Negotiating with suppliers and with customers is a key part of supply chain management. However, with recent technological advances, the mechanisms available to carry out such activities have become increasingly sophisticated, and the environment in which these activities take place has become highly dynamic. As a consequence, the overall planning of these complex trades, and the coordination o...

discussions of the future of competition law on the transnational level often reflect assumptions about the role of economics. perhaps the most pivotal of these assumptions is that economics can provide a basis for global competition law convergence. it is pivotal, because choices and strategies relating to competition law often depend on it. moreover, many see convergence among competition law...

Research on intrasexual competition for mates focused on the strategies of self-promotion and competitor derogation. Although these strategies describe many competitive behaviors, it was predicted that they do not describe all possible strategies. In Study 1, a qualitative investigation, participants reported how they compete with same-sex rivals for mates. This led to the discovery of the stra...

Background Competitive bodybuilders employ a combination of resistance training, cardiovascular exercise, calorie reduction, supplementation regimes and peaking strategies in order to lose fat mass and maintain fat free mass. Although recommendations exist for contest preparation, applied research is limited and data on the contest preparation regimes of bodybuilders are restricted to case stud...

Suppose you want to buy a used Canon AE1 SLR camera at an online auction. It would be quite a daunting task to manually monitor prices and make bidding decisions at all web sites currently offering the camera—especially if accessories such as a flash and a tripod are sometimes bundled with the camera and sometimes auctioned separately. However, for the next generation of trading agents, autonom...