The Scatalogic Rites of All Nations

The rites of spring

Every spring I get depressed. Last month I had the stunning realization that graduate student recruitment is a major cause of my spring depression. Each year, as the days lengthen, graduate programs engage in their ritualistic seduction of prospective students. In the past 15 years, US institutions, including the most elite and respected, have evolved mating displays worthy of birds and fish. T...

From Rites to Rights:

It is the charge of economic history not only to explain the economic past, but to use it to enrich and develop economic theory (North, 1994). In paleoeconomics, theory plays the additional role of adding veracity of accounts based on sparse evidence through the demonstration of internal consistency. We synthesize pre-historical and historical evidence available from the settlement and moderniz...

The Last Rites of Public Campaign Financing?

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

(Unclassified and for distribution to all NATO nations)

1 Based on the author’s presentation at RTA/HFM Workshop 007, The Hague, Netherlands, 13-15 April. © Grigore C. Burdea, except for certain illustrations. Summary This paper presents available virtual reality technology as well as technology that is projected to become available to NATO in the near future. Areas discussed are new PC technology (graphics rendering and wearable computers), persona...