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The onshore Baram Delta, located in NW Sarawak is the birthplace of petroleum production in Malaysia. The Miri oilfield was first discovered in 1910 and subsequently abandoned in 1972 with intermittent exploration activities in the late 1980’s to early 1990’s. To rejuvenate exploration interest and to identify remaining hydrocarbon potential of the study area, in 2009-2010 JX Nippon acquired gravity, then regional 2D seismic data, followed-by exploration well drilling from 2011-2014. This paper discusses the social-environmental impacts and concerns associated with these petroleum exploration activities, from acquisition of seismic where explosives and vibroseis were used as a source of propagating signals, to exploration drilling with petroleum chemicals such as water-based muds used to facilitate the drilling operations. Overall, the inquiry addresses operational challenges, security of explosive storage and concern for handling explosives in the field, the social-environmental impacts of seismic acquisition operations, as well as removal of drilling fluid chemicals and disposal of contaminated cuttings. Containment procedures and mitigation measures undertaken to alleviate these social-environmental impacts are discussed according to the guidelines and regulatory requirements provided by the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), in conjunction with PETRONAS Procedures and Guidelines for Upstream Activities (PPGUA) and the company’s Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Management System. In the final analysis, significant environmental and social challenges were certainly encountered while planning and conducting petroleum exploration activities in the study area. These challenges include problems related to topographic variabilities, permitting issues, compensations for affected lands and cash crops; layout constraints, drilling operations, well control measures for blowout prevention, traffic controls, potential damage to infra-structures, explosive and equipment transportation. However, with proper planning, effective communication with the local authorities, and awareness sessions conducted for the affected parties and stakeholders; together with the support of the local communities the operations have not only managed to mitigate these social and environmental concerns, the exploration activities also provided economic benefits such as hotel accommodation, logistics and transportation demands for local businesses, and short-term employment opportunities for the local people. Ultimately, the operations successfully acquired nearly 900-line km of seismic across many villages, longhouses, and in the city areas, with four exploration wells were drilled in the exploration block. We are glad to report that both seismic and drilling operations were conducted successfully and safely with minimal interruptions to people and environment, without untoward incidents or spills. With the mitigation measures in place, there were no damages other than land access, which were remediated, where incurred.

International audience; This paper aims to identify the landscape of knowledge organization and representation applications developed in the open humanitarian data movement and consider how the high level of cultural interoperability can improve information exchange, the evaluation of humanitarian needs and the prioritization of humanitarian responses. Firstly, the paper presents reflections on the production, manipulation, and dissemination of open humanitarian data. Secondly, it discusses how knowledge organization meets the growing need to organize emerging forms of digital information. The case of Rohingya, a humanitarian disaster of historic proportion, is used to illustrate multilingual, cross-cultural, and social issues in knowledge organization and representation in humanitarian settings.

Background: HIV/AIDS is a serious disease. It is continuing to grow rapidly and spread both in Vietnam and many countries around the world. Recent studies show that approximately 10% of patients with cardiovascular disease. Around the world there are many studies on morphology and left ventricular systolic function by echocardiography in heart disease. The research aimed to evaluate the left ventricular structure and systolic function by echocardiographic in HIV infected and AIDS patients. Objectives: To study of the left ventricular structure and systolic function by echocardiographic in HIV infected and AIDS patients (HIV/AIDS). Methods: The study was performed by cross sectional descriptive study, including 109 patients who had been diagnosed immunodeficiency syndrome - HIV / AIDS, ages 17-70 (63 males and 46 females) in Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City. Results: The rate of heart disease seen in the study: pericardial effusion 2.70%, myocarditis 0.90%, endocarditis 0.90%, mitral valve disease 8.30% and impaired left ventricular systolic function 5.50%. Left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) was 61.31 ± 6.36% and fractional shortening (FS) was 36.90 ± 5.30%. There was a decline (p 200/mm3 down to 58.51 ± 6.00 % and 34.48 ± 4.68 % in the group of HIV/AIDS patients with CD4 cell counts ≤ 200/mm3. Conclusions: AIDS patients may have a reduced systolic ventricular function and some cardiac complications. Key words: HIV/AIDS; Systolic function; echocardiography.

Abstract The Bunguran Trough (BT) covering Sarawak Deepwater Block 2F shows a number of largely parallel trends of folded Neogene anticlines, with reverse faults and thrusts in the cores, and blind thrusting and folding in the upper section of the individual mapped anticlines. The Bunguran Fold Belt (BFB), comprising the deepwater deposition setting of the Rajang Delta (synonym: West Luconia Delta), has been historically compared by explorationists/geologists with the Sabah Fold Belt, and accordingly a genetic model related to gravity sliding had been advocated. However, the gravity hypothesis may not necessary hold alone based on the following observations and considerations:The folds in the anticline cores are steep, and are characterised mainly by reverse faults rather than thrust faults; neither have we observed obvious listric flattening expressed in the deeper sections, nor is there an obvious common root of the fault systems.Despite the only moderate quality of the available 3D data, it can be argued that some sections in the anticline areas are formed by particularly thick layers of sediment, if compared with areas in-between anticlines; this leads to the hypothesis that these areas of original higher sedimentation coincided with sedimentary depocentres that were later inverted by compressional tectonics.The vicinity of Block 2F to such areas as the neighbouring Greater Natuna and Coastal Sarawak offer many excellent examples of inversion tectonics, and one can argue that the compressive stress acting in these areas was also present in other structural provinces of the South China Sea (SCS). However, just south of the BFB and more proximal on the Sarawak Shelf, the deposition of a thick, clastic sedimentary succession has resulted in the progradation of the regressive Rajang Delta with down-to-basin growth faults observed in the extensional zone. The sediment loading on the slope would have likely caused the activation of the mobile shale at depth forming structural growths further outboard in deepwater setting. Accordingly, it can be inferred that the BFB is neither purely a gravity-induced feature, nor fully caused by compression and tectonic inversion of half-grabens along pre-existing extensional faults. The anticlinal structures of the BFB are likely the results of the interplay between gravity-driven delta deformation and episodic regional thin-skinned compressional tectonics of SCS. Therefore a good understanding of the history of the structural development for the BFB in the context of SCS tectonics will have profound consequences on the timing of sedimentation, hydrocarbon migration and retention, as well as for the right choice of exploration drilling targets.

International audience; Purpose/Thesis: This paper discusses the challenges of creating a theoretic framework within the context of an intercultural and ethically responsible knowledge organization system (KOS). Approach/Methods: First, the paper explores ethical and societal concerns linked to the development of KOS. Second, it illustrates a way to tackle this ethical factor by proposing an applicable architecture for intercultural interfaces which respects cultural diversity on a global scale. Results and conclusions: The author emphasizes the importance of opening up the notion of cultural inclusiveness, to weigh not only linguistic diversity but also other cultural and social aspects, such as geography, religious affiliations, tradition, historical elements, ethnic. This kind of approach should be attentive to intersectionality and cultural interoperability. Originality/Value: By addressing local circumstances, the author offers insights into essential approaches that take into account cultural diversity when designing KOS and access interfaces to knowledge.

International audience; Purpose/Thesis: We describe a new approach that addresses key challenges to multilingual corpus by merging collective human intelligence (crowdsourcing) and automated knowledge construction and extraction methods in a symbiotic fashion.Approach/Methods: We use a crowdsourcing model to collect and annotate translations of the same literary text.Results and conclusions: The model promotes a dynamic approach to archives that increases the impact of traditional research by presenting the text from a new angle, accessible to a global public.Practical implications: The Global Huck project proposes a new paradigm to assess the contribution of crowdsourcing-based models for collection and annotation purposes.Originality/Value: Choosing the translations of a novel as a field of study is a truly transnational and multilingual collaborative endeavor allowing us to increase our capacity to collect and organize data on a broad, transnational and multilingual scale.