purpose taekwondo, as the most popular martial art among iranian sportsmen, might lead to injury for the athletes of this sport during competitions. we decided to report the incidence rate of injuries sustained by the athletes of this sport during national competitions. methods all competitions of iran national championship taekwondo league in 2006-2007 with 204 athletes were observed prospecti...

Suicide bombing is a very complex phenomenon. It has been a focus of research in recent times. However inherent biases of researchers muddle the picture: researchers from western countries focus the issue around political liberty and notion of democracy, while those from Islamic countries tend to take the afterlife-reward notion as an incentive for suicide bombing. However in order to understan...

In this paper a real example of a globally distributed collaborative design project is analyzed. Some of the problems identified as a result of this analysis include: 1the lack of a complete design environment prior to the modeling stage, and 2the need for a flexible and intuitive collaborative environment. To address these problems we propose some preliminary research results of task ontology,...

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Geopolitical regionalisms are a mechanism of managing influence in particular region at point time. They exist and driven by powers vying for the expense others, turn, influenced nature geopolitical era which they exist. The Cold War saw bipolar world, where were achieved two superpowers, often through their proxies. This was replaced monopolar world order after collapse Soviet Union 1991. curr...

One of the problems confronting the Nigerian nation is unemployment and regional imbalance in employment has now become a pressing national issue. The aim of this study is to find out whether or not the current pattern of employment in the federal civil Service reflects the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Secondary data on the number of persons employed in the Federal Civil Service from 2008...

This introductory paper for the special issue on Reconstructing International Peace Architecture (IPA) in Asian Century outlines background to, objective and scope of, key contributions of issue. A fundamental problem that each contributor has underlined is inability existing IPA to effectively cope with emerging counter-peace challenges face rise powers global geopolitical rivalry. seeks addre...

this paper deals with the importance of regionalism in iran's foreign policy. some of the existing outlooks view the characteristics of iran's power structure and politics in such a way that make any security-political, economic and cultural coalition and cooperation difficult in the region. but the author holds that political, security and geopolitical changes in the middle east regi...