THE ROLE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS (FDI) AS A PROMOTER OF GROWTH – ATTRACTIVENESS OF ALBANIA FOR FDI

Foreign direct investments (FDI) are playing an important role in the economic background of the Transition Economies. They are a catalyst of the economic growth and of the technological development, when domestic savings cannot. Many countries have benefited from capital inflows in the form of FDI. Fighting the lack of capital that the closed markets used to suffer, they have helped the effective use of these sources and they have created a competitive environment, which provides the investors with ever-growing outputs. So, considering that foreign investments are a very important asset to transition economies, the aim of this paper is to provide a general view of the role and determinants of foreign direct investments, an overview of foreign direct investments in Albania and especially, providing some suggestions to attract foreign investors (the case of foreign investors in textile industry in Albania)

The journey from can I to I can!

In October 2009, eight 10 year-old children from a small village named Lordi Dejgara near Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, stopped sixteen child marriages

IMPORTANCES OF STANYAPAN-IN NEWBORN (Navjat Shishu)

Stanyapanmeans breastfeeding is nectar for newborn infants as well as for mothers. Breastmilk provides nourishment to infant that is essential for optimal nutrition, cognitive performance andneurological development and immunity. Human breast milk serves as a source of nutrition which isuncontaminated by environmental pathogen. Multiple immunological factors produced by themother’s immune system are transported to infant through breast milk and are associated with aprotective role against infection in children. It reduces the incidence of infantile diarrhoea, suddenInfant Death Syndrome (SIDS), allergic/hypersensitivity diseases, and development of Type 1(insulin dependent) and Type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes mellitus relative to the use of infant formula. In Ayurveda, ‘Kasyapa’ defines pure breast milk as that which the baby thrives well andboth the mother and baby remain happy, healthy, and free from any ailment. Breast milk promotesgrowth and development and acts as a tonic for all the tissues. In Ayurveda text, many herbs aredescribed for improving breast milk under the name “Stanyajanana”

A REVIEW :PANCHAKARMA THERAPY WITH RASAYANA IN KAUMARBHRITYA

Kaumarbhritya is one of the main branch under Ayurveda. Kaumarbhrityamaintioned Acharyakashyapa. Panchakarma may be done from the age of seven years and as per requirement. Suvarnaprashan is one of the best rasayana in kaumarbhritya.The various steps of Panchakarma such as, Vamana, VirechanaBasti, Niruha or YapanaBastis and AnuvasanaBasti recommended in early childhood for the management of different abnormal physiological conditions

Memory and the Operational Witness: Police officer recall of firearms encounters as a function of active response role

Investigations following critical events often depend on accurate and detailed recall accounts from operational witnesses (e.g., law enforcement officers, military personnel, emergency responders). However, the challenging, and often stressful, nature of such events, together with the cognitive demands imposed on operational witnesses as a function of their active role, may impair subsequent recall. We compared the recall performance of operational active witnesses with that of non-operational observer witnesses for a challenging simulated scenario involving an armed perpetrator. Seventy-six police officers participated in pairs. In each pair, one officer (active witness) was armed and instructed to respond to the scenario as they would in an operational setting, while the other (observer witness) was instructed to simply observe the scenario. All officers then completed free reports and responded to closed questions. Active witnesses showed a pattern of heart rate activity consistent with an increased stress response during the event, and subsequently reported significantly fewer correct details about the critical phase of the scenario. The level of stress experienced during the scenario mediated the effect of officer role on memory performance. Across the sample, almost one-fifth of officers reported that the perpetrator had pointed a weapon at them although the weapon had remained in the waistband of the perpetrator’s trousers throughout the critical phase of the encounter. These findings highlight the need for investigator awareness of both the impact of operational involvement and stress-related effects on memory for ostensibly salient details, and reflect the importance of careful and ethical information elicitation techniques

Studies in Dhāraṇī Literature II: Pragmatics of Dhāraṇīs

This article is one of a series that reassesses the dhāraṇī texts of Mahāyāna Buddhism. The article seeks to examine dhāraṇī texts by using the linguistic tools of pragmatics, especially historical pragmatics, to assist the understanding of their statements. Rather than the meaning of the term dhāraṇī as a subject term, the domain of truth-conditional semantics, this paper examines statements in texts labelled dhāraṇī. Pragmatics examines meaning in context, and the categories of speech acts developed by Searle has been especially helpful in mapping out differences within such texts and the formalization of statements across texts. The grammaticalization of specific speech elements, especially interjections, in the context of mantra-dhāraṇīs is also discussed