following a period of conflict between russia and the west, new signs of confrontation between the united states and china are observed. china as the most populous country in the world with the highest rate of economic growth at international level, china neither stands the hegemonic power of the united states nor has the intention of direct confrontation with it. in effect, china seeks to find...

This paper studies output feedback control of pure-feedback systems with immeasurable states and completely non-affine property. Since availability of all the states is usually impossible in the actual process, we assume that just the system output is measurable and the system states are not available. First, to estimate the immeasurable states a state observer is designed. Relatively fewer res...

compound-nucleus reactions provide the standard mechanism to populate states with high angularmomentum in neutron deficient nuclei. neutron-rich nuclei with mass aand induced fission. projectile fragmentation has proven to be an efficient method of populating nuclei farfrom the valley of stability. however, in the case of heavy nuclei this method is still limited to species withisomeric states....

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terrorism is not a new phenomenon. history is full of terrorist acts which have taken or threaten many innocent people lives. increasing terrorist acts led the international community to expand its arrangements against them. consequently, approval of 12 world conventions and 7 regional ones is in parallel with the arrangements. through the un security council's resolution no. 1373 after 9/...

background india’s economic growth rate in recent years has been fairly impressive. but, it has been consistently failing to make considerable progress in achieving health related millennium development goal (mdg) targets. lack of coherence between provisions and utilization becomes the face of the problem. inadequacies in outreach, access and affordability coupled with escalating healthcare co...

The study investigated the loan repayment, its determinants and socio-economic characteristics of microfinance loan beneficiaries in the Southeast states of Nigeria. It was carried out in three states of the five southeast states. Using a multistage sampling technique, a total of 144 loan beneficiaries in the three segments of MFIs, namely; formal (commercial and development banks); semi-formal...