Timur Kuran has spent much of the last decade investigating the economic and institutional development of the Middle East. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East brings the results of this research together to provide an explanation for the decline in the region’s economic fortunes. Although generations of scholars have sought to understand the Middle East’s economic dec...

Abstract Adapting the SWOT matrix used in study of effectiveness organizations, this article employs notion “strategic fit” to examine reasons frequently put forward explain positive reception Swami Vivekananda’s message by sympathizers during his visits United States and England. The suggests that Vivekananda maximized strategic fit addressing prominent Christian theological concerns day, whic...

It is unfortunate that Roddis presents Lind as a personage and tells us so little of the person, or rather of the personality, with the drives and motivations which made for such a wide spectrum of researches and activities. But despite the rather too academic and impersonal handling, the story of James Lind offers interesting and profitable reading.

Motivation toward physical exercise (MPE) and trait self-control (TSC) were identified as key predictors of subjective wellbeing (SWB). However, there has not been any research designed to examine the mediating role of TSC in the relationship between MPE and SWB. The present study utilizes self-determination theory, control-process theory of self-regulation, and theory of multiple pathways of T...

effects of some thermo-physical parameters on free convective heat and mass transfer over a vertical stretching surface at lowest level of heat energy in the presence of suction is investigated. the viscosity of the fluid is assumed to vary as a linear function of temperature and thermal conductivity is assumed constant. a similarity transformation is applied to reduce the governing equations i...