Land-based aquaculture produces suspended solids in culture pond and settlement pond waters that could be harvested as a bioresource. Suspended solids were quantified, characterised and harvested from these two sources to assess their suitability for conversion to bioproducts. The suspended solids of settlement ponds were less concentrated (87.6±24.7mgL(-1)) than those of culture ponds (131.8±8...

Payment and settlement systems support financial transactions through credit, keep records of transactions by adjusting credit balances and require such balances to be periodically reset through settlement. We study the efficient design of financial trades when the payment system can monitor some transactions better than others and when liquidity provision in the form of settlement is costly. E...

Vibrated stone columns are frequently used as a method of reinforcing soft ground as they provide increased bearing capacity and reduce foundation settlements. Their performance in relation to bearing capacity is well documented, but there is also a need for enhanced understanding of their settlement characteristics, particularly in relation to small-group configurations. This paper presents re...

We describe a simple 2-stage mechanism that induces two bargainers to be truthful in reporting their reservation prices in a 1st stage. If these prices criss-cross, the referee reports that they overlap, and the bargainers proceed to make offers in a 2nd stage. The average of the 2nd-stage offers becomes the settlement if both offers fall into the overlap interval; if only one offer falls into ...

Three size classes of Capitella capitata (Type I ) were fed 4 size ranges of detritus particles derived from red seaweed Gracilaria foliifera. Growth was generally reduced when only the largest particle-size range (150 to 250 pm) was available, and the effect was most pronounced for small worms. Worms lost weight when fed fecal pellets comparable in size to the largest particles of seaweed detr...

Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe during colonization had an enduring effect on economic development, researchers have been unable to assess these predictions directly because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. We construct a new database on the European share of the population during colonization and examine its association with e...

This paper suggests a simple explanation for the cross-section Kuznets curve: endowments of crops and germs that resulted in a permanent European minority settlement are associated with high inequality and intermediate income. Where there was no European settlement, both inequality and income were low. Where Europeans came to constitute the overwhelming majority of the population, income was hi...

In this study a simulation analysis is applied to address the change in banks liquidity demand due to a shift in settlement method brought about by adopting Real Time Gross Settlement System. At the first stage of this research, we use a data generator model along with some information on the time distribution of coded cheques over a working day in order to produce intraday flow of payment...

Voluntary frontier settlement leads to independent agency. Since this type of research has not yet been implemented in ongoing voluntary settlement frontiers, we conducted several cultural tasks to investigate Shenzhen, known as China's ongoing "South Frontier," which is composed mostly of people that have emigrated from other Chinese provinces within the past 30 years. We hypothesized that res...

This paper examines the effects of introducing an auto-collateralization scheme in a simulated securities settlement system. Using artificially generated data, it shows that auto-collateralization can substantially lower liquidity needs without delaying settlement. By allowing for a more efficient usage of collateral, it also reduces intraday credit exposures. The paper further demonstrates how...