The peer-reviewed collective monograph “The Image of Peter the Great in Countries East Asia” was prepared by scholars from St. Petersburg State University and Institute Oriental Manuscripts Russian Academy Sciences. This book examines features perception image first Emperor (1672–1725) China, Japan, South Korea Vietnam. main content ideas about this Tsar these countries is revealed, sources way...

As Hakamata [1] has pointed out, the current crisis in Russia cannot be understood or remedied by economic theories and methods because it stems from the ethos of reckless cheating by “entrepreneurs” and other businesspersons. Because of the rampant practice of cheating, firms as well as consumers cannot count on honesty in business activities. Maruyama discussed [9– 11] that the hidden purpose...

During the late first millennium AD, Bulgarian Empire emerged in eastern Balkans on doorstep of Byzantine Empire. In a bid to reconcile with—and impress—its powerful neighbour, Tsar Simeon I selected fortified site Veliki Preslav as new capital city. Through ninth and tenth centuries city was developed into one largest cities early Middle Ages Europe. A Inner City palaces, churches state buildi...

This article examines the attitude to Moscow of Grand Princes Nicholas Alexandrovich and Alexander Alexandrovich; latter became Emperor III afterwards. The opinion has taken root in historiography become self-evident that peacemaker tsar loved ancient capital like no other ruler Russian Empire. aims reconstruct his elder brother understand why it arose how changed over time. research methodolog...

Electronic commerce (EC) researchers are divided between those who show how EC can cause intense Bertrand competition and those who show an absence of this competition. This research takes a more central stance to show when intense competition occurs and when collusion occurs in an EC environment. We present a multi-industry investigation of competition and collusion related to firm pricing beh...

It has already been shown that spectral estimation can be improved when applied to subband outputs of an adapted filterbank rather than to the original fullband signal. In the present paper, this procedure is applied jointly to a novel predictive autoregressive (AR) model. The model exploits time-shifting and is therefore referred to as time-shift AR (TSAR) model. Estimators are proposed for th...

E. Horozova*, N. Dimcheva and Z. Jordanova Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Plovdiv 24, Tsar Assen St., Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria Z. Naturforsch. 52c, 639-644 (1997); received May 5/July 3, 1997 Catalase, Immobilized Enzyme, Carbon Materials, Electrochemical and Biocatalytic Activity The adsorption of catalase on two types of soot differing in their structure has bee...

Various proteins play important roles in diabetes and a number of plants have been tested for their efficacy in modulating diabetes. Of all the proteins, we selected aloes reductase enzyme to analyze few plant compounds computationally for their efficacy towards protein inhibition. A total of 85 compounds from different parts of a plant, Cuminum cyminum were studied. Analysis was conducted usin...