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bioRxiv, 2021 Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have great potential as novel drug carriers for the treatment of various diseases. These lipid bilayer vesicles are naturally abundant in mammalian tissues and circulation, can be loaded with therapeutic small molecule drugs,
T. Driedonks +23 more
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Mediated Contracts and Mechanism Design [PDF]
, 2010 This note relates the mechanisms that are based on mediated contracts of Rahman and Obara (2010) to the mechanisms of Myerson (1982). It shows that the mechanisms in Myerson (1982) are more general in that they encompass the mechanisms based on mediated ...
Strausz, Roland
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Anterior Urethral Laceration from a Human Bite
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2017 Isolated anterior urethral injuries in males related to sexual activity have rarely been reported. Human bites to the penis are also rarely discussed in the medical literature.
Chadwick Shirk, Wesley Eilbert
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African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020 Objectives: Three decades ago, in North America, pediatric emergency medicine was an evolving subspecialty of pediatrics, contributing in valuable and life-saving ways to the care of children.
Alison Gardner +2 more
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Urban Affairs Review, 2008 Principal—agent models in public administration concentrate upon policy drift—when agencies allow policy to drift away from the bliss point of executive politicians. We distinguish two types of policy drift: policy shifting and agent shirking. The first occurs when agents' political bliss points are located differently from those of their principals ...
Bresler-Gonen, Rotem, Dowding, Keith
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Individual-Level Determinants of the Propensity to Shirk [PDF]
, 1990 Employee shirking, where workers give less than full effort on the job, has typically been investigated as a construct subject to group and organization-level influences. Neglected are individual differences that might explain why individuals in the same
Chandler, Timothy D., Judge, Timothy A.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000 We explore the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modelled as controlled by the members of the enterprise who determine output and effort levels, while facing output prices and wage rates set by government.
Madanmohan Ghosh, John Whalley
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What are Findings and Practices Associated with Measuring and Taking Steps to Increase the Engagement of Contingent Workers? [PDF]
, 2018 [Excerpt] Over the past few decades, the workforce has been shifting to include a larger number of contingent workers. While the corporate agenda regarding these temporary workers has been to cut cost and shirk some legal responsibilities, these past ...
Tsui, Amelia
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Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the elevated rates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) in autistic adults, we examined whether autism‐informed traits and transdiagnostic personality tendencies jointly relate to these outcomes.
Aliona Tsypes +6 more
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