nowadays, because of the special and pivotal place of women in the family and nurturing future generations; problems and issues related to women has become one of the main concerns of thinkers and intellectuals. jalal al-e-ahmad (1302-1348 ahs) and mustafa lutfi al-manfaluti (1876-1924 ad) are two of the social reformers and contemporary writers in the field of persian and arabic literature. ea...

I present and test a model of issue crafting, in which individuals shape the meaning of social issues by intentionally using language in public that portrays those issues in ways that differ from the individuals’ private understandings of the issues. Using statements collected with an experimental design, I found that the public language individuals used was more economic and less normative tha...

This note is intended to stimulate awareness and discussion of social issues in Requirements Engineering. It classiies issues according to what groups are involved, and sketches some issues in each class.

Man and machine are rife with fundamental differences. Formal research in artificial intelligence and robotics has for half a century aimed to cross this divide, whether from the perspective of understanding man by building models, or building machines which could be as intelligent and versatile as humans. Inevitably, our sources of inspiration come from what exists around us, but to what exten...

Even though the adoption of ITIL best practice continues to grow, most of the implementation initiatives fail or take too long. One of the major causes of failures is the lack of recognized strategy to effectively deal with the barriers of organizational change. This work describes the state of the art relative to changes that undergo in an organization, analyzing different change management me...