Africa Digest : Trends and issues in business Vol. 18 by Burger, Johan

“…This report addresses some events prior to the pandemic. 4. The Middle East in Africa - Countries from the Middle East have been involved in Africa for many years. …”
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The Caliphate at War: Ideology, War Fighting and State-Formation by Hashim, Ahmed Salah

“…History is given short shrift, often leading to misjudgments. If Iraq's past had been better understood, some mistakes might have been avoided. …”
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Empirical investigation on container port competition and cooperation by Aw, Bing Zong

“…For the past few decades, East and South East Asia container ports are slowly edging out Europe‟s and America‟s container ports to be the top 20 busiest container ports in the world. …”
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Hunting and the social lives of Southern Africa’s first farmers by Jones, M, Kapumha, R, Chirikure, S, Marshall, F

“…However, archaeological models emphasize cattle keeping and downplay the role of hunting among past farming groups. To address this discrepancy and investigate human–wild animal interactions over the last ~ 2000 years, we examined zooarchaeological data from 54 southern African Iron Age (first and second millennium AD) farming sites. …”

NALPS : a precisely dated European climate record 120–60 ka by Wang, X., Cheng, Hai, Spötl, C., Edwards, R. Lawrence, Boch, R., Häuselmann, Ph

“…Accurate and precise chronologies are essential in understanding the rapid and recurrent climate variations of the Last Glacial – known as Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) events – found in the Greenland ice cores and other climate archives. …”
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Historicity and the contemporary theatre of Kuo Pao Kun and Krishen Jit by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…Historicity for Kuo and Jit is not the modernist desire to reconstruct the fragments of the past into a whole, and is not centrally about the representation of the past (though that occurs), but is in the first instance the need to capture the past’s fragments in order to conceive a fuller sense of the present’s multicultural opportunities.…”
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Entrepreneurship in Singapore : nature or nurture ? by Teo Ghim Lan, Tan Sok Hong

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Investment outlook for the medium range tanker segment from the perspective of a ship financier from 2011 to 2015 by Han, Peinan.

“…This research aims to provide the freight market outlook for MR product tanker in the East of Suez from 2011 to 2015 and determine whether investors should invest in MR tanker shipping equities. …”
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Septic patients with cancer : do prehospital antibiotics improve survival? A sub-analysis of the PHANTASi trial by Panday, Rishi Nannan, Wang, S., Schermer, E. H., Cooksley, T., Alam, N., Nanayakkara, P. W. B.

“…Results: 357(13.4%) of the 2658 included patients had cancer in the past five years, of which, 209 (58.5%) were included in the intervention and 148 (41.5%) usual care groups; 28-day mortality was significantly higher in patients who were diagnosed with cancer in the past five years than those without cancer in the past five years: 15.2% vs. 7.1%, respectively (p < 0.001). …”
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Arbitration : a new era of dispute resolution by Ang, Eng Kiat, Chong, Siew Ann, Tay, Eddie Liang Wee

“…The paper concludes that arbitration is fast gaining ground in the last three to four years in the area of dispute resolution. …”
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The impact of anxiety and challenge on quiet eye in tenpin bowling by Lim, Bernice Hui Ying

“…It was hypothesized from past research that elite would demonstrate longer visual search duration compared to the sub-elite. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…In the last five years, Latin America has re-emerged on the world stage of global upstream opportunities. …”

Low voltage CMOS operational amplifier design towards maximum CMR by Tan, Chee Lam.

“…For the past few decades, there has been a ceaseless drive to reduce the minimum feature size of a MOS transistor. …”
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Design and development of an android application “Bus NTU” by Yin, Bangqi.

“…Since the past few years, smartphones have been playing increasingly important role in daily life. …”
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The golden bull : is it coming? (current prospects of gold trading) by Lim, Wee Beng, Lim, Daniel Chih Ming, Leong, Kum Hoe

“…Today, it is a different story. Over the past decade or so, we have seen gold price surged to its zenith of $850 an ounce in 1980 and then tumbling down to as low as under $300. …”
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Temporal Telepresence: Immersive Interfaces for TeleAbsence by Pillis, D.

“…To store the past in a simulation may enable greater understanding of ourselves, our stories, and our histories. …”
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The Accident / by Pavone, Chris, author 656312

“…In Copenhagen, Hayden Gray, a veteran station chief, wary of the CIA's obsession with the Middle East, has been steadfastly monitoring the dangers that abound in Europe. …”

The battle for Asia in crude oil markets: an easier road ahead for India? by Sen, A

“…This, together with the deregulation of product prices, will help boost Indian fiscal balances immensely, in a complete reversal of the trend seen over the past decade.…”

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In <i>Rule Britannia</i>, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. …”

Enhanced monsoon-driven upwelling in Southeast Asia during the Little Ice Age by Chen, Mengli, Martin, Patrick, Ren, Haojia, Zhang, Run, Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Chen, Yi-Chi, Hughen, Konrad A., Phan, Kim Hoang, Vo, Si Tuan, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank

“…Our data indicates a link between surface ocean nutrient supply and the East Asian Summer Monsoon strength in an economically important marginal sea. …”
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