Thermal buckling loads of laminated composite plates are maximized for a given total thickness. Fiber directions and relative thickness of layers are considered as design variables. Analysis of buckling temperature is carried out by using the finite element method, while the imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) is employed to optimize as many as seven variables for the different layered plat...

Many well-known examples of the use of information technology for competitive advantage involve systems that link an organization to suppliers, distribution channels, or customers. In general, these systems use information or processing capabilities in one organization to improve the performance of another or to improve relationships among organizations. Decfin~ng costs of capturing and using i...

this study presents an empirical evidence concerning the comparison of  the dynamics of competitiveness in the creative and manufacturing industries. it investigated the impact of the economic crisis in the behavior of the competitiveness of those industries. the samples were 42 firms taken from 3 sub-sectors of the creative industries and 3 sub-sectors of the manufacturing industries listed in...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.

The aim of the paper is to analyse and present the preliminary findings of the EU FP7 funded CRe-AM project for the Art, Media, and Architecture sectors. This project bridges communities of technology providers and innovators with the creative industries, with the aim to build sector-specific dynamic roadmaps for the future of the European creative industries by examining the current state-of-t...

Learning management systems are simple web based applications that are being used today by various educational bodies and numerous industries. These systems are designed by many industries, educational bodies, etc. according to their needs and requirements. In this paper, some of the characteristics of open sources learning management systems were analyzed to identify the basic characteristics ...

This paper presents a novel spoken document indexing framework for Spoken Term Detection (STD). Our proposed method utilizes an STD method for making an index from keywords collected from outputs from automatic speech recognition systems. The STD method is conducted for all the keywords as query terms; then, the detection result, a set of each keyword and its detection intervals in the spoken d...