HABSBURG EMPIRES: A HAVEN, OR «PRISON OF PEOPLES»

Two empires or three?

In the last 100 years, several spectacular discoveries were made in the world of biodiversity, discoveries such as the Okapi in the Congo forest, the only living relative of the giraffes, or Latimeria in the Indian Ocean, a living coelacanth fish, believed to have been extinct for 60 million years. But these were merely small white spots on the world map of biodiversity. By contrast, Carl Woese...

Prison or Psychiatric Hospital?

sort of men were being referred for reports. We particularly wanted to know their diagnosis, social background, the proportion needing hospital admission, whether that admission could have been arranged without the court, whether these people were very different from the ordinary hospital admissions and whether they needed any special nursing care. In 1963 there were 146 referrals of men to the...

Prison health: a threat or an opportunity?

Study on Gold as a Hedge or Safe Haven for the Stock Market by a Markov Switching Approach

Although gold is no longer a central cornerstone of the international monetary and financial system, it still attracts considerable attention from researchers and investors. Nowadays, many investors manage their risk with valuable assets such as gold. This paper examines the dynamic relationships between gold and stock markets in the Tehran Stock Exchange. We have applied the Markov switching m...

the effectiveness of strategy-based instruction in teaching english as a second or foreign language: a meta-analysis of experimental studies

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...