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...

as in developing insight?although there is no discussion of occupational rehabilitation. They also discuss the difficulties which a therapeutic team may encounter when caring for the patients, rivalries, and conflicts over setting limits, for example. Drugs do not get much of a mention; but one patient was put on stelazine three and a half years after admission and appeared to improve remarkabl...

the boom in the technology has resulted in emergence of new concepts and challenges. Big data is one of those spoke about terms today. Big data is becoming a synonym for competitive advantages in business rivalries. Despite enormous benefits, big data accompanies some serious challenges and when it comes to analyzing of big data, it requires some serious thought. This study explores Big Data te...

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...

This paper seeks to demystify the failed uprising against the colonial administration in 1959 in remote south-eastern Portuguese Timor, an event which later was ably used as propaganda by Indonesian revisionist historians and pro-integration Timorese during the Indonesian occupation. Providing a historical context for the rebellion and a narrative of events based on archival sources and intervi...

today regional integration has become the main source of concern for governments. in the era of globalization different parts of the world have formed regional groupings. realizing their geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic status, these regions have regional structures with various degrees of regionalism. geopolitical region of the caucasus is considered as one of the geopolitical regio...

Starting from an ontology draft which reflects the intended modeling perspective, the ontology engineer can be supported by suggesting similar already existing sub-ontologies and ways for integrating them with the existing draft ontology. Our approach combines syntactic, linguistic, structural and logical methods into an innovative modelingperspective aware solution for detecting matchings betw...

When developing semantic applications, constructing the underlying ontologies is a crucial part. This paper presents a view-point on the notion of ‘ontology’ and of ontology construction. Ontology construction cannot be seen in isolation, but must be considered in relation to its use. We also present two ways of conceiving ontology construction and ultimately, we survey common categories in the...

As the knowledge discovery process has been widely applied in a variety of domains, there is a growing opportunity to use the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud as a primary data source for knowledge discovery. The tasks of finding the relevant data from various sources and then using that data for the desired analysis are the key challenges. There is a striking increase on the availability of statis...