abstinence from eating and drinking on long hot summer days is no easy task. in fact, it is considered the greatest “jihad” in islamic tradition. here, the main question is concerned with the importance of fasting, its purposes, and advantages for individuals. we need to determine if fasting plays a role in overcoming human problems. this article, by using an analytical approach, states quranic...

The essays in this book are meant to serve as an introduction to those ideas of Ayn Rand, which are of particular relevance to business people. Rand was known as a spirited defender of the laissez-faire free enterprise system. It is less commonly known that Rand was also deeply committed to the centrality of the enterprise of philosophy for both public and private life. The essays in this book ...

Issues on differences between men and women have always been a source for dispute and different approaches in the available literature on women. Some have seen these differences resulting from the dissimilar socialization of men and women in family and society. While some put more emphasis on the physiological differences and rely on theological interpretations, some others consider them as ess...

This paper attempts to explore the interrelation between philosophical accounts of language and respective technological developments in the field of human language technologies. In doing so, it focuses on the interaction between analytical philosophy and machine translation development, trying to draw the emerging methodological analogies.

Abstract: With the globalization of online shopping, deterioration of the ecological environment and the increasing pressure of urban transportation, a novel logistics service mode—joint distribution (JD)—was developed. Selecting the optimal partner combination is important to ensure the joint distribution alliance (JDA) is sustainable and stable, taking into consideration conflicting criteria....

This paper attempts to explore the interrelation between philosophical accounts of language and respective technological developments in the field of human language technologies. In doing so, it focuses on the interaction between analytical philosophy and machine translation development, trying to draw the emerging methodological analogies.

The reasons that icing of aircraft leads to an accident are diverse. Ensuring the aircraft to take off clearly is the important factor of giving support to flying safety. Human factor is one of the important factors which have caused the accidents. In this paper, because of the complexity and uncertainty of human factors, we introduce Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to create weight model of...

The main aim of this article is to analyze a recent text by Nenad Miščević dealing with social epistemology in the context of Foucault's theory of knowledge. In the first part, we briefly note Miščević's thoughts on the difference between analytic and continental philosophy and his thoughts on the latter. In the second part, we analyze both Miščević’s thesis about Foucault's dual understanding ...

The objective of this research work was to investigate the effect of the inclusion of visual cues in the decision making process when using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). An important aspect of this research was to investigate the sensitivity of consistency as measured by AHP when visual cues were incorporated An experiment was designed in the application area of Speech Pathology. The re...