Scholars have theorized that firms can intervene in the creation of formal technology standards to reduce uncertainty and influence the outcome to their advantage. One approach is through early acquisition: Firms can acquire targets with relevant technology prior to standardization. Using real options logic, the authors show how early acquisitions can be considered a growth option under certain...

The discrepancy between progressive structural decline of the brain aspects (e.g. sensitivity of rs-fMRI to motion generated artifacts, choice e.g. generalized or focal atrophy including neuronal loss and the observation of persistent stable performance in clinical tasks has led to the hypothesis of functional compensation. Although characterization and detailed understanding of the underlying ...

In this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Tabrizi and colleagues present new data from Australia on genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection prevalence in the periods immediately before and after HPV vaccine introduction [1]. Based on cross-sectional studies of women aged 18–24 years who received Papanicolaou screening in selected family planning clinics throughout the country, t...

jahilid poetry should be known as a pre-islamic life. poem has been illustrator during the life of its people and its surrounding shape. perhaps it could be say atlal discussed in the introduction of pre-islamic odes and according to it, is the most popular topics of jahilid poetry. standing on atlal and desolate land, and weep over them, not limited to the pre-islamic poetry, and the poets of ...

Colchicine is an alkaloid that is used clinically in the treatment of arthritic gout. This potent microtubule disrupting agent has also been used extensively as an experimental tool in studies characterizing the role of the cytoskeleton in a variety of cellular processes. Colchicine has also been used as a selective neurotoxin and in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy. Although t...

1. introduction one of the genres of lyrical literature that has attracted the attention of many poets. it is in fact, a poem often written in couplet-poem format in motaghareb meter which the poet addresses the tapster and expresses his ideas about issues such as the instability of the world and time, reprimanding sanctimonious ascetics, hypocrisy of the people, inviting to debauchery and expr...

This paper presents a critical literature review concerning the effects of involving suppliers in product development, the critical processes underlying the management of this involvement and the potential driving and enabling factors for managing supplier involvement in product development. Together they constitute the building blocks for a ‘input-throughput-output’ model that helps in underst...

171 Table 1 Outcome data Outcome NIPPV nCPAP Adjusted OR (95%CI) p Primary analysis: death or ORT-BPD n (%) 192/497 (38.6) 179/487 (36.8) 1.09 (0.83, 1.44) 0.53 Supporting analysis: death or imputed BPD 198/504 (39.3) 191/501 (38.1) 1.05 (0.80, 1.38) 0.72 Primary outcome by subgroup No intubation/Early extubation n (%) 72/241 (29.9) 72/252 (28.6) 1.1 (0.72, 1.69) 0.64 Prior intubation 120/256 (...

This paper suggests that knowledge is shared in organizations through the transformation of occupational communities’ situated understandings of their work. In this paper, I link the misunderstandings between engineers, technicians, and assemblers on a production floor to their work contexts, and demonstrate how members of these communities overcome such problems by cocreating common ground tha...