nowadays, a noticeable part of the relations among the states turn around the environment protection. therefore, the right for ever-creasing use of the existing resources of this inland sea cannot be exclusive to any caspian state and the aftermath involves all countries of this basin. in this respect, agreement on political border and boundaries with the caspian sea?s ecosystem is a difficult ...

The purpose of this study is to identify the influential geopolitical components crisis in Afghanistan and seek solutions reduce country. As are one most acute debates between powers countries today, these a combination fixed variable elements sometimes tend change influenced by periods. Historically, regional, global, global order structures evolving playing decisive role destiny nations. natu...

This paper proposes Agriculture Activity Ontology(AAO) as a basis of the core vocabulary of agricultural activity. Since concepts of agriculture activities are formed by the various context such as purpose, means, crop, and field, we organize the agriculture activity ontology as a hierarchy of concepts discriminated by various properties such as purpose, means, crop and field. The vocabulary of...

Link prediction in a network is mostly based on information about the neighborhood topology of the nodes. Recently, the interest for hybrid link prediction approaches that combine topology information with information about the network individuals, has grown. However, considering the whole set of individuals may not be necessary and sometimes not even suitable. Therefore, mechanisms to automati...

Recommendations are often rated for their subjective quality, but few researchers have studied quality in terms of objective utility. We explore quality assessment with respect to both subjective (i.e. users’ ratings) and objective (i.e., did it influence? did it improve decisions?) metrics in a massive online geopolitical forecasting system, ultimately comparing linguistic characteristics of e...

The aim of this paper is to explain the divergent developmental outcomes between South Korea, Taiwan, and South Vietnam. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan, the ultimate failure to establish strong institutions in South Vietnam calls for a closer analysis of how differing historical and geopolitical factors...

during the past 500 years, iran and russia have experienced many ups and downs in their relations which have been accompanied with enmity and amity. these relations varied from cooperation under the safavids to enmity, war and interventions under the qajar dynasty, then to hostile and sometimes friendly relations under the pahlavi rule, and finally to collaborations within the past two decades ...