Nowadays, outsourcing is viewed as a trade strategy and organizations tend to adopt new strategies to achieve competitive advantages in the current world of business. focusing on main copmpetencies, and transferring most of activities to outside resources of organization( outsourcing) is one such strategy is. In this paper, we aim to decide on decision maker agent of transportation system, by a...

Inflectional classes are a basic notion in morphology, though occasionally their existence is challenged. In trying to get a new perspective on complex phenomena, like inflectional classes, we may take a ‘canonical’ approach. This means that we extrapolate from what there is to what there might be, in order to define the theoretical space. Within that scheme of theoretical possibilities we can ...

In this article, we build a mathematical model to understand the formation of a plant leaf. Our model is based on the idea that a leaf tends to maximize internal efficiency by developing an efficient transport system for water and nutrients. From a single cell, a leaf with various cost functionals on transport systems will grow into leaves with various shapes and various venation patterns. The ...

Malignant neoplasms arising in salivary tissue are uncommon. While fewer than 3% of all neoplasms originate in salivary glands (OPCS Cancer Statistics, 1983), at least 75% of these are benign. Most salivary gland tumours are pleomorphic adenomata which, despite their benign nature, pose considerable management problems as they recur locally if inadequately resected, ruptured or biopsied and als...

■ Abstract Variability of the atmospheric and oceanic circulations in the earth system gives rise to an array of naturally occurring dynamical modes. Instead of being spatially independent or spatially uniform, climate variability in different parts of the globe is orchestrated by one or a combination of several climate modes, and global changes take place with a distinctive spatial pattern res...

Navigation systems nowadays have become ubiquitous, with many users relaying on them to find on-the-fly directions to new locations. With current advances in technology, modern navigation systems augment navigation directions with new information ranging from traffic, tolls, accidents and any other issue that could lead to delays in a given route, to social network aspects such as schedule, fri...

safety is one of the life necessities and fundamental human rights and it is a prerequisite for improvement of people welfare and health. safety improvement is in a direct relationship with mental calmness and also with senses of places to life environment. although the importance of safety factors for everybody, researches show that sensitivity or safety level for some kinds of age and sex gro...

saving in irrigation water is important in the early season of sugar beet. the effect of early season deficit irrigation on the sugar beet growth indexes was investigated in kabotarabad agricultural research station (esfahan) in 1998. the soil texture was silty clay and the experiment design was randomized complete block with 4 relications. six irrigation regimes were applied after. 1) 100 mm (...

This article focuses on the analysis of financial time series and their correlations. A method is used for quantifying pattern based correlations of a time series. With this methodology, evidence is found that typical behavioral patterns of financial market participants manifest over short time scales, i.e., that reactions to given price patterns are not entirely random, but that similar price ...

The research paper exemplifies upon an attempt to create a co-evolving (socio-cultural and technological) programmable spatiality with a strong underpinning in the domain of computation, interaction design and open system typologies for the generation of a constantly informed self-adaptive corporate office space (which addresses the behavioral patterns/preferences of its occupants). Architectur...