the emergence of new general issues and their complexity, has created new areas of thought called good policymaking. in this study based on a mixed consecutive explorational research, and through the feasibility study of applications of good policy making in the executive branch and by using interviews with the cabinet ministers of 10th and 11th iranian governments, the facilitating inter-organ...

The problem of increasing societal variety is described. A suggestion is made that social networks might serve as decentralized regulators of this variety. Examples of social networks serVing in this capacity are given. Methods are outlined for facilitating these networks by sharing information about the network and its members. Facilitation at various levels of recursion is discussed. Computer...

By identifying the socio-technical conditions required for teams to work effectively remotely, Distance Matters framework has been influential in CSCW since its introduction 2000. Advances collaboration technology and practices have brought increasingly closer achieving these conditions. This paper presents a ten-month ethnography remote organization, where we observed that despite exhibiting e...

Cheng et al. (2008) showed that when goal-directed reaching movements are performed with a 2.5 s inter-trial interval (ITI) under a randomized visual feedback schedule, individuals use online visual information on trial n to perform efficient online corrections on trial n + 1 (i.e., "reminiscence" effect). These results persisted even when participants were given knowledge of the up-coming visi...

This article argues for the need to go beyond appreciating hierarchy and network as separate coordination processes. Rather it conceptualizes a mandated platform approach facilitate inter-municipal collaboration with little experience diverse interests. Based on regional in China, this examines what an appropriate mandate is, how evolves platform. Practically, study provides potentially new tha...

Objective: The aims of the present study was to develop and validate a quick repetition test using familiar, culture-based words for the assessment of the Farsi speaking children suffering from Speech Sound Disorders (SSD). Method: The study population was divided into two groups, including 419 participants without any clinical signs of speech impairment and 36 cases with SSD. Psychometric pro...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.01.017 1389-1286/ 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Networking and Information Technology Lab (NetIT Lab), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain. Tel.: +34 938967294. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M.S. Siddiqui), dmontero@ac. upc.edu (D. Montero), [email protected] (R. Serral-Gracià), xmasip@ac. upc.edu ...