Weconsider full-truthfulNash implementation, which requires that truth telling by each agent should be a Nash equilibrium of a direct revelation mechanism, and that the set of Nash equilibrium outcomes of the mechanism should coincide with the f -optimal outcome. We show that restricted monotonicity together with an auxiliary condition called boundedness is both necessary and sufficient for ful...

Preamble The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) is dedicated to advancing patient care and digestive health by promoting excellence in gastrointestinal endoscopy. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) is dedicated to improving public health and well-being by lessening the burden of the disease of obesity and related diseases. They are the largest p...

ISSN 2041-6792 10.4155/CLI.10.19 © 2011 Future Science Ltd Despite advances in critical care, the incidence and mortality from severe sepsis remains unacceptably high. Numerous strategies focusing on the pathophysiology of severe sepsis are being pursued. Bacteria and bacterial products that trigger sepsis are being targeted via antibodies, signaling antagonists and filtration columns. Excessiv...

Clin. Invest. (2014) 4(4), 359–343 ISSN 2041-6792 Despite aggressive prevention efforts, ventilator-associated pneumonia is still the most common nosocomial infection in intensive care units. It increases mortality and morbidity. Since the most recent guidelines published in 2007, few new antibiotics have emerged and clinicians are facing more and more resistant pathogens. This review summarize...

Although an increasing number of manufacturing enterprises have engaged in e-commerce activities in recent years, there are few successful examples. We utilize the notion of resource orchestration as a theoretical lens through which to investigate the nature of the e-commerce adoption process. The findings generate a process model that can be used to explain how resources are orchestrated in th...

In its current state of early development, the field of knowledge management (KM) is increasingly characterized by a small number of recurrent dichotomies. Chief among these is the distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge that Nonaka and others seem to have borrowed from Polanyi’s educational theory. The reverence this dichotomy is now accorded is considerable, and nearly every work wri...

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We observed earlier that central -2 adrenoceptor stimulation in mice greatly augments parasympathetic tone. To test the effects in humans, we assessed autonomic vasomotor tone and baroreflex regulation in 9 normal young adults on 2 occasions, once with and once without clonidine. We determined heart rate (HR), beat-by-beat blood pressure (BP), and muscle sympathetic nerve activity. HR variabili...