Abstract: A network computer system determines an upcoming session during which the service provider is expected to utilize an on-demand transport service to provide, or be available to provide, transport services. The network system determines that a vehicle operated by a service provider will likely be charged during the upcoming session time. Further, the network system forecasts a demand for a service provider to provide transport services at each of a plurality of sub-intervals of the upcoming session time. The network system determines one or more sub-intervals of the plurality of sub-intervals for the service provider to charge the vehicle in order to optimize an objective of the service provider, based at least in part on the forecasted demand during one or more of the multiple sub-intervals.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide users with an automated electronic trade matching system for orders to buy and sell fixed income instruments. Embodiments of the present invention may incentivize subscribers to enter unbiased, executable orders in their maximum desired size while discouraging and taming predatory behavior. Embodiments of the present invention may prevent individual subscriber order information from being revealed to other parties unless needed to facilitate the execution and clearance/settlement of subscriber orders or required by law or regulation.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide users with an automated electronic trade matching system for orders to buy and sell fixed income instruments. Embodiments of the present invention may incentivize subscribers to enter unbiased, executable orders in their maximum desired size while discouraging and taming predatory behavior. Embodiments of the present invention may prevent individual subscriber order information from being revealed to other parties unless needed to facilitate the execution and clearance/settlement of subscriber orders or required by law or regulation.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide users with an automated electronic trade matching system for orders to buy and sell fixed income instruments. Embodiments of the present invention may incentivize subscribers to enter unbiased, executable orders in their maximum desired size while discouraging and taming predatory behavior. Embodiments of the present invention may prevent individual subscriber order information from being revealed to other parties unless needed to facilitate the execution and clearance/settlement of subscriber orders or required by law or regulation.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide users with an automated electronic trade matching system for orders to buy and sell fixed income instruments. Embodiments of the present invention may incentivize subscribers to enter unbiased, executable orders in their maximum desired size while discouraging and taming predatory behavior. Embodiments of the present invention may prevent individual subscriber order information from being revealed to other parties unless needed to facilitate the execution and clearance/settlement of subscriber orders or required by law or regulation.

Abstract: Methods and systems for reviewing content items created by users for presentation in association with a website are provided. Automatic scrubbing (followed by manual review, if necessary) of user-created content items that have yet to be presented in association with a website is provided as is manual review of user-created content items that have already been presented in association with a website at the request of a user.

Abstract: An oil containment boom is provided herein. It includes an elongated member of generally V-shaped cross-section, which is provided by a front wall section and a (preferably higher) rear wall section, joined together along respective lower edges. Ballast means are provided for normally maintaining the elongated member upright with the joint between the front and rear walls at the bottom. Float means (preferably inflatable) are provided, which are disposed between the front wall and the rear wall at a predetermined and preselected level above the joint. Drainage means are provided within the front wall to permit polluted liquid which has rolled over the front wall and is trapped in the V-shaped member constituted by the front and rear walls to escape therefrom to an area upstream of the front wall. A novel method of containing oil spills in ice infested water is also provided.