one of the ways of selling products is “direct selling”. the companies which use this method sell their products directly to end users just by their distributors’ intermediation. in this method, distributors retail sell the products out of a fixed commercial location. harmful effect of loading unsold products with distributors had legislators make companies buy-back those products. briefly, we ...

How do rational firms respond to consumer biases? In this paper, we analyze the profitmaximizing contract design of firms if consumers have time-inconsistent preferences and are partially naive about it. We consider markets for two types of goods: goods with immediate costs and delayed benefits (investment goods) such as health club attendance, and goods with immediate benefits and delayed cost...

according to rawls, lack of information and knowledge behind the veil ofignorance necessitates the existence of primary goods. he outlines severalsubjective and objective reasons to back his argument for the necessity of primarygoods as a fair and neutral element. this article discusses rawls’s argument forsuch necessity while at the same time argues that the “primary goods” listed byrawls prom...

Subjective musculoskeletal symptoms are more frequently complained about in cold store work and in related conditions than those experienced in normal temperature work. This cross sectional study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of indoor cooling and cold storage goods on the prevalence of subjective symptoms in summer. Female workers sorting cold storage goods (exposed group) were the ma...

In this letter, the properties of split-ring resonators (SRRs) loaded with high-Q capacitors and nonlinear varactors are theoretically analyzed and experimentally measured. We demonstrate that the resonance frequency f(m) of the nonlinear SRRs can be tuned by increasing the incident power. f(m) moves to lower and higher frequencies for the SRR loaded with one varactor and two back-to-back varac...

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Economic agents have the possibility to fund the protection of environmental public goods, such as natural ecosystems and biodiversity, facing unknown risks of collapse, which could help to back them up. On the base of the prediction markets, which meet with a degree of success since their introduction, we propose an evolutionary model of an option fund market for the threshold environmental pu...

All of the low back braces available today are fabricated to provide anteriorly or posteriorly directed forces . None accomplishes satisfactory immobilization, and, in fact, braces with a high thoraco-lumbar purchase area increase lumbosacral motion (1) . Attempts to improve the lumbar immobilization by applying increased abdominal pressure are useful to a limited degree, as in the Williams bra...