General Overview of the Area and Future Trends

Author(s):  
Oscar Castillo ◽  
Patricia Melin
Author(s):  
Marc Pasquet ◽  
Sylvain Vernois ◽  
Wilfried Aubry

Money has two main forms nowadays: the fiduciary money (coins, banknotes…) and the scriptural one (electronic or virtual). To pay goods, both are used. The electronic money, one specific form of the scripting money, is more and more used everywhere in the world. Electronic payment has many particularities: specific infrastructure, equipment, and software, new forms of regulations, technical agreements, normalizations, fraud limitations… The objective of this chapter is to present a general overview of electronic payment. The background section presents its historical evolution. In the main thrust, the chapter focuses first on the general architecture of electronic payment. Second, different authorization mechanisms for the processing of the banking transaction and for fraud prevention are detailed. Future trends stress the different research topics that should be investigated, especially concerning the SEPA program (Single Euro Payments Area), which will harmonize bank payment systems in Europe through 2012.


Author(s):  
Carles Carreras i Verdaguer ◽  
Lluís Frago Clols ◽  
Eduard Montesinos Ciuró

Consumption is one of the less know variable in urban studies. The article presents a general overview of Catalan and Barcelona study case, summarizing almost thirty years of research, with the goal to isolate the main contemporary trends of retail and consumption in the area. The recent economic processes in the Catalan context are analyzed in the first place. At the same scale, the level of analysis is again recentered on the changes into the metropolitan and regional Barcelona, focussing in the perspective of the old slogan of Catalonia-city. The necessity of the restructuration of the scale of the analysis is proposed. After, the lens is adjusted to the city of Barcelona case, focussing on the relevant change in his traditional centrality. Finally some future trends are advanced.


Author(s):  
Lucca Centa Malucelli ◽  
Washington Luiz Esteves Magalhães

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Taormina ◽  
Corrado Sciancalepore ◽  
Massimo Messori ◽  
Federica Bondioli

The aim of this review is a faithful report of the panorama of solutions adopted to fabricate a component using vat photopolymerization (VP) processes. A general overview on additive manufacturing and on the different technologies available for polymers is given. A comparison between stereolithography and digital light processing is also presented, with attention to different aspects and to the advantages and limitations of both technologies. Afterward, a quick overview of the process parameters is given, with an emphasis on the necessities and the issues associated with the VP process. The materials are then explored, starting from base matrix materials to composites and nanocomposites, with attention to examples of applications and explanations of the main factors involved.


Author(s):  
Amy Lustig ◽  
Cesar Ruiz

The purpose of this article is to present a general overview of the features of drug-induced movement disorders (DIMDs) comprised by Parkinsonism and extrapyramidal symptoms. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who work with patients presenting with these issues must have a broad understanding of the underlying disease process. This article will provide a brief introduction to the neuropathophysiology of DIMDs, a discussion of the associated symptomatology, the pharmacology implicated in causing DIMDs, and the medical management approaches currently in use.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A30-A30
Author(s):  
J HELM ◽  
J BARTHEL ◽  
D COPPOLA ◽  
P LAZARUS ◽  
S LUTHER ◽  
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1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 466-467
Author(s):  
Lori A. Ingram
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