As far as many consumers and businessmen and women are concerned, increasingly wireline and wireless services, including those provided by terrestrial and satellite systems, are considered to be substitutes and sometimes complements, regardless of the laws and regulations applicable to them. At the same time, many writers and even government agencies (such as the FCC) have suggested that users ...

Public environmental awareness is one of the most important indicators for showing civilizational values. It reflects many aspects of environmental status, such as people ́s knowledge, personal consideration and behavior and the human attitude towards sustainable society as a whole. All of the information is useful for environmentalists, businessmen, decision makers or educators in planning soci...

in the history of islam, until the last century, shiah and sunni scholars haven’t distinguished between consumption and production loans and riba in islam absolutely has been forbidden. with the development of capitalism and its influence in muslim countries, many businessmen, industrialists and bankers were faced with the problem of usury . to solve this problem, a group of theologists proposa...

RASTA (Rhetorical Structure Theory Analyzer), a system for automatic discourse analysis, reliably, identifies rhetorical relations present m written discourse by examining information available in syntactic and logical form analyses. Since there is a many-to-many relationship between rhetorical relations and elements of linguistic form, RASTA identifies relations by the convergence of a number ...

During the latter period of the nineteenth century, developing industrial corporations attempted to bring order to their operations. These rapidly expanding companies, such as Pullman Palace Car, H.J. Heinz, Westinghouse, and Sherwin-Williams, saw the need to organize production, sales, and service in the competitive market place. They also showed some initial concern about employees’ disconten...

Ibiza is very dependent on the tourism sector and a highly recognized international brand. However, before tourist boom, situation was different, since it an economically underdeveloped almost unknown island. In 1950s, eminently endogenous development began thanks to local entrepreneurship, usually workers modest traders who dared invest in new sector. The not homogeneous throughout island, wit...

Development is fundamentally about understanding people, their Motivations, behaviors and reactions. We have two primary means of understanding people— observing what they do, and what they say. As the AI4D community has noted, people’s increased use of mobile devices has led to a wealth of new data relevant to these topics. We are on the cusp of developing incredibly powerful tools that can he...