Introduction: The antinociceptive effect of morphine is, in part, mediated through the activation of a descending pathway. One of the major components of this pathway is the nucleus raphe magnus (NRM). Our previous study demonstrated the involvement of NRM in the analgesic effect of morphine microinjected into the nucleus cuneiformis (NCF) in a descending manner. The aim of the current study...

This paper presents a model in which players interact via the formation of costly links and the benefits of bilateral interactions are determined by a coordination game. A novel contribution of this paper is that the fraction of the cost borne by each player involved in a bilateral link is not fixed exogenously, but results from bargaining. We analyze the model both in a static and a dynamic se...

In the real estate market, there are examples of bilateral monopoly in special situations related to the position and the configuration of the property. Typical cases are the trading involving: extra ordinary properties that are taken away from the normal interactions between supply and demand; landlocked funds and/or residual surfaces that get a certain value only if connected to neighboring p...

Studies with mammograms have demonstrated a relationship between parenchymal texture and breast cancer risk. Although promising, texture analysis in mammograms is limited by the effect of tissue superimposition. Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a novel tomographic x-ray breast imaging modality that alleviates the effect of tissue superimposition. We explore the potential advantages of DBT ...

This paper analyses a model of price formation in a market with a finite number of non-identical agents engaging in decentralised bilateral interactions. We focus mainly on equal numbers of buyers and sellers, though we discuss other cases. All characteristics of agents are assumed to be common knowledge. Buyers simultaneously make targeted offers, which sellers can accept or reject. Acceptance...

This paper demonstrates that the economic surplus which agents produce in bilateral interactions is extractable by an outside party having sufficient initial resources. The third party achieves this outcome using a class of ‘‘exclusive-interaction’’ contracts. A basic extractability result is shown to be robust to several extensions: competition among outside parties, multiplicity of interactin...

introduction: the antinociceptive effect of morphine is, in part, mediated through the activation of a descending pathway. one of the major components of this pathway is the nucleus raphe magnus (nrm). our previous study demonstrated the involvement of nrm in the analgesic effect of morphine microinjected into the nucleus cuneiformis (ncf) in a descending manner. the aim of the current study wa...

There are many different lenses through which to view strategic stability in today’s world. Defining strategic very broadly to encompass nuclear, missile defenses, space, global strike, and cyber capabilities, these lenses include: the legacy of Cold War strategic stability; stability in the central bilateral strategic relationships between the United States and Russia and the United States and...

This paper studies the first model of social interactions with anti-coordination. Agents have fixed partners with whom they play a common bilateral game of anti-coordination, like the chicken game. Partnerships are represented as links of a network. The paper asks: How do social interactions interplay with the incentives to anti-coordinate? How does the social network affect individual choices ...