Post-employment restrictive covenants in the context of employment relationships have long posed challenges for employers. Both the nature of the agreement and the context in which it is entered into impact the enforceability of restrictive covenants. The lack of a unified or “national” body of law on restrictive covenants within the US further complicates the issue. For example, in some states...

On February 25,26 2007, the second of two workshops entitled “Meeting of the MINDS: Future Directions for Human Language Technology,” sponsored by the U.S. Government's Disruptive Technology Office (DTO), was held in Marina del Rey, California. “MINDS” is an acronym for Machine Translation (MT), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data Resources (Data), and Speech Und...

variety of iran’s ecological structures has created many cultural landscapes. cultural landscapes, illustrate a combination of man’s persistent life and the art of land modification by means of natural environment and in the form of human settlements in past ages. currently, the human society’s development beside the scientific growth, man’s increasing use of natural resources and negative cons...