this research was conducted to determine and study the profile of participants, the contexts and the mechanisms of public participation. the methodology was survey and respondents were 150 of experts of department of environment of iran. sampling was random and mail questionnaire was used for data collection. the questionnaire used a 5-point scale to explore experts statements related to extent...

Middleware technologies such as CORBA and DCOM have been developed as a means of tackling heterogeneity and complexity problems inherent in distributed systems. However, more work still need to be done to develop methodologies for the construction of distributed objects. In addition, little attention has been paid to the development of methodologies for the configuration of computational resour...

Although the importance of the incubator mangers for successful incubation has been widely discussed, there is little evidence on how the incubator mangers leverage various resources contributing to incubation success. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by employing the niche manger theory to investigate the extent to which the incubator managers act as the niche manager in the incub...

RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription has been proposed to occur at transcription factories; nuclear focal accumulations of the active, phosphorylated forms of RNAPII. The low ratio of transcription factories to active genes and transcription units suggests that genes must share factories. Our previous analyses using light microscopy have indicated that multiple genes could share the same fa...

Economic historians tend to explain the rise of the cooperative form in agriculture from the advantage of cooperative over private factories in reducing transaction costs with suppliers. This study provides a first test of this thesis using data on 1130 dairy factories in The Netherlands. Indeed, we find that cooperative factories performed significantly better than private factories. The persi...

Optimisation of factories, a cornerstone production engineering for the past half century, relies on formulating challenges with limited degrees freedom. In this paper, technological advances are reviewed to propose “daydreaming” framework factories that use their cognitive capacity looking into future or “foresighting”. Assessing and learning from possible eventualities enable breakthroughs ma...