This article draws attention to the ways in which Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers (2007), a historical novel set in 17th-century Iran, can be placed within the neo-orientalist discourse which informs many of the post-9/11 memoirs and novels set in contemporary Iran by women of the Iranian diaspora in the United States. Besides being a novel on Islam and Islamic rule—which makes it much...

We analyze the spending of individuals in the United States on lottery tickets in an average month, as reported in surveys. We view these surveys as sampling from an unknown distribution, and we use non-parametric methods to compare properties of this distribution for various demographic groups, as well as claims that some properties of this distribution are constant across surveys. We find tha...

To help understand how media in China and the United States respond to the growing environmental concern, the authors conducted a comparative content analysis to study environmental advertising claims in two weekly Chinese news magazines—Liao Wang and China News Weekly—and two weekly U.S. news magazines—Time and Newsweek. The use of environmental claims, advertising strategy, and advertiser cha...

The end of the cold war created a strategic vacuum in the South China Sea. The collapse of the Soviet Union and its departure from Cam Ranh Bay; the closure of the United States' naval bases in the Philippines; and Vietnam's withdrawal from Cambodia diminished superpower influence in the region. These events also prompted several East Asian littoral governments to recalculate the strategic and ...

BACKGROUND: The essence of these criminal charge sheets is that the Defendants make false claims based on research fraud, and our job (apparently), is to show pointbypoint, crime-by-crime, research fraud and false claims that result in tremendous human (and even animal) harm, and billions in lost research-dollar-lives in related diseases such as cancer, MS, RA, and Lupus, not to mention the har...

introduction: nowadays and with the increasing role of the worldwide web as one of the most important sources of information on the one hand, and the enhancement of its usability on the other, it is necessary for the web designers and developers to be familiar with the criteria that make a web portal usable. therefore, the present study aimed to provide knowledge about the criteria of usability...

University. 1. United States ex rel. Springfield Terminal Ry. Co. v. Quinn, 14 F.3d 645, 649 (D.C. Cir. 1994). 2. Neil Getnick & Lesley Skillen, The Civil False Claims Act, Enlisting Citizens in Fighting Fraud Against the Government, Report of the Civil Prosecution Committee of the New York State Bar Association Commercial and Federal Litigation Section (May 1996), available in <http://www.nysb...

Abstract Breast cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in adult women United States. Screening mammography reduces breast between 22% and 48%; however, screening remains underutilized. utilization data are available from insurance claims, electronic medical records, patient self-report via surveys, each source has unique benefits challenges. Numerous barriers exist that adversely affec...

In this chapter we discuss the strategic use of alibi defense in U.S. criminal courtrooms. While appears to be holy grail for defendants, reality it shelters only a relative handful defendants who face charges our courts. True evidence is hard come by, and convincing jury its trustworthiness further challenge still. Moreover, notice rules every jurisdiction require share key facts with prosecut...