Abstract We analyze rights and public offerings when informed shareholders strategically choose to subscribe. Absent wealth constraints, achieve the full information outcome dominate offerings. When some are constrained, lead more dilution of their stakes lower payoffs, despite income from selling these rights. In both offerings, there is a trade-off between investment efficiency transfers amon...

Virtual distillation is an error-mitigation technique that reduces quantum-computation errors without assuming the noise type. In scenarios where user of a quantum circuit required to additionally employ peripherals, such as delay lines, introduce excess noise, we find performance can be improved if peripheral, whenever possible, split across entire circuit, is, when channel uniformly distribut...

OBJECTIVES The Oxoid M.I.C.Evaluator (M.I.C.E; Thermo Fisher Scientific) comprises an antibiotic gradient on a plastic support. We compared its performance with Etest--a similar product--using BSAC agar dilution as a reference. METHODS Parallel MIC tests were performed by M.I.C.Evaluator, Etest and agar dilution on Iso-Sensitest agar. In total, 9354 organism/strip combinations were tested by ...