We investigate the range of payoffs which are achieved by voluntary and repeatable partnerships under no information flow. In each period, players without a partner are randomly matched and have an option to form a partnership on meeting a new opponent. A partnership forms and continues only by mutual agreement. Actions are observed only by partners and a player starts with a null history once ...

The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of a partnership model used to conduct a research study entitled "Needs of patients with cancer and their family members in New Brunswick Health Region 3 (NBHR3)" (Tamlyn-Leaman, Creelman, & Fisher, 1997). This partial replication study carried out by the three authors between 1995 and 1997 was a needs assessment, adapted with permission from ...

Community-academic partnerships in the training of doctors offer unique learning opportunities of great importance. Such partnerships can induce a paradigm shift such that physicians view community as a teaching resource and partner rather than as a passive recipient of services or solely as a placement site. The authors describe a model of a community-academic partnership in New York City, beg...

Several partners jointly own an asset that may be traded among them. Each partner has a valuation for the asset; the valuations are known privately and drawn independently from a common probability distribution. We characterize the set of all incentive-compatible and interim-individually-rational trading mechanisms, and give a simple necessary and sufficient condition for such mechanisms to dis...

Almost every doctor will recognise the following (fictionalised) story as one that is wearily common. Tom is aged 35. In the past year he has attended accident and emergency departments in six different cities, each time with abdominal pain. Sometimes he has presented with other symptoms, including blood and mucus in his stools, but sometimes he just has the pain. Each time he attends, a doctor...

Background: Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a kind of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which is characterized by patterns of repetitive behavior, special interests and difficulties in social interaction. Especially due to the impairment in social interaction, partnerships with their special demands for social competence seems to be a challenge for individuals with AS. But data about working of such...