Article history: Received 17 September 2009 Received in revised form 22 April 2010 Accepted 8 June 2010

Quality in its contemporary incarnation is commonly referred to as organizational excellence, enterprise excellence, business excellence, or performance excellence. While technology may serve as a key enabler of enterprise excellence, enterprise excellence itself is in large enabled by the human dimension both in terms of ideation and effort. The human dimension manifests in many ways, with peo...

The target article argues that whole groups can act as interactors in an evolutionary process. We believe that Smaldino's discussion would be advanced by a more thorough analysis of the appropriate replicators and lineages for this model. We show that cultural evolution is necessarily a separate process from cultural group selection, and we also illustrate that the two processes may influence e...

background and objectives:hormozgan province is located in the south of iran, bordering waters of the persian gulf and oman sea. due to the antioxidant potential of plants which might be responsible for their medicinal properties, the antioxidant properties of four medicinal plants of the region were evaluated. methods: the antioxidant properties of chrozophora obliqua, daphne mucronata, salvia...

The processing and analysis of the Mizar library has been performed using the infrastructure of the University of Bialystok High Performance Computing Center. In the current Mizar language, direct linking to statements formulated as compound conditions is prohibited. This particular language feature has often been considered by the users as an unnecessary disruption of the natural course of pro...

Following several recent approaches, working memory is argued to consist of a subset of representations that are within the scope of active processing and a larger set of recently activated, but non-attended representations. A response-signal speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT) and complementary reaction time variant of a probe recognition task were used to measure the retrieval of categorized materi...

At 24 hours after administration of a single dose of 3-4 mg. of l-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene-1-C14 (1-hydroxy-AAF-l-C14) intraperitoneally to rats, 75 per cent of the dose had been excreted in the urine and feces. About 5 per cent of the injected radioactivity was present in the gastrointestinal contents, and only 1-2 per cent re mained in the tissues of the rat. Radioactivity equivalent to ...

Some philosophers, for example David Lewis, have argued for the need to introduce de se contents or centered contents, i.e. contents of thought and speech the correctness of believing which depends not only on the possible world one inhabits, but also on the location one occupies. Independently, philosophers like Robert Stalnaker (and also David Lewis) have developed the conversational score mo...