Ownership

1 Introduction Brownfield development is the process of redevelopment on previously developed lands that are abandoned, closed or underused (Adams, De Sousa & Tiesdell, 2010). While some brownfield can be too contaminated, most brownfields are re-useable to create great value once cleaned up. And in this world of scarce resources, brownfield development becomes crucial as we focus more on sustainability and resource optimizing. While factors of rising awareness of urban sustainability issues, presence

Introduction: The concept of total cost of ownership or TCO (Cavinato 1991, 1992), life cycle costing (Jackson and Ostrom 1980), product life cycle costs (Shields and Young 1991), and total cost of (Ellram and Siferd 1993) are all related. There is no unique definition of TCO, since the meaning of TCO is dependent on individual and function of organization (Ellram, 1994). TCO concept suggests that supply managers adopt a long-term perspective, rather than short-term, for accurate evaluation of buying

Martin Gilens and Craig Hertzman at Yale University, have conducted a study on the Corporate ownership and news bias through the newspaper coverage of the 1996 Telecommunication Act addressing the claim: “Financial interests of corporate owners lead America’s news bureaus to downplay the significant issues surrounding the growing concentration of ownership of the country’s mass media” (Martin and Hertzman, 2000.) These researchers affirm that it is impossible to think of any democratic society deprived

The importance of news media ownership has been both a contemporary and historical issue that has had significant effects on the way in which the press operates and influences society. This essay examines why the ownership of the news media is of importance to society. In order to examine this fully the essay will discuss why news ownership affects free press and press censorship, why it can be seen to change the nature of political communication, and why is it is important that it affects the circuit

What do we value in our lives? Ownership is singularly based on how much you care and cherish. You can value anything, a possession, skill, characteristic, or even a friend. But you own it only if what you value, makes you who you are. If your ownership helps develop your consistently into a better person or even contribute to others than you truly own it. As Plato and Aristotle proposed, owning tangible objects can develop moral character. Owning something can simply mean having a certain possession:

reading, Chapter 4: Predictable Conflicts in the Intersections, discussed the dynamics of conflicts that exist within the family business as it relates to family, ownership, and management, which is also known as the three-circle model. This model derives from a breakdown of the two key elements of business, management and ownership. When the family is combined with business it is highly likely for paradoxes to stem from one of the three circles and the conflict becomes and paradoxes become more

these sections are necessary to creating a whole picture when it comes to intellectual property rights at UMUC, they are not vital to this paper and thus will not be discussed other than to demonstrate the broad scope of the policy. Distance Course Ownership Strengths While UMUC based its intellectual property policy on the one developed for the University System of Maryland (USM), UMUC took special care to address “technology mediated instructional materials”. While the USM (2009) has a placeholder

Along with the consequences that it would have on urban areas. Goldschmidt also felt that “the regulations of the Labor Relations Act should be applied to the agricultural sector and that unions should not only be allowed to develop, but should be encouraged”. (Goldschmidt). Unfortunately, the US government did not see the family farm as being an asset by the 1940’s so the government fired Goldschmidt and hide his work for many years. The government also enabled land reforms that allowed corporate

Schoors et al. (2010) state that according to the classical production approach total deposits and total loans are treated as output, and labour and physical capital are used as inputs. As we cite Ferrier and Lovell (1990) \emph {"The production approach views banks as 'producing' demand deposits, time and savings deposits, commercial loans, real estate loans, and instalment loans, using capital, labor, and materials to do so."} Next to this classical production approach, Schoor et al. (2010) mention

determined if they can participate in political matters, and even determined where in the city they were allowed to travel. The three biggest factors that shaped a person’s position in society were family status or ancestry, property and slave ownership, and occupation A person’s family status and ancestry was probably the most important determinant of one’s status. In nineteenth century Rio de Janeiro, a person was often born into their status. If they were born into a high status family, then