The south Caucasus and Central Asia will be of growing geopolitical significance to the West and NATO over the next 10–15 years because of their potential contribution to global energy supplies and energy security and the risk that conflict and instability could spread beyond the region, invite foreign military intervention, provoke a resurgence of Russian neo-imperialism, redefine the territor...

" While the microscope possesses a certain scientific value in malaria, which is still indefinite, there is no doubt that it has acquired a very distinct commercial value in the profession ; indeed Ross has gone so far as to state that ' the success of Imperialism in the coming century will depend largely on the microscope in malaria,' notwithstanding that the science of malarial parasitology h...

The idea of the garden began in the ancient Near East, in concert with the origins and development of agriculture, urbanism, and imperialism. From the start, exotic flora and fauna played vital roles in the world's earliest transformations of the natural environment, creating physical and metaphysical gardens of far-reaching significance. This paper examines selected aspects of exotica in Mesop...

we present a novel and e±cient scheme that selects a minimal set of effective features and channels for detecting the p300 component of the event-related potential in the brain-computer interface (bci) paradigm. for obtaining a minimal set of effective features, we take the truncated coe±cients of discrete daubechies 4 wavelet, and for selecting the effective eeg channels, we utilize an improve...