The real world is composed of sets of objects that have multidimensional properties and relations. Whether an agent is planning the next course of action in a task or making predictions about the future state of some object, useful taskoriented concepts are often encoded in terms of the complex interactions between the multi-dimensional attributes of subsets of these objects and of the relation...

Designing software to connect an object-oriented business system with a relational database is a tedious task. Object-orientation and the relational paradigm differ quite a bit. An application that maps between the two paradigms needs to be designed with respect to performance, maintainability and cost to name just a few requirements. Luckily there are numerous patterns of object/relational acc...

this study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. a total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the iranian food industry smes. the results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...

This paper explores the emergence of sponsorship-linked events as a strategy to leverage relational outcomes through sponsorship investment. The growing use of sponsorship-linked events reinforces the need to understand the potential of such leverage strategies, thus the findings contribute to the body of literature on effective sponsorship practices. Findings from semi-structured interviews wi...

To meet the storage needs of current cloud applications, new data management systems were developed. Design decisions were made by analyzing the applications workloads and technical environment. It was realized that traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs) with their centralized architecture, strong consistency, and relational model do not fit the elasticity and scalability r...

Article history: Received 21 December 2013 Available online 28 February 2014 The value of mentoring is growing substantially as organizations take a renewed interest in employee development to better survive in the dynamic and competitive market today. In the wake of this renewed interest, this meta-analysis was conducted to quantitatively review the multi-level antecedents (e.g., individual, r...

Drawing upon the transactional-relational continuum view of exchange, this study provides one of the very first attempts to examine the exchange relationships between individual buyers and sellers in a peer-to-peer online barter market. Using detailed transaction data and weblog data from a leading online market for book exchanges, we find that there is a dichotomy in users’ exchange orientatio...

Relational particle mechanics are models in which there is, overall, no time, position, orientation (nor, sometimes, scale). They are useful for whole-universe modelling the setting for quantum cosmology. This note concerns 3 particles in 1d in shape-scale split variables. The scale part parallels certain Friedmann equations, while in this note the shape part involves functions on the circle. T...

Two studies provide evidence that Latins (i.e., Mexicans and Mexican Americans) are guided by a concern with socioemotional aspects of workplace relations to a far greater degree than are Anglo-Americans. The focus on socioemotional considerations results in Latins having a relatively greater preference for workgroups having a strong interpersonal orientation. Preferred relational style had a f...

Evaluation of Guided Visualizations and the Relationships Among Perceived Stress, Differentiation of Self, Sense of Coherence, Dyadic Satisfaction and Quality of Life by Kim R. Rogers Dr. Katherine Hertlein, Committee Chair Professor of Family and Marriage Therapy University of Nevada, Las Vegas This study focused on three main areas. These areas involved (1) the relationship among perceived st...