The first complete mitochondrial genome of the critically endangered Malaysian giant turtle, Orlitia borneensis (Testudines: Geoemydidae) by Salleh, Mohd Hairul Mohd, Esa, Yuzine

“…The Batagur control region is relatively smaller than O. borneensis and closer to Aldabrachelys gigantea, which suggests potentially that O. borneensis has undergone an expansion in the control region.…”

Quantification of Historical Riverbank Erosion and Population Displacement Using Satellite Earth Observations and Gridded Population Data by Islam, Md S., Mitra, Juthi R.

“…The analysis revealed that the region has experienced extreme erosion over the past three decades, with the central region exhibiting the highest erosion rates (-128.5 m/year). …”
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Content analysis in media mobile retrieval by Liang, Wei Keong.

“…After executing the saliency algorithm, an additional step of defining a boundary region to capture the most salient region was also implemented. …”
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Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…The problem is that lower oil revenues also affect industry, forcing operators to review their investment portfolios to focus on the best regimes and geological prospects.</p> <p>The region’s recent positive developments are taking place against a background where a large number of countries in the region (including Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guyana, and Suriname) have fallen out of favour with oil and gas investors, in some cases for a number of years. …”

Learning to detect partially overlapping instances by Arteta, C, Lempitsky, V, Noble, JA, Zisserman, A

“…Our approach is to propose a set of candidate regions, and then select regions based on optimizing a global classification score, subject to the constraint that the selected regions are non-overlapping. …”

A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems by Ofir, Ron, Margaliot, Michael, Levron, Yoash, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

“…The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. …”
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Dual-frequency vortex-induced vibrations of long flexible stepped cylinders by Li, Ang, Mentzelopoulos, Andreas, Triantafyllou, Michael S., Fan, Dixia

“…Therefore, we experimentally studied the problem of dual-frequency VIV of a stepped flexible cylinder, viz., a large-aspect ratio flexible cylinder consisting of two segments with different diameters and rigid cylinder forced vibration experiments. …”
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Improving air traffic control speech intelligibility by reducing speaking rate effectively by Hou, Nana, Tian, Xiaohai, Chng, Eng Siong, Ma, Bin, Li, Haizhou

“…Such identified phoneme segments can then be lengthened. We will examine effects of lengthening vowels-only, consonants-only, or homogeneous lengthening. …”
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Efficient feedforward categorization of objects and human postures with address-event image sensors by Chen, Shoushun, Akselrod, Polina, Zhao, Bo, Carrasco, Jose Antonio Perez, Linares-Barranco, Bernabe, Culurciello, Eugenio

“…The detected line features are organized into vectorial segments. After feature extraction, a modified line segment Hausdorff-distance classifier combined with on-the-fly cluster-based size and position invariant categorization. …”
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The geometry and matching of lines and curves over multiple views by Schmid, C, Zisserman, A

“…<br> A set of algorithms are then described for automatically matching individual line segments and curves between images. The algorithms use both photometric information and the multiple view geometric relationships. …”

Embracing the New Norms: The Role of Ar Rahnu Yapeim During COVID-19 (S/O 14958) by Md Nor, Mohd Zakhiri, Mohamad, Ani Munirah, Hussain, Mohammad Azam, Mohd Nasir, Nor Ashikin

“…This teaching case discovered that YaPEIM's Rahnu Care product was based on societal segments and needs. This is because the customer pays rental of safekeeping box based on ijarah al khadamat contract, which they entered into first before the contract of tawarruq, the migration from qard to tawarruq does not change the wage fee. …”
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Effect of Ni and Co nanoparticle-doped flux on microstructure of SAC305 solder matrix by Bashir, Muhammad Nasir, Haseeb, Abdul S.Md Abdul, Wakeel, Saif, Khan, Muhammad Ali, Quazi, Moinuddin Mohammed, Khan, Niaz Bahadur, Ahmed, Arslan, Soudagar, Manzoore Elahi M.

“…Microstructure of the eutectic region and β-Sn grain of the solder matrix play an important role in the properties of the Sn-based solder joint. …”
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Assessing compounding climate-related stresses and development pathways on the power sector in the central U.S. by Gurgel, Angelo Costa, Reilly, John, Morris, Jennifer, Schlosser, C. Adam, Gao, Xiang, Yuan, Mei, Tapia-Ahumada, Karen

“…Potential supply gaps range from 5% in the North Central region under mild changes in climate to 21% in the Lakes-Mid Atlantic region under more severe climate change. …”
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The future of nuclear security in the Asia-Pacific : expanding the role of Southeast Asia by Trajano, Julius Cesar, Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…The nature of regional cooperation on capacity building taking place in Southeast Asia certainly provides a good foundation to pursue a more robust collaborative framework for nuclear security in the wider Asia-Pacific region. …”
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Reinterpreting politics in thirteenth-century south-west Wales by Brodie, HD

“…This thesis analyses the political behaviour of Welsh and Marcher lords in a geographically-distinct region: south-west Wales. It examines the challenges they faced and how they responded, and in the light of this, offers new perspectives on the political narrative of the period between the outbreak of war in south-west Wales following the accession of Richard I in 1189 and the end of Welsh lordship in the region with Rhys ap Maredudd’s revolt in 1287. …”

Strengthening climate resilience: Urban water technologies for heat-resilient physical infrastructure in Southeast Asia cities amidst extreme temperature events and El Nino challen... by Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Goh, Kai Chen, Goh, Hui Hwang, Zhang, Dongdong, Jiang, Meihui, Dai, Wei, Ali, Imran, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Aziz, Faissal, Anouzla, Abdelkader, Haddout, Soufiane, Christia Meidiana, Christia Meidiana

“…In the face of escalating climate change impacts, Southeast Asia is witnessing a growing urgency to fortify regional cities against extreme temperatures and the exacerbating effects of El Niño events. …”

Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF): Towards a Better Understanding of Vegetation Dynamics and Carbon Uptake in Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems by Cheng, Rui

“…Purpose of Review Terrestrial ecosystems in the Arctic-Boreal region play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle as a carbon sink. …”
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Flood risk analysis under consideration of river system dynamics and spatial temporal scales by Oliver, Julien

“…This work presents novel and enhanced flood risk assessment frameworks designed to address three limitations of existing flood risk estimation methods, including: (i) the influences of morpho-dynamics and dike failure on risks patterns, (ii) the spatial coherency of regional flood events, and (iii) future flood risk adaptation at the regional scale. …”
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Validation of a multiplexed immunoassay for immunological analysis of pre erythrocytic malaria vaccines by Stockdale, LK, Provstgaard-Morys, S, Bellamy, D, Woods, D, Rapi, K, Bajer, A, Hollingdale, B, Muñoz, O, Malik, S, Hill, AVS, Ewer, KJ

“…This assay can be used to measure antibodies specific to the CSP NANP repeat region, CSP C-term region, full length R21 and HBsAg.…”

An Optimal MPC Algorithm for Subunit-Monge Matrix Multiplication, with Applications to LIS by Koo, Jaehyun

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