The article analyzes 22 details of the costume Kafirs and partially Kalasha Hindukush which have close analogies among related ancient Iranian-speaking peoples Pre-Islamic time. Indo-Scythians Kushans, who created large powers nearby in 1st c. BC — AD, most such analogies. These had an impact on clothing local Indo-Iranians and, probably, participated their ethnic history. infl uence Iranian pe...

The article presents results of a research about the infl uence teaching phonological awareness skills and grapheme phoneme correspondences program its impact over adults young people who where in diff erent stages learning acquirement proposed by Linnea Ehri. Nine students, from an early literacy class at Youth Adult Education Center city Rio do Sul – SC - Brazil, were subjects this study. int...

Urban Muslim culture with large seats of public education has long been attracting the minds researchers. In 19th–20th centuries city Ufa became one centers Tatar and culture. From 1865 to 1908, percentage Muslims in provincial centre increased from 4,33% 18,03%. 1906 “Galiya”, third madrasah, was founded Ufa. During 1913–1914 academic year, 10,7% all shakirds studied exactly this madrasah. At ...

This article examines the consequences for Sweden’s state identity by decision of Finland and Sweden to apply membership in NATO. Taking its starting point shattering loss easternmost provinces 1809 Treaty Fredrikshamn, it explores initial formulations a policy neutrality evolution until end Cold War. The then directs attention how Social Democratic leaders managed institutionalise Swedish “act...

The article deals with the unfolding race for military, technological, and political infl uence in space. Great powers have competed space since dawn of Space Age. Today we are once again faced possibility warfi ghting, but there more than two players game now civil infrastructure depends on ever before. Theoretical war threats often analysed through an assessment possible targets. And real-lif...

F.-A. Esbensen and C. Maxson (eds.), Youth Gangs in International Perspective: Tales from the Eurogang Program of Research, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1659-3_6, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Identifying the infl uence of groups on human behavior is a central task of social scientists. For decades, researchers have sought to determine how groups affect individual behavior in various co...

Every country wants to be energy independent. It is quite diffi cult achieve or someƟ mes prac-Ɵ cally impossible. Georgia has declared its desire have independence so that external poliƟ cal eco-nomic factors will less infl uence on the country's domesƟ c markets. was able open up trains of Russia as much possible. Therefore, ongoing war between and Ukraine had impact compared other European s...

M. Warzecha: Department of Metals Extraction and Recirculation, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland T. Merder: Silesian University of Technology, Department of Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland The tundish pla ys an impor tant role in the challeng ing task of a “clean steel” production process. The fl ow of the liquid steel in tundish has a crucial infl uence on non-metallic in...

Strong evidence from studies in humans and animal models shows that if a baby is exposed to too little or too much nutrition during fetal life he/she is more likely to develop conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and osteoporosis in later life. However, it remains to be seen whether altering the mother ’ s nutrient intake during pregnancy can infl uence her offspring ’ s risk of th...