In 1940 hejoined the Royal Army Medical Corps, served with the 8th Army in the desert and was taken prisoner on the fall of Tobruk; after two years' captivity he was repatriated in 1943 under the Geneva Convention regarding medical personnel. He returned to military service as LieutenantColonel in charge of the medical division of a General Hospital, landed in France in 1944 and took part in th...

The army ant syndrome of behavioral and reproductive traits (obligate collective foraging, nomadism, and highly specialized queens) has allowed these organisms to become the premiere social hunters of the tropics, yet we know little about how or why these strategies evolved. The currently accepted view holds that army ants evolved multiple times on separate continents. I generated data from thr...

Summary In order to establish the normative curves for BMD in Iranian individuals, we measured BMDs at the lumbar spine and femoral regions of 760 women and 632 men using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. This study provides a baseline normative for Iranian individuals. BMD values of Iranian subjects were generally lower than those of the American population. Introduction In order to establish ...

Knowledge of high resolution Y-chromosome haplogroup diversification within Iran provides important geographic context regarding the spread and compartmentalization of male lineages in the Middle East and southwestern Asia. At present, the Iranian population is characterized by an extraordinary mix of different ethnic groups speaking a variety of Indo-Iranian, Semitic and Turkic languages. Desp...

Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the rate of Iranian researchers collaboration with their colleagues in other countries in science citation index (SCI). In addition, it seeks to investigate the visibility of publications by Iranian researchers, and particularly the visibility of papers resulting from international collaboration. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the survey ...

BACKGROUND Due to negligence, Persian (Iranian) traditional medicine has had a weak presence in the world of research for a long time. However, in recent years, a variety of activates by research and faculty centers have created awareness and a platform to introduce and promote Persian medicine to the world. The aim of this study is to present and analyze scientific achievements of Persian medi...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, at a meeting with delegates of the People's Liberation Army China (PLA) during last session National Congress (NPC), demanded introduction scientific discoveries and innovative technologies in army. Jinping noted that new are key to modernizing Armed Forces. The leader discussed military how achieve goals set field national defense army development implementation 1...

The trend toward smaller botnets may be more dangerous than large botnets, in terms of large-scale attacks like distributed denials of service. We examine the possibility of “super-botnets,” networks of independent botnets that can be coordinated for attacks of unprecedented scale. For an adversary, super-botnets would also be extremely versatile and resistant to countermeasures. As such, super...