Disputes are part of everyday business life. Mostly these disputes concern minor disagreements that can be resolved through bilateral negotiations. Some disputes, however, are not resolved so easily. Sometimes, on the face of it, both parties’ positions seem irreconcilable. Such conflicts can easily become major problems to the companies concerned. They can hinder further progress in a project ...

Between 1975 and 1997, school teacher bargaining was conducted under the School Boards and Teachers Collective Negotiations Act (Bill 100). By most accounts, the teacher bargaining law was successful in promoting bilateral settlements with minimal strike activity. Following its election in 1995, the Harris government reduced public expenditures and introduced educational reforms. In doing so, i...

Sliding mode control has been used extensively in robotics to cope with parameters uncertainty, model perturbations and system disturbance. Bilateral robotic teleoperators are often required to provide a haptic interaction in telerobotic applications in which human kinesthetic sense is stimulated locally by remote environment. The paper deals with bilateral control for a force-reflection master...

We present an anisotropic diffusion model for volumetric image filtering. Our 3D anisotropic diffusion tensor is constructed to enhance 1D features (curves) and 2D features(surfaces). Bilateral prefiltering is employed to construct more accurate anisotropic diffusion tensor. An efficient parallel implementation has been done on a PC cluster, the performance and speed-up are reported also.

Background and Importance: The development of C5 root palsy is a well-known potential complication of cervical spine surgeries for the correction of cervical spondylotic myelopathy. It typically occurs unilaterally but on extremely rare occasions it might occur as a bilateral anomaly. The value of intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring in detection of iatrogenic acute versus delayed onset C...

Introduction: Kashima operation, also known as endoscopic laser cordotomy is used for the treatment of bilateral abductor vocal cord palsy where the glottis chink is made posteriorly, sufficient enough for patient to breathe comfortably without any strider.   Materials and Methods: This Clinical Trial Was Performed On 12 Patients[1] with Bilateral Abductor Vocal Cord Paralysis. All Patients...

purpose: to report bilateral terrien’s marginal degeneration, circumferential peripheral corneal ectasia and posterior polymorphous dystrophy in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. case report: a 24-year-old male patient, who was known case of rheumatoid arthritis from 8 years before, presented with decreased vision since four years ago. comprehensive ophthalmic eye exami-nation revealed bilat...

This note considers a two-sided multi-issue bargaining problem in which players that belong to the same ‘‘side’’ may have conflicting priorities regarding the different negotiated issues. The note examines different bilateral bargaining procedures and shows the different equilibrium settlements that they yield. In particular Ž . the note examines the possibility that group heterogeneity conflic...

We analyze a panel of 230 Canadian manufacturing industries to investigate whether trade liberalization promotes efficiency through increased scale. During the six years following the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Canadian manufacturing exhibited substantial rationalization – a decline in the number of plants accompanied by increases in output per plant. We find that the bilatera...