Two principals engage in Hotelling competition for an agent's services under incomplete information as to her outside option (location). This renders the agent's participation decision probabilistic from the perspective of each principal. Regardless of the market structure at equilibrium the optimal contract features a trade-off between participation probability and incentives. Rent and effort ...

Improving the Screening Criteria for blunt cerebrovascula injury: the appropriate role for computed tomography angiography. Emmett KP, Fabian TC, DiCoco JM, Zarzaur BL, Croce MA. J Trauma 2011: 70: 1058-65. These authors reported a large series of patients who sustained blunt trauma and were treated at the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, and determined that 0.58% of the patients had a blunt cerebr...

The purpose of this study was to compare the educational thoughts Al Ghazali and Dewey, two renowned scholars. In ‎study, researcher surveyed Ghazali's Dewey's efforts on education using methodological qualitative research methods, ‎namely constant comparative analysis discourse analysis, discuss evaluate their determine ‎their philosophical in order objectively validate aspects as educators. S...

The objective of this study is to understand the role multidimensional trust a luxury brand as an antecedent consumer satisfaction and consequence reputation familiarity, considering -in turn- that familiarity can be consumer’s cognitive affective experiences. A cross-country analysis in retail sector was carried out. Association relationships between variables are tested by model structural eq...

Background—Notch signaling has previously been shown to play an essential role in regulating cell fate decisions and differentiation during cardiogenesis in many systems including Drosophila, Xenopus, and mammals. We hypothesized that Notch may also be involved in directing the progressive lineage restriction of cardiomyocytes into specialized conduction cells. Methods and Results—In hearts whe...

Vol. XLVII (December 2010), 1041 –1058 *Xueming Luo is Eunice & James L. West Distinguished Professor and Professor of Marketing, College of Business Administration, University of Texas at Arlington (e-mail: [email protected]). Christian Homburg is Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Marketing Department, University of Mannheim (e-mail: [email protected]). Jan Wieseke is Professor of ...

xxx 4. Mardis ER, Ding L, Dooling DJ, Larson DE, McLellan MD, Chen K, et al. Recurring mutations found by sequencing an acute myeloid leukemia genome. N Engl J Med. 2009;361(11):1058-66. 5. Taskesen E, Bullinger L, Corbacioglu A, Sanders MA, Erpelinck CA, Wouters BJ, et al. Prognostic impact, concurrent genetic mutations, and gene expression features of AML with CEBPA mutations in a cohort of 1...

This study examines (1) the extent to which student engagement is associated with experimental and traditional measures of academic performance, (2) whether the relationships between engagement and academic performance are conditional, and (3) whether institutions differ in terms of their ability to convert student engagement into academic performance. The sample consisted of 1058 students at 1...