A rich body of literature investigates the many ways in which nature is impacted upon and transformed by the “endless accumulation of capital.” Much less attention has been reserved for understanding how capitalist actors increasingly aim to profit from the non-extractive use of nature. While recognized as important, the theorization of conservation as a capitalist project has only just commenc...

On December 14, 2001, the Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia held a workshop exploring retail credit risk modeling practices and evolving techniques. The workshop was led by Paul Calem, a senior economist at the Board of Governors, Division of Research and Statistics. Calem is currently involved in the Board's efforts supporting reforms to the international Basel C...

in islam, there is special emphesize about the effect of spirituality on humans’ physical and psychological health. one of the very new construct in spirituality is spiritual capital and other is spiritual wellbeing. current research was carried out with the aim of construction spiritual capital and well being scales. sample group was 294 people, which selected through simple random sampling.­ ...

The object-oriented technological evolution involving the software industry induces changes in the managerial and organizational models for the software-houses. One of the critical issue for software producers is the cost estimation and control. The research described in this paper is aimed to verify the inadequacy of traditional software cost estimation models and to define an innovative model...

Da P2P-Netzwerke gewöhnlich aus einer großen Anzahl von Peers bestehen und somit große Datenmengen verfügbar sind, ist es oft unnötig wenn nicht sogar unmöglich, dem Nutzer ein vollständiges Ergebnis seiner Anfrage durch Einbeziehung aller teilnehmenden Peers zu präsentieren. Vielmehr muss in P2P-Systemen begründet durch deren Charakteristik zumeist auf best-effort Lösungen zurückgegriffen werd...

the present paper aimed at developing an approach based on fuzzy inference system (fis) for measuring of knowledge sharing in the organization. in recent years there has been increasing interest in the knowledge sharing by experts and managers in the world, according to increasing importance of knowledge as the key source of competitive advantage, organizations have made serious effort to find ...

This paper utilizes a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of lowtuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the High School and Beyond: Sophomore Cohort: 1980-92 and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data sets. The findings are that subsidizing tuition increases enr...