This elegantly carved jade face from Liangzhu in southeastern China provides an intriguing glimpse into the beliefs of the people who lived there from 3400 B.C.E. to 2250 B.C.E. As described in a special News Focus section beginning on page 930, discoveries at Liangzhu and other regions far from the traditional heartland of Chinese civilization are revealing surprisingly complex ancient culture...

theoretically speaking, ict is a new concept in enterprise architecture which can be studied in hrm and hr architecture issues. due to contextual variables carrying diverse variation and importance levels, designing an e-readiness framework of hr architecture is a complex issue. therefore, this idea is considered in iranian oil and gas industry to be piloted. framework of ict conceptual model d...

pinch technology is one of the best methods for designing a multi stream heat exchanger(mshe) through a network; current pinch-based methods, however, lead to a larger and more complicateddesign problems. the major drawback of the current methods is they result in designs having more individual mshe sections than essential, correspond to the enthalpy intervals on temperature vs. enthalpy diagra...