Relying on its partisan principles and values, the Ba’athist regime– the period when Saddam Hussein was in charge in Iraq– sought a powerful government. Not respecting and believing in ethnical and sectarian differences and seeking the realization of national unity, Saddam tried to regulate security policies in a way in which he could assimilate the differing Iraqi society, using the policies o...

Sequential categorization of perceptual stimuli typically shows contrast from one trial to the next. Using familiar categories of animals and faces, contrast effects were dissociated from assimilation effects. Two independent main effects were observed: contrast to the preceding stimulus, and assimilation to the previous response. It is argued that contrast and assimilation may reflect differen...

The relative importance of contrast and assimilation for determining the perceived brightness was estimated. Assimilation decreased when a test spot had such a binocular disparity that the spot and its background appeared on different depth planes respectively. However, contrast was not affected by the binocular depth cue. These results indicate that the cortex takes an important role in assimi...

T paper extends our previous studies on the assimilation of Internet-based e-business innovations by firms in an international setting. Drawing upon theories on the process and contexts of technology diffusion, we develop an integrative model to examine three assimilation stages: initiation→ adoption→ routinization. The model features technological, organizational, and environmental contexts as...

Heathcare policy makers look to information technologies (IT) to play a key role in addressing problematic issues such as access, cost, and quality. High expectations for solutions that IT might bring to healthcare along with government mandates, increased funding for IT initiatives, and dramatic expansion of IT capabilities are stimulating ambitious projects in a variety of settings, especiall...

Soil moisture is an important environmental variable that impacts military operations and weapons systems. Accurate and timely forecasts of soil moisture at appropriate spatial scales, therefore, are important for mission planning. We present an application of a \ soil moisture data assimilation system to military trafficability assessment. The data assimilation system combines hillslope-scale ...

Data Assimilation is a methodological framework used in environmental sciences to perform forecasts with complex systems such as meteorological, oceanographic and air quality models. Data Assimilation requires the resolution of a system with three components: one describing the temporal evolution of the state vector, one coupling the observations and the state vector, and one defining the initi...

Meta-heuristic algorithms inspired by the natural processes are part of the optimization algorithms that they have been considered in recent years, such as genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, firefly algorithm. Recently, a new kind of evolutionary algorithm has been proposed that it is inspired by the human evolution process. This new algorithm has been call...