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Tbilisi State University
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- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Grigol Robakidze's essay „Мережковский“ /„Merezhkovsky“/, 1909
In 1923 in his letter "Pro domo sua" Grigol Robakidze noted the great importance of symbolism for his work of the 1910s-20s. Today, the focus of our attention is on Robakidze's opinion of the philosophical-aesthetic concept of Dmitry Merezhkovsky. Robakidze published an critica...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Aleksandre Manvelishvili and His Contributions to Rustvelology
Aleksandre Manvelishvili, a Georgian historian, educator, and journalist, belonged to the generation of emigrants forced to leave Georgia in the late 1920s as a result of political upheaval. In 1930, like many of his compatriots, he emigrated on the French ship Angkor and settle...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Melancholic Discourse as Crossing Space of Two Texts
The substantial connection between Romanticism and Modernism (Symbolism) exists originally and this can’t be a new knowledge so far. It can either not hardly be recognizable in Georgian contextual knowledge that Galaktion Tabidze’s poetry has a reasonable connection to Nikoloz...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Challenges of Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education – A Brief Literature Review
The world economy is in the era of the fourth industrial revolution and digital transformation, which has and will continue to affect all spheres of human life. The invention of artificial intelligence (AI) is the result of the above-mentioned process, and it is important to know...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
ABSTRACT The article examines how the oxidation state of gold-bearing flotation tailings—derived from the secondary dressing of sulfide ores and concentrates—depends on the presence of ligands with varying standard Red/Ox potentials in the leaching medium, specifically regarding...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Background People who use drugs (PWUD) are a marginalized population who face barriers seeking reproductive health care in a culture that stigmatizes both drug use and reproductive health care. Syringe Service Programs (SSPs) were created to slow the spread of HIV among...
- Health & Medicine
SELF-RATED HEALTH IN THE POPULATION OF MEDICAL WORKERS IN GEORGIA.
INTRODUCTION: Self-rated health status may be considered a good predictor of morbidity and mortality and is useful for understanding the sociodemographic, environmental, and clinical conditions associated with self-rated health. AIM: The aim of the study is to analyze self-rated...
PubMed2026-10-080 citations - Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Southwest and Central Asia were pivotal regions for the domestication and dispersal of domestic herbivores. Here we investigate long-term variation in bony labyrinth morphology of domestic bovids (sheep, goats and cattle) across the last 10 000 years. We focused on the o...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Genus Canis species plays a key role as predator in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the evolutionary history of these carnivorans is still not fully understood. To explore this topic, we studied the bite of two fossil close relatives of the modern grey wolf, Canis borjg...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
A pH-responsive polymer-coated hybrid colloidal micellar nanocarrier was developed as a mixed lipid–polymer nanostructure for the delivery and controlled release of Diclofenac to mildly acidic environments (inflamed or tumor tissues). The particles, composed of lecithin, choleste...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Georgia, due to its high mountains, growth of population, intensive land use, and the number of vulnerable infrastructures (roads, large engineering constructions, etc.), as well as climate change, belongs to the one of most vulnerable regions in the world, as it is prone to haza...
- Society & Economics
Purpose To evaluate the effectiveness of Georgia's State Internship Programme for graduates from non-Georgian language schools enrolled in the “1 + 4 Programme,” by examining how it supports their professional integration, analysed through the lenses of representative bureaucracy...
- Society & Economics
Beyond ethnic identity: a transterritorial framework of trauma and belonging
The 1944 deportation of Muslim Meskhetians remains a foundational trauma shaping identity, memory and belonging across generations. This article examines how Muslim Meskhetians negotiate identity and belonging in two contrasting sociopolitical contexts: Georgia and the United Sta...
- Health & Medicine
Empathy is widely regarded as a social asset, yet it may also confer emotional risk. This study examines when empathy becomes maladaptive by testing the moderating roles of emotion regulation and self–other boundaries. In a sample of 205 adults (61% female; M age = 25.01, SD = 8....
- Health & Medicine
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly. Conventionally, to combat the symptoms, drugs such as Levodopa and conventional deep brain stimulation (DBS) are routinely used. However, with time, the efficiency of both tr...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data fro...