Rarely have the geographical boundaries of religious communities coincided with the borders of states. As a result believers have often found themselves having to cross state frontiers in order to fulfill spiritual needs, while states have worked to manage the complications, and to exploit the opportunities, presented by the international dimensions of different religious traditions. In light o...

In this paper, we analyze the synchronization problem of master-slave probabilistic Boolean networks (PBNs). The master Boolean network (BN) is a deterministic BN, while the slave BN is determined by a series of possible logical functions with certain probability at each discrete time point. In this paper, we firstly define the synchronization of master-slave PBNs with probability one, and then...

This paper shows that access to finance is the crucial factor in explaining the link between the historical African slave trade and current GDP. We show: (1) The slave trade is strongly linked to current firm access to finance; (2) Among all the business obstacles a firm faces, the slave trade affects only access to finance; and (3) The slave trade erodes access to both formal credit and the tr...

1 Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico, 2 Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 3 Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany, 4 Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Byurakan, Armenia, 5 Isaac Newton Institute of Chile in Estern Europe and Eurasia, Armenian Branch, Santiago, Chile, 6 Astronomical ...

The literature has not sufficiently engaged the emergence and expansion of the phenomenon of Slave export. This article contributes to the existing stream by examining the role of human capital or intelligence on slave exports. We postulate and justify a reasonable hypothesis that countries which were endowed with higher human capital levels were more likely to experience lower levels of slave ...

In this paper, we investigate a new efficient QoS routing protocol based on the time-slot leasing mechanism over Bluetooth WPANs. The ''transmission holding'' problem is incurred because the master node is the communication bottleneck for each slave-master-slave communication in Bluetooth. To alleviate this problem, a time-slot leasing scheme is adaptively incorporated into our scheme to provid...

The present paper is divided into three large steps around the themes of spirit possession and historical imagination slavery in Cuba. These reflect both ethnographic dimensions these broader theoretical approaches towards them. last step, ‘apomimesis’, one proposed by author, not way replacement but displace­ment. first ‘formulaic’ imagination, covers ground a direct expression as trauma throu...

A large mole vole from the early Middle Pleistocene of Armenia shows morphological features and hyposodonty intermediate between basal Early Pleistocene E. tarchancutensis and the late Middle Pleistocene to Recent southern mole vole E. lutescens. The occlusal morphology of the first lower molar is similar to Early Pleistocene forms but hypsodonty values do not overlap either with Early Pleistoc...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to focus on the performance of select facilities in Lori and Shirak provinces in Armenia in Spring 2008. This is in response to the deterioration of the primary healthcare sector in Armenia. Design/methodology/approach – The performance assessment focused on the status of several performance indicators, both current and as recalled for 2006. The interviewe...