In winter 1383, the center for Research of Majlis Shura Islamic of Iran (CRMSII) published a proposal on the logic of the prevailing profit rate that the commercial banks pay/charge on long-term bank loans requiring the executive branch of Islamic Republic to lower the average rate of profit by 4.5 percent within 18 months of passage of the bill by Majlis, to reduce government budget defi...

This paper extends a standard Hotelling model to three firms and analyzes the competitive effect of asymmetric regulation on mobile and fixed termination charges. In the presence of fixed-mobile substitution, above-cost mobile termination charge creates a trade-off on the mobile network’s profit: i.e., (i) reducing retail profit by strengthening competition for subscribers (‘‘price competition ...

Various properties of mesoscopic two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to structure of the topological excitations, charges and vortices, which are shown to be dual to each other. This duality persists in the presence of external magnetic fields and offset charges, which influence vortices and charges in an equivalent way. A double-layer junction a...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to examine reimbursement trends for emergency provider professional services following the balance billing ban in California. METHODS We conducted a blinded web-based survey to collect claims data from emergency providers and billing companies. Members of the California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (California ACEP) reimb...

Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent employee earnings. Overall, growth in employee earnings during the three-year period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing did not differ significantly between establishments that had or had not adopted profit sharin...

Slotting fees -fixed charges paid by food manufacturers to retailers for access to the retail market -are both increasingly common and increasingly controversial. This note shows how imperfectly competitive retailers and a monopolistic supplier of one good can use "naked" slotting fees -charges imposed on competitive suppliers of other goods -to achieve a vertically integrated multi-good monopoly.

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We examine the possibility that gauge field configurations on stacks of parallel Dp-branes support topological solitons. We give an exhaustive list of possible soliton charges for p ≤ 6. We also discuss how configurations carrying the soliton charges can be constructed from intersecting branes.

By placing theories with Yangian charges on the lattice in the analogue of the St Petersburg school’s approach to the sine-Gordon system, we exhibit the Yangian structure of the auxiliary algebra, and explain how the two Yangians are related.