Exhibiting Southeast Asia in the cultural Cold War: geopolitics of regional art exhibitions (1940s-1980s) by Ditzig Kathleen Elizabeth Li-Ying

“…Exhibiting Southeast Asia in the Cultural Cold War studies these exhibitions through focusing on what I term the bureaucracy of exhibition-making, wherein archival traces make visible the geopolitics and other agonisms that define the exhibitionary process. This in turn reveals how exhibition-makers were able to engage with and even influence the international order while still functioning within local and regional art worlds—in museums, art associations and art centers—and without official political station. …”
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Creative Schools / by Robinson, Ken, author 509031, Aronica, Lou, author 621386

Elite sports and national identity : a case study of Singapore's participation in the Olympics by Deepan Kaleselvan

“…Likewise, Singapore is also engaged in recruiting elite foreign-born athletes. This is done in the hope of rallying the masses behind the victories of the athletes and boosting their national pride. …”
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Inequality and the 1% by Dorling, D

“…Even before birth, being born outside the 1% will have dramatic impact on the rest of your life: it will reduce your life expectancy, educational and work prospects, as well as your mental health. …”

Rotator cuff tendons of the shoulder joint : anatomy and investigation of strain profile by Sheng, Jia-Min

“…The knowledge of the average footprint area of each tendon helps the surgeon to restore torn tendons to their functional anatomic positions. …”
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The life and works of Fu Maoji 傅懋勣的生平和学术活动 by Xu, Lin

“…His sobriquet was Zijia. He was born on May 16, 1911, and passed away in Beijing after an illness on September 13, 1988, at the age of 77. …”
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“Why do people kill each other?” (Tolstoy and empire) by Zorin, A

“…Tolstoy always believed that the resistance to invaders and the defence of land where humans were born, by which products they are fed and where they are going to life after death is natural, but considered this instinct as pre-moral and pre-Christian contradicting the personal moral conscience that unconditionally rejects all sorts of violence.…”

My garden of you by Chen, Zhi Lin

“…When my youngest brother was born, my paternal grandmother from Taiwan flew exactly 3,231 kilometres from home to be with my family to look after him when my parents were at work. …”
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Machine learning driven synthesis of two-dimensional materials by Chia, Jia Jun

“…No humans are born perfect and as such people tend to make mistakes or have limited capabilities in certain aspect as compared to machines. …”
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Soft cells and the geometry of seashells by Domokos, G, Goriely, A, Horváth, ÁG, Regős, K

“…Remarkably, these ideal soft shapes, born out of geometry, are found abundantly in nature, from cells to shells.…”

The effects of global versus local processing styles on ingroup favouritism by Ma, Chen

“…Social categorisation in turn facilitates comparisons between in- and outgroups. …”
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Seven children inequality and Britain’s next generation by Dorling, D

“…They turned 5 in 2023, amid a devastating cost-of-living crisis. …”

Constructions of Japan and the Japanese : war, memory and foreign policy in Singapore by Liu, Joseph Woon Keong

“…The collaborative mode of memory was born of the political and economic engagements with Japan since Singapore’s independence. …”
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Moral cultivation, meritocracy and the origin of petty people: a hypothesis by Lee, Sheng Yue

“…Specifically, one of the main problems in accounting for petty people is that everyone is born as a petty person and petty people are defined to be people who freely express their dispositions and do not pursue moral cultivation, but some are able to undergo ethical transformation and some remain as petty people. …”
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The rise and fall of Britain’s golden cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925-1934 had their lives cut short by austerity by Hiam, L, Dorling, D

“…The British born between 1925 and 1934 experienced exceptional improvements in their annual mortality; earning them the title ‘the Golden Cohort’. …”

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. <i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

Le christianisme laïc de Pierre Bayle by Hooks, JM

“…Finalement, j'espère démontrer que c’est dans le contexte de l'État confessionnel que Bayle développe une théorie de la laïcité, stipulant qu’un État peut embrasser une religion dominante particulière, et dans un même temps, défendre les droits de tous les citoyens et permettre leur propre liberté d’expression religieuse dans l’espace public.…”

My research career by Ma, Xueliang

“…I was born in Rongcheng County in Shandong province on June 22. 1913. …”
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Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. <i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

SP.2H3 / ESG.SP2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics, Fall 2006 by Perlman, Lee David

“…Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. …”
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