Russia and China share a discontent with the United States-dominated unipolar world want to establish multipolar international system. They are concerned about West’s attempt expand NATO eastward its security ring around China. has an identity crisis vis-à-vis West is sceptical partnership West. needs modernise defence forces meet of post-Soviet Russia, must lessen external threats. sees as cru...

We are pleased to present Climate Resilience and Sustainability (CRS), an exciting new journal that is right for this decade century. The online only open access, reflecting our goal make the papers available everyone. aiming fast publication, while ensuring a robust peer-review process. published as joint effort between Royal Meteorological Society Wiley. With accelerating climate change impac...

recently, the economic crisis has resulted in instability in stock exchange market and this has caused high volatilities in stock value of exchanged firms. under these conditions, considering uncertainty for a favorite investment is more serious than before. multi-objective portfolio selection (return, liquidity, risk and initial cost of investment objectives) using minmax fuzzy goal programmin...

We propose a model of problem solving that provides both structure and focus to search. The model achieves this by combining constraint satisfaction with heuristic search. We introduce the concepts of topology and texture to characterize problem structure and areas to focus attention respectively. The resulting model reduces search complexity and provides a more principled explanation of the na...

Password authentication has failed to address the compounding business requirement for increased security. Biometric authentication is beginning to address the need for tighter security, but it costs several orders of magnitude more than basic password implementations. Biometric authentication also possesses several shortcomings that inhibit its widespread adoption. In this paper we describe th...

conclusions our results show that oxidative stress could play an important role in male infertility as well as in sperm motility and sperm morphology. patients and methods this case control study was conducted using 35 men with idiopathic infertility and 34 men with proven fertility. seminal plasma tac and mda were measured by ferric reducing ability of plasma (frap) and thiobarbituric acid (tb...

background herbal extracts have recently received the greatest attention in the path of finding naturally occurring chemicals with antibacterial and therapeutic value; however, each type of herbal remedy may have its own side effects. objectives the aim of the current experiment was to study the antibacterial effect of myrtle, parsley, mint, henna and chamomile extracts on escherichia coli and ...

conclusions consumption of ole after tumor transplantation reduced the tumor growth. on the other hand, owing to its highly-packed polyphenols, catalase and superoxide dismutase activities in tumor tissue were increased. results treatment with 150 and 225 mg/kg/day of ole reduced the tumor volume and weight (p < 0.05) compared to the first group significantly. it also increased the cat activity...