Electronic intermediaries have become pervasive in sales transactions for many durables, such as cars, power tools, and apartments. Yet only recently have they successfully tackled the challenge of enabling parties to share such goods. A key impediment to sharing is a lender’s concern about damage due to unobservable actions by a renter, usually resulting in moral hazard. This paper shows how a...

Kurochkin IO, Etzkorn M, Buchwalter D, Leamy L, Sokolova IM. Top-down control analysis of the cadmium effects on molluscan mitochondria and the mechanisms of cadmiuminduced mitochondrial dysfunction. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 300: R21–R31, 2011. First published September 15, 2010; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00279.2010.—Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic metal and an important environmental pollutant...

Four stable IgM monoclonal antibody-producing hybridomas were generated by fusing mouse myeloma cells with spleen lymphocytes from C57BL/6 mice hyperimmunized against the syngeneic B16 melanoma. All four monoclonal antibodies (R31/15, R37/4, R37/6, and R37/7), in common with polyclonal antiserum from immunized mice, recognized antigens on the same complex of related cell surface molecules speci...

Post-translational modifications (PTM) of proteins play critical roles in biological processes. PTM muscle influence meat quality. Nonetheless, myoglobin (Mb) and their impact on fresh beef color stability have not been characterized yet. Therefore, our objectives were to identify Mb longissimus lumborum during postmortem aging characterize stability. The muscles from 9 (n = 9) carcasses (24 h ...

De Paula, Patrı́cia M., Jaci A. Castania, Leni G. H. Bonagamba, Hélio C. Salgado, and Benedito H. Machado. Hemodynamic responses to electrical stimulation of the aortic depressor nerve in awake rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R31–R38, 1999.—Changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), and vascular resistance (hindquarter and mesenteric territori...

This paper compares the relative advantages of two models (a) a two-factor (i.e. source and channel) choice model; and (b) a theory of planned behaviour (TPB)–based acceptance model, developed to explain electronic government (e-government) service adoption. The models were empirically validated in the government-to-citizen (G2C) anti/counter-terrorism (ACT) service domain by a telephone survey...

We propose three physical tests to measure correlations in random numbers used in Monte Carlo simulations. The rst test uses autocorrelation times of certain physical quantities when the Ising model is simulated with the Wol algorithm. The second test is based on random walks, and the third on blocks of n successive numbers. We apply the tests to show that recent errors in high precision simula...

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We show that an action of SL(2, p), p ≥ 7 an odd prime such that 4 6 | (p − 1), has exactly two orbital digraphs Γ1, Γ2, such that Aut(Γi) admits a complete block system B of p + 1 blocks of size 2, i = 1, 2, with the following properties: the action of Aut(Γi) on the blocks of B is nonsolvable, doubly-transitive, but not a symmetric group, and the subgroup of Aut(Γi) that fixes each block of B...