with the collapse of the soviet :union:, vacuum of power emerged in the south caucasus. this matter has sparked trans-regional and regional powers competition. the newly established republics create challenges and opportunities for iran and turkey. the result of this situation is the competition between tehran and ankara in the region. this topic is highly important in regional equations becaus...

OBJECTIVE To describe our experience of a complex training intervention to introduce effective perinatal care, evidence-based medicine, national confidential enquiries into maternal deaths, and facility-based near-miss case reviews in the Central Asian Republics. METHODS We describe our experiences from training sessions and report on findings from data extraction from patient records, patien...

The Artsakh War is an ethnic, religious, and territorial conflict between Armenia Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Artsakh, Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan. modern began in 1988 escalated into a full-scale war early 1990s. A ceasefire signed 1994 provided for two decades relative stability, but escalations April 2016, most recently October 2020, have renewed antagonism. Actions by Azer...

Introduction. This article describes the feedback between Soviet people and executive authorities of autonomous republics from mid-1950s to 1980s on example activities Councils Ministers Mari, Mordovian Chuvash Autonomous Socialist Republics. The research focuses reaction their subordinate bodies letters, received citizens. Materials Methods. study was based materials State Archive Republic Mar...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to sincerely thank my research advisor, Dr. Daniel A. Reed, for his kind guidance and support along the development of this thesis. Thank him for providing me with this opportunity to benefit from his knowledge. I would like to thank the members of the Pablo group who have helped and encouraged me in my work. I would like to thank Eric Shaffer, Don Schmidt and Jim Oly fo...

Jin Liu 1,2, Wenxiang Zhao 1,2,*, Jinghua Ji 1,2, Guohai Liu 1,2 and Tao Tao 1,2 1 School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China; [email protected] (J.L.); [email protected] (J.J.); [email protected] (G.L.); [email protected] (T.T.) 2 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drive and Intelligent Control for Electric Vehicle, Zhenjiang 212013, China * Corresponde...

With the support of the comprehensive review in Liu et al. [14], we consider dependency distance minimization to be firmly established as a quantitative property of syntactic trees. In this comment, we consider future empirical and theoretical directions for this concept, including a recent information-theoretic reinterpretation of dependency locality effects as proposed by Futrell and Levy [4].

INTRODUCTION Implementation of rural family physician program in Iran in 2005 has been evaluated and shown that this program has been led to some improvements in health indicators. In this study, some reproductive health (RH) indicators were compared before and after implementation of this program in rural areas of East Azerbaijan, Iran. METHODS In this ecologic- time trend study, the data of...