Sustainability in Ylläs: one focus, various interpretations

Sustainability and its Economic Interpretations

Evolution of Character in the Exegesis Attitude to Theosophical Interpretations of Quran; the Story of Ibrahim in Focus

Story is one of the best and most accessible ways which Qur'an uses for conveying the concepts and explaining its religious teachings. Quranic stories are considered as narrations a large proportion of which is devoted to the lives of the prophets. As character is one of the main elements of a narrative and also, since after Moses, the prophet Ibrahim is the most frequent character in Quranic s...

Program sustainability: focus on organizational routines.

Program sustainability is an ongoing concern for most people in health promotion. However, the current notion of sustainability in organizations, namely routinization, needs refinement. This article examines organizational routines. In so doing, it refines the notion of sustainability and the assessment of routines. Drawing on the organizational literature, a routinized program is defined by th...

Growing degree-days: one equation, two interpretations

Heat units, expressed in growing degree-days (GDD), are frequently used to describe the timing of biological processes. The basic equation used is GDD = [(T,,, + TM,,)/2] T,,,,, where T, and T,,, are daily maximum and minimum air temperature, respectively, and T,, is the base temperature. Two methods of interpreting this equation for calculating GDD are: (1) if the daily mean temperature is les...

Bipolar Queries: An Approach and its Various Interpretations

The concept of a bipolar query is studied in the framework of the flexible fuzzy querying of databases. The focus is on the aggregation of the negative and positive conditions forming a bipolar query. Three formal logical representations of such an aggregation are proposed and analyzed taking into account various possible interpretations of fuzzy logical connectives. The relation to other appro...