Saussure’s refusal to adopt a biological perspective in linguistics and consider the problem of origin language does not imply struggle against natural aspects language. Rather, it derives from awareness that is impossible look at “from outside” if one wants (as Saussure considers obligatory for linguist) drop into speaking subjects. This tendency nature within” has strong philosophical importa...

OBJECTIVE To describe OH&S vulnerability across a diverse sample of Canadian workers. METHODS A survey was administered to 1,835 workers employed more than 15 hrs/week in workplaces with at least five employees. Adjusted logistic models were fitted for three specific and one overall measure of workplace vulnerability developed based on hazard exposure and access to protective OH&S policies an...

Based on evidence that the color red elicits avoidance motivation across contexts (Mehta & Zhu, 2009), two studies investigated the effect of the color red on snack food and soft drink consumption. In line with our hypothesis, participants drank less from a red labeled cup than from a blue labeled cup (Study 1), and ate less snack food from a red plate than from a blue or white plate (Study 2)....

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of outside board on rm value in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) from the perspective of information transaction costs. To do so, a sample of 96 firms listed in TSE is selected to be studied during the period of 2003-2012. Tobin q ratio is used to measure rm's value and bid-ask spread for information transaction costs. In addition to these variable...

Within academia there has been similar growing awareness of this need. Although this awareness is being articulated in several ways, one of the most frequent involves the conceptualization and investigation of the relationship between business strategy and the personal characteristics of top managers.^ Here, particular manager characteristics such as personality, skills, abilities, values, and ...

Context plays a key role, as recongnized by a wide body of research, in application and entity adaptation in the ubiquitous computing world characterized by extensive platform heterogenity and environment dynamicity and unpredictability. Implicit in the notion of context, as used by context-aware applications, is the actual effects, including constraints, context has on target entities. We beli...

In this paper we describe Salsa, a plug-in that aggregates social and other content into an email client. Information in Salsa is collected from a variety of sources both inside and outside of email to create a profile for each person in our corporation that contains a photo, organizational details, friends, and an aggregated feed of shared content. Thus, Salsa uses a social networking approach...