the armenian-turkish conflict except the disagreement between the two countries has also developed in the regional and international levels. it is becoming the conflict of interests and competition of superpowers in regional and international sphere, which has its great influence on the complication of the process of the conflict between the two countries. taking into consideration the disagree...

Drawing on literature from Anthropology, Economics, Political Science and Sociology, an interdisciplinary theory is presented that links the rise of contractual forms of exchange within a society with the proliferation of liberal values, democratic legitimacy, and peace among democratic nations. The theory accommodates old facts and yields a large number of new and testable ones, including the ...

For reservoir operation, maintaining a quasi-natural flow regime can benefit river ecosystems, but may sacrifice human interests. This study took the Qingshitan Reservoir in the Lijiang River as a case, and developed an optimization model to explore a trade-off solution between social-economic interests and nature flow maintenance on a monthly base. The objective function considered irrigation,...

Most studies that emphasize and encourage the shift towards a less regulated and financially open system rest on the premise of a prosperous growth prospect. Accordingly, interests have focused on growth models as a framework to understand and to analyze the effects of economic freedom. In this paper, we investigate the short-run characteristics of economic freedom. Using a stochastic general e...

abstract the eu neighborhood policy is a road map that will depict the perspective of european :union:’s relations with its neighbors. the membership of the neighbors in the :union: is impossible, because they are confronted with deep domestic and foreign problems, and on the other hand eu’s security, political and economic interests in these countries lead to offering of the eu neighborhood po...

environmental matters are becoming a question of great importance and the increased attention to such matters has helped to make businesses, politicians and society in general consider the environment a matter of priority concern. environmental concern, taken to mean an attitude favourable to the environment, has become widespread in different environmental aspects, such as energy saving, water...

t the time that Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the party’s monopoly position in the political sphere, and its rationale for playing the dominant role in economic and social arrangements, centered on a single thesis—one that had been prominently stated and emphatically endorsed since Lenin’s time. The party so fully represented the people’s ...

when there is a title retention clause, the seller is the owner of the subject of sale. the buyer, might yet, sell the same chattel to a third bona fide person. in the conflicts of the interests of the owner and bona fide purchaser, the right of one of them should prevail. iranian law and its religious background always prefers the right of the owner and neglects the right of the bona fide purc...

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields have become increasingly central to U.S. economic competitiveness and growth. The shortage in the STEM workforce has brought promoting STEM education upfront. The rapid growth of social media usage provides a unique opportunity to predict users’ real-life identities and interests from online texts and photos. In this paper, we prop...