Built to last : the global refugee regime by Ting, Yuanyi

“…Reduced commitment to moral and legal obligations undermines access to refugee protection and compounds global insecurity. …”
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Examining the relationship between antisocial behaviour and team performances in youth sports by Chan, Nicholas Yen Hau

“…Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between antisocial behaviour on team performance in youth sports, the potential implication of its relationship (or lack thereof), and any other potential relationship between moral behaviour and team successes in youth sports. …”
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Pre-emption and prevention : an ethical and legal critique of the Bush doctrine and anticipatory use of force in defence of the State by Brailey, Malcolm

“…From an ethical perspective, the moral reasoning of the just war tradition will be used to demonstrate that whilst many of the claims made by the US are valid, any policy of preventive war targeted against sovereign states cannot be justified. …”
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Compensation for Historic Injustice: Does it Matter how the Victims Respond? by Miller, D

“…They would need to violate a moral norm that is deeply embedded in their culture. 4. …”

Resettlement of Northern Muslims: A Challenge for Sustainable Post-War Development and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka by Yusoff, Mohammad Agus, Sarjoon, Athambawa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah

“…In addition, the issue of resettling northern Muslims became highly contested due to lack of proper policies and plans of the government authorities, as well as moral and institutional support from the Tamil community and their polity, opposition, and criticisms from the Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist forces, and fragmentation within Muslim politics, together with the protracted nature of the displacement. …”
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The early Confucian worry about yuan (resentment) by Sung, Winnie

“…This paper has four main sections: the first section makes textual observations of “yuan” in the early Confucian texts; the second section proposes a Confucian-inspired account of yuan and highlights the psychological state in which one who has yuan sees oneself as object; the third section discusses the problematic dimensions of yuan; the final section discusses the negative implications of the passive stance with respect to contemporary concerns: vulnerability, moral repair, and self-respect.…”
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Incentives and impacts: dissecting individual and collective cheating in organizations by Riyanto, Yohanes Eko, Wang, Yuxin

“…This study sheds light on the complex dynamics of cheating in group settings and the moral calculations behind individuals' choices.…”
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Qualified empathy: the spectator looking/not looking away by Keefe, John

“…As knowing spectators of (mimetic) empathetic moments, we look with a critical distance as well 'feeling in', 'there but for the grace...', or degrees of moral disengagement toward the other as subject-object. …”
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Mediation in a feuding society: an anthropological approach to the process of sasmos in contemporary Crete by Chereji, C, Tsantiropoulos, A

“…The mediators are always men, as are the parties in conflict, and the motivation for mediation is rooted in the ‘moral duty for the communal good’ as the locals claim, which means the prevention of the escalation of interpersonal hostility into an open conflict – crime and its revenge (vendetta) (Herzfeld 1985; Tsantiropoulos 2004, 2008, 2019). …”

Challenges in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Malaysia by Diana Suwardi, Suhana Saad

“…The findings reveal seven key strategic issues in PPP project management, such as accountability; incentives and assistance; values, norms, and prevalence; standards and procedures; good and moral governance; duties and roles; and laws and regulations. …”
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Data activism against feminicide Co-designing digital tools to monitor gender-related violence across the Americas by Cruxên, Isadora, Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra, D’Ignazio, Catherine

“…Gender-related violence happens inside the home and outside in the public spaces of cities, towns, villages and rural areas around the world. It is part of a pattern of violence against women driven by misogynistic, racist and transphobic attitudes in society, discrimination and unequal power. …”
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"Kemunting : a journey" - Malay identity in pre- and post- independence Singapore by Muhammad Hidhir Md Razak

“…Kemunting follows a young village girl, Yah, living on the rural beaches of 1950s Malacca. Based on my own ancestral village, Padang Kemunting (Kemunting Field in Malay) is the village where the novel's events play out. …”
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Exploring multi-scenario simulation of ecosystem service value of Wetland in Yinchuan, China by Yuxuan, Gao, Muthuveeran, Adam Aruldewan S., Mohd Yusof, Mohd Johari, Yali, Ma, Lulu, Ma

“…Wetland conservation in rural parts of western China is a matter of concern due to the presence of water scarcity, fragile ecosystems, and insufficient resilience to natural disasters. …”
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Genetic analysis of normal human phenotypes within the people of the British Isles by Meena, D

“…</p> <p>In summary, I have taken advantage of a sampling criterion of having four grandparents from the same rural area, minimizing the risk of spurious genotype- phenotype correlations that are due to population stratification. …”

Irreverence intended? Destabilizing ‘intent’ as determinative in discourse around satire at the ECtHR by Hussain, H, Sanghi, S

“…Loosely termed as a form of artistic expression with a ‘moral edge’ to humour, satire ensues a critical complexity for courts to deconstruct due to the perceivable absence of a consistent criteria to adjudicate such cases. …”

Machine Learning Method for Forecasting Weather Needed For Crop Water Demand Estimations in Low-Resource Settings Using A Case Study in Morocco by Sheline, Carolyn, Winter, Amos

“…Local, low-cost weather prediction services are needed to enable optimal irrigation scheduling and increase crop productivity for rural farmers in low-resource settings. This work proposes a machine learning approach to predict the weather inputs needed to calculate crop water demand, namely evapotranspiration and precipitation. …”
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Transient Stability Guarantees for Ad Hoc DC Microgrids by Cavanagh, Kathleen, Belk, Julia A., Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…They are designed to be installed and operated by individual communities - without central oversight - and as a result are well-suited to addressing the lack of electricity access in rural and developing areas. However, ad hoc networks are not widely used, and a major technical challenge impeding their development (and deployment) is the difficulty of certifying network stability without a priori knowledge of the topology. …”
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Small bamboo shelter by Vimalatulasi Vetrivel

“…Bamboo is one of the oldest and most resourceful construction materials with numerous purposes in the field of construction, particularly in rural areas. It characterized by high strength and low weight, and is effortlessly worked using simple tools. …”
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Remote monitoring and control of wind turbine simulator (a1026-131) by Yin, Min Htet

“…Most of the wind turbine systems are installed far from the rural area to avoid any obstacle in the wind direction. …”
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Communing with others: performing voices by Hällsten, Johanna

“…This article concerns how we can use sound and listening practices to foster a different relationship with the animals in rural environments. This is done through two artworks Rapture (2014) and Flow (2019) created by the author, and how they explored ideas of voicing, translation and noise to push the human body to become more sensitised, and other to itself. …”
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