How does the use of terror tactics by one or both sides affect the likelihood of negotiations or the chances for their success? Are terrorist wars more likely to end with the defeat of one side rather than a compromise outcome? Are conflicts that involve terrorism any more or less likely to resume than others? The use of terror seem to make peace close to impossible in some cases (the Palestini...

This study explores to what extent varying levels of host national day participation among immigrants can be explained by previous participatory experiences related to their country of origin, in addition to socio-cultural factors related to the current country of residence. Utilising data from a large online immigrant panel, we concentrate on two prominent national days in the Netherlands: Rem...

The mischievous linear coalescence approach to hadronization of quark matter is shown to violate strangeness conservation in strong interactions. The simplest correct quark counting is shown to coincide with the non-linear algebraic coalescence rehadronization model, ALCOR. The non-linearity of the ALCOR model is shown to cancel from its simple predictions for the relative yields of (multi-)str...

OBJECTIVE To study the infant mortality rate (IMR) trend during wars and sanction periods in Western Iraq. METHODS Data collected from the birth and death certificates of Haditha Health Vital Statistics Center, Haditha city (80,000 population), Western Iraq, included name, age, gender, residence, and infant's place and date of births and deaths, in 5 different sanction and war stages of the c...

A. Denis Clift is President of the Joint Military Intelligence College. During the Napoleonic Wars, the French revolutionized land-based communications with the erection of semaphore towers bearing rotating arms to fashion coded signals that could speed by lineof-sight from tower to tower along the coast and across the country at some 200 miles an hour. The British quickly followed suit in that...