This monograph focuses on the use of incomplete contracting models to study transfer pricing. Intrafirm pricing mechanisms affect division managers’ incentives to trade intermediate products and to undertake relationship-specific investments so as to increase the gains from trade. Letting managers negotiate over the transaction is known to cause holdup (underinvestment) problems. Yet, in the ab...

Robotics can contribute significantly to our understanding of the behaviour of organisms because of its emphasis on the role of the body and its physical interactions with the external environment in determining the organism’s behaviour. However, behaviour is the result of the interactions of an organism’s nervous system with both the external environment and the internal environment, i.e. with...

Segmentation and detection of individual actions from a stream of human motion is an open problem in computer vision. This paper analyzes the movements of the crucial points of the human body (hands, feet, head and center of gravity) in order to detect simple actions such as walking, jumping and displacing an object. The crucial points are considered as cooperative agents forming a team (the wh...

The work done by Prof. Swale Vincent in the production of the present volume has entailed a vast amount of labour in reviewing, selecting, and extracting the literature of the subject scattered over innumerable journals. We have read the chapters on the different ductless glands with the very greatest interest and advantage, and we have very great pleasure in recommending it to all students and...

Limited data are available on the use of internal fixation in combat zone hospitals. The authors performed a retrospective review of 713 surgical cases during 2 Operation Enduring Freedom deployments to a Level III theater hospital in 2007 and 2009 to 2010. The epidemiology and short- to intermediate-term outcomes of patients treated with internal fixation devices were studied. The authors foun...