Children and adolescents who have hypertension may be at risk for complications when exercise causes their blood pressure to rise even higher. The purpose of this statement is to update recommendations concerning the athletic participation of individuals with hypertension, including special populations such as those with spinal cord injuries or obesity, by using the guidelines from "The 36th Be...

BACKGROUND Strong evidence supports the concept that conventional anesthetics, including inhalational agents and inert gases, such as xenon and nitrous oxide, interact directly with ion channel neurotransmitter receptors. However, there is no evidence that nitrogen, which only exhibits narcotic potency at increased pressure, may act by a similar mechanism. METHODS We compared the inhibitory a...

Abstract In this paper, we aim to determine the importance of psychological pressure on performance in sequential tournaments. We make use penalty shootouts soccer and test presence first‐mover advantage. Shootouts is a formidable framework because it natural experiment where teams compete sequence whose order determined by random outcome coin toss. Using data from all 663 major competitions si...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that affect the adoption of cloud computing by firms belonging to the high-tech industry. The eight factors examined in this study are relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, top management support, firm size, technology readiness, competitive pressure, and trading partner pressure. Design/methodology/approach – A question...

We measure the welfare consequences of endogenous quality choice in imperfectly competitive markets. For U.S. cable-television markets between 1997-2006, we find that prices are 33% to 74% higher and qualities 23% to 55% higher than socially optimal. This “quality overprovision” contradicts classic results in the literature and our analysis suggest that it is a direct result of the presence of ...

We study experimentally the relationship between distributional preferences and competitive behavior. We find that spiteful subjects react strongest to competitive pressure and win in a tournament significantly more often than efficiency-minded and inequality averse subjects. However, when given the choice between a tournament and a piece rate scheme, efficiency-minded subjects choose the tourn...

Due to a dynamic and competitive environment, in which prices are subject to everincreasing pressure, quality becomes a determining factor in the competitive struggle. Among the key processes of the quality management system, the process of procurement and management of material resources directly affects the quality of the final products, and therefore the performance of the organization. An e...