Medical malpractice doctrine is one of the core issues in the current debate over healthcare reform in the United States. For decades now, it has been universally accepted that the threat or reality of formal litigation stemming from—or at least claiming—malpractice has been the single most important factor shaping the medico–legal arena. While conventional wisdom has it that patient safety is ...

Companies across all sectors with increasingly smaller size rely on alliance relationships to bolster revenues during times of economic uncertainty. When forming alliances, large firms typically hire vendors such as investment banks to help identify potential alliance partners. However, small businesses with intention to build alliance find difficulties to search desired partners especially on ...

Orin S. Levine, Thomas Cherian, Rana Hajjeh, and Maria Deloria Knoll GAVI Alliance’s PneumoADIP, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Hib Initiative, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia; and Immunizations, Vaccines, and Biologics, World Health Organizatio...

Biotechnology industry is well-known as a knowledge intensive industry and required relatively large financial support. As the demanding nature from both finance and knowledge/technology resources, biotech companies tend to strategically collaborate with others for product development and marketing. Therefore, a growing need of strategic alliance was observed in biopharmaceutical industry of Ta...

We introduce a new protocol for prediction with expert advice in which each expert evaluates the learner’s and his own performance using a loss function that may change over time and may be different from the loss functions used by the other experts. The learner’s goal is to perform better or not much worse than each expert, as evaluated by that expert, for all experts simultaneously. If the lo...

How people maintain and repair their self-esteem has been a topic of widespread interest. In this article, the authors ask, What determines whether people will use direct, remedial actions, or defensive actions? In three studies, they tested the hypothesis that a belief in fixed intelligence (entity theory) would produce defensiveness, whereas a belief in improvable intelligence (incremental th...

Objectives: This study aims to analyze the role of regional powers, specifically Iran and Turkey, in exerting dominance over security Arab Gulf states. It also seeks identify geographical extensions, drivers, determinants this during period from 2003 2020. Methods: The utilizes theory Regional Hegemony, as it is a crucial framework for explaining international relations, interactions, phenomena...