Uluslararası politikanın en önemli aktörleri olmaya devam eden devletlerin büyük bir kısmını küçük ülkeler oluşturmaktadır. politikada devletin sınırlı güce sahip olması şeklinde ele alınan küçüklük, dış politikasının belirlenmesinde yer tutmaktadır. Küçük nüfus, alan, diplomasi ağırlıklı politika gibi ortak kimi özelliklerle beraber her devlet olduğu maddi ve manevi güç kaynaklarına paralel ke...

Robat, along with educational institutions, helped to spread scientific and religious life in Baghdad. Ribat Sheikh Al-shuyukh was one of the Robat which served scholars Sufis students science since its establishment 450H./1058AD. Until Mongols entered Baghdad year 656H./1258AD. Al- shuyukh received official sponsorship from Caliphate Foundation, Seljuk state represented by minister Nizam al-Mu...

At an estimated $7–10 billion annually, the global trade in illegal wildlife parts is comparable in economic value to human trafficking, and the smuggling of weapons and drugs (Wasser et al. 2008; Wyler & Sheikh 2013). Basic economic principles of supply and demand ensure that, as target species become ever rarer, their market value continues to rise, gradually pushing them towards extinction (...

Hazim O. Khalifa, Ahmed M. Soliman, Ashraf M. Ahmed, Toshi Shimamoto, Tadashi Shimamoto Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan; Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Dru...

VEGF-B KO rats. VEGF-B gene-deleted rats of Sprague-Dawley background were generated using a zinc-finger nuclease based technique by Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering Labs, Sigma-Aldrich Biotechnology (St. Louis, Missouri, USA) (Cui et al, 2011; Geurts et al, 2009). A 22-base pair segment of exon 1 of the rat VEGF-B gene was replaced with a bacterial lacZ gene with a nuclear localization signa...

between marital functioning and a wide range of child adjustment problems (Buehler et al., 1997; Emery, 1982, 1989, 1999; Grych & Fincham, 1990, 2001); however, the pathways that give rise to these associations are not clear. Several marital discord theories, including the cognitive-contextual model (Grych, 1998; Grych & Fincham, 1990, 1993; Grych, Fincham, Jouriles, & McDonald, 2000; Grych, Ha...