Global norms in regional institutions : lessons from the African Union and ASEAN by Lotze, Walter, Stensland, Andreas, Ng, Joel

“…This is complicated where norms originate outside a regional institution, yet the opportunity for reform is now present.…”
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Smuggling of Migrants in Malaysia: The Case Study of Illegal Immigrants in the Northern Region by Ajis, Mohd Na'eim, Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Keling, Mohamad Faisol

“…The article discusses about migrant smuggling activities in the Northern Region of Peninsular Malaysia. Issues discussed include countries and borders that involved in the smuggling of migrant, types of transportation used, charges paid to the syndicates, parties involved in the process and the tactics of human smuggling. …”
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Anterior segment optical coherence tomography angiography following trabecular bypass minimally invasive glaucoma surgery by Gan, Jinyuan, Sng, Chelvin C. A., Ke, Mengyuan, Chieh, Chew Shi, Tan, Bingyao, Schmetterer, Leopold, Ang, Marcus

“…To assess anterior segment optical coherence tomography angiography (AS-OCTA) imaging of the episcleral vessels before and after trabecular bypass minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS).…”
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A three dimensional kinematic method for determining the effectiveness of arm segment rotations in producing clubhead speed by Teu, Koon Kiat

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Rupture and variable coupling behavior of the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust during the supercycle culmination of 1797 to 1833 by Philibosian, Belle, Sieh, Kerry, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Natawidjaja, Danny H., Chiang, Hong-Wei, Wu, Chung-Che, Perfettini, Hugo, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Daryono, Mudrik R., Suwargadi, Bambang W.

“…We conclude that while major earthquakes generally do not involve rupture of the entire Mentawai segment, they may significantly change the state of coupling on the megathrust for decades to follow, influencing the progression of subsequent ruptures.…”
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DRD-UNet, a UNet-like architecture for multi-class breast cancer semantic segmentation by Ortega-Ruíz, Mauricio Alberto, Karabağ, Cefa, Roman-Rangel, Edgar, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos

“…The histological images were released through the Breast Cancer Semantic Segmentation (BCSS) Challenge. DRD-UNet outperformed the original UNet architecture and 15 other UNet-based architectures on the segmentation of 12,930 image patches extracted from regions of interest that ranged in size between 1036×1222 to 6813×7360 pixels. …”
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Synthetic image data generation via rendering techniques for training AI-based instance segmentation by Kho, Dickson Yik Cheng, Norazlianie, Sazali, Ismayuzri, Ishak, Saiful Anwar, Che Ghani

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Dissolving the segmentation of a shared mobility market: A framework and four market structure designs by Guo, Xiaotong, Qu, Ao, Zhang, Hongmou, Noursalehi, Peyman, Zhao, Jinhua

“…We first propose a theoretical framework of shared mobility market segmentation and then propose four market structure designs thereupon. …”
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Highly polarized light emission by isotropic quantum dots integrated with magnetically aligned segmented nanowires by Jun, Shinae, Erdem, Talha, Guzelturk, Burak, Perkgöz, Nihan Kosku, Uran, Can, Jang, Eunjoo, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…In this work, we demonstrate a proof-of-concept system for generating highly polarized light from colloidal quantum dots (QDs) coupled with magnetically aligned segmented Au/Ni/Au nanowires (NWs). Optical characterizations reveal that the optimized QD-NW coupled structures emit highly polarized light with an s-to p-polarization (s/p) contrast as high as 15:1 corresponding to a degree of polarization of 0.88. …”
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Interfacial fracture behavior of double-ceramic-layer thermal barrier coating system with segmented structure by Li, Biao, Fan, Xueling, Wang, Tiejun, Zhou, Kun

“…Segmented double-ceramic-layer thermal barrier coating system (DCL-TBCs) is promising for application in next-generation turbines. …”
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Automated lesion segmentation and quantification for prediction of paradoxical worsening in patients with tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis by Kalra, Gagan, Agarwal, Aniruddha, Marchese, Alessandro, Agrawal, Rupesh, Bansal, Reema, Gupta, Vishali

“…Automated calculation of lesion metrics such as mean pixel intensity and segmented area in TB SLC is a novel approach with good repeatability in predicting PW during the follow-up.…”
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Spherical mask: coarse-to-fine 3D point cloud instance segmentation with spherical representation by Shin, S, Zhou, K, Vankadari, M, Markham, A, Trigoni, N

“…Coarse-to-fine 3D instance segmentation methods show weak performances compared to recent Grouping-based, Kernel-based and Transformer-based methods. …”

TriCoS: a tri-level class-discriminative co-segmentation method for image classification by Chai, Y, Rahtu, E, Lempitsky, V, Van Gool, L, Zisserman, A

“…We introduce TriCoS, a new co-segmentation algorithm that looks at all training images jointly and automatically segments out the most class-discriminative foregrounds for each image. …”

Restoration and segmentation of old Jawi manuscripts using variational image inpainting and active contour models by Laham, Mohamed Faris, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Badarul Azam, Amisha Balkis, Maasar, M. A, Badarul Azam, A. S., Mohammad Sabri, Nur Afiqah Sabirah, Yahaya, Amiratul Munirah, Ismail, Ahmad Thaqif, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Anas

“…Recently, the Gaussian Regularization Segmentation (GRS) model has shown effectiveness in intensity inhomogeneity grayscale image segmentation, though it was not designed for corrupted OJM images. …”
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Occlusion handling for augmented reality environment using neural network image segmentation: A review. by Ahmad, Muhammad Anwar, Mohd. Suaib, Norhaida, Ismail, Ajune Wanis

“…Recently, the advancements of handling occlusions for Augmented Reality (AR) introduces neural network-based image segmentation methods. However, it comes with increased computational costs. …”

Restoration and Segmentation of Old Jawi Manuscripts using Variational Image Inpainting and Active Contour Models by Badarul Azam, Akmal Shafiq, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Badarul Azam, Amisha Balkis, Mohammad Sabri, Nur Afiqah Sabirah, Yahaya, Amiratul Munirah, Ismail, Ahmad Thaqif, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Anas, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…Recently, the Gaussian Regularization Segmentation (GRS) model has shown effectiveness in intensity inhomogeneity grayscale image segmentation, though it was not designed for corrupted OJM images. …”
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Improving mental health response in earthquake-prone regions: recommendations following the recent earthquake in Türkiye by Ramalho, Rodrigo, Ersönmez, Rojda, Kına, İdil, Keçeci, İrem, Apparao, Ramin, Koh, Eugene B.Y., Coskun, Bülent

“…In this article, we put forward recommendations to help improve the mental health response in disaster-prone regions such as Türkiye. We recommend a three-step multi-tiered mental health response system that could significantly help to address the immediate, short-term and long-term mental health needs of communities directly affected by a disaster. …”
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Behind every domain there is a shift: adapting distortion-aware vision transformers for panoramic semantic segmentation by Zhang, J, Yang, K, Shi, H, ReiB, S, Peng, K, Ma, C, Fu, H, Torr, PHS, Wang, K, Stiefelhagen, R

“…Extensive experiments are conducted, which cover indoor and outdoor scenarios, and each of them is investigated with Pin2Pan and Syn2Real regimens. Trans4PASS+ achieves state-of-the-art performances on four domain adaptive panoramic semantic segmentation benchmarks. …”

Investment outlook for the medium range tanker segment from the perspective of a ship financier from 2011 to 2015 by Han, Peinan.

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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance before invasive coronary angiography in suspected non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction by Shanmuganathan, M, Nikolaidou, C, Burrage, MK, Borlotti, A, Kotronias, R, Scarsini, R, Banerjee, A, Terentes-Printzios, D, Pitcher, A, Gara, E, Langrish, J, Lucking, A, Choudhury, R, Luigi De Maria, G, Banning, A, Oxford Acute Myocardial Infarction (OxAMI) Study Investigators, Piechnik, SK, Channon, KM, Ferreira, VM

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> In suspected non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), this presumed diagnosis may not hold true in all cases, particularly in patients with nonobstructive coronary arteries (NOCA). …”