Policy has been mostly approached as a rational project of setting goals and establishing rules roles to achieve them. Alternative approaches policy have referred post-positivist, critical-reflexive relational. They all emphasize emergent, co-evolutionary relational aspects work that cannot be reduced choice reasoning-based models alone. A shared element such frameworks is the focus on relation...

Fuzzy queries addressed to a relational database management system are based on the expression of user preferences which leads to obtain more appropriate answers. Fuzzy set theory provides powerful tools to define such conditions (fuzzy conditions). In this context, it is possible to consider fuzzy bipolar conditions which are made of two fuzzy sets to describe user's preferences: i) a fuzzy co...

Object-oriented databases are a relatively new technology that has great potential for a variety of business applications. The primary advantage of the object-oriented database is that it preserves the natural hierarchical structure of the real world, and for certain cases allows more efficient communication between the database application software and the stored data. This thesis examines two...

Study Design: An institutional review board (IRB) approved retrospective cohort study of all women who underwent hysteroscopic sterilization from August 2003 to April 2010 in an urban academic center in Chicago, Illinois was performed. Exclusion criteria included insufficient or incomplete data. Variables including Essure placement success, type and duration of endometrial preparation, demograp...

We propose a simple order-theoretic generalization of set-theoretic inductive de nitions. This generalization covers inductive, co-inductive and bi-inductive de nitions and is preserved by abstraction. This allows the structural operational semantics to describe simultaneously the nite/terminating and in nite/diverging behaviors of programs. This is illustrated on the structural bi nitary small...

We propose a simple order-theoretic generalization of set-theoretic inductive de nitions. This generalization covers inductive, co-inductive and bi-inductive de nitions and is preserved by abstraction. This allows the structural operational semantics to describe simultaneously the nite/terminating and in nite/diverging behaviors of programs. This is illustrated on the structural bi nitary small...

Classic studies of amnesia led to characterizations of hippocampal function emphasizing involvement in long-term memory rather than short-term (or working) memory. In two experiments, we show that when memory for relations among co-occurring items is tested, hippocampal amnesia results in a deficit even at very short lags. Hence, we find evidence for hippocampal involvement in relational memory...

Integrating heterogeneous data from sources as diverse as web pages, digital libraries, knowledge bases, the Semantic Web and databases is an open problem. The ultimate aim of our work is to be able to query such heterogeneous data sources as if their data were conveniently held in a single relational database. Pursuant to this aim, we propose a generalisation of joins from the relational datab...

Successful implementation of knowledge management for organization requires a systematic and comprehensive perspective about various organizational factors. Appropriateness of these factors and their integration and coordination is a vital prerequisite to implement knowledge management effectively. The primary purpose of the research is investigating the relationship between three fundamental a...

objective: to survey emotional intelligence in promoting of the citizenship behavior (manner gesture) of physicians. materials and methods: in a descriptive study, co relational and statistical community approach of research were used. cases were doctors having subspecialty of the infertility in islamic republic of iran. using simple random sampling method 212 cases were selected. questionnaire...