it is true, it is true,the arts of book book in ottoman times drew their initial inspiration from those of iran. in some of the associated specialities, for example in most qur’anic illumination and in the illustration of verse romances, they did not progress significantly beyond this heritage. the timurid zafarnama and perhaps the most ilkhanid chingiznama had chronicled military exploits in a...

Training young water professionals in India and many other countries often focuses primarily on technical skills, leaving them ill-prepared to deal with complex challenges changing management practices of the 21st century. Mentoring programs need be designed address gap competency development by incorporating transdisciplinary projects activities, team building, professional networking, relatio...

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the causal effect of social capital on health using waves 2008 and 2012 data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey. We use ADL index and CES-D to measure individuals’ physical and mental health respectively. Our study controls for individual unobserved, time-invariant heterogeneity by using individual-level fixed effects and accou...