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Building Stronger Channel Relationships Through Information Sharing
Does sharing market information help channel partners to buildstronger mutual relationships? Is low initial trust really animpediment for further relationship development by means ofinformation sharing? How do connections with other competingchannel partners affect the relationship building process? Toaddress these questions, we conducted an experimental study.Our findings show that retailer information sharing helps todevelop higher quality supplier relationships. Interestingly,even if the initial level of trust in the retailer is low, therelationship quality substantially improves. In a morecompetitive situation the suppliers respond more favorably tothe retailer?s information-sharing initiative.experimental design;information-sharing;interfirm collaboration;marketing channels
Building Stronger Channel Relationships Through Information Sharing
Does sharing market information help channel partners to build
stronger mutual relationships? Is low initial trust really an
impediment for further relationship development by means of
information sharing? How do connections with other competing
channel partners affect the relationship building process? To
address these questions, we conducted an experimental study.
Our findings show that retailer information sharing helps to
develop higher quality supplier relationships. Interestingly,
even if the initial level of trust in the retailer is low, the
relationship quality substantially improves. In a more
competitive situation the suppliers respond more favorably to
the retailer?s information-sharing initiative
Investigation of the Domain Wall Fermion Approach to Chiral Gauge Theories on the Lattice
We investigate a recent proposal to construct chiral gauge theories on the
lattice using domain wall fermions. We restrict ourselves to the finite volume
case, in which two domain walls are present, with modes of opposite chirality
on each of them. We couple the chiral fermions on only one of the domain walls
to a gauge field. In order to preserve gauge invariance, we have to add a
scalar field, which gives rise to additional light mirror fermion and scalar
modes. We argue that in an anomaly free model these extra modes would decouple
if our model possesses a so-called strong coupling symmetric phase. However,
our numerical results indicate that such a phase most probably does not exist.
---- Note: 9 Postscript figures are appended as uuencoded compressed tar file.Comment: 27p. Latex; UCSD/PTH 93-28, Wash. U. HEP/93-6
Congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia - treatment with free valcusarised fibular grafts
Congenital pseudarthrosis is uncommon. We report on a series of 4 patients treated by means of free vascularised fibular grafts. Complications encountered were graft fracture, delayed union and angulation deformities. Modifications in the surgical technique i=proved later results. We recommend wide excision of pathological bone, bridging of the defect by free vascularised fibular grafts and rigid fixation
General Relativistic Radiant Shock Waves in the Post-Quasistatic Approximation
An evolution of radiant shock wave front is considered in the framework of a
recently presented method to study self-gravitating relativistic spheres, whose
rationale becomes intelligible and finds full justification within the context
of a suitable definition of the post-quasistatic approximation. The spherical
matter configuration is divided into two regions by the shock and each side of
the interface having a different equation of state and anisotropic phase. In
order to simulate dissipation effects due to the transfer of photons and/or
neutrinos within the matter configuration, we introduce the flux factor, the
variable Eddington factor and a closure relation between them. As we expected
the strength of the shock increases the speed of the fluid to relativistic
values and for some critical ones is larger than light speed. In addition, we
find that energy conditions are very sensible to the anisotropy, specially the
strong one. As a special feature of the model, we find that the contribution of
the matter and radiation to the radial pressure are the same order of magnitude
as in the mant as in the core, moreover, in the core radiation pressure is
larger than matter pressure.Comment: To appear in Journal of Physics:Conference Series:"XXIX Spanish
Relativity Meeting (ERE 2006): Einstein's Legacy: From the Theoretical
Paradise to Astrophysical Observations
Reproducibility of lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) assessment in endometrial cancer
Aims Lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) in endometrial cancer (EC) is an important prognostic variable impacting on a patient's individual recurrence risk and adjuvant treatment recommendations. Recent work has shown that grading the extent of LVSI further improves its prognostic strength in patients with stage I endometrioid EC. Despite this, there is little information on the reproducibility of LVSI assessment in EC. Therefore, we designed a study to evaluate interobserver agreement in discriminating true LVSI from LVSI mimics (Phase I) and reproducibility of grading extent of LVSI (Phase II). Methods and results Scanned haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides of endometrioid EC (EEC) with a predefined possible LVSI focus were hosted on a website and assessed by a panel of six European gynaecological pathologists. In Phase I, 48 H&E slides were included for LVSI assessment and in Phase II, 42 H&E slides for LVSI grading. Each observer was instructed to apply the criteria for LVSI used in daily practice. The degree of agreement was measured using the two-way absolute agreement average-measures intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Reproducibility of LVSI assessment (ICC = 0.64, P < 0.001) and LVSI grading (ICC = 0.62, P < 0.001) in EEC was substantial among the observers. Conclusions Given the good reproducibility of LVSI, this study further supports the important role of LVSI in decision algorithms for adjuvant treatment
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Calibration and assessment of process-based numerical models for beach profile evolution in southern California
Intermittent permeation of cylindrical nanopores by water
Molecular Dynamics simulations of water molecules in nanometre sized
cylindrical channels connecting two reservoirs show that the permeation of
water is very sensitive to the channel radius and to electric polarization of
the embedding material. At threshold, the permeation is {\emph{intermittent}}
on a nanosecond timescale, and strongly enhanced by the presence of an ion
inside the channel, providing a possible mechanism for gating. Confined water
remains surprisingly fluid and bulk-like. Its behaviour differs strikingly from
that of a reference Lennard-Jones fluid, which tends to contract into a highly
layered structure inside the channel.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Conservative 3+1 General Relativistic Variable Eddington Tensor Radiation Transport Equations
We present conservative 3+1 general relativistic variable Eddington tensor
radiation transport equations, including greater elaboration of the momentum
space divergence (that is, the energy derivative term) than in previous work.
These equations are intended for use in simulations involving numerical
relativity, particularly in the absence of spherical symmetry. The independent
variables are the lab frame coordinate basis spacetime position coordinates and
the particle energy measured in the comoving frame. With an eye towards
astrophysical applications---such as core-collapse supernovae and compact
object mergers---in which the fluid includes nuclei and/or nuclear matter at
finite temperature, and in which the transported particles are neutrinos, we
pay special attention to the consistency of four-momentum and lepton number
exchange between neutrinos and the fluid, showing the term-by-term
cancellations that must occur for this consistency to be achieved.Comment: Version accepted by Phys. Rev.
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