Politics and Ethnicity: Framing Racial Discrimination in Singapore by James Gomez

“…Given this background, the first visit of a UN Rapporteur on racism to Singapore, at the invitation of the PAP government in April 2010, allowed the city-state's race-based policies to be put in an international spotlight. …”
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L’arbre des rues de Mexico : une ressource au-delà de son exploitabilité by Nora Itri

“…From the original design of Mexico City by the altepetl, the Aztec city-state, to the contemporary megalopolis, the ‘‘tree of the street’’ translates the persistent continuity of the natural environment through the city's soil. …”
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Prevalence Unintended Pregnancy and its Related Factors Among Currently Pregnant Women in Kangavar City (West Iran) by Saeedeh Shahbazin, Azadeh Gholamy

“…The current study aimed to determine the prevalence of unintended pregnancy among married women in an urban community in Kangavar city state, to determine the associated factors of unintended pregnancy and to verify the reasons behind unintended pregnancy as perceived by the married women in the area. …”
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Women’s education, knowledge and competence in Ancient Greece by Stevanović Lada

“…In ancient times, women were dominated by men throughout the Greek world, while their roles and competence were strictly defined (albeit differently across various city-states). Although not all women were deprived of education, their education was almost never organized by the city-state. …”
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Carbon accounting in Singapore by Simić Marija

“…Moreover, an application for calculating one's own carbon footprint has been presented, along with the photographs taken during the period of stay in this island city-state.…”
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Analyzing drivers of organic food sales-A pooled spatial data analysis for Hamburg (Germany). by Sarah Joseph, Hanno Friedrich

“…Using a statistical approach, we developed a spatial pooled cross-sectional model to analyze factors that positively correlate with an increased demand for organic food sales over 20 years (1999-2019) for an entire region (the city-state of Hamburg, Germany), accounting for spatial effects through the spatial error model, spatially lagged X model, and spatial Durbin error model. …”
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Can phantom limb pain be reduced/eliminated solely by techniques applied to peripheral nerves? by Damien P. Kuffler

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Predictive Values of Hematological Parameters for Determining Imminent Brain Death: A Retrospective Study by Eralp Çevikkalp, Mevlüt Özgür Taşkapılıoğlu

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Framing Disneyland with the death penalty : mainstream US print media coverage of Singapore. by Lim, Yuin Chien.

“…In the absence of existing scholarly research specifically on American media coverage of the city-state, this study mounted a pioneering examination of the topic. …”
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Career choice in Singapore's uniformed services by Kan, Timothy Soon Hong

“…As a small city-state with limited resources, Singapore utilizes uniformed services comprising regulars and enlisted male conscripts as part of her defense force. …”
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Value Chain Upgrading: Evidence from the Singaporean Aquaculture Industry by Lim, Guanie

“…Based on research and qualitative personal interviews with firms involved in the Singaporean aquaculture industry, this paper argues that the city-state’s wider institutional context – dirigisme in governing the utilization of land and sea space, and commitment to a liberalized trade regime to feed its populace – complicates the upgrading efforts of the fish farming firms. …”
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Singaporean Youths Must Have Wings And Yet Know Where Their Nest Is by Tarulevicz, Nicole

“…"Singaporean youths must have wings and yet know where their nest is" interrogates selected policies directed at young people in the city-state of Singapore against the backdrop of the youth of that nation-state itself. …”
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Enhancing the walking experience of skywalk system as a public space in high densitycity of Hong Kong by Sun, Jia Liang

“…But in the small but highly developed city-state of Hong Kong, an enhanced pedestrianization scheme with shelter and cooling is proposed to address the walkability needs with respect to Hong Kong’s hot, humid and rainy tropical weather. …”
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Survey on Encoding Schemes for Genomic Data Representation and Feature Learning—From Signal Processing to Machine Learning by Ning Yu, Zhihua Li, Zeng Yu

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Fabrication of ZnO-Fe-MXene Based Nanocomposites for Efficient CO₂ Reduction by Karthik Kannan, Mostafa H. Sliem, Aboubakr M. Abdullah, Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni, Bijandra Kumar

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Philanthropy and Human Rights - The Genealogy of the Idea from Antiquity to Global Society by Øjvind Larsen

“…In a Greek context, philanthropy is connected to a friendly act towards one’s owns close connections such as family or fellow citizens, and normally utilized to promote one’s own prestige in the city-state. In Roman context, universal humanism, humanitas, was invented. …”
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Low Cost Moringa Seeds and Terminalia Kernels Water Purifier: A Water Management Technology by Annabelle F. Mortera

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Measuring Current Consumption of Locally Grown Foods in Vermont: Methods for Baselines and Targets by David Conner, Florence Becot, Doug Hoffer, Ellen Kahler, Scott Sawyer, Linda Berlin

“…A missing piece of information has been: what is the current percentage of locally grown food being consumed in a given city, state, or region? The Farm to Plate Strategic Plan, a 10-year plan for strengthening Vermont's food system, attempted to answer this question. …”
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Research on the relationships and dependences of critical infrastructure systems – the basis for improving critical infrastructure of the state and large urban agglomerations by Agata Tyburska

“…The aim of this article is to present the importance of the diagnosis of connections and dependencies between elements of the city (state) infrastructure in the process of determining the essential service and, consequently, the proper immunization of critical infrastructure. …”
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One’s Own and Foreign in Context of Later Heidegger’s Philosophy by Alexander I. Pigalev

“…According to this model, just the extension of family as the initial one’s own resulted in the turning of household into city-state that, having been specified by the image of one super-family, added the elements of the foreign to the initial state of society.…”
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