UNLABELLED BACKGROUND There are no effective medications for the treatment of social cognition/function deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and adult intervention literature in this area is sparse. Emerging data from animal models and genetic association studies as well as early, single-dose intervention studies suggest that the oxytocin system may be a potential therapeutic target f...

Logic-based languages have already proved to be effective to build individual agents and to enable inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. Also, logic tuple centres have shown that logic-based languages can be effectively exploited to rule inter-agent communication so as to build social behaviours. In this paper, we formally define the notion of logic tuple centre as well as the opera...

the development of postmodern perspective has been considered as one of the most challenging approaches over a few last decades. many scholars maintain that postmodernism could be defined as fourth paradigms of social sciences after positivist, interpretive and critical social science. the emergence and development of this novel approach has great influences on the basics and essentials of many...

the increasing and unlimited cases of burdensome dowries beyond the husband's solvency, leading finally to the enforcement of dowry and divorce, had led some commentators to fix a certain maximum for dowry. the authors, in this article, intend to find a proper theory to resolve this matrimonial problem through reviewing the earlier and later islamic jurisprudents’ opinions. although according t...

since 1980, green marketing movement has been widely regarded by organizations consumers. organizations- seeking social legitimacy produce environment friendly products, while try to influence environmental issues. hence, this paper tries to know sensitivity level of consumers to environment issues, rate of participation in social programs related to green marketing and the level of attention a...

today, along with enhancement of social well-being andeconomic development, demand for transportation is growing increasingly.many countries are seeking for providing transportation servicesat a reasonable price. therefore, optimization of carrying goods on nationalor international roads is highly important in terms of costs andtransportation indicator, so that the goods are shipped at minimumc...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reach a deeper understanding the Lean principle respect for people (RFP facilitate implementation in Western organizations outside Toyota. Design/methodology/approach This study uses an interpretative, hermeneutic approach understand RFP concept through literature existing research about implementation, and inquiry into underlying meaning principle, by st...

While social-status hierarchies are common to all human societies [Boehm, C. (1999). Hierarchy in the forest: The evolution of egalitarian behavior. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; Sahlins, M. (1958). Social stratification in Polynesia. AES Monogram 25. Seattle: University of Washington Press; Service, E. R. (1971). Primitive social organization: An evolutionary perspective. New York: Rand...

This work was aimed at evaluating the contribution of intensive rabbit breeding to sustainable development using a semi-quantitative method. Nine sustainability indicators were defi ned for the environmental (energy use, antibiotic use, and biodiversity), economic (profi t, specialisation rate, and transmissibility) and social scales of sustainable development. A score (−1, 0 or +1) was given f...

Nowadays, with respect to knowledge growth about enterprise sustainability, sustainable supplier selection is considered a vital factor in sustainable supply chain management. On the other hand, usually in real problems, the data are imprecise. One method that is helpful for the evaluation and selection of the sustainable supplier and has the ability to use a variety of data types is data envel...