Radical Islam as a political phenomenon has undergone significant changes during the first decades of 21st century. This process was accompanied, firstly, by strengthening unification trends in ideological field, and secondly, development specific “Jihadi Cool” subculture that combined features consumer society (modern music, stylish clothes, Islamic merch, youth magazines, etc.) jihadist agend...

The success of supply chain management largely depends on establishing the partnership in dynamic alliance. In the past, many researches focus on selection of indexes and establish selection model according to the indexes. In order to speed up the process of selection, this paper introduces this optimized idea of Top-k into the selection of partner and classifies the original indexes. The paper...

The analysis presented in this report was undertaken to identify those drug entities that account for a significant proportion of the retail expenditures for prescription drugs used by the elderly. Commercial data bases were used to develop fixed weight Laspeyres price indexes based specifically on drugs used in the elderly population. The indexes provide the capability to analyze price trends ...

Due to the growing popularity of indoor location-based services, indoor data management has received significant research attention in the past few years. However, we observe that the existing indexing and query processing techniques for the indoor space do not fully exploit the properties of the indoor space. Consequently, they provide below par performance which makes them unsuitable for larg...

in this article, the effectiveness of eight different technical indexes including simple moving average, weighted moving average, exponential moving average, relative strength, commodity channel, stochastic, money flow and demand are examined by comparison between indexes returns with buy and hold returns. the results shows the return of buy and hold strategy is more than technical indexes in t...