No doubt, Australia's parochial anxieties about China in its recent Foreign Policy White Paper stem from a Eurocentric establishment with entrenched "Cold-War" era views about international relations and fantasies about preserving a bygone legacy of Anglo-American hegemony.

The main purpose of this paper is to revisit the internal/simultaneous/robust stabilization problems without assuming the existence of doubly coprime factorizations for the transfer matrices. Indeed, it has been recently shown in the literature that an internally stabilizable does not generally admit doubly coprime factorizations. Firstly, we give new necessary and sufficient conditions for int...

The shifting global order suggests arrival of the world away from U.S.-led liberal unipolar order. rise rest, notably, Chinese vision reflected in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has defied U.S. hegemony. For example, China’s growing wealth power, Russia’s resurge belligerence, Europe’s pursuit for strategic autonomy, India’s balancing, turmoil Middle East inclination to Asia suggest a slipp...

Centriole duplication is a tightly regulated process that must occur only once per cell cycle; otherwise, supernumerary centrioles can induce aneuploidy and tumorigenesis. Plk4 (Polo-like kinase 4) activity initiates centriole duplication and is regulated by ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis. Throughout interphase, Plk4 autophosphorylation triggers its degradation, thus preventing centriole amplif...

It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...

Classes of stabilizing decentralized controllers for linear systems with plant state estimate feedback at each control station are studied. For the case when information flow between control stations is permitted with transmission delay, a class of stabilizing controllers is conveniently characterized in terms of an arbitrary proper stable transfer function, With zero delays, and thus centraliz...

Clock synchronization is a very fundamental task in distributed system. It thus makes sense to require an underlying clock synchronization mechanism to be highly fault-tolerant. A self-stabilizing algorithm seeks to attain synchronization once lost; a Byzantine algorithm assumes synchronization is never lost and focuses on containing the influence of the permanent presence of faulty nodes. Ther...

Despite successes in global health to combat specific diseases, progress remains slow particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss two challenges in the global health landscape currently: the waning hegemony in global health governance and the recurrent pendulum swing between horizontal (health systems focused) to vertical (single-disease focused) programming by donors and agencies. Using Eth...