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Ebook From Feast To Famine The Rationing Of Consumer Credit In The Financial Crisis

Submitted by puput on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 08:22

The scale of the unprecedented financial crisis and the speed with which it has spread from the UK’s wholesale financial markets to the high street (as they say in the USA, from Wall Street to Main Street) suggests that radical action is needed to protect consumers. The sudden, reduced availability of affordable credit (both mortgage and unsecured) is of particular concern.

An unsustainable credit boom was allowed to develop in the UK . But that credit bubble has burst . Lenders have belatedly rediscovered prudence, or at least had prudence enforced on them by capital markets, and there is a risk that the effects of this self imposed prudence could be exacerbated by regulation as lenders are required to hold more capital on their balance sheets. A return to prudent, sensible lending is overdue and it is reasonable to ask how and why regulators allowed lenders to indulge in so much reckless lending.

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PDF Ebook Best Practices In Ethics Hotline

Submitted by antoq on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 02:45

Virtually all organizations are vulnerable to fraud and misconduct in the workplace. By establishing a proactive approach and engaging stakeholders to promote an ethical workplace an organization can significantly limit liability and loss.

A successful strategic approach undertaken by many organizations is the implementation of an anonymous employee hotline. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enacted in 2002, requires pub licly traded corporations to provide a mechanism for reporting financial irregularities that enables employees who report information to remain anonymous. The positive results realized from this requisite has prompted not-for-profits, private organizations and government agencies to adopt similar reporting mechanisms for detecting and deterring organizational malfeasance. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has even spurred a global shift as different cultures around the world recognize the value of such a mechanism for reporting unethical activities in the workplace.

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Ebook Laboratory simulations of solar prominences

Submitted by antoq on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 06:18

A solar prominence is a large, arch-shaped structure of magnetized hydrogen plasma protruding from the surface of the sun. From shifts in spectral lines, observers estimate typical prominence temperatures of 4300-8500 K, densities of 10[superscript 16]-10[superscript 17]m[superscript -3], and magnetic fields of 0.4-2 mT. The typical length scale is 10[superscript 7]-10[superscript 8]m. Through careful scaling of terms in the two-fluid electron equation of motion, we have designed an experiment that should reproduce the essential physics of solar prominences. Our experiment has typical temperatures of about 50000 K, densities on the order of 10[superscript 19]m[superscript -3], magnetic fields of 100-500 mT, and a length scale of about 0.1 m. The advantages of having a prominence-like plasma conveniently located in a laboratory, rather than over 100 million kilometers away, include the following:

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