"People don't want to book for as long as usual," said Ms. Poret, who added that some homeowners have reduced minimum rental periods from seven to five nights.
Some participants will be eligible for the reduced minimum payments this month as well as the 20-year repayment term; the remainder will be eligible in 2014.
UK-proposed changes discussed in the negotiations include: more freedom for procurers to negotiate with suppliers; simplification of supplier selection/prequalification process; and faster procurement through reduced minimum timescales.
As for raising minimum repayments, this addresses a real concern, as major providers such as Capital One, Halifax and MBNA have recently reduced minimum repayments which, they say, helps hard-pressed consumers, but in the long run could earn them a fortune.
Thus, considering the conceptual differences between clustering and stratification approaches, a reduced minimum level of similarity (25%%) for amalgamating groups of interest into one stratum was established.
It was demonstrated that the bistatic configuration exhibits the advantage of a reduced minimum required pulse rate frequency (PRF) compared to that required in the monostatic case, reducing potential aliasing.
