Parviz Mohammadi1,3 Shaliza Ibrahim1 Mohamad Suffian Mohamad Annuar2 Shahin Ghafari1 Sabaratnam Vikineswary2 Ali Akbar Zinatizadeh4,5 1Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of ...

Bridge piers which are constructed in the track of high water rivers cause some variations in the flow patterns. This variation mostly is a result of the changes in river sections. Decreasing the river section, bridge piers significantly impress the flow patterns. Once the flow approaches the piers, the stream lines change their order, causing the appearance of different flow patterns around th...

This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

Hui Bin Sun,1,2 Razi Nalim,3 and Hiroki Yokota1,2,3 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 2Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, India...

This paper reviews the origin and theoretical foundation of the concept MilitaryIndustrial Complex and explains the key issues involved in the literature on the MIC in the Cold war context. It then considers the implications for the MIC of some main post-Cold War developments, with particular emphasis on the arms industry, its structure and effects. It then assesses the degree to which the end ...