The article introduces the concept of hegemony to leadership theory, which has developed mainly as a critique of hegemonic stability theory. We argue that it makes sense to combine the two theories by introducing the concept of ‘size’ into neoliberal thinking about International Political Economy. We accept the neoinstitutional hypothesis that a hegemon is not needed to provide public goods, an...

aflatoxins are a group of fungal toxic metabolites, which are contaminated certain food commodities. elisa is one of the sensitive methods for detection of aflatoxins. preparation and stabilizing of a proper conjugated tracer for detection of aflatoxins is probably the main step for designing an elisa method. in current study, different stabilizers were applied to stabilize a newly prepared con...

Hegemony is a term both elusive and recurrent. It provides a theory of the social for a world in which all universalizing truth narratives have lost their fantasmatic hold over our lives and, in their withdrawal, we are forced to confront the fictions that they in fact always represented. In a certain sense, hegemony theory is the fiction of social fiction; a fiction designed to account for the...

Information technology outsourcing (ITO) has been a topic of great interest, one that organization researchers have studied extensively. Previous studies have suggested that ITO research has expanded from one organization and bilateral partnerships to a network form of organization that links multiple organizations and spans inter-organizational boundaries. Yet, little research has been conduct...

In diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. This study aims at discussing how Yasmin Crowther reviews the Persian tradition in The Saffron Kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, Iran. The novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with Iranian hegemonic d...

Self-stabilizing protocols can tolerate any type and any number of transient faults. However, in general, self-stabilizing protocols provide no guarantee about their behavior against permanent faults. This paper proposes a self-stabilizing link-coloring protocol resilient to (permanent) Byzantine faults in arbitrary networks. The protocol assumes the central daemon, and uses 2∆ − 1 colors where...

Since the COVID-19, U.S. domestic economy has been hit hard, causing currency devaluation and a dramatic increase in unemployment. Economic policy during Great Recession COVID-19 had impact of stabilizing saving unemployment rate. It is great significance to study enormous positive negative effects these policies on global economies at that time later. This paper analyzes contrasts with support...

Islamic Art is the art of civilization based on Islamic religion. Moreover, it not only concerned with particular region or particular people rather it is a combination of different civilizations and historical circumstances as painted with Islamic weltanschauung. The Arab civilization is probably more important. Although the Arabs have little art and even then, they developed Islamic art with ...