Protection of cyclists by Xiao, Shunyu

“…According to LTA, every HDB town will have its own cycling network by the year 2030. …”
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Post-truth blame games in public diplomacy and media by Raspopina, Aleksandra

“…This chapter examines blame attribution mechanisms and themes in Russian public diplomacy through media by looking at the coverage by the Russian state-funded international broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today) of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and the chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma in 2018. By focusing on these events, this chapter takes a new look at the role of crises in blame attribution and avoidance, looking at the international rather than the domestic level. …”
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Canvas of culture: public art’s role in reinvigorating Pekan Parit by Muhamad Ferdhaus Sazali, Nur Ayunni Che Ahmad, Hasnizam Ab’dul Hamid, Mohamad Azal Fikri Ali

“…This underscores the critical role of public art in reflecting and preserving the town's cultural identity while involving the community in the planning and execution of these projects. …”
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Disrupting Monocultural Tendencies through Multimodal Montage by Singha, Mrinalini

“…Tracing the aesthetic and political evolution of montage from its early 20th-century origins in Soviet cinema to its contemporary forms, the thesis outlines the transition from montage defined by collision and conflict to the soft, spatial, and interactive practices of figures such as Nam June Paik and Harun Farocki. It further investigates how `surface tension' and `unquiet objects' manifest within the multi-modal montage in the works of artists like Nalini Malani, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Shilpa Gupta and Nida Sinnokrot. …”
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Crowdsourcing as Reflective Political Practice: Building a Location-based Tool for Civic Learning and Engagement by Graeff, Erhardt

“…They require that citizens leave the places they normally inhabit physically or virtually and commit to a separate space and set of processes. Town hall meetings are still a key point of engagement, occurring during specific times and in specific places. …”
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The local identity politics of world heritage : lessons from Galle Fort in Sri Lanka by Janakiraman, Aarthi(Urban city planner)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…<p>The Eoan Group, founded in 1933 in Cape Town, was South Africa’s first and only all-coloured opera, dance and theatre company. …”

The imagination of eco-disaster : post-disaster rebuilding in Asian cinema by Chu, Kiu-Wai

“…Juxtaposing examples from China, Thailand and the Phillippines, particularly with three films: Wonderful Town (Thailand, 2007), Aftershock (China, 2010) and Taklub (Phillippines, 2015), this article demonstrates how Asian eco-disaster films in the Anthropocene epoch reflect specific cultural imaginations of nation and identity rebuilding, which in turn provide a ground to reposition, redefine and reinvent the changing cultural identities in contemporary Asia. …”
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Demo abstract: real-time out-of-distribution detection on a mobile robot by Yuhas, Michael, Easwaran, Arvind

“…The robot navigates a miniature town using image data and a YOLO object detection network. …”
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GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis model for utility water demand: the case of Lodwar Municipality, Turkana County, Kenya by Wanguba, B, Siriba, DN, Okumu, BO

“…The analysis of satellite images showed the expansion of built-up areas and emerging human activities in regions towards the South and Western of Lodwar Town. The resulting model outcome identified the potential demand priority sites within the region of which some are underserved. …”

Streamlining Organizational Processes Through AI, IoT, Blockchain, and Virtual Environments / by Hernandez Hernandez, Marisol, 1971-, editor 655965, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

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A 35-Year Analysis of Vegetation Cover in Rare-Earth Mining Areas Using Landsat Data by Zheng, Zhubin, Liu, Yuqing, Chen, Na, Liu, Ge, Lei, Shaohua, Xu, Jie, Li, Jianzhong, Ren, Jingli, Huang, Chao

“…The findings indicate that (1) vegetation coverage in Dingnan County decreased from 1988 to 2002, followed by a gradual increase; (2) high vegetation cover is predominantly found in forested areas that maintain their natural state, while the central town and mining areas exhibit generally low coverage; (3) there are regional differences in the relationship between vegetation cover and environmental factors in Dingnan County. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation on precast CECFST column-to-column connections subjected to axial and eccentric compression by Zhu, Gaoming, Tan, Kang Hai

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Determinants of underdiagnosis of COPD in national and international surveys by Lamprecht, B, Soriano, JB, Studnicka, M, Kaiser, B, Vanfleteren, LE, Gnatiuc, L, Burney, P, Miravitlles, M, García-Rio, F, Akbari, K, Ancochea, J, Menezes, AM, Perez-Padilla, R, Montes de Oca, M, Torres-Duque, CA, Caballero, A, González-García, M, Buist, S

“…Population prevalence of (spirometrically defined) COPD ranged from 3.6% in Barranquilla, Colombia, to 19.0% in Cape Town, South Africa. Only 26.4% reported a previous lung function test, and only 5.0% reported a previous diagnosis of COPD, whereas 9.7% had a postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC &lt; LLN. …”

Episcopacy and parochialism in early South African Anglicanism: Bishop Robert Gray and the antecedent churches of the Cape Colony, 1806-72 by Bester, M

“…<p>This thesis considers the development of ecclesiastical authority in early Cape Colonial Anglicanism under the episcopacy of Robert Gray (1809–72), the first Bishop of Cape Town (1847–72). It explores the nature of opposition that Gray’s episcopacy faced from the fourteen independent worshipping congregations established privately or by the colonial state between 1806 and 1847, and how he brought these disputes to resolution, or, in some cases, failed to do so.…”

Quality of service profiling by Misailovic, Sasa, Sidiroglou, Stylianos, Hoffmann, Henry Christian, Rinard, Martin C.

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Bagan Mural project : building a robust digital library on Wordpress by Chia, Yew Boon, Ng, Kiak Peng

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Eccentric compression performance of jointed precast concrete-encased concrete-filled steel tube columns with dry connections by Zhu, Gaoming, Tan, Kang Hai

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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. …”

History education for transitional justice: how students understand and construct historical legacies in the post-apartheid South African history classroom by Robinson, N

“…It draws on nine months of ethnographic research in four Grade 9 history classrooms in Cape Town, each with a different racial composition. Every history class over three terms was observed, and teachers and students from each class were interviewed multiple times over the course of the year.…”