Abstract The literature on tax competition argues that the representative system (RTS), which is a standard form of base equalization, can internalize interregional externalities due to capital mobility. Although this conventional view holds when per unit imposed, it does not hold corporate income subject tax. This paper proposes an efficient equalization under each region’s evaluated by averag...

Verbal satiation of Chinese bisyllabic words was studied in three experiments to ascertain the phenomenon, to track its time course, and to identify its locus. Experiment 1 asked the participants to judge if an exemplar matched a category in 22 blocks of 40 trials each. Within a block, one category appeared 20 times (repeated trials) while each of the remaining 10 categories appeared only twice...

BACKGROUND Respiratory therapists (RTs) routinely care for patients with life-limiting illnesses and in some hospitals are responsible for terminal extubations. Data on how such experiences affect RTs are scarce. The objective of this work was to survey RTs at 2 academic medical centers about their experiences caring for patients with terminal extubations. METHODS An online survey was distrib...

Human RecQ helicases play diverse roles in the maintenance of genomic stability. Inactivating mutations 3 5 human are responsible for pathogenesis Werner syndrome (WS), Bloom (BS), Rothmund-Thomson (RTS), RAPADILINO, and Baller-Gerold (BGS). WS, BS, RTS patients at increased risk developing many age-associated diseases including cancer. Mutations RecQL1 RecQL5 have not yet been associated with ...

Mobile group II introns encode reverse transcriptases (RTs) that function in intron mobility ("retrohoming") by a process that requires reverse transcription of a highly structured, 2-2.5-kb intron RNA with high processivity and fidelity. Although the latter properties are potentially useful for applications in cDNA synthesis and next-generation RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), group II intron RTs hav...

AIMS To delineate the nature and frequency of ocular pathology in Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTs). METHODS Literature was searched for reports describing ocular symptoms in patients with RTs. 24 RTs patients (out of a total of 73 Dutch known RTs individuals) were selected for ophthalmological and electrophysiological examination, selection being based only on the distance between a patient's ...

BACKGROUND Lumbar disc herniation has a prevalence of up to 58% in the athletic population. Lumbar discectomy is a common surgical procedure to alleviate pain and disability in athletes. We systematically reviewed the current clinical evidence regarding athlete return to sport (RTS) following lumbar discectomy compared to conservative treatment. METHODS A computer-assisted literature search o...

Anderson et al. (Variability not ability: another basis for performance decrements in neglect. Neuropsychologia 2000;38:785-796) have recently reported that variability of response times (RTs) progressively increases from the right to the left side in left neglect patients. Anderson et al. propose that this lack of consistency is an important determinant of patients' behaviour, and may result f...

PURPOSE For some disorders, such as radial tunnel syndrome (RTS), no randomized controlled trials and controlled clinical trials are available. To gain insight into the effectiveness of conservative and surgical interventions for treating RTS, we systematically reviewed all available observational studies on treatment of RTS. Although the validity of case series is inferior to that of controlle...