In every negotiation with a deadline, one of the negotiating parties must accept an offer to avoid a break off. As a break off is usually an undesirable outcome for both parties, it is important that a negotiator employs a proficient mechanism to decide under which conditions to accept. When designing such conditions, one is faced with the acceptance dilemma: accepting the current offer may be ...

introduction the aim of this study was toinvestigate the sterilization potential of atmospheric pressure plasma jet (appj) and interactions of this technology with double-stranded dna using the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and single-strand conformation polymorphism (sscp) techniques. materials and methods the plasma jet was produced through a high voltage sinusoidal power supplyusing a mixt...

This article uses models to propose an explanation for three observations in community ecology: the apparent overreaction of prey to attack by specialist predators, the existence of a common trade-off among components of competitive ability in communities of unrelated competitors, and the ability of invading species to break the native trade-off. Strategies that increase resource collection abi...

Abstract Break-off of part the down-going plate during continental collision occurs due to tensile stresses built-up between deep and shallow slab, for which buoyancy is increased because continental-crust subduction. governs subsequent orogenic evolution but real-time observations are rare as it happens over geologically short times. Here we present a finite-frequency tomography, based on join...