In Multi-Agent Systems, Organizations are means to structure cooperation and collaboration between agents. MoiseInst is a normative Organization model giving the possibility to constraint agents behaviour according to four dimensions (structural, functional, contextual and normative). Mabeli as Electronic Institution model allows the supervision of MoiseInst Organizations compliance through an ...

The utopia point of a multicriteria optimization problem is the vector that specifies for each criterion the most favorable feasible value. The Euclidean compromise solution in multicriteria optimization is a solution concept that assigns to a feasible set the alternative with minimal Euclidean distance to the utopia point. This paper provides several axiomatic characterizations of the Euclidea...

Este artigo pretende aprofundar o diálogo entre as questões colocadas pelo filme Tatuagem, de Hilton Lacerda, e debate contemporâneo sobre mutações da diferença sexual proposto pela teoria queer. Em particular, sugerimos que dispara reflexões relevantes para tema utopia anal a imaginação novas formas produção saber relação corpos não domesticados binarismo heterossexualidade normativa. PALAVRAS...

The rhetoric of Islamic banking – exemplified in this opening quote by one of the industry’s most prominent pioneers – is derived from its historical evolution as a model of two-tier silent partnership. In fact, Islamic banks have mimicked conventional bank assets – from receivables to bonds, with credit sale and lease-backed debt instruments. In the meantime, Islamic banks have continued to re...

1Biology Department, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IR Iran 2Neurophysiology Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran 3Physiology Department, Medicine Faculty, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran 4Biology Department, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, ...

The concept of Islamic or Shariah-compliant finance is based on core tenets of Islam concerning property rights, social and economic justice, wealth distribution, and governance. One of the key features of the system is prohibition of riba (interest) and gharar (ambiguous contracts or deals) (Kabir and Mahlkrecht 2011, 74; El-Gamal 2009, 58–60). There is consensus among scholars that the prohib...

1Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Management, University of Tehran, Iran 4Department of Environmental Science, Faculty...

The purpose of this study is to calculate and examine the Islamic banks operating efficiency in Pakistan. It consists of 04(four) full-fledged Islamic Banks of Pakistan. The results of Liquidity & Profitability ratios and stochastic frontier approach using data of 2004 to 2011 showed positive patterns with respect to ROE, ROA and NPR. According to the achieved results, Meezan Islamic Bank can b...

Marwan Saad Azzubaidi *, Anil Kumar Saxena , Ahmed Ghazi Alattraqchi 3 and Abualrahman Mohammed Abdualkader 4 1 Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan, Malaysia. 2 Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan, Malaysia. 3 Biochemistry Unit, Faculty of Medicine,...