Recent industry developments motivate the study of cross-market firm integrations, which often raises controversies and regulatory concerns due to the potential negative effects through the integrated firms’ sabotage activities. In this paper, we analyze integrations of firms in two interrelated markets that produce complementary products. Two firms compete with differentiated products in each ...

This paper examines whether the Latin American equity markets of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico have become more integrated with the US equity market. We empirically measure integration by finding the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) between each market and that in the U.S. using a DCC multivariate GARCH model. We then track how these correlations evolve over time using a smooth trans...

We propose a new filter called Bi-affinity filter for color images. This filter is similar in structure to the bilateral filter. The proposed filter is based on the color line model, which does not require the explicit conversion of the RGB values to perception based spaces such as CIELAB. The bi-affinity filter measures the affinity of a pixel to a small neighborhood around it and weighs the f...

Bilateral Dentigerous Cyst: An Unusual Case Report and Review of Literature 1Shweta Tikekar, 2Shirish S Degwekar, 3Rahul R Bhowate 1Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sharad Pawar Dental College and Hospital DMIMSU, Sawangi (M), Wardha, Maharashtra, India 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sharad Pawar Dental College and Hospital DMIMSU...

Nevoid hyperkeratosis of the nipple and areola (NHNA) is a rare condition, in which the skin of the nipple and/or areola becomes diffusely thickened, hyperpigmented, and covered with filiform or papular warty excrescences. Although it affects both men and woman, approximately 80% of cases ocur in women. Pathogenic mechanisms have been proposed but mainly unsubstantiated. Moreover, specific trea...

The μCRL language and its corresponding tool set form a powerful methodology for the verification of dis-tributed systems. We demonstrate its use by applying it to a well-known security protocol: the Bilateral KeyExchange protocol.

Tooth transposition is a severe disturbance of tooth order and eruptive position, involving certain teeth that may occur at any of the several sites in the mouth. Maxillary canine-first premolar (MxCP1) transposition is the most frequent tooth transposition. This case report presents the treatment of female patient with bilateral maxillary canine-premolar transposition. The order of transpositi...

Every year, automated negotiation agents are improving on various domains. However, given a set of automated negotiation agents, current methods allow to determine which strategy is best in terms of utility, but not so much the reason of success. In order to study the performance of the individual components of a negotiation strategy, we introduce an architecture that distinguishes three compon...

We study bilateral bargaining problems with an interested third party, the stakeholder, that enjoys benefits upon a bilateral agreement. To address the strategic implications of stakeholders over negotiations, we consider a model where two bargainers interact in the presence of a third party that (a) can transfer a share of her benefits to the bargainers but cannot receive a share of the bilate...