In the present paper, we argue that the relative location of peripheral spontaneous settlements is dynamic and changes with the growth of the city. The periphery is a place under constant mutation, always reproducing new extensions of land while the old peripheries are gradually incorporated to the city and occupied by new inhabitants. It focuses on the process of consolidation within the urban...

This paper presents an empirical investigation of the consolidation process among banking organizations over the past 40 years. As merger announcements in the news make clear, consolidation is a continuing saga. While consolidation has been the dominant characteristic of the banking industry for decades, tests show that consolidation has not been a stable process. These tests indicate that nine...

Memory consolidation underpins adaptive behavior and dopaminergic networks may be critical for prolonged, selective information storage. To understand the time course of the dopaminergic contribution to memory consolidation in humans, here we investigate the effect of dopaminergic medication on recall and recognition in the short and longer term in Parkinson disease (PD). Fifteen people with PD...

This paper summarizes recent findings on the amygdala’s role in mediating acute effects of glucocorticoids on memory consolidation in rats. Posttraining activation of glucocorticoidsensitive pathways involving glucocorticoid receptors (GRs or type II) enhances memory consolidation in a dose-dependent inverted-U fashion. Selective lesions of the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala (BLA) or infus...

The ability to suppress unwanted emotional memories is crucial for human mental health. Through consolidation over time, emotional memories often become resistant to change. However, how consolidation impacts the effectiveness of emotional memory suppression is still unknown. Using event-related fMRI while concurrently recording skin conductance, we investigated the neurobiological processes un...

Many production systems have acquisition and merge operations to increase productivity. This paper proposes a novel method to anticipate whether a merger in a market is generating a major or a minor consolidation, using Inverse data envelopment analysis (InvDEA) model. A merger between two or more decision making units (DMUs) producing a single merged DMU that affects the efficiency frontier, d...

Server consolidation is a vital mechanism in modern data centers in order to minimize expenses with infrastructure. In most cases, server consolidation may require migrating virtual machines between different physical servers. Although the downtime of live-migration is negligible, the amount of time to migrate all virtual machines can be substantial, delaying the completion of the consolidation...

Acquiring a new skill requires learning multiple aspects of a task simultaneously. For example, learning a piano sonata requires learning the musical notes and being able to implement this goal by learning the appropriate sequence of finger movements. After practice, skill continues to develop off-line during a period of consolidation. Here we show that different aspects of a procedural memory ...

Residents of the Hudson-Mohawk River Watershed and the state of New York face serious challenges during coming years to maintain water infrastructure, including both water supply and sewage treatment. For example, maintaining wastewater infrastructure is expected to cost more than $36 billion by 2028 (NY-DEC 2008). Given this extremely high cost, one of the few potential opportunities for subst...

10 to 15% of acute myeloid leukemia cases are patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). There are unique features of APL as reciprocal translocation between the long arms of chromosomes 15 and 17, younger age of onset, and severe consumptive coagulopathy with a high incidence of early fatal hemorrhage. Current treatment of APL combines alltrans-retinoic acid (ATRA) with anthracyclinebas...