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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.TisIBP8, a fungal‐derived hyperactive ice‐binding protein, helps Caenorhabditis elegans survive dehydration. It localizes near cell membranes, reduces cell damage, and helps maintain membrane structure during drying. These results suggest that ice‐binding proteins can protect cells from dehydration stress as well as freezing stress.
Daiki Shimose +9 more
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Relationships between Institutional Economics of Cooperation and the Political Economy of Trust
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2008 The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between institutional economics of cooperation and the political economy of trust. Transactions costs, principal-agent theory, market power, increasing-returns theory and value creation, strategic ...
José Hernandéz
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Political Research ExchangePopulist movements have grown significantly around the world in recent years. Populist ideologies typically view social and political elites as the enemy of the people; however, populist leaders are themselves part of the elite class, and are politically
Brian Warby, Nicholas Bailey
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Minimizing communication risk in construction: a Delphi study of the key role of project managers
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2014 All significant construction projects involve the project owner and the contractor, as well as their project managers. Following upon recent research into the multiple principal-agent problem, which was applied to the minimization of communication risk ...
Anita Ceric
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.IGFBP4 knockdown (KD) impairs preadipocyte proliferation and is associated with IGF1R protein downregulation and attenuated AKT phosphorylation. The mechanisms by which IGFBP4 KD influences the IGF1R/AKT signaling pathway involve newly synthesized proteins and lysosomal degradation pathways. Created in BioRender.
Yujia Guo +6 more
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Control and information in a dynamic multiple agent model. [PDF]
he controllability principle says that an individual should be rewarded on the basis of what he controls. This paper studies this principle from a principal agent point of view.
Pauwels, W., Roodhooft, Filip
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The Agency Theory Applied to the Investment Funds
BBR: Brazilian Business Review, 2004 This article seeks to verify the existence of a relationship between the rate of remuneration charged by the administrators of investment funds and the profitability of these portfolios, under the perspective of the Agency Theory. The Agency Theory seeks
Flávia Zóboli Dalmácio +1 more
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Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2014 Communication risk is of crucial importance in construction projects. The situation in which one of the project parties is better informed than another is known as information asymmetry. This problem is addressed by the principal-agent theory.
Anita Ceric
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.The cytoskeleton‐mediated transport of mitochondria via tunnelling nanotubes restores respiration, increases ATP production, rescues cells from apoptosis, activates the AKT/mTOR signalling pathway, promotes cell migration and invasiveness, contributes to cancer progression and treatment resistance.
Stanislava Martínková, Jan Trnka
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Informed Principal and Countervailing Incentives [PDF]
It has been shown by Maskin and Tirole (1990, proposition 11) that with quasi-linear preferences and private values, an informed principal neither gains nor loses if her private information is revealed before contracting takes place.
Pierre Fleckinger
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