Complement and coagulation: strangers or partners in crime?

Coagulation cascade and complement system in systemic lupus erythematosus

This study was conducted to (1) characterize coagulation cascade and complement system in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); (2) evaluate the associations between coagulation cascade, complement system, inflammatory response and SLE disease severity; (3) test the diagnostic value of a combination of D-dimer and C4 for lupus activity. Transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics were performed ...

Framing and Feedback in Social Dilemmas with Partners and Strangers

We study framing effects in repeated social dilemmas by comparing payoff-equivalent Giveand Take-framed public goods games under varying matching mechanisms (Partners or Strangers) and levels of feedback (Aggregate or Individual). In the Give-framed game, players contribute to a public good, while in the Take-framed game, players take from an existing public good. The results show Take framing ...

Conditional Cooperation and Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays a repeated public good game to a strangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations. Subjects in the partners condition contribute from the first period on significantly more to the public good than subjects in the strangers condition. In the strangers condition, contributions show a continu...

Output Sharing Among Groups Exploiting Common Pool Resources

Many economic decisions are susceptible to either free-riding, or excessive rivalry or overextraction. Equally sharing output in partnerships introduces a free-riding incentive which may offset the latter. We conduct a laboratory experiment to assess the performance of output sharing in partnerships by introducing equal-sharing subgroups of size one, four and six into a twelve-person common poo...

1 Individual Self , Relational Self , and Collective Self Partners , Opponents , or Strangers ?