Reading – a personal and professional view

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Developing a Personal Brand Shaping Pattern for Iranian Professional Athletes

The purpose of this study was to developing a personal brand shaping pattern for iranian professional athletes. The research method, based on the method of collecting data, was a mixed exploratory sequence. In the qualitative stage, data collection tools were semi-structured interviews with 23 professional sportsmen, coaches, sports marketing managers, psychologists and sports sociologists. The...

Scrapie--a personal view.

Copulas: A personal view

Copula modeling has taken the world of finance and insurance, and well beyond, by storm. Why is this? In this paper I review the early start of this development, discuss some important current research, mainly from an applications point of view, and comment on potential future developments. An alternative title of the paper would be “Demystifying the copula craze”. The paper also contains what ...

A personal view

In the 20 years from its ®rst issue, BIT has been active in an area of technology with fast and thorough changes. After scanning through 20 volumes, I am surprised to detect that the published scope of BIT has remained almost unchanged, and many statements in the ®rst editorial could be published today without replacing a single word. BIT did not give up its basic principles published in the ®r...