Owing to its geopolitical position in the Caucasus region as well oil and gas resources, The Republic of Azerbaijan plays an important geoeconomic role energy transit Europe. Therefore, this study aims identify most geo-economic factors affecting economic security indicators from 2015 2018 their impact on such growth, inflation, foreign direct investment Azerbaijan. For purpose, a descriptive-a...

A~STRCT. This paper argues for the re-conceptu~i~t~on of geopolitics using the concept of discourse. Geopolitics is defined as a discursive practice by which inteltectuals of statecraft ‘spatialize’ international politics and represent it as a ‘world characterized by particular types of places, peoples and dramas, Four theses explicating this re-conceptualization are outlined including the dist...

The first process was geopolitical, and had to do with the need to provide security for the fledgling state from external threats. This included not only threats to the Israel’s existence, but also threats to the economic well being of its population and its capacity for future growth through the absorption of large segments of the Jewish Diaspora. Water issues were central to Israel’s geopolit...

The effluent generated from a thermal power plant waste is a mixture of several chemicals and to identify the effect of these chemicals on soil, a case study on naturally contaminated sites at Al-Musayyib region, Hilla city in Iraq has been carried out. Soil and water samples were collected from the sites and analyzed to identify the pollutants and their effect on soil characteristics. Laborato...

Through developing of the concept of hitmazrehut, the article highlights avenues for decolonializing and de-orientalizing sociopolitical theory and practice in Israel/Palestine. Hitmazrehut (literally ‘becoming of the East’) is understood as the transformation of relations between space, identity, and narrative through an intersectionality framework of social movement activism and intellectual ...

In 3D terrain analysis, topographical characteristics, such as mountains or valleys, and geo-spatial data characteristics, such as specific weather conditions or objects of interest, are important features. Visual representations of these features are essential in many application fields, e.g., aviation, meteorology, or geo-science. However, creating suitable representations is challenging. On ...

Undoubtedly, during the post-Cold War era, the fields of political competition changed and with the change in the political geography of the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus and Central Asia, as the Soviet Union collapsed and new countries emerged, the field of competition for a change in power balance not only expanded but took on a new form. Economic benefits, diversification of fossil fuels and new...

Web APIs are increasingly becoming an integral part of web or mobile applications. As a consequence, performance characteristics and availability of the APIs used directly impact the user experience of end users. Still, quality of web APIs is largely ignored and simply assumed to be su ciently good and stable. Especially considering geo-mobility of today’s client devices, this can lead to negat...

The Gene Expression Omnibus or NCBI GEO (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/geo/) is one of the most comprehensive public repositories of microarray data. The data in NCBI GEO is organized into samples, series, datasets and platforms. Platform files specify the characteristics of a particular type of microarray chip, including a mapping of chip features to genetic features. These mappings are...