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Transformation of the Transaction Cost and the Agency Cost in an Organization and the Applicability of Blockchain—A Case Study of Peer-to-Peer Insurance

Frontiers in Blockchain, 2020
Blockchain supports a variety of decentralized applications enabled by its immutable, decentralized, and trustless properties. However, there are no unifying criteria for blockchain architecture across the organizations and business models. This variance
Ruo-Ting Sun, Aravinda Garimella, Wencui Han, Hsin-Lu Chang, Michael J. Shaw   +4 more
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Videogame Agency as a Bio-costs Contract

Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 2018
This paper presents a novel descriptive model for agency in videogames as communication. Literature pertaining to interactive works including videogames has identified the need to overcome dyadic perspectives of communication in such works. Research specifically to do with agency has called for agency to no longer be confused with freedom of action ...
Pedro Pinto Neves, Leonel Morgado, Nelson Zagalo   +2 more
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Effects of Add‐On Icosapent Ethyl With Standard Treatment on Functional Outcomes and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Ischemic stroke, a major cause of mortality and long‐term disability, results from the abrupt cessation of cerebral blood flow due to vascular occlusion or rupture. Icosapent Ethyl (EPA‐EE), approved for hypertriglyceridemia, has anti‐inflammatory and antithrombotic properties that may lessen ischemic damage.
Mitra Mahmoudi Meymand, Seyed Hossein Aghamiri, Saeed Mohmammad Soleymani, Shadiyeh Bararpoor Poshkohi, Samaneh Masoudi, Hadi Esmaily   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chapter 6 Extending agency [PDF]

, 2016
By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines.
Raithelhuber, Eberhard
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Baseline Neuroinflammation Stratifies TSPO‐PET Response to Disease‐Modifying Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To investigate which baseline clinical and imaging characteristics best predict TSPO‐PET‐measurable reduction in glial activation following treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), to utilize this information for designing more efficient biomarker‐based clinical trials targeting glial activation.
Marlene T. Morch, Markus Matilainen, Giulia N. Baldrighi, Marjo Nylund, Maija Saraste, Laura Airas   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agency Cost of Debt and Lending Market Competition: Is there a Relationship? [PDF]

We address the question of how lending market competition, measured by the bargaining power of banks, affects the agency costs of debt finance. It is shown that intensified lending market competition will lead to lower lending rates and investment return
Rune Stenbacka, Erkki Koskela
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Texas Education Agency Annual Report

, 2020
The report describe the Texas Education Agency strategic plan, recruit, support and retain teachers and principals, build a foundation of reading and math, connect high school to career and college, improve low-performing schools, enrollment and ...
Texas Education Agency
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Re‐Purposing Sapropterin (Kuvan) for ACTA2‐Related Multisystemic Smooth Muscle Dysfunction Syndrome: A Translational Mechanistic and First‐In‐Human Therapeutic Report

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) is an ultra‐rare, ACTA2‐related disorder characterized by severe cerebrovascular disease, aortic aneurysms, and smooth muscle dysfunction. Using molecular dynamics simulations and in silico drug screening, we identified that sapropterin dihydrochloride (Kuvan) is a candidate capable of ...
Moran Hausman‐Kedem, Noa Bielopolski, Vijai Krishnan, Shane Wald‐Altman, Shelly I Shrian, Omer Bar‐Yosef, Livia Kapusta, Claire Shamber, Patricia L. Musolino, Miguel Weil   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agency costs in the process of development [PDF]

, 1996
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Acemoglu, Daron, Zilibotti, Fabrizio
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Arterial Spin‐Labeling MRI at the Cortical‐CSF Interface: A Novel Biomarker in Alzheimer Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objective Arterial spin‐labeling (ASL) MRI can measure perfusion signal adjacent to CSF spaces and may provide information regarding CSF‐adjacent water transport physiology. We developed an automated pipeline to extract cortical‐CSF interface (IF) perfusion for comparison between Alzheimer disease (AD) and cognitively normal ...
Mona Asghariahmadabad, Pouya Metanat, Michael Thomas, Luke W. Bonham, Tyson Lam, Mehmet Kurt, Hong Nguyen, Tara Ellingson, Mauro Zucchelli, Stefano Casagranda, Quin Lu, Andreas M. Rauschecker, Leo Sugrue, Luis E. Savastano, Christopher P. Hess, Kamalini Ranasinghe, S. Andrew Josephson, Bruce L. Miller, Jennifer S. Yokoyama, Gil D. Rabinovici, Peter A. Ljubenkov, Lawren VandeVrede, Kambiz Nael   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source