Payment systems are one of the key Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) and have showed remarkable progress over the past two decades. The first half of this chapter focuses on the evolutionary process of payment systems, starting with the Deferred Net Settlement (DNS) system and progressing to the RealTime Gross Settlement (RTGS) system. Subsequently, much more sophisticated payment systems...

A lot of work has been done on drawing word senses into retrieval to deal with the word sense ambiguity problem, but most of them achieved negative results. In this paper, we first implement a WSD system for nouns and verbs, then the language sense model (LSM) for information retrieval is proposed. The LSM combines the terms and senses of a document seamlessly through an EM algorithm. Retrieval...

We investigated the underlying physical and chemical causes of the improvement of electrochemical activity of the cathode in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) under long term cathodic or anodic polarization, termed ‘current conditioning’, through in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The electrodes were powder La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 (LSM) made with glycine-nitrate process and thin films of LSM and L...

Abstract The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of the most popular methods used in Multi-Attribute Decision Making. The Eigenvector Method (EM) and some distance minimizing methods such as the Least Squares Method (LSM) are of the possible tools for computing the priorities of the alternatives. A method for generating all the solutions of the LSM problem for 3 × 3 and 4 × 4 matrices is di...

Log-structured merge (LSM) trees offer efficient ingestion by appending incoming data, and thus, are widely used as the storage layer of production NoSQL data stores. To enable competitive read performance, LSM-trees periodically re-organize to form a tree with levels exponentially increasing capacity, through iterative compactions. Compactions fundamentally influence performance an LSM-engine ...

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The electrochemical reduction of oxygen on Lanthanum Manganite(LSM) electrodes has been investigated by cyclic voltammetry, AC impedance and, in particular, potential step. An emphasis was given to the study of the kinetics of the formation of oxygen vacancy, which is shown to be the main cause for the reserved hysteresis in cyclic voltammograms and for the increase in the electrochemical activ...

We develop a dynamic dictionary data structure for the GPU, supporting fast insertions and deletions, based on the Log Structured Merge tree (LSM). Our implementation on an NVIDIA K40c GPU has an average update (insertion or deletion) rate of 225 M elements/s, 13.5x faster than merging items into a sorted array. The GPU LSM supports the retrieval operations of lookup, count, and range query ope...

Synchronized verbal behavior can reveal important information about social dynamics. This study introduces the linguistic style matching (LSM) algorithm for calculating verbal mimicry based on an automated textual analysis of function words. The LSM algorithm was applied to language generated during a small group discussion in which 70 groups comprised of 324 individuals engaged in an informati...

The 2016 BRATS includes imaging data on 191 patients diagnosed with low and high grade gliomas. We present a novel method for multimodal brain segmentation, which consists of (1) an automated, accurate and robust method for image segmentation, combined with (2) semi-automated and interactive multimodal labeling. The image segmentation applies Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), a decomposi...