On January 7, 2007 Evgueni Yakovlevich Khruslov, a prominent mathematician, Academician of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, celebrated his 70th birthday. Evgueni Khruslov was born in Kharkov, Ukraine. In 1954 he graduated from a high school at a city’s suburb. When studying at the school, he preferred exact sciences, like physics and mathematics. However, at the time of graduation, h...

American book publishing during the Second World War had to cope with a huge increase in demand for books coupled with scarcity of resources, especially paper rationing imposed by the War Production Board. Based on research in the Random House archives and focusing on the Modern Library series, this article examines how publishers coped with wartime challenges and opportunities. Random House gr...

After the Civil War wages fell in the South relative to the non-South, but interest rates and othermeasures of the costs of capital increased.Using archival data formanufacturing establishments, we show that capital–output and capital–labor ratios in southernmanufacturing declined relative to non-southern manufacturing after the War, precisely in the direction implied by the regional shifts in ...

The purpose of this paper is to outline the leading role the Electrical Engineering Department at Manchester played in the early development of control engineering teaching and research in the UK after the war. The holding of a major UK conference in Control Engineering in Manchester roughly 60 years after the start of this work seems an appropriate time to remind today’s researchers of these e...

along with breakdown of soviet :union:, political geographical system as well as meaning construction of central asia and caucasus changed dramatically. thus new structure, necessities, and actors have emerged in relations between iran and countries locating in caucasus. one of these countries is azerbaijan. iran-azerbaijan relationship is of high significance from different aspects. after azer...

tourism development in to geographical areas especially ecotourism, in addition to their economic, social and cultural consequences, will also leave great environmental impacts on geographical locations. if careful preventive and proactive measures in the form of strategy formulation, setting standards and ongoing specific assessments are not taken, destructive effects of ecotourism in an exten...