This paper studies foreign exchange risk premium using the uncovered interest rate parity framework in a single country context. The analysis is performed using weekly data on foreign and domestic currency deposits in Armenian banking system. The paper provides the results of the simple tests of uncovered interest parity condition, which indicate that contrary to established view dominating in ...

The field of genocide studies has been marked by a comparative tendency, while at the same time scholarship on the Holocaust has tended to focus on its singularity; the Armenian Genocide has often been treated as representing a ‘‘dress rehearsal’’ for the Holocaust. This article examines the parallels and commonalities, as well as the differences, between the two events, with a view to drawing ...

Objectives The potential risk factors of amyloidosis are known as ethnic origin (Jewish, Armenian, Turkish, and North African origin), non-usage of colchicines, and family history. Various investigators suggest that M694V mutation, especially homozygote pattern, is a risk factor for amyloidosis. In literatures reported from Turkey, it is stated that there is only a limited association. In this ...

the effect of translation on political, economic and cultural relations is an undeniable issue. translation is one of the ways to convey information and knowledge all over the world. moreover, it is a way to establish relationships among nations with different languages. iran and armenia are two very close peoples that have had deep relations from antiquity and share a common culture, backgroun...

It is proposed that both preand postnatal as well as genetically determined abnormalities of the apoptotic processes are among factors responsible for the development of schizophrenia. The ultimate vulnerability of cells to diverse apoptotic stimuli is determined by the relative ratio of various pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic members of the B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) family proteins among whic...

The World Trade Center attack and collapse is the first time an aircraft has been used as a weapon of mass effect. The scale and magnitude of this manmade disaster can only be compared with a natural catastrophe such as the Armenian earthquake of December 1988. The importance of an incident command system and the Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment, and the need for fixed Casualty Collection Poin...

This paper focuses on an early instance of the concept of voice onset time (VOT) which is traditionally associated with the work of Leigh Lisker and Arthur Abramson in the 1960s. Evidence is presented here that the idea behind VOT – if not the name – is much older than commonly thought. A publication of an Armenian scientist who worked at the Abbé Rousselot's experimental phonetics laboratory a...

1. MAMIKON’S THEOREM. Areas and volumes of many classical regions can be determined by an intuitive geometric method that does not require integral calculus or even equations for the boundaries. The method and its many applications was first announced by Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian in [1], but this paper seems to have escaped notice, probably because it appeared in Russian in an Armenian journal wi...