of provident contributions, in which it has invited the co-operation of the Hospital Saturday Fund. The Fund is also preparing a general scheme for a combined appeal. These new tasks have led to a reorganisation, whereby the new numerous functions of the Fund will be allotted to Committees, the chairmen of which will meet regularly on the Committee of Management. Since January 1, the duties hit...

Ian Hinitt, deputy estates director at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and project director of an ambitious "ultra fast-track" modular ward development at Bradford Royal Infirmary, describes the numerous challenges in getting the building completed in just six months, extolling the virtues of Partnering and Framework Agreements and a systems approach to project managing ultra-...

intentional assignment of entitlements (as opposed to debts) is a legal institution which is based on the possibility of separation of entitlements from the personality of creditor and of its assignment to a third party. in the voluntary assignment of entitlements, the creditors may assign their rights to a third party. after long discussions, voluntary assignment of rights has been accepted in...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the evaluation of the quality of voluntary disclosure, given that the factors used in internal research due to having an external source and focusing on the number of disclosures may not be an appropriate criterion for measuring the quality of information disclosure, so, it is necessary to provide new influencing factors on the e...

This paper presents a model in which some consumers shop on the basis of price alone, without attention to product quality. A firm may “cheat” (i.e., cut quality) to exploit these inattentive consumers. In the unique symmetric equilibrium, firms follow a mixed strategy involving both price and quality dispersion. Firms are less likely to cheat when there are fewer inattentive consumers, which i...