Settlement and post-settlement processes of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra Jaeger were studied in the laboratory. Independent and paired choice experiments revealed that several substrates could induce metamorphosis into pentactulae, but that specific substrates favoured settlement. Leaves of seagrass Thalassia hemprichii, with or without their natural bio-film, yielded the highest settleme...

Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort reform are small for infants in...

Elevation of the K+ concentration in seawater (added as KC1) induces larval settlement and metamorphosis in Bugula simplex, B. stolonifera, and B. turrita. All three of these bryozoan species have similar bell-shaped dose-response curves: 5 mM excess K+ is sufficient to increase settlement and metamorphosis significantly over seawater controls in all the species and optimal responses to excess ...

So far insufficient research has been done on the long-term behavior of micropiles embedded in a clay medium, even though this significant influence expected total settlement. This paper considers square foundation placed bed and tested under vertical loads until reached its bearing capacity. Subsequently, plate was underpinned with four micropiles, load test repeated. These data were used to v...

The Brazilian Agrarian Reform Program has subsidized the settlement of over 425,000 destitute families on previously unproductive land in what has become a very effective vehicle for social inclusion and productivity growth for those settlers who reach the final stage of the process and receive definitive title to the land. Unfortunately, there is a large difference in efficiency and productivi...

We study the effect of the life settlement market on the structure of long term contracts offered by the primary market for life insurance, as well as the effect on consumer welfare, using a dynamic model of life insurance with one sided commitment and bequest-driven lapsation. We show that the presence of life settlement affects the extent as well as the form of dynamic reclassification risk i...

Increasing stress from global warming, sea level rise, acidification, sedimentation, pollution, and unsustainable practices have degraded the most critical coastal ecosystems including coral reefs, oyster reefs, and salt marshes. Conventional restoration methods work only under perfect conditions, but fail nearly completely when the water becomes too hot or water quality deteriorates. New metho...

UTICA, March 25—Two, city of Utica employees won a $3,500 settlement from the City recently as the result of a suit brought by the pair charging their jobs had been Illegally abolished. The petitioners were Charles Hudson, former superintendent of ,, buildings, and Chester Mllostan, a former building Inspector for the city. John Kel y, Jr., counsel for the Civil Service Employees A'isoclatlon a...

O2 consumption of a single embryo/planula at each developmental stage was monitored in the reef-building coral Acropora intermedia using an optical O2-sensing system with our original micro-chamber system (6.28 μl). The lowest rate of O2 consumption was observed in unfertilized eggs. After fertilization, O2 consumption increased and remained constant until the prawn chip blastula stage. However...

Previous research has shown that the reasons for lapsation have important implications regarding the effects of the emerging life settlement market on consumer welfare. We present and empirically implement a dynamic discrete choice model of life insurance decisions to assess the importance of various factors in explaining life insurance lapsations. In order to explain some key features in the d...