Empirical research on strategic alliances has been limited because previous studies examined alliance outcomes, and the factors associated with them, from a single partner in a manufacturing alliance. Furthermore, many of these studies have been done from a transaction cost perspective and researchers have inferred opportunistic behavior, rather than directly measuring it and observing its actu...

Let G be a connected graph with vertex set V (G) and edge set E(G). A (defensive) alliance in G is a subset S of V (G) such that for every vertex v ∈ S, |N [v]∩S| ≥ |N(v)∩(V (G)− S)|. The alliance partition number, ψa(G), was defined (and further studied in [11]) to be the maximum number of sets in a partition of V (G) such that each set is a (defensive) alliance. Similarly, ψg(G) is the maximu...

OBJECTIVE To examine the link between therapeutic alliance and youth outcomes. METHOD The study was conducted at a group-home with 112 youth with a disruptive-behavior diagnosis. Therapeutic alliance was collected routinely via youth and staff report. Outcome data were collected using youth and staff reports of externalizing behavior as well as behavioral incidents occurring during care. Outc...

Research on strategic alliances tends to focus on their performance and outcome rather than the process thateventually leads to a particular outcome i.e. alliance success or alliance failure. This study aims to identifyfactors that lead to an alliance breakup. Specifically, the Volvo-Renault alliance within the European automotiveindustry is investigated as a case study. A 'Strategi...

vacuum of power was one of the most important consequences of ussr collapse. regional and trans-regional countries have been pulled to south caucasus to extend their influence on this region. turkey and israel thought alliance with azerbaijan constitute east-west pivot. this cooperation threatens common interests of russia and iran. reaction of tehran and moscow creates north-south axis thought...

Information on how the patient's interpersonal problems predict alliance development during long-term therapy is lacking. The aim of this study was to explore how the patient's pre-treatment interpersonal problems predict the development of alliance in long-term psychotherapy. Altogether 128 adult outpatients experiencing mood or anxiety disorder were assigned to long-term psychodynamic psychot...

Recently, researchers have started to measure the working alliance repeatedly across sessions of psychotherapy, relating the working alliance to symptom change session by session. Responding to questionnaires after each session can become tedious, leading to careless responses and/or increasing levels of missing data. Therefore, assessment with the briefest possible instrument is desirable. Bec...

Abstract Introduction Endometriosis (endo) is a chronic gynecological illness that affects millions of women. Endo has three main symptoms are often the trigger for diagnosis though can only be confirmed through laparoscopy. Laparoscopy surgical procedure allows surgeon to view organs in abdomen and presence endometriosis. The third most common symptom endometriosis after infertility dysmenorrh...

The study authors conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) in which 16 schools were randomly assigned to conditions: eight to the intervention group and eight to the comparison group. All kindergarten and first-grade classrooms within each school were included in the evaluation. Within each eligible classroom, five struggling and five nonstruggling readers were randomly selected fo...