Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of ...

Learn about proportional consolidation, a former joint ventures accounting method replaced by the IFRS to streamline global ...

Reinsurance serves as insurance for insurance companies, in order to help protect them from losses. The parties to a reinsurance transaction choose between proportional and non-proportional ...

The performance of proportional valves falls in the wide spectrum between on/off solenoid valves and electrohydraulic servovalves. The valves are termed proportional because output flow is not exactly ...

A proportional solenoid valve is an electromagnetic valve designed to respond to a variable power input to regulate the flow of liquid and/or gas proportionately. It is used to control the flow rate ...

Your quad-copter is hovering nicely 100 feet north of you, its camera pointed exactly on target. The hover is doing so well all the RC transmitter controls are in the neutral position. The wind picks ...

Would proportional representation be a better way of electing legislatures? This old idea, which dates back to John Stuart Mill and Nicolas de Condorcet, has been gaining ground among political ...

An all-party committee has recommended that the federal government design a new electoral system and put it to the public in a national referendum. The new system would be a form of proportional ...

Proportional force is the idea that the force that an officer is supposed to use on a suspect, including the use of chokeholds or other neck restraints, should not be more intense than necessary. By ...

John Stanton has previously received funding from the EC1 New Deal for Communities regeneration programme (2007-2010). The country awoke the morning after the election – if indeed it had slept – to a ...