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Peer-to-Peer

A loan to a start-up or other new company from a source other than a financial institution. A lender often charges high interest in a P to P loan. This provides the borrower with financing needed to maintain operations until it becomes profitable. See also: Angel investor.

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Similar PTPs have already been set up at Mandi Mor, Faizabad and Bhara Kahu bus stands and checkpoints, said the official.

Transit point set up at IIA to provide polio drops to children

A comparison of an investment in a PTP to an investment in a corporation finds three differences: (1) the annual accounting for the flowthrough tax information on the investor's tax return; (2) the proper adjustment of the basis in the partnership interest; and (3) the complex reporting requirements of the sale of a partnership interest.

Publicly traded partnerships: Tax treatment of investors

The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) is Malaysia's largest container terminal.

Port of Tanjung Pelepas Continues Digital Strategy Effort with Implementation of Latest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System from Ramco Systems

It said, There is a possibility that the PTP staff colluded with the contractor to seek cost variations and thus defraud grant funds." The LFA's report also highlighted that fake invoices" from fake vendors" amounting to Rs1.03 million were submitted by PTP Manager Communications and Advocacy (MCA) Zubair Ahmed Shad and PTP Partnership Development Officer Nasir Khan Baloch after PTP issued an advance of Rs1.6 million to Shad.

'Corruption, financial mismanagement' in Punjab TB Control Programme: GF report

The two prior studies, however, only focused on the effects of the PTP law on one state.

Effects of permit-to-purchase laws on state-level firearm murder rates

PTPs in conjunction with protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) regulate opposing cellular processes by maintaining a balance between phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of key enzymatic pathways and affecting the activation status of several intracellular components.

Effects of Src Kinase Inhibition on Expression of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B After Brain Hypoxia in a Piglet Animal Model

Due to the vast literature on the effects of negative information, it is unsurprising that most of the research on PTP has been overwhelmingly negative, pro-prosecution, and anti-defendant (Daftary-Kapur, Penrod, O'Connor, & Wallace, 2014; But see Ruva, Guenther, & Yarbrough, 2011, for an exception).

The good and the bad: how pre-trial publicity and race affect perceptions of defendants

To order this product, visit PTP Direct's solar flower shaped string lights listing on Amazon.

PTP Direct Introduces New Flower-Shaped Solar String Lights

Oh, and one other thing about PTP: He was born in Troy, NH, graduated from UNH but made his fortune, and continues to live, in northern California, where he owns a winery (oddly enough named Peter Paul Wines) and runs Headlands Asset Management, an investment management outfit.

Still PAC-ing

Telecom network vendor Huawei is demonstrating point-to-point wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (PtP WDM PON) solution at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC 2015) in Los Angeles.

Huawei to demo point-to-point WDM PON solution

Compact and offering the versatility of five ports, the Moxa EDS-405A-PTP is one of the world's first Ethernet switches using hardware-based time sync to fully comply with the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) specified in the new IEEE 1588v2 real-time clock (RTC) standard.

Moxa Switch enables synchronization of automation systems

Cambium Networks, a global provider of wireless broadband solutions, has launched PTP 650, a sub-6 gigahertz addition to its PTP portfolio.