a better understanding of rangeland vegetation cover and its variation in different years basedon wetness and droughtiness fluctuations is a great importance. economical priority setting ofrangelands is based on variations in rainfall and drought patterns, because it yields to bettercharacterization of vegetative cover. yet a comprehensive and continuous monitoring ofvegetative cover of rangela...

Too often, the examination of the work of a major intellectual figure occurs in an historical vacuum. History has two meanings. One sense is obviously that of the social, political, and economic context within which a specific theoretical development takes place. Would Keynes have written The General Theory had England not suffered economic difficulties following World War I and had the capital...

one of the most significant issues in meta–ethics is moral realism, which has been criticized so much. one of the main criticisms of it has been offered by j.l. mackie. he believes that moral properties depend upon our feelings and emotions and they don't refer to reality; so, they have no causal explanation and cannot give us any knowledge. therefore any judgment about moral properties is...

United States households' consumption expenditures and car purchases collapsed during the Great Recession more so than income changes would have predicted. Using CEX data, we show that both extensive intensive spending margins contracted sharply in Recession. We also document significant cross‐cohort differences impact of including a stronger reduction by younger cohorts. draw inference on sour...

with the advent of ilkhan (mongols) in iran, the art of illustrating book was officially formed and, from this period onward, this art prospered. great mongolian shahnameh, the painting masterpiece of ilkhanid era, was illustrated in tabriz as the first courtly illustrated edition during the time of abu sae'd bahadorkhan; gradually afterward, other illustrated editions of shahnaneh came in...

objective: citizenship is not just a situation in which a person has a set of rights and duties, but it serves the two ideas of situation and feeling. feeling of citizenship is an important aspect of citizenship that plays a great role in strengthening social bases in a society. feeling refers to view and attitudes, and citizenship in its full meaning is an attitude. citizens should be such ind...