Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces

the use of appropriate madm model for ranking the vendors of mci equipments using fuzzy approach

abstract nowadays, the science of decision making has been paid to more attention due to the complexity of the problems of suppliers selection. as known, one of the efficient tools in economic and human resources development is the extension of communication networks in developing countries. so, the proper selection of suppliers of tc equipments is of concern very much. in this study, a ...

International/transnational spaces of education

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Efficient Leveraging of Symbolic Execution

Automatic test data generation (ATG) is a major topic in software engineering. In this paper, we bridge the gap between the coverage criteria supported by state-of-the-art whitebox ATG technologies, especially Dynamic Symbolic Execution, and advanced coverage criteria found in the literature. We define a new testing criterion, label coverage, and prove it to be both expressive and amenable to e...

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

Transnational Actors, Transnational Institutions, Transnational Spaces: the Role of Law Firms in the Internationalization of Competition Regulation