We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms’ ability to adapt their organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness of organizational adaptability,...

Introduction: An important requirement of recursive estimators for adaptive control and adaptive signal processing lies in their ability to track parameter changes. From this viewpoint, the famous standard RLS algorithm which is known to have the optimal properties in stationary environments is unsuitable for nonstationary environments. Thus many attempts have been directed to the development o...

The unity of psychology as a science is to be found in its definition as the science of mental life, and its explanation of individual behavior in terms of mental states. This disciplinary focus will help negotiate psychology's relations with other disciplines, such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The unity within psychology between science and practice is to be found in a focus on scien...

Propositions represent the entities from which they are formed. This fact has puzzled philosophers and some have put forward radical proposals in order to explain it. paper develops a primitivist account of representational properties propositions that centers on operation application. As we will see, this theory wins out over its competitors grounds strength, systematicity unifying power.

in this paper, we try to determine the status of the relation between dahr world and matrial world. the conclusion shows the subjective duality and objective unity of dahr and material entities. two interpretations of this duality can be suggested. in the first interpretation, this unity, and the duality supposed, are explained on the basis of different intellectual cognition of immaterial and ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating role of social support in the relationship between adaptability and life satisfaction. Data were collected from 99 undergraduate freshmen in a Chinese university using a lagged design with a 1-month interval. Results demonstrated that social support moderated the relation between adaptability and life satisfaction, such that the positi...

this article studies the quranic view on the unity among human beings and the causes which destroy the unity. according to the quran human beings are created from the same essence , all being created from adam and eve , but such sameness and unity disappeared because of different reasons. to re-unite the ummah the quran suggests brotherhood and kindness among moslems, and respet to other religi...

in order to determinate appropriate stability parameters, six statistics were studied for flower yield stability of 35 rosa damascena landraces in 8 locations over two years (2007-8) in iran, using a randomized complete blocks design with 3 replications. a positive correlation between environmental variance (s2) and flower yield suggested that only low yield landraces develop a similar phenotyp...