The literature of international relations and political geography agrees that world order is in transition. Some claim power shifting east, others argue American leadership renewing, still think a post-polar emerging. Despite the debate, no principled approach to assessing distribution has been proposed. Arguments regarding evolution have come up against usual stumbling blocks measuring power. ...

Background This article looks at the long-term, structural determinants of environmental and public health performance in the world system.   Methods In multiple standard ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models, we tested the effects of 26 standard predictor variables, including the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labour and services, on the following indicators of sustainable develop...

the political crisis in lebanon during the past three years has remained one of the critical issues in the regional and international scenes. this article attempts to examine the short-term and long-term causes of the political crisis in lebanon. it proposes that demographic changes in favor of the shias, increased power of hezbollah, the multi-ethnic structure of lebanese society, the type of ...

Presently, the competition of soft power has become an important trend in international competition. The expansion and dissemination of culture soft power has even caused challenges and risks to other countries’ national security. Therefore, by summarizing the characteristics of and the trends of international culture soft power competition, considering the chief impacts on Chinese culture secu...

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Load forecasting in power systems is an important subject and has been studied from different points of view in order to achieve better load forecasting results. ”Ius paper will address one of the challenges in spatial load forecasting area urban re-development, and present a theory and methodology to incorporate urban re-development into spatial load forecasting considerations.

contributions to Catalan's classical problem to show that 8,9 is the only pair of consecutive positive integers which are both perfect powers. The work of Professor Ko and the related work by others show that there is just one mathematical world and that there are no borders in this world. For any positive integer n let P (n); !(n); (n) denote the greatest prime factor of n, the number of disti...

Histories of the global smallpox eradication programme have tended to concentrate on the larger national formations in Africa and Asia. This focus is generally justified by chroniclers by the fact that these locations contributed a major share of the world’s annual tally of variola, which meant that international agencies paid a lot of attention to working with officials in national and local g...