INTRODUCTION A recent development in the study of foreign policy is the growing attention being given to bureaucratic politics explanations of national foreign policy behavior.' In fact, it would be no exaggeration to characterize the bureaucratic politics approach or bureaucratic paradigm as a major research thrust in contemporary international relations theory. Foreign policy behavior, the bu...

In [3], Nathan Bowler and the first author introduced a category of algebraic objects called tracts defined notion (weak strong) matroids over tract. part paper, we summarize clarify connections to other which have previously been used in connection with matroid theory. For example, show that both partial fields hyperfields are fuzzy rings, rings tracts, these relations compatible theories. We ...

‎‎Let $R$ be a multiplicative hyperring‎. In this paper‎, ‎we introduce and study the concept of n-absorbing hyperideal which is a generalization‎ ‎of prime hyperideal‎. ‎A proper hyperideal $I$ of $R$ is called an $n$-absorbing hyperideal of ‎$‎R‎$‎ if whenever $alpha_1o...oalpha_{n+1} subseteq I$ for $alpha_1,...,alpha_{n+1} in R$‎, ‎then there are $n$ of the $alpha_i^,$s whose product ...

The several ways in which vitamin administration may bring about a biochemical response in genetic abnormalities have been discussed. Two major interrelated lessons emerge from what we now know about vitamin-responsive genetic disease. First, it is possible to enhance metabolite flow through partially deficient reactions by suitable manipulation of the environment in which a fixed amount of enz...

The aim of this paper is to give a direct approach to the study of the Sylow ^-subgroups Sn of the symmetric group of degree pn. [We assume throughout that p^2.] Many of the results are already known and are treated in a paper by Kaloujnine where he uses a particular representation by means of "reduced polynomials."1 It has seemed worth while to restate some of his results using the concept of ...

BACKGROUND Nitrate is a drinking water contaminant arising from agricultural sources, and it is a precursor in the endogenous formation of N-nitroso compounds (NOC), which are possible bladder carcinogens. OBJECTIVES We investigated the ingestion of nitrate and nitrite from drinking water and diet and bladder cancer risk in women. METHODS We identified incident bladder cancers among a cohor...

n a recent multinational survey, practitioners reported dressing removal to be the most painful aspect of the dressing procedure. 1 This is particularly problematic where a dressing has stuck to the wound or removal of the dressing has torn the skin. Although practitioners are aware of issues surrounding wound pain, they often fail to manage pain effectively at dressing changes 4 due to lack of...

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The occurrence and formation of N-nitrosamines in water supplies is of concern to the water industry, as N-nitrosamines have been reported to be carcinogenic, mutagenic, and/or teratogenic. The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA’s) Integrated Risk Information System indicates that N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) is a probable human carcinogen (USEPA 1997). Other N-nitrosamines typically ...

Systems development in organizations is well recognized as a knowledge-intensive eft'ort. Since the relevant application domain knowledge is thinly spread across an organization, the acquisition, sharing, and integration of knowledge are significant activities during the development process. Advocates of computer-aided software engineering tools (CASE) claim that these tools offer a potentially...