Winter flounder settlement dynamics and the modification of settlement patterns by post-settlement processes in a NW Atlantic estuary

Settlement Risk under Gross and Net Settlement

Previous comparative analyses of gross and net settlement have focused on the credit risk of the central counterparty in net settlement arrangements, and on the incentives for participants to alter the risk of the portfolio under net settlement. By modeling the trading economy that generates the demand for payment services, we are able to show some largely unexplored advantages of net settlemen...

Recruitment of Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus: Do postsettlement processes disrupt or reinforce initial patterns of settlement?*

Understanding the causes of fluctuations in population abundance is critical for ecologists and fishery biologists. For marine fishes with life histories in which adults have limited home ranges and larvae are pelagic and advected vast distances from natal sites, an understanding of variability in larval supply to local populations is critical for understanding the mechanisms that produce dynam...

1 Path - dependence in settlement processes : explaining settlement in Northern Ireland

The recent literature on path-dependence provides a model that can be used in explanation of ethnic conflict and settlement processes. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article ies this paper suggests that it is indeed possible to identify path-dependent patternsIt ortance , the generation of ‘endogenous’ processes of change, these. It shows how and why factors such as power, percept...

Encouragement of Settlement and PopulationAttracting in the New Towns – Egypt

The Egyptian new towns experience is among the most comprehensive and ambitious, regionallyand worldwide. Initiated as a governmental policy within a general strategy to tackle the multitude of problemsburdening Egyptian settlements in general and major and secondary cities surrounded by agricultural land. New townswere thought as an effective partial solution for the problems of: encroachment ...

The Settlement Black Box