although in principle the benefit and loss resulted from partnership is to be taken into consideration in private relationships proportionate to the parties’ shares, prediction of stipulating more benefit or exempting all or part of the loss in the company’s contracts, with respect to the existing necessities and the need for maximum participation, is a common practice. whereas, the article 575...

this experiment was performed to investigate whether feeding xylose-treated soybean meal (xsbm) or corn gluten meal (cgm) is economically better under field conditions. ninety-four multiparous early lactating holstein cows (55±5 days in milk and 2.82±0.41 body condition score) were used in a completely randomized design. cows were randomly assigned to one of two treatments: xsbm or cgm as the m...

The applause stunned me. I simply hadn’t expected the chief financial officers of our 41 hospitals to respond to a community benefit presentation with such affirmation. When I asked what had prompted their reaction, they told me that for the first time, they had heard the business case for community benefit programming. This was language they understood. It was a major turning point for me and ...

a resident caretaker and telephonic communication, proper notices to the patients and adequate deputising arrangements. Without these, the lock-up surgery will always be a reproach to the panel service. In future the Panel Committee may require the Insurance Committee to have an investigation made, either into the conduct of an individual doctor or into any matter affecting the administration o...

In this paper we look at the relationship between crime and economic incentives in a different way to other work in this area. We look at changes in unemployment benefits and the imposition of benefit sanctions as a means of studying the way that people on the margins of crime may react to economic incentives. The paper relies on a quasiexperimental setting induced by the introduction of the Jo...

We explore the relationship between R. W. Shephard's input distance function (``Cost and Production Functions,'' Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 1953) and D. G. Luenberger's benefit function (J. Math. Econ. 21 (1992a), 461 481). We point out that the latter can be recognized in a production context as a directional input distance function which can exhaustively characterize technologies in bo...

Order is the key word of science. Scientists have tried to order and explain all the phenomena of the universe. They found that the planets and stars move along predictable paths, discovered the laws of gravitation and devised formulae to describe inheritance. For them, the universe is like a clock. Their mission is to discover and explain the mechanism of this clock and thus explain the laws t...

Australian law embodies a "communitarian" conception of the doctor's responsibility to respect the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship. This implies that respect for confidentiality sits alongside two other responsibilities: proper care for the patient's general wellbeing and proper attention to the safety of the community. Most jurisdictions now require drivers to advise their l...

E nter any research laboratory and you will most likely find an almost Babylonian confusion: French researchers discussing their experiments in French, but quickly switching to English when joined by their Chinese colleague. A German researcher may answer the phone in German while talking to a Spanish colleague in English. English is the de facto lingua franca of science: of research papers, gr...