of motifs from pagan healing cults by the Christians, and it is good to have a further archaeological demonstration of the same point. This rivalry may go some way to explain the total destruction at Pergamum of all artistic representations of Asclepius of Pergamum, for which we have to rely on statues and coins from Thrace and the Black Sea region and on the late testimony of an Arabic scholar...

vague belief, however, exists that the disease was first introduced by Indian labourers who came to build pagodas (Buddhist temples) at Pagan. On the other hand, there is every probability that epidemics occasionally spread from southern China where cholera was described by the very name it now bears, over two thousand years before the Christian era (Maxwell, 1929). A systematic record showing ...

This study has two goals. The first is to use Markov Switching models to identify and analyze the cycles in the unemployment rate and four different types of property-related criminal activities in the US. The second is to apply the nonparametric concordance index of Harding and Pagan (2006) to determine the correlation between the cycles of unemployment rate and property crimes. Findings show ...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the diagnostic tests for detecting heteroskedasticity on financial time series. In financial econometrics, heteroskedasticity is generally associated with cross sectional data but can also be identified modeling time series data. The presence of heteroscedasticity in financial time series can be caused by certain specific factors, like a model ...

sense in which certain features of a society or culture are important5 and will therefore be prominent in objectifications of that society or culture; rather, the process of choosing emThe extensive literature on inventions of tradition and identity in the Pacific has dealt mostly with reifications that are positively upheld by the people under consideration. This article traces some changes in...