Slock


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v. t.1.To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Cross-sectional averages arc computed over daily averages per slock. Our sample period spans 12 months, from January to December 2013.
Arye Bebchuk et al., Slock Pyramids, Cross-Ownership, and Dual Class
(47.) EMILIOS AVGOULEAS, THE MECHANICS AND REGULATION OF MARKET ABUSE: A LEGAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 212 (2005) ("Such misallocation of resources has a detrimental effect for the economy as a whole, and this can be witnessed by the dearth of capital available for investment that followed the recent slock bubble and the eruption of the Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and other corporate frauds.").
Slock.It utilizes smart contracts to automate payments for sharing and rentals.
One such example of smart contracts being executed using programmable devices as well as blockchain technology is Slock.it, which is currently developing devices (small computers that attach to physical assets, such as doors of apartments or cars or bicycles) that will allow owners of idle physical assets (such as apartments or cars) to rent them out directly to renters.
Levin, The; False Promise of Worker Capitalism: Congress and the Leveraged Slock Ownership Plan, 95 YALE L.J.
The SEC did so in July 2017, when it issued an investigation report concerning the applicability of securities laws to tokens issued by the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)--a crowdsource venture capital platform created by Slock.it, a German entity.
The SEC was investigating the sale of DAO Tokens, created and sold by German company Slock.it UG and based on cryptocurrency Ether, which is in turn based on the Ethereum blockchain.
Taking Slock: Gains in Health Insurance Coverage under the ACA as of March 2015.
Slock, "Cramer-rao bounds for power delay profile fingerprinting based positioning", Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, 2011, pp.