The purpose of this study was to show that how the abolishment of company sports team influenced the organizational commitment in employees. In this study, Three-Component Model of Organizational Commitment (Meyer and Allen, 1997) was tested with 16 employees (10 males, 6 females) of T Company in NAGANO prefecture. The average age of the participants was 44, 50 years (SD=±0.85). And from 16 emp...

feature geometry, which is a basic assumption in current phonology, is concerned with the notion that the features are not an unstructured set, but are arranged hierarchically into a constituent structure tree. according to evidences in different languages, various models have been set forth on feature geometry framework. exploring persian phonological data and digging up evidences accordingly,...

The paper presents a transition from the crisp rough set theory to a fuzzy one, called Alpha Rough Set Theory or, in short, a-RST. All basic concepts or rough set theory are extended, i.e., information system, indiscernibility, dependency, reduction, core, de®nability, approximations and boundary. The resulted theory takes into account fuzzy data and allows the approximation of fuzzy concepts. ...

While in recent years research has highlighted the rise of inter-organizational collaboration among organizations in the nonprofit sector and has documented issues related to forming and maintaining of these relationships, there is little known about inter-organizational humanitarian information exchange and especially the motives of collaboration. In this paper, we examine collaboration relati...

Temporal relation classification is becoming an active research field. Lots of methods have been proposed, while most of them focus on extracting features from external resources. Less attention has been paid to a significant advance in a closely related task: relation extraction. In this work, we borrow a state-of-the-art method in relation extraction by adopting bidirectional long short-term ...

The aim of the contribution is to bring arguments for a description for natural language that (i) includes a representation (i) of a deep (underlying) sentence structure and (ii) is based on the relation of dependency. Our argumentation rests on linguistic considerations and stems from the Praguian linguistic background, both with respect to the Praguian structuralist tradition as well as to th...