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Hellander, Ida, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, and Sidney Wolfe. "Health Care Paper Chase, 1993: The Cost to the Nation, the States, and the District of Columbia." International Journal of Health Services 24, no. 1 (1994): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/txxq-p955-e61g-me9j.

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The U.S. health care payment system is an elaborate and increasingly wasteful paper chase. This article presents new state-by-state estimates of health care administrative costs in the United States, and savings that could be realized with single-payer reform. In 1993, health care bureaucracy will consume 24.7 cents of every health care dollar, a total of $232.3 billion. Administration's share of health spending is up from 23.9 percent in 1987, and from 21.9 percent in 1983. Reducing the cost of administration to Canadian levels by adopting a single-payer health care system would cut U.S. health care bureaucracy by more than half (50.7 percent), saving at least $117.7 billion in 1993. The savings achievable with a single-payer system could fund universal access for the uninsured and improve benefits for the tens of millions of Americans who currently have only partial coverage, without any increase in overall health spending. Reform measures such as electronic billing, insurance industry consolidation, and increased competition (including “managed competition”) would save little or nothing on administration. Only a single-payer reform that incorporates the “macro-management” approach to cost control, as in Canada, can achieve significant administrative savings.

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Howard, Andrew F., and Jordan S. Tanz. "Optimal road spacing for multistage cable yarding operations." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 20, no. 6 (1990): 669–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x90-089.

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Equations needed to determine the economically optimal spacing of roads for multistage, one-way to roadside cable yarding were derived. The equations were used in a case study of optimal road spacing on four grapple yarding operations in coastal British Columbia. Two-stage yarding was cheaper and led to closer road spacing than one-stage yarding in all cases. The break-even point for two- and three-stage yarding with respect to road cost was defined as critical road cost. Three-stage yarding provided cost savings and a substantial increase in road spacing once critical road costs were exceeded. Critical road costs for three-stage yarding were within the range experienced in coastal British Columbia for the operations included in the case study. The potential for cost savings and reduced site disturbance from multistage yarding warrants serious consideration of these systems during harvest planning.

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MacPherson, Ian. "From the Secretary’s Desk to Main Street: Change and Transition in the British Columbia Credit Union Movement, 1936‑1960." Historical Papers 22, no. 1 (2006): 212–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/030972ar.

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Abstract From its founding in 1936 to roughly 1960, the credit union movement in British Columbia focused on the financial emancipation of lower-income British Columbians. As such it was one of a number of similarly inspired institutions, which included adult education centres, cooperatives, trade unions and the CCF. In spite of the existence of Canadian prototypes — the caisse populaire movement in Quebec and, what inspired the BC credit unions in the first place, the Antigonish movement in Nova Scotia — the BC experience generally followed the American model. The first experiments in cooperatives date to the 1860s, but early efforts were sporadic and uncoordinated. Started initially in 1932 by Vancouver's Army of the Good and encouraged by, among several organizations, the CCF, credit unions were given legal standing late in 1939. Once authorized, these institutions expanded rapidly; 139 were established before the end of the war. They answered a felt need to promote savings and encourage the responsible handling of cheaper levels of credit. By 1960, however, the British Columbian credit union movement was reaching the end of its emancipatory stage and had drifted far from its roots. Initially founded on the economic populism of the Antigonish movement, it absorbed many of the organizational techniques and some of the conservatism which characterized the American movement.

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Lathia, Nina, Karen Sullivan, Kathy Tam, et al. "Cost-minimization analysis of community pharmacy-based point-of-care testing for strep throat in 5 Canadian provinces." Canadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada 151, no. 5 (2018): 322–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1715163518790993.

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Background: Strep throat point-of-care (POC) testing in community pharmacies will enable pharmacist-based care for this condition. Our objective was to conduct an economic evaluation of treating severe sore throat when this service was offered in pharmacies in 5 Canadian provinces. Methods: We conducted 5 separate cost-minimization analyses for the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Saskatchewan, from the public payer perspective, to estimate mean cost per patient of treating severe sore throat in 2 scenarios: 1) physician-based usual care in a family physician’s office, a walk-in clinic or an emergency room (ER) and 2) a new scenario where patients received care described above or in a pharmacy offering strep throat POC testing. One-way sensitivity analyses were conducted to account for model uncertainty. Results: Mean cost per patient for each pathway in the base-case analyses for the 5 provinces ranged from 1) $37.55 to $61.57 for family physician, 2) $37.55 to $61.57 for walk-in clinic, 3) $38.88 to $57.56 for ER and 4) $19.12 to $21.83 for pharmacy, representing savings ranging from $12.47 to $24.36 per patient for the new scenario. Approximate total cost savings range from $1.3 million to $2.6 million per year across the 5 provinces. All sensitivity analyses yielded cost savings for the new scenario. Discussion: Across 5 provinces, strep throat POC testing in pharmacies was cost saving compared to physician-based care. Sensitivity analyses demonstrated the robustness of these results. Conclusions: Funding strep throat POC testing in community pharmacies in these 5 provinces would lead to public health system cost savings and potentially improve patients’ access to care for severe sore throat.

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Guzman, L. I., and A. Clapp. "Applying personal carbon trading: a proposed ‘Carbon, Health and Savings System’ for British Columbia, Canada." Climate Policy 17, no. 5 (2016): 616–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2016.1152947.

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Alexander, Raquel Meyer, and LeAnn Luna. "State-Sponsored College §529 Plans: An Analysis of Factors that Influence Investors' Choice." Journal of the American Taxation Association 27, s-1 (2005): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/jata.2005.27.s-1.29.

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Taxpayers have invested more than $45 billion in state-sponsored §529 college savings plans. Created by federal legislation in 1996 and enhanced by a 2001 tax law change, all 50 states and the District of Columbia now offer a §529 plan. Some states provide tax deductions and/or exemptions to taxpayers choosing in-state plans. Because of the lack of historical return data on these funds and the absence of comparable investment vehicles, investors rely extensively upon securities dealers for fund recommendations. Using proprietary panel data for 77 plans in 50 states over eight quarters, this paper compares tax and nontax factors that drive §529 investment choices. This paper explains why an investor may choose an out-of-state §529 plan despite losing a potential state tax deduction. This paper also has policy implications for lifetime savings accounts proposed by the Bush administration.

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Trenholm, Ryan, and Ramon Lawrence. "Improving Park Maintenance Efficiency Using a Mobile Application." International Journal of Mobile Devices, Wearable Technology, and Flexible Electronics 9, no. 2 (2018): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijmdwtfe.2018070101.

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This article describes the construction and evaluation of a mobile application for use by park maintenance personnel that features an interactive map allowing for real time positioning of the user in relation to equipment locations, and the ability to create, view, and edit maintenance logs. The application was evaluated by the Park Services department of the City of Kelowna in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The results of the study demonstrate that numerous tasks, especially locating equipment and logging maintenance, can be more efficient using mobile technology. Further, technicians are receptive to the introduction of technology in their work schedules and find it easy to integrate into their routines. An analysis of the time savings shows that the technology may save technicians 15 to 50 minutes daily which translates to thousands of dollars annually in savings per technician and increased productivity rates.

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Howard, Andrew F., Dag Rutherford, and G. Glen Young. "Optimal skyline corridor spacing for partial cutting in second-growth stands of coastal British Columbia." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26, no. 3 (1996): 368–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x26-041.

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This paper presents the findings of a study on the economically optimal spacing of skyline corridors in partial cuts in second-growth stands of British Columbia. The mathematical basis for optimal spacing of corridors is presented for rectangular settings when trees are felled in a herring-bone pattern to facilitate yarding. The model is used in a case study where optimal spacing is compared with actual spacing for two yarding systems observed in the field. The results indicate that significant cost savings are possible from spacing skyline corridors at the optimal distance compared with conventional spacing used by the logging contractors.

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Srsic, Amanda, Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, and Ewa Kocot. "The Economic Consequences of Decriminalizing Sex Work in Washington, DC—A Conceptual Model." Societies 11, no. 3 (2021): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc11030112.

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(1) Under repressive policies, sex workers are at disproportionate risk for violence and sexually transmitted infections. The decriminalization of sex work provides increased social and health benefits to both sex workers and society. This is the first research that complements human rights-based messages with a quantifiable economic impact of such a law and a model for future calculations. (2) This research assesses the potential economic consequences of decriminalizing sex work in the District of Columbia (DC) in three areas: (A) income tax revenue, (B) criminal justice system savings, and (C) health sector savings (due to averted cases of violence, HIV, gonorrhea, and herpes). (3) An economic model is developed and utilized based on data from a literature search and agency records. (4) Decriminalizing sex work in DC will generate USD5348.68 per sex worker and USD2.53 per client annually, plus USD20,118.48 in criminal justice system savings a year. Per sex worker, USD5058.08 will be gained from income tax revenue, and USD290.60 will be generated through health sector savings (USD274.65, 0.02, 15.64, and 0.29 from averted cases of violence, HIV, gonorrhea, and herpes, respectively). Per client, decriminalization will generate USD0.05, 2.32, and 0.16 from averted cases of HIV, gonorrhea, and herpes, respectively, or USD8462.35 annually, after considering the total number of clients. Estimates are reported in 2020 USD. (5) The potential economic impact of decriminalizing sex work is widespread. The presented model, in conjunction with a rights-based foundation, should urgently be used by advocates, sex workers, decision makers, and other researchers.

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Schneeweiss, Sebastian, Colin Dormuth, Paul Grootendorst, Stephen B. Soumerai, and Malcolm Maclure. "Net Health Plan Savings From Reference Pricing for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Elderly British Columbia Residents." Medical Care 42, no. 7 (2004): 653–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.mlr.0000129497.10930.a2.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Columbia Savings"

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Chase, Lindsay D. "Saving place, municipal government and heritage conservation : the case of the Mount Newton Valley District of Central Saanich, British Columbia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ51692.pdf.

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Gosman, Nathaniel. "Maximizing energy savings reliability in BC Hydro industrial Demand-Side Management programs: an assessment of performance incentive models." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4198.

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For energy utilities faced with expanded jurisdictional energy efficiency requirements and pursuing demand-side management (DSM) incentive programs in the large industrial sector, performance incentive programs can be an effective means to maximize the reliability of planned energy savings. Performance incentive programs balance the objectives of high participation rates with persistent energy savings by: (1) providing financial incentives and resources to minimize constraints to investment in energy efficiency, and (2) requiring that incentive payments be dependent on measured energy savings over time. As BC Hydro increases its DSM initiatives to meet the Clean Energy Act objective to reduce at least 66 per cent of new electricity demand with DSM by 2020, the utility is faced with a higher level of DSM risk, or uncertainties that impact the cost-effective acquisition of planned energy savings. For industrial DSM incentive programs, DSM risk can be broken down into project development and project performance risks. Development risk represents the project ramp-up phase and is the risk that planned energy savings do not materialize due to low customer response to program incentives. Performance risk represents the operational phase and is the risk that planned energy savings do not persist over the effective measure life. DSM project development and performance risks are, in turn, a result of industrial economic, technological and organizational conditions, or DSM risk factors. In the BC large industrial sector, and characteristic of large industrial sectors in general, these DSM risk factors include: (1) capital constraints to investment in energy efficiency, (2) commodity price volatility, (3) limited internal staffing resources to deploy towards energy efficiency, (4) variable load, process-based energy saving potential, and (5) a lack of organizational awareness of an operation’s energy efficiency over time (energy performance). This research assessed the capacity of alternative performance incentive program models to manage DSM risk in BC. Three performance incentive program models were assessed and compared to BC Hydro’s current large industrial DSM incentive program, Power Smart Partners – Transmission Project Incentives, itself a performance incentive-based program. Together, the selected program models represent a continuum of program design and implementation in terms of the schedule and level of incentives provided, the duration and rigour of measurement and verification (M&V), energy efficiency measures targeted and involvement of the private sector. A multi criteria assessment framework was developed to rank the capacity of each program model to manage BC large industrial DSM risk factors. DSM risk management rankings were then compared to program cost-effectiveness, targeted energy savings potential in BC and survey results from BC industrial firms on the program models. The findings indicate that the reliability of DSM energy savings in the BC large industrial sector can be maximized through performance incentive program models that: (1) offer incentives jointly for capital and low-cost operations and maintenance (O&M) measures, (2) allow flexible lead times for project development, (3) utilize rigorous M&V methods capable of measuring variable load, process-based energy savings, (4) use moderate contract lengths that align with effective measure life, and (5) integrate energy management software tools capable of providing energy performance feedback to customers to maximize the persistence of energy savings. While this study focuses exclusively on the BC large industrial sector, the findings of this research have applicability to all energy utilities serving large, energy intensive industrial sectors.<br>Graduate

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West, Robert Gerard. "Saving and naming the garbage : Charles E. Borden and the making of B.C. prehistory, 1945-1960." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3865.

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Professional archaeologists firmly control the prehistory of British Columbia (more commonly referred to today as "pre-contact" history). This has been the case since Dr. Charles E. Borden, a German professor at the University of British Columbia, professionalized the archaeological discipline between 1945 and 1960. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine and explain the process by which this monopolization occurred, and to suggest the massive ramifications that have followed. Relevant approaches to the history of archaeology are reviewed, and a "contextual" strategy is adopted as the best way to unravel, but preserve, the richness of the local history of archaeology in B.C. A mixture of narrative and analytical style is employed in explaining the rise Borden and professional archaeology in the 1950s. It is argued that Borden produced knowledge by drawing on an existing network of North American archaeology to create, and substantiate, his authoritative position. In the context of archaeological site destruction, during the 1950s, Borden was able to pull unrelated members of the B.C. populous to his cause, including provincial officials, through the passing of the "Archaeological and Historic Sites Protection Act," in 1960. Amateur archaeologists and Aboriginal people lacked the means to amass the powerful alliances that Borden did, and therefore amateurs and Natives were unable to offer a persuasive alternative to Borden's authority. It is concluded that because of the professional encapsulation of B.C. archaeology, we, as non-specialists, have to put our faith in archaeologists, and assume that the knowledge they produce is truthful and valid It is suggested that professional archaeologists have joined other human scientists in a rapidly spiralling scientification of humanity. This is significant because specialists inform the State about who we are as citizens, and impose identities on us which partly dicate how the State regulates our access to resources. The example of Natives in B.C., who have recently appropriated professional archaeology to their own cause of settling land-claim disputes, is offered to show how alienated components of our identities can be returned to us through political action.

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Félix, Marín Tahinee M. "Modern architecture + art : an analysis of preservation strategies for installed art." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3568.

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The purpose of this Master’s Report was to determine an appropriate preservation strategy for a particular set of buildings and their accompanying art from the Modern Architecture Movement. The research question was: What type of strategy is best suited for the preservation of installed art created for Modern style buildings? The study analyzed preservation strategies afforded to Modern art and architecture during rehabilitation of the buildings. The case studies are Modern Movement office or bank buildings with art commissioned for the space by the architects or owners. An analysis of the main case study’s preservation strategies looks at all the actions taken and proposed to protect, not only the material fabric of the art, but the primary interior space. The main case study was the American National Bank building in Austin, Texas designed by Kuehne, Brooks and Barr Architects with a mural by Seymour Fogel. The secondary case studies were: Harry Bertoia sculpture + Manufacturers Trust Building, New York City, Pietro Belluschi mural + Equitable Building, Portland, Oregon, Richard Lippold sculpture + Inland Steel Building, Chicago, and Roger Darricarrere dalle de verre + Columbia Savings Buildings, Los Angeles. After study and analysis, the preservation strategies were categorized in four categories: in situ conservation, removal, recreation/replacement and demolition/destruction. It was concluded that there is not a general approach for these projects, and each should be analyzed through various factors (Design Intent, Intrinsic Value, Collaboration and Context) to determine the appropriate intervention.<br>text

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Books on the topic "Columbia Savings"

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Office, General Accounting. Inventory management: Adopting best practices could enhance Navy efforts to achieve efficiencies and savings : report to the ranking minority member, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia, U.S. Senate. The Office, 1996.

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Management reform--cost, savings, net: Hearing before the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, January 30, 1998. U.S. G.P.O., 1998.

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Managing the Thrift Savings Plan to thrive: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, November 3, 2009. U.S. G.P.O., 2009.

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Investing in the future: Minority opportunities and the thrift savings plan : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 10, 2008. U.S. G.P.O., 2009.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia. H.R. 4489, the FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 4489, to amend chapter 89 of Title 5, United States Code, to ensure program integrity, transparency, and cost savings in the pricing and contracting of prescription drug benefits under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, February 23, 2010. U.S. G.P.O., 2010.

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Mighetto, Lisa. Saving the salmon: A history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to protect anadromous fish on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Historical Research Associates, Inc., 1994.

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J, Ebel Wesley, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. North Pacific Division., United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Portland District., and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Walla Walla District., eds. Saving the salmon: A history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to protect anadromous fish on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Historical Research Associates, Inc., 1994.

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Mighetto, Lisa. Saving the salmon: A history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to protect anadromous fish on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Historical Research Associates, Inc., 1994.

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Mighetto, Lisa. Saving the salmon: A history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to protect anadromous fish on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Historical Research Associates, Inc., 1994.

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Mighetto, Lisa. Saving the salmon: A history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to protect anadromous fish on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Historical Research Associates, 1995.

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Book chapters on the topic "Columbia Savings"

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Frank, Robert H. "Progressive Consumption Taxation as a Remedy for the U.S. Savings Shortfall." In The Economists' Voice. Columbia University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231143653.003.0020.

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Keohane, Georgia Levenson. "Financial Inclusion and Access to Capital." In Capital and the Common Good. Columbia University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231178020.003.0004.

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Shows why access to capital and financial services are vital components of the development agenda: a way for families to climb out of poverty and for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to provide goods, services, and employment in regions of the world that lack these. The chapter traces the evolution of microfinance from its nonprofit origins to a fully commercialized industry, and from a field built primary around credit to one that has begun to offer a wider variety of financial services, including savings and insurance. We use IFMR Trust, an Indian microfinance company, to illustrate these innovations.

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Keohane, Georgia Levenson. "Innovative Finance in Communities Across the United States." In Capital and the Common Good. Columbia University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231178020.003.0006.

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examine whether some of the place-based investment strategies, like the Community Reinvestment Act and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit—which have unlocked billions of dollars in private capital for real estate, affordable housing and enterprise development—lend themselves to more people-centric services. We look at innovations in financial inclusion and asset building, approaches intended to create wealth for the poor, often by simply connecting them to resources they are already eligible for, like the Earned Income Tax Credit. We also investigate the U.S. experience with social impact bonds (SIBs), pay-for-success contracts between local government, nonprofit service providers, and private investors whose capital underwrites preventive services. The idea is that if the interventions succeed, the investors will be repaid out of the social savings. The SIB industry is still new in the US and the track record is mixed. However, the larger lessons about good governance, evidence-based policy-making, and blended capital are relevant for innovative finance in U.S. communities for a growing set of capital investments that fuse the place and people lenses. Like development projects that link affordable housing with community health centers. In this paradigm, mobility is critical to economic opportunity, and investments in physical and social infrastructure are mutually reinforcing.

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Chasar, Mike. "Saving Poetry." In Everyday Reading. Columbia University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231158657.003.0001.

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Stiglitz, Joseph E. "Sharing the Burden of Saving the Planet: Global Social Justice for Sustainable Development." In The Quest for Security. Columbia University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231156868.003.0007.

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Severs, Jeffrey. "E Pluribus Unum." In David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231179447.003.0007.

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Where Infinite Jest had allowed Wallace to go continually inside the calculating minds of addicts and consumers to find evidence of diminishing returns and enslavement, he turned to taxes in order to place in the background of his next novel innumerable arcane terms of valuation, transaction, and reconciling, the million acts of book-balancing that go on constantly at the IRS. Oblivion’s wariness about the saving power of work receives new accents in this examination of ascetics, and by elaborating anew my central terms of work, value, and political rhetoric, I add nuance to readings that have already characterized the novel as a history of the rise of neoliberalism. In more specific terms, the chapter takes up three main threads: first, a re-energized role for ritual, a trope taken from DeLillo, as Wallace depicts his priestly accountants at sacred work. Second, a re-reading of forms of paper value in a neoliberal society, centered on contracts (a concern I unpack in previous chapters as well) and the values inscribed on currency, here elaborated in the novel’s many scenes that encode a Freudian intermingling of money and waste. Third, Wallace’s final rendition of axiology in passages about human attention’s comparative valuing of details, as explored through competing models of relevance and what the author-persona calls “the exact size and shape of every blade of grass in my front lawn” – one last image of the ground fiction forms.

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"20. Saving a Boatload of Starlight: The Story of How Mr. Wang Tiwu Gave Financial Assistance to Young Writers." In The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan. Columbia University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/chan16576-151.

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Clark, Walter Aaron. "Breakin’ Up is Hard to do." In Los Romeros. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041907.003.0015.

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As Angel’s solo career gained momentum, he found it increasingly difficult to manage his commitments to the quartet, especially given his interests in conducting, acting, and film scoring. Pepe also had a flourishing solo career, but Columbia Management was able to avoid conflicts in his schedule, something Angel’s solo agency, International Creative Management, could not do. In addition, audiences and managers fostered a sort of competition between the two virtuosos, to see which could outperform the other. By 1990, the personal and professional conflicts in the quartet resulted in Angel striking out on his own; however, Celin’s son Celino took his place, thus saving the quartet.

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Goodman, Daniel. "Management of Columbia River Salmon Under the Endangered Species Act: Environmental Engineering for a Dysfunctional Ecosystem." In Saving a Place: Endangered Species in the 21st Century. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315196725-10.

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Coghlan, J. Michelle. "Barricades Revisited – the Commune on Campus from FSM to SDS." In Sensational Internationalism. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411202.003.0007.

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This epilogue examines the Commune’s re-ignition in the 1960s. Returning to Endore’s likening of the uprising to a “free-for-all,” I argue that this conjuration—lacking the top down organization of a party, prone to spring up anywhere unannounced—would survive the reign of McCarthy and the crackdown that did so much to dissipate radical memory and, with it, 1871’s resonance in the U.S. I show how the story of the Commune that would survive the 1950s offered future radicals not so much a program as a promise—a memory of a revolutionary future that might be “vomited up” at any moment. I anchor my discussion in two pivotal eruptions of the Commune on campus: Mario Savio’s invocations of it during the Free Speech Movement demonstrations at UC Berkeley as a model of campus activism and taking “only what is ours,” and its more literal restaging five years later as student protestors at Columbia University turned to 1871 to make sense of their own cultural moment, dubbing themselves “Communards” as they reoccupied this once again vital and viral revolutionary past.

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Conference papers on the topic "Columbia Savings"

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VanderSchee, David A. "Field Performance and Surge Testing of Centrifugal Compressors." In 1998 2nd International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc1998-2126.

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In 1997 Alberta Natural Gas Co. Ltd (ANG) completed a field testing program of its centrifugal compressor fleet. Field performance and surge testing of centrifugal compressors in pipeline service was done for efficiency evaluation and to re-establish surge line control. By confirming the actual location of the surge line, surge controllers are adjusted to allow a more efficient and greater operating range resulting in fuel savings and operating flexibility. The results of this testing provides an accurate operating window for the compression equipment which is then transferred to a hydraulic analysis computer model used to provide accurate capacity estimates in support of additional gas transmission contractible volumes. As part of the surge testing, suction to impeller eye differential pressure readings (used for surge control) were evaluated to determine strength, stability and repeatability. Finally, baseline data was established to determine current compressor operating efficiencies and will be used to determine future efficiency degradation. ANG is a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada PipeLines, one of North America’s leading transporters of natural gas through its energy transmission businesses. ANG owns and operates the British Columbia segment of the Alberta-California pipeline system (ref Figure 1). Compression is provided at three compressor stations with eleven compressors totalling 187,000 installed ISO HP.

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Harper, William V., David J. Stucki, Taylor M. Shie, and Ray J. Davies. "Reliability Based Facility Risk Assessment." In 2010 8th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2010-31352.

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Pipeline facilities are ageing and will likely soon come under closer scrutiny from federal regulation. It is imperative that sound reliability based inspection procedures be established that meet the goals of an organization while controlling time and cost. DNV Columbus has developed a statistically based sequential inspection decision support system for this purpose. This system was implemented for an international petroleum company and quickened the inspection process by making a “stop inspections” or a “continue inspections” decision after each inspection at a facility. This system allows inspections to be stopped because the desired reliability metrics have been met. This means that the point of diminishing returns has been met based on inspections that did not reveal a significant amount of corrosion. At this point, further sampling would provide minimal additional value to the reliability assessment. Inspections can also be stopped because the estimated reliability metrics have not been met. Stopping for this reason indicates the facility may need more significant repair or replacement. Engineers and managers can then make a decision that includes a variety of factors including safety and the economic feasibility of alternates. In contrast, when using this method, inspections continue because insufficient data have been collected to determine whether the reliability metrics have been met. This system will be illustrated with actual data. It will also describe the use of four key safety factors in developing site specific reliability goals. These factors are consequence, off site migration probability, product type, and facility size. This work can result in a major savings in time and financial expenditures for an inspection cycle. This reliability based inspection methodology leads to the following improvements: 1) Quicker decisions to save time and money, and allows more sites to be inspected in a timelier manner, 2) The reliability of a group of inspections performed is quantified after each inspection, 3) Results at a facility are broken down by database driven categories into a scorecard, 4) Methodology kept generic to be easily adapted to a wide variety of situations.

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