International investment contracts usually involve stabilization clauses that are prevalently used in infrastructure, telecommunication, and energy sectors, especially the oil gas extraction industries. In petroleum industry, foreign investors providing advanced technology substantial financial capital for development often face political risks developing countries such as expropriation of pipe...

This study sheds light on the relationship between cognition and patience by documenting that correlation cognitive abilities delay discounting is weaker for same group of individuals if choices are incentivized. conjectures higher effort, which induces involvement system, moderates cognition. For 107 participants drawn from adult population in Tbilisi, this examines various measures ability pa...

Plant cuticles are covered by epicuticular waxes with considerable ultrastructural and chemical diversity and have great systematic significance. Pinus elderica is a rare pine found naturally only in desert environment southeast of Tbilisi (Georgia). This tree have been probably introduced to Iran about 800 years ago and gradually altered in both shape and size in Nashtifan-Khaf, and changed in...