What was the role and importance of the Georgian monastery after the fall of the Byzantine Empire? A TSU researcher’s study, “The Iviron Monastery during the Ottoman Empire’’ is a successful attempt to answer this question. Assistant Professor Tamar Alpenidzeat from the TSU Institute of Oriental Studies, Division of Turkish Language and Literature, began her research in 2013. She spent a semester in Istanbul at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations studying Ottoman materials kept in Istanbul archives that are related to the Iviron Monastery.

Organ regeneration plays an important role in the main vital processes of living organisms. Scientists explain that usually physiological regeneration is the basis for tissue repair, while in cases of organ damage (traumas, pathologies) or resection (partial removal of an organ or other body structure), reparative regeneration takes place, ensuring partial or complete organ restoration.

Stress is closely linked with the process of industrialization and it can cause or significantly aggravate human diseases and disorders including cardio-vascular disease, disorders of the immune system, impaired neurodegenerative processes and tumors. Stress has a negative influence on labor capacity by causing short term memory loss, absenteeism, poor concentration, increased aggressiveness, etc. The American Psychological Association (APA) describes chronic stress as “the stress of unrelenting demands and pressures for seemingly interminable periods of time.”  The major causes of human mortality are connected with stress--like heart and lung diseases, cancer, accidents, cirrhosis and suicide. Georgian scientists have joined the world of research on this subject.

Students have become increasingly interested in penitentiary and probation law, which has led to the creation of a Georgian textbook, Probation Law. A co-author of the textbook noted that the popularity of the previous publication, Penitentiary Law released in 2014, written by Moris Shalikashvili, Givi Mikanadze, and Maia Khasia, led to the idea of the new textbook. Penitentiary Law is very popular in academic circles, and with practicing lawyers and students. Importantly, several other Georgian universities have included this textbook in their academic syllabi. The authors of the new book are Moris Shalikashvili as well as Giorgi Arsoshvili, Head of the National Probation Agency, and Givi Mikanadze, Associate Professor at the University of East European Studies and Project Manager of the European Council Department of Criminal Law. They carried out research on probation law in 2014-2015 and published the textbook in 2015.