The global burden of foodborne disease due to the presence of contaminating microorganisms remains high, despite some notable examples of their successful reduction in some instances. Globally, the number of species of microorganisms responsible for foodborne diseases has increased over the past decades and as a result of the continued centralization of the food processing industry, outbreaks n...

spatial environmental autocorrelation is a known phenomenon in the environmental studies explaining spatial relationship of environmental characteristics of different geographical units. different mechanisms have been proposed to clarify how the environments of especially neighboring countries response to changes of each other. this paper attempts to propose a new mechanism, namely spatial inst...

the aim of this research is the investigation the relationship between the capital structure and institutional ownership mid to the other effective factors on this relation in tehran stock exchange. the others factors include the percentage of stock dividend, profitability, business risk, assets structure, liquidity, growth, and company size. the statistical population of the research is 117 li...

The concept of \institution" GB84, GB92] has been proven to be appropriate to describe and classify a wide range of speciication formalisms or logical systems respectively. But considering the relations between logical systems we are faced with many diierent kinds of relevant examples leading to an innation of deenitions of maps between institutions Cer93, CM93, KM93, Mes89, SS92]. The present ...

Social trust is an important component of social development and modern development that has special significance in social science debate today. One of the main factors of social trust is the trust in organizations that are considered as institutional trust in social researches. This type of trust is analyzed in the present study and it has been tried to determine this kind of trust in the soc...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of corporate governance mechanisms in preventing the bankruptcy of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, corporate governance mechanisms, including institutional ownership, non-executive members of the board, CEO dual responsibility and free float stock are determined as independent variables and Bankruptcy based on the ...

Objective Art business takes place in an institutional context and is highly reliant on the cultural, political, and social content of a society. Because of a variety of reasons such as the profitability of art industry in foreign market, low academic marketing knowledge, the opposing ideas to art economy according to its players, the high rate of graduate students in art disciplines and the n...

This study examines the radical democratic principles manifest in Indymedia’s discursive, technical, and institutional practices. By focusing on a case study of the Seattle Independent Media Center and contextualizing it within theories and critiques of radical democracy, this article fleshes out strengths, weaknesses, and recurring tensions endemic to Indymedia’s internet-based activism. These...