While much attention has been given to reputation mechanisms to deter fraudulent behaviour in online auctions, we know little about the nature of disputes or the types of problems that users face. This is an exploratory analysis of 129 disputes for five different types of products that were sold on eBay. In the analysis we find seven different types of disputes including poor quality, slow ship...

The paper explores the issues of active legitimacy to be a party in administrative dispute proceedings and representation protection parties’ rights before Administrative Court, established as court special jurisdiction by Act on Seats Areas Courts Public Prosecutor's Offices which entered into force January 2010. author first examines who can plaintiff, defendant, interested person an dispute,...

OBJECTIVE To describe the judiciary's approach to parent-physician disputes over the care of sick children. DATA SOURCES Court publications. STUDY SELECTION Fifty parent-physician disagreements over the care of children led to physician requests for court intervention and resulted in judicial opinions published by the court. The opinions describe 66 children from 20 states. DATA SYNTHESIS...

BACKGROUND We evaluated a pedometer-based community intervention under real-world conditions. METHODS Participants (n=559) provided demographic and health information using surveys and steps/d at baseline and during the last week the participants were in the program. A 1-year follow-up was conducted, but in keeping with real-world conditions, no incentives were offered to participate. RESUL...

Several investigators have studied the deficit in maximal voluntary force that is said to occur when bilateral muscle groups contract simultaneously. A true bilateral deficit (BLD) would suggest a significant limitation of neuromuscular control; however, some of the data from studies in the literature are equivocal. Our purpose was to determine whether there is a BLD in the knee extensors of un...