Embracing complexity: Learning from minority, 50-50, and majority joint venture experience

Effects of Electromagnetic Fields with Frequencies Lower Than 50 Hz and Intensity of 50 μT on Learning and Memory

Introduction: Biological effects of magnetic fields have been investigated by scientists for many years and a vast amount of research using different frequencies and intensities have been performed on humans and laboratory animals. The results of these studies, which have mostly been done by applying high frequencies, have shown that electromagnetic fields are effective on structure and functio...

Learning through the international joint venture: lessons from the experience of China's automotive sector

This study explores why international joint ventures (IJVs) based in the global South may meet with only partial success in nurturing local technological capability. The experience of China’s passenger-vehicle sector demonstrates that in the existence of a substantial technologicalcapability gap between alliance partners, the IJV arrangement is likely to create a “passive” learning mode, and le...

Thoracic outlet syndrome: a 50-year experience.

Y our recent publication of a 50-year experience with the thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) (1) would have served a valuable purpose if it had been accompanied by an alternative view of the controversies in diagnosis, classification, role of diagnostic testing, management, and outcomes analysis (2–6). As patients and physicians unfamiliar with this controversy increasingly turn to the unedited Int...

minority, majority and their legitimacy philosophy

in this article the historical expression by martyr zaidebn e-ali on negation of forbidden majority has been described. also the majority and minority issue in the quran has been compared with current majority and minority in the political sciences. it seems that in the quran the majority which does not apply reason and does not know is the majority of opponents of prophets. thus, the majority ...

Minority Challenge of Majority