Cell therapy has emerged as an advanced medical technology for restoring damaged tissues and organs. Of the various possible cell types, MSCs have been used most frequently in experiments and in clinical trials in the field of regenerative medicine [1]. Since the technical difficulties of manufacturing MSCs and the regulatory restrictions imposed tend to be barriers to clinical application [2],...

This paper investigates some important constraints on the licensing of nominals in the so-called Multiple Nominative Constructions (MNCs) in Korean from a mereological point of view, proposing a semantic relation hierarchy. The main idea advanced in this paper is that MNCs are cyclically formed only when the relationship between the two consecutive NPs satisfies one of the conceptual constraint...

Despite inpatriates’ growing importance for the scope of international business, research on this specific group of international assignees transferred to the corporate headquarters (HQ) of multinational corporations (MNCs) still remains in its infancy. Due to this research gap a qualitative approach to the analysis of inpatriates’ experiences was selected to uncover directions for subsequent r...

This paper contributes to turnover research by deriving a typology of retention practices and investigating their applicability in multinational corporations’ (MNCs) foreign subsidiaries in the light of homeand host-country effects. Linking institutional and strategic HRM perspectives, the paper then proposes a conceptual framework examining how MNCs can maximize their retention capacity. Speci...

Chinese Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions (CBMA) have accounted for a majority of Chinese outward direct investment (OFDI) and thus received much academic attention in recent years. Along with China’s integration with global economies, hundreds of Chinese companies have become multinational corporations (MNCs). Equipped with little internationalisation experiences and resources, Chinese MNCs ...

The paper starts with a summary of the way the new theories of international trade have incorporated the role of multinational companies (MNCs) in the location of production. The main, specific assumptions used to incorporate MNCs’ activities relate to joint inputs at the company’s level combined with assumptions regarding costs at the plant level and spatial transaction costs. It is claimed th...

Managing knowledge has become a new reality for multinational corporations (MNCs). Previous studies in the management field have closely examined personality traits as stable dispositional constructs over time, but they oversighted possibilities that seemingly are likely to different effects on outcomes varying time waves. Combining horizontal and longitudinal surveys, this study collected two-...

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) or Rendu-Osler-Weber disease is a rare genetic vascular disorder known for its endothelial dysplasia causing arteriovenous malformations and severe bleedings. HHT-1 and HHT-2 are the most prevalent variants and are caused by heterozygous mutations in endoglin and activin receptor-like kinase 1, respectively. An undervalued aspect of the disease is tha...