objectives: social capital is a concept developed in sociology an also used in business, organizational behavior, political science and economics. in this article the process of social capital formation in a sample of university students is reported. method: to develop an empirical model, we have assumed that individuals have two kinds of sources to form their social capitals: “identity sources...

this study proposes a modified version of cultural algorithms (cas) which benefits from rule-based system for influence function. this rule-based system selects and applies the suitable knowledge source according to the distribution of the solutions. this is important to use appropriate influence function to apply to a specific individual, regarding to its role in the search process. this rule ...

“sources of knowledge” is one of the significant topics in contemporary epistemology. epistemologists accept five sources of knowledge: perception, reason, introspection, testimony, and memory. this paper compares introspection, testimony and memory in mulla sadra and descartes’ philosophical systems. the two philosophers accept introspection, testimony and memory as the sources of knowledge. b...

Introduction The path to universal health care in India requires concurrently addressing several human resource issues and is thus an opportunity to bring about much needed reforms in the health workforce. A key component of these reforms is systemic knowledge generation around what human resources for health (HRH) capacity currently exists in the country and what future needs may be projected ...

The performance of applications, such as personal assistants and search engines, relies on high-quality knowledge bases, a.k.a. Knowledge Graphs (KGs). To ensure their quality one important task is validation, which measures the degree to statements or triples KGs are semantically correct. inevitably contain incorrect incomplete statements, may hinder adoption in business applications they not ...

We present an implemented approach for domainrestricted question answering from structured knowledge sources, based on robust semantic analysis in a hybrid NLP system architecture. We build on a lexicalsemantic conceptual structure for question interpretation, which is interfaced with domain-specific concepts and properties in a structured knowledge base. Question interpretation involves a limi...