Is the Department of Defense (DOD) pursuing the correct investment strategy for space-based laser weapons? Recent advances in lasers, optics, and spacecraft technologies may bring high-energy laser weapons to a sufficient level of maturity for serious consideration as space weapons against the theater ballistic missile threat. However, these technological advances also make other architectures ...

Conventional approaches in risk management try to address risks in a ‘valueneutral’ and ‘objective’ way. However, recent insights in moral philosophy and the social sciences, notably Science and Technology Studies (STS), have shown that this objectivity is not only illusory, but that this approach can be rendered unfair as well. Risk management is a normative discipline in need of thorough ethi...

the purpose of this study is assessing the effects of competitive strategy and technological innovation on export performance based on competitive environment in non metal mineral industry of iran. in this paper, available approaches in the scope of determinants of ep are identified consist of contingency view, relational and resource based view. in this study, we examine relationship between t...

Many of the IT solutions in an organisation are employed through IT projects. Based on the reliance on IT solutions, organisations’ investment on IT projects has increased tremendously in the last two decades. This is informed and triggered by the premises that IT will help them to yield solutions that will fulfill or exceed their expectations, thereby make the organisation realise the required...

conclusions internet gaming addiction may cause severe personal, social, and occupational problems. despite the range of severity and various presentations of this disorder, dsm-5 lacks the severity classifier. early identification and management may result in complete recovery. case presentation we reported a case of two brothers, diagnosed with internet gaming addiction, who showed grossly di...