this article explain unsuccessful iranian intellectuals' attempts in the fields of thoughts and politics through surveying ideas of ehsan tabari and jalal ale-ahmad. it tries to show that theirs ideas have been under hegemony of political formalism; so their naïve attitudes has converted their thought to an ideology which serve to political aims based on a political formalism. this article...

This article presents an assessment of the power of ideas and their role in initiating change and progress. The enormous potential cascade effect is illustrated by examining the movement of Modernism in the arts. Next, the immense scope and capabilities of the modern scientific endeavor-with robotic space exploration at the scale of 10 meters at one extreme and the wonders of nanoscience at the...

Despite increasing focus on user involvement among the developers of crisis management technologies, the diffusion of these solutions in target user communities is slow. This paper discusses to what extent the Living Lab approach, based on open innovation and co-creation between users and developers, could facilitate the diffusion of crisis management solutions. Our analysis shows correspondenc...

Opinions and beliefs are essential ingredients in the diffusion of innovation. We present a framework to model and simulate diffusion processes of opinions and beliefs in interpersonal communication networks. We introduce an algorithm to create stylized networks with attributes of real world interpersonal communication networks. We also introduce a simple, but expandable model for simulating th...

The diffusion of tacit knowledge is pervasive in the organizational learning (OL) process. However diffusing tacit knowledge, a transparent and subjective form of knowledge, needs an individual’s ability to externalize and sharing of this knowledge. To undertake this, a conceptual framework based on diffusion theory and meta-abilities is proposed. The framework suggests that meta-abilities crea...

We establish a simple criterion for locating points where the transition density of a degenerate diffusion is strictly positive. Throughout, we assume that the diffusion satisfies a stochastic differential equation (SDE) on R d with additive noise and polynomial drift. In this setting, we will see that it is often that case that local information of the flow, e.g. the Lie algebra generated by t...

Product Life Cycle (PLC) is a widely accepted concept that has been given significant attention in operations management and marketing literature. However, its quantification remains a major challenge. This study aims to develop a unique and original analytical model for quantifying PLCs using aggregate market data. The Bass diffusion model is used to forecast consumers' first purchases of the ...

We give an intuitive proof of a path large-deviations result for a typed branching diffusion as found in Git, J.Harris and S.C.Harris [4]. Our approach involves an application of a change of measure technique involving a distinguished infinite line of descent, or spine, and we follow the spine setup of Hardy and Harris [5, 7, 6]. Our proof combines simple martingale ideas with applications of V...