one of the main subjects of rhetoric is assigning the truth and falsity of declarative sentences. if a proposition may be assessed as a truth or falsity, it will be considered as a declarative sentence, otherwise it will be compositional. there were some theologians and philosophers who brought up the discussion of truth and untruth of declaration for the first. although all literal proposition...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide further insight into operations management of the Product-Service (P-S) transition, known as servitization, and the resulting Product Service System (PSS) offerings. In exploring the dynamics of product-service transition this paper adopts a Service-Dominant (S-D) logic view of value creation, using it as a lens through which to explore value pr...

Extending niche theory in ecological perspectives, this article develops an intra-organizational conceptualization of the niche that is grounded in the activities of organizational members. Niches are constructed from mapping individuals to formal and informal activities. Because the many activities within organizations are difficult to observe, we propose a novel empirical strategy to characte...

The aim of this article is to examine individual, corporate and technology-related factors that shape user resistance in business intelligence systems (BIS) post-acceptance usage behaviour. The author develops a conceptual framework and a series of propositions, grounded on previous studies of user resistance to information systems (IS) and post-acceptance usage. The framework proposes that thr...

Using Ephestia kuehniella larvae as hosts, invert emulsion (IE) and an aqueous suspension (AS) of Beauveria bassiana (isolate IR34-JS2) and Metarhizium anisopliae (isolate IR41-TT1) formulations were compared when stored for three months at either 3 °C or 25 °C. Initially, IE formulations of isolates JS2 and TT1 were 13- and 14-fold more virulent than AS formulations, based on their LC50 values...

The British developmental biologist John Beard, DSc (1858-1924) is little remembered today. Yet, he made outstanding contributions to the life sciences. Beard deserves to be included among the leading biologists of the late 19th and early 20th century. He has been hailed as a forerunner of the present-day theory of the cancer stem cell (CSC). He was the first to point to the parallels between c...