Virtual communities’ emergence and innovative technologies bring up new types of accounting transaction methods. These methods go beyond the existing economics knowledge current legal solutions. societies develop share their payment medium for goods services exchange. The use cryptocurrency has been enhanced during COVID -19 era due to health guidelines minimize virus’s spread. Cryptocurrencies...

To examine the narratives of plagues in Arab societies, paper, along with postcolonial perspectives, uses concepts like ‘empathy’ or ‘detached concern’ to bring fresh and new understanding travel texts. It selected John Antes’ Observations on Manners Customs Egyptians, Overflowing Nile its Effects (1800) Richard F. Burton’s Personal Narrative a Pilgrimage El-Medinah Meccah (1857) for study. The...

This paper traces the history of lipstick’s social and legal regulation in Western seats of power, from Ur circa 3,500 B.C. to the present-day United States. Sliced in this manner, lipstick’s history emerges as heavily cyclical across the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, Western European, English, and American reigns of power. Examination of both the informal social and formal legal regulation of lips...

BACKGROUND A range of evidence suggests that the dominant culture associated with the economic systems of 'modern' societies has become a major source of pressure on global resources and may precipitate a third revolution in human history, with major implications for health and well-being. OBJECTIVE This paper aims to consider whether there are historical analogies with contemporary circumsta...

havior concerning two specific aspects: frequency of sexual intercourse in stable partners, and percentage of people who have sexual relationships with more than one person. Frequency is an index of sexual activity, and extra-marital sex (having sexual relationships with one or more people different from one’s normal or stable partner) is an index of sexual permissiveness. Variability in number...

Models that explain the economical and political realities of nowadays societies should help all the world’s citizens. Yet, the last four years showed that the current models are missing. Here we develop a dynamical society-deciders model showing that the long lasting economical stress can be solved when increasing fairness in nations. fairness is computed for each nation using indicators from ...

The paper looks at the limitations and strengths of using the A-cope questionnaire for measuring strategies for coping with prolonged conflict by Palestinian young people in Gaza. The scale was administered to young people between the ages of 8 and 17. The results show some gender differences in coping strategies. However, some items on the subscales are not relevant for Muslim societies or soc...

Econophysics provides a strategy for understanding the potential mechanisms underlying the anomalous distribution of wealth found in real societies. We present a computational nonlinear stochastic model for the distribution of wealth that depends upon three parameters and two mechanisms: trade and investment. To avoid economic paradoxes, the trade mechanism is assumed to be related to the poore...

* PhD. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School o Medicine, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil. To a certain extent, we may say that the history of humankind has been characterized by struggles against hunger. However, there have been reports and depictions of obese persons since ancient times. In some societies, and even in western societies, in some periods, ...

24 a younger age and were more likely to have a second child than women with less contact with kin. This suggests that, indeed, being around the family promotes behaviors, norms, and ideas that support fertility and heteronormative behavior. Kin-based societies will maintain norms that discourage homosexual behavior. Newson and Richerson (this issue) provide a validated model suggesting that, o...