in 2008, the organisation of gas exporting countries (ogec) was formally established with 11 members in doha, qatar. while having economic and business nature, the organisation is seen as the gas opec, having the potential for changing the geo-strategic and geopolitical structure of the world. therefore, it is regarded as a threat by europe and the us to the security of their energy supply. isl...

In this paper we introduce non-abelian zeta functions and more generally non-abelian L-functions for number fields, based on geo-arithmetical cohomology, geo-arithmetical truncation and Langlands’ theory of Eisenstein series. More precisely, in Chapter I, we start with a new yet natural geo-arithmetical cohomology and a geo-arithmetical stability in order to define genuine non-abelian zeta func...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization calls for stronger cross-cultural emphasis in medical training. Bioethics education can build such competencies as it involves the conscious exploration and application of values and principles. The International Pediatric Emergency Medicine Elective (IPEME), a novel global health elective, brings together 12 medical students from Canada and the Middle E...

The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is the largest fully public repository for high-throughput molecular abundance data, primarily gene expression data. The database has a flexible and open design that allows the submission, storage and retrieval of many data types. These data include microarray-based experiments measuring the abundance ...

1 Summary Network scalability is one of the critical challenges and requirements in routing protocols for ad hoc networks. This paper presents a novel scalable routing protocol called Geo-LANMAR. The proposed protocol inherits the group motion support of Landmark Routing (LANMAR) and applies the geo-routing concept to deliver packets efficiently. In this framework, the integration between geo-c...

The current international society has entered an era of large-scale power transfer. Government interests have gradually transferred from national strength to national influence. As such, how to quantitatively present the fuzzy geopolitical influence (i.e., geo-influence) has attracted greater attention from scholars. The proposed concept of geo-influence conforms to this trend of power structur...

This article explores some of the latest developments in the scholarship on race relations and nationalism that seek to address the impact of globalization and the changed geo-political relations of the first decade of the twenty-first century. New patterns of identification, some of which challenge existing group boundaries and others that reinforce them, can be seen to flow from the effects o...

In this paper we present a simulator for GEO or MEObased communication systems. This simulator implements variable delay and bit error rate simulation and can be used to analyze communication scenarios involving one or more GEO/MEO or LEO spacecrafts and ground stations. First the paper gives a short overview over the original LEO simulator design from which the GEO simulator was derived. Then ...

TCP performs poorly in mobile ad hoc networks, mainly because of route breakage. Geo-routing is a routing approach which has recently received attention in large scale, mobile systems as it does not require end-to-end path establishment and pre-computed packet forwarding routing structure at nodes. For these reasons, Geo-routing is robust to highly dynamic route changes. For best performance, h...