the aim of this paper was to study knowledge intensive entrepreneurship role in innovative performance in agricultural technology management by entrepreneurial r&d; definition implementing as a casual-effect research by using casual model. statistical population of the study was consisted of 2768 agricultural research specialists in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces (n= 25)...

Background and Objectives: Chronic diseases, such as cancer, are among the factors seriously affecting health and marital satisfaction. Regarding this, the present study was conducted with the aim of modeling marital satisfaction among women with breast cancer in Kermanshah province, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 250 females with breast cancer referring t...

We have measured the sensitivity of the human visual system to sinusoidal modulations of orientation in micropattern-based textured stimuli. The result is the orientation modulation function, or OMF, which describes this sensitivity as a function of the spatial frequency of orientation modulation. We found that the OMF was bandpass with peak sensitivity at spatial frequencies ranging between 0....

Texture segmentation aims at dividing an image into perceptually uniform regions each containing a distinct texture. In images of natural scene, texture in a region can change gradually in scale and orientation due to perspective distortion. A naive segmentation method may erroneously group image patches with the same texture but slowly varying scales and orientations into distinct regions. Thi...

Sustainable tourism has achieved the status of being the superior goal in Norwegian government tourism policy, and is attaining much attention in the international scientific and political discourse on tourism. However, have policies on sustainable tourism and related concepts actually managed to make tourism more sustainable? This article seeks to address this question by first presenting the ...

In what ways can we use games to make moral demands of players and encouraging them to reflect on ethical issues? In this article we propose an ethically notable game as one that provides opportunities for encouraging ethical reasoning and reflection. Our analysis of the videogames Ultima IV, Manhunt, and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn highlights the central role that moral dilemmas can play towards...

In addition to the inherent challenge, driven by curiosity and the excitement of the chase, the quest for malaria vaccines has been made more imperative over the past two decades or so by pragmatic assessment of the odds in a disease which has been with mankind for millenia. Accel­ erating spread of parasite resistance to more and more drugs, with too few new molecular structures in the pipelin...

this study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. a total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the iranian food industry smes. the results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...