Scandinavians in Britain

Early statistics in the Nordic countries – when did the Scandinavians slip behind the British?

Trygve Haavelmo got the Nobel prize in economics (the prize in memory of Alfred Nobel) in 1989 – essentially for his 1944 treatise: “The probability approach to econometrics”, where econometrics eventually was founded on probability and mathematical statistics and where simultaneous equation models were introduced. Haavelmo learned statistics from Frisch, and was influenced by Neyman. Ragnar Fr...

Prescribed journeys through life: Cultural differences in mental time travel between Middle Easterners and Scandinavians.

Mental time travel is the ability to remember past events and imagine future events. Here, 124 Middle Easterners and 128 Scandinavians generated important past and future events. These different societies present a unique opportunity to examine effects of culture. Findings indicate stronger influence of normative schemas and greater use of mental time travel to teach, inform and direct behaviou...

Diagenetic Evolution of Mudstones: Black Shales to Laminated Limestones, an Example from the Lower Jurassic of SW Britain

A Comparative Study of the Principles of Fair Proceeding in Iran with Tax Litigation patterns in the United States, Britain, France and Germany

One of the most important economic topics in every country is considering tax issues as a way of increasing the government's income through attracting public confidence by observing the principles of proceeding in the tax system of the country which might likely cause a national production boom, increase economic growth rate, reduce unemployment and the fair distribution of wealth. In this rega...

Fragmented, Hybrid, and Diasporic Identities in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

The processes of cultural transformation in Britain in the second half of the 20th century, the fall of the Empire, immigration from former colonies and the expansion of the multiculturalism, have influenced new ways of looking at the conceptions of identity of diasporic subjects within Britain. Examining these experiences, diasporic novelists write about the second generation immigrants in con...