What's your problem? How issue ownership and partisan discourse influence personal concerns

The 101st Issue of the Journal and its Editorial Concerns

Investigating User Search Tactic Patterns and System Support in Using Digital Libraries Now, the journal has reached its 101st issue. Founded 29 years ago (1991) by the Iran Public Libraries Foundation, it began publishing under the title of Payam-e Ketabkhane (in English, Message of Librarianship). In 2009, the journal got a scientific promotion from the Ministry of Science, Research and Techn...

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A Database Striptease or How to Manage Your Personal Databases

As a thief in the night, the database management problem has been entering everyone’s life. To realize its presence it suffices to sit down and tally the electronic datasources crucial for survival in our modern society. Mister Average has several dozen of databases to take care of. On his body he carries at least half a dozen cards with tiny databases of personal data which have been construct...

Personal Identity and Practical Concerns

Many philosophers have taken there to be an important relation between personal identity and several of our practical concerns (among them moral responsibility, compensation, and self-concern). I articulate four natural methodological assumptions made by those wanting to construct a theory of the relation between identity and practical concerns, and I point out powerful objections to each assum...

Green Vehicle Routing Problem with Safety and Social Concerns

Over the two last decades, distribution companies have been aware of the importance of paying attention to the all aspects of a distribution system simultaneously to be successful in the global market. These aspects are the economic, the environmental, the social and the safety aspects. In the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature, the economic issue has often been used, while the environmen...