The cross-border securities settlement in Europe is still said to be highly inefficient. One main reason can be seen in technical barriers between the different domestic settlement systems. Beside efforts to implement industryspecific communication standards an integration of the different settlement systems is necessary. The CSD-link model, the hub and spokes model, and the European CSD model ...

introduction: whitening toothpastes which have been accepted in populations may affect properties of enamel and restorative materials. the aim of this study was to compare the microhardness of human enamel and z250 microhybrid composite resin after brushing with two whitening toothpastes. materials and methods: in this experimental study of enamel specimens, forty five freshly extracted human i...

We investigate the role of settlement in a dynamic model of a payment system where the ability of participants to perform certain welfare-improving transactions is subject to random and unobservable shocks. In the absence of settlement, the full information first-best allocation cannot be supported due to incentive constraints. In contrast, this allocation is supportable if settlement is introd...

We present a simple, automatic method for extracting feature curves, called crest lines, from point clouds. Crest lines are surface shape features having a mathematical background. Given an unstructured point cloud as input, we pre-process the data to generate some topological information by creating an undirectional surface graph. The method starts with the approximation of normal curvature on...

The global mussel aquaculture industry uses specialised spat catching and nursery culture ropes made of multi-filament synthetic and natural fibres to optimise settlement and retention of mussels for on-growing. However, the settlement ecology and preferences of mussels are poorly understood and only sparse information exists in a commercial context. This study quantified the settlement prefere...

A static and a dynamic analysis model are separately established using ABAQUS finite element program to study the mechanical properties of track structure and running stability and safety of the vehicle under the condition that uneven settlement of bridge piers exists. The static model is aimed at studying the effects caused by uneven settlement alone and the dynamic one is for the effects indu...

Traditional methods of settlement prediction of shallow foundations on granular soils are far from accurate and consistent. This can be attributed to the fact that the problem of estimating the settlement of shallow foundations on granular soils is very complex and not yet entirely understood. Recently, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been shown to outperform the most commonly used tradi...

Previous analyses of single neural crest cell trajectories have suggested important roles for interactions between neural crest cells and the environment, and amongst neural crest cells. To test the relative contribution of intrinsic versus extrinsic information in guiding cells to their appropriate sites, we ablated subpopulations of premigratory chick hindbrain neural crest and followed the r...

After a year and a half of negotiations and failure of an earlier settlement proposal to obtain Congressional approval, the four largest cigarette manufacturers reached a settlement with 46 states over state claims against the tobacco industry on November 23, 1998. According to the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), cigarette manufacturers agreed to pay participating states $206 billion over th...

Present study consists the, effect of temperature (10-30C), salinity (15-35 psu) and biofilm on the settlement of Enteromorpha flexousa zoospores. Settlement of zoospores was significantly (p<0.05) influenced by both temperature and salinity. Highest percentage of settlement occurred at 25C and 30 psu respectively. Subsequently the influence of biofilm was evaluated at the optimum 25C and 30 ps...