To my family and in the memory of my father, iii Now the words are over and the pain they bring is gone. Now you have gone to rest in the arms of the Beloved.-Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Without the help and blessings of Allah (swt), the completion of this dissertation and overcoming all the obstacles I have encountered along the way would not have been possible. It w...

Community development efforts associated with the reduction in poverty and injustice historically have not benefited from the productivity and efficiency as well as private industry and government. Recently, declining entry barriers and Web ubiquity has spurred IS use for community development. This mini-track is designed to explore those uses and to encourage additional thoughts and models for...

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În această lucrare discutăm teorema de universalitate a lui Kempe legată de posibilele configuraţii ale unui mecanism plan. CONTENTS Introducere 1 1. Mecanisme plane 1 2. Puţină geometrie semi-algebrică 5 3. Reprezentarea aplicaţiilor polinomiale cu ajutorul mecanismelor 9 4. Demonstraţia teoremei de reprezentabilitate 12 References 16 INTRODUCERE Un mecanism plan este un sistem de bare rigide ...

Project acronym: SustainValue Project name: Sustainable value creation in manufacturing networks Call and Contract: FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4 Grant Agreement no.: 262931 Project duration: 01.04.2011 – 31.03.2014 (36 months) Co-ordinator VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FI) Partners: POLIMI Politecnico di Milano (IT) UiS Center for Industrial asset management, University of Stavanger (NO...

some logicians as avicenna, khaja nasir al-din tusi, and dabiran katebi believe that denotation (dilala) is dependent on volition (irada), and as long as there is no volition, there is no denotation. some others like qutb al-din razi completely reject this idea and maintain that denotation merely depends on “knowledge of designation” (al-ilm bi al-wad’). some of methodologicians of jurisprudenc...