Forecasting the occurrence of injection-induced heterogeneous slip on rock fractures by Fang, Zhou, Jia, Yunzhong, Wu, Wei

“…The determination of frictional resistance is based on the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion with fluid pressure and friction coefficient on discrete segments of the fracture, and the length of fluid pressure front is calculated from hydraulic diffusivity and elapsed time. …”
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Design and analysis of an 8-bit SAR analog-digital converter by Wang, Ting.

“…The simulation results show that the 8-bit SAR ADC is able to convert the 256 input segments within 0.7V into corresponding digital bits correctly at the 10MHz clock frequency. …”
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On assigning place names to geography related web pages by Zong, Wenbo, Wu, Dan, Sun, Aixin, Lim, Ee Peng, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…A rule-based place name disambiguation method and a place name assignment method capable of assigning place names to web page segments have also been proposed. We have evaluated our proposed disambiguation and assignment methods on a web page collection referenced by the DLESE metadata collection. …”
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The influence of rainfall on the level of two-lane highway service by Mashros, Nordiana

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Ergonomic design parameters for Malaysian car driver seating position by Rashid, Zuli'zam

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A New Invention Method to Determine the Reduction Factor for Low Fabric Tension Properties for Head Garment Fabrication by Aiman, A.F., Salleh, Mohamed Najib, Ismail, Khairul Azwan

“…Pressure garment fabric mostly supplied to the local hospitals with no information of the material properties and the fabrication method generally used a single reduction factor at various body segments. Reduction factor defined as the percentage of reducing the garment size from the original circumference of the body part which contributes to the compression. …”
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HiTrip: Historical trajectory interpolation for trawlers via deep learning on multi-source data by Zhao, Zhongning, Chen, Jiaxuan, Shi, Yuqi, Hong, Feng, Jiang, Guiyuan, Huang, Haiguang, Zhao, Jinhua

“…Moreover, when evaluated on a diverse Global Fishing Watch dataset, which includes 45 trawlers spanning various global maritime regions, HiTrip maintains a 0.40 km error, emphasizing its broad generalization ability.…”
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Scene text detection using neural network by Tan, Yi Hong

“…The scene text detection formula that uses region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN), is extremely standard in recent years. …”
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Southeast Asian maritime security in the age of terror : threats, opportunity, and charting the course forward by Bradford, John

“…At the beginning of 2005, Southeast Asian security cooperation is still regarded as inadequate to defend the region against maritime threats. however, structural, economic and normative factors are enabling greater cooperation in the post-9/11 "Age of Terror". this article opens with a brief outline of the history of Southeast Asian maritime security cooperation from 1990 to December 2004, and then discusses the various maritime threats faced by the region. …”
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Efficient visual search of videos cast as text retrieval by Sivic, J, Zisserman, A

“…This requires a visual analogy of a word which is provided here by vector quantizing the region descriptors. The final ranking also depends on the spatial layout of the regions. …”

Redefining Ancient Epirus

“…Ancient Epirus, ‘the Mainland’ of the Odyssey, has meant different things at different times. Covering a region that today spans parts of south Albania and north-west Greece, Epirus was an important crossroad in antiquity, a meeting place of different peoples and cultures. …”

The impact of broadcast satellites on education by Joompol Rodcumdee

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Potential biosecurity issues on agribusiness by Shang, Lijun, Ibbotson, Olivia

“…Potential biosecurity issues on agribusiness - Speech presentation for the international workshop entitled “Climate Change and Natural Hazards in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: Security Impacts and Crisis Management”, organized by Med-Or in Rome in November 2024.…”
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R-CNN minus R by Lenc, K, Vedaldi, A

“…However, the role of segmentation in CNN detectors remains controversial. …”

The responsibility to protect in Southeast Asia : opening up spaces for advancing human security by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…Furthermore, there is an accompanying, more general ambivalence towards the perceived relevance of the norm for Southeast Asia, due to the perceived nature and/or intensity of conflicts in the region. Against this backdrop, this article attempts to shed light on a subaltern discourse in the region that argues that the RtoP is not only relevant, but that it is critical it be operationalised in light of the various manifestations of conflict that plague the region.…”
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The Capacities of Coast Guards to deal with Maritime Challenges in Southeast Asia by Prabhakaran, Paleri

“…The vast and complex maritime dimension of Southeast Asia is a major determinant of the challenges the region face. The maritime challenges are examined with reference to law enforcement and services under national and international obligations of the governments of the region. …”
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Temperatures, conflict and forced migration in West Asia and North Africa by Abdel Ghany, J

“…The region of West Asia and North Africa has not only been termed a “hotspot” region for the adverse impact of climate change in light of extreme temperature increases. …”

A Proposed Framework of Unemployment and Youth Restiveness in the North-Eastern Nigeria: Exloring the Role of the “Almajiri” Culture by Abbo, Usman, Romle, Abd Rahim

“…More so as unemployment in Nigeria increase by 16% from 2011 to 2013 representing 39.9%, with youth unemployment representing 50% of this, where the north-eastern region continue to manifest the worst poverty rate compare to the other five geo-political zones couple with the existence of about 10 million “Almajiris” in the entire northern region which is much more than the total population of Sweden and the result of several investigation panels revealing the involvement of “Almajiri” in most of the violence occurring in the northern region from 1980 to 2010, where the vulnerability of the “Almajiri” due to abject poverty makes them a tool for unleashing violence by some unscrupulouselements. …”
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Design and analysis of a slider-level piezoelectric sensor array for head-disk contact detection by Yuan, Yanhui, Du, Hejun, Chow, Kun Shyong, Zhang, Mingsheng, Yu, Shengkai, Liu, Bo

“…To realize higher areal densities towards 10 Tbit/in2, the ever decreasing flying height of the slider approaches the near-contact regime. It is essential to monitor head-disk interactions to prevent instability and damage to the head-disk interface. …”
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The strategy of coercive isolation U.S. security policy by Timonthy W. Crawford

“…Finally, we examine the role and utility of coercive isolation in three problem areas of U.S. security policy—humanitarian intervention, counter-proliferation, and regime change.…”
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