The di scovery of iodine by accident and the turning of this event into its industrial manufacturing constitutes a fascinating chapter in the development of chemical technology. We see in it how political and economical events brought drastic changes in the raw materials used and the production technologies. From a strictly European activity it turned into an important economic commodity for Ch...

● Security is built on top of three operational aspects of computer systems: confidentiality, integrity and availability ● (Distributed) Denial of Service (DoS) is an attack on the availability of data ● The denial-of-service effect is achieved by sending messages to the target that interfere with its operation, and make it crash, reboot, freeze or do useless work ● Motivation can be both polit...

Chronic heart failure is a dominant problem not only in cardiology but also from the political and economical points of view in civilized countries. The paper describes general and specific methods of heart failure therapy such as reconstruction of coronary artery disease, valve disease, cardiomyoplasty remodelling of left ventricular cavity, ventricular assist-control devices, artificial heart...

BACKGROUND The ethical discussion about abortion has been polarized in Finland and the Republic of Ireland, two European countries with very different abortion legislation (liberal vs. highly restrictive). The aim of the present study was to analyze experiential thinking patterns and argumentative strategies in political and layperson debates regarding induced abortion. METHODS The content of...

Department of Social Sciences, School of Education and Social Sciences, Kabianga University College; P. O. Box 2030, Kericho, Kenya. Department of Kiswahili, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya. Corresponding Author: Muindu, Japheth Peter ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The study was an attempt to analyze how Wahome Mutahi, i...

This paper tries to describe a piece of the phenomena of shifting behavior of voters in Indonesia’s democratic transition era. It focused on Jombang district of East Java’s grassroots level. This study adopted an institutional approach to understanding local context of political and social institution as actors that have important roles in shifting behavior. The changing pattern of public parti...