Over the past several years, we have witnessed the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. In this paper, we seek to understand how regional occupational structures are associated with metropolitan areas that have rebounded (or have not felt the recession much at all) and those regions that have been unable to recover their economies. In particular, we analyze the impact of the ...

Using a discourse analytic qualitative approach, we investigated the naturally-occurring discourse that arose as part of two kinds of regular course activities, synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated discussions. The messages contributed by members of a graduate course were analyzed for the kind of discourse functions and the kind of politeness strategies they displayed. Results indicat...

This paper focuses on how urban policies and the clustering of creative industries has influenced urban outcomes. The set of creative industries include those with output protectable under some form of intellectual property law. More specifically, this subsector encompasses software, multimedia, video games, industrial design, fashion, publishing, and research and development. The cities that f...

the tehran museum of contemporary art has held photo annual and biennial since 1366 and 12 exhibitions have been held so far; moreover, it is one of the most important places for presentation of photos and photographic thinking in country. ninth and eleventh iran photography biennial were similar approaches and artistic and creative photography was considered for photographers as a goal but so ...

the complex and hasty worldwide changes in the areas of sciences, skills, values and criteria have forced most of the successful organizations throughout the world to shift their goals, methods and structures towards implementing creativity and innovation to provide a productive environment. in this essay, after having defined the concept of creativity, from every angle, the difference between ...

Creative telescoping is the method of choice for obtaining information about definite sums or integrals. It has been intensively studied since the early 1990s, and can now be considered as a classical technique in computer algebra. At the same time, it is still subject of ongoing research. In this paper, we present a selection of open problems in this context. We would be curious to hear about ...

The story of the ox and oxherd, separate at first, but united in the realization of the inner unity of all existence, is an old Taoist story, updated and modified by a twelfth century Chinese Buddhist master to explain the path to enlightenment. The ox symbolizes the ultimate, undivided reality, the Buddha-nature, which is the ground of all existence. The oxherd symbolizes the self, who initial...

This research aims to find out how internal resources, intellectual capital, and green innovation in West Java's creative industries can improve small businesses financial performance. Besides, this also examines the sustainability of mediating effect capital on The sample consists 335 respondents who are owners industry workers Java, Indonesia. data were collected using a questionnaire analyze...

Entrepreneurship is the driving force behind the economy of any country. It is strongly believed that without entrepreneurial activities the process of agricultural development will not be achieved. This requires the proper transformation of capital and skill. The agricultural students should possess creativity in order for them to be able to start new businesses. However with the support of th...