We used cultivation-independent methods to investigate the prokaryotic biogeography of the water column in six salt lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, and a salt lake in Argentina. These lakes had different salt compositions and pH values and were at variable geographic distances, on both local and intercontinental scales, which allowed us to explore the microbial community composition within the ...

in this study, the impact of internal r&d; expenditure, technology imports and interaction effects between human capital and technology imports on value added of iranian large industries are investigated over the period of 1994-2008. for this purpose, an endogenous growth model is used in which production is a function of labor, capital stock, human capital, internal r&d; expenditure, technolog...

This paper explores the mutual influence between the institutional development in Athens in the archaic and classical periods and the contemporary changes in economic life. This enhances our understanding of the causes and consequences of institutional change. It is also worth exploring in view of the suggested connections between economic development, markets and democracy. Between 600 and 322...

Estimates of the effect of increased global atmospheric CO(2) levels on oceanic primary productivity depend on the physiological responses of contemporary phytoplankton populations. However, microalgal populations will possibly adapt to rising CO(2) levels in such a way that they become genetically different from contemporary populations. The unknown properties of these future populations intro...

During the Early Iron Age, Knossos was one of most important cities Aegean. In addition to objects from elsewhere in Aegean, a wide range Cypriot, Phoenician and North Syrian imports has been discovered Age Knossian cemeteries. certain cases, these grave goods predate their funerary context by century. This paper examines stylistic contextual dating imports, an attempt associate, point view, it...

Appearance of nationalism in each country is influenced by some social , religious and political factors throughout the history of that country In Iranian contemporary history, this process has also been dependent upon opinions and thoughts of some of the nationalist intellectuals and modernists their intellectual products played an important role in various social , intellectual and even artis...

this article aims at proving the prevalence of the surrealistic characteristics in zakariyya tamir`s first short story collection entitled sahil al-jawad al-abyad (the neighing of the white steed).although this contemporary syrian author was influenced directly by the works of the surrealist authors like sartre and camus and kafka, he managed to digest classical forms and customize western lite...