formal philosophical definitions to concrete, operational ones caused ambiguity, at best, and collapse of the theory, at worst. The problem with philosophical approaches to dialogue is that they are highly idealized and prescriptive. They tell us how people should relate to each other and what outcomes should result from dialogue. They do not tell us, however, what real dialogues look like, sou...

in this study, we focused on tehran stock exchange market analysis based on applying moving average rules. the tehran stock exchange in the middle east has evolved into an exciting and growing marketplace where individual and institutional investor trade securities of over 420 companies. in an attempt to examine the ability to earn excess return by exploiting moving average rules, the average a...

The limits of the expert system, TrueAllele® Casework (TA), were explored using challenging mock casework profiles that included 17 single-source and 18 two-, 15 three- and 7 four-person DNA mixtures. The sensitivity (ability to detect a minor contributor) of the TA analysis process was examined by challenging the system with mixture DNA samples that exhibited allelic and locus dropout and othe...

This study aims to evaluate quantitatively the land surface temperature (LST) derived from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) MOD11A1 and MYD11A1 Collection 5 products for daily land air surface temperature (Ta) estimation over a mountainous region in northern Vietnam. The main objective is to estimate maximum and minimum Ta (Ta-max and Ta-min) using both TERRA and AQUA MODIS...

Structured business processes are the veins of complex business organizations. Workflows have generally been accepted as a means to model and support these processes, be they interactive or completely automated. The fact that these processes require robustness and clear semantics has generally been observed and has led to the combination of workflow and transaction concepts. Many variations on ...

Requirements elicitation is a key concern in information technology (IT) projects. Busi-ness intelligence systems (BI) have emerged and are now used widely organizations. These designed to support manager's decision-making their business performance moni-toring activities requirements very different from those of transactional systems. But past research did not consider these differences. There...