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Must-Take Cards: Merchant Discounts and Avoided Costs [PDF]

, 2011
Antitrust authorities often argue that merchants cannot reasonably turn down payment cards and therefore must accept excessively high merchant discounts. The paper attempts to shed light on this “must-take cards” view from two angles.
ROCHET, Jean Charles, TIROLE, Jean
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Dimethyl Fumarate, But Not Rituximab, Reduces Serum GFAP Levels and PIRMA in Relapsing–Remitting MS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (sGFAP) levels are believed to reflect mainly acute and chronic disease processes in multiple sclerosis (MS), respectively. In this study, we investigated whether dimethyl fumarate (DMF) and rituximab (RTX) differentially affect these biomarkers.
F. Shawket, J. Lycke, J. Salzer, F. Piehl, K. Fink, N. Lange, J. Mellergård, C. Malmeström, P. Sundström, I. Erngren, A. al‐Grety, E. Freyhult, K. Kultima, J. Burman, A. Svenningsson   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subclinical Optic Nerve Involvement in Radiologically Isolated Syndrome: Multimodal Detection and Diagnostic Impact

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives We aimed to determine the frequency of subclinical optic nerve (ON) lesions using MRI, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and visual evoked potentials (VEP) in radiologically isolated syndrome (RIS), and to assess their diagnostic and prognostic significance.
Christine Lebrun‐Frenay, Cassandre Landes‐Château, Lydiane Mondot, Mikael Cohen, Margherita Popolo, Jérôme de Seze, Bertrand Bourre, Françoise Durand‐Dubief, Olivier Casez, Orhun H. Kantarci, Aksel Siva, Stephanie Baillif, Darin T. Okuda, Letizia Leocani   +13 more
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Quantitative MRI Uncovers Subtle Cortical Damage in Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody‐Associated Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether myelin‐sensitive quantitative MRI reveals microstructural abnormalities in normal‐appearing cortex (NACtx) in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease (MOGAD), indicating that conventional MRI underestimates remission residual cortical injury.
Valentina Camera, Agnese Tamanti, Silvia Messina, Nicola Dall'Osto, Teresa Maltempo, Stefano Ziccardi, Matteo Foschi, Maria Grazia Piscaglia, Diana Ferraro, Francesco Crescenzo, Francesca Rossi, Albulena Bajrami, Sabrina Marangoni, Damiano Marastoni, Francesca Benedetta Pizzini, Maria Isabel Leite, Roberta Magliozzi, Patrick Waters, Massimiliano Calabrese, Jacqueline Palace, Ruth Geraldes   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal Divergence of True and False Alarms in Pediatric Nocturnal Seizure Monitoring

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
The early‐morning surge in false seizure alarms supports exploring time‐ or state‐dependent detection thresholds to reduce false detections. ABSTRACT Seizure detection devices can improve the safety of children with epilepsy, yet high false alarms limit their clinical applicability.
Mohammad Shahbakhti, Anemoon T. Bosch, Job van der Palen, Franciscus S. Leijten, Johannes P. van Dijk, Richard H. C. Lazeron, Roland D. Thijs   +6 more
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Gallium Microalloying in Bi–Sn Solders: Interfacial Phase Formation, Wettability, and Long‐Term Shear Reliability Under Isothermal Aging

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Gallium microalloying redirects interfacial reactions in low‐temperature Bi–Sn solders from Cu–Sn toward Cu–Ga intermetallic formation. The resulting Cu–Ga layer suppresses intermetallic growth during thermal aging, alters fracture pathways, and improves interfacial stability.
Iva Králová, Markéta Klimtová, Mohd Faizul Mohd Sabri, Yew Hoong Wong, Petr Veselý, Martin Plaček, Karel Dušek   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

從法律觀點談信用卡系統之成本與效益 ― 以澳洲信用卡制度改革為例 The Cost and Efficiency of Credit Card Schemes ― A Comparative Study on the Australian Regulatory Reform for Credit Card [PDF]

Kējì Fǎxué Pínglùn, 2006
隨信用卡使用之廣泛與普及，有關競爭法問題也漸受重視。本文擬就其中與成本定價相關之二大議題進行討論，其一為交換費用（Interchange fees）之制訂與衍生相關競爭法議題，其二為禁止特約商店額外收取信用卡使用費（no surcharge rule）之適法性討論，及其分別對經濟體付款制度之影響。 本文主要以澳洲政府近年來有關信用卡支付系統之改革為主要範本，旁及美國、歐盟等檢討現況，並進一步再就相關問題提出個人分析與評論。交換費用之聯合制訂有其必要性，由廠商分別締約反有礙信用卡作業效率 ...
林育廷 Yu-Ting Lin
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perfect surcharging and the tourist test interchange fee [PDF]

, 2010
Two widely discussed pricing benchmarks in the literature on payment cards markets are the "tourist test" interchange fee (Rochet and Tirole, 2010), which internalizes usage externalities in payment card markets, and "perfect surcharging" by merchants ...
Hans Zenger, Zenger, Hans
core   +2 more sources

Tunable p–p Interactions Along Linear Chains Control Metavalent Bonding in Chalcogenide Heterostructures

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Substitution of Sr at the Pb site within an atomic plane of PbTe perturbs the p–p hopping network. Since Sr does not support the p–p interaction key to metavalent bonding along (‐Pb‐Te‐) chains, long‐range electronic charge transfer in response to displacement of Pb is stalked at the Sr site.
Sakshi Verma, Kanishka Biswas, Umesh V. Waghmare, C. N. R. Rao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source