As more manufacturers shift their focus from selling products to end solutions, full-service maintenance contracts gain traction in the business world. These cover all related costs during a predetermined horizon exchange for fixed service fee and relieve customers uncertain costs. To guarantee profitability, fees should at least expected contract horizon. these may depend on several machine-de...

Veterinarians can serve some of their more progressive commercial cow-calf clients by introducing them to the option of becoming an embryo transfer (ET) contract recipient herd. Contract recipient herds receive embryos from owners of purebred herds, have those embryos transferred to their synchronous recipient cows, calve and raise those ET calves to weaning when they are sold back to the embry...

This paper examines the interaction of law and policy making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that amounts to actual bodily harm is unlawful in the UK, and calls to decriminalise it are often met with fears that participants will be left vul...

To measure the benefits of formal contract enforcement for society, I create a market with merchants and buyers, in which buyers can choose whether to buy, pay. A set multiple “state‐favored” ethnic groups control state. experimentally vary contracts are required composition buyer‐merchant pairs. The design separately identifies effect on buyers' incentive pay their buy. document two ways socie...

[Purpose] This study compared the effectiveness of stabilization and McKenzie exercises on pain, disability, and thickness of the transverse abdominis and multifidus muscles in patients with nonspecific chronic low back pain. [Subjects] Thirty patients were randomly assigned into two groups: the McKenzie and stabilization exercise groups. [Methods] Before and after intervention, pain, disabilit...