Small business lending and bank consolidation: is there cause for concern?

Small banks are a major source of credit for small businesses. As banking consolidation continues, will a resulting decline in the presence of small banks adversely affect the availability of that credit?Bank loans ; Bank mergers ; Small business

The Song of The Kennebec

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Oppenheim: Unfair Trade Practices, Cases and Comments

A Review of Unfair Trade Practices, Cases and Comments by S. Chesterfield Oppenhei

Design and Testing of an Externally Powered Elbow Prosthesis

There continues to be a need for an externally powered prothesis which can be used by above elbow amputee patients who cannot effectively operate a conventional body powered prosthesis. This device must be reliable, economically constructed, and easily maintained in the field. A device employing a drive mechanism powered by a small DC motor has been designed to meet this need. The device is based on an inversion of the belt driven pulley system and is a continuation of previous work employing this mechanism. A prototype was designed using this system in a size suitable for patient application. The model was constructed from commercially available parts and some shop fabrication. Once constructed, a laboratory testing program was devised to subject the prototype to typical tasks it would be required to perform in the field. The test results are included in the report. Also included are the kinematic and force analyses of the model and a computer program, based on the design equations written to simulate the motion of the device under load. A comparison between the simulated and experimental results is also presented. The major intent of this project was to design and test a reliable externally powered above elbow prosthesis from commercially available parts. The design has proven to be a viable concept and should be pursued further based on the recommendations given in this thesis

Rowe: Price Discrimination Under the Robinson-Patman Act

A Review of Price Discrimination Under the Robinson-Patman Act, By Frederick M. Rowe

An on-board near-optimal climb-dash energy management

On-board real time flight control is studied in order to develop algorithms which are simple enough to be used in practice, for a variety of missions involving three dimensional flight. The intercept mission in symmetric flight is emphasized. Extensive computation is required on the ground prior to the mission but the ensuing on-board exploitation is extremely simple. The scheme takes advantage of the boundary layer structure common in singular perturbations, arising with the multiple time scales appropriate to aircraft dynamics. Energy modelling of aircraft is used as the starting point for the analysis. In the symmetric case, a nominal path is generated which fairs into the dash or cruise state. Feedback coefficients are found as functions of the remaining energy to go (dash energy less current energy) along the nominal path