the current study aims to identify and examine the effect of market orientation, management innovation and technological innovation on organizational performance. the current research was conducted using descriptive- correlational methodology. the population of the current research included pharmaceutical companies throughout the country. using simplerandom sampling method and cochran formula, ...

Background: The banking industry can create sustainable development and be a competitive advantage of the enterprise by promoting a sustainable environment and investment focused on social responsibility. Therefore, the present study was formed with the aim of identifying the components of innovative green banking based on bioethics. Method: The research method in the present study was qualita...

Intuitively absurd but logically consistent sets of statements are common in publicly available OWL datasets. This article proposes an original and fully automated method to point at erroneous axioms in a consistent OWL knowledge base, by weakening it in order to improve its compliance with linguistic evidence gathered from natural language texts. A score for evaluating the compliance of subbas...

This paper describes a suite of extensions to the object oriented model, steering OO programming towards the Agent Programming paradigm; such set of extensions is called Agent Programming eXtensions (APX). APX has been specifically designed to leverage the development of agent-based systems, a widely adopted paradigm to model complex and dynamic software systems. A brief survey of the most comm...

Nutritional science relies on accurate dietary assessment. In observational studies of nutrition and health as well as dietary intervention, it is essential that dietary intakes are determined with sufficient accuracy to allow correct classification or compliance assessment. Although dietary instruments based on recalls, interviews, diaries, and questionnaires have been refined extensively in t...

Hierarchical image segmentation provides a set of image segmentations at different detail levels in which coarser details levels can be produced by simple merges of regions from segmentations at finer detail levels. However, many image segmentation algorithms relying on similarity measures lead to no hierarchy. One of interesting similarity measures is a likelihood ratio, in which each region i...

Four-wave-mixing processes enabled during optical wave-breaking (OWB) are exploited in this paper for supercontinuum generation. Unlike conventional approaches based on OWB, phase-matching is achieved here for these nonlinear interactions, and, consequently, new frequency production becomes more efficient. We take advantage of this kind of pulse propagation to obtain numerically a coherent octa...

According to the business literature, one can classify a social organization relying on a set of wellknown structural features. Depending on the values taken by each of these features, one can conclude whether the type of a specific organization is functional, divisional, hybrid, matrix-like, or processoriented. The organization type has strong influence upon the way business processes are exec...

Cardiac troponin (cT) is released after myocardial damage. In the appropriate clinical setting, a measured elevation of cT can increase the diagnostic rate of myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndrome. Elevations of cT, however, can occur in a wide variety of other clinical situations. Failure to recognize this can lead to an over-diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI). We present clin...

BACKGROUND The ability to invent means to deceive others, where the deception lies in the perceptually or contextually detached future, appears to require the coordination of sophisticated cognitive skills toward a single goal. Meanwhile innovation for a current situation has been observed in a wide range of species. Planning, on the one hand, and the social cognition required for deception on ...