a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Uncertainty avoidance Social trust Supply chain collaboration (SCC) Open inter-organizational systems (IOS) Closed IOS Supply chain collaboration (SCC) is strategically important in today's business world, and the use of inter-organizational systems (IOS) much facilitates SCC. The present study examines: (1) the differential effects of two types of IOS—open and c...

The glycome of one of the largest and most exposed human organs, the skin, as well as glycan changes associated with non-melanoma skin cancers have not been studied in detail to date. Skin cancers such as basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are among the most frequent types of cancers with rising incidence rates in the aging population. We investigated the healthy human...

In the second part of this two-part paper, we derive approximations to the signal-to-interference plus noise power ratio (SINR) attainable by PCC, SCC, and windowing and compare their performances in terms of SINR. We also derive an asymptotically optimal window and discuss the optimality of the triangular window for ICI reduction. Finally, we derive approximations to bit-errorrate (BER) attain...

BACKGROUND The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) substantially changed the staging of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in the seventh edition of its staging manual. Although the system is well established in mucosal SCC, very little data are available on its prognostic value in cutaneous SCC. METHODS We conducted a multivariable analysis of 672 patients with metastatic cutaneou...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC) are the most frequent skin cancers in humans. An intact immune system is critical for protection against SCC since organ transplant recipients (OTR) have a 60- to 100-fold higher risk for developing these tumors. The role of the innate immune system in tumor immunosurveillance is unclear. Our aim was to determine the expression of sel...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung kills over 350,000 people annually worldwide, and is the main lung cancer histotype with no targeted treatments. High-coverage whole-genome sequencing of the other main subtypes, small-cell and adenocarcinoma, gave insights into carcinogenic mechanisms and disease etiology. The genomic complexity within the lung SCC subtype, as revealed by The Cancer Ge...

We describe SCC kS a Speculative Concurrency Control SCC algorithm that allows a DBMS to use e ciently the extra computing resources avail able in the system to increase the likelihood of timely commitment of transactions Using SCC kS up to k shadow transactions execute speculatively on behalf of a given uncommitted transaction so as to protect against the hazards of blockages and restarts SCC ...

Protein kinase C epsilon (PKCε), a Ca(2+)-independent phospholipid-dependent serine/threonine kinase, is among the six PKC isoforms (α, δ, ε, η, μ, ζ) expressed in both mouse and human skin. Epidermal PKCε level dictates the susceptibility of PKCε transgenic (TG) mice to the development of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) elicited either by repeated exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV...