Digital yuan : politicisation of China's CBDC by Loh, Dylan Ming Hui, Liow, Karyn

“…China is leading the pack with the digital yuan. The race to launch the world’s first major central bank digital currency (CBDC) and its politicisation signal the start of a subtle competition between major economies.…”
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The waystation : a novel by George, Tissina

“…Through the lens of intersectional feminism, and focusing particularly on issues of gender, race, and mental health, this novel seeks to showcase the natural consequences of stereotyping through an accessible format. …”
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The Singapore blend : a country in a cup by Chua, Leanne Li En, Goh, Gabrielle Ruo Yan, Li, Vionna Wei An

“…From 80 cents to $8,000 a cup, from being served in hawker centres to fine dining establishments, tea transcends social class, race, age and culture. How does a beverage reflect a country and how do its people keep the culture brewing?…”
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When Islamists play by the rules yet change the game by Chan, Wen Ling

“…The recent upgrading of the PAS Supporters Club to a legal entity, complete with party constitution amendments that recognize the new wing, not only makes the PAS promise of “PAS for all” selffulfilling, it provides the party an opportunity to lead the change away from race-based politicking.…”
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Lenggong Iron Bound Melangkaui Had by Siti Rabiatull Aisha, Idris

“…Namun, baru-baru ini, Lenggong menjadi tumpuan dalam satu dimensi baharu: adventure race yang menguji kekuatan fizikal dan mental, ‘Lenggong Iron Bound: Melangkaui Had’.…”
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Antidiscriminatory privacy by Cofone, I

“…It examines the relationship between precluded personal information, such as race, and the proxies for precluded information, such as names and zip codes. …”

Insights from an Experiment Crowdsourcing Data from Thousands of US Amazon Users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use by Berke, Alex, Mahari, Robert, Pentland, Sandy, Larson, Kent, Calacci, Dana

“…Experiment results (N=6,325) reveal both monetary incentives and transparency can significantly increase data sharing. Age, race, education, and gender also played a role, where female and less-educated participants were more likely to share. …”
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7 daily objects. by Lin, Cheryl Jia Hui.

“…Mondays have never felt so blue until I joined the “rat race”. Sunday night must be the worst of all days knowing the fact that the next day is a weekday. …”
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‘Token’ augmented reality visual effects film by Koh, Iris Xuan En

“…He encounters a second boy, who challenges him to a race to retrieve his lost token.…”
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Entangled entitlements and Shuar tsantsa (shrunken heads) by Van Broekhoven, LNK

“…Newly installed interpretation replaced the original case display, to allow visitors to consider the problematic past academic practices of physical anthropology, its relationship to race science and how those are linked to racist ideas about superiority and inferiority that shape our present today. …”

Black empowerment and white mobilization: the effects of the Voting Rights Act by Bernini, A, Facchini, G, Tabellini, M, Testa, C

“…Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document that the VRA increases both Black and white political participation. …”

Relationship between personality and counselling orientation by Ho, Laurence Swee Min.

“…It also examines whether the selection of counselling orientations of the sample group are influenced by their demographic variables such as, age, gender, highest academic qualification received, job designation, number of years of working experience, race, type of degree/diploma and country of degree/diploma. …”
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Demographic factors and their correlations with loss aversion and framing effects. by Huang, Wei., Ng, Qunkai., Lee, Candice Li Fen.

“…The purpose of this study was to understand more about the correlations between five demographic factors (i.e. level of income, level of education, age, race and gender) and individuals’ level of financial loss aversion. …”
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When east meets west: beauty standards and ideals in Singapore by Dhillon, Sasha Kaur

“…Through my interviews, I discovered that Singapore constructs along unique lines – intertwining both Eastern and Western cultures with heavy emphasis on themes like skin colour, gender and race. In fact, to a certain extent my data also showcases palpable state influence in the construction of these ideals. …”
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National identity in a multicultural state : the relevance of the CMIO framework in contemporary Singapore by Lee, Beth Shi Min

“…This paper explores the implications of racial categorization on national identity construction and race-relations through the study of the CMIO framework and its surrounding policies. …”
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Underground climate: infrastructure, Hollow Earth, and the Anthropocene by Lund, SE

“…Interrogating representations of subterranean infrastructure made by speculative authors, engineers, scientists, and painters it becomes apparent that the imaginative network concerning underground climate is developed across the century, peaking in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871), and Gabriel Tarde’s Fragment d’histoire future (1896). …”

Labeling Schemes for Improving Cilksan Performance by Holla, Satya

“…While race detection algorithms like SP-bags have provably good theoretical properties, large overheads exist in practice, which urges the need for performance optimization. …”
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You think therefore I am. by Woo, Junhao Samuel.

“…Since birth, we have been given ‘natural’ roles – gender, race, age (generation), family (ancestry) and even more specific traits of DNA to speak of in these recent years of scientific advancement. …”
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How should we do racially just research? learning from a qualitative study on COVID-19 pandemic experiences in the UK by Rai, T, Dowrick, A, Qureshi, K, Munro, H, Wild, C, Douglas, J, Ziebland, S

“…Set within a wider literature on engaging with race and ethnicity in health research, we present an analysis based on reflexive accounts and testimonies from researchers, and close-up examinations of different stages of the research. …”

new urban giants : the ultimate skyscrapers / by Spirito, Gianpaola, author 496164, Terranova, Antonino, 1942-, author editor 656235

“…In the western world, however, time-tested city structures are transforming by urban renewal into smaller to medium-sized buildings that seek to evoke surprise in an eccentric image designed with sophisticated elegance. The race to construct the world's tallest building shows no sign of slowing down. …”