The impact of the Mongol invasions of the Middle East has been the subject of extensive research, especially in the last few decades. Scholars have evaluated the damage and the benefits brought by the Mongols to the Islamic world in different fields such as the military, religion, politics, economy and culture. Despite this, in the case of Anatolia, the Mongol period is still under-studied when...

Internet based eCommerce is expected to grow at a phenomenal rate. As businesses rapidly move to deploy business-to-business eCommerce solutions, systems designers are likely to face new challenges while integrating and managing data. In this presentation, I propose to discuss some of the new business models and the impact on data management in the context of these evolving eCommerce scenarios.

Depressive symptoms are often found to be associated with the number of imagined positive and negative future episodes. Whereas most previous studies investigated the number of imagined events within a limited time period, our study focused on the phenomenal nature of future episodes and their relationships to depressive symptoms, as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Nonclinical ...