Al-Quran as the greatest revelation well functioning a guide to life that must be believed and guided, contains Islamic treatises, implied also amazing wisdom called miracles. When term i'jaz was attached Koran, it demanded Holy Book brought by Messenger of Allah able subdue all writings ever existed, while crowning Koran most noble undeniable book. But how understand Qur'an with state has been...

Business analytics (BA) has become increasingly important for companies to gain valuable insights from big data and ultimately competitive advantage. However, little empirical evidence exists regarding the mechanisms through which BA impacts on competitive advantage. In light of this paucity, this paper aims to advance our understanding of the impact of BA on competitive advantage. First, this ...

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The role of organizational reputation (OR) was studied as a source of sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) and superior performance, theoretically and empirically, among local authorities in Israel. Using the LISREL VIII program, we proposed a mediation model that argued for a relationship between OR and financial performance, mediated by three tests for SCA: OR-value, OR-rareness and OR-ini...

Overture The comments above (see the next page for who made them and when) represent one type of thinking about infinity. There are other types, as we will see, and they all create difficulties for students, philosophers, and even mathematicians. The purpose of this article is to show how a particular theory about how people come to understand mathematics, APOS Theory, can be helpful in underst...

Gaia theory, first proposed in 1970 by British chemist James Lovelock and later elaborated by microbiologist Lynn Margulis, has developed from a controversial hypothesis to a broadly accepted set of ideas about the relationships among Earth's physical, chemical and biological features. Gaia theory represents a creative synthesis that has emerged through and built upon reductionist science, view...