Islam buddhism : preserving harmonious relations by Mohammad, Alami Musa

“…The creeping Muslim-Buddhist tension and the recent alliance forged among hard-line Buddhist nationalist movements in the "saffron crescent" countries of South and South-east Asia will undermine inter-religious relations in the world today. …”
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Wedge strategies, Japan-ASEAN cooperation, and the making of EAS: implications for Indo-Pacific institutionalization by Koga, Kei

“…Second, its geographical scope goes beyond Southeast Asia, focusing on East Asia—the combination of Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. …”
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Microbial lipid production from food waste saccharified liquid and the effects of compositions by Ma, Xiaoyu, Gao, Zhen, Gao, Ming, Ma, Yingqun, Ma, Hongzhi, Zhang, Min, Liu, Yu, Wang, Qunhui

“…The residues of food waste after removing waste cooking oils could be converted to microbial lipid by oleaginous yeasts and microbial lipid could be used as a raw material of biodiesel with waste cooking oils. …”
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R-loopDB: a database for R-loop forming sequences (RLFS) and R-loops by Jenjaroenpun, Piroon, Wongsurawat, Thidathip, Sutheeworapong, Sawannee, Kuznetsov, Vladimir A.

“…It includes genome-scale prediction of RLFSs for humans, six other animals and yeast. Using the extended quantitative model of RLFSs (QmRLFS), we significantly increased the number of RLFSs predicted in the human genes and identified RLFSs in other organism genomes. …”
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Expression of recombinant geobacillus SP a-amylase in pichia pastoris GS 115 by Gandhi, Sivasangkary

“…Pichia pastoris is a currently well established methanol utilizing yeast expression system. The aim of the studies was to produce a recombinant Geobacillus sp. α-amylase SR74 in P. pastoris GS115 and characterize the biochemical properties of the purified recombinant α-amylase. …”
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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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Measuring shear wave velocity using bender elements by Leong, Eng Choon, Yeo, Sir Hoon, Rahardjo, Harianto

“…The interpretation of the bender element test can be improved if two performance criteria are adopted: (1) a signal-to-noise ratio of at least 4 dB for the receiver signal, and (2) a wave path length to wavelength ratio of at least 3.33. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

“…Of particular note is that the exhaustiveness in 3-round trail core search of at least one out-Kernel α is only experimentally verified. …”
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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. …”