realism and neo realism as the dominant. approach in the studies of international relations and foreign policy with their emphasis on states and the dominance of structure over the international system do not believe in the role of ethnicity in the foreign policy of states. however, with the end of the cold war, we witness the impact of ethnicity on the security arrangements of sub-systems, esp...

Distribution and allocation of resources is affected by factors such as values, norms, social stratifications, ideology, information, coercion, political challenges, and even external factors. This finding means that there is always a fundamental tendency to redirect resources toward political goals instead of public interests and development. Because the resource structure is strongly influenc...

This paper discusses how Mozambique coped with the health system needs in terms of specialized doctors since independence, in a troubled context of war, lack of financial resources and modifying settings of foreign aid. The Ministry of Health (MOH) managed to make up for its severe scarcity of specialist MDs especially through contracting expatriate technical assistance. Different scenarios, pa...

background several hundred thousand people are infected with vibrio cholera every year worldwide, with a case fatality rate over 2%. periodic cholera outbreaks are of important health issues in iran, especially in sistan and baluchistan province. objectives in this study, we evaluated cholera out breaks and related factors, during 2010-2013, to improve controlling the disease in this province. ...

In some contexts, using a foreign language appears to improve decision-making, since it reduces various decision biases [1,2,4], such as loss aversion. This is consistent with the idea that reasoning in a foreign language is less affected by emotional concerns [6–10]. It is intuitive that optimal choices are those that are made with a cooler mindset and, to the extent that using a foreign langu...

Only 78 foreign-qualified nurses were registered to practise in South Africa last year, mainly because of poor compliance with application requirements and an inability by war-torn/ dysfunctional African governments to verify professional qualifications. These were among the reasons provided by Linda Hlaisi, manager of the South African Nursing Council's (SANC) Foreign Workforce section, for th...

Foreign vegetable material is an extremely rare finding in biopsies, especially from the upper respiratory tract. The frequency of paranasal fungal balls has shown an increase during last years, with the consequent higher number of biopsies performed and available for analysis. We present the case of a 50 year-old patient with an aspergilloma of the sphenoidal sinus that also revealed foreign m...

conclusions ultrasonography seems to be a safe and cost effective method to evaluate foreign bodies, especially radiolucent objects, in patients with penetrating trauma and suspicious of foreign bodies that may remain undiagnosed in radiography. availability of bedside ultrasound for emergency physicians is an important issue, since it is not possible to access the radiologist at any time of th...

Delayed neurologic deficit after a stab wound with a retained foreign body near the spinal canal is unusual, adequate radiological examination is fundamental in detecting retained foreign bodies, especially the CT scan, surgical extraction of the foreign body is the primary task and the surgical outcome is satisfactory. Here, we report a rare case of delayed myelopathy caused by spinal stenosis...