Religious communities and climate change : four ways to coherence by Chang, Venerable Ji

“…Recent reports show that humanity is facing an impending environmental crisis of our own making, and resources within religious communities may point to ways we can respond.…”
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Entrepreneurship : choice or compulsion? by Kee, Shu Jun., Koh, Hong Hock., Tan, Su Huey.

“…It also aims to post some recommendations on measures the Singapore government can take to further promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in Singaporeans and to inculcate in the younger generation a sense of adventure and the courage to pursue their own dreams.…”
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Occupations and wealth in developing countries by Scarelli, T

“…This paper examines 1,313 regions from 46 developing countries to document that individuals working outside the context of a firm (own-account workers and family workers) are consistently overrepresented among the poorest workers in their labor markets.…”

The Impact of Different Level of Education Towards Acceptance of Islamic House Financing by Abd Aziz, Noriza, Abu Bakar, Azizi, Abd Aziz, Ibrahim, Yusuff, Noraini, Ahmad Musadik, Siti Hajar Salwa

“…In order to finance their purchases, these consumers would turn to the banks to choose the suitable house financing products. …”
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Planetary Social Thought : The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences / by Clark, Nigel, author 655155, Szerszynski, Bronislaw, author 655154, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…In this innovative book, Clark and Szerszynski argue that social thinkers need to revise their own presuppositions about the social: to understand it as the product of a dynamic planet, self-organizing over deep time. …”
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Strategizing With Institutional Theory / by Sminia, Harry, 1963-, author 655497, Cambridge University Press (Online service) 655240

“…While the competitive based style sees institutional theory submitting to mainstream strategy research, offering additional variables and considerations to explain competitive advantage, the legitimacy based style makes institutional theory a strategy theory in its own right by providing an explanation for an organization's viability that emphasizes legitimacy over competitive advantage. …”
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Encore Valentine / by Adriani Trigiani, author 656192

“…More so, she longs to create one of her own, but is torn between a past love that nurtured her, and a new one that promises to sustain her.…”

PhD: The Amazing Journey - Volume 3

“…We wish you the best of luck and may PhD: The Amazing Journey Volume 3 we have the opportunity to collect your very own PhD story in our future PhD: The Amazing Journey series.…”
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Race and ethics in the translation classroom: reflections on teaching the Amanda Gorman’s translators controversies as a white British lecturer by Freeth, Peter J.

“…It argues that more discussions of race and translation ethics are required within British translation studies programs and reflects on my own approach to teaching the Gorman’s translators controversies in a practical translation class as an attempt to meet that need. …”
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Cultural transmission of fitness in mathematical population genetics by Kvasznicza, I

“…<p>Cultural transmission of fitness is the observed phenomenon in human populations that the number of a parent's siblings in uences the number of their own offspring. We propose an extension of the classical Wright-Fisher model for constant size haploid populations to allow for setting the magnitude of these `in uences' for each family size separately. …”

Coping strategies of the sandwich generation in the care process: a qualitative study by Pashazade, Hakime, Maarefvand, Masoomeh, Abolfathi Momtaz, Yadollah, Abdi, Kianoush

“…Objective: The sandwich generation refers to individuals who are simultaneously responsible for caring for their aging parents and their own children. Research shows that the number of sandwich generation caregivers is increasing, and they face significant physical, psychological, social, and economic challenges. …”
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The rising joint Israel-US strategic fortunes in the Middle East by Saikal, Amin

“…Israel’s military triumph in the Middle East is not entirely its own. It is a result of joint Israeli-American campaigns. …”
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Design of pinned and rigid bolted connections using BS 5950:2000 and Eurocode 3 by Xie, Yunshen.

“…Not all countries published their own standards or codes, those that do not typically adopt those recognized and readily available ones. …”
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Some pictures of representation by Woong, Soak Teng

“…In observing the mechanical reproduction and fabrication of nature imagery on temporary public structures in Singapore, it seeks to understand how nature is represented and allowed to exist as simulacra. It reflects upon our own human nature to control and construct realities and our perception of what ‘nature’ is.…”
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Ovid, Tristia 1.2 and elegy transformed by Franklinos, TE

“…This article discusses Ovid’s allusive engagement in Tristia 1.2.75–80 with his own earlier works, as well as with the works of his elegiac predecessors – Propertius and Tibullus – and of Catullus. …”

Toward a One-interaction Data-driven Guide: Putting co-Speech Gesture Evidence to Work for Ambiguous Route Instructions by DePalma, Nicholas, Smith, H, Chernova, Sonia, Hodgins, Jessica

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Internet-of-things gateway for augmented/virtual reality application using light fidelity transmission by Leong, Zhi Cheng

“…With the advent of technology, every IoT device today has its own compatible operating systems (OS) such as Windows and Linux. …”
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“It's purely mutual respect”: cross-cultural taboos and the everyday reproduction of Singaporean nationalism by Kathiravelu, Laavanya, Pandian, Sharad

“…The data thus showed that citizens are deeply reflexive about the nature, origins, and justification of the practices they undertake. …”
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Smart notification system for nursing homes by Yap, Jovin Kuang Yong

“…Secondly, most systems disregarded the need for stakeholders to visualize the implemented algorithm functionality, thus making it difficult for them to judge if the desired effect was achieved. …”
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Agriculture and citadel in the Bronze Age Aegean: the view from western Anatolia by Maltas, T

“…In doing so, it aims to suggest how arable farming contributed to the formation and collapse of elite social and economic structures within the citadel and lower town settlements of the Early Bronze Age (EB/EBA) II-III. …”