Borderscapes: From Border Landscapes to Border Aesthetics

Financial Burden of Border Hospital in Caring for Cross-Border Patients: A Short Note From Thailand

From Hadrons to Nuclei: Crossing the Border

The study of nuclei predates by many years the theory of quantum chromodynamics. More recently, effective field theories have been used in nuclear physics to “cross the border” from QCD to a nuclear theory. We are now entering the second decade of efforts to develop a perturbative theory of nuclear interactions using effective field theory. This chapter describes the current status of these eff...

Border control: From Technical to Operational evaluation

One of the major advantages of face recognition, compared to other biometrics, is the ease-of-use: no contact with the sensor, fast, in-line with the human way of recognizing people. In a border control scenario, fully automated gates using face recognition have now been deployed. As a passenger may use an automated solution only once in his life, the deployed system must operate with as little...

Comparison of Border - to - Border Budget Based Network

Border Tourism on the Russian - Chinese Border

The paper focuses on the tourism development strategy of the Amur Oblast called “Twin Cities”. Said initiative became the first attempt of the Russian Far Eastern regions to create the hospitality industry towards Chinese tourists in the Sino-Russian borderlands. Bringing together such sub-disciplines as border tourism, urban planning and territorial development helps to find out the peculiarit...