after 11 september attack, anticipatory self defense has obtained specific situation in the doctrine ,of western states. these countries with financial and military power are seeking to justify this doctrine. this type of defense is contrary to article 51 of the charter of united nations that expresses the concept of self defense. in this paper, the authors are going to verify and show that thi...

Iranian identity cannot be conceived of as a uniform monolithic concept. But, thanks to certain upheavals in the history of the country, it has turned into the triple concept of national/Islamic/modern. Hofstede’s (2001) cultural framework represents a well-validated operationalization of culture based on six cultural dimensions  (power distance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/feminini...

with the overthrow of the shah and the rise to power of ayatollah khomeini in 1979, iran changed from a monarchy to an islamic regime based on an islamic constitution and islamic laws. as a result, a western stereotype of iranian women as veiled and helpless creatures got created. this stereotypical view has dominated public opinion since 1979 in both western societies in general, and among wes...

The paper summarizes new control designs developed at Washington State University for the control of existing SVC’s, and TCSC owned by Bonneville Power Administration. The new controls are primarily aimed at improving transient stability of the WSCC western electric power system. The proposed controls are heuristic and are nonlinear. They are shown to be very effective in increasing the operati...

Background: China's inland nuclear power plants plan has been suspended until 2015 since Fukushima disaster. The policy on inland nuclear power plants becomes uncertain. This paper provides an overview of inland nuclear power plants the safety grantee, economic power on diminishing disparities between Western China and Eastern China, efforts on environmental improvement with reforming of energy...

This paper presents the improvement of transient stability of a multi-machine power system with a STATCOM. Transient stability improvement is essential from the view point of maintaining system security that is the incidence of a fault should not lead to tripping of generating unit due to loss of synchronism. Static synchronous compensator is widely used in power system to control power by inje...

[1] Estimates of the dissipation of subinertial currents due to bottom boundary layer drag at the eastern and western boundaries of the North Atlantic ocean, between 15 N and 60 N, are computed using data from the world’s largest archive of ocean current meter time series. We show from these data that a significant proportion of such loss in this region is due to dissipation at the western boun...

Differences in the viscosity of the earth’s upper mantle beneath the western US (f 10–10 Pa s) and global average values based on glacial isostatic adjustment and other data (f 10–10 Pa s) are generally ascribed to differences in temperature. We compile geochemical data on the water contents of western US lavas and mantle xenoliths, compare these data to water solubility in olivine, and calcula...