Vladimir Putin’s personal popularity creates the base for sociopolitical stability of regime. However, in long term, aspirations Russia’s elite national sovereignty will come to naught without anew economic development model. Applying “limited access orders” framework North, Wallis, and Weingast, this essay analyzes interactions among three key groups ruling elite# top federal bureaucracy, poli...

Terrain-induced variations of radar backscatter represent an important limiting factor many Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based applications. Radiometric terrain flattening (RTF) is a well-established method that minimizes these in SAR imagery. To fully understand the implications RTF, validation its impact on derived products needed. In this study, we quantified influence RTF forest mapping a...

The modern nation state, with its system of social control has the power to relegate individual naught. One most important novelists twentieth century, Franz Kafka’s work went on be identified a mood that is infused grimness and bleakness, uncertainty an ensuing sense discomfort. This what birthed term “Kafkaesque”, it also used in real-life situations fraught unnerving environment. It easy gau...

Crop type identification is the initial stage and an important part of agricultural monitoring system. It well known that synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Sentinel-1A imagery provides a reliable data source for crop identification. However, single-temporal SAR image does not contain enough features, unique physical characteristics images are relatively lacking, which limits its potential in mappi...

Is the newly born quantum cryptography the ultimate solution for information security? A technique needs to be both theoretically strong and practically viable. But quantum cryptography comes to naught in the latter. Unlike many of the classical cryptosystems in use today, whose security often draws on unproven assumptions about the computational complexity of mathematical problems, the securit...

Conjugate gradient (CG) method is well-known for its ability to solve unconstrained optimization (UO.) problems. This article presenting a new CG with sufficient descent conditions which improves the former developed by Rvaie, Mustafa, Ismail and Leong (RMIL). The efficacy of proposed has been demonstrated through simulations on Kijang Emas pricing regression problem. daily data between January...

Humanity is going through never seen before health crisis due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). There are 24.02 million cases and 0.82 deaths worldwide as 26th August 2020 deadly infection COVID-19. The disease has been spreading exponentially (R-naught number: 3) challenged even best healthcare infrastructure in world. With pr...