Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the improvement of living standards, collective as well as individual prosperity of people and economic development of member’s states. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as the result of collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, gas and oil are very important factors in this re...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author Zlatko Kolondzovski Name of the dissertation Thermal and mechanical analyses of high-speed permanent-magnet electrical machines Manuscript submitted 19.11.2009 Manuscript revised 11.02.2010 Date of the defence 06.08.2010 Monograph Article dissertation (summary + o...

This paper introduces a new approach for utilizing the multi-resolution wavelet decomposing for shoreline change rate detection from RADARSAT-1 SAR image. The wavelet approximation of the Two RADARSAT-1 SAR images (1998-2004) defined by the sum two-dimensional wavelet functions at different scales and locations. The raw RADARSAT-1 SAR images were decomposed into a low and high frequencies image...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between community-level exposure to changes in economic conditions and the incidence and prevalence of mental disorders and cardiovascular disease in 29 resource-based communities (with a focus on mining communities) in British Columbia (BC) during a period of time marked by an economic downturn (1991–2002) The investigation relied o...