A systematic method of designing TSC checker for Q class (even code length) of Borden’s code [l] is proposed, where a modular approach is used. In a comparative study, it is found that the proposed method is much better than [2,3] and it has a larger capability than [4,5] in designing the checker. For instance, the 3/12 code in C(12,2) can be identified in one of four ways, corresponding to PT’...

Background and Objectives: Military hospitals play a crucial role in delivery of healthcare services to patients during emergencies. Despite that, limited studies have attempted to characterize factors affecting quality of work life in employees of military health settings. To contribute in filling this gap, this study explored employee occupational stress in a military hospital, situated in th...

this article reviews past developments of the shanghai cooperation organization (sco) and studies its potentialities in the areas of economy, trade, investment, energy and military power. a study conducted on statistical information of the sco state members shows that the organisation has the capacity to be turned into one of the biggest international hubs in the fields of economy, trade, forei...

Russia after the collapsing of Soviet Union ignored and left behind the Caspian Sea for a short time due to giving preference to relationship with West. Discovery of new sources of energy in the Caspian region and the significance of the geopolitical position of this region in Europe, Asia and the Middle East and the key role that plays in the power balances in the world, also West attention sp...

The United States’ relations with Cuba are rooted in the US intervention in the process of Cuba’s independence from Spain in the 1890s. The US preserved its interest-based approach towards Cuba during the first half of the 20th century, which culminated in the Cuba’s counter-hegemonic revolution in 1959. This revolution led to more than fifty years of hostility between two countries, which took...

background: military personnel are usually exposed to high levels of impulse noise (in) which can lead to hearing loss. objectives: the purpose of this study was to assess the effects of relatively low level exposure of impulse noise (in) during shooting practice on hearing using pure tone audiometry (pta) and transiently evoked otoacoustic emission (teoae) in military personnel. materials and ...

Chemical warfare agents are the most brutal weapons among the weapons of mass destruction. Sulfur mustard (SM) is a potent toxic alkylating agent known as “the King of the Battle Gases”. SM has been the most widely used chemical weapon during the wars. It was widely used in World War I. Thereafter, it was extensively employed by the Iraqi troops against the Iranian military personnel and even c...