the establishment of foreign military bases is a key matter to understand the distribution of power in spheres of influence throughout the world. oversea bases are the first mechanism of a mass network, which works to maintain the control exercised by great powers, becoming the infrastructure for wars. normally,  government allows the allies and governments that have similar ideas about common ...

Large deformation causing damage due to uplift force is generated in buried pipeline located in shallow trenches in marshes and saturated soils. In this paper, existing common methods of pipeline anchorage are discussed and considering advantages and disadvantages of these methods, a new method of pipeline anchorage are studied and presented. In this new developed method, geo-textile materials ...

The article examines the Chinese engagement in Arctic, with specific focus on large-scale mineral and infrastructure projects Greenland. Providing an important financial basis for potential Greenlandic independence, these also have significant environmental, geostrategic, political reverberations. This leaves a complex geopolitical context which Greenland will to navigate interactions China cau...

A decade ago, the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database was established at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The original objective of GEO was to serve as a public repository for high-throughput gene expression data generated mostly by microarray technology. However, the research community quickly applied microarrays to non-gene-expression studies, including examination...

UNLABELLED The NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) represents the largest public repository of microarray data. However, finding data in GEO can be challenging. We have developed GEOmetadb in an attempt to make querying the GEO metadata both easier and more powerful. All GEO metadata records as well as the relationships between them are parsed and stored in a local MySQL database. A powerful, fl...

The protected GEO region is defined by boundaries in inclination (-15° ... +15°) and orbit radius (± 200 km with respect to true GEO height). There are nearly 390 operational satellites with orbits inside of this zone. In addition, there are nearly 280 officially catalogued objects with orbits completely inside of the protected zone, and nearly 180 catalogued GEO satellites with orbits crossing...

Background: Soil serves as a major reservoir for contaminants as it can bind to various chemicals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of some metals (Cd, Cu, Fe and V) in soil samples collected from different stations of Ahvaz Industrial Complex II to determine the natural and anthropogenic contribution of metal in the soil. Methods: This was an experimental study that carried ou...