Abbreviation Key HBSS = Hanks balanced salt solution, HPLC = high performance liquid chromatography, IL-2 = interleukin-2, NK = natural killer, SAPLIP = saposin-like protein.

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Three of the most fundamental changes in US corporations since the early 1970s have been (1) the apparent increase in the importance of organizational capital in production, (2) the increase in managerial income inequality and pay-performance sensitivity and (3) the secular decrease in labor market reallocation. Our paper develops a simple explanation for these changes: a shift in the compositi...

We introduce and analyze expected uncertain utility theory (EUU). A prior and an interval utility characterize an EUU decision maker. The decision maker transforms each uncertain prospect into an interval-valued prospect that assigns an interval of prizes to each state. She then ranks prospects according to their expected interval utilities. We define uncertainty aversion for EUU, use the EUU m...

Methods: ALICE extracts an abbreviation and its expansion from the literature by using heuristic pattern-matching rules. This system consists of three phases and potentially identifies valid 320 abbreviation-expansion patterns as combinations of the rules. Results: It achieved 95% recall and 97% precision on randomly selected titles and abstracts from the MEDLINE database. Conclusion: ALICE ext...

The multimodal protocols of perioperative care, as a European project ERAS-Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and, in Brazil, the ACERTO (Acceleration Total Post-Operative Recovery), emerged relevant alternatives to reduce preoperative discomforts, including anxiety, thirst, hunger, and enhance recovery surgical patients. These initiatives, supported by scientific evidence, advocate fasting abbrev...

In experiments, subjects are often not indifferent among all sources of uncertainty; between two prospects yielding the same distribution of monetary rewards, they may strictly prefer one over the other. We formulate a special case of α-maxmin expected utility theory in a Savage setting, show that every decision maker perceives multiple subjective sources, and that source-utilities are rank dep...

Journal of Nano- and Electronic Physics. Scientific journal. ISSN: 2077-6772. abbreviation: J. Electron. Phys. No page charges. All articles are freely available on-line. Issued 4 times per year. Publisher: Sumy State University. (Sumy, Ukraine)