The legacy of relations between India and China began to change in the 1980s, with the opening of both economies. As long as their relationship was seen through a geopolitical prism, it was easy for both countries to view it as a zero-sum game. With the shift in both countries from an import substitution to an export promotion strategy during the 1980s, the focus shifted gradually to economics....

The aim of this article is to share our experiences from an international collaborative effort to study health outcomes among Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) soldiers following the 1991 Gulf War. By paying particular attention to distinct social and religious customs, geopolitical differences, and unique aspects of the health care system, we achieved a successful international collaboration...

The Wider Black Sea Region is a complex geopolitical construct. On the one hand, area has huge potential in terms of raw material extraction, while facilitating trade between states. other within this geographical there are several frozen conflicts caused by state and non-state actors. In context, regional developments issues interest for both Romania Republic Turkey, countries that have numero...

the Geopolitical Drug Watch (OGD). His fields of interest are the socio-economic and strategic implications of drug production, traffic and consumption, money laundering and their control. His most recent publication is The Relationship between Research and Drug Policy in the United States, MOST Discussion Paper No. 44, Paris, September 1999. Email: ghanaman free.fr Drugs in Southern Africa: bu...

Many of the flows described in this study can affect grandscale geopolitical events. Cocaine trafficking has fed instability in Guinea-Bissau; firearms trafficking has fueled a rebellion in northern Mali; maritime piracy threatens to undermine commerce in the Gulf of Guinea. These flows demonstrate that transnational organized crime has truly risen to the level of a security threat in West Africa.

We describe the rationale for an application ontology covering the domain of human body fluids that is designed to facilitate representation, reuse, sharing and integration of diagnostic, physiological, and biochemical data. We briefly review the Blood Ontology (BLO), Saliva Ontology (SALO) and Kidney and Urinary Pathway Ontology (KUPO) initiatives. We discuss the methods employed in each, and ...

This paper tries to examine and discuss the problems, challenges and Benefits of implementing ELearning in Nigeria by reviewing the consciousness and willingness of the selected Universities. This study also identifies the enabling factors, the traffic-jam and, forecasts the future growth of E-learning in Nigeria. Survey research method was adopted for the study, and questionnaire was the only ...

In heterogeneous multi agent systems, communication is hampered by the lack of shared ontologies. Ontology negotiation is a technique that enables pairs of agents to overcome these difficulties by exchanging parts of their ontologies. As a result of these micro level solutions, a communication vocabulary emerges on a macro level. The goal of this paper is to ensure that this communication vocab...

Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous states, mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. It generally includes Australia and New Zealand, and is often taken to include New Guinea and Pacific Islands. Though there have been a number of published studies evaluating vitamin D status in Australia and New Zealand, data from the rest of Oceania are lacking.

To meet the needs for large-scale, high-quality learning contents, needless to say, we have to sharpen authoring tools. Authoring process can be roughly divided into two phases, a composing phase and a verification phase. A great deal of effort has been made on the support in the former phase. What seems to be lacking, however, is that in the latter. An ontology-aware authoring tool we have bee...