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Employee Mobility, Employee Entrepreneurship, and Employee Value Capture: Labor Market Frictions and the Impact of Social Comparison Costs on Compensation

Title of Dissertation: EMPLOYEE MOBILITY, EMPLOYEE ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND EMPLOYEE VALUE CAPTURE: LABOR MARKET FRICTIONS AND THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL COMPARISON COSTS ON COMPENSATION Daniel M. Olson, Doctor of Philosophy, 2018 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Rajshree Agarwal, Rudolph Lamone Chair and Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and Dr. David Waguespack, Associate Professor of Management & Organizations Strategic human capital research explores heterogeneity in firm performance based on differences in firms’ abilities to leverage human capital. Much of the discussion in this literature focuses on how firms can exploit isolating mechanisms that limit the mobility of employees. This dissertation studies two important facets of strategic human capital research related to the mobility of employees. The first essay explores how a labor market frictions lens can connect the strategic human capital literature to the employee entrepreneurship literature, two complementary but largely disparate literatures. The examination of the impact of various labor market frictions on employee mobility to competitor firms and employee transitions to entrepreneurship suggests that the outcomes of some frictions are divergent across the two literatures, the outcomes of some are aligned, and the outcomes of some are ambiguous. The complex interplay of labor market frictions provides opportunities for future research specifically exploring the intersection of the strategic human capital and employee entrepreneurship literatures. The second essay of explores how multi-location firms facilitate the spread of compensation increases across labor markets. Prior research cites the threat of employee mobility as the primary mechanism for the spread of compensation increases across locations. Multi-location firms that straddle more than one labor market, however, must manage employees across labor markets. I propose that internal firm processes, including social comparison between employees of the firm in different locations, may lead firms to raise compensation for employees in other locations when addressing competitive pressure in a given location. In doing so, these multi-location firms put pressure on local labor market competitors to also raise compensation, leading to compensation increases across distinct labor markets without reference to mobility constraints that dominate the strategic human capital literature. EMPLOYEE MOBILITY, EMPLOYEE ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND EMPLOYEE VALUE CAPTURE: LABOR MARKET FRICTIONS AND THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL COMPARISON COSTS ON COMPENSATION
Evaluation of transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block in lipoabdominoplasty surgical procedure: a comparative study

Abstract Background The transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is a well-known regional nerve block, used for the pain control in various surgeries. There are only few studies in the literature, which have evaluated analgesic efficacy of TAP block in Abdominoplasty; A surgery in which post-operative pain is of major concern for both patient and operating surgeon. Objectives We conducted randomized control trial, to assess the efficacy of ultrasound-guided bilateral TAP block in Abdominoplasty patients for controlling post-operative pain. Methods Sixty patients planned for lipoabdominoplasty were randomly assigned to two groups A and B, with thirty Patients in each group. The ultrasound guided TAP block was administered in group A patients whereas no block was administered to group B. The patients in two groups were compared for demographic characteristics, pain intensity on mobilization, opioid consumption, time to first rescue analgesic dosage and nausea- vomiting incidences. Results The demographic characteristics were similar in both groups. The Group A Patients required significantly smaller mean dose of opioids and had significantly longer mean time of first request for analgesic medication. The Median VAS score on mobilization in Group A was significantly lower than Group B. Only few patients in group A experienced nausea-vomiting compared to group B. Conclusions The ultrasound guided TAP block provides effective analgesia after Lipoabdominoplasty, which allows more convenient early post-operative mobilization and decreases opioid requirement as well as its related side-effects. Hence we suggest that ultrasound guided TAP block should be considered in most lipoabdominoplasty cases for better patient experience.
Disability pension among persons with chronic disease: Differential impact of a Danish policy reform.

BACKGROUND In 2013, Denmark implemented a reform that tightened the criteria for disability pension, expanded a subsidized job scheme ('flexi-job') and introduced a new vocational rehabilitation scheme. The overall aim of the reform was to keep more persons attached to the labour market. This study investigates the impact of the reform among persons with chronic disease and whether this impact differed across groups defined by labour market affiliation and chronic disease type. METHODS The study was conducted as a register-based, nationwide cohort study. The study population included 480 809 persons between 40 and 64 years of age, who suffered from at least one of six chronic diseases. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of being awarded disability pension or flexi-job in the 5 years after vs. the 5 years prior to the reform were estimated. RESULTS Overall, the probability of being awarded disability pension was halved after the reform (HR = 0.49, CI: 0.47-0.50). The impact was largest for persons receiving sickness absence benefits (HR = 0.31, CI: 0.24-0.39) and for persons with functional disorders (HR = 0.38, CI: 0.32-0.44). Also, the impact was larger for persons working in manual jobs than for persons working in non-manual jobs. The probability of being awarded a flexi-job was decreased by one-fourth (HR = 0.76, CI: 0.74-0.79) with the largest impact for high-skilled persons working in non-manual jobs. CONCLUSION Access to disability pension and flexi-job decreased after the reform. This impact varied according to labour market affiliation and chronic disease type.
Approximate Bertrand equilibria in a replicated industry

This paper considers the existence and properties of approximate Bertrand equilibria in a replicated industry. Price setting firms produce a homogeneous product with weakly convex costs. The main results are that: (a) Given ɛ > 0, an ɛ-equilibrium exists if the industry is large enough; (b) If the ɛ is small enough, and the industry large enough, any ɛ-equilibrium is approximately competitive. These results depend on how contingent demand is specified.
Genetic Relationships of Extant Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) and Polar Bears ( Ursus maritimus )

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and brown bears (Ursus arctos) are closely related species for which extensive mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenetic comparisons have been made. We used previously published genotype data for 8 microsatellite DNA loci from 930 brown bears in 19 populations and 473 polar bears in 16 populations to compare the population genetic relationships of extant populations of the species. Genetic distances (Nei standard distance = 1.157), the proportion of private alleles (52% of alleles are not shared by the species), and Bayesian cluster analysis are consistent with morphological and life-history characteristics that distinguish polar bears and brown bears as different species with little or no gene flow among extant populations.
The impact of selected variables on the VAT gap in the Member States of the European Union

One of the most serious problems of fiscal character is the issue of the tax gap. The tax gap is defined as the amount of tax liability faced by taxpayers that is not paid on time. The tax gap comes from three main areas of non-compliance with the tax law – firstly from underreporting of income, secondly from underpayment of taxes and thirdly from non-filling of returns. The tax evasions in the area of value added tax form one of the largest groups of tax gap. This article describes the current situation in the field of tax gap in selected countries of the European Union, namely the VAT gap. The aim of this paper is to determine a dependence of the VAT gap on three variables, the Corruption Perception Index CPI, GDP growth rate and the basic VAT rate. A method of the regression analysis has been used, performed on data in the years 2000-2011. In spite of the fact that it could be assumed that tax burden will affect the VAT gap the most, the highest dependence was shown in the case of the Corruption Perception Index.
Trading frequency and the efficiency of price discovery in a non-dealer market

The increasing popularity of non-dealer security markets that offer automated, computer-based, continuous trading reflects a presumption that institutionally-set trading sessions are economically obsolete. This theoretical paper investigates the effect of the trading frequency, a key feature of the trading mechanism, on the efficiency of price discovery in a non-dealer market. By tracing the market pricing error to the correlation structures of arriving information and pricing errors of individual traders, the effect of diverging expectations on error-based and overall return volatility is isolated. The analysis reveals that, due to a portfolio effect, an increase in the trading time interval has contradictory effects on the portion of return volatility stemming from pricing errors. The greater accumulation of information increases error-based return volatility, but the greater volume and number of traders per session have the opposite effect. The net effect on overall return volatility can go either way. It is found that the return volatility of heavily traded securities is likely to be minimized under continuous trading, but that of thinly traded securities may be minimized under discrete trading at moderate time intervals. The latter is more likely to occur the greater is the divergence of expectations among traders. These findings challenge the presumption that automated continuous trading in a non-dealer market is more efficient than discrete trading for all securities, regardless of trading volume. The findings are applicable to all economies, but have special importance for developing countries where typically a single market is dominated by small issues and a low volume of trade. As a by-product of the analysis, it is shown how to correct the biased estimate of inter-session price volatility when observations are less frequent than the trading sessions themselves.
Monitoring apoptosis in intact cells by high‐resolution magic angle spinning 1H NMR spectroscopy

Apoptosis maintains an equilibrium between cell proliferation and cell death. Many diseases, including cancer, develop because of defects in apoptosis. A known metabolic marker of apoptosis is a notable increase in 1H NMR‐observable resonances associated with lipids stored in lipid droplets. However, standard one‐dimensional NMR experiments allow the quantification of lipid concentration only, without providing information about physical characteristics such as the size of lipid droplets, viscosity of the cytosol, or cytoskeletal rigidity. This additional information can improve monitoring of apoptosis‐based cancer treatments in intact cells and provide us with mechanistic insight into why these changes occur.
Holocene record of biogenic sedimentation and paleoproductivity changes from the northern Norwegian continental shelf

[1] The relative proportions of marine organic carbon and biogenic carbonate in a high-resolution record from a glacial trough on the northern Norwegian continental shelf were used to decipher changes in biogenic sedimentation and paleoproductivity from the last deglaciation to the middle Holocene. Decadal-scale to century-scale oscillations in biogenic sedimentation and surface ocean productivity recorded in the Andfjorden sediments are synchronous with abrupt climate changes in open oceanic and atmospheric regimes of the high northern latitudes. Following several fluctuations during the Bølling-Allerød interstadial, the most dramatic drop in marine organic carbon and biogenic carbonate proportions occurred during the Younger Dryas. However, many short-term and low-amplitude events during the Preboreal and the Holocene have also affected biogenic sedimentation in the outer Andfjorden. Apparently, these abrupt changes in biogenic sedimentation were caused by the suppression of a potential upwelling center in the outer Andfjorden by variable Atlantic Water inflow over the past 14,000 years. The adjustment of decadal high-productivity coastal systems to freshwater-forced multiple cooling events during the late glacial to middle Holocene highlights the impact of global climate changes on the climate-sensitive local ecosystems off coastal Norway.
Selection of Lactococcus lactis HY7803 for Glutamic Acid Production Based on Comparative Genomic Analysis

Comparative genomic analysis was performed on eight species of lactic acid bacteria (LAB)—Lactococcus (L.) lactis, Lactobacillus (Lb.) plantarum, Lb. casei, Lb. brevis, Leuconostoc (Leu.) mesenteroides, Lb. fermentum, Lb. buchneri, and Lb. curvatus—to assess their glutamic acid production pathways. Glutamic acid is important for umami taste in foods. The only genes for glutamic acid production identified in the eight LAB were for conversion from glutamine in L. lactis and Leu. mesenteroides, and from glucose via citrate in L. lactis. Thus, L. lactis was considered to be potentially the best of the species for glutamic acid production. By biochemical analyses, L. lactis HY7803 was selected for glutamic acid production from among 17 L. lactis strains. Strain HY7803 produced 83.16 pmol/μl glutamic acid from glucose, and exogenous supplementation of citrate increased this to 108.42 pmol/μl. Including glutamic acid, strain HY7803 produced more of 10 free amino acids than L. lactis reference strains IL1403 and ATCC 7962 in the presence of exogenous citrate. The differences in the amino acid profiles of the strains were illuminated by principal component analysis. Our results indicate that L. lactis HY7803 may be a good starter strain for glutamic acid production.
Does Binding of Feedback Influence Myopic Loss Aversion? An Experimental Analysis

Empirical research has shown that a lower feedback frequency combined with a longer bind-ing period decreases myopia and thereby increases the willingness to invest into a risky asset. In an experimental study, we disentangle the intertwined manipulation of feedback frequency and binding period to analyze how both variables alone contribute to the change in myopia and how they interact. We find a strong effect for the length of commitment, a much less pro-nounced effect for the feedback frequency, and a strong interaction between both variables. The results have important implications for real world intertemporal decision making.
Electrically tuned Forster resonances in collisions of NH3 with Rydberg He atoms

The effects of weak electric fields on resonant energy transfer between NH3 in the X 1 A1 ground electronic state and Rydberg He atoms in triplet states with principal quantum numbers n = 36–41 have been studied in a crossed-beam apparatus. For these values of n, electric dipole transitions between the Rydberg states that evolve adiabatically to the |ns and |np states in zero electric field can be tuned into resonance with the ground-state inversion transitions in NH3 using electric fields, with energy transfer occurring via Forster resonance. In the experiments the Rydberg He atoms, traveling in pulsed supersonic beams, were prepared by resonant two-photon excitation from the metastable 1s2s 3 S1 level and crossed an effusive beam of NH3 before being detected by state-selective pulsed-electric-field ionization. The resonant-energy-transfer process was identified by monitoring changes in the ionization signal from the |ns and |np Rydberg states for each value of n. The electric-field dependence of the experimental data is in good agreement with the results of calculations in which the resonant dipole-dipole coupling between the collision partners was accounted for. D
Low Dietary Magnesium and Overweight/Obesity in a Mediterranean Population: A Detrimental Synergy for the Development of Hypertension. The SUN Project

Hypertension is the strongest independent modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We aimed to investigate the association of magnesium intake with incident hypertension in a Mediterranean population, and the potential modification of this association by body mass index (BMI). We assessed 14,057 participants of the SUN (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra) prospective cohort (67.0% women) initially free of hypertension. At baseline, a validated 136-item food frequency questionnaire was administered. We used Cox models adjusted for multiple socio-demographic, anthropometric, and lifestyle factors, and prevalent conditions present at baseline. Among a mean 9.6 years of follow-up we observed 1406 incident cases of medically diagnosed hypertension. An inverse association in multivariable-adjusted models was observed for progressively higher magnesium intake up to 500 mg/d vs. intake < 200 mg/d, which was greater among those with a BMI > 27 kg/m2. Lean participants with magnesium intake < 200 mg/d vs. >200 mg/d also had a higher risk of incident hypertension. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet did not modify these associations. In conclusion, dietary magnesium intake < 200 mg/d was independently associated with a higher risk of developing hypertension in a Mediterranean cohort, stronger for overweight/obese participants. Our results emphasize the importance of encouraging the consumption of magnesium-rich foods (vegetables, nuts, whole cereals, legumes) in order to prevent hypertension.
LONG-TERM STABILITY OF PLASMA OXIDIZED POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE SURFACES

The hydrophobicity of untreated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surfaces is problematic in applications where adhesion of proteins and cells is desirable. In this study, the effects of variables such as treatment time and power, monomer extraction, and storage media on the recovery of hydrophobicity of PDMS surfaces for 45 days were investigated. The hydrophilicity was assessed by measuring contact angles of water. Results indicated that storage following plasma treatment was the most influential variable in maintaining a hydrophilic surface. Specifically, water was the most effective storage medium for delaying hydrophobic recovery in a plasma-treated surface. Plasma treatment parameters had less profound effects. Also, only marginal differences between extracted and non-extracted PDMS conditions were observed.
Anatomically Constrained ResNets Exhibit Opponent Receptive Fields; So What?

Primate visual systems are well known to exhibit varying degrees of bottlenecks in the early visual pathway. Recent works have shown that the presence of a bottleneck between ‘retinal’ and ‘ventral’ parts of artiﬁcial models of visual systems, simulating the optic nerve, can cause the emergence of cellular properties that have been observed in primates: namely centre-surround organisation and opponency. To date, however, state-of-the-art convolutional network architectures for classiﬁcation problems have not incorporated such an early bottleneck. In this paper, we ask what happens if such a bottleneck is added to a ResNet-50 model trained to classify the ImageNet data set. Our experiments show that some of the emergent properties observed in simpler models still appear in these considerably deeper and more complex models, however, there are some notable differences particularly with regard to spectral opponency. The introduction of the bottleneck is experimentally shown to introduce a small but consistent shape bias into the network. Tight bottlenecks are also shown to only have a very slight affect on the top-1 accuracy of the models when trained and tested on ImageNet.
Urinary TIMP 2 ⋅ IGFBP 7 for the prediction of platinum-induced acute renal injury

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Catalytically inactive Cas9 impairs DNA replication fork progression to induce focal genomic instability

Abstract Catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) has become an increasingly popular tool for targeted gene activation/inactivation, live-cell imaging, and base editing. While dCas9 was reported to induce base substitutions and indels, it has not been associated with structural variations. Here, we show that dCas9 impedes replication fork progression to destabilize tandem repeats in budding yeast. When targeted to the CUP1 array comprising ∼16 repeat units, dCas9 induced its contraction in most cells, especially in the presence of nicotinamide. Replication intermediate analysis demonstrated replication fork stalling in the vicinity of dCas9-bound sites. Genetic analysis indicated that while destabilization is counteracted by the replisome progression complex components Ctf4 and Mrc1 and the accessory helicase Rrm3, it involves single-strand annealing by the recombination proteins Rad52 and Rad59. Although dCas9-mediated replication fork stalling is a potential risk in conventional applications, it may serve as a novel tool for both mechanistic studies and manipulation of genomic instability.
A 27 . 6 μ W 315 MHz low-complexity OOK receiver with on-off RF front-end

This paper presents a receiver design with the on-off keying (OOK) modulation at 315MHz frequency. In this design, we propose a new architecture for the receiver to achieve low complexity with a solution to reduce total power consumption significantly. The operation of the proposed architecture is verified using available RF front-end circuits and a fieldprogrammable-gate-array (FPGA) device. Circuit of the receiver is designed by using SPICE models of 65 nm Silicon On Thin Buried Oxide (SOTB) CMOS technology. By simulation, the receiver achieves −76 dBm sensitivity, consumes 27.6 μW from 1V supply voltage with data rate up to 200Kbps.
Aalborg Universitet General 3 D Lumped Thermal Model with Various Boundary Conditions for High Power

Accurate thermal dynamics modeling of high power Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) modules is important information for the reliability analysis and thermal design of power electronic systems. However, the existing thermal models have their limits to correctly predict these complicated thermal behaviors in the IGBTs. In this paper, a new threedimensional (3D) lumped thermal model is proposed, which can easily be characterized from Finite Element Methods (FEM) based simulation and acquire the thermal distribution in critical points. Meanwhile the boundary conditions including the cooling system and power losses are modeled in the 3D thermal model, which can be adapted to different real field applications of power electronic converters. The accuracy of the proposed thermal model is verified by experimental results. Keywords—Insulated gate bipolar transistors, Thermal modeling, Boundary conditions, Finite element method, Reliability, Power electronic converters.