This paper explores the co-existence of relational and territorial spaces – soft spaces through the experiences of EU integration and territorialisation. First, we seek a better understanding of EU integration through an engagement with the literature and research on soft spaces. We propose that EU integration is best understood as involving an interplay between territorial and relational under...

Abstract In this essay, I propose a functionalist theory of grounding (functionalist-grounding). Specifically, argue that is second-order phenomenon realized by relations play the noncausal explanatoriness role. also show functionalist-grounding can deal with powerful challenge. Appeals to explanatory unificationism have been made success explanations does not depend on existence relations. Aga...

We propose a unified framework to study relational contracting and hold-up problems in infinite horizon stochastic games. We illustrate that with respect to long run decisions, the common formulation of relational contracts as Pareto-optimal public perfect equilibria is in stark contrast to fundamental assumptions of hold-up models. We develop a model in which relational contracts are repeatedl...

XML data management using relational database systems has been intensively studied in the last few years. However, in order for such systems to be viable, they must support not only queries, but also updates over virtual XML views that wrap the relational data. While view updating is a long-standing difficult issue in the relational context, the flexible XML data model and nested XML query lang...

Aim: We conducted the present study to compare Object relations, personality organization, personal meaning of life, and Relational meaning in life among Islamic Azad University, Lahijans branch's students.  Method: The research design was post-event (causal-comparative). The sample included 200 (100 psychology students and 100 students from other majors) selected based on convenience sampling...

Evidence increasingly suggests that information about the relation between stimuli can impact responses on implicit measures, but those measures were not designed to capture this in a controlled manner. Relational have therefore been developed assess such relational more specific Such used beliefs variety of contexts. However, despite numerous theoretical inferences having made under premise th...

Traditional data warehousing has been very successful in helping business enterprises to make intelligent decisions through declarative analysis of large amount of structured data stored in a relational database. However, not all enterprise data naturally fit into a relational model. Within an enterprise, there are huge amount of unstructured data, such as document content, emails, spreadsheets...

 The research on social networks and collaborative strategies has highlighted from the mid of 1980 which has contributed to the success and development of firms. The relationship and communication with trade partners in overseas help success of firms in entering to foreign markets and improve new partners and new markets abroad. Doing firm internationalization in foreign countries faces some ba...