Abstract This article identifies the personalities and circumstances behind two previously unknown heterodox religious publishing projects of seventeenth century. The first was based in Leiden United Provinces, while second originated Dresden Electoral Saxony. project likely led by German jurist Johann Angelius Werdenhagen, who 1628 had Jacob Böhme’s Weg zu Christo Anna Ovena Hoyer’s Gespräch E...

Simulation models are often used to select alternatives to system designs. A model of a simulation model, referred to as ametamodel, can be used to explore the functional relationships between the mean response of a simulation model and a set of simulation input variables. The estimated metamodel is then used to predict the system response for speci ed sets of input variables and to identify th...

This study examined whether the acculturation of ethnic identity is first evident in more public situations with greater opportunity for intercultural interaction and eventually penetrates more intimate situations. It also investigated whether situational variations in identity are associated with cross-cultural adaptation. First-generation (G1), second-generation (G2) and mixed-parentage secon...

generation gap is now taken for granted especially in a society with a young population. many believe that the transfer of values and culture from the former generation to the new generation is now facing serious problems, so much so that the new generation is no longer committed to the values of the former generation. this paper is concerned with the attitude of mothers and daughters towards t...

Styles in the normal course of historical development change and evolve, and in the process of this movement and change, some poets play a vital role. These poets try to be inventive in order to escape banality and repeated and shallow literary traditions, and by creating a rift between themselves and former traditions they introduce new elements.  These artists either create new figures o...

Recent feminist and gender-oriented scholarship about the Victorian sonnet has attributed a pioneering role to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese in the nineteenth-century revival of the genre. Eminent literary critics such as Angela Leighton, Alison Chapman, and Dorothy Mermin agree that theSonnets, in Chapman’s words, ‘translate the amatory discourse of Petrarchanism int...