Suicide bombing is a very complex phenomenon. It has been a focus of research in recent times. However inherent biases of researchers muddle the picture: researchers from western countries focus the issue around political liberty and notion of democracy, while those from Islamic countries tend to take the afterlife-reward notion as an incentive for suicide bombing. However in order to understan...

In this paper a real example of a globally distributed collaborative design project is analyzed. Some of the problems identified as a result of this analysis include: 1the lack of a complete design environment prior to the modeling stage, and 2the need for a flexible and intuitive collaborative environment. To address these problems we propose some preliminary research results of task ontology,...

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One of the problems confronting the Nigerian nation is unemployment and regional imbalance in employment has now become a pressing national issue. The aim of this study is to find out whether or not the current pattern of employment in the federal civil Service reflects the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Secondary data on the number of persons employed in the Federal Civil Service from 2008...

Israel has provided immediate healthcare to Syrian children, civilians and fighters since early 2013 despite being in an official state of war with Syria since 1973. We present qualitative findings from a larger mixed-methods phenomenological study to understand how the geopolitical and social history of Israel and Syria influences healthcare providers and Syrian patient caregivers in northern ...

realistically and justifiably allocated to protected areas? And perhaps even more importantly, on the remaining actively managed landscape, what forest management practices should be employed and how can these be encouraged? Answers to these questions must be adaptive to evolving models of sustainable ecosystem management as well as geopolitical context and local community involvement. In this ...