The Internet has during the past few years experienced an explosive growth. It is seen as a unifying socio-technical concept for the development of open and simple standards. As such it has proven to be a strong force in setting the agenda for the development and use of software. How can we explain this change, and what are the general issues? What impact do the resulting radical changes have o...

Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, increased use, proliferation and mobility of powerful end-user devices, and the migration of applications to the Internet, are creating new and exciting challenges to the management of IT (Information Technology) infrastructures. Massive scale and distribution of IT resources, the expectation of high availability of Internetbased services, and hete...

Wild almond (Amygdalus scoparia) is one of the most important species that provides a variety of ecological functions in the Zagros forest ecosystem. In this study, we investigated the effects of some seed treatments on the survival and growth of Amygdalus scoparia after seed planting at different aspects and elevations under natural conditions. The seed pretreatments consisted in soaking them ...

women's strong will to obtain higher education degrees and to work as faculty member of universities is an undeniable fact in iranian current society. nevertheless, female faculty members just like many other women encounter some career problems which can affect their emotions, attitudes and behaviors. this article aims at answering the three following questions: - what are the career prob...

In recent years, there has been growing interest in how human observers perceive, attend to, and recall, social interactions viewed from third-person perspectives. One of the interesting findings to emerge this new literature is search advantage for facing dyads. When hidden amongst pairs individuals same direction, arranged front-to-front are found faster visual tasks than back-to-back. Intere...

Hollomon D.W. (2015): Fungicide resistance: facing the challenge. Plant Protect. Sci., 51: 170–176 Fungicide resistance continues to generate disease control problems in many crops. Experience amassed over the past fifty years has emphasised the importance of diversity in modes of action in anti-resistance strategies. Because of losses, not only from resistance, but increasingly from environmen...

This paper studies the optimal behavior of a firm over time that faces the probability of causing an environmental disaster by its activities. Here we can think of explosions in the chemical industry, oil tankers that lose oil, etc. In the static literature a distinction is made between small firms and large firms. Small firms are called undercapitalized in the sense that the share holders are ...

Evaluating Transactional Memory: TM’s advantages with respect to locks can be categorized roughly into to two categories: those relating to performance (optimistic execution and fine-grain synchronization) and those relating to programmability (no need to associate a synchronization variable to critical sections, natural composition, fault tolerance, and avoiding priority inversion). To date mu...

The complexity and value-laden nature of sustainable development as shown in the previous sections provide examples of wicked problems. Creating solutions to these require new modes of thinking and new ways of working. Here we refl ect on some of the theoretical insights and how these play out in practice. Much of this is in its infancy and the pathways to maturity will take time and considerab...

by Akshay R. Rao, Mark E. Bergen, and ^ 1 1^ f Scott Davis War I N THE BATTLE TO CAPTURE THE CUSTOMER, companies use a wide range of tactics to ward off competitors. Increasingly, price is the weapon of choice and frequently the skirmishing degenerates into a price war. Creating low-price appeal is often the goal, hut the result of one retaliatory price slashing after another is often a precipi...