In Search of Social Cohesion in Minor Urban Settings of Georgia
Together with the demise of the Soviet Union and Georgia’s transition to a nation state as well as challenges of a newwave of globalisation the....
Democratic Citizenship in Schools of Georgia: Challenges and Avenues for Development
Global challenge of modern world is the development of democratic citizenship. Democratic citizenship includesthe unity of effective rights and freedoms, law-obedience, certain emotional attachment to....
Cult and Worship in Byzantine Historiographic Narrative (8 th-13th c.)
Byzantine historiographic texts display valuable passages in regard to manifestations of cult and worship.The aim of the presented project is to explore and research these....
Stress-induced Disruption of Sleep: a Role for Corticotropin Releasing Factor
Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), the primary neuropeptide regulator of responses to stress, is implicated in thesuppression of sleep during stress conditions. We hypothesize that stress-induced disruption....
Dryland cryptogams of Georgia: diversity, conservation and potential as bioindicators of desertification
Drylands constitute a large and important component of landscapes of Georgia, one of the countries of the CaucasusBiodiversity Hotspot. Deforestation and overgrazing promoted enlargement of....
Reconstruction of Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Conditions of the Shiraki plain – Traces of Early State Formations in the Southern Caucasus
The study of past environmental changes and their effects on former human societies delivers key information toreconstruct former human-environmental interactions, but also to project future....