cross-national data sets on democracy. Whereas the main body of this article is organized around the four traditions, this appendix is structured around the resulting insights into the six data sets that have been examined. A substantial literature has assessed democracy measures from diverse perspectives (Munck & Verkuilen, 2002; Munck, 2009), and the discussion below considers only issues of ...

After the boom of pharmacological research during the 1950s, mainly as a result of the screening technique, the identification of active molecules, their reshaping by means of pharmaco-chemical drug design, and the creation of extremely efficacious and successful medicines, the pharmaceutical world sought a new source of inspiration. Such biota as the tropical forest, a quantity of plants credi...

The Ojibwe have transitioned over the past 100 years from a woodland people moving with the seasons, to forced confinement on rural reservations, to inner-city poverty. Traditionally, Ojibwe women's knowledge has been passed through the generations orally. Using ethnographic methods, data were gathered on traditional infant feeding practices from Ojibwe women (N = 44). Few of these traditions h...

ers, without committing ourselves one way or the other as to their effect on biological fitness. Nevertheless, the idea that some innovations will be less attractive to imitate and others more so, while some make only a marginal difference to existing options, seems a reasonable one. The specific aim of this article is to explore the consequences of innovations in small populations of the kind ...

There are ideas about Bhuta found in Ancient Tamil Literatures. They Fall into Three categories. Among them, natural objects (five elements) associated with Religion, the worship god Sathukka is Sramana Religions like Jainism, Bhddhism, and protective Ganam or collective Bhutas Saivism. This Article examines these three types of detail.

amongst imami scholors, sharif murtadā is one of the first jurists who created some books in genre of comparative jurisprudence. amongst his books in this genre, the most important after  intisar is masail al- nāşiriyyāt which is composed to explain and sometimes criticize the legal positions of his great grandfather (from his mother side), namely naşir uţrūşh. this essay concerns to study the ...