We present a follower-centric model of leadership that integrates multiple levels of analysis, and includes emotional contagion as a key meso-level process. In our model, leadership at the individual level is manifested in terms of the leader's favoritism toward members and affective displays. Drawing upon affective events theory, we argue that member perceptions of a leader's behaviors and mem...

Primary hepatic marginal zone B-cell malignant lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma) is extremely rare. We present a case in which a lesion was diagnosed as 2 contiguous tumors (MALT lymphoma and hemangioma) using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (US) with sonazoid. There has been no previous case of contiguous hepatic MALT lymphoma and hemangioma. The present case was ...

OBJECTIVES Symptoms are compared among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) admitted to the emergency department with or without acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Sex and age are also assessed. METHODS A secondary analysis from the PROMOTION (Patient Response tO Myocardial Infarction fOllowing a Teaching Intervention Offered by Nurses) trial, an multicenter randomized controlled trial, wa...

This paper introduces the concept of ultimately periodic functions for nite semigroups. Ultimately periodic functions are shown to be the same as regularity-preserving functions in automata theory. This characterization reveals the true algebraic nature of regularity-preserving functions. It makes it possible to prove properties of ultimately periodic functions through automata-theoretic method...

In this note, colorings of the plane by finite sequential machines are compared to previously introduced notions of ultimately periodic tilings of the plane. Finite automata with no counter characterize exactly biperiodic tilings. Finite automata with one counter characterize exactly particles — periodic colorings that are ultimately periodic in every direction. Finite automata with two counter...

The Organisation of European Cancer Institutes OECI working group on Health Economics and Cost Benefit in Oncology suggests four actions that are needed to improve alignment and integration between clinicians, researchers, and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) experts and agencies: 1) HTA expertise is necessary close to or within the comprehensive cancer centres (CCC); 2) HTA expertise should ...

Embryonic physiology is often viewed as merely those processes understood for the adult but conducted on a smaller physical scale. Yet striking examples of the inaccuracy of this perspective can be identified in the embryonic cardiovascular system. For example, dogma holds that the embryonic heart begins to beat to pump blood for convective transport, just like that of the adult. This is the ma...

Since cancer is a disease of growth, and its incidence in appreciable form is usually deferred until after the attainment of maturity, a very important factor in our ultimate understanding of the etiology of cancer must arise out of a knowledge of the degree to which the preceding development of the animal is dected by the ultimate aberration of growth. If the factors which determine the growth...