Was there a Nasdaq bubble in the late 1990s?☆

Was there a bubble in NASDAQ?—Information-based re-examination

There is a little doubt in public mind that the dot-com boom on Nasdaq in the end of the 90s represented a stock market bubble. Indeed, major violations of rationality were observed. For instance, some dot-coms, which terminated their business still held positive market value. Market cap of dot-coms, which were parts of established companies sometimes exceeded market caps of their corporate par...

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In the Beginning, Middle, and End There Was a Garden: Bahram Sadeqi’s Malakut

It seems impossible to think of the Persian art without mentioning the significant presence of gardens. They are present in miniature painting, architecture, and literature. One of the modern works of Persian fiction in which gardens play a significant role is Malakut (1961), a novella by the modern Iranian fiction writer Bahram Sadeqi (1936-1984). The story of this novella begins in a “green g...

RECRUITING AND RETENTION IN THE LATE 1990s

We examined late-1990s trends in enlisted recruitment, retention, and reenlistment and officer retention in the Air Force compared with the other services to determine whether the Air Force faces personnel issues that differ in type and magnitude from those of the other services. We focused on the late 1990s because it is the period after the defense drawdown was completed and the end of Operat...

Was There a Big Bang ?

CIENCE IS a congeries of great quests, and cosmology is the grandest of the great quests. Taking as its province the universe as a whole, cosmology addresses the old, the ineradicable questions about space and time, nature and destiny. It is not a subject for the tame or the timid. For the first half of the 20th century, cosmology remained a discipline apart, as a clutch of talented but otherwo...