Consumer Protection Act (hereafter Dodd-Frank Act). 1 One provision of the Act mandates that, beginning with annual meeting on or after January 21, 2011, US publicly traded firms allow shareholders a nonbinding vote on executive pay, known as " say on pay " (hereafter SOP). 2 The purpose of this chapter is to present key insights from the academic research on the economic consequences of SOP. B...

BACKGROUND Sepsis remains a major problem for both scientists and clinicians. Cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) is considered the gold standard for animal models of sepsis. The undesirable side effects of certain antibiotics have forced scientists to discover new, natural, and safe antimicrobial agents, such as cephalopods, which are known to display significant antimicrobial activity. OBJECT...

The routing environment for the new emerging mixed-signal System-on-Package (SOP) technology is more advanced than that of the conventional PCB or MCM technology – pins are located at all layers of SOP packaging substrate rather than the top-most layer only. We propose a new interconnect-centric layer assignment algorithm named LA-SOP that handles arbitrary routing topologies and produces near ...

The demand for higher performance systems that are smaller and have the potential to be more cost effective has lead hardware designers to adopt integration of many components and modules in a package (SOP) or on a chip (SOC). A compact SOP (single-substrate) L-band FMCW HMIC radar module for high-resolution sensor application has been demonstrated. For use with a single transmitreceive antenna...

Service-oriented programming (SOP) is abstracted from industrial application development practices and attracts more and more concerns from programmers and developers. The major question programmers and developers may ask is “is SOP a sound direction for software development?” or “should I learn and apply this paradigm in my work?” This paper clarifies this question by tracing programming style...

OBJECTIVES To characterize the trajectories of laboratory- and real world-based speed of processing (SOP) over 5 years using finite latent growth mixture modeling, and to explore associated baseline individual-level predictors and functional outcomes in 2,802 community-dwelling older adults from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly cohort. METHOD Laboratory- and r...

OBJECTIVES To compare the surgical outcomes of inferior oblique (IO) myectomy in congenital superior oblique palsy (SOP) according to the presence of the trochlear nerve identified with high-resolution MRI. DATA EXTRACTION Forty-one congenital SOP patients without a trochlear nerve (absent group) and 23 patients with a trochlear nerve (present group) who underwent IO myectomy as the primary s...