Sean Manning, Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire. Past Approaches, Future Prospects

Health Problems of the Empire; Past, Present and Future

Micropumps—past, progress and future prospects

If a high and on-going research dynamics is taken as a rejuvenating factor microfluidics can still be regarded as a truly young discipline, although some microfluidic devices definitely can not be considered as “youngsters” any more. In a time of 30 years of ISFETOLOGY it may be worth to take a look at these devices in order to examine, whether they had—and still have—the potential to stimulate...

Phage therapy: past history and future prospects.

Bacterial viruses (bacteriophages, also called "phages") can be robust antibacterial agents in vitro. However, their use as therapeutic agents, during a number of trials from the 1920s to the 1950s, was greatly handicapped by a number of factors. In part, there were certain limitations inherent in phage physiology (e. g. narrow host range, and rapid clearance from the body); in part there were ...

The Political Thought of Darius the Great (522- 486 B.C.), the Legislator of Achaemenid Empire (A Study Based on Achaemenid Inscriptions in Old Persian)

Darius offered the political order of “king of kings” to solve the political crisis of his era. He legitimized it based on an order of gods. In his belief, the nature of politics was based on a dualistic religious worldview that is the fight between true divinity and false divinity’s will and performance in the world. In addition, the chief true divinity’s law was introduced as the principle or...

Environmental flows in the Anthropocence: past progress and future prospects

Human modification of the global hydrologic cycle through the building and operation of hundreds of thousands of dams and diversions has significantly altered fluvial processes, leading to impairment of river ecosystem function and biodiversity loss worldwide. The concept of environmental flows (e-flows) emerged to mitigate the undesirable hydrological impacts of dams and water diversions, in o...