Secondo : a platform for moving objects database research by Tan, Andrew Wee Teck

“…SECONDO is developed over the last decade by University of Hagen in Germany. It is an “extensible open-source DBMS environment” with “no fixed data model”. …”
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ECERDC UMP Cucumber Fertigation Project empowers socioeconomy of Orang Asli by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…LIPIS, 9 April 2023 – The Cucumber Fertigation Project undertaken by the East Coast Economic Region Development Council (ECERDC) and UMP Advanced with Orang Asli of Kampung Pantos has achieved the goal of strengthening the socioeconomy of Orang Asli through encouraging outcomes.…”
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Reform of Middle Eastern militaries : lessons from Indonesia by Dorsey, James M.

“…This illustrates the difficult road post-revolt nations in the Middle East and North Africa have to travel.…”
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Eastern Asia : Sino‐Tibetan linguistic history by LaPolla, Randy J.

“…The Sino‐Tibetan language family enshrines the migratory histories of many East Asian populations, including the Chinese, Tibetans, and Burmese. …”
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Israel vs Iran and its proxies: strategic stalemate or peace settlement? by Anderson, Lawrence

“…More than a year into Hamas’ deadly 7 October 2023 surprise attack on Israel, there is no certainty regarding peace and stability in the Middle East. The conflict rages on, even though Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s capability and capacity to attack Israel have been severely destroyed by Israeli military and technological operations. …”
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Shaman. by Lam, Yaocheng.

“…In the past decade, many east Asian countries have developed economically at an astonishing pace at the expense of the earth's climate.  …”
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Gulf Crisis: Battle for Future of Mideast & Muslim World? by Dorsey, James

“…The crisis in the Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Qatar is part of a larger struggle to establish a Saudi-dominated regional order in the Middle East and North Africa. While projecting Saudi Arabia and UAE as leaders in the fight against extremism, the outcome could empower a strand of Sunni ultra-conservativism that potentially enables radicalism.…”
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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. Qatar increasingly becomes a potential target for retaliation should the US and/or Israel attack Iranian nuclear facilities.…”
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Rethinking territorial disputes in the South China Sea : transforming problem into opportunity by Dato’ Muthiah Alagappa

“…The disputes in the East and South China Seas have not led to war so far, but they can stoke competitive nationalisms and strategic alignments with worrying consequences for regional peace and security. …”
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Mathematical foundation of data science by Fang, Xiaowei

“…Of particular interest is the Lasso algorithm for sparse regressions. Last but not least, equipped withthe geometry of low-dimensional random projections, we wrapped up the book with a glimpse ofGaussian images of sets, projections of ellipsoids and random projections in the Grassmannian. …”
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Afiksasi verba dalam bahasa Indonesia by Rajeg, GPW, Denistia, K

“…The quantitative distribution of verb affixation covers the affix productivity (i) in the whole corpus, (ii) by genres, and (iii) diachronically within the last ten years. The productivity of verb affixation shows variations based on text variety. …”

Turner‚ Bird‚ Eratosthenes: the eternal burning thread by Gibbons, J

“…<p>Functional programmers have many things for which to thank the late David Turner: design decisions he made in his languages SASL, KRC, and Miranda over the last 50 years are still influential and inspirational now. …”

Stabilization/solidification of Mn-contaminated clay slurry by using CaO-GGBS: effects of anions by Li, Wentao, Yi, Yaolin

“…Quicklime (CaO)-activated ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) can be used to stabilize/solidify (S/S) contaminated soils; nevertheless, few studies have been published on the S/S of Mn-contaminated clay slurries using CaO-GGBS. …”
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Market surveillance of porcine DNA detection in commercial food products in Sibu, Sarawak by Yong, S.P. A., Sajali, N., Desa, M. N. M., Koh, C. C., Sani, M., Wong, S. C., Lani, M. N., Wasoh, H., Abubakar, S.

“…Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) analysis revealed a high percentage identity (94.74 - 100%) to Sus scrofa domesticus (pig) as compared to sequences in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database. …”
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China’s ADIZ : South China Sea next? by Bitzinger, Richard A.

“…China’s establishment of an air-defence identification zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea has been criticised as destabilising to the regional status quo and a threat to freedom of navigation. …”
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South Korea’s maritime challenges : between a rock and a hard base by Euan, Graham

“…While domestic opposition still overhangs the construction of a new base on Jeju island, Seoul-Beijing diplomatic strains are meanwhile playing out in a lesser known East China Sea boundary dispute.…”
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Global norms in regional institutions : lessons from the African Union and ASEAN by Lotze, Walter, Stensland, Andreas, Ng, Joel

“…Acceptance of global norms by regional organisations is only the beginning of a long process of institutionalisation, as cases in the African Union (AU) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) demonstrate. This is complicated where norms originate outside a regional institution, yet the opportunity for reform is now present.…”
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Observations on the ecology and social organization of the green monkey, Cercopithecus sabaeus, in Senegal by Dunbar, RIM

“…The ecology and social organization of green monkeys is compared with that of populations of C. aethiops studied in East Africa and they are found to be similar.…”

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…In women, in nearly all countries in the Americas, north Africa, and the Middle East, and in many other high-income countries, high BMI is the leading risk factor, with high systolic blood pressure as the leading risk in most of Central and Eastern Europe and south and east Asia. …”

Sages, smokers, sojourners : the religion of the void in China and Southeast Asia by Soh, Esmond Chuah Meng

“…This thesis discusses the institutions, beliefs, and the rituals of the Zhenkongjiao in East and Southeast Asia throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. …”
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