African Americans are 40% more likely to be afflicted with hypertension than are non-Hispanic, white Americans, resulting in a 30% higher instance of mortality due to cardiovascular disease. There is debate about the relative contributions of genetic and sociocultural risk factors to the racial disparity in hypertension. We assayed three Alu insertion polymorphisms located in the ACE (angiotens...

weak economic performance that has been observed in countries with rich natural resources is called resource curse. there have been many studies on resource curse, especially the adverse effects of this phenomenon on economic growth. income inequality or unfair distribution of income is one of the main characteristics of resource rich countries. but, there has not been much research on the effe...

When Woodrow Wilson advanced the principle of self-determination in a series of speeches in 1918–19, his assumption seemed to be that acknowledging the claims of self-determination was a simple corollary of respect for democracy. Contemporary secessionists, and many who write and theorize about secession, share Wilson’s intuition about this. It is widely claimed that a ‘people’ has the right to...

Introducing distributed generation into a power system can lead to numerous benefits including technical, economic, environmental, etc. To attain these benefits, distributed generators with proper rating should be installed at suitable locations. Given the similar effects of distributed generators and capacitor banks on operation indices of a distribution system, simultaneous assignment of best...

Until the year 2000, there was no specific statute enacted in Jordan that regulates unfair competition. In the year 2000, the Jordanian Unfair Competition Law No. 15 of 2000 was enacted. The Law deals with the issue of unfair competition in a very generic way. In addition to the Jordanian Unfair Competition Law, the principal statutory source of protection is implemented through the general rul...

the inappropriate space distribution of rural services causes many problems, including loss of adoptness, and unfair distribution of services according to the existing capacities. in this research, the studied region is “dehdez” zone of “izeh” province,”khuzestan” state. the goal of the present paper is to prpvide an optimal and ideal location finding of rural services centers in dehdez zone, i...

Autonomous Control Modes and Optimized Path Guidance for Shipboard Landing in High Sea States Progress Report (CDRL A001) Progress Report for Period: April 10, 2015 to July 9, 2015 PI: Joseph F. Horn 814-865-6434 [email protected] Penn State University Co-PI: John Tritschler (301) 995-1637 [email protected] U.S. Naval Test Pilot School Co-PI: Chengjian He (408) 523-5100 [email protected] Ad...