Purpose Libraries, museums and cultural centers have long served as ambassadors foreign policy instruments, bridging diplomatic relationships among nation-states institutions. The purpose of this scoping review is to ascertain understand the emerging areas research on libraries, in diplomacy within broader paradigms international relations, social sciences, education library information studies...

the aim of this study was to assess the proportionality of sport books to beneficiaries' expectations and the role of marketing mix elements in marketing of these books. this research was a descriptive and field survey. three researcher-made questionnaires with confirmed validity and reliability were used to collect the data. the research hypotheses were examined by independent t test. the...

abstract bazel mashadi′s heydary attack is one of the earliest and most famous attack epics written in the twelfth century. bazel exploits the style and format of shahname in his masnavi, composed in twenty to thirty thousand verses. the poet, after chanting the praise of god, prophet and his successor (vali), verses the history of islam beginning from the prophet’s mission (be’sat) to the orde...

The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy, births, and abortions of all industrialized countries. On the contrary, The Netherlands has the lowest rates. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, this retrospective study investigated American and Dutch college women’s sexual behavior, attitudes, and comfort to better understand the factors that lead to the disparity between the...

Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis (MCCA) is a technique for characterizing the concepts and themes occurring in text (sentences, paragraphs, interview transcripts, books). MCCA tags each word with a category and examines the distribution of categories against norms representing general usage of categories. MCCA also scores texts in terms of social contexts that are similar to different func...

This proposed paper provides a novel explanation to some controversial recent and historic practices in the book trade. Last year, antitrust regulators in the US and the EU challenged the e-book distribution agreements between Apple and leading book publishers. At the heart of these challenges was the publishers’ concern about Amazon’s discounted pricing for e-books. The lawsuits have alleged t...