The struggle for Syria : Iran-Qatar ties come under stress by James M. Dorsey

“…The struggle by Syrian opposition forces to topple the Assad regime is sharpening tensions between Iran and Qatar and threatens sectarian fault lines elsewhere in North Africa and Middle East. …”
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WTO membership and its critical importance to China. by Wong, Chak Mun.

“…For the political regime in China, WTO membership is crucial to the realisation of its vision for 21st Century China. …”
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The prevention and management of chronic kidney disease among patients with metabolic syndrome by Zhu, D, Judge, PK, Wanner, C, Haynes, R, Herrington, WG

“…In addition, statin-based regimens lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and reduce the risk of atherosclerotic disease (with no clinically meaningful effect on kidney outcomes). …”

Somatic gene mutation patterns and burden influence outcomes with enasidenib in relapsed/refractory IDH2-mutated AML by Risueño, A, See, WL, Bluemmert, I, de Botton, S, DiNardo, CD, Fathi, AT, Schuh, AC, Montesinos, P, Vyas, P, Prebet, T, Gandhi, A, Hasan, M

“…We recently reported results from the phase 3 IDHENTIFY trial (NCT02577406) showing improved response rates and event-free survival with enasidenib monotherapy compared with conventional care regimens (CCR) in heavily pretreated, older patients with late-stage R/R AML bearing IDH2 mutations. …”

Smooth object retrieval using a bag of boundaries by Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A

“…The descriptors are tolerant to scale changes, segmentation failures, and limited viewpoint changes. …”

Rethinking territorial disputes in the South China Sea : transforming problem into opportunity by Dato’ Muthiah Alagappa

“…Yet, they present an opportunity to construct a rules-based order grounded in principles and guided by an effective management regime and dispute settlement mechanism.…”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…Using regional purity can simultaneously prevent under-segmentation and over-segmentation problems during clustering. …”
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Image processing using neural network for auto-scoring system by Ruan, Zhendui.

“…Image processing comprises of image retrieval, segmentation and features extraction as well as classical statistical and modern classification techniques. …”
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Validating and valuing business models for the wireless entertainment industry. by Chee, Sow Har., Han, Hilda Mei Ian., Ho, Sarah Wei Jan.

“…The objective of this research is to examine the potential for wireless entertainment in Singapore and how it can be adapted to suit the needs of the different market segments. To find out whether there is market potential for such wireless applications, pursuance of consumer-focused research is a pre-requisite.…”
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Exposing digital image forgeries by detecting discrepancies in motion blur by Kakar, Pravin, Ser, Wee, Sudha, N.

“…Experimental results show that our technique provides good segmentation of regions with inconsistent motion blur. …”
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Non-equilibrium fluctuations for a spatial logistic branching process with weak competition by Tendron, T

“…We consider the weak competition regime where <em>c</em> tends to zero, corresponding to a local carrying capacity tending to infinity like 1/<em>c</em> as <em>c</em> vanishes.…”

A study on dense plasmas using molecular dynamics and X-ray scattering techniques by Mabey, P

“…The results are compared to recent experimental data, suggesting electron-ion dynamical effects could play a crucial role in the dynamic properties of matter in the WDM regime.</p>…”

Employee turnover : bad attitude or poor management? by Khadijah Abdul Rahman., Norfarhana Supaat., Norhayati Haron.

“…The variables for the turnover are segmented into three categories - controllable, uncontrollable and demographics.…”
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Coherently tunable triangular trefoil phaseonium metamaterial by Soci, Cesare, Nguyen, Duc Minh, Ooi, Raymond C. H.

“…We find that, in the metallic regime, the phaseonium metamaterial structure supports extremely large transmission, with optical amplification at large enough intensity of the microwave thanks to strong surface plasmon coupling; while, in the dielectric regime without microwave excitation, the transmission bandwidth can be tuned by varying the control beam intensity. …”
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Modal phase-matched bound states in the continuum for enhancing third harmonic generation of deep ultraviolet emission by Abdelraouf, Omar A. M., Anthur, Aravind P., Wang, Renshaw Xiao, Wang, Qi Jie, Liu, Hong

“…However, NLOs are limited by their bulky size, inadequate transparency at the DUV regime, and stringent phase-matching requirements for harmonic generation. …”
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Ending the Syrian conflict : foreign intervention or renewed political process? by Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan

“…The massacre of more than 100 people in the west-central town of Houla last month brought condemnation of the brutal regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by the U.N. …”
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Rethinking the efficacy of the SEANWFZ treaty by Chew, Alvin

“…ASEAN needs to rethink the purpose of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone as a regime for nuclear non-proliferation.…”
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Automatic cardiac ventricular boundary detection by Cheng, Jierong

“…The final segmentation to find the actual LV boundary in long-axis echocardiographic images is carried out using a Markovian level set method. …”
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Development of a mooring line model for coupled floating structure dynamic analysis by Bai, Ziyi

“…The model should possess the features of adding point buoys, clump weights, different anchor fairlead concepts and multiple line segments to a single mooring line. The model is proposed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. as multi-segmented quasi-static modelling. …”
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Self-similar sketch by Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…The resulting collection of segments constitutes a "sketch" of the image. This is applied to the task of estimating vanishing points, horizon, and zenith in standard benchmark data, obtaining state-of-the-art results. …”