WHEN I was asked on behalf of the council of the British Association to occupy the responsible post of president at the meeting in this great city-the third that has taken place here-I was certainly taken by surprise; the more so as my own subject of research seemed somewhat removed from what may be described as the central interests of your body. The turn of archeology, however, I was told, ha...

Philosophical discussions of health and disease have traditionally been dominated by a debate between normativists, who hold that health is an inescapably value-laded concept and naturalists, such as Christopher Boorse, who believe that it is possible to derive a purely descriptive or theoretical definition of health based upon biological function. In this paper I defend a distinctive view whic...

This analysis extends theoretical models of ethnic boundary formation to account for the shifting and layered nature of ethnic boundaries. It focuses on the underlying structural conditions that facilitate the expansion of ethnic boundaries or the construction of a pan-national identity, and explores how organizing along an ethnic boundary affects collective efforts at the panethnic level. Two ...

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attracting foreign investment is a technique to achieve economic development, which requires establishment of appropriate legal and administrative infrastructure. in addition, host countries may ignore their public interest and national security. therefore, they have to maintain a balance between economic development and protection of national security. the concern over the national security as...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the motives of fans who attended azadi stadium to watch iran and uae football match held in june 2009. based on a review of the current literature, nine motives were identified and a scale was developed to measure these motives. validity of the questionnaire was verified by experts and reliability was estimated as 0.81 by cronbach's alpha. the n...