CORRUPTION AND FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

CORRUPTION AND FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

This paper addresses the issue of corruption, and does in the context of different forms of government.Using democracies as a reference point they are compared, using corruption as a measure, with each of the other forms of government.In the case of small states it was not possible to do an analysis as the Transparency website did click here not re

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A Distributed Spatial Method for Modeling Maritime Routes

In this work we propose a novel spatial knowledge discovery pipeline capable of automatically unravelling the “roads of the sea” and maritime traffic patterns by analysing voluminous vessel tracking data, as collected through the Automatic Identification System (AIS).We present a computationally efficient and highly accurate solution,

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Transcriptomic de novo analysis of pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) canker disease caused by Neoscytalidium dimidiatum

Abstract Background Canker disease caused by Neoscytalidium dimidiatum is the most serious disease that attacks the pitaya industry.One pathogenic fungus, referred to as ND8, was isolated from the here wild-type red-fleshed pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) of Hainan Province.In the early stages of this disease, stems show little spots and a loss of g

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