SYRIA: THE GEOPOLITICAL ALCHEMY

Syria: the Geopolitical Alchemy

The article examines objectives of the military attack undertaken by the US, Britain and France on Syria on April 14, 2014, under the pretext of responding to the use of chemical weapons by the "Assad regime" in Eastern Ghouta.The political goals Masks and motivations of the military action are analyzed in the LIQUID MULTI-VITAMIN COMPLEX context o

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Moving beyond the GM debate.

Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops.I find these calls frustrating Hookah Case and unnecessarily decisive.In my opinion the GM debate, on both sides, continues to hamper the urgent need to address the diverse and pressing challenges of global food security and environmental Kidney sustainability.The d

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The Monetary Policy and the Real Estate Market

In this paper, we intend to study the connection between monetary policy measures and the boom and bust Tart Tin cycles of the real estate markets in different countries.Many recent articles consider that central banks had an important contribution in triggering the global crisis and the collapse of the real estate markets during 2007-2009 Espresso

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Dynamic Response of Tunnels with a Rubber-Sand Isolation Layer under Normal Fault Creep-Slip and Subsequent Seismic Shaking: Shaking Table Testing and Numerical Simulation

Tunnels may suffer severe damage when passing through an active fault in high-intensity earthquake zones.The present Belts study aims to investigate the performance of an isolation layer composed of a rubber-sand mixture, an emerging trend in low-cost seismic mitigation studies.Based on the Ngong tunnel in the Nairobi-Malaba Railroad in Kenya, Afri

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UV Protection in the Cornea: Failure and Rescue

Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation induces DNA lesions in all directly exposed tissues.In the human body, two tissues are chronically exposed to UV: the skin and the cornea.The most frequent UV-induced DNA lesions are cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) that can lead to apoptosis or induce tumorigenesis.Lacking the protective pigmentation of the skin, t

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