Organizations have realized that effective development and management of their organizational knowledge base is very important for their survival in todays competitive business environment. People, as a special knowledge asset, also attract the interest of many researchers because, only through people communicating with one another, can they really share their tacit knowledge and skills that ca...

The efficient use of human capital is one of the most important factors in todays’ business competition. Competition is strongly influenced by qualified staff. In order to aid the human resources department to keep up with strategic decisions various skill management systems have been created that make the development of human resources easier and more precise. Skill management systems are only...

todays, the only thing that can be trusted all over the world is lack of confidence. all organizations need to innovate to comply with the wavy environment and the innovation by itself has a vital role in moving toward the comparative advantage and supreme performance. although many researches have already investigated the effect of innovation on the performance, it seems that, in future, lack ...

There are surprisingly many anisotropically re-ecting objects in the real world. Some examples are brushed metal, cloth, CDs, and even many brands of paper. Despite the importance of anisotropic reeec-tions in the real world, most of todays computer graphics systems cannot deal with them appropriately. This is particularly true for interactive and hardware-accelerated rendering systems, which i...

air pollution is one of the major issues about the diesel engines in todays' world. it is a special concern in those areas that have difficulty meeting health-based outdoor air quality standards. natural gas has low emission and resource abundance and also conventional compression ignition engine can be easily converted to a dual fuel mode to use natural gas as main fuel and diesel as pilo...

We describe a real-world problem from the road sector in Norway. Every four years the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) have to select which road development projects to do the next four years. This portfolio of projects has to be selected from a much larger set of worthy projects. Todays practice in evaluating individual road projects is based on the well known cost-benefit analysis...

Electronic Commerce over the Internet is one of the most rapidly growing areas in todays business. However, considering the most important phase of Electronic Commerce, the payment , it has to be noted that in most currently exploited approaches, support for at least one of the participants is limited. From a general point of view, a couple of requirements for correct payment interactions exist...

the effect of business regulations on economic growth (a selection of developed and developing countries) mohammad-hossein hosseinzade bahreini assistant professor of economics,ferdowsi university of mashhad mohammad ali falahi associate professor of economics,ferdowsi university of mashhad fatemeh erfany jahanshahi m.sc. in economics abstract in this research, the relationship between business...