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Human behavior is often confusing and inexplicable to observers. The media bombards us with references to post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotic behavior, and even the assurance…

Excise Duty is a tax that is designed to discourage the purchase of particular goods. It is an inland tax imposed on those products, ‘…

Conglomerate (/kənˈɡlɒmərɪt/) is a clastic sedimentary rock consisting of rounded fragments greater than 2 millimetres (0.08 inch) in diameter. The rounding of the clasts show…

A Pigovian tax is a tax on any market activity that generates negative externalities (costs not included in the market price). It is a government…

Introduction: For several centuries, the environment has provided habitation for humans and numerous organism but the insatiable needs of humans have driven them to devise…

In chemistry, a ketone is a functional group with the structure RC(=O)R’, where R and R’ can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. It is…

Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社, Itsukushima-jinja) on Miyajima is the source of both the island’s fame and its name. Formally named ‘Itsukushima’, the island is more popularly…

Land Value Taxation is a method of raising public revenue by means of an annual charge on the rental value of the land. A location…

Old Havana (Spanish: La Habana Vieja) city, capital, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. It also constitutes one of Cuba’s 15 provinces: Ciudad…

Exchange Control This is a system in which all the foreign currencies earned on account of exports or services rendered to foreigners are credited to…

A dicarbonyl is a molecule containing two carbonyls (C=O) groups. It is any metal carbonyl-containing two carbonyl groups per molecule. Although this term could refer…

Arkose (/ˈɑːrkoʊz/) is a type of sandstone (sedimentary rock composed of cemented grains 0.06–2 millimeters (0.0024–0.08 inch) in diameter) containing at least 25% feldspar; primarily…