ABSTRACTJacques Rancière perceives the image as what is sayable and visible 20C film montage an Image-sentence: closest proximity of parallel realities (Rancière 2007). Prohibited from public view, Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 Readymade revolution re-membered in a photographic image: fountain-urinal. On mourning after WWII, George Orwell noted readymade-sentences could(n’t) be said (Duchamp 1997). Cap...

Abstract Recent studies have argued that Herder supported cultural, rather than national, self-determination. While did not argue all nations should become states, using the term “cultural” as defining element of his conception self-determination risks false impression political is part it. Focusing on Herder's discussion relationship between people and state in modern European “state-machines”...

Many view the period after the Second Industrial Revolution as a paradigm of a transition to a new economy following a technological revolution, including the Information Technology Revolution. We build a quantitative model of diffusion and growth during transitions to evaluate that view. With a learning process quantified by data on the life cycle of US manufacturing plants, the model accounts...

this study analyzes the contribution of the sectoral total factor productivity growth (tfpg) and the input's growth to the iran's economy sectors growth during 1345 -1383. the major findings show that the average contribution of tfp growth to non-oil output's growth during first, second and third development plans has been 39.5%, 12.2% and 24.8% respectively, amounting to (as est...

OBJECTIVE To assess the rider's movement during walking the horse in repeated therapeutic horse riding sessions and to determine the relationship between movements of the horse's back and the rider's trunk. METHOD A total of 12 healthy females (age: 23.3±2.8 years; height: 167.3±4.2 cm; weight: 59.2±5.3 kg) participated in 10 therapeutic horse riding sessions. Two English Thoroughbreds with s...