Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average collateralizable housing wealth in a region delays...

The mixing induced time dependent CP asymmetry, direct CP asymmetry, and branching ratio in B → ΦK S in a model III 2HDM are calculated, in particular, neutral Higgs boson contributions are included. It is shown that satisfying all the relevant experimental constraints, for time dependent CP asymmetry S φK the model III can agree with the present data, s φ k = −0.39 ± 0.41, within the 1σ error,...

The hemodynamic and metabolic effects of 90 minutes normobaric hyperoxia were studied in 20 critically ill patients (11 septic, 9 nonseptic) requiring mechanical ventilation with inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) less than 0.40. Thirty minutes after increasing the FIO2 to 1.0, arterial PO2 had increased from about 100 to about 400 mm Hg, and whole body oxygen uptake (VO2) was decreased 10 percent (p ...

The effect on transcutaneous SaO2 and transcutaneous carbon dioxide tension (PtCO2) of eating was assessed in 44 patients with severe COPD (FEV1 less than 50 percent). The SaO2, PtCO2, and heart rate (HR) were measured every minute before, during, and until 30 minutes after a standardized meal (445 kcal) was consumed. All patients were measured twice on the same day, while eating a meal with hi...

The mixing induced time dependent CP asymmetry, direct CP asymmetry, and branching ratio in B → ΦK S in a model III 2HDM are calculated, in particular, neutral Higgs boson contributions are included. It is shown that satisfying all the relevant experimental constraints, for time dependent CP asymmetry S φK the model III can agree with the present data, s φk = −0.39±0.41, within the 1σ error, an...