The shift from a bipolar to a multipolar and multi-faceted world has reduced the risk of conventional inter-state wars, but has been ford tridon the cause of several intra-state armed conflicts with an even higher risk of regional instability.Such conflicts and the resurgence of a global activism have produced a dramatic growth in peacekeeping requ
In this study, hemispheric climatologies of explosive cyclones (ECs) derived using a set of different cyclone detection and tracking methods (CDTMs) are analysed.The aim is to evaluate trends and regional characteristics of ECs discussing consensus and disagreement among methods.Areas of both hemispheres characterised by relatively frequent presenc
The aim of this article is to present the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme and briefly outline its core components, followed by a review of what authoritative reports identify as skills for the future, esteemed by universities and the job market.There is a striking match between these skills and IB outcomes; thus, DP graduates perform wel
Several major religions exhibit complex attitudes towards self-mutilation and adornment.Judaism, Islam, and Christianity forbid marking the body and associate it with sin.Still, many people apparently have continued to feel a need for confirmation of mudra fitted tee their religion and their religious journeys by marking their bodies.This ethnograp
The efficiency of vector-valued intensity measures for predicting the seismic demand in gravity dams is investigated.The Folsom gravity dam-reservoir coupled system is selected and numerically analyzed under a set of two-hundred actual ground motions.First, the well-defined scalar IMs are separately investigated, and then training day horse supplem