The Indian Ocean is increasingly playing an important role in Chinese efforts to establish a position as a leading maritime power in the region. And this is resulting in Sino-Indian competition for influence in the Indian Ocean and beyond. Despite a significant improvement in Sino-Indian ties...

Financial Risk Management outlines how to implement an objective and systematic risk management program that allows for effective control and evaluation of operations. This comprehensive guide is designed to help businesses and financial institutions operating in emerging markets incorporate...

Financial Risk Management outlines how to implement an objective and systematic risk management program that allows for effective control and evaluation of operations. This comprehensive guide is designed to help businesses and financial institutions operating in emerging markets incorporate...

There are some security challenges in a web services deployment. However, if an enterprise approaches each of those areas using the six-step process outlined in this paper, it can mitigate those issues and benefit from those efficiencies that web services are designed to deliver.

Tropical cyclones are the most hazardous weather systems, which form over warm ocean waters. The frequencies of tropical cyclones show variabilities over all the oceanic basins, during the El-Niño and El-Niño Modoki years. Recent studies have shown significant impact of air–sea interaction...

A probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment is performed for the Makran subduction zone (MSZ) at the northwestern Indian Ocean employing a combination of probability evaluation of offshore earthquake occurrence and numerical modeling of resulting tsunamis. In our method, we extend the Kijko and...

The tsunami of 26th December 2004 severely affected Yemen’s Socotra Island with a death at a distance of 4,600 km from the epicenter of the Magnitude 9.0 earthquake. Yemen allowed a detailed assessment of the far-field impact of a tsunami in the main propagation direction. The UNESCO mission...