this paper examines the relation between emotional intelligenceand work-family conflict in manufacturing environment. a questionnairesurvey was carried out to explore this relation at carpet factoriesin kashan, iran. a 28-item questionnaire which consist of emotionalintelligence and work-family conflict parts was carried out to investigatethe relation between these variables. some basic socio-d...

This paper presents a linear cryptanalytic attack against the SAFER family of block ciphers. Linear cryptanalysis is a statistical well-known-plaintext attack that explores (approximate) linear relations between plaintext, ciphertext and subkey bits. These linear relations apply only to certain key classes. The results show that by considering nonhomomorphic linear relations, more rounds of the...

The concept of alliance or preferably ‘alignment’, as I shall explain below – is central to the conduct of international politics, and thus the discipline of International Relations (IR). Duffield et al. (2008: 291) identify that ‘Alliances are one of the most significant phenomena in security studies and world politics more generally’, while Modelski (1963: 773) considers them ‘one of a dozen ...