The last few years have seen an opening up of what is considered to be the legitimate terrain of international relations (IR). This move is, for the most part, extremely welcome. Yet, the multiple theoretical and empirical openings in IR since the end of the Cold War have failed to elucidate many of the puzzles, questions and problems posed by the contemporary conjuncture. There are a number of...

background : due to specific conditions in hospitals such as accumulation, existence of disable persons and patients, different and complex equipment, chemical and infectious substances, flammable materials and ionized radiations, safety precautions is essential to prevent the occurrence of incidents such as fire, electric shock hazard and exposure to excessive levels in hospitals. this was the...

background: the 21st century is faced with increase in challenges of urban population and aging. according to statistics, the old population in the world and in iran is increasing. obviously, their health promotion is the concern of the community and achieving it requires purposeful planning. being healthy means to feel good in social, mental, and physical dimensions (definition by the world he...

Interpersonal relations are in constant flux; close friendships often dissolve into enmity. We examine linguistic cues augur transitions from friendly bonds into hostile relations through conversations from online strategy games. We look at betrayal from two perspectives in a classification framework: we characterize the difference between friendships that break and friendships that last, and w...

This paper describes a new system to automatically generate, evaluate and execute assembly sequences. With the commands generated by the system, robots are enabled to assemble complex products without explicit robot programming. Our approach uses CAD-models, symbolic spatial relations and a robot work cell description as input. The system provides a user-friendly interface to define the goal st...

Governments can have large e ects on investment by raising policy risks and uncertainty. This paper estimates their e ects by studying the famous English East India Company. It had di cult relations with some English governments and positive relations with others. This translated into either hostile or friendly policies. New time-series data on the Company's shipping and port capacity are used ...

Let Θ be an arbitrary variety of algebras and H an algebra in Θ. Along with algebraic geometry in Θ over the distinguished algebra H, a logical geometry in Θ over H is considered. This insight leads to a system of notions and stimulates a number of new problems. Some logical invariants of algebras H ∈ Θ are introduced and logical relations between different H1 and H2 in Θ are analyzed. The pape...

The two main types of law are legislation and precedents. Both types have a corresponding reasoning pattern determining legal consequences: legislation can be applied and precedents followed. The separate modelling of these two reasoning patterns using logical techniques has recently seen considerable progress. About the logical links between the two less is known, although progress has already...

Physician assistants (PAs) have been used for decades in the Canadian military. Now, PAs are being introduced in various clinical settings to provide patient care for the general population. This article reviews major developments in the PA profession across Canada over the last decade. Nearly 541 PAs are employed in Canada or work for a Canadian agency. Growing evidence demonstrates the positi...

A paper previously published in Law and Human Behavior by D. Davis and W. C. Follette (2002) argued that certain "profiling" characteristics commonly admitted into court have little or no probative value. They argued that this is especially likely to be true when the characteristic used as evidence (e.g., having an extramarital affair) is rather common in the population whereas the act in quest...