We tested the effects of various policy rules on retailer behavior in laboratory experiments conducted at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Our experimental designmodels themultifaceted contemporary market for consumer computer products and is quite complex, but we found that participants can make effective decisions and that their behavior is sensitive to variations in policies. Based on our resul...

The tribe Phyllomorphini Mulsant & Rey, 1870 of the family Coreidae, subfamily Coreinae, is represented in the Palaearctic Region by three genera (Pephricus Amyot & Serville, 1843, Phyllomorpha Laporte, 1833, and Tongorma Kirkaldy, 1900) and four species. Two of them, Pephricus subtilis Montandon, 1913 and Tongorma latreillii (Guérin-Méneville, 1839) are known only from Yemen and represent Afro...

A systems approach to modeling demand which incorporates survival modeling is applied to the problem of prison population projection. The approach models the flow of inmates through the prison system and differs from earlier approaches by exploiting the differences in the incarceration hazard rates of individuals in the general population and those who have previously been incarcerated and expl...

In a recent paper Ahmad and Li (1996) proposed a new test for symmetry of the error distribution in linear regression models and proved asymptotic normality for the distribution of the corresponding test statistic under the null hypothesis and consistency under xed alternatives. The present paper has three purposes. On the one hand we derive the asymptotic distribution of the statistic consider...

abstract background: increase in nitric oxide (no) concentration accompanied by alteration in peritoneal immune defense reactions is involved in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. asymmetric dimethylarginine is an endogenous competitive inhibitor of no synthase. this study was designed to compare no metabolite (nitrite), asymmetric dimethylarginine, and estradiol concentrations in serum and per...

BACKGROUND Clinicians working in a women's prison in British Columbia observed hepatitis C sero-conversion among inmates, prompting this study to determine: the characteristics of women who do and do not report illicit drug use in prison; patterns of drug use inside prison; factors associated with illicit drug use that might contribute to bloodborne transmission inside prison. METHODS A cross...

The prison population is increasing and the health problems of prisoners are considerable. Prison is designed with punishment, correction and rehabilitation to the community in mind and these goals may conflict with the aims of health care. A literature review showed that the main issues in prison health care are mental health, substance abuse and communicable diseases. Women prisoners and olde...

in Japanese, the roots of Paeonia lactiflora PALLAS (Paeoniaceae), is one of the well-known herbal drugs prescribed in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the treatment of abdominal pain and stiffness of abdominal muscles. Meselhy and Hattori have reviewed the recent studies on peony roots in terms of chemical structure, biological activity, metabolism and pharmacokinetics. After the discove...

Abbas M, Arsad M, Azam A (2013), Fixed points of asymptotically regular mappings in complex-valued metric spaces, Georgian Math. J. , 20 (2), 213-221. Abbas M. Fisher B, Nazir T (2012), Well-posedness and periodic point property of mappings satisfying a rational inequality in an ordered complex valued metric space, Sci. Stud. Res. , Ser. Math. Inform. , 22 (1), 5-24. Ahmad J, Klin-Eam C, Azam A...