulated by stimulation of lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC). The stimulation of LPC highly activated both extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), with differences in the dynamic processes of activation between them. Unexpectedly, p38 MAPK could not be activated by the stimulation of LPC. The activation of JNK signalling pathway by overexpression of JNK or its upstream kinase active mutant up-regulated the transactivity of eNOS significantly, but the activation of p38 signalling pathway down-regulated it largely. The inhibition of either ERK1/2 or JNK signalling pathway by kinase-selective inhibitors could markedly block the induction of the transactivity by LPC. It was observed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay that LPC stimulated both SP1 and AP1 DNA binding activity to go up. Additionally using decoy oligonucleotides proved that SP1 was necessary for maintaining the basal or stimulated transactivity, whereas AP1 contributed mainly to the increase of the stimulated transactivity. These findings indicate that the up-regulation of the eNOS gene transactivity by LPC involves the enhancement of SP1 transcription factor by the activation of JNK and ERK1/2 signalling pathways and AP1 transcription factor by the activation of JNK signalling pathway. PMID:18624763

Improving the delivery of veterinary services in Africa: insights from the empirical application of transaction costs theory in Uganda and Kenya.

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Ilukor, J

2017-04-01

This paper presents a summary of findings from a research project that examined institutional arrangements for providing animal health services in Uganda and Kenya. Given the need to find solutions to the pervasive governance challenges encountered in the delivery of veterinary services in Africa, the study applied transaction economics theory to generate recommendations on how to improve the delivery of these services and minimise livestock production risks, including those that pose a risk to human health, e.g. zoonoses. The most notable recommendations are as follows: i) lower- and middle-income countries should invest in creating an enabling environment that supports the relationship between professional veterinarians and para-professionals, to ensure the timely reporting, treatment and control of animal diseases; ii) the provision of veterinary extension services should not focus solely on household 'heads', but also on other household members, such as wives and children, and on herdsmen; iii) strong government engagement is required in the provision of veterinary services for pastoral or extensive livestock production systems, because normal market forces have failed to attract professional veterinarians and trained para-professionals from the private sector to work in these sectors; iv) farmers must be empowered to hold service providers accountable, by the development and trialling of tools that would enable them to measure the quality of services that they receive and to verify the qualifications of different service providers; v) investment in veterinary education is vital, to ensure that enough qualified veterinary staff are available to offer veterinary services to farmers.

Addressing governance challenges in the provision of animal health services: A review of the literature and empirical application transaction cost theory.

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Ilukor, John; Birner, Regina; Nielsen, Thea

2015-11-01

Providing adequate animal health services to smallholder farmers in developing countries has remained a challenge, in spite of various reform efforts during the past decades. The focuses of the past reforms were on market failures to decide what the public sector, the private sector, and the "third sector" (the community-based sector) should do with regard to providing animal health services. However, such frameworks have paid limited attention to the governance challenges inherent in the provision of animal health services. This paper presents a framework for analyzing institutional arrangements for providing animal health services that focus not only on market failures, but also on governance challenges, such as elite capture, and absenteeism of staff. As an analytical basis, Williamson's discriminating alignment hypothesis is applied to assess the cost-effectiveness of different institutional arrangements for animal health services in view of both market failures and governance challenges. This framework is used to generate testable hypotheses on the appropriateness of different institutional arrangements for providing animal health services, depending on context-specific circumstances. Data from Uganda and Kenya on clinical veterinary services is used to provide an empirical test of these hypotheses and to demonstrate application of Williamson's transaction cost theory to veterinary service delivery. The paper concludes that strong public sector involvement, especially in building and strengthening a synergistic relation-based referral arrangement between paraprofessionals and veterinarians is imperative in improving animal health service delivery in developing countries. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Correlates of Attitudes toward Academic and Physical Inclusive Practices for Students with Disabilities and Selected Leadership Behaviors among Middle School Principals in North Carolina

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Houser, Mary A.; Dickens, Virginia; Hicks, Terence

2011-01-01

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between attitudes toward academic and inclusive practices for students with disabilities and selected leadership behaviors (transformational and transactional) among principals in North Carolina. Participants for this study were randomly selected middle school principals from public schools…

Medical universities educational and research online services: benchmarking universities' website towards e-government.

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Farzandipour, Mehrdad; Meidani, Zahra

2014-06-01

Websites as one of the initial steps towards an e-government adoption do facilitate delivery of online and customer-oriented services. In this study we intended to investigate the role of the websites of medical universities in providing educational and research services following the E-government maturity model in the Iranian universities. This descriptive and cross- sectional study was conducted through content analysis and benchmarking the websites in 2012. The research population included the entire medical university website (37). Delivery of educational and research services through these university websites including information, interaction, transaction, and Integration were investigated using a checklist. The data were then analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and using SPSS software. Level of educational and research services by websites of the medical universities type I and II was evaluated medium as 1.99 and 1.89, respectively. All the universities gained a mean score of 1 out of 3 in terms of integration of educational and research services. Results of the study indicated that Iranian universities have passed information and interaction stages, but they have not made much progress in transaction and integration stages. Failure to adapt to e-government in Iranian medical universities in which limiting factors such as users' e-literacy, access to the internet and ICT infrastructure are not so crucial as in other organizations, suggest that e-government realization goes beyond technical challenges.

Health care development: integrating transaction cost theory with social support theory.

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Hajli, M Nick; Shanmugam, Mohana; Hajli, Ali; Khani, Amir Hossein; Wang, Yichuan

2014-07-28

The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies has already been influential in many industries, and Web 2.0 applications are now beginning to have an impact on health care. These new technologies offer a promising approach for shaping the future of modern health care, with the potential for opening up new opportunities for the health care industry as it struggles to deal with challenges including the need to cut costs, the increasing demand for health services and the increasing cost of medical technology. Social media such as social networking sites are attracting more individuals to online health communities, contributing to an increase in the productivity of modern health care and reducing transaction costs. This study therefore examines the potential effect of social technologies, particularly social media, on health care development by adopting a social support/transaction cost perspective. Viewed through the lens of Information Systems, social support and transaction cost theories indicate that social media, particularly online health communities, positively support health care development. The results show that individuals join online health communities to share and receive social support, and these social interactions provide both informational and emotional support.

Switching portfolios.

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Singer, Y

1997-08-01

A constant rebalanced portfolio is an asset allocation algorithm which keeps the same distribution of wealth among a set of assets along a period of time. Recently, there has been work on on-line portfolio selection algorithms which are competitive with the best constant rebalanced portfolio determined in hindsight (Cover, 1991; Helmbold et al., 1996; Cover and Ordentlich, 1996). By their nature, these algorithms employ the assumption that high returns can be achieved using a fixed asset allocation strategy. However, stock markets are far from being stationary and in many cases the wealth achieved by a constant rebalanced portfolio is much smaller than the wealth achieved by an ad hoc investment strategy that adapts to changes in the market. In this paper we present an efficient portfolio selection algorithm that is able to track a changing market. We also describe a simple extension of the algorithm for the case of a general transaction cost, including the transactions cost models recently investigated in (Blum and Kalai, 1997). We provide a simple analysis of the competitiveness of the algorithm and check its performance on real stock data from the New York Stock Exchange accumulated during a 22-year period. On this data, our algorithm outperforms all the algorithms referenced above, with and without transaction costs.

Optimal Investment Under Transaction Costs: A Threshold Rebalanced Portfolio Approach

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Tunc, Sait; Donmez, Mehmet Ali; Kozat, Suleyman Serdar

2013-06-01

We study optimal investment in a financial market having a finite number of assets from a signal processing perspective. We investigate how an investor should distribute capital over these assets and when he should reallocate the distribution of the funds over these assets to maximize the cumulative wealth over any investment period. In particular, we introduce a portfolio selection algorithm that maximizes the expected cumulative wealth in i.i.d. two-asset discrete-time markets where the market levies proportional transaction costs in buying and selling stocks. We achieve this using "threshold rebalanced portfolios", where trading occurs only if the portfolio breaches certain thresholds. Under the assumption that the relative price sequences have log-normal distribution from the Black-Scholes model, we evaluate the expected wealth under proportional transaction costs and find the threshold rebalanced portfolio that achieves the maximal expected cumulative wealth over any investment period. Our derivations can be readily extended to markets having more than two stocks, where these extensions are pointed out in the paper. As predicted from our derivations, we significantly improve the achieved wealth over portfolio selection algorithms from the literature on historical data sets.

Optimization-based sale transactions and hydrothermal scheduling

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Prasannan, B.; Luh, P.B.; Yan, H.

1995-12-31

Selling and purchasing power are important activities for utilities because of potential savings. When a selling utility presents an offer including prices, power levels and durations, a purchasing utility selects power levels and durations within the offered range subject to relevant constraints. The decisionmaking process is complicated because transactions are coupled with system demand and reserve, therefore decisions have to be made in conjunction with the commitment and dispatching of units. Furthermore, transaction decisions have to be made in almost real time in view of the competitiveness of the power market caused by deregulation. In this paper, transactions are analyzedmore » from a selling utility`s viewpoint for a system consisting of thermal, hydro and pumped-storage units. To effectively solve the problem, linear sale revenues are approximated by nonlinear functions, and non-profitable options are identified and eliminated from consideration. The multipliers are then updated at the high level by using a modified subgradient method to obtain near optimal solutions quickly. Testing results show that the algorithm produces good sale offers efficiently.« less

Optimization-based sale transactions and hydrothermal scheduling

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Prasannan, B.; Luh, P.B.; Yan, H.

1996-05-01

Selling and purchasing power are important activities for utilities because of potential savings. When a selling utility presents an offer including prices, power levels and durations, a purchasing utility selects power levels and durations within the offered range subject to relevant constraints. The decisionmaking process is complicated because transactions are coupled with system demand and reserve, therefore decisions have to be made in conjunction with the commitment and dispatching of units. Furthermore, transaction decisions have to be made in almost real time in view of the competitiveness of the power market caused by deregulation. In this paper, transactions are analyzedmore » from a selling utility`s viewpoint for a system consisting of thermal, hydro and pumped-storage units. To effectively solve the problem, linear sale revenues are approximated by nonlinear functions, and non-profitable options are identified and eliminated from consideration. The multipliers are then updated at the high level by using a modified subgradient method to obtain near optimal solutions quickly. Testing results show that the algorithm produces good sale offers efficiently.« less

Reducing side effects of hiding sensitive itemsets in privacy preserving data mining.

PubMed

Lin, Chun-Wei; Hong, Tzung-Pei; Hsu, Hung-Chuan

2014-01-01

Data mining is traditionally adopted to retrieve and analyze knowledge from large amounts of data. Private or confidential data may be sanitized or suppressed before it is shared or published in public. Privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) has thus become an important issue in recent years. The most general way of PPDM is to sanitize the database to hide the sensitive information. In this paper, a novel hiding-missing-artificial utility (HMAU) algorithm is proposed to hide sensitive itemsets through transaction deletion. The transaction with the maximal ratio of sensitive to nonsensitive one is thus selected to be entirely deleted. Three side effects of hiding failures, missing itemsets, and artificial itemsets are considered to evaluate whether the transactions are required to be deleted for hiding sensitive itemsets. Three weights are also assigned as the importance to three factors, which can be set according to the requirement of users. Experiments are then conducted to show the performance of the proposed algorithm in execution time, number of deleted transactions, and number of side effects.

Reducing Side Effects of Hiding Sensitive Itemsets in Privacy Preserving Data Mining

PubMed Central

Lin, Chun-Wei; Hong, Tzung-Pei; Hsu, Hung-Chuan

2014-01-01

Data mining is traditionally adopted to retrieve and analyze knowledge from large amounts of data. Private or confidential data may be sanitized or suppressed before it is shared or published in public. Privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) has thus become an important issue in recent years. The most general way of PPDM is to sanitize the database to hide the sensitive information. In this paper, a novel hiding-missing-artificial utility (HMAU) algorithm is proposed to hide sensitive itemsets through transaction deletion. The transaction with the maximal ratio of sensitive to nonsensitive one is thus selected to be entirely deleted. Three side effects of hiding failures, missing itemsets, and artificial itemsets are considered to evaluate whether the transactions are required to be deleted for hiding sensitive itemsets. Three weights are also assigned as the importance to three factors, which can be set according to the requirement of users. Experiments are then conducted to show the performance of the proposed algorithm in execution time, number of deleted transactions, and number of side effects. PMID:24982932

Linear versus quadratic portfolio optimization model with transaction cost

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Razak, Norhidayah Bt Ab; Kamil, Karmila Hanim; Elias, Siti Masitah

2014-06-01

Optimization model is introduced to become one of the decision making tools in investment. Hence, it is always a big challenge for investors to select the best model that could fulfill their goal in investment with respect to risk and return. In this paper we aims to discuss and compare the portfolio allocation and performance generated by quadratic and linear portfolio optimization models namely of Markowitz and Maximin model respectively. The application of these models has been proven to be significant and popular among others. However transaction cost has been debated as one of the important aspects that should be considered for portfolio reallocation as portfolio return could be significantly reduced when transaction cost is taken into consideration. Therefore, recognizing the importance to consider transaction cost value when calculating portfolio' return, we formulate this paper by using data from Shariah compliant securities listed in Bursa Malaysia. It is expected that, results from this paper will effectively justify the advantage of one model to another and shed some lights in quest to find the best decision making tools in investment for individual investors.

45 CFR 164.104 - Applicability.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction covered by this subchapter. (b) When a health care clearinghouse creates or receives protected health information as a business... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS...

45 CFR 1309.52 - Procurement procedures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES, HEAD START PROGRAM HEAD START FACILITIES PURCHASE, MAJOR RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION Construction and Major Renovation § 1309.52 Procurement procedures. (a) All facility construction and major renovation transactions...

77 FR 27855 - Celerity Partners IV, LLC, Celerity AHI Holdings SPV, LLC, and All Aboard America! Holdings, Inc...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-05-11

... from the proposed transaction would directly benefit the Three Carriers' employees by maintaining job... services under contract, as well as charter or leisure transportation in motor coaches. Additional...

31 CFR 363.0 - What is the TreasuryDirect ® system?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

...) FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT REGULATIONS GOVERNING SECURITIES... (TreasuryDirect) is an online account system in which you may hold and conduct transactions in eligible book-entry Treasury securities. ...

News of the Year.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Albanese, Andrew R.; Oder, Norman; Rogers, Michael; St. Lifer, Evan; Jay, M. Ellen; Milliot, Jim

2001-01-01

Includes three articles that discuss the top stories from "Library Journal", including the demand for librarians, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, library education, database publishers, electronic research services, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), Internet filtering, and electronic reference; the school…

45 CFR 1309.52 - Procurement procedures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES, HEAD START PROGRAM HEAD START FACILITIES PURCHASE, MAJOR RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION Construction and Major Renovation § 1309.52 Procurement procedures. (a) All facility construction and major renovation transactions...

15 CFR 801.12 - Rules and regulations for the BE-180, Benchmark Survey of Financial Services Transactions between...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 52-Finance and Insurance, and holding companies that own or influence, and are principally engaged in..., brokerages, and other insurance related activities; insurance and employee benefit funds (including pension...

Identity Activities

DTIC Science & Technology

2016-08-03

individual or organization knows or says about another individual         Core personal Addresses Employment Educational Military Service...rhythm; handwriting ; type/keyboard pattern; posture/bearing; gait/limp; gestures). Appendix D D-8 JDN X-XX (3) Financial Transactions. Any

Nursing's role in Y2K planning.

PubMed

Simpson, R L

1999-04-01

Why haven't more nurses fulfilled their role in Y2K planning? Nurses need to apply their skills and expertise to solving often overlooked problems such as point-of-service applications, transactions with business partners, and contingency planning.

26 CFR 1.6045-4 - Information reporting on real estate transactions with dates of closing on or after January 1, 1991.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

...) for money, indebtedness, property other than money, or services. The term “sale or exchange” shall... total consideration (in money, services and property), received or to be received in connection with the... (h)(2)(ii) of this section), to a foundation. Thus, a transfer of an unaffixed mobile home that is...

26 CFR 1.6045-4 - Information reporting on real estate transactions with dates of closing on or after January 1, 1991.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

...) for money, indebtedness, property other than money, or services. The term “sale or exchange” shall... total consideration (in money, services and property), received or to be received in connection with the... (h)(2)(ii) of this section), to a foundation. Thus, a transfer of an unaffixed mobile home that is...

26 CFR 1.6045-4 - Information reporting on real estate transactions with dates of closing on or after January 1, 1991.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

...) for money, indebtedness, property other than money, or services. The term “sale or exchange” shall... total consideration (in money, services and property), received or to be received in connection with the... (h)(2)(ii) of this section), to a foundation. Thus, a transfer of an unaffixed mobile home that is...

26 CFR 1.6045-4 - Information reporting on real estate transactions with dates of closing on or after January 1, 1991.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

...) for money, indebtedness, property other than money, or services. The term “sale or exchange” shall... total consideration (in money, services and property), received or to be received in connection with the... (h)(2)(ii) of this section), to a foundation. Thus, a transfer of an unaffixed mobile home that is...

29 CFR 2550.408b-2 - General statutory exemption for services or office space.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... person who is a party in interest solely by reason of a relationship to such a service provider described... relationship to such fiduciary described in section 3(14)(E), (F), (G), (H), or (I). (2) Transactions not... employees are covered by plan P, is a fiduciary of P. I is a professional investment adviser in which E has...

Course Redesign to Improve Pre-Service Teacher Engagement and Confidence to Teach Mathematics: A Case Study in Three Parts

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Larkin, Kevin

2016-01-01

This article examines pedagogical changes to a mathematics education course for pre-service teachers (PSTs) over a three-year period. Transactional Distance Theory (TDT) is used as a conceptual framework underpinning the course redesign. A case study of one campus (Campus A) is presented. It is chosen for analysis because, of the three campuses on…

Coed Transactions, Vol. XI, No. 1, January 1979. Microprocessor Course Development Equipment Selection.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Mitchell, Eugene E., Ed.; Leventhal, Lance A.

Many devices and systems related to microprocessors are available on the marketplace. The author suggests that criteria for selecting and designing workstations and development systems are necessary. Seventeen important factors of designing workstations and six desirable features of a development system are presented. The kinds of places in which…

Listening Diary in the Digital Age: Students' Material Selection, Listening Problems, and Perceived Usefulness

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu

2016-01-01

The current study reports on a group of Taiwanese college students' first-person diary accounts of their private, transactional listening activities outside the classroom. Issues related to students' material selection, listening problems, and perceived usefulness of keeping a listening diary were explored. It was found that most students chose…

75 FR 49836 - Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-08-16

... Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (``IRGC'') or certain other blocked persons. Specifically...) Facilitates the efforts of the Government of Iran (including efforts of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard... transactions or provides significant financial services for-- (i) Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or...

25 CFR 700.257 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction. (g) Civil Service Commission personnel records. As used in this... the Commission including, but not limited to, education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains the individual's name, or the identifying number, symbol...

25 CFR 700.257 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction. (g) Civil Service Commission personnel records. As used in this... the Commission including, but not limited to, education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains the individual's name, or the identifying number, symbol...

25 CFR 700.257 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction. (g) Civil Service Commission personnel records. As used in this... the Commission including, but not limited to, education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains the individual's name, or the identifying number, symbol...

49 CFR 260.55 - Lender's loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

...) The lender must report the outstanding principal and interest balance on each guaranteed loan... of other reports as required by the loan documents. The Lender must analyze the financial statements... trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial...

49 CFR 260.55 - Lender's loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

...) The lender must report the outstanding principal and interest balance on each guaranteed loan... of other reports as required by the loan documents. The Lender must analyze the financial statements... trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial...

49 CFR 260.55 - Lender's loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

...) The lender must report the outstanding principal and interest balance on each guaranteed loan... of other reports as required by the loan documents. The Lender must analyze the financial statements... trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial...

49 CFR 260.55 - Lender's loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

...) The lender must report the outstanding principal and interest balance on each guaranteed loan... of other reports as required by the loan documents. The Lender must analyze the financial statements... trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial...

49 CFR 260.55 - Lender's loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

...) The lender must report the outstanding principal and interest balance on each guaranteed loan... of other reports as required by the loan documents. The Lender must analyze the financial statements... trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial...

26 CFR 1.197-0 - Table of contents.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

.... (9) Covenants not to compete and other similar arrangements. (10) Franchises, trademarks, and trade...) Exceptions. (10) Professional sports franchises. (11) Mortgage servicing rights. (12) Certain transaction... going concern value. (2) Franchise, trademark, or trade name. (i) In general. (ii) Exceptions. (3...

26 CFR 1.197-0 - Table of contents.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

.... (9) Covenants not to compete and other similar arrangements. (10) Franchises, trademarks, and trade...) Exceptions. (10) Professional sports franchises. (11) Mortgage servicing rights. (12) Certain transaction... going concern value. (2) Franchise, trademark, or trade name. (i) In general. (ii) Exceptions. (3...

26 CFR 1.197-0 - Table of contents.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

.... (9) Covenants not to compete and other similar arrangements. (10) Franchises, trademarks, and trade...) Exceptions. (10) Professional sports franchises. (11) Mortgage servicing rights. (12) Certain transaction... going concern value. (2) Franchise, trademark, or trade name. (i) In general. (ii) Exceptions. (3...

26 CFR 1.197-0 - Table of contents.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

.... (9) Covenants not to compete and other similar arrangements. (10) Franchises, trademarks, and trade...) Exceptions. (10) Professional sports franchises. (11) Mortgage servicing rights. (12) Certain transaction... going concern value. (2) Franchise, trademark, or trade name. (i) In general. (ii) Exceptions. (3...

Looking to the Future.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

College Planning & Management, 1999

1999-01-01

Presents administrator's views on possible trends in college and universities. Addresses: hazardous waste disposal; privatization of custodial services; libraries and technology; building product purchases based on life-cycle cost; continuing education for employees; armed campus security; fees and tuition collection via online transactions; and…

Department of Treasury Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-04-26

... from the abuses of terrorist financing, money laundering, and other financial crime. The proposed... money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit transactions through the financial system. This... services posing lower risks of money laundering and terrorist financing from certain requirements. FinCEN...

12 CFR 1806.103 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... deposits held by individuals in transaction accounts (i.e., demand deposits, NOW accounts, automated..., automated teller machines, safe deposit boxes, new branches, and other comparable services as may be... deposit, mutual funds, life insurance and other similar savings or investment vehicles targeted to Low...

Integration: the firm and the health care sector.

PubMed

Laugesen, Miriam J; France, George

2014-07-01

Integration in health care is a key goal of health reform in United States and England. Yet past efforts in the 1990s to better integrate the delivery system were of limited success. Building on work by Bevan and Janus on delivery integration, this article explores integration through the lens of economic theories of integration. Firms generally integrate to increase efficiency through economies of scale, to improve their market power, and resolve the transaction costs involved with multiple external suppliers. Using the United States and England as laboratories, we apply concepts of economic integration to understand why integration does or does not occur in health care, and whether expectations of integrating different kinds of providers (hospital, primary care) and health and social services are realistic. Current enthusiasm for a more integrated health care system expands the scope of integration to include social services in England, but retains the focus on health care in the United States. We find mixed applicability of economic theories of integration. Economies of scale have not played a significant role in stimulating integration in both countries. Managerial incentives for monopoly or oligopoly may be more compelling in the United States, since hospitals seek higher prices and more leverage over payers. In both countries the concept of transaction costs could explain the success of new payment and budgeting methods, since health care integration ultimately requires resolving transaction costs across different delivery organizations.

Expanding sexually transmitted infection screening among women and men engaging in transactional sex: the feasibility of field-based self-collection.

PubMed

Roth, A M; Rosenberger, J G; Reece, M; Van Der Pol, B

2013-04-01

Routine screening is a key component of sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention and control; however, traditional programmes often fail to effectively reach men and women in hidden communities. To reduce prevalence, we must understand the programmatic features that would encourage utilization of services among asymptomatic individuals. Using incentivized snowball sampling, 44 women and men recently engaging in transactional sex were recruited (24 women, 20 men); median age 37 years. Respondents were offered the opportunity to collect genital, oropharyngeal and rectal samples for STI testing and completed a face-to-face interview about their experience with self-obtained sampling. Interviews were analysed using qualitative methods. Participants were unaware of potential risk for STI, but found self-sampling in non-clinical settings to be acceptable and preferable to clinic-based testing. All participants collected genital specimens; 96% and 4% collected oropharyngeal and rectal specimens, respectively. The burden of disease in this population was high: 38% tested positive for at least one STI. We detected multiple concomitant infections. Incorporating field collection of self-obtained samples into STI control programmes may increase utilization among high-risk populations unlikely to access clinic-based services. High infection rates indicate that individuals engaging in transactional sex would benefit from, and be responsive to, community-based self-sampling for STI screening.

Does leadership style of modern matrons contribute to safer and more effective clinical services?

PubMed

Hill, Barry

2017-03-30

At the time of writing, the author was a modern matron in a surgical division of an NHS teaching hospital in London. This article considers the differences between leadership and management, and discusses the skills required by modern matrons to lead safe and successful clinical services. It also examines three leadership styles - transactional, transformational and situational - and their relevance to the role of modern matron.

Perpetration of Severe Intimate Partner Violence: Premilitary and Second Year of Service Rates

DTIC Science & Technology

2004-04-01

Of the 18 CTS items, only the 5 items comprising the severe physical violence scale were used in the present study . These items asked whether the...Gelles R: Physical violence in American families. New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Publishers, 1990. 5. Straus MA: Measuring intrafamily conflict and...NW WASHINGTON, DC 20372-5300 Perpetration of Severe Intimate Partner Violence : Premilitary and Second Year of Service Rates

45 CFR 160.102 - Applicability.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Applicability. 160.102 Section 160.102 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS... provider who transmits any health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction covered...

45 CFR 160.102 - Applicability.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Applicability. 160.102 Section 160.102 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS... provider who transmits any health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction covered...

7 CFR 1779.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... the borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the... conclusions, including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the... reasonable and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the...

7 CFR 1779.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... the borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the... conclusions, including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the... reasonable and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the...

7 CFR 3575.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the financial..., including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial... and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the outstanding...

7 CFR 1779.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... the borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the... conclusions, including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the... reasonable and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the...

7 CFR 3575.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the financial..., including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial... and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the outstanding...

7 CFR 3575.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the financial..., including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial... and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the outstanding...

7 CFR 3575.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the financial..., including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial... and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the outstanding...

7 CFR 1779.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... the borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the... conclusions, including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the... reasonable and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the...

7 CFR 3575.69 - Loan servicing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... borrower within 30 days of such violation. (b) Financial reports. The lender must obtain the financial..., including trends, strengths, weaknesses, extraordinary transactions, and other indications of the financial... and prudent lending standards. (d) Loan balances. The lender must report to the Agency the outstanding...

45 CFR 164.104 - Applicability.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS... entities: (1) A health plan. (2) A health care clearinghouse. (3) A health care provider who transmits any health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction covered by this subchapter. (b...

45 CFR 164.104 - Applicability.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS... entities: (1) A health plan. (2) A health care clearinghouse. (3) A health care provider who transmits any health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction covered by this subchapter. (b...

29 CFR 1410.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

..., his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history, that... 29 Labor 4 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Definitions. 1410.2 Section 1410.2 Labor Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE PRIVACY § 1410.2 Definitions. For...

77 FR 46559 - Proposed Information Collection Comment Request

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-08-03

..., maintenance, and purchase of services to provide the requested information. Information Collections Open for.... Title: Information Reporting on Transactions With Foreign Trusts and on Large Foreign Gifts. OMB Number... and foreign gift information reporting provisions contained in the Small Business Job Protection Act...

36 CFR 223.222 - Appraisal.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... DISPOSAL OF NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM TIMBER Special Forest Products Appraisal and Pricing § 223.222 Appraisal. The Chief of the Forest Service shall determine the appraised value of special forest products. Valid methods to determine appraised value include, but are not limited to, transaction evidence appraisals...

7 CFR 1782.17 - Parity lien.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... financial viability of the borrower; (6) The borrower's current relationship with the Agency (i.e. no... of security instrument; name and address of financial institution requesting the transaction; and... financial statements or an audit, if available or determined necessary by the servicing official. (3) An...

Medical Universities Educational and Research Online Services: Benchmarking Universities’ Website Towards E-Government

PubMed Central

Farzandipour, Mehrdad; Meidani, Zahra

2014-01-01

Background: Websites as one of the initial steps towards an e-government adoption do facilitate delivery of online and customer-oriented services. In this study we intended to investigate the role of the websites of medical universities in providing educational and research services following the E-government maturity model in the Iranian universities. Methods: This descriptive and cross- sectional study was conducted through content analysis and benchmarking the websites in 2012. The research population included the entire medical university website (37). Delivery of educational and research services through these university websites including information, interaction, transaction, and Integration were investigated using a checklist. The data were then analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and using SPSS software. Results: Level of educational and research services by websites of the medical universities type I and II was evaluated medium as 1.99 and 1.89, respectively. All the universities gained a mean score of 1 out of 3 in terms of integration of educational and research services. Conclusions: Results of the study indicated that Iranian universities have passed information and interaction stages, but they have not made much progress in transaction and integration stages. Failure to adapt to e-government in Iranian medical universities in which limiting factors such as users’ e-literacy, access to the internet and ICT infrastructure are not so crucial as in other organizations, suggest that e-government realization goes beyond technical challenges. PMID:25132713

Building brand equity and customer loyalty

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Pokorny, G.

Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty are two different concepts, not merely two different phrases measuring a single consumer attitude. Utilities having identical customer satisfaction ratings based on performance in areas like power reliability, pricing, and quality of service differ dramatically in their levels of customer loyalty. As competitive markets establish themselves, discrepancies in customer loyalty will have profound impacts on each utility`s prospects for market retention, profitability, and ultimately, shareholder value. Meeting pre-existing consumer needs, wants and preferences is the foundation of any utility strategy for building customer loyalty and market retention. Utilities meet their underlying customer expectations by performingmore » well in three discrete areas: product, customer service programs, and customer service transactions. Brand equity is an intervening variable standing between performance and the loyalty a utility desires. It is the totality of customer perceptions about the unique extra value the utility provides above and beyond its basic product, customer service programs and customer service transactions; it is the tangible, palpable reality of a branded utility that exists in the minds of consumers. By learning to manage their brand equity as well as they manage their brand performance, utilities gain control over all the major elements in the value-creation process that creates customer loyalty. By integrating brand performance and brand equity, electric utility companies can truly become in their customers` eyes a brand - a unique, very special, value-added energy services provider that can ask for and deserve a premium price in the marketplace.« less

Transactive Control and Coordination of Distributed Assets for Ancillary Services

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Subbarao, Krishnappa; Fuller, Jason C.; Kalsi, Karanjit

2013-09-18

The need to diversify energy supplies, the need to mitigate energy-related environmental impact, and the entry of electric vehicles in large numbers present challenges and opportunities to power system professionals. Wind and solar power provide many benefits, and to reap the benefits the resulting increased variability—forecasted as well as unforecasted—should be addressed. A majority of states and the District of Columbia, representing over half of the total load, have passed renewable portfolio standards. California’s plans call for 33% renewable energy by 2020. For grid balancing and for meeting reliability standards, ancillary services are needed. The needs for these services aremore » poised to increase significantly. Demand resources are receiving increasing attention as one means of providing the ancillary services. Control and coordination of a large number (~millions) of distributed smart grid assets requires innovative approaches. One such approach is transactive control and coordination (TC2)—a distributed, hierarchical, agent-based incentive and control system. The TC2 paradigm is to create a market-like control system in which participation is voluntary and the participant sets the price for participation. For transactions that are frequent, automation of bids and responses is necessary. Such an approach has been developed and demonstrated at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The devices, typically thermostatically controlled heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) loads, send their bids—the quantity of energy they need and, based on the consumer preferences encoded in a simple user interface, the price they are willing to pay. The typical bid period is 5 minutes. By aggregating all the bids, a demand curve is generated by the aggregating entity, and matched with a supply curve or supply constraint. The aggregator transmits the clearing price to the devices. The winning devices proceed to consume the energy they bid for and won. It is the purpose of this project to develop a similar approach for ancillary services. In this report, the following ancillary services are considered: spinning reserve, ramping, and regulation. These services are to be provided by the following devices: refrigerators, water heaters, clothes dryers, variable speed drives. We will assume that the variable speed drives operate an air handling fan in a commercial building.« less

Transactions of The Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing (5th) Held in West Point, New York on 15-18 June 1987

DTIC Science & Technology

1988-03-01

29 Statistical Machine Learning for the Cognitive Selection of Nonlinear Programming Algorithms in Engineering Design Optimization Toward...interpolation and Interpolation by Box Spline Surfaces Charles K. Chui, Harvey Diamond, Louise A. Raphael. 301 Knot Selection for Least Squares...West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia; and Louise Raphael, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC Knot Selection for Least

MyOcean Central Information System - Achievements and Perspectives

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Claverie, Vincent; Loubrieu, Thomas; Jolibois, Tony; de Dianous, Rémi; Blower, Jon; Romero, Laia; Griffiths, Guy

2013-04-01

Since 2009, MyOcean (http://www.myocean.eu) is providing an operational service, for forecasts, analysis and expertise on ocean currents, temperature, salinity, sea level, primary ecosystems and ice coverage. The production of observation and forecasting data is done by 42 Production Units (PU). Product download and visualisation are hosted by 25 Dissemination Units (DU). All these products and associated services are gathered in a single catalogue hiding the intricate distributed organization of PUs and DUs. Besides applying INSPIRE directive and OGC recommendations, MyOcean overcomes technical choices and challenges. This presentation focuses on 3 specific issues met by MyOcean and relevant for many Spatial Data Infrastructures: user's transaction accounting, large volume download and stream line the catalogue maintenance. Transaction Accounting: Set up powerful means to get detailed knowledge of system usage in order to subsequently improve the products (ocean observations, analysis and forecast dataset) and services (view, download) offer. This subject drives the following ones: Central authentication management for the distributed web services implementations: add-on to THREDDS Data Server for WMS and NETCDF sub-setting service, specific FTP. Share user management with co-funding projects. In addition to MyOcean, alternate projects also need consolidated information about the use of the cofunded products. Provide a central facility for the user management. This central facility provides users' rights to geographically distributed services and gathers transaction accounting history from these distributed services. Propose a user-friendly web interface to download large volume of data (several GigaBytes) as robust as basic FTP but intuitive and file/directory independent. This should rely on a web service drafting the INSPIRE to-be specification and OGC recommendations for download taking into account that FTP server is not enough friendly (need to know filenames, directories) and Web-page not allowing downloading several files. Streamline the maintenance of the central catalogue. The major update for MyOcean v3 (April 2013) is the usage of Geonetwork for catalogue management. This improves the system at different levels : The editing interface is more user-friendly and the catalogue updates are managed in a workflow. This workflow allows higher flexibility for minor updates without giving up the high level qualification requirements for the catalogue content. The distributed web services (download, view) are automatically harvested from the THREDDS Data Server. Thus the manual editing on the catalogue is reduced, the associated typos are avoided and the quality of information is finally improved.

2012 Special NSREC Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Comments by the Editors

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Schwank, Jim; Brown, Dennis; Girard, Sylvain; Gouker, Pascale; Gerardin, Simone; Quinn, Heather; Barnaby, Hugh

2012-12-01

The December 2012 special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science contains selected papers from the 49th annual IEEE International Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) held July 16-20, 2012, in Miami, Florida USA. 95 papers presented at the 2012 NSREC were submitted for consideration for this year’s special issue. Those papers that appear in this special issue were able to successfully complete the review process before the deadline for the December issue. A few additional papers may appear in subsequent issues of the TRANSACTIONS. This publication is the premier archival journal for research on space and nuclear radiation effects in materials, devices, circuits, and systems. This distinction is the direct result of the conscientious efforts of both the authors, who present and document their work, and the reviewers, who selflessly volunteer their time and talent to help review the manuscripts. Each paper in this journal has been reviewed by experts selected by the editors for their expertise and knowledge of the particular subject areas. The peer review process for a typical technical journal generally takes six months to one year to complete. To publish this special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (in December), the review process, from initial submission to final form, must be completed in about 10 weeks. Because of the short schedule, both the authors and reviewers are required to respond very quickly. The reviewers listed on the following pages contributed vitally to this quick-turn review process.We would like to express our sincere appreciation to each of them for accepting this difficult, but critical role in the process. To provide consistent reviews of papers throughout the year, the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science relies on a year-round editorial board that manages reviews for submissions throughout the year to the TRANSACTIONS in the area of radiation effects. The review process is managed by a Senior Editor and six Associate Editors who are technically knowledgeable in one or more specializations and are experienced in the publication process. This editorial process works very well. With twice the number of editors as previously used for overseeing the review process, each editor is able to devote more time to individual papers.

Increase in competitiveness of housing-and-communal services

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Skripnik, Oksana

2017-10-01

The problems, interfering effective activity of housing-and-communal complex are considered in the article. Some factors of the increase in competitiveness and the importance of transactional expenses are revealed. The assessment of competitiveness of the organizations of the sphere of housing-and-communal services is considered as the set of the following basic elements organizational and administrative, marketing, financial, production, indicators of quality, indicators of development, labor indicators interconnected with processes of the organization. The author proves that the increase in competitiveness is possible by carrying out organizational and administrative, innovative, technological, economic transformations, increasing quality of services, reducing costs for production and realization of services, providing new services.

48 CFR 35.003 - Policy.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... only when the principal purpose is the acquisition of supplies or services for the direct benefit or... purpose of the transaction is to stimulate or support research and development for another public purpose. (b) Cost sharing. Cost sharing policies (which are not otherwise required by law) under Government...

48 CFR 601.603-70 - Delegations of authority.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... of Language Services. The authority to enter into and administer simplified acquisition transactions... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Delegations of authority. 601.603-70 Section 601.603-70 Federal Acquisition Regulations System DEPARTMENT OF STATE GENERAL...

77 FR 63297 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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2012-10-16

... Retail Pharmacy Program; OMB Number 0720-0032. Needs and Uses: Specifically, under the collection of... audit capabilities of the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service (PDTS) to validate refunds owed to the... beneficiaries through the TRICARE Retail Pharmacy Program subject to the pricing standards of the Veterans...

12 CFR 34.45 - Appraiser independence.

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2010-01-01

... services institution, if: (i) The appraiser has no direct or indirect interest, financial or otherwise, in... indirect interest, financial or otherwise, in the property. If the only qualified persons available to... indirect interest, financial or otherwise, in the property or the transaction. (2) A regulated institution...

12 CFR 225.65 - Appraiser independence.

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2010-01-01

..., financial or otherwise, in the property or the transaction. (2) A regulated institution also may accept an appraisal that was prepared by an appraiser engaged directly by another financial services institution, if... no direct or indirect interest, financial or otherwise, in the property. If the only qualified...

26 CFR 157.7701-1 - Tax return preparer.

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2010-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 17 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Tax return preparer. 157.7701-1 Section 157.7701-1 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS EXCISE TAXES (CONTINUED) EXCISE TAX ON STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT FACTORING TRANSACTIONS Procedure and...

26 CFR 1.482-9T - Methods to determine taxable income in connection with a controlled services transaction...

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2010-04-01

... covered by § 1.482-7T. In the case of such an arrangement, consideration of the principles, methods..., including an unspecified method, under this section, as appropriately adjusted in light of the differences...

22 CFR 228.13 - Foreign government-controlled organizations.

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2012-04-01

... 22 Foreign Relations 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Foreign government-controlled organizations... Service Procurement Transactions for USAID Financing § 228.13 Foreign government-controlled organizations... organizations) in which foreign governments or their agents or agencies have a controlling interest are not...

22 CFR 228.13 - Foreign government-controlled organizations.

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2013-04-01

... 22 Foreign Relations 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Foreign government-controlled organizations... Service Procurement Transactions for USAID Financing § 228.13 Foreign government-controlled organizations... organizations) in which foreign governments or their agents or agencies have a controlling interest are not...

76 FR 14667 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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...: once. Affected Public: FDIC-insured depository institutions headquarters offices. Estimated Number of.... Affected Public: FDIC-insured depository institutions branch offices. Estimated Number of Respondents: 1... affordable transactional, savings, and lending services to meet the needs of all their customers. Currently...

47 CFR 32.27 - Transactions with affiliates.

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2010-10-01

....27 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES UNIFORM... floor, so long as that action complies with the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, Commission rules... equal to or less than the ceiling, so long as that action complies with the Communications Act of 1934...

Student Perceptions of the Acceptance of Communication Diverseness

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Davis, Barbara D.

2006-01-01

Transacting business with individuals who may speak English fluently but have an accent is common today. Use of translation services such as in transportation facilities, government offices, educational institutions, and manufacturers' instruction manuals is on the increase. Consequently, linguistic diversity issues require relevant academic…

12 CFR 1015.9 - Recordkeeping and compliance requirements.

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2014-01-01

... service functions; (ii) Establishing a procedure for receiving and responding to all consumer complaints; and (iii) Ascertaining the number and nature of consumer complaints regarding transactions in which... consumer complaint received; (3) Take corrective action with respect to any employee or contractor whom the...

12 CFR 1015.9 - Recordkeeping and compliance requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... service functions; (ii) Establishing a procedure for receiving and responding to all consumer complaints; and (iii) Ascertaining the number and nature of consumer complaints regarding transactions in which... consumer complaint received; (3) Take corrective action with respect to any employee or contractor whom the...

12 CFR 1015.9 - Recordkeeping and compliance requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... service functions; (ii) Establishing a procedure for receiving and responding to all consumer complaints; and (iii) Ascertaining the number and nature of consumer complaints regarding transactions in which... consumer complaint received; (3) Take corrective action with respect to any employee or contractor whom the...

24 CFR 200.1520 - Termination of MAP privileges.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... the traditional application processing (TAP) procedure. HUD will completely reprocess all stages of... it normally performs for TAP processing. (iv) The original lender may service a transferred loan once... lender status as a result of termination, the lender's status to process transactions using TAP is...

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ALL-UNION CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS AND AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (3rd): PREFACE

DTIC Science & Technology

The research and development of information services within the USSR, reported at the 3rd All-Union Conference on information retrieval systems and automated processing of scientific and technical information, is discussed.

26 CFR 1.482-0 - Outline of regulations under section 482.

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2010-04-01

...) Property or services. (4) Special circumstances. (i) Market share strategy. (ii) Different geographic markets. (A) In general. (B) Example. (C) Location savings. (D) Example. (iii) Transactions ordinarily not... of multiple year data. (C) Comparable effect over comparable period. (D) Applications of methods...

76 FR 52320 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

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..., or other clinical circumstances as defined by system requirements. To provide a data warehouse... Defense. DHA 23 System name: Pharmacy Data Transaction Service (PDTS). System location: Primary: Emdeon... retail pharmacy network, and commercial pharmacies. Categories of records in the system: Electronic data...

Geometric Data Perturbation-Based Personal Health Record Transactions in Cloud Computing

PubMed Central

Balasubramaniam, S.; Kavitha, V.

2015-01-01

Cloud computing is a new delivery model for information technology services and it typically involves the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources over the Internet. However, cloud computing raises concerns on how cloud service providers, user organizations, and governments should handle such information and interactions. Personal health records represent an emerging patient-centric model for health information exchange, and they are outsourced for storage by third parties, such as cloud providers. With these records, it is necessary for each patient to encrypt their own personal health data before uploading them to cloud servers. Current techniques for encryption primarily rely on conventional cryptographic approaches. However, key management issues remain largely unsolved with these cryptographic-based encryption techniques. We propose that personal health record transactions be managed using geometric data perturbation in cloud computing. In our proposed scheme, the personal health record database is perturbed using geometric data perturbation and outsourced to the Amazon EC2 cloud. PMID:25767826

Geometric data perturbation-based personal health record transactions in cloud computing.

PubMed

Balasubramaniam, S; Kavitha, V

2015-01-01

Cloud computing is a new delivery model for information technology services and it typically involves the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources over the Internet. However, cloud computing raises concerns on how cloud service providers, user organizations, and governments should handle such information and interactions. Personal health records represent an emerging patient-centric model for health information exchange, and they are outsourced for storage by third parties, such as cloud providers. With these records, it is necessary for each patient to encrypt their own personal health data before uploading them to cloud servers. Current techniques for encryption primarily rely on conventional cryptographic approaches. However, key management issues remain largely unsolved with these cryptographic-based encryption techniques. We propose that personal health record transactions be managed using geometric data perturbation in cloud computing. In our proposed scheme, the personal health record database is perturbed using geometric data perturbation and outsourced to the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Live chat alternative security protocol

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Rahman, J. P. R.; Nugraha, E.; Febriany, A.

2018-05-01

Indonesia is one of the largest e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, as many as 5 million people do transactions in e-commerce, therefore more and more people use live chat service to communicate with customer service. In live chat, the customer service often asks customers’ data such as, full name, address, e-mail, transaction id, which aims to verify the purchase of the product. One of the risks that will happen is sniffing which will lead to the theft of confidential information that will cause huge losses to the customer. The anticipation that will be done is build an alternative security protocol for user interaction in live chat by using a cryptographic algorithm that is useful for protecting confidential messages. Live chat requires confidentiality and data integration with encryption and hash functions. The used algorithm are Rijndael 256 bits, RSA, and SHA256. To increase the complexity, the Rijndael algorithm will be modified in the S-box and ShiftRow sections based on the shannon principle rule, the results show that all pass the Randomness test, but the modification in Shiftrow indicates a better avalanche effect. Therefore the message will be difficult to be stolen or changed.

Transactional relationships and sex with a woman in prostitution: prevalence and patterns in a representative sample of South African men.

PubMed

Jewkes, Rachel; Morrell, Robert; Sikweyiya, Yandisa; Dunkle, Kristin; Penn-Kekana, Loveday

2012-05-02

Sex motivated by economic exchange is a public health concern as a driver of the Sub-Saharan African HIV epidemic. We describe patterns of engagement in transactional sexual relationships and sex with women in prostitution of South African men, and suggest interpretations that advance our understanding of the phenomenon. Cross-sectional study with a randomly-selected sample of 1645 sexually active men aged 18-49 years who completed interviews in a household study and were asked whether they had had sex with a woman in prostitution, or had had a relationship or sex they took to be motivated by the expectation of material gain (transactional sex). 18% of men had ever had sex with a woman in prostitution, 66% at least one type of transactional sexual relationship, only 30% of men had done neither. Most men had had a transactional relationship/sex with a main partner (58% of all men), 42% with a concurrent partner (or makhwapheni) and 44% with a once off partner, and there was almost no difference in reports of what was provided to women of different partner types. The majority of men distinguished the two types of sexual relationships and even among men who had once-off transactional sex and gave cash (n = 314), few (34%) reported that they had had sex with a 'prostitute'. Transactional sex was more common among men aged 25-34 years, less educated men and low income earners rather than those with none or higher income. Having had sex with a woman in prostitution varied little between social and demographic categories, but was less common among the unwaged or very low earners. The notion of 'transactional sex' developed through research with women does not translate easily to men. Many perceive expectations that they fulfil a provider role, with quid pro quo entitlement to sex. Men distinguished these circumstances of sex from having sex with a woman in prostitution. Whilst there may be similarities, when viewed relationally, these are quite distinct practices. Conflating them is sociologically inappropriate. Efforts to work with men to reduce transactional sex should focus on addressing sexual entitlement and promoting gender inequity.

Transactional relationships and sex with a woman in prostitution: prevalence and patterns in a representative sample of South African men

PubMed Central

2012-01-01

Background Sex motivated by economic exchange is a public health concern as a driver of the Sub-Saharan African HIV epidemic. We describe patterns of engagement in transactional sexual relationships and sex with women in prostitution of South African men, and suggest interpretations that advance our understanding of the phenomenon. Methods Cross-sectional study with a randomly-selected sample of 1645 sexually active men aged 18–49 years who completed interviews in a household study and were asked whether they had had sex with a woman in prostitution, or had had a relationship or sex they took to be motivated by the expectation of material gain (transactional sex). Results 18% of men had ever had sex with a woman in prostitution, 66% at least one type of transactional sexual relationship, only 30% of men had done neither. Most men had had a transactional relationship/sex with a main partner (58% of all men), 42% with a concurrent partner (or makhwapheni) and 44% with a once off partner, and there was almost no difference in reports of what was provided to women of different partner types. The majority of men distinguished the two types of sexual relationships and even among men who had once-off transactional sex and gave cash (n = 314), few (34%) reported that they had had sex with a ‘prostitute’. Transactional sex was more common among men aged 25–34 years, less educated men and low income earners rather than those with none or higher income. Having had sex with a woman in prostitution varied little between social and demographic categories, but was less common among the unwaged or very low earners. Conclusions The notion of ‘transactional sex’ developed through research with women does not translate easily to men. Many perceive expectations that they fulfil a provider role, with quid pro quo entitlement to sex. Men distinguished these circumstances of sex from having sex with a woman in prostitution. Whilst there may be similarities, when viewed relationally, these are quite distinct practices. Conflating them is sociologically inappropriate. Efforts to work with men to reduce transactional sex should focus on addressing sexual entitlement and promoting gender inequity. PMID:22551102

The feminine ideal and transactional sex: Navigating respectability and risk in Swaziland

PubMed Central

Fielding-Miller, Rebecca; Dunkle, Kristin L; Jama-Shai, Nwabisa; Windle, Michael; Hadley, Craig; Cooper, Hannah LF

2016-01-01

Women who engage in transactional sex are not only at increased risk of HIV and intimate partner violence, but also face social risks including gossip and ostracism. These social and physical risks may be dependent on both what a woman expects and needs from her partner and how her community perceives the relationship. Gender theory suggests that some of these social risks may hinge on whether or not a woman’s relationship threatens dominant masculinity. We conducted a qualitative study in Swaziland from September 2013 to October 2014 to explore transactional sex and respectable femininity through the lens of hegemonic gender theory. Using cultural consensus modeling, we identified cultural models of transactional sex and conducted 16 in-depth interviews with model key informants and 3 focus group discussions, for a total of 41 participants. We identified 4 main models of transactional relationships: One typified by marriage and high social respectability, a second in which women aspire towards marriage, a third particular to University students, and a fourth “sugar daddy” model. Women in all models expected and received significant financial support from their male partners. However, women in less respectable relationships risked social censure and stigma if they were discovered, in part because aspects of their relationship threatened hegemonic masculinity. Conversely, women who received male support in respectable relationships had to carefully select HIV risk reduction strategies that did not threaten their relationship and associated social status. Research and programming efforts typically focus only on the less socially respectable forms of transactional sex. This risks reinforcing stigma for women in relationships that are already considered socially unacceptable while ignoring the unique HIV risks faced by women in more respectable relationships. PMID:27107148

The feminine ideal and transactional sex: Navigating respectability and risk in Swaziland.

PubMed

Fielding-Miller, Rebecca; Dunkle, Kristin L; Jama-Shai, Nwabisa; Windle, Michael; Hadley, Craig; Cooper, Hannah L F

2016-06-01

Women who engage in transactional sex are not only at increased risk of HIV and intimate partner violence, but also face social risks including gossip and ostracism. These social and physical risks may be dependent on both what a woman expects and needs from her partner and how her community perceives the relationship. Gender theory suggests that some of these social risks may hinge on whether or not a woman's relationship threatens dominant masculinity. We conducted a qualitative study in Swaziland from September 2013 to October 2014 to explore transactional sex and respectable femininity through the lens of hegemonic gender theory. Using cultural consensus modeling, we identified cultural models of transactional sex and conducted 16 in-depth interviews with model key informants and 3 focus group discussions, for a total of 41 participants. We identified 4 main models of transactional relationships: One typified by marriage and high social respectability, a second in which women aspire towards marriage, a third particular to University students, and a fourth "sugar daddy" model. Women in all models expected and received significant financial support from their male partners. However, women in less respectable relationships risked social censure and stigma if they were discovered, in part because aspects of their relationship threatened hegemonic masculinity. Conversely, women who received male support in respectable relationships had to carefully select HIV risk reduction strategies that did not threaten their relationship and associated social status. Research and programming efforts typically focus only on the less socially respectable forms of transactional sex. This risks reinforcing stigma for women in relationships that are already considered socially unacceptable while ignoring the unique HIV risks faced by women in more respectable relationships. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

A service dog in group.

PubMed

Rothberg, Brian; Collins, Emily

2015-04-01

Service dogs are sanctioned by the Americans with Disabilities Act as having protected rights allowing them to assist owners with disabilities. These dogs are appearing with increasing frequency in healthcare settings, and it is important for healthcare providers to understand the rules and regulations given to service animals and owners. We discuss processes that transpired when a service dog was brought into a psychodynamic psychotherapy group. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the unintended consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 2010 as it concerns service dogs and the impact on the group process. Problems resulting from the introduction of service dogs into therapy groups should be anticipated and explicitly discussed in the course of the group's transactions.

Simulation Analysis of High Velocity Maintenance for the B-1B

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-03-01

additional personnel to provide the necessary logistical support to track down and preemptively order necessary parts (Pedersen, 2009). Considering that the...and critiques as I completed my thesis. I owe a special thanks to Mr. Edwin Milnes, the Maintenance Supply Liaison of the 28th Logistics Readiness...transactional and service processes, such as accounting, logistics , legal, and purchasing resources. In the article "Turning to Service Sectors", a

76 FR 49788 - Exemptions From Certain Prohibited Transaction Restrictions

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2011-08-11

... the Plans were parties. (b) An independent fiduciary was retained on behalf of the Plans to determine... and the Warrants pursuant to a settlement agreement (the Settlement Agreement). Such independent... based on the advice of Independent Fiduciary Services (IFS), the independent fiduciary for the Plans...

26 CFR 1.861-10T - Special allocations of interest expense (temporary).

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... certain assets that are acquired in integrated financial transaction. Paragraph (d) of this section... flow from the property. (ii) Self-constructed assets. The activities associated with self-construction... subtracting cash disbursements excluding debt service from cash receipts. (iv) Analysis of operating costs...

26 CFR 1.861-10T - Special allocations of interest expense (temporary).

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... generated by certain assets that are acquired in integrated financial transaction. Paragraph (d) of this... flow from the property. (ii) Self-constructed assets. The activities associated with self-construction... subtracting cash disbursements excluding debt service from cash receipts. (iv) Analysis of operating costs...

26 CFR 1.861-10T - Special allocations of interest expense (temporary).

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... generated by certain assets that are acquired in integrated financial transaction. Paragraph (d) of this... flow from the property. (ii) Self-constructed assets. The activities associated with self-construction... subtracting cash disbursements excluding debt service from cash receipts. (iv) Analysis of operating costs...

26 CFR 1.861-10T - Special allocations of interest expense (temporary).

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... generated by certain assets that are acquired in integrated financial transaction. Paragraph (d) of this... flow from the property. (ii) Self-constructed assets. The activities associated with self-construction... subtracting cash disbursements excluding debt service from cash receipts. (iv) Analysis of operating costs...

26 CFR 1.861-10T - Special allocations of interest expense (temporary).

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... generated by certain assets that are acquired in integrated financial transaction. Paragraph (d) of this... flow from the property. (ii) Self-constructed assets. The activities associated with self-construction... subtracting cash disbursements excluding debt service from cash receipts. (iv) Analysis of operating costs...

75 FR 38516 - Order on Intent To Revoke Market-Based Rate Authority

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2010-07-02

..., Electric Quarterly Reports, Strategic Energy Management Corp., Solaro Energy Marketing Corporation. 1... (including market-based power sales, cost-based power sales, and transmission service) and providing transaction information (including rates) for short-term and long-term power sales during the most recent...

7 CFR 760.206 - Notice of loss and application process.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... of feed purchase, name, address, and telephone number of feed vendor, type and quantity of feed... conduct this type of transaction. (2) Harvested feed intended as feed for livestock, honeybees, or farm... Guard records, written contracts, production records, Internal Revenue Service records, property tax...

15 CFR 801.12 - Rules and regulations for the BE-180, Benchmark Survey of Financial Services Transactions between...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

...; other financial investment activities (including miscellaneous intermediation, portfolio management, investment advice, and all other financial investment activities); insurance carriers; insurance agencies... 52-Finance and Insurance, and holding companies that own or influence, and are principally engaged in...

31 CFR 103.83 - Oral communications.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Oral communications. 103.83 Section... AND REPORTING OF CURRENCY AND FOREIGN TRANSACTIONS Administrative Rulings § 103.83 Oral communications... response to oral requests. Oral opinions or advice by Treasury, the Customs Service, the Internal Revenue...

78 FR 69850 - Application for Final Commitment for a Long-Term Loan or Financial Guarantee in Excess of $100...

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... description of the purpose of the transaction: To support the export of U.S.-manufactured aircraft to Russia... passenger air service between Russia and other countries. To the extent that Ex-Im Bank is reasonably aware...

29 CFR 1471.25 - How is this part organized?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... Parties List System (Disseminated by the General Services Administration). F the general principles... ten subparts. Each subpart contains information related to a broad topic or specific audience with... related to . . . A general information about this rule. B the types of FMCS transactions that are covered...

26 CFR 1.197-0 - Table of contents.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... compete and other similar arrangements. (10) Franchises, trademarks, and trade names. (11) Contracts for... franchises. (11) Mortgage servicing rights. (12) Certain transaction costs. (13) Rights of fixed duration or...-churning rules. (e) Purchase of a trade or business. (1) Goodwill or going concern value. (2) Franchise...

7 CFR 772.6 - Subordination of security.

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2010-01-01

... AGRICULTURE SPECIAL PROGRAMS SERVICING MINOR PROGRAM LOANS § 772.6 Subordination of security. (a) Eligibility. The Agency shall grant a subordination of Minor Program loan security when the transaction will... still be adequately secured after the subordination, or the value of the loan security will be increased...

31 CFR 515.542 - Mail and telecommunications-related transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Mail and telecommunications-related... Licenses, Authorizations, and Statements of Licensing Policy § 515.542 Mail and telecommunications-related..., incident to the provision of telecommunications services between the United States and Cuba, the provision...

31 CFR 515.542 - Mail and telecommunications-related transactions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance:Treasury 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Mail and telecommunications-related... Licenses, Authorizations, and Statements of Licensing Policy § 515.542 Mail and telecommunications-related..., incident to the provision of telecommunications services between the United States and Cuba, the provision...

48 CFR 3.801 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... consistent with the amount normally paid for such services in the private sector. Recipient includes the... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Definitions. 3.801 Section... Federal Transactions 3.801 Definitions. As used in this subpart— Agency means executive agency as defined...

76 FR 31671 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and Comment Request

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-06-01

... Credentialing and Authentication Process--20 CFR 401.45--0960-NEW. Social Security is introducing a stronger citizen authentication process that will enable a new user to experience and access more electronic services. Background: Authentication is the foundation for secure, online transactions. Identity...

75 FR 79837 - Semiannual Agenda and Fiscal Year 2011 Regulatory Plan

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-12-20

.... financial system from the abuses of terrorist financing, money laundering, and other financial crime. The... furthering money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit transactions through the financial system... services posing lower risks of money laundering and terrorist financing from certain requirements. FinCEN...

Organizing Equity Exchanges

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Schaper, Torsten

In the last years equity exchanges have diversified their operations into business areas such as derivatives trading, post-trading services, and software sales. Securities trading and post-trading are subject to economies of scale and scope. The integration of these functions into one institution ensures efficiency by economizing on transactions costs.

31 CFR 370.45 - What is the status of a security if the remittance cannot be collected?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... it has been legally transferred for value to a third person who had no knowledge of the improper debit entry at the time of the transfer. ... SERVICE ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS AND FUNDS TRANSFERS RELATING TO UNITED STATES SECURITIES Additional...

Universality of physicians' burnout syndrome as a result of experiencing difficulty in relationship with patients.

PubMed

Sablik, Zbigniew; Samborska-Sablik, Anna; Drożdż, Jarosław

2013-06-20

The aim of our work is to present the universality of burnout syndrome among physicians worldwide and to demonstrate selected aspects of the relationship between patients and doctors as a common factor predisposing to burnout. We looked up 20 original pieces of research from the Medline database published in the last 10 years to determine the prevalence of burnout among doctors in different countries. In all quoted works a remarkable percentage of doctors of interventional and non-interventional specialties suffered burnout. Because it is the relationship with patients that constitutes a key denominator for their work, in the discussion we have exposed an important aspect of it, destructive patient games, described on the basis of transactional analysis. Since universal burnout causes a deterioration of doctors' service, for the optimal good of the patient to survive preservation of the doctor's well-being in the patient-doctor relationship is needed everywhere.

Telescience in the Space Station era

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Schmerling, E. R.

1988-01-01

Telescience refers to the development of systems where participants involved in research in space can access their fellow scientists and the appropriate NASA services before flight, during flight, and after flight, preferably from their home institutions and through the same equipment. Telescience requires integration of available technologies to develop computer environments that maintain interoperability across different disciplines and different portions of the lifetimes of space experiments, called teledesign, teleoperations, and teleanalysis. Participants in the NASA Telescience Testbed Program are using a rigid prototyping approach to evaluate the necessary technologies and select the options and tradeoffs that best suit their accustomed modalities. The concept of transaction management is described, where the emphasis is placed on the effects of commands, whether event-generated onboard the spacecraft or sent up from the ground. Interoperability, security, and privacy issues are also discussed, and the Telescience Testbed Pilot Program is described.

Transactive Control and Coordination of Distributed Assets for Ancillary Services: Controls, Markets and Simulations

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Subbarao, Krishnappa; Fuller, Jason C.; Kalsi, Karanjit

2015-02-01

The purpose of this project is to develop a plausible transactive framework for DER participation in a regulation market. This document focuses on the methodology for creating a transactive-based regulation market, using one class of end-use devices as an example. The system contains two parts, one for acquiring resources at a longer timescale and a second for controlling the devices in a distributed manner at much shorter timescales. The first is based on a formal double-auction market where every five minutes each device bids the amount of resource it is able to provide and the minimum price that it wouldmore » accept to provide that resource. The bid price is determined by the current state of the device and the willingness of the consumer to participate. The market system collects and orders the bids by price, and then determines a cleared price to meet the level of regulation needed. It broadcasts the cleared price to the devices, which results in contracting the services of the least cost resources. By contract, the devices that cleared the market are now engaged for the next five-minute market period. They are part of a distributed control system that allows them to respond at four-second intervals to a broadcasted regulation signal. The approach also limits the number of times devices can cycle between states (say on to off) in a given amount of time to protect the equipment life.« less

Information, regulation and coordination: realist analysis of the efforts of community health committees to limit informal health care providers in Nigeria.

PubMed

Abimbola, Seye; Ogunsina, Kemi; Charles-Okoli, Augustina N; Negin, Joel; Martiniuk, Alexandra L; Jan, Stephen

2016-12-01

One of the consequences of ineffective governments is that they leave space for unlicensed and unregulated informal providers without formal training to deliver a large proportion of health services. Without institutions that facilitate appropriate health care transactions, patients tend to navigate health care markets from one inappropriate provider to another, receiving sub-optimal care, before they find appropriate providers; all the while incurring personal transaction costs. But the top-down interventions to address this barrier to accessing care are hampered by weak governments, as informal providers are entrenched in communities. To explore the role that communities could play in limiting informal providers, we applied the transaction costs theory of the firm which predicts that economic agents tend to organise production within firms when the costs of coordinating exchange through the market are greater than within a firm. In a realist analysis of qualitative data from Nigeria, we found that community health committees sometimes seek to limit informal providers in a manner that is consistent with the transaction costs theory of the firm. The committees deal not through legal sanction but by subtle influence and persuasion in a slow and faltering process of institutional change, leveraging the authority and resources available within their community, and from governments and NGOs. First, they provide information to reduce the market share controlled by informal providers, and then regulation to keep informal providers at bay while making the formal provider more competitive. When these efforts are ineffective or insufficient, committees are faced with a "make-or-buy" decision. The "make" decision involves coordination to co-produce formal health services and facilitate referrals from informal to formal providers. What sometimes results is a quasi-firm-informal and formal providers are networked in a single but loose production unit. These findings suggest that efforts to limit informal providers should seek to, among other things, augment existing community responses.