The object of the study is atheism and theism as important ideological components two opposing solutions to "main question philosophy" – materialism idealism forming systems human life navigation. subject paradigms Soviet Orthodox Christianity. Materialism are fundamental elements Marxist doctrine underlying philosophy culture period Russian history, theism, creationism providentialism Christia...

This study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. Building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. A total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the Iranian food industry SMEs. The results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...

THE STRENGTHS of 10 Propositions Regard ing Air Power* are that the volume is simple, slim, assertive, and challenging. These charac­ teristics also contribute to a few of its weaknesses. Because it seems to aim at being a book of airmen’s apho­ risms, it is necessarily as insubstantial in the depth and strength of many of its arguments as it is slim in size. Its many assertions are not allotte...

Estimation of orientation fields is a crucial task in fingerprint recognition. Many processing steps depend on their precise estimation and the direction of fingerprint minutiae is a valuable information. But especially for regions of low quality the task is not trivial and engineered approaches on local features may fail. Methods that combine local and global features learned from the data are...

This panel paper presents the views of five researchers and practitioners of distributed simulation. Collectively we attempt to address what the implications of distributed simulation are for industry. It is hoped that the views contained herein, and the presentations made by the panelists at the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference will raise awareness and stimulate further discussion on the appl...

one of the most highly applicable evidences for inference of legal precepts is the isolated tradition, whose acceptance, rejection, or limitation is highly effective in the consequences of inference. muḥaqqiq ardabīlī, as one of the geniuses of imāmī jurisprudence in tenth/ sixteenth century, with his special attitude toward this source of inference of precepts, has regarded only the validity o...

Introduction: Working in the complex and ever changinghealthcare settings forces the nurses and nursing students to beequipped with lifelong learning skills. One of the lifelong learningskills is self-directed learning. This study aimed to explore theM.Sc. nursing students’ self-directed learning activities.Methods: A qualitative design using conventional content analysisapproach was used in th...