the purpose of this research is to predict knowledge sharing through dimensions of social capital. knowledge sharing occurrence depends directly upon tendency of knowledge holder to sharing as well as knowledge receiver to take it from holders. in other side, social capital is defined as linkage among people and their unifying factors such as trust. in this research, social capital is conceptua...

In this paper an application of the cluster analysis technique in educational planning is demonstrated by means of a developed computer software with some characteristics of an expert system. The main idea is based on the knowledge-based systems which have been applied in group technology. The software is applied to weekly schedules of the courses and professors of the Industrial Engineering De...

Background: Many human illnesses are treated by plant-based medicines because medicinal plants rich sources of bioactive chemicals. The aim this study was to document the traditional uses used indigenous communities Tehsil Taunsa Sharif, District DG Khan, Pakistan. Methods: ethnobotanical data collected using a semi-structured questionnaire as tool for face-to-face interviews, and group discuss...

In the first part of this article, a short description of the most popular models of two competing technologies (the Fisher-Pry model and its modifications proposed by Blackman, Floyd, Sharif and Kabir) and the multi technological substitution models of Peterka and Marchetti-Nakiüenoviü are presented. In the second section, we describe an evolutionary model of diffusion processes based on biolo...

Trajectory tracking; Mobile robot; Differential evolution; Genetic algorithm; Fuzzy membership functions. Abstract Differential Evolution (DE) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) are population based search algorithms that come under the category of evolutionary optimization techniques. In the present study, these evolutionary methods have been utilized to conduct the optimum design of a fuzzy controll...