Last year was marked by an extraordinary rise of social activity in Russia mass movements, marches and rallies. The subject of all these events was the crowd. Putting aside the question of the political content of these events, the author analyzes the social and psychological essence of mass action. What are the social and psychological characteristics of the modern crowd? Is it still impulsive...

the current study investigates the concept of educational justice as well as principles for the distribution of educational good from the view points of john rawls as the representative of liberalism and michacl walzer as the representative of communitarianism. to this end, the current study has applied methods of conceptual analysis as well as comparative analysis. the obtained results show th...

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Performance measurement in the health-care sector is a challenging task due to the wide variety in performance metrics and their interpretation. It is essential to develop a robust methodology to evaluate health-care performance since substantial and increasing amount of public resources are dedicated to health-care. With this goal in mind, this paper proposes a fuzzy decision making framework ...

In this survey, we study and compare topology aggregation techniques pertaining to QoS routing. Aggregation techniques have been an explicit by design or implicit part of many routing protocols, including the currently deployed ones on the Internet due to scalability. Topology Aggregation, defined as those techniques to abstract or summarize the sate information to be exchanged, processed and m...

Although environmental education and education for sustainable development have become wellestablished areas of scholarship and practice, there has not been a similar development focused on “industrial ecology education.” A review of the historical context and guiding philosophies for each of these areas finds many similarities, as well as key differences. Environmental education traces its mod...

BACKGROUND The VELO study is a comparative study of two Community Mental Health Centres (CMHC) in Northern Norway. The CMHCs are organized differently: one has no local inpatient unit, the other has three. Both CMHCs use the Central Mental Hospital situated rather far away for compulsory and other admissions, but one uses mainly local beds while the other uses only central hospital beds. In thi...

Language functions, which are the central concept of communicative Turkish teaching today, constitute one main fields study language philosophy. functions have attracted interest and curiosity mankind since Ancient Greece. Greek philosophers, Enlightenment Humboldt, logical positivists, Wittgenstein, Austin, Searle postmodern thinkers come to fore among those who explain their thoughts on funct...