Most experienced negotiators are comfortable working out the terms of the “economic contract,” or the “letter of the deal” around issues such as price, investment, equity splits, governance provisions, warrantees, and exit clauses. Yet even where the economics are compelling, the “spirit of the deal” or “social contract” can get short shrift. Though the parties sign the same deal, their minds m...

Influence of market share of buyers on choice of contracts has not received sufficient attention in the context of various supply chain structure. This paper focuses on this gap and examines a network consisting of one supplier and two buyers under complete and partial decentralization. In the complete decentralized setting both buyers are independent of the supplier. In the partial decentraliz...

We assess the proclaimed pro-competitive effects of “transfer system”, no-poaching agreement governing European football (soccer) labor market. A major argument to legitimize this system is that transfer fees, which hiring clubs pay release players from their current clubs, redistribute revenues large market small clubs. This would strengthen clubs’ financial clout and ability compete in sporti...

Abstract Background A retrospective study was conducted on 71 consecutive patients with suspected prostate cancer (PCa) a mean age of 56 years and underwent mp-MRI the at 3 Tesla MRI. Two readers recognized all prostatic lesions, each lesion had score according to Prostate Imaging–Reporting Data System version 2 (PI-RADS-v2). Purpose To evaluate interobserver agreement PI-RADS-v2 in characteriz...

Due to the very limited computing resource, storing space and electric power supply of tag, it is a great challenge for us to design a practical RFID protocol which is security, efficient and can be used in the low-cost tag. In 2007, He et al. proposed an authentication and key agreement protocol which is used in the process of communication between the low-cost tag and reader. They also proved...