This article focuses on the analysis of public opinions of the Ukrainian people on the nature, character, and characteristics of the citizens’ political activism during the Orange Revolution. The author analyzes data from the annual nationwide representative survey, conducted by the Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in February–March 2005. The time lag allows for t...

Abstract Since the revolution in 1979, Islamic Republic of Iran has imprisoned musicians, especially punk, hip-hop, and hard rock bands, as well those playing heavy metal subgenres. Extreme artists fans emerged 1990s. The government soon targeted them Satanists began a systematic crackdown on metalheads. metalcore band Confess is most well-known case. was arrested 2015 counts blasphemy, disturb...

This paper provides a time-series analysis of recent annual estimates of real GDP and industrial output covering 1270 to 1913. We show that growth can be regarded as a segmented trend stationary process. On this basis, we find that trend growth of real GDP per person was zero prior to the 1660s but then experienced two significant accelerations, preand post-industrial revolution. We also find t...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 245 I. BACKGROUND OF PIRACY IN CHINA .................................................. 246 A. Piracy Today and the Increase in Internet Users .................. 246 B. History of Piracy as an Acceptable Practice in Chinese Culture .....................................................................

many political concepts as well as technology exported to various regions of the world from europe after renaissance, industrial revolution and protestantism. meanwhile western technology andconcepts of political philosophy came to iran since nineteenth century. republicanism was one of these concepts. this concept and idea as one of the most factors in iranian contemporary political - social t...

Although delinquency is universal, few studies examined it from an Asian perspective, and even fewer considered adolescents of divorced families in Iran. The current study examined whether correlates of delinquency among western adolescents are similarly effective for predicting delinquency among adolescents from divorced families in the Mashhad city in Iran. Post-divorce parental conflict, mat...

introduction and aims: tt virus (ttv) is a dna virus and is proposed as a potential cause of non-a to e hepatitis. we aimed to investigate, for the first time, the prevalence of ttv in iranian healthy blood donors. materials and methods: three hundred and twelve healthy iranian blood donors were randomly selected and tested for ttv dna by the seminested polymerase chain reaction method. serum a...

disasters provide physical, social, political and environmental development windows of opportunities that can be used not only to reconstruct the impacted areas, but also to improve the socio-economic and physical conditions of the impacted population in the long run. it is argued, however, that there is a limited time frame of approximately four years for such opportunities to be utilized effi...

The purpose of writing this article is an analytical study Talibov Tabrizi's Thoughts as one the intellectuals supporting Iranian people who in middle background Constitutional Revolution and realization revolution (1284 AH) society. He influential Revolution, to whom a part new ideas constitutional period Iran are dedicated. was pioneers constitutionalist politics first modern thinkers field t...

In 1979, a religious revolution took place in Iran. This was led by Ayatollah Khomeini. His understanding and interpretation of the Qur'an were reflected shaping management important decisions country after revolution. Studying his interpretations is great importance today's research study aims to examine Khomeini's Qur'an. Khomeini did not write book on Qur'anic exegesis; however, themes tafsi...