Direct loans : William D. Ford federal direct loan program : all about direct loans.

Mode of access: Internet.

Soybeans and the world market [microform] : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices and the Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on the question of whether the marketing loan program should be expanded to include soybeans, March 18, 1988.

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. Item 1032-C, 1032-D (microfiche)

Direct loans, William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program : repayment plan choices.

Mode of access: Internet.

Direct loans : William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program : PLUS loan basics.

Mode of access: Internet.

A study of direct student loan programs and alternative student loan program models : submitted to the Illinois General Assembly /

Includes bibliography.

Public Water Supply Loan program : low interest Drinking Water Loan Program /

Summary of loan activities for the Public Water Supply Loan Program.

Water Pollution Control Loan Program : low interest wastewater treatment financing.

Description based on: 2000 edition.

Veterans housing loan program evaluation : final report /

Mode of access: Internet.

Rural telephone service, USA : a pictorial history of Rural Electrification Administration's telephone loan program /

Cover title.

A telephone for your farm : answers to questions about the Rural Telephone Loan Program /

"May 1950."

Waving or drowning? Managing resource constraints in entrepreneurial firm with bricolage as a response to the global financial crisis

These are challenging times for new entrepreneurial firms. The development of the Global Financial Crisis shook the very foundations of global markets and institutions that most firms relied on to do business (Claessens, et al., forthcoming). In the midst of institutional flux and resource constraints, entrepreneurial firms, which have been shown to make a range of contributions to the economy (van Praag & Versloot 2007) faced increasing constraints. The Australian Federal Government quickly implemented the Green Loan program in response to the financial crisis. Unfortunately, the green loans program was flawed with obsolete processes and information (Faulkner, 2011), further constraining new firms. Prior research provides few clues regarding how resource-constrained entrepreneurial firms deal with these institutional flaws within institutional change and how they might overcome these challenges and prosper. One promising theory that evaluates behavioural responses to constraints and institutional flaws is bricolage (Levi Strauss, 1967). Bricolage aligns with notions of resourcefulness: defined here as “making do by applying combinations of the resources at hand to new problems and opportunities” (Baker and Nelson 2005: 333). Using three case studies, we consider how institutional flaws impact firm behaviours and illustrate the use of bricolage in attempts to reinforce, shape and change the GL program further extending bricolage domains of Baker and Nelson (2005).

In and out of preschool learning with iPads

In this chapter we describe and explain the ways we negotiated these same epistemological tensions and structural realities as we implemented the iPad loan component of the project reported in this book (hereafter: “iPad loan program”).Children who participated in the iPad loan program were able to take home one of the project iPads used in their preschool centre, much as they were able to take home books and puzzles. This component was one reflection of the ethos of “digital inclusion” that infused the project. As we noted in the introduction to this book, there is international recognition of the role that schools can play in ensuring all communities can participate in digital culture and the digital economy (e.g., European Commission, 2014; United States Government, 2013). Accordingly, we conducted the project in preschool centres where at least some groups of children were thought to enjoy less access to learning on digital platforms than others. Our goal was to put the iPad into the hands of children who might not otherwise have had access to it, while supporting teachers and parents in capitalising on the learning potential of the device for all the children. Centres nominated for the project by administrators in the preschool system all served communities that were either affected by poverty and/or diverse in language and culture.

Quand l’endettement fait problème : variations et constantes de l’expérience d’endettement vécu comme étant problématique chez les jeunes adultes scolarisés à Montréal et à Santiago du Chili.

À partir de deux recherches de terrain, l’une réalisée à Montréal (Canada) et l’autre à Santiago (Chili), cette thèse cherche à comprendre l’expérience d’endettement vécu comme problématique par les jeunes adultes scolarisés. Le projet a été d’observer le lien entre l’expérience d’endettement, les représentations du problématique et le contexte sociogéographique et culturel où l’endettement prend place. Combinant une sociologie qualitative et des compléments de sociologie quantitative, l’étude décrit quand, comment et pourquoi l’expérience d’endettement devient vécu problématique et elle observe ensuite les variations de ce vécu en fonction du lieu (Montréal et Santiago). Suivie d’une synthèse, la présentation des résultats débute par trois articles. Le premier, présente les résultats d’une enquête réalisée à Montréal et s’intéresse à ce qui rend l’endettement problématique aux yeux de jeunes adultes ayant fréquenté des associations coopératives d’économie familiale (ACEF) en raison de leur situation d’endettement. En ressort une dimension plus responsabilisante de l’individu et créatrice de détresse autoculpabilisante qui caractérise le vécu montréalais de l’endettement problématique : l’endetté s’y sent fautif. Les deuxième et troisième articles présentent les résultats d’une enquête réalisée à Santiago et s’intéressent à ce qui rend l’endettement problématique aux yeux de jeunes adultes débiteurs d’un système de financement universitaire chilien désigné comme « les prêts de la Corfo ». En ressort une dimension plus responsabilisante du pouvoir politique et surtout créatrice de colère sociale envers les structures de prêt : l’endetté s’y sent victime. Deux contextes sociétaux différents produisent deux types d’expérience d’endettement différents. Les jeunes adultes de Montréal vivent l’endettement comme un problème lorsqu’ils ont intégré le discours de la responsabilité individuelle et de l’autonomie financière et qu’ils se sentent en échec face à ce modèle : ils ont l’impression de ne pas répondre au modèle économique promu par la société québécoise. Les jeunes adultes débiteurs de la Corfo vivent l’endettement comme un problème lorsqu’ils regardent la société chilienne comme étant incapable de tenir ses promesses de mobilité sociale par le diplôme. Ils ont fait ce qu’il faut pour devenir professionnels et jouir des avantages économiques attribués à ce statut, mais dans les faits, l’endettement contracté ne conduit à la situation convoitée et sert davantage les intérêts des prêteurs que les leurs.

Back to school with tablets embedded in digital desks

A digital-desk pilot program, named One Laptop Per Child (OPLC), in Brazil uses a unique display design to provide an interactive interface developed to enhance education and minimize ergonomic concerns. The one-to-one computer strategy as proposed by Nicholas Negroponte is a way of circumventing the tragedy of the locked computer lab because it gives children full access to computers anytime. The OLPC program has focused on a solution that minimizes power consumption, which also limits the display's maximum size and processor performance because the LCD backlights are responsible for a significant part of the power consumption in laptops. The government has also developed a new type of low-cost tablet that is based on a resistive principle. High transparencies can be obtained in the 90% range in the tablet, while robustness is guaranteed by the outstanding tribological characteristics of Sn02 on glass.