Current research efforts are being directed to commit with the long-term view of self-management properties for wireless telecommunications. One of the key approaches that have been recognized as an enabler of such a view is policy-based management. Policy-based management has been mostly acknowledged as a methodology that provides flexibility, scalability, adaptability and support to automatic...

Based on extended social exchange theory, the authors propose a framework to investigate conflict of local residents with tourism businesses. The applied random sampling method and approached 388 living in Pu Luong Nature Reserve, renowned community based destination Thanh Hoa mountainous area, Vietnam. findings show that resident’s business is influenced by latent variables: community’s involv...

The article, based on an analysis of the publications Soviet media, examines problems functioning propaganda ideologies in materials devoted to Arab­Israeli armed conflict 1967 (six­day war). In total, more than 500 were studied, selected during period hostilities and immediately after it, according keywords “Arab­Israeli conflict”, “war”, “aggression”, “Zionism”, “imperialism”. theoretical bas...

Disputes over territory are a major contributing factor to the disruption of international relations. We believe that a cumulative, integrated, and continuously updated resource providing information about such disputes in an easily accessible form would be of benefit to intelligence analysts, military strategists, political scientists, and also to historians and others concerned with internati...

In mobile environments, unspecified numbers of transactions arrive in continuous streams. To prove correctness of their concurrent execution a method of modelling an infinite number of transactions is needed. Standard database techniques model fixed finite schedules of transactions. Lately, techniques based on temporal logic have been proposed as suitable for modelling infinite schedules. The d...

The main purpose this study is to investigate the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent compulsive buying behaviour. Using a sample of 300 adolescents (15-18 years) in India and the structural equation modelling technique, the findings reveal that self-esteem mediates the relationship between parent-adolescent relationship and ad...

Many studies have emphasized the role of natural resources in the onset and duration of armed conflict. Due to its characteristics, narcotics are considered to be one of the most influential resources. However, the dynamics of how this particular commodity is linked to conflict is still not well understood. Most scholars have focused on the revenue aspects of narcotics and only few have mention...

Many African communities have appropriated the international practice of “Truth and Reconciliation Commissions” (TRCs) as a means to construct a shared sense of collective memory, identity, and purpose in the aftermath of violent conflict. In this paper, we consider alternative forms of collective memory practices that might better suit the task of reconciliation in postconflict West African co...

A Three-player conflict with bounded controls is considered in this paper. Optimal pursuit-evasion strategy based on differential game with bounded control is derived assuming that the attacker, target and it’s defender have linearized kinematics, arbitrary-order linear adversaries’ dynamics, and perfect information. The obtained strategy is dependent on the zero-effort miss distance of two pur...

The name "Wampanoag" means "Eastern People" or "People of the First Light" in the local dialect of the Algonquian language. Once extensively populating the coastal lands and neighboring islands of the eastern United States, the Wampanoag people now consist of two federally recognized tribes, the Aquinnah and Mashpee, the state-recognized Seaconke Wampanoag tribe, and a number of bands and clans...