This paper examines the development of legal contract enforcement in a political economy context. The key insight is that, in earlier times when relational contracts are used predominantly, the rich elite agents must have enjoyed comparative advantages in using relational contracts than the poor and thus would bene…t less from investing in legal enforcement. The paper …nds that high income ineq...

This study focused on the optimization of Al—Mg to CuZn34 friction stir lap welding (FSLW) process for optimal combination of rotational and traverse speeds in order to yield favorable fracture load using Grey relational analysis (GRA). First, the degree of freedom was calculated for the system. Then, the experiments based on the target values and number of considered levels, corresponding orth...

Despite the vital role of information in relational-oriented firms, there are limited studies on the impact of information quality on relationship marketing. To address this gap, this study develops a conceptual model to examine the impact of information quality on the successful implementation of relationship marketing by assessing the mediating role of salespeople's relational competency. The...

Unlike centralized databases, watermarking of distributed databases faces serious challenges for various reasons, e.g. (i) Distribution of data (ii) Existence of replication (iii) Preservation of watermarks while partitioning and distributing databases, etc. In this paper, we propose a novel watermarking technique for distributed relational databases considering a generic scenario that supports...

by entering the era of information and communication and moving from manufacturing and industrial economy towards knowledge-based service economy; the competitive bases of businesses have changed from capital budgeting and tangible assets towards intangible assets and intellectual capital, including social and relational capitals. hence, over the past ages, organizations emphasize more on infor...

While several studies have examined the role of strategic alliances in outsourcing, as a way to manage the client-vendor relationship, no systematic attempt has been made to integrate the knowledge from the strategic management literature. The study contributes to this line of research, by developing a framework that weaves the Relational-Theory View with the outsourcing literature. This synthe...

We provide a correspondence between the subjects of duality and density in classes of finite relational structures. The purpose of duality is to characterise the structures C that do not admit a homomorphism into a given target B by the existence of a homomorphism from a structure A into C. Density is the order-theoretic property of containing no covers (or ‘gaps’). We show that the covers in t...

this article is concerned with eugene fontinell’s idea about personal immortality. fontinell has offered a specific view about the possibility of afterlife, through employing the experimental method, william james’s pragmatic method, and also developing william james’s field theory and his psychological ideas about the “self”.  fontinell believes that it is possible to imagine immortality in a ...

Many real-world domains are relational in nature, consisting of a set of objects related to each other in complex ways. This paper focuses on predicting the existence and the type of links between entities in such domains. We apply the relational Markov network framework of Taskar et al. to define a joint probabilistic model over the entire link graph — entity attributes and links. The applicat...

Abstract : This paper is concerned with relational Support Vector Machines, at the intersection of Support Vector Machines (SVM) and relational learning or Inductive Logic Programming (ILP). The so-called phase transition framework, primarily developed for constraint satisfaction problems (CSP), has been extended to ILP, providing relevant insights into the limitations and difficulties thereof....