The agency theory upholds shareholder value orientation and suggests the consolidation of monitoring mechanisms in order to correct inappropriate behaviors of managers and consequently, to improve corporate performance (Cuervo-Cazurra & Dau, 2009; Schulze, Lubatkin, Dino, & Buchholtz, 2001; Sundaram & Inkpen, 2004). Contrary to the theoretical prescription, however, shareholder-oriented mechani...

The new surgical texts of the thirteenth century suggest that their authors wished their subject to appear as a learned discipline, yet it was still communicated by individual practitioners privately to one or two disciples, not in a university setting. But by 1300, surgery was beginning to be taught formally as part of medicine in many Italian studia, for example, by Dino del Garbo at Siena, t...

The term ”shape analysis” refers to fully automatic techniques for discovering the shape of data structures used by programs and thereby verifying the memory safety of those programs. Although many shape analysis techniques have been proposed for the past 10 years, the field of shape analysis is still considered to be in an early academic stage; the techniques are not mature enough for being us...

Graph Transformation Arend Rensink Department of Computer Science, University of Twente [email protected] Dino Distefano Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London [email protected] January 31, 2005 Abstract Graphs may be used as representations of system states in operational semantics and model checking; in the latter context, they are being investigated as an alte...

The EFNS Task Force on Diagnosis and Management of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: P. M. Andersen, G. D. Borasio, R. Dengler, O. Hardiman, K. Kollewe, P. N. Leigh, P.-F. Pradat, V. Silani and B. Tomik Department of Neurology, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden; Interdisciplinary Center for Palliative Medicine and Department of Neurology, Munich University Hospital, Grosshadern, Munich, Germa...

AMA Andelo Borovac J, Miric D, Lozo M, Zanchi Slujo A. The electrocardiographic and angiographic discrepancy in determining culprit coronary artery lesion: anterior ST-T segment changes within the context of inferior wall acute myocardial infarction. Advances Interventional Cardiology/Postępy w Kardiologii Interwencyjnej. 2023;19(3):296-297. doi:10.5114/aic.2023.131487. APA Borovac, J., Miric, ...

During the Renaissance, a new spirit of rational inquiry, combined with renewed understanding of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, encouraged many new developments in medicine and surgery. Traditional teachings, often combined with superstition and a belief in magical and empirical cures, had dominated medical thinking for over a thousand years; after the Renaissance, this ignorance was gradu...