The 2004 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, held in in Paris in the week of June 13-18, was the first SIGMOD ever held outside of America. It had chosen a place that is rich in tradition but also rich in new departures, one of the focal points of the age of enlightenment and the place of the French revolution in 1789. At SIGMOD 2004 no revolution happened; the 10-minute ...

We present a first-order aggregation model on group ring, and study its asymptotic dynamics. In positive coupling strength regime, we show that the flow generated by proposed tends to an equilibrium manifold asymptotically. For this, introduce Lyapunov functional which is non-increasing along flow, using temporal decay of nonlinear LaSalle invariance principle, converges toward also structure s...

In this work Peter principle (in the hierarchical structure any competent member tends to rise to his level of incompetence) is consistently interpreted as the discrete form of the well-known logistic (Verhulst or Maltusian) equation of the population dynamics. According to such interpretation anti-Peter principle (in the hierarchical structure any incompetent member tends to rise to his level ...

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Bizumic et al. (2013) have recently shown that attitudes towards peace and war reflect two distinct constructs rather than two poles of a single dimension. We present an attempt at validating the French version of their 16-item Attitudes toward Peace and War Scale (APWS) on five distinct (mainly Belgian) French-speaking samples (total N = 808). Confirmatory factor and criterion validity analyse...

Establishing and maintaining institutional identity is a challenge for leaders in Catholic health care. A process known as "progressive articulation" can be used to help leaders assess how well their organizations reflect Catholic social tradition and help them apply this tradition toward specific organizational practices. The particular approach described here is called the "Identity Inquiry a...