evliya chelebi (1611-1682), was an ethnically ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the ottoman empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the seyahatname. during his lifetime, evliya chelebi made three journeys to safavid iran: the first in 1646 to azerbaijan and caucasus, the second in 1647 which was a very shor...

Three new eriophyid species (Phyllocoptinae), Shevtchenkella denticulata sp. n., Notallus pestehae sp. n. and Echinacrus ruthenicus sp. n., were described from Eryngium thyrsoideum Boiss. (Apiaceae), Pistacia vera L. (Anacardiaceae) and Lycium ruthenicum Murray (Solanaceae), respectively. All the three new species were collected from southwest of the East Azerbaijan province, Iran in 2011. It i...

formula, was prepared and successfully tested, while in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ' acriquine ' a similar compound was synthesized. A comparative study of the actions of these two compounds on malarial infections reveals no difference. They destroy all the stages of the three species of malarial parasites with the exception of the gametocytes of P. falciparum. Like atebrin these c...

It is known that in the former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan was a country exported cotton and fruit, tobacco, wine, canned fruit vegetable products. In early 1990s, collapse of union, deterioration economic relations between republics loss traditional markets led to sharp decrease production. such situation, Armenia's groundless territorial claim against Azerbaijan, coming power Popular Front, thei...

Methods To increase the local and regional understanding of anthrax ecology, ecological risk factors, and the genetic relationships and distribution among Georgian and Azerbaijani B. anthracis strains, a regional study of the ecology of anthrax foci was conducted in Georgia and Azerbaijan. Six regions in Georgia (that border Azerbaijan) were selected for environmental sampling based on historic...

While the Baltic Republics began transition from substantially similar starting points, diverse patterns of enterprise ownership soon emerged. This provides an unusual context in which to test competing theories on the productivity effects of alternative ownership structures, including the propositions that outside ownership is more efficient than insider ownership and that managerial ownership...

The conventional wisdom is that the concept of information is closely related to the concept of probability. In Shannon's information theory, information is equated to a reduction in entropy—a probabilistic concept. In this paper, a different view of information is put on the table. Information is equated to restriction. More concretely, a restriction is a limitation on the values which a varia...