North Korean strategic culture: survival and security

During last year North Korea has made almost daily headline.Topics such as the strongest nuclear test, Hallway tests of missiles from medium range ballistic missiles (MRBM) to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), readiness to retaliate to any possible U.S.attack, appeared frequently.In addition, the reaction of U.S.president D.Trump about Am

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Self-harm among unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugee minors: protocol for a global systematic review of prevalence, methods and characteristics

Introduction Asylum seekers and refugees are at an elevated risk of self-harm, with younger age and traumatic experiences found to further increase such risk.Despite this, evidence regarding self-harm among unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugee minors has not been synthesised.As self-harm among minors is a risk factor for a range of adverse clin

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Study on the optimal design of mistuned bladed disk (Simultaneous optimization of forced and self-excited vibration and amount of unbalance)

Although bladed disks are nominally designed to be cyclically symmetric (tuned system), the vibration characteristics of all blades on a disk are slightly different due to the manufacturing tolerance, deviations in the material properties, and wear during operation.These small variations break the Mittens cyclic symmetry and split the eigenvalue pa

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