For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have pondered the origins and nature of human intuitions about the properties of points, lines, and figures on the Euclidean plane, with most hypothesizing that a system of Euclidean concepts either is innate or is assembled by general learning processes. Recent research from cognitive and developmental psychology, cognitive anthropology, animal c...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the publication trajectories most productive scholars in communication and media studies between 2015 2019. Based on analysis 1482 papers top-publishing one hundred scholars, we identified 126 Scopus-indexed journals which leading publish, also main clusters. Our results suggest that amongst authors, quantity does not go detriment quality as prolific...

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is a relatively new software delivery business model and has been one of the fastest growing segments of the information technology industry in recent years. In this study, we investigate the relationship between the SaaS software delivery model and the productivity of software vendors. We explore scale economies of pure-SaaS firms, non-SaaS firms, and mixed-SaaS fi...

The concept and practice of sustainability in urban planning have gained worldwide significance since the early 2000s become increasingly mainstream policymaking process. Adopting global frameworks, such as United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ISO standards, for sustainable communities provides an opportunity to build more sustainable, innovative, equitable towns cities, with regard nat...

objective: the agricultural sector is one of the most important and the most basic of productive and economic sectors in each country, and support  of this sector is a very important issue in many countries around the world, that one of the principles supporting the agriculture sector is offering to appropriate and inclusive services to agricultural manufacturers and actors. in this regard, the...

Contrary to the fairly established notion in the learning sciences that un-scaffolded processes rarely lead to meaningful learning, this study reports a hidden efficacy of such processes and a method for extracting it. Compared to scaffolded, well-structured problem-solving groups, un-scaffolded, ill-structured problem-solving groups struggled with defining and solving the problems. Their discu...

Objective: The agricultural sector is one of the most important and the most basic of productive and economic sectors in each country, and support  of this sector is a very important issue in many countries around the world, that one of the principles supporting the agriculture sector is offering to appropriate and inclusive services to agricultural manufacturers and actors. In this regard, the...

This paper uses a new measure of bank service output to estimate various specifications of production and cost functions for Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) over the period 1986 to 1999. The new output series is a true flow measure of bank service value added, and it follows from a unified model of bank operation that integrates risk and the measurement of bank services. The model also establishe...