Partner selection and matching is a key part of virtual enterprise formation, which directly affects the growth development enterprises. The partners can be regarded as multi-attribute two-sided problem. This paper considers current situation attribute preferences in mutual evaluation process partner selection, introduces heterogeneous preference language system, analyzes psychological behavior...

background: one of the challenges of pet/mri combined systems is to derive an attenuation map to correct the pet image. for that, the pseudo-ct image could be used to correct the attenuation. until now, most existing scientific researches construct this pseudo-ct image using the registration techniques. however, these techniques suffer from the local minima of the non-rigid deformation energy f...

this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 iranian students in high intermediate and advanced levels of english in a private institute while chatting with foreigners. besides the genre analysis, the purposes why people all around the world chat o...

amacrine cells (using a new method they developed, termed " photofilling "), MacNeil and Masland were able to describe at least 26 different types of this neuron, including the four major types previously described (Figure 1). They found that most of the cell types " tiled " the retina very efficiently; namely, the amacrine cells of a given class populated the retina at a density such that Over...

While many models have investigated the role of competitive mate selection processes in human marriage, few have addressed the potential for assortative processes to explain the observed demographics, as well as simultaneously investigating divorce. To explore the possibility that assortative mate selection processes may explain patterns of both marriage and divorce, we developed an agent-based...