by the more advances in science and knowledge, the role of staff and human relations (hr) becomes more evident in the progress of the organization and the community. social capital and intellectual capital are the two subjects that in the recent two decades have been considered and their formative roles in organizational development and performance have been confirmed. this study examines the r...

In theorizing about perception, philosophers have often multiplied qualities. To perceptible qualities of external objects, like colors and shapes (‘sensible’ qualities), have been added qualities of experiences (‘sensory’ qualities) or of sense-data (‘sensational’ qualities). Start with sensory qualities. The phrase ‘sensory quality’ is not much in use these days, having lost out to ‘phenomena...

This paper investigates the problem of identifying participants in online discussions whose contribution can be considered sensible. Sensibleness of a participant can be indicative of the influence a participant may have on the course/outcome of the discussion, as well as other participants in terms of persuading them towards his/her stance. The proposed sensibleness model uses features based o...

Visual Understanding of Complex Structures through Causal Analysis Matthew Brand, Lawrence Birnbaum, and Paul Cooper Northwestern University The Institute for the Learning Sciences 1890 Maple Avenue, Evanston IL 60201 [email protected] Abstract An important result of visual understanding is an explanation of a scene's causal structure: How action|usually motion|is originated, constrained, and p...

Delivering QoS in large scale networks is an important issue. We introduce sensible routing networks. In these networks, the packets make self-routing decisions based only on local information. Hence, the amount of information is independent of the size of the network. Sensible routing allows QoS goals for large scale networks to be met with less transmission overhead than active routing algori...

development of technology and communications, especially emergence of the internet as well as states’ inclination to achieve a harmonized protection of intellectual property rights in international level in the last three decades, have brought a new perspectives on international jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgments in the field of intellectual property rights. the most impo...