Today, small and medium enterprises are considered as one of the main components of economic development for various reasons. To name a few, job creation, resource efficiency, the ability to enhance local technology, the ability to meet new needs, quick decision-making, and training successful managers will all lead to the growth and economic development of countries. Despite these benefits, sm...

a brief study on the history of 20th century reveals that capitalist system has been facing to political, military and economic crisis including world wars i and ii, economic crisis of 1929 and 1973, economic crisis of southeast of asia in 90s and the current economic crisis. while theories of international political economy have in common with the occurrence of the crisis itself, they are diff...

Microblogs have received considerable attention in crisis communication due to its real-time nature. Despite this, research has not adequately addressed how users make use of information amongst the vast amount of real-time content available in a crisis. Hence, this study aims to understand information use in crisis situations by employing microblogs. Taylor‟s [4] information use environment (I...

JONA • Vol. 32, No. 6 • June 2002 The nation is facing a nursing shortage that is creating a crisis for quality healthcare and patient safety. Research has documented that problems with nurse staffing are associated with healthcare-associated infections and other adverse events that affect patient outcomes. These ominous facts, stated during the opening of an expert consultants meeting convened...

Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) neural network architectures, such as Fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM), have solved successfully a variety of classification problems. However, FAM suffers from an inherent problem that of creating larger architectures than it is necessary to solve the problem at hand (referred to as the ART category proliferation problem). This problem is especially amplified for classificati...

We present a method of enhancing dialogue markup by mapping HPSG-based discourse category information into XML. The application scenario is crisis talk, specifically cockpit voice recording (CVR) transcripts of aviation disasters. This approach is new both as a source of richly annotated spoken language corpus resources for a little known scenario, and in grammatical theory and language documen...