1 Comments welcome; please contact me at [email protected]. I would like to thank David Lax, my long-time co-author and collaborator, with whom many of these ideas have been jointly developed, both conceptually but especially in terms valuable to practice; see our forthcoming book, 3-D Negotiation: Creating and Claiming Value for the Long Term. I am grateful also my colleagues in the Negotiatio...

Food and agricultural commodity value chains in developing and transition countries have undergone tremendous changes in the past decades. Companies and property rights have been privatized, markets liberalized, and economies integrated into global food systems. The liberalization and privatization initially caused the collapse of statecontrolled vertical integration. More recently, private ver...

greatlv appreciated as are the many helpful comments that I received from participants in the Finance Seminars at Harvard and MIT and at the meetings of the Western Finance Association and the North American Meetings of the International Association of Energy Economists where material from this paper was presented.

objective: to compare the awareness of provisions of consumer protection act among dental and medical professionals in udaipur city, rajasthan, india. materials and methods: in a cross sectional study, a total of 448 professionals (253 males, 195 females) belonging to dental (222) and medical (226) categories were surveyed using a self administered structured questionnaire. the questionnaire co...

Technology is a strategic asset in accomplishing the land grant mission. Selecting appropriate technology for Extension program management and delivery essential to achieving planned outcomes, but can be challenging. This article describes platforms selected by new, legislatively funded delivering an online course hybrid distance-learning experience. The descriptions application of these will a...

Timely topics in pain research and treatment have been selected for publication, but the information provided and opinions expressed in this newsletter have not involved any verification by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) or the SIG on Pain in Older Persons of the findings, conclusions, and opinions stated in this publication. Thus, opinions expressed in this publicat...

The authors present findings from a large 2-year study exploring the development of self-regulatory and metacognitive abilities in young children (aged 3 to 5 years) in educational naturalistic settings in the United Kingdom (English Nursery and Reception classrooms). Three levels of analysis were conducted based on observational codings of categories of metacognitive and self-regulatory behavi...

Here is the latest summary of research abstracts. A reminder that the 2005 Symposium on the Cannabinoids to be held June 24th 27th, 2005 at the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort in Clearwater, Florida USA; registration details are available at http://CannabinoidSociety.org/. In addition a workshop entitled “Cannabinoids: developing clinically useful analgesics” has been announced at the Internatio...

The Federation of European Academies of Medicine (F.E.A.M.), founded in 1993 in Brussels, has the goal of promoting cooperation between national Academies of Medicine. It is the main association functioning as a bridge between the political and administrative authorities of the European Union and the National Medical Academies of Europe, in their role as advisors with concern to medicine and pu...

The recent series of ethics violations in business (e.g., insider trading) has caused number of firms to begin courses in ethics for employees. Unless professionals improve their ethical practices, legislation will force them to do so. The ACM and DPMA curriculum recommendations include ethics topics. An important Issue is the proper education of IS students to deal with on-the-job ethical situ...