Is truth a research goal and regulative ideal that is appropriate for management research? Is realism an appropriate philosophical foundation for management research? This article answers in the affirmative on both of these questions by (a) using historical method to develop the four fundamental tenets of scientific realism, (b) using the historical material to show how some management writers ...

since every society requires a unique pattern based upon its dominant values for multi dimensional development and, ayatollah, khomeini as the great founder of a holy islamic community has realized the first practical experience of development administration thru islamic values, a survey has been carried out about ayatollah khomeini's viewpoints on development administration with respect t...

SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOW INTEGRATION FOR SERVICES COMPUTINGbyCUI LINAugust 2010Advisor: Dr. Shiyong LuMajor: Computer ScienceDegree: Doctor of Philosophy In recent years, significant scientific advances are increasingly achieved through complex scientific processes. As the exponential growth in computing technologies and scientific data, a scientific workflow may comprise a l...

In the light of various studies carried out in various socio-economic areas, scientific and cultural development has been introduced as a prerequisite and fundamental factor for sustainable development of the societies. Obviously, universities, as a "scientific and intellectual command center of the society" have a fundamental and unique role and function. In order to achieve this, the most sig...

A major justification of environmental management research is that it helps practitioners, yet previous studies show it is rarely used to inform their decisions. We tested whether conservation practitioners focusing on bird management were willing to use a synopsis of relevant scientific literature to inform their management decisions. This allowed us to examine whether the limited use of scien...

Today’s scientific applications are very data intensive, and their data management requirements can no longer be met by special-purpose libraries for particular scientific data formats or by traditional database management systems. This paper proposes Maitri, a data-format-independent, loosely-coupled, application-tailorable set of libraries that provides a holistic data management framework fo...

Cyber physical system Smart Cyber University (CyUni) is proposed. It is characterized by the presence of a metric space of regulatory rules, digital monitoring and active cyber management of addressable components of scientific and educational processes, automatic generation of operational and regulatory actions, human free cyber decision making focused on management of financial and human reso...

BACKGROUND Ecosystem modeling applied to fisheries remains hampered by a lack of local information. Fishers' knowledge could fill this gap, improving participation in and the management of fisheries. METHODOLOGY The same fishing area was modeled using two approaches: based on fishers' knowledge and based on scientific information. For the former, the data was collected by interviews through t...