An o↵er that you can’t refuse? Agrimafias and Migrant Labor on Vineyards in Southern Italy

Presenting a Hybrid Approach based on Two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluating Organization Productivity

   Measuring the performance of a production system has been an important task in management for purposes of control, planning, etc. Lord Kelvin said :“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.” Hence, manag...

An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Clinical Impact of Accepting or Rejecting a Recommendation from an Antibiotic Stewardship Program

More Polynomial Root Squeezing

1. W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 1, 3rd ed., John Wiley, 1968. 2. R. L. Graham, D. E. Knuth, and O. Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, Addison-Wesley, 1989. 3. R. Hirshon and R. De Simone, An offer you can’t refuse, Mathematics Magazine 81 (2008) 146–152. 4. L. Takács, On the classical ruin problems, J. American Stat...

Phylogenetic analysis of two Iranian grapevine virus A isolates using coat protein gene sequence

Symptomatic grapevine samples were collected from vineyards in Zanjan province to detect Grapevine virus A. Total RNA was extracted from symptomatic leaf samples and subjected to cDNA synthesis using random hexamer primers. Then, a DNA fragment around 800 bp including the complete coat protein (CP) gene was amplified from nine out of 57 samples by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using specific ...

An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Naked Exclusion, Refusal to Deal, and Exclusive Contracts

An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Naked Exclusion, Refusal to Deal, and Exclusive Contracts Robert Kulick1 We introduce a model of anticompetitive exclusive dealing that provides a unified treatment of two of the major categories of potentially anticompetitive single-firm conduct recognized by the FTC: refusal to deal and exclusive purchase agreements. The exclusionary mechanism succeeds by turning th...