Diagrammatic Representation and Inference : 12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28-30, 2021, Proceedings / by Diagrams (Conference) (12th : 2021 : Online) 643173, Basu, Amrita, 1953-, editor 643175, Stapleton, Gem, editor 643176, Linker, Sven, editor 643177, Legg, Catherine, editor 643178, Manalo, Emmanuel, editor 643179, Viana, Petrucio, editor 643180

Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding by Davies, Rodrigo

“…This paper considers civic crowdfunding — the use of crowdfunding for projects that produce community or quasipublic assets — and argues that its emergence demands a fresh set of questions and approaches. The work draws on critical case studies constructed through fieldwork in the US, the UK and Brazil, and a discourse analysis of civic crowdfunding projects collected from platforms by the author. …”
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The Accident / by Pavone, Chris, author 656312

“…Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours, The Accident draws on the rich worlds of publishing, politics and international spies to tell a suspenseful tale of intrigue in the vein of John Grisham and Laura Lippman. …”

Unjust energy transition: vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot by Sud, N

“…As we move from dependence on fossil fuels towards zero carbon renewables, ‘just transition’ promises to leave no one behind. …”

Multi-hand finger counting hardware/software system with Xillybus IP core on Xilinx Zynq by Lee, Fabian Jin Wei

“…Embedded reconfigurable systems display promising advantages: higher performance while drawing lower power with better reliability and scalability. …”
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Human centric sensing by android phones for vehicular applications by Bose, Subhodeep

“…For the purpose of this project, an android based smartphone application for sensing based functionalities was developed as part of an ongoing PhD project on ‘Intelligent Parking’ for the NTU-BMW Future Mobility Research Lab. The project draws motivation from the fact that human-centric sensing using smartphones is an area full of prospects and opportunities. …”
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Gender systems in the Putin autocracy by Wood, Elizabeth A.

“…Over the last 23 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s autocracy has revealed a set of interlocking gender systems that have come to the fore particularly vividly since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. …”
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The encoded codex: a digital, statistical, and codicological examination of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français, 24432 by Dows-Miller, SH

“…</p> <p>The first chapter presents a full codicological and palaeographical analysis of the codex. …”

Examining the role of social media influencers in service failure and recovery strategies: an empirical investigation of millennials’ views by Ozuem, Wilson, Willis, Michelle, Ranfagni, Silvia, Howell, Kerry, Rovai, Serena

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Attempting developmental regionalism through AFTA : the domestic politics - domestic capital nexus by Helen E. S. Nesadurai

“…Developmental regionalism, which draws on stategic trade theory from the International Economics discipline, describes and approach to regionalism in which an initial period of partial and temporary resistance to global competition is employed to build up domestic firms able to eventually engage in global competition. …”
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Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 co... by Ferrari, AJ, Santomauro, DF, Aali, A, Lacey, BWH, Rodriguez, JAB

“…For three decades, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) has filled that need. A global network of collaborators contributed to the production of GBD 2021 by providing, reviewing, and analysing all available data. …”

Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…Overall, particularly noteworthy is the finding that the moderating influence of collaborative networks on firm innovation-survival relationship mainly depends on the types of innovation activities. This study draws on a sample of 229 SMEs in the high-tech nanotechnology industry, which provides a suitable context for our empirical investigation. …”
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Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…The forecasting framework includes computing the age-sex-specific future population for each location and separately for each scenario. 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) for each individual future estimate were derived from the 2·5th and 97·5th percentiles of distributions generated from propagating 500 draws through the multistage computational pipeline.…”