1 Comments welcome; please contact me at [email protected]. I would like to thank David Lax, my long-time co-author and collaborator, with whom many of these ideas have been jointly developed, both conceptually but especially in terms valuable to practice; see our forthcoming book, 3-D Negotiation: Creating and Claiming Value for the Long Term. I am grateful also my colleagues in the Negotiatio...

Food and agricultural commodity value chains in developing and transition countries have undergone tremendous changes in the past decades. Companies and property rights have been privatized, markets liberalized, and economies integrated into global food systems. The liberalization and privatization initially caused the collapse of statecontrolled vertical integration. More recently, private ver...

greatlv appreciated as are the many helpful comments that I received from participants in the Finance Seminars at Harvard and MIT and at the meetings of the Western Finance Association and the North American Meetings of the International Association of Energy Economists where material from this paper was presented.

objective: to compare the awareness of provisions of consumer protection act among dental and medical professionals in udaipur city, rajasthan, india. materials and methods: in a cross sectional study, a total of 448 professionals (253 males, 195 females) belonging to dental (222) and medical (226) categories were surveyed using a self administered structured questionnaire. the questionnaire co...

In this issue of the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, Sarah Lewis provides a personal account of her breast cancer journey. As medical radiation professionals it is confronting to experience loved ones going through cancer and radiation therapy; furthermore it is very difficult and challenging as trained medical radiation professionals to be faced with medical procedures, illness and rece...

BACKGROUND Radiation safety is an essential component in the treatment of patients with thyroid diseases by ¹³¹I. The American Thyroid Association created a task force to develop recommendations that would inform medical professionals about attainment of radiation safety for patients, family members, and the public. The task force was constituted so as to obtain advice, experience, and methods ...

It is a well known fact that conventional Dental radiographs were considered as an important part of dental care in the earlier times. Most of these radiographs are still practiced widely by a lot of dental practitioners. In the past, the field of "Dentistry" was precise and was considered related to dentition only. Along with clinical oral examination, the radiographs used to provide with a mo...

Timely topics in pain research and treatment have been selected for publication, but the information provided and opinions expressed in this newsletter have not involved any verification by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) or the SIG on Pain in Older Persons of the findings, conclusions, and opinions stated in this publication. Thus, opinions expressed in this publicat...

The authors present findings from a large 2-year study exploring the development of self-regulatory and metacognitive abilities in young children (aged 3 to 5 years) in educational naturalistic settings in the United Kingdom (English Nursery and Reception classrooms). Three levels of analysis were conducted based on observational codings of categories of metacognitive and self-regulatory behavi...