This study contributes to the literature on supply chain coordination by coordinating the research and development (R&D) effort, retail price, and inventory decisions. It investigates a real case in the home appliance industry. The main purpose of this study is to examine the optimal values of R&D effort, pricing, and inventory decisions under decentralized and centralized structures. Then, a d...

OBJECTIVES For women, marriage before the age of 18 years has adverse consequences for physical, mental and emotional well-being and constitutes a barrier for continued education. According to a national survey, about 50% of all women in Eastern Turkey were aged under 18 years at first marriage. METHODS This study explored women's opinions and experiences of early marriage and culture-specifi...

Walimatul 'ursy which the people of Rantau Gedang call barallek custom is always carried out when a marriage event occurs, unique in that local community often carries before wedding. The purpose this study to analyze why implementation contract by Gedang. This research an empirical juridical research, because looks at rule law with practices occur field, while legal approach used anthropologic...

despite important  role that has parties volition in the contract based on article 191, contract espousal will be achieve  bused on  advisable something that is under contract the important role that has silence  in the contract may not be responsible but in practice has very legal effects for contract parties. legal volition is formant from implication and adoption since silence  is not, silen...

The main fundamental question in cooperative game theory is the question how to allocate the total generated wealth by the collective of all players—the player set N itself—over the different players in the game. In other words, what binding contract between the players in N has to be written? Various criteria have been developed. In this chapter I investigate contracts that are stable against ...

We consider some discrete and continuous dynamics in a Banach space involving a non expansive operator J and a corresponding family of strictly contracting operators Φ(λ, x) := λJ( 1−λ λ x) for λ ∈]0, 1]. Our motivation comes from the study of two-player zero-sum repeated games, where the value of the n-stage game (resp. the value of the λdiscounted game) satisfies the relation vn = Φ( 1 n , vn...

Trends and determinants of female marriage migration in contemporary China Hu Ying, Li Shuzhuo, Marcus W. Feldman (1 School of Public Management, Xi’an Jiao tong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China; 2 Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-5020, USA) Abstract: With the rapid development of China’s economy, an increasing number of unmarried young women are leaving their home...

1. The idea that crimes are public wrongs is a well-established one within the field of law. Its role in English Law was explicitly affirmed by Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. Recently, the idea of ‘public wrongs’ has also gained prominence among those working on the normative issues in criminalization, most notably in the works by Duff and Marshall. I have no intention t...