Luigi Bodio (1840-1920) was an Italian economist and statistician, considered one of the founders of the Italian Statistics. He was one of the 21 founding members of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1885, ISI Director-General during the first 20 years (1885-1905) and ISI...

The Mindanao conflict in Southern Philippines is a long-standing controversy that has eluded comprehensive solutions. Despite efforts of the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the representatives from the peoples of Mindanao in undertaking peace initiatives, “the war:” continues. The...

This article examines the issue of present-day participation and political action in light of the concepts that originated with the republican tradition. Our main concern is how the boundaries that separate the public world from the private world are drawn in contemporary societies. Two problems...

Cultural transmission mechanisms which favor the direct transmission of the parents traits to their children may be adaptative to natural selection when opposed to mechanisms in which the parents choose for the offspring the highest fitness at any time. This is so, in particular, in environments...

In natural language processing, electronic dictionaries are used for lexical parsing. Its transform a raw text in a sequence of tagged words ; these tags are morphological and grammatical information. Unknown words make problem. Proper nouns are a part of them. The french Prolex project consists...

Cosmetics are not the only providers of Beauty. Beauty can be boosted and enhanced through various treatments which give a new dimension to beauty. The Spas, have become the new age beauty service providers. The fastest-growing segment of the beauty industry is day spas. Spa services include...

I present several definitions of auto/ethnography by the leading academics that have championed and co-created the method; I also discuss critical positions against it. I offer both my own response and the defenses of others, and then reveal modest proposals for new definitions, theories, and...

This article investigates past and present understandings and applications of khul (a type of divorce by mutual agreement whereby a Muslim wife can rid herself of a husband who is not at fault, by a ransoming procedure) synthesizing existing scholarship on the subject as well as Hanafi juristic...

Perhaps the two most wildly recognized building blocks of inventory theory are the EOQ and the quot;newsboyquot; or quot;newsvendorquot; models. Moreover, almost the entire supply chain contract literature was built around the latter. The idea behind this paper is the following: before we can...