Robotics competitions are an educational tool at the middle school, high school, and university levels. The layout, rules, and reward systems of these competitions galvanize students to a specific solution space. From our experiences competing-in and designing such competitions, open-loop, low feedback strategies tend to dominate the winner's circle. If we want competitions to emphasize solutio...

The purpose of this research was to analyze the organizational structures different federations and entities representing modalities trail-running, skyrunning, mountain running how they have settled in current sports landscape. main task these is act as hosts legally established modalities, both internationally nationally, applying their respective regulations statutes unilaterally. Through an ...

The Balkans are one of the main stages so-called Cold War 2.0 between United States and Russo-Chinese axis, but, to a greater extent, they also an important battlefront broader great power competition, hegemonic confrontation fought by number European non-European powers only partly tied aforementioned 2.0. Just like in past, keep being powder keg Europe, but this time, due combination historic...

More than a hundred years ago, the World powers have started to turn China into “subcolony”, and now world faces reversed process. expands over world, not with use of military force, but adopting economic tools make other countries heavily depended or indebted China. The modern geopolitical situation requires new solutions, it seems relevant develop them basing only on present short-term concer...

The purpose of our research was to investigate the relative frequencies of different types of basketball shots (above head, hook shot, layup, dunk, tip-in), some details about their technical execution (one-legged, two-legged, drive, cut, …), and shot success in different levels of basketball competitions. We analysed video footage and categorized 5024 basketball shots from 40 basketball games ...

The Ottoman Empire had to accept that it was defeated in the First World War by signing Armistice of Mudros. After armistice, Allied Powers began invasions, citing their own security. So much so strategic and geopolitical points Western Central Anatolia became first target. Greek occupation Izmir, one places experienced this invasion process most effectively Afyonkarahisar. city at an important...

the islamic awakening with changing power’s balance of middle east and north africa, has changed role of regional powers. therefore, geopolitical contest between iran and turkey have been more important. tunisia and egypt as leaders of revolutionary changes, are the most important. in this research we tried to compare iran and turkey's role in relation to these two countries. the research’...

Since 2011, the region has been a profound socio-economic changes originated from n Tunisia, & spread to Middle Eastern and the former power structures affected. The management and direction to these uprisings is the key question of this paper. The key question, is the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran how answer to these Middle East public uprisings in the years 2011-2014? <...

The geopolitical ramifications due to the rise of renewable energy have opened a new front in international relations. This article aims use case study on Kazakhstan explore trends and challenges diplomacy amid transition. latest development indicates that, whereas other Central Asian countries begun adopting coordinated regional approach for resilient, cooperative, impactful,, environmental-fr...

The Islamic world is one of the most important regions in terms geopolitical competition, focusing on region Southwest Asia geo-economic, geo-strategic and geo-culture. Despite widespread commonalities political geography structural functional terms, interdependence has not been able to move towards convergence, cooperation interaction. One influential variables trends this policies United Stat...