A review of offshore decommissioning regulations in five countries – strengths and weaknesses by Fam, Mei Ling, Konovessis, Dimitris, Tan, Hoon Kiang, Ong, Lin Seng

“…Two oil-producing countries in South East Asia, Malaysia and Thailand are also reviewed to identify potential gaps in decommissioning legislation for countries in its infancy in decommissioning. …”
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Book review : Religion, populism, and modernity: confronting white Christian nationalism and racism by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…From the United States to the Middle East and from Asia to Africa, religious nationalism is an important component of political activity and organisation. …”
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Pentecostalisation, the American Christian right, and civil religion in Ghana by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Ghana is the first west African nation to be subject to sustained attention from elements of the US Christian Right, following similar efforts in east Africa, particularly in relation to Kenya and Uganda. …”
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'Women in an extraordinary time': the transnational network and educational spaces of the Canadian Eiwa Girls' mission schools in 1920s and 1930s Japan by Dugal, A

“…These actors envisioned Christianity, women, youth, education, and mutual exchange across state and East-West divides as able to foster understanding between individuals of different nations. …”

Multidecadal Morphodynamic evolution of shorelines and coral reefs along the Arabian Sea Coast of Oman: Bar Al Hikman Peninsula by Teillet, T, Bois, P, Homewood, P, Mettraux, M, Samimi-Namin, K, Vahrenkamp, V

“…Unlike other densely populated, low-lying coastal areas in the Middle East (e.g., the Gulf), the southern Arabian Plate has received limited attention, with few studies addressing its coastal evolution or future environmental risks. …”

Rice stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values as potential indicators of watering and manuring regimes by Wu, R, Belfield, EJ, Dong, Y, Feng, S, Fu, X, Harberd, NP, Yang, F, Charles, M, Bogaard, A

“…Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important cereal crop across East, South and Southeast Asia, from prehistory to today, and grows in a range of ecological conditions, from rainfed upland to deep water. …”

Local rainfall is more likely than distant thunderstorms to affect movement behaviour in Northern Kenyan elephants by Mulder, T, Mortimer, B, Ferwerda, J, Vollrath, F

“…In our study site, lightning to the North and East often preceded local rainfall and could possibly be used to anticipate local wet periods, but local rainfall appears a more likely trigger of behavioural change. …”

Estimating parameter distributions and developing epidemiological methods and tools to support gastrointestinal outbreak investigation by Awofisayo-Okuyelu, A

“…In some high-profile outbreaks, such as the STEC O104 outbreak in Germany or the large 2009 STEC O157 outbreak in South East England, incubation periods were longer than expected complicating the collection of exposure data and the outbreak investigation process. …”

Divine assemblies in early Greek and Mesopotamian narrative poetry by Ballesteros Petrella, B

“…Although the Greeks are unlikely to have taken over the feature from the Near East, it is suggested that the Greek divine assembly is not to be detached form a Near Eastern context. …”

A Synoptic- and Remote Sensing-based Analysis of a Severe Dust Storm Event over Central Asia by Broomandi, P, Mohammadpour, K, Kaskaoutis, DG, Fathian, A, Abdullaev, SF, Maslov, VA, Nikfal, A, Jahanbakhshi, A, Aubakirova, B, Kim, JR, Satyanaga, A, Rashki, A, Middleton, N

“…The prevailing meteorological conditions showed an intensification of air subsidence over eastern Kazakhstan, featured in a typical omega-blocking system over the region and two troughs to its west and east axis, one day before the dust storm. The prevailing high-pressure system and temperature gradients over Kazakhstan modulated the dominant anticyclonic wind pattern generated from the south Balkhash basin toward the Caspian Sea, causing a huge dust storm that covered the southern half of Kazakhstan and large parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. …”

A comparative analysis of virtual education technology, E-learning systems research advances, and digital divide in the global south by Akpan, Ikpe Justice, Offodile, Onyebuchi Felix, Akpanobong, Aloysius Chris, Kobara, Yawo Mamoua

“…The results show that ‘East Asia and the Pacific’ (EAP) spent significantly more on (R&D) and achieved the highest scientific literature publication (SLP), with significant impacts. …”
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The threshold analysis of economic growth, FDI and trade on environment pollution in China using provincial panel data by Tang, Caihong, Rosland, Anitha, Yasmeen, Rizwana, Long, Yunfei

“…Based on our empirical results, it is suggested that the Chinese government needs to pay more attention to the unbalanced economic development and environment governance between east and middle & western areas, and take measures to prevent the transfer of polluting industries from China’s developed provinces to undeveloped middle and western provinces.…”

Correlation analysis on crash factor in Surabaya-Manyar toll road by Nurani Hartatik, Nurani Hartatik, Prasetijo, Joewono, Dwi Prasetyo, Yudi, Muhammad Isradi, Muhammad Isradi, Khilda Nistrina, Khilda Nistrina, Atqiya Muslihati, Atqiya Muslihati

“…Data on the volume of vehicles and frequency of accidents on the Surabaya-Manyar Toll Road between 2014 and 2018 were gathered through a collaborative effort between the Highway Patrol division of the East Java Regional Police and PT. Margabumi Matraraya, the toll road's management company. …”
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Mapping of sentiment analysis on food security among Malaysians using social media analytics by Rusli, Noradila, Lee, Yoke Lai, Rosley, Muhamad Solehin Fitry, Lee, Cher Enn, Hamzah, Maheran, Alias, Nurul Ezaila, Bahari, Noraini, Mamat, Mohd. Razif

“…Regional trends were observed, with the East Coast states and certain West Coast states having the highest number of tweets. …”
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Exposure therapy with personalized real-time arousal detection and feedback to alleviate social anxiety symptoms in an analogue adult sample : pilot proof-of-concept randomized con... by Lin, Bernice Xiangting, Lee, Tih-Shih, Cheung, Yin Bun, Ling, Joanna, Poon, Shi Hui, Lim, Leslie, Zhang, Hai Hong, Chin, Zheng Yang, Wang, Chuan Chu, Krishnan, Ranga, Guan, Cuntai

“…Seven (14.9%, 95% CI 7.0%-28.0%) participants reported at least one mild adverse event over the course of study. …”
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Harnessing cooperative multivalency in thioguanine for surface-enhanced raman scattering (SERS)-based differentiation of polyfunctional analytes differing by a single functional gr... by Nguyen, Lam Bang Thanh, Tan, Emily Xi, Leong, Shi Xuan, Koh, Charlynn Sher Lin, Madhumita, Murugan, Phang, In Yee, Ling, Xing Yi

“…However, differentiation of polyfunctional analogs sharing multiple functional groups remains challenging for conventional mono- and bidentate receptors because their insufficient number of binding sites limits interactions with the least reactive yet property-determining functional group. …”
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NIR “matchbox size” spectrometer can quantify and detect malaria infection in Plasmodium falciparum infected red blood cells by Adegoke, John A., Kochan, Kamila, Heraud, Philip, Wood, Bayden R.

“…New point-of-care diagnostic approaches for malaria that are highly sensitive, portable and affordable are urgently needed to meet the World Health Organization’s objective of reducing malaria cases and related life losses by at least 90% globally on or before 2030.1 In this study, an ultra-cheap matchbox size near-infrared (NIR) spectrophotometer was used for the first time to detect and quantify malaria infection in vitro from isolated dried red blood cells using a fingerpick volume (15 μl) of blood, down to 0.0001% parasitemia.…”
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Fabrication of a rotary MR brake and data collection by Sim, Desmond Huang De.

“…In this report, a finalized design of MR drum rotary brake which consists of 3 main sub-assemblies of external housing comprising of inner housing, rotor, coil holder, bearings and radial shaft seals can therefore ensure to achieve at least 5Nm of torque in the presence of magnetic field. …”
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Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments? by Saxena, Anju

“…The aim of this paper is to show that at least one language of this subbranch (PaTani) is tonal. …”
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Location tracking using UWB-RFID tags by Du, Ruo Gu.

“…The performances are evaluated to demostrate the accuracy of the system. Last but not least, simulation result of a three-dimensional location tracking system is presented to show the possible implementation of three-dimensional location tracking system. …”
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