Industrial agricultural plantations are a rapidly increasing yet largely unmeasured source of tropical land cover change. Here, we evaluate impacts of oil palm plantation development on land cover, carbon flux, and agrarian community lands in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. With a spatially explicit land change/carbon bookkeeping model, parameterized using high-resolution satellite time ser...

This paper presents a preventive maintenance (PM) policy for leased equipment over a finite lease period L. Maintenance is entrusted to the lessor. The purpose is to determine the PM period T minimizing the expected total cost over the lease period in a context where repairs and PM actions are imperfect and have non-negligible durations. The leased equipment is periodically subjected to imperfe...

Medical laboratories that lease space for their operations will soon be affected by new guidelines from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for lease accounting. The proposed changes are momentous. They will almost certainly increase occupancy costs with additional accounting and reporting burdens. The new FASB guidelines may also make leasing substantially less attractive than buyi...

Mobile homes are often perceived as a cheap housing alternative of last resort. This paper reviews the history of the mobile home from its trailer house beginnings to its present manufactured home status. Manufactured homes (HUD Code mobile homes) located in manufactured home land lease parks are an affordable and preferred housing choice of many housing consumers. Furthermore, manufactured hou...

there are only a few old elamite documents available today; however there are more than 500 legal documents from susa, written in akkadian, that provide us with a unique chance to study legal and social institutions of elam in the sukkalmah period. the present study will edit and translate three lease documents from the sukkalmah period, which are known as esip-tabal contracts. a comparative st...

This paper is about the story of Shangbu, an industrial district that has been regenerated into a retailing and commercial center in the socialist market economy of Shenzhen, China. The Shangbu Industrial District (SID) was first set up in the early 1980s at the western edge of the core of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) to attract foreign direct investment after China adoption of the...

With the granting of land lease rights owned by local governments for use community businesses, there are several problems that often occur. From existence these problems, it can become an obstacle in implementation BMD form a lease, which be to source Regional Original Income (PAD) has role and function improving public services community. As well as create new conflicts parties who violate bo...

the two parts of a lease contract cannot always assign the period of lease. sometimes it isn't mentioned any period in contract but they assert the smallest unit of time for assignment of the rental. therefore the civil low makes reputable the lease contracts that the period of rent is left unsaid in them for the same smallest unit of time. in 'spite of that the legal spirit of this a...