Under His Majesty’s Protection

Each under his own vine and fig tree.

at a time when most of medieval Eu rope was burning witches at the stake, one country stood out as a ha ven for free thought and religious toleration. in 1492, as the mass ex pulsion of the Jews from Spain began, the ottoman Sultan Bayazid ii opened the gates of turkey to the refugees fleeing the inquisition. the same tradition moved the secular rulers of postimperial turkey to welcome those es...

PETER SINGER Under Fire The Dangerous Ethicist Faces His Critics

Family's Mentally Retarded Child Problems under Protection of Welfare Centers

Introduction: Family is a social system in which disorder in one member can disrupt the entire family system. Proper understanding of family problems of mentally retarded children teaches children, their families and professionals working with them to alter their attitudes toward proper education and development planning. Objective: Aim of this study is to determine problems of families&rsquo...

Critical infrastructure protection under imperfect attacker perception

This paper considers the problem of allocating nite resources among the elements of a critical infrastructure system in order to protect it from antagonistic attacks. Previous studies have assumed that the attacker has complete information about the utilities associated with attacks on each element. In reality, it is likely that the attacker's perception of the system is not as precise as the d...

Protection of flows under targeted attacks

Due to the importance of robustness in many real-world optimization problems, the field of robust optimization has gained a lot of attention over the past decade. We concentrate on maximum flow problems and introduce a novel robust optimization model which, compared to known models from the literature, features several advantageous properties: (i) We consider a general class of path-based flow ...