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Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter +2 more
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Fuzzy Logic in Inverse Continuous Method [PDF]
Acta Montanistica Slovaca, 2004 In the field of geotechnics, certain vagueness and ambiquity appears. We might not be able to design a mathematically accuratedescription of rock, whose properties change during the excavation (rock strength, discontinuities direction, dislocations, rock
Víťazoslav Krúpa +2 more
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Reasoning about context in uncertain pervasive computing environments [PDF]
, 2008 Context-awareness is a key to enabling intelligent adaptation in pervasive computing applications that need to cope with dynamic and uncertain environments.
A. Padovitz +10 more
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Exploring New Chemical Paths in Quantum AI: Preliminary Accomplishments and Future Perspectives
Advanced Quantum Technologies, EarlyView.Two new strategies derived from Chemical AI to promote the advancement of sustainable quantum technologies are presented and discussed. The first strategy relies on the chemical implementation of molecular fuzzy sets, which are quantum mixed states associated with chemical microheterogeneous systems. The second strategy relies on photochromic compounds
Pier Luigi Gentili
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Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Knowledge Management Tools [PDF]
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2011 In the knowledge economy, a key source of sustainable competitive advantage relies on the way to create, share, and utilize knowledge. Knowledge Management (KM) tools assumed an important role in supporting KM activities.
Gülçin Büyüközkan +2 more
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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A Piecewise Type-2 Fuzzy Regression Model
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2017 The type-2 fuzzy logic system permits us to model uncertainties existing in membership functions. Accordingly, this study aims to propose a linear and a piecewise framework for an interval type-2 fuzzy regression model based on the existing possibilistic
Narges Shafaei Bajestani +2 more
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Agility Evaluation in Fuzzy Environment [PDF]
, 2013 Agility metrics are difficult to define, mainly due to the multidimensionality and vagueness of the concept of agility (Nikos et al., 2002). In this work, a fuzzy logic, knowledge-based framework is intended to be developed for the assessment of an ...
Sahu, Suraj Kant
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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VIEW, EarlyView.Acupuncture anesthesia (AA) is an application of acupuncture innovation in surgical operations, combined with anesthetic techniques, and is a model of integrated Chinese and Western medicine. We proposed the Acupuncture Anesthesia Knowledge Database (AAKD), in which all data have been meticulously curated by field experts and assessed by a multi ...
Ying Wang +11 more
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