This paper explains offset and develops a strategic approach for the implementation of offset-policy for a buyer country. Offset emerges when a country cannot afford to pay cash for non-essential imports, and cannot get cash for many of its products. Offset arrangements are most frequently found in the defense-related sector. However, recently, it refers to a range of industrial and commercial ...

Prior scholarship overlooks the capacity of other actors to raise the political costs of unilateral action by turning public opinion against the president. Through a series of five experiments embedded in nationally representative surveys, we demonstrate Congress’s ability to erode support for unilateral actions by raising both constitutional and policy-based objections to the exercise of unila...

In a cognitive radio network (CRN), a preempted secondary user (SU) is placed in a call level queue to wait for accessing another free channel. If the availability of channels is transparent to SUs, packets will be generated during their waiting time and the performance of the CRN will be influenced by which way to handle these packets. This paper mainly analyzes the performance of a CRN adopti...

This paper develops optimal inventory models for a firm with multiple items and multiple branches by taking into account the price discount of sizable procurement and the scale economies of centralized warehousing and consolidated transportation. Four inventory strategies are proposed: independent ordering and decentralized warehousing, independent ordering and centralized warehousing, joint or...

Background It has been suggested that parkinsonian [Parkinson's disease (PD)] patients might have a "dominant" (DOM) subthalamic nucleus (STN), whose unilateral electrical stimulation [deep brain stimulation (DBS)] could lead to an improvement in PD symptoms similar to bilateral STN-DBS. Objectives Since disability in PD patients is often related to gait problems, in this study, we wanted to ...