abstract in today's competitive business environment, intellectual capital management is widely considered as the main factor in order to gain and maintain organization competitive advantage. the main purpose of this paper is presenting a model to evaluate intellectual capital capacity in organizations. in this regard, first by the survey of the related literature, nine criteria of the int...

in this paper, we introduce a satisfaction function (sf) to compare interval values on the basis oftseng and klein’s idea. the sf estimates the degree to which arithmetic comparisons between two intervalvalues are satisfied. then, we define two other functions called lower and upper sf based on the sf. weapply these functions in order to present a new interpretation of inequality constraints wi...

A representat ion scheme fo r a rb i t r a r y be l ie fs and wants of an agent in respect to a s i t u a t i o n , as well as to a r b i t r a r y be l ie fs and wants of other agents, is presented. The representat ion makes use of elementary s i t ua t i on descr ipt ions (which are formulated in KL-ONE and de l imi ta ted by p a r t i t i o n s ) , and acceptance a t t i tudes in respect to ...

Results Treatmenteffectsweremodest butthe CBT condition gave significantly greater improvement in overall symptom severity thanthe SPTorTAUconditions combined (F (1,53)1⁄44.14; P1⁄40.05).Both the CBTand SPT conditions combined gave significantlygreater improvement in severityof delusions than did theTAU condition (F (1,53)1⁄44.83;P1⁄40.03). Clinically significant improvementswere achievedby 7/2...

In 2021, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) tracked 729 challenges to school, library, and university collections. Considering that in 2020 OIF recorded 156 challenges, last year’s increase was dramatic enough catch attention of news outlets social media users across United States. As a result, libraries all kinds were positioned make often difficult decisi...