The high oil content of the avocado fruit (Persea americana Mill.) has been known since Aztec times, with the fruit sometimes referred to as “vegetable butter” or “butter pear.” The plant originated in Central America, and its cultivation has spread to warm subtropical and temperate climates worldwide. The flesh of an avocado can contain up to 30% oil (based on fresh weight), but there is very ...

The application of the latest digital technologies changes the ways of thinking of entrepreneurial behaviour and motivation of decision-making, principles of organization of their functioning, so the purpose of work is to form a model of achieving a balanced balance between economic efficiency and environmental and social responsibility of the digitized enterprise, determining the scientific ba...

among the various efforts coping with the causes and roots of differences in economic development in iran and south korea, none has focused on the role of social capital. meanwhile, in recent years, we have been facing the development of a theory about the linkage of social capital and economic development and a great attention has been paid to it by international economic organizations. in thi...

Dualism the division of an object of study into separate, paired elements is widespread in economic and social theorising: key examples are the divisions between agency and structure, the individual and society, mind and body, values and facts, and knowledge and practice. In recent years, dualism has been criticised as exaggerating conceptual divisions and promoting an oversimplified, reductive...

Th is article builds on C. S. Peirce’s suggestive blueprint for an inclusive outlook that grants reality to his three categories. Moving away from the usual focus on (contentious) cosmological forces, I use a modal principle to partition various ontological layers: regular sign-action (like coded language) subsumes actual signaction (like here-and-now events) which in turn subsumes possible sig...

The growth of industrialization and consequent urbanization of life gives rise to a commercial outlook to life. For the present day generation, the prime importance of life is success, success at any cost. Modern society is full of complexity especially for adolescents because, this stage is turbulent, but crucial. As adolescents perceive their parents to be old fashioned they tend to become re...

A two-year-long economic downturn and a persistent income gap with the U.S. mainland contribute to an uncertain outlook for Puerto Rico. Still, the commonwealth possesses a skilled and educated workforce, a favorable business climate, and the benefits of U.S. legal and financial structures— advantages that could encourage the development of new industries and create the potential for sustained ...

The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest inland body of water on earth with a surface area of 66,000 km. In 1960, the mean water level was 53.4 m and it contained 1090 km of water (Glantz 1999). The destruction of the sea and its ecosystems constitutes one of the greatest man-made environmental disasters in history. The ecological catastrophe has been associated with a sharp decline in the heal...

Twice a year, the OECD publishes projections for the world economy in the context of the OECD Economic Outlook. These projections are based on a number of key assumptions regarding economic policy and the international environment. They are used to assess future trends in the world economy, evaluate outstanding risks and make recommendations on appropriate economic policies. To be helpful for t...

contemporary iranian society is transiting from traditional outlook to modern attitudes. social chaos matched with behavioral and thinking chaos is characteristic of transition period. political structure, as a part of society, alongside the juridical, economic and social structure is transiting from traditional sovereignty to intellectual and legal one. political participation, as a tangible a...