Fragmenting clearing across multiple central counter-parties (CCPs) is costly. This because dealers providing liquidity globally, cannot net trades cleared in different CCPs and this increases their collateral costs. These costs are then passed on to clients through price distortions which take the form of a differential (basis) when same products CCPs. Using proprietary data, we document an ec...

We construct a random matching model to study the effects of clearing arrangements for private money on the prices at which private monies trade, the volume of exchange, and welfare. In a model with full information, clearing arrangements eliminate discounts on private monies issued in other locations, the volume of exchange increases, and welfare increases. However, with private information ab...

Clearing and labeling techniques for large-scale biological tissues enable simultaneous extraction of molecular and structural information with minimal disassembly of the sample, facilitating the integration of molecular, cellular and systems biology across different scales. Recent years have witnessed an explosive increase in the number of such methods and their applications, reflecting height...

Part of the optical clearing study in biological tissues concerns the determination of the diffusion characteristics of water and optical clearing agents in the subject tissue. Such information is sufficient to characterize the time dependence of the optical clearing mechanisms—tissue dehydration and refractive index (RI) matching. We have used a simple method based on collimated optical transm...

The importance of plasma lipoproteins in normal and abnormal fat metabolism has stimulated interest in the heparin-induced lipemia clearing system first observed by Hahn (2). As a result of the efforts of several independent investigators (3,4), it is now known that,, upon the administrat’ion of heparin to animals of many different species, an enzyme appears in the blood which is able to “clear...

Objective. Evaluation of the efficacy of Crest Herbal Crystal Toothpaste in "clearing internal heat." Methods. This was a randomized, double-blind, controlled parallel design clinical test of a product that was already on the market. 72 subjects were randomly assigned to control group (group A with Colgate Herbal Salty Toothpaste) or treatment group (group B with Crest Herbal Crystal Toothpaste...

Other substances, in addition to the heparin clearing factor, exert a plasma-clearing effect under experimental conditions. A mucin compound extracted from the pig gastric mucosa has recently been included among such substances. Its clearing effect, as evaluated by variations in plasma optical density, is as constant and evident as that of heparin, both in normal and atherosclerotic subjects un...

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) imaging is combined with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy to follow the process of optical clearing in human skin ex vivo using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as the optical clearing agent. SHG imaging revealed that DMSO introduces morphological changes to the collagen I matrix. By carefully measuring the dynamic tissue attenuation of the coher...