An immunoinformatic approach for identifying and designing conserved multi-epitope vaccines for coronaviruses by Ong, Yu Chuan, Tejo, Bimo Ario, Yap, Wei Boon

“…Results: A total of 132 epitopes were identified, with the majority of them found to be conserved across the bat CoVs, pangolin CoVs, endemic coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). …”
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Land ase analysis for Surabaya metropolitan area urban transportation planning using spatial method by Abidin, Zainal, Prasetijo, Joewono, Mohd Masirin, Mohd Idrus

“…The East Java Province, which includes the city of Surbaya, is home to Indonesia's second-largest economic zone. …”
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The Usage of Islamic Financial Services in Zanzibar: The Influence of Accessibility, Relevancy and Expected Benefits by Moh’d Khamis, Fauz, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Yusuff, Noraini

“…In addition, the current study provides the evidence about usage of Islamic financial services in new environment; Zanzibar, the emerging Islamic financial market in East Africa…”
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Bilateral Trade Welfare Impacts of India’s Export Ban of Non-Basmati Rice Using the Global Partial Equilibrium Simulation Model (GSIM) by Fathelrahman, Eihab, Osman, Raeda, Hoag, Dana Loyd Keske, Sixt, Gregory N., Strzepek, Kenneth

“…Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Cooperation Council regions were most affected. …”
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The Matter of the Hold: Housing futures and the paradigm of the ship by Donovan, Inge, Pankhurst, David

“…This familiar pattern is currently playing out in the phased demolition of the Bunker Hill Public Housing Development, the largest affordable housing community on the East Coast. The BHHD can be seen in contrast to the Charlestown Navy Yard, an adjacent shipyard where centuries of investment have established a robust infrastructure of maintenance. …”
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Why are territorial disputes left unresolved? Finding the true utility of ASEAN through a mixed-method analysis on the case of Malaysia and its territorial disputes in Southeast A... by Chan, Felicia Jia Hui, Ng, Wei Ting

“…Based on our analysis, our dissertation will answer the following questions - (1) What are the factors that cause territorial disputes to be unresolved in South East Asia?, (2) What are the dispute management tactics that ASEAN and ASEAN member states have implemented to resolve territorial disputes within ASEAN, and (3) Why are territorial disputes in ASEAN still in existence? …”
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Preparation of porous carbon materials by polyphosphazene as precursor for sorption of U(VI) by Liu, Xiaopeng, Liu, Yan, Wang, Yun, Yuan, Dingzhong, Liu, Jinbiao, Chew, Jia Wei

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Chen Wen Hsi: more than Chinese painting by Lee, Ju-Lyn

“…More importantly, they demonstrate that he also activated them as medium or form to transfer his artistic ideologies, such as on the combinations of the “East” and “West”, traditionality and modernity, and the importance of individualism, innovation, and internationalisation. …”
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On cultural filters in Lin Shu's Chinese translation of David Copperfield by Yang, Jinyu

“…This thesis takes the first Chinese translation of David Copperfield, Kuai Rou Yu Sheng Shu (《块肉余生述》) as the source text to analyze the way in which Lin Shu resolved the cultural conflicts between the East and the West in the process of translation, especially in terms of religious and ethical culture, while exploring the hidden personal literary ideals as well as the historical influence reflected in the translation. …”
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New model for identifying critical success factors influencing BIM adoption from precast concrete manufacturers' view by Phang, Thomas C. H., Chen, Chen, Tiong, Robert Lee Kong

“…From the survey responses of 53 respondents from the PC industry in various countries including Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, China, Korea, Taiwan, the Middle East, and Finland, the study successfully identified a total of eight CSFs, which are regarded as the main contributions this research makes to the body of knowledge. …”
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Investment outlook for the medium range tanker segment from the perspective of a ship financier from 2011 to 2015 by Han, Peinan.

“…This research aims to provide the freight market outlook for MR product tanker in the East of Suez from 2011 to 2015 and determine whether investors should invest in MR tanker shipping equities. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…Regarded as the literati ahead of his contemporaries, his words would come to ring true in the following century, as the concept of identity (and national identity) would rise to the forefront of most literature coming out of East Asia, with the traditions and cultures of these nations challenged by the onset of modernization (or Westernization) into the region. …”
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Interactive Sonification of Weather Data for The Locust Wrath, a Multimedia Dance Performance by Lindborg, PerMagnus

“…The sonifications represented weather systems pushing through South-East Asia in complex patterns. The climate was rendered as a piece of electroacoustic music, whose compositional form - gesture, timbre, intensity, harmony, spatiality - was determined by the data. …”
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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. …”