andre makine, a writer of russian ancestry residing in france, propounds the west enthusiastically and lyrically in his early novels. he visualizes the west as a lost paradise which is both fascinating and fanciful contrary to his childhood vision of russia. however, as time passes, following his immigration to france, his encounter with reality shatters and ruins the rudimental idealism which ...

A new non-invasive method for diagnosis of sleep apnea, this diagnosis method is based on respiratory motion visualization with a Time of Flight (ToF) camera. The 3D movie taken with this camera visualizes the patient movements while he/she is sleeping, and the respiratory motion is extracted, analyzed and displayed in real time. This method can also be useful in sport medicine or for YOGA prac...

The author discusses the Economy of Communion (EoC) as the main legacy of Chiara Lubich’s charism to both the economy and the field of economics. He argues that the EoC is particularly relevant to the present economic situation, which he defines as “the era of commons,” commons being shared goods that are crucial for the peace and wellbeing of people. He goes on to show how the Economy of Commu...

Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by sociologists. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (2009), we analyze whether an individual is working poor across 18 affluent democracies circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty does not simply mirror overall poverty and that there is greater cross-national variation in wo...

The articles in this issue examine changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies in the United States since the early 1970s. The authors consider both how economic and demographic changes have changed which individuals and families are poor, and how antipoverty programs and policies have, and have not, changed in response. Poverty rates have declined for some demographic groups and increas...

the relationship between objective realities of the time of revelation and impressionability or non- impressionability of revelation from that realities are of the important issues that raised many doubts and debates in recent century. undoubtedly, accepting the impressionability of the holy quran from the realities of that time could be considered as one of the fundamentals of the historicity ...