War on terrorism, as the motto which formed the cornerstone of global policies of former     neo-conservative administration of the United States, is increasingly becoming ineffective in Afghanistan with the dreaded consequence of spilling over into Pakistan. This inevitable consequence of War on    Terrorism in Afghanistan has brought the West face to face with the ‘nest of terrorism’ that CIA...

This paper describes the acquisition, preparation and properties of a corpus extracted from the official documents of the United Nations (UN). This corpus is available in all 6 official languages of the UN, consisting of around 300 million words per language. We describe the methods we used for crawling, document formatting, and sentence alignment. This corpus also includes a common test set fo...

ID: I101 Robert Prins, John Farr, Kenneth McDonald, Shawn Fitzgerald, and Derek Sanchez Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Center and the Center for Nation Reconstruction and Capacity Development United States Military Academy West Point, New York 10996

Introduction: Immunization is one of the most important health programs in first level prevention and is also one of the most cost-effective prevention programs in the entire world. This study evaluates the situation of immunization in fewer than one year old Afghan refugee children in Kerman, Iran. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Data was extracted from the records of...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) describes itself as " an independent federal agency that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States " (http://www.usaid.gov). The explicit nationalism in this mission statement raises a problem that stretches far beyond any particular ideology: How should the...

Development and preclinical evaluation of therapies for spinal muscular atrophy A. Burghes , K. Foust , V. McGovern , P. Poresnsky , A. Bevan , S. Duque , T. Le , C. Iyer , A. Laporte , I. Alwin , C. Mitrpant , S. Wilton , B. Kaspar b Ohio State University, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Columbus, OH, United States; Nation Wide Children’s Hospital, Gene Therapy Center, Columbus, OH, Unite...

In the aftermaths of both World War I and World War II, the United States engaged in significant domestic political debates over its proper place in the world. President Wilson’s brainchild, the League of Nations, was the centerpiece of the first debate, and the United Nations the centerpiece of the second. The conventional wisdom is that the dark forces of isolationism defeated Wilson’s League...