Can part of Africa’s current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question empirically, I combined data from ship records with data from various historical documents reporting slave ethnicities, and construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa’s slave trades between 1400 and 1900. I find a strong robust negative correlation b...

With the increasing number of documents that are available in digital form, also the number of digital historical documents is increasing (Berkvens, 2001). It cannot be assumed that standard IR systems perform well on historical documents: historical texts differ from modern texts in three ways (Hüning, 1996; Van Der Horst and Marschall, 1989): (a) vocabularies have changed, (b) spelling has ch...

Part 1 outlines the complex, parallel historical evolution of ZieglerNatta catalysts and related problems. In Part 2, as a general method of inquiry, chemical language and discourse are analyzed, at first to clarify chemists’ epistemic views and the ontological status of catalysts. After analyzing contrasting definitions of ‘catalyst’ and the chemical properties of catalysts, a suitable metapho...

Introduction The basic sub-text or conjecture of this paper is that an adequate economics of the firm should be historically relevant. The terms " adequate " and " relevant " imply, in the current context, that theoretical frameworks allow explanation of historical developments rather than a rationalisation of these developments. Two possible implications follow from this conjecture. First, giv...

This research article was based on a literature review using the lens of socio-historical perspective dynamic relationship between Islam and Christianity in Maluku throughout social history archipelago. The question “How did metamorphosis religious identities (Islam Christianity) take place through contemporary reality Ambon?” becomes reference to trace historical trajectory relations two relig...

Underwater cultural heritage sites represent an attractive and exciting experience for diving tourists, even if often it is complicated them to understand the significance value of remains that are usually strongly damaged covered by marine organisms. Thanks recent advancements in technologies overcome these problems, augmented reality nowadays possible such harsh conditions, opening new possib...

The results of the implementation scientific project “The Semantics Unity and Animosity in Russian Lexis Phraseology: Language System Discourse” supported by Science Foundation are presented. It is based on thesis that language acts as a way indexing referents — realities ideas about reality. semantic-motivational approach to study vocabulary phraseology unity enmity confirms ways conceptualizi...