Collaborative contracts

The different lubricant suppliers made a technical proposal of their services (technical approach, monitoring, quality of the products, take back lubricants exhaust from the sugar mill, reports on lubricant consumption, environmental benefits like water consumption reduction, energy savings, increase of equipment life-cycles, statistics and controlling) as well as a time schedule for the work plan. Each of the suppliers accepted agreements concluded in a collaboration contract between the Mexican Cleaner Production Centre, the sugar mill and the lubricants supplier. 

In general, there are three main types of bioprospecting observed in Africa, including collaborative contracts, mass bioprospecting collaborative agreements. 

ImportNET (2007) Deliverable 1.1 Survey Report on Market Technologies Active Support of cross cultural collaboration. Contract 033610. EC Sixth Framework. Progamme... 

The results of section 6.1 and 6.2 are based on the assumption of a redistribution of the increased chain profit. In reality, an actor whose profit increases most might be reluctant towards such a drastic type of collaboration. Contracts are needed to guarantee that the other actor will get its part of the joint profit. The lower and upper value of the redistribution coefficient, which is determined theoretically, needs further research on the negotiating process between the wholesaler and retailer. 

Agency. A second example of an external method of quality assessment is the voluntary participation of the laboratory in a collaborative test (Chapter 14) sponsored by a professional organization such as the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. Finally, individuals contracting with a laboratory can perform their own external quality assessment by submitting blind duplicate samples and blind standard samples to the laboratory for analysis. If the results for the quality assessment samples are unacceptable, then there is good reason to consider the results suspect for other samples provided by the laboratory. 

One of the more intriguing cardiovascular developments is cardiomyoplasty where implantable technologies are blended with another part of the body to take over for a diseased heart. One company, Medtronic, in close collaboration with surgeons, has developed a cardiomyoplasty system to accompany a technique of wrapping back muscle around a diseased heart which can no longer adequately pump. A combination pacemaker and neurological device senses the electrical activity of the heart and correspondingly trains and stimulates the dorsal muscle to cause the defective heart to contract and pump blood. Over 50 implants have been performed to date. 

The C-nor-D-homosteroid rearrangement was discovered by Hirschmann and co-workers at the time that Wintersteiner and his collaborators established that the steroid alkaloids jervine and veratramine incorporate a 14 (1312) abeo-nng system. This was the predecessor of the family of simultaneous ring contraction-expansion reactions. Solvolysis of the 12j5-methanesulfonate (144a) gives mainly the kinetic reaction product, the C-nor-D-homo exocyclic olefin (145) along with some 13(17)-ene (146a). 

The present research has benefitted from collaborations within, and has been partially funded by, the Human Capital and Mobility Network on Ab-initio calculation of complex processes in materials ( contract ERBGHRXCT930369). 

It is our pleasure to thank Dr. Don Nicholson for computational assistance and valuable discussions. The authors benefited from the NATO travel grant No 890816.The research of two of the authors (D.Z. and A.N.A) was partially benefited from collaborations within, and has been partially funded by, the Human Capital and Mobility Network on Ab-Initio (from electronic structure) calculation of complex processes in materials (contract ERBCHRXCT930369). 

We thank J. V. Beitz, P. G. Eller, J. P. Hessler, J. G. Malm, R. A. Penneman, J. C. Sullivan and D. W. Wester for experimental collaborations and fruitful discussions. This work was performed under the auspices of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, U. S. Department of Energy under contract number W-31-109-ENG-38. 

Work with European toxic cyanobacteria was partially supported by a NATO collaborative research grant between W.W. Carmichael and G.A. Codd, University of Dundee, Scotland, and O.M. Skulberg, Norwegian Water Research Institute, Oslo, Norway. Toxin structure work on European and North American peptide toxins is supported in part by U.S. AMRDC contract DAMD17-87-C-7019 to W.W. Carmichael. Portions of the work represent part of the Ph.D. dissertation research of N.A. Mahmood and E.G. Hyde. Their work was supported in part by fellowship support from the Biomedical Ph.D. Program, Wright State University. 

This work was supported by Contract No. NOl-CO-75380 with the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20205. The authors are particularly grateful to Dr. P.N. Magee and Ms. Cecilia Chu for their stimulating collaboration, to Drs. R. Smith and R. Kupper, our former colleagues, who made substantial contributions to this research, and to Dr. G. McClusky for carrying out the difficult mass spectrometric measurements. 

Acknowledgements The authors are extremely grateful for the support of this work by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division, of the U. S. Department of Energy imder Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098, and for the enthusiastic efforts of the many coworkers who have contributed to this research. The contributions of our collaborator, Professor A.T. Bell of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, are also appreciated [79,81,97,130,198]. 

This investigation was supported by the International Sdence Technology Center (project 888) and the Russian Ministry of Education Sciences (contract 02.434.11.1014). The author is very grateful to Drs. J. W. McFarland (Reckon, USA), H. Van de Waterbeemd (AstraZeneca, UK) and K.-J. Schaper (Borstel Research Center, Germany) for collaboration and very useful discussions, and Professor Dr. R. Mannhold for valuable editorial remarks and advice. 

The coordinated approach contracting relationships built on collaboration, trust and close interpersonal ties define the coordinated approach. This approach means that the producer inherits the responsibility and costs of social auditing as they are passed down the supply chain. This is achieved, however, within the framework of close retailer-supplier relationships. Although subcontracting exists, known networks of traceable suppliers are involved. As such, it is possible to exert considerably greater control over the ethical trading process. 

This research was performed in collaboration with Drs. Philipp Gutlich and Norman Sutin at Brookhaven National Laboratory under contract with the U. S. Department of Energy and supported by its Office of Basic Energy Sciences. A full account of these and related studies will be forthcoming. 

From his early youth, under his father s influence, K. H. Meyer had retained a keen interest in biological problems, as was evident from his study of the phenomena of narcosis, which he pursued during his stay in industry. As a natural consequence, he extended his thoughts to biological problems, and evolved a quantitative theory of muscular contraction (in collaboration with Picken), based on analogies with the elasticity of rubber. With J. F. Sievers, the permeability of synthetic membranes was investigated, and a mathematical treatment of the phenomenon was advanced which was later applied to living membranes. 

We are deeply indebted to all our colleagues and collaborators, whose names appear in the cited literature. Work at the Molecular Foundry was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-05CFI11231. 

Collaborations as first-class design units were first introduced in Helm, Holland, and Gangopadhyay s contracts and developed in Trygve Reenskaug s [Reenskaug95] method and tool OORAM. 

How can spot/contract sales and procurement flexibility rules be integrated into negotiation and collaboration agreements ... 

The author is grateful for the contributions of many collaborators to the work reviewed here. Nir Goldman and M. Riad Manaa played a central role in the atomistic simulations. W. Michael Howard, Kurt R. Glaesemann, P. Clark Souers, Peter Vitello, and Sorin Bastea developed many of the thermochemical simulation techniques discussed here. This work was performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-Eng-48. 

This work was carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory under contract with the U. S. Department of Energy and supported by its Office of Basic Energy Sciences. We wish to acknowledge many valuable discussions with Prof. H. L. Friedman and Dr. B. L. Tembe and thank them for permission to refer to results of our collaborative study (12) prior to publication. We also wish to thank Dr. J. Logan for permission to use Figure 4, Dr. S. Ehrenson for supplying a computer program which was used in the ellipsoidal dielectric calculations, and Prof. N. R. Kestner for several helpful comments. 

This article did not escape the vigilance of investigative reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle. A swarm of reporters soon surrounded Harry, curious to know more about a footnote acknowledging that some of his work had been carried out for the U.S. Army Edgewood (Md.) arsenal [sic] in collaboration with the Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, NY, under contract No. DA18-108-AMC-103(A) ... 

Collaborations that were initiated during previous contract years have been continued throughout 1996-1997 in an effort to further evaluate the fuel properties of the new high-energy-density materials. A brief description of each of these collaborative efforts follows. 

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