Study on pedestrian and cyclist interactions at signalised pedestrian crossings by Liu, Jianye.

“…It is inevitable for a person living on the island state to make use of various modes of transport while going about with everyday tasks. …”
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Unknowing a southern life: writing around the abyss by Collins, K

“…One is a stick chart, a navigational aid from Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands, made from thin strips of wood and seashells (see Figure 5.1). …”

Understanding the justifications for food policies through political theory: a method for public policy analysis by Thomas, O

“…We might ask, for example, whether the socio-cultural context of one country is such as to make a particular policy acceptable, where it would not be in another country. …”

Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…Especially for Singapore, a densely-populated small city-country with a 648 km^2 main island and a total population of 5.6 million. Clearly, developing an efficient public transport system is definitely indispensable in order to solve serious traffic issues with a limited land supply and exploding transport demands. …”
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Rupture and variable coupling behavior of the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust during the supercycle culmination of 1797 to 1833 by Philibosian, Belle, Sieh, Kerry, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Natawidjaja, Danny H., Chiang, Hong-Wei, Wu, Chung-Che, Perfettini, Hugo, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Daryono, Mudrik R., Suwargadi, Bambang W.

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The Need for Desalination in Humanitarian Crises by Bessette, Jonathan T, Winter, Amos G

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Grid integration and coordinated control of voltage source inverters with energy storage systems by Qi, Yang

“…The detailed descriptions will be respectively provided hereinafter. In an islanded AC microgrid, DESSs are usually integrated to the microgrid through voltage source inverters (VSIs). …”
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A new method to estimate slab dip direction using receiver functions and its application in revealing slab geometry and a diffuse plate boundary beneath Sumatra by Feng, Mingye, Chen, Ling, Wei, Shengji, Wang, Xin, Wang, Xu, Wu, Zimu

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AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE / by Jeffrey Archer, author 507936

“…From Germany comes Masterpiece, the tale of a priceless oil painting that has remained in the same family for over 200 years, until… To the Channel Islands, and Members Only, where a golf ball falls out of a Christmas cracker and a young man’s life will never be the same again… To Italy, where a young man trying to book a hotel room ends up in bed with the receptionist, unaware that she… To England, where, in High Heels, a woman explains to her husband why a pair of designer shoes couldn’t have gone up in flames because… Some of these stories will make you laugh. …”

Subregion independence in gravity by Folkestad, Åsmund

“…Our results support the consistency of islands in massless gravity, shed light on the Python’s lunch, and provide hints on the nature of the split property in perturbatively quantized general relativity. …”
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Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…This collision exposed one of the most well-studied ultramafic bodies on Earth, the Bay of Islands ophiolite, and closely preceded global cooling in the Middle-Late Ordovician (470-445 Ma). …”
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