the purpose of this research is to examine the effect of the islamic awakening in the arabic countries of the middle east and north africa on israeli ontological security and, it's strategy ofclosure and deviationin the regional level. in other words, after occurrence of the developments, the ontological security and identity of israel faced with what challenges? this research argues that ...

In this paper the connections between the nonconceptual content of perceptual states and realism are considered. In particular, I investigate the argument for realism that uses the notion of nonconceptual content, specifically the version proposed by Raftopoulos in Cognition and Perception. To evaluate the argument two forms of realism are identified: (1) correlation realism (CR), according to ...

Abstract This paper contributes to the growing body of literature that engages with ontological scholarship on fisheries management and governance, more generally, debates environmental governance. It argues governance is an challenge raises questions culture, equity, legitimacy inclusion/exclusion, requiring context-sensitive politically aware approaches. By engaging concept political ontology...

This essay introduces contributions to a special issue exploring alternative accounts of organizational change management (OCM). It begins with identifying why such alternatives are needed by pointing to core assumptions within OCM, including a practical and ontological prochange bias, managerialism and universalism. The alternatives to OCM are then framed in terms of the constructionism associ...

Attempts to explain human behavior that appeal to economic rationality share many of the same ontological assumptions and methodological practices that the so-called ‘adaptationist program’ in biology was criticized for. This program in biology was largely abandoned by biologists as poorly motivated, and replaced with the active testing of both adaptive and non-adaptive hypotheses regarding the...

This paper addresses the issue of combining object-orientation with relational database technology. It is an attempt to clarify the difficulties faced by developers when such a combination is used. The object-oriented model and the relational model, and their ontological assumptions are investigated and different approaches to combining them are described and elaborated. The discussion is mainl...

This paper addresses the issue of combining object-orientation with relational database technology. It is an attempt to clarify the difficulties faced by developers when such a combination is used. The object-oriented model and the relational model, and their ontological assumptions are investigated and different approaches to combining them are described and elaborated. The discussion is mainl...

The process of knowledge discovery from databases is a knowledge intensive, highly user-oriented practice, thus has recently heralded the development of ontology-incorporated data mining techniques. In our previous work, we have considered the problem of mining association rules with ontological information (called ontological association rules) and devised two efficient algorithms, called AROC...

a r t i c l e i n f o Marketing as a discipline in general, and industrial marketing in particular, has drawn upon a number of different theoretical perspectives from domains as diverse as organisational theory, systems analysis, economics, psychology, sociology and anthropology to further our understanding. However, to build this understanding and increase the relevance of marketing research, ...