Feeding on the dead: White rot fungi, like this shiitake mushroom, have the unusual ability to digest dead wood, making them key players in the decomposition of plant litter. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.) Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselv...

Islamic economists preoccupation with the deductive approach needs being moderated by a greater recourse to induction, especially in discussing the role of values in the economic system. Values have played an important role in the Christian West in the past, not withstanding the current advocacy of moral relativism. Every social decision implies a value judgment. Values permeate the contemporar...

The concurrent development of political economy and the modern conception of medicine was reflected from the first decades of the seventeenth century by a degree of interdisciplinary borrowing based on analogy between the human body and the body politic. It seemed perfectly feasible that the growing knowledge of the human body and its diseases might inspire new concepts, and vindicate the use o...

this research proceeded historical analyzing of currere as autobiographical course in reconceptualist works. therefore, reconceptualist works studied by discourse analyzing. unit of analyzing was sentenced and its level was an explanation. in order to research questions data divided to four categories: meaning of currere, methods of currere, stages of currere and politic and sociologic base in ...

For several year, "Entre Douro e Minho"(EDM) area has undergone an important diminution in agricultural surface and number of exploitations. RGA analysis of 1989 and 1999 confirms this tendency but some “fréguesias” know an increase in the cultures surface cultivated like Vinho Verde. Spatial representation of the RGA data in a GIS shows the great productive areas of Vinho Verde where cultures ...

In this study the relationship between perceived organizational politic with job satisfaction and employee's performance among West Azerbaijan Province petroleum employment was investigated. To conduct this investigation, the Ferries and Kacmar questionnaire for perceived organizational politics; the Eisenbereger questionnaire for perceived organizational support; Wright, McMahan, Deleeuw quest...