Fatherhood scholarship has made much theoretical progress over the past decades, yet existing models and concepts continue to draw primarily on western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic (WEIRD)-centric assumptions. This review uses demographically sizeable, culturally significant, understudied undertheorized Chinese fathers as an example reveal limitations of applying WEIRD-centric pe...

В марте 2014 года, в ответ на аннексию Крыма и военные действия востоке Украины, Совет Европы принял решение ввести санкции против России. ЕС раскритиковал России, подрывающие суверенитет независимость Украины. ЕС, августе года Россия ввела продовольственное эмбарго сельскохозяйственную продукцию из западных стран. Наиболее часто обсуждаемая тема этих санкций - их эффективность влияние российск...

With recent advances in mobile technologies and infrastructures, there are increasing demands for mobile users to connect to existing collaboration systems. This requires extending supports from web browsers on personal computers to SMS, WAP and PDAs. However, in general, the capabilities and bandwidth of these mobile devices are significantly inferior to desktop computers over wired connection...

This paper analyses, for the first time, views of Russian society in reign Catherine II, earliest epoch which this question may be put, on basis a sufficient number sources, state education policy, programmes, and sources financing colleges intended various classes empire. Society, whom was secondary importance, considered from purely utilitarian point view hoped to establish schools where subj...

Currently, on Western sciences of health, the word “psyche” (from the Greek ψυχή) is closely associated to the concept of mind in all its aspects: awareness (consciousness), emotion (affect), and cognition (intellectual activity). The mental activity can be elevated until sublime issues like altruism, values, and morals. Even spirituality is a human dimension associated to mind, although consid...

speakers of different languages have paid attention to the phonetics of their language since ancient times. muslim scientists have also taken into consideration the value of phonological studies and among them there are linguists who are not less important than any western ones like saussure, chomsky and jacobson. some of them are even counted more major than westerners; one of these muslim sch...