This paper examines the impact of military expenditure and income on external debt for a panel of six Middle Eastern countries; namely, Oman, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran, and Jordan, over the period 1988 to 2002. Using Pedroni's (2004) test for panel cointegration, we find that there is a long-run relationship between external debt, military expenditure and income. The estimated long-run elasti...

(1) can be uttered as part of a ”strategy of inquiry” (Roberts 1998, 4) where it is under discussion what members of a contextually given set of people wanted to see. It reports on Sandy’s wishes as opposed to those of the other members of the set. The felicity of this sentence under these circumstances can be made to follow from the assumption that the content of What Sandy wanted to see is th...

foundations of healthy family life combined with felicity. Suppress the innate and God-given needs, has undesirable consequences on intimacy and vitality of family members. Therefore, the aim of this study is evaluating and comparing sexual dysfunction of employed women and housewives. Finding the issue that whether there are differences between both groups, and if there is, which of t...

“Operation Varsity Blues,” the university admissions scandal and ensuing federal investigation, made national news captivated public. Fascination with could have stemmed from involvement of celebrities such as Lori Loughlin Felicity Huffman and/or sheer ridiculousness scheme, in which wealthy prominent families paid exorbitant amounts money to secure their childrens’ admission elite universitie...

Abstract At present, there is no corresponding standard for the engineering application of rock acoustic emission technology. To better apply technology to practice, in this paper, characteristics different samples marble and granite under uniaxial compression were analyzed by indoor test, factors affecting rocks are studied, failure mechanism damage discussed. The research contents include ana...

The article deals with several aspects of the theory mixed government (mixed constitution), given that many scholars, including Max Weber, considered such phenomenon modern political systems as Ceasarism to be a mix monarchy and democracy. In beginning an analysis famous statement from “Roman History” Cassius Dio (who wrote Augustus has “mixed democracy”) is provided. Such terms Ancient Greek d...

prayer is the most principle worship andthe most important divine prophet’s advice especially by holy messengermuhammad. prayer has been established by the divine religions and has been as an importablecomponent in all ofthem. prayer meets the especial altitude in islam. the effects and blesses ofthis holy value has been cited with fine and summary expression in the quran.refection in these uni...

traditionally, muslim intellectuals influenced by various trends and conditions, have presented a variety of different interpretations to explain the relations between religion and politics. among these thinkers and muslim philosophers, we can mention ibn sina. while attending the field of practical politics, bu ali attempted to make use of the religious teachings and resources and his own phil...

This paper concerns itself with the superlative morpheme -est and its ability to license Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) such as any or ever, and in particular the compositional analysis of a puzzling type of utterance which incorporates these grammatical elements. Specifically, an embedded clause structure which appears at first glance to be a restrictive relative clause modifier will be argued...