Islamic intellectualism is an unfailing source of revealed wisdom for addressing all the issues that may keep arising till judgment day. History has preserved works several exceptional individuals who formulated effective answers in light this knowledge to challenges their times. In age, modernity and its pernicious impacts on different aspects human life pose a new challenge which drawn undivi...

Major League Baseball (MLB) generated over $6 billion of revenue in 2007. Despite the sizable revenuegenerating capacity of this sport, the league’s 30 franchises (29 based in the US and 1 in Canada) have until recently relied primarily on the subjective wisdom of baseball insiders to guide personnel decisions and game strategy. Only in the last years has quantitative analysis played a substant...

The “wisdom of the crowd” effect refers to the phenomenon that the mean of estimates provided by a group of individuals is more accurate than most of the individual estimates. This effect has mostly been investigated in general knowledge or almanac types of problems that have pre-existing solutions. Can the wisdom of the crowd effect be harnessed to predict the future? We present two probabilis...

In this dynamic global environment only those companies survive who know the power of knowledge and consistently create new knowledge. Such knowledge creating firms utilize dynamic dimensions of human capital. Human capital is the most important resource for a firm and has ability to create new knowledge in a changing environment. Various dimensions of human capital transcend themselves through...

OBJECTIVE The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory is a questionnaire for assessing the impact of tinnitus by quantifying psychoemotional and functional problems it causes. The objective of the study was to validate the Brazilian Portuguese translation of this questionnaire, named Questionario de Gravidade do Zumbido. METHODS The questionnaire was applied to 135 individuals with tinnitus from two audi...