In a pioneering approach towards the explanation of the phenomenon of “yes man” behavior in organizations, Prendergast (1993) argued that incentive contracts in employment relationships generally make a worker distort his privately acquired information. This would imply that there is a trade-off between inducing a worker to exert costly effort and inducing him to tell the truth. In contrast, we...

D euteron spin lattice relaxation times Tx of sucrose/D20 solutions are given as function of tem perature, pressure, frequency and concentration. From the temperature dependence of the 2H -T l the rotational dynamics of the hydrated sucrose complex and the water molecules are determined. For high pressure and high concentrations the tem perature dependence of the water molecules is described by...

Partnerships are the prevalent organizational form in many industries. Most partnerships share profits equally among the partners. Following Kandel and Lazear (1992) it is often argued that “peer pressure” mitigates the arising free-rider problem. This line of reasoning takes the equal sharing rule as exogenously given. The purpose of our paper is to show that with inequity averse partners – a ...

This paper contains a model of waste elimination through design. It argues for the importance of managing design complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time{to{market performance variables. Management of design complexity is identi ̄ed with creation, choice, and application of design problem representations, divisions of design labor, and product architectures that provably eliminat...

This article presents the results of experimental studies cement binder from local raw material bases optimal for production cast modified concrete (CMC). Having a special self-compacting nature, as well sensitive cost-effectiveness Kazakhstan mixtures manufacturer, this type requires use with stable physical and technical characteristics. The study conducted an analysis nomenclature materials,...

Teriparatide [human parathyroid hormone (1-34)], which exerts an anabolic effect on bone, is used for the treatment of osteoporosis in patients who are at a high risk for fracture. That the once-daily administration of teriparatide causes an increase in cortical porosity in animal models and clinical studies has been a matter of concern. However, it is not well documented that the frequency of ...

N UMEROUS studies concerned with estimates of transcapillary rates of exchange of water and ions based on ‘isotopic arterial disappearance curves’ have appeared in recent years (1-9). For the most part these studies have been unsupported by examinations of the simultaneous events in tissues. It is our purpose here a) to describe water exchange and distribution rates in various tissues; b) to de...

AIMS Asymptomatic long-term cancer survivors treated with anthracycline were investigated for late anthracycline cardiotoxicity using dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) and tissue Doppler (TD) velocities. METHODS AND RESULTS The study comprised 20 asymptomatic patient and 18 healthy children as the control group. Twenty patients were divided into two groups according to the myocardial w...

and Applied Analysis 3 The quasi-uniform space X,U will always be considered to be a topological space with the topology obtained by using as the family of all neighborhoods of a point x0 ∈ X all sets of the formU x0 {x ∈ X : x0, x ∈ U}, whereU runs overU. Such a topology is called topology of the quasi-uniformity. Note that each topology onX is induced by a quasi-uniformity see 8, 9 , the most...