This paper reports findings from a research project investigating the perception of performance values of a major non-profit organisation, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS). Performance value includes the both tangible and intangible contributors to an organisation's value base. The project identified key elements within this organisation that indicate how intellectual capital (IC)...

Energy efficiency has always remained a pressing matter in the world of Wireless Sensor Networks. Irrespective of the number of routing protocols that exist for Wireless Sensor Networks, only a handful can be named as efficient. Yet above all these routing protocols stands the emblematic one, the LEACH protocol. This research work is aimed at bringing forth a new routing strategy based on the L...

Article type: Original article Background & aim: Iran has experienced a great variation in women's status in recent years. There is a little knowledge on how and why advancing gender equality and equity and the empowerment of women play a role in recent fertility reduction in the country. This study was conducted to gain insight into the role of gender beliefs and women's empowerment in the cou...

The first chapter of Marx’s Capital is concerned with an anlysis of the commodity. It is a somewhat difficult chapter to read, but it is considered by many scholars to be essential to understanding his whole conceptualisation of capitalism. It is a relatively formal text but not in the sense that we would now describe a scientific or mathematical text as being formal. Instead of mathematics or ...

Background and Aim: Iran has experienced a great variation in women's status in recent years. There is a little knowledge on how and why advancing gender equality and equity and the empowerment of women play a role in recent fertility reduction in the country. This study was conducted to gain insight into the role of gender beliefs and women's empowerment in the couples 'experiences of fertilit...