[BOOK][B] Bitcoin: A primer for policymakers

J Brito, A Castillo - 2013 - books.google.com
As the world’s first decentralized digital currency, Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize
online payments systems in a way that benefits consumers and businesses. Instead of using …

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi‐arid Mediterranean grasslands

…, I Martínez, P García‐Palacios, AP Castillo… - Ecology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The worldwide phenomenon of shrub encroachment in grass‐dominated dryland ecosystems
is commonly associated with desertification. Studies of the purported desertification effects …

The Arabidopsis-accelerated cell death gene ACD2 encodes red chlorophyll catabolite reductase and suppresses the spread of disease symptoms

JM Mach, AR Castillo, R Hoogstraten… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
accelerated cell death 2 (acd2) mutants of Arabidopsis have spontaneous spreading cell
death lesions and constitutive activation of defenses in the absence of pathogen infection. …

Bitcoin financial regulation: Securities, derivatives, prediction markets, and gambling

J Brito, H Shadab, A Castillo - Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev., 2014 - HeinOnline
Bitcoin presents a unique challenge to policymakers. On the one hand, because it is an open
protocol and a decentralized network, there is no company or central server that can be …

Resilience Metrics for the Electric Power System: A Performance-Based Approach.

ED Vugrin, AR Castillo, CA Silva-Monroy - 2017 - osti.gov
Grid resilience is a concept related to a power system's ability to continue operating and
delivering power even in the event that low probability, high-consequence disruptions such as …

[PDF][PDF] Projecting the growth and economic impact of the internet of things

A Thierer, A Castillo - George Mason University, Mercatus Center …, 2015 - mercatus.org
The next big wave of data-driven technological innovation will connect physical devices
embedded with tiny computing devices to the Internet in an effort to seamlessly improve the …

The yeast protein kinase Mps1p is required for assembly of the integral spindle pole body component Spc42p

AR Castillo, JB Meehl, G Morgan… - The Journal of cell …, 2002 - rupress.org
Saccharomyces cerevisiae MPS1 encodes an essential protein kinase that has roles in spindle
pole body (SPB) duplication and the spindle checkpoint. Previously characterized MPS1 …

De novo kinetochore assembly requires the centromeric histone H3 variant

KA Collins, AR Castillo, SY Tatsutani… - Molecular biology of the …, 2005 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Kinetochores mediate chromosome attachment to the mitotic spindle to ensure accurate
chromosome segregation. Budding yeast is an excellent organism for kinetochore assembly …

Marginal loss calculations for the DCOPF

B Eldridge, RP O'Neill, AR Castillo - 2016 - osti.gov
The purpose of this paper is to explain some aspects of including a marginal line loss
approximation in the DCOPF. The DCOPF optimizes electric generator dispatch using simplified …

Low-cost emerging technologies as a tool to support informal environmental education in children from vulnerable public schools of southern Chile

D Alò, A Castillo, P Marín Vial… - International journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Reform to the Chilean educational system seeks to improve public education, adapting the
school curriculum to new technologies and the information revolution. Our study focused on …