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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Mathematical foundation of data science by Fang, Xiaowei

“…Of particular interest is the Lasso algorithm for sparse regressions. Last but not least, equipped withthe geometry of low-dimensional random projections, we wrapped up the book with a glimpse ofGaussian images of sets, projections of ellipsoids and random projections in the Grassmannian. …”
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Afiksasi verba dalam bahasa Indonesia by Rajeg, GPW, Denistia, K

“…The quantitative distribution of verb affixation covers the affix productivity (i) in the whole corpus, (ii) by genres, and (iii) diachronically within the last ten years. The productivity of verb affixation shows variations based on text variety. …”

Turner‚ Bird‚ Eratosthenes: the eternal burning thread by Gibbons, J

“…<p>Functional programmers have many things for which to thank the late David Turner: design decisions he made in his languages SASL, KRC, and Miranda over the last 50 years are still influential and inspirational now. …”

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. …”

Sages, smokers, sojourners : the religion of the void in China and Southeast Asia by Soh, Esmond Chuah Meng

“…This thesis discusses the institutions, beliefs, and the rituals of the Zhenkongjiao in East and Southeast Asia throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. …”
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Distribution and cycling of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in peatland-draining rivers and coastal waters of Sarawak, Borneo by Martin, Patrick, Cherukuru, Nagur, Tan, Ashleen S. Y., Sanwlani, Nivedita, Mujahid, Aazani, Müller, Moritz

“…South-East Asia is home to one of the world's largest stores of tropical peatland and accounts for roughly 10% of the global land-to-sea dissolved organic carbon (DOC) flux. …”
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E-cigarette (EC) and heated tobacco product (HTP) use in the United Arab Emirates, an emerging EC and HTP market: a cross-sectional analysis of the International Tobacco Control (I... by Leinberger-Jabari, A, Ahmad, A, Lindson, N, Oke, J, Hartmann-Boyce, J, Fong, G, El-Shahawy, O, Raghib, A, Sherman, S

“…<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> E-cigarettes (ECs) and heated tobacco products (HTPs) are recent arrivals to the nicotine product market in the Middle East, which are rapidly growing in popularity in the region. …”

末代华文教育分子的后代 = The evolution of Chinese teaching in Singapore by 颜灵恺 Gan, Ling Kai

“…The descendants of the last elements of Chinese Education in Singapore.…”
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Filipino nursesʼ use of smartphones in clinical settings by Bautista, John Robert Razote

“…Results also showed that specific items reflecting the use of smartphones for communication purposes differed according to gender, age, hospital ownership, nursing area, number of patients handled in last shift, and presence of a hospital-provided mobile phone. …”
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Network steganography – an investigation of covert channels in network protocols by Tan, Soon Siang.

“…In particular, the program makes use of Jpcap, a Java library for capturing and sending network packets to create the customized TCP/IP packets used to transmit hidden information. The last part of the report explores the applications, detection and ethical concerns of Steganography. …”
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Mexico: positioning for a transformational upstream opening in 2015 by Sandrea, I, Taylor, R

“…Mexico’s proven base of resources is quite unique and within the top 10 on a world scale relative to other international emerging areas that have received high investment interest over the last five years, such as Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Morocco. …”

Professor Ts. Dr. Mohd Rusllim Mohamed appointed as President of AUSC by Mohd Aznorizamin, Ismail

“…Mohd Rusllim Mohamed was appointed as the President of the Asean University Sports Council (AUSC) for the period 2023 to 2025 in the 5th AUSC General Assembly 2022 held at the Doubletree By Hilton Hotel in Kota Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.…”
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A sketch grammar of Singapore Foochow by Thang, Marcus Guo Ping

“…Foochow is an Eastern Min (or East Fujian) language, which is also widely known as a dialect, both in China and in Singapore. …”
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A sketch grammar of Chang. by Chor, Wan Ting.

“…This paper describes a sketch grammar of Chang, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nagaland state, north-east India. The sketch grammar uses data collected from a fieldwork in Nagaland. …”
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Epistemic motives and cultural conformity : need for closure, culture, and context as determinants of conflict judgments. by Fu, Ho Ying., Lee, Sau-Lai., Morris, Micheal W., Chao, Melody., Chiu, Chi Yue., Hong, Ying Yi.

“…Individual differences in NFC interact with cultural group variables to determine East Asian versus Western differences in conflict style and procedural preferences (Study 1). information gathering in disputes (Study 2), and fairness judgment in reward allocation (Study 3). …”
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