In this paper, a new model of self-organized criticality is introduced. This model, called the gene expression paradigm, is motivated by the problem of gene expression initiation in the newly-born daughter cells after mitosis. The model is fundamentally different in dynamics and properties from the well known sand-pile paradigm. Simulation experiments demonstrate that a critical total number of...

management needs qualitative and comprehensive information for decision making. managers are always searching for useful information in order to reach their firm's goals and strategies. the development in technology, globalization and focusing on costumers needs has changed the information that managers need to maintain their position in a competitive environment and take advantage of prof...

Critical Chain Project Management is a relatively new, popular project management paradigm. Due to its radically different approach of addressing common project management problems, there is a strong interest in researching its utility. Much of the debate is focused on determining or refuting the superiority of the specific paradigm presented by Goldratt in his 1997 novel ‘Critical Chain’. In c...

The likelihood of false recall in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm was shown to depend on encoding context in two experiments. When fillers had been preselected to decrease the likelihood of encoding the critical lure's semantic features, false recall was virtually eliminated. However, when the same words were presented rearranged in different presentation orders, levels of false rec...

Synthetic non-conservative systems with parity-time (PT) symmetric gain-loss structures can exhibit unusual spontaneous symmetry breaking that accompanies spectral singularity. Recent studies on PT symmetry in optics and weakly interacting open quantum systems have revealed intriguing physical properties, yet many-body correlations still play no role. Here by extending the idea of PT symmetry t...

Two accounts explain why studying pictures reduces false memories within the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm (J. Deese, 1959; H. L. Roediger & K. B. McDermott, 1995). The impoverished relational-encoding account suggests that studying pictures interferes with the encoding of relational information, which is the primary basis for false memories in this paradigm. Alternatively, the distinctiven...

This paper puts forward arguments in favor of a pluralist approach to IS research. Rather than advocating a single paradigm, be it interpretive or positivist, or even a plurality of paradigms within the discipline as a whole, it suggests that research results will be richer and more reliable if different research methods, preferably from different (existing) paradigms, are routinely combined to...

Project management is an important factor to accomplish the decision to implement large-scale software systems (LSS) in a successful manner. The effective project management comes into play to plan, coordinate and control such a complex project. Project management factor has been argued as one of the important Critical Success Factor (CSF), which need to be measured and monitored carefully duri...

Selecting an appropriate programming paradigm in which to teach the first programming and problem solving course in a Computer Science undergraduate program has been discussed extensively. Procedural programming, functional programming, and object oriented programming are the most widelyused programming paradigms both in institutes of higher learning and in the high-tech industry. In recent yea...

ABSTRACTThis study aims to investigate the dominance of research with paradigm positivism in accounting, especially related internal function audit. The dominant accounting date is positivist paradigm. In audit, all things are not only seen from facts that on surface and concluded directly existing data, but also must understand meaning contained it. Therefore, it necessary have another contrad...