Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review
Agency theory is an important, yet controversial, theory. This paper reviews agency theory, its contributions to organization theory, and the extant empirical work and develops ...
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$rm K$-SVD: An Algorithm for Designing Overcomplete Dictionaries for Sparse Representation
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the study of sparse representation of signals. Using an overcomplete dictionary that contains prototype signal-atoms, signal...
We have never been modern
What makes us modern? This is a classic question in philosophy as well as in political science. However it is often raised without including science and technology in its defini...
Least angle regression
The purpose of model selection algorithms such as All Subsets, Forward Selection and Backward Elimination is to choose a linear model on the basis of the same set of data to whi...
Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide
Without a complete published description of interventions, clinicians and patients cannot reliably implement interventions that are shown to be useful, and other researchers can...
Kinetics of Adsorption on Carbon from Solution
Laboratory investigations show that rates of adsorption of persistent organic compounds on granular carbon are quite low. Intraparticle diffusion of solute appears to control th...
General Theory of Three-Dimensional Consolidation
The settlement of soils under load is caused by a phenomenon called consolidation, whose mechanism is known to be in many cases identical with the process of squeezing water out...
Interrater reliability: the kappa statistic.
The kappa statistic is frequently used to test interrater reliability. The importance of rater reliability lies in the fact that it represents the extent to which the data colle...
Tandem repeats finder: a program to analyze DNA sequences
A tandem repeat in DNA is two or more contiguous, approximate copies of a pattern of nucleotides. Tandem repeats have been shown to cause human disease, may play a variety of re...
AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both
The number of published systematic reviews of studies of healthcare interventions has increased rapidly and these are used extensively for clinical and policy decisions. Systema...
Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design
This paper answers the question, “Why do organizations process information?” Uncertainty and equivocality are defined as two forces that influence information processing in orga...
Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity
This paper shows that bank deposit contracts can provide allocations superior to those of exchange markets, offering an explanation of how banks subject to runs can attract depo...