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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Wood and cellulose are the most abundant and important sustainable materials on the planet at the disposal to solve major societal challenges. This perspective, written for all materials scientists, highlights how breakthroughs in cellulose nanotechnology combined with functional nanomaterials can revolutionize important areas like construction ...
Mahiar Max Hamedi +5 more
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Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers in Retrospective and Perspective [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 We introduce blockchains and distributed ledgers and describe their potential applications to money and banking. The analysis compares public and private ledgers and outlines the suitability of various types of ledgers for different purposes. Furthermore, a few historical prototypes of blockchains and distributed ledgers are presented, and results of ...
arxiv
Telecom traffic and investment in developing countries : the effects of international settlement rate reductions [PDF]
Developing countries, which received about $35 billion in net settlement payments from the United States telecom carriers between 1985 and 1998, were upset by the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to slash rates, because lower rates mean
Wallsten, Scott J.
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Seeking Rights, Not Rent: How Litigation Finance Can Help Break Music Copyright\u27s Precedent Gridlock [PDF]
, 2017 Since its inception, litigation finance has steadily grown in prevalence and popularity in the United States. While many scholars have examined its merits, few have considered litigation finance specifically in the context of copyright law.
Chappell, Glenn E.
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The Effects of Securities Class Action Litigation on Corporate Liquidity and Investment Policy [PDF]
, 2015 The risk of securities class action litigation alters corporate savings and investment policy. Firms with greater exposure to securities litigation hold significantly more cash in anticipation of future settlements and other related costs.
Arena, Matteo P., Julio, Brandon
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Conflict and Health, 2019 Background The role of migration pathway (refugees vs. asylum seekers) is seldom addressed in extant literature that looks at gender and mental health of humanitarian migrants.
Yara Jarallah, Janeen Baxter
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.The formation of stable clusters of gold nanoparticles with oligonucleotides at different solution conditions is explored. DNA base homogeneity and strand directionality influence the binding with gold nanoparticles leading to interesting clustering behavior that can be relevant for SERS applications.
Shaila Thakur +3 more
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Arbitrage Pricing of Multi-person Game Contingent Claims [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 We introduce a class of financial contracts involving several parties by extending the notion of a two-person game option (see Kifer (2000)) to a contract in which an arbitrary number of parties is involved and each of them is allowed to make a wide array of decisions at any time, not restricted to simply `exercising the option'.
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Towards an Economic Analysis of Routing in Payment Channel Networks [PDF]
, 2017 Payment channel networks are supposed to overcome technical scalability limitations of blockchain infrastructure by employing a special overlay network with fast payment confirmation and only sporadic settlement of netted transactions on the blockchain.
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Cash Settlement of Lean Hog Futures Contracts Reexamined [PDF]
In 1997 the Chicago Mercantile Exchange replaced its live hog futures contract with a cash settlement mechanism based on a Lean Hog Index. Although cash settlement was expected to increase the use of the contract as a hedging tool, producers and packers ...
Frank, Julieta +3 more
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