during the past 500 years, iran and russia have experienced many ups and downs in their relations which have been accompanied with enmity and amity. these relations varied from cooperation under the safavids to enmity, war and interventions under the qajar dynasty, then to hostile and sometimes friendly relations under the pahlavi rule, and finally to collaborations within the past two decades ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the nation’s “persistently lowest achieving” public schools (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) but required schools accepting these awards to implement a federally prescribed school-reform model. Schools that met the “lowestachieving” and “lack of progress” t...

Order copies of this and other ACL proceedings from: The workshop focused on Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs), which represent an indispensable part of natural languages and appear steadily on a daily basis, both novel and already existing but paraphrased, which makes them important for many natural language applications. Unfortunately, while easily mastered by native speakers, MWEs are often non-...

On the day of Saraswati Puja I write this message to all esteemed members. The goddess of learning and knowledge is kind enough to bless us. The ASI celebrated well attended North Zonal CME at AIIMS between 23–25th January. The I.J.S. has already made quality inroads into scientifi c publication under the ever-active leadership of Dr. S. K. Shukla, the editor and his editorial board team. Our p...

May 2019 – The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and the Frankfurter Allgemeine, based on a large survey conducted in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and China, have concluded that the intensive care unit (ICU) is the most appealing workplace in the world. Financial institutions and the stock exchange had been ranking highest in these regular international surveys until 2008, w...

Mortality monitoring systems are important for gauging the effect of influenza and other wide ranging health threats. We present the daily all-cause mortality monitoring system routinely used in Scotland, which differs from others by using two different statistical models for calculating expected mortality. The first model is an extended Serfling model, which captures annual seasonality in mort...