During product configuration, users are prone to make errors because of complexity and lack of system knowledge. Such errors cause conflicts (i.e., incompatible choices selected) and current state-of-the-art configurators require users to undo earlier decisions made or restart the decision process altogether. This paper discusses these and other conflict resolution strategies; even ones that al...

In the last decade, more than 22 million ha of land have been contracted to large-scale land acquisitions in Africa, leading to increased pressures, competition, and conflicts over freshwater resources. Currently, 3% of contracted land is in production, for which we model site-specific water demands to indicate where freshwater appropriation might pose high socioenvironmental challenges. We use...

just a few days back, i attended a speech, performed by an esteemed professor of psychiatry regarding reconciliation and conflicts in the history of drug opposition in iran. at that meeting, initial rules of struggling with addiction in the safavieh era were discussed; about how rules were stereotyped and inefficient since then. there were talks about increase in addiction rate during different...

the importance of inscriptions as the primary sources refer to historical events is undeniable. introducing the shāhugat inscriptions were found near tābaktal village of chāhān district around nikshahr is the purpose of present paper. they refer to the events that occurred in south iran around the end of the 7 th and the beginning of the 8 th centuries ah., a colorful and turbulent period of it...

purpose: the aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between family–work conflict with mental health and marital conflicts of working women in tehran. methodology: for this purpose a descriptive research methods of correlation type was selected. 135 married women working in the telecommunications staff in tehran were selected by random cluster sampling method meier work-family ...