Book review : Religion, populism, and modernity: confronting white Christian nationalism and racism by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…From the United States to the Middle East and from Asia to Africa, religious nationalism is an important component of political activity and organisation. …”
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Pentecostalisation, the American Christian right, and civil religion in Ghana by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Ghana is the first west African nation to be subject to sustained attention from elements of the US Christian Right, following similar efforts in east Africa, particularly in relation to Kenya and Uganda. …”
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'Women in an extraordinary time': the transnational network and educational spaces of the Canadian Eiwa Girls' mission schools in 1920s and 1930s Japan by Dugal, A

“…These actors envisioned Christianity, women, youth, education, and mutual exchange across state and East-West divides as able to foster understanding between individuals of different nations. …”

Multidecadal Morphodynamic evolution of shorelines and coral reefs along the Arabian Sea Coast of Oman: Bar Al Hikman Peninsula by Teillet, T, Bois, P, Homewood, P, Mettraux, M, Samimi-Namin, K, Vahrenkamp, V

“…Unlike other densely populated, low-lying coastal areas in the Middle East (e.g., the Gulf), the southern Arabian Plate has received limited attention, with few studies addressing its coastal evolution or future environmental risks. …”

Rice stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values as potential indicators of watering and manuring regimes by Wu, R, Belfield, EJ, Dong, Y, Feng, S, Fu, X, Harberd, NP, Yang, F, Charles, M, Bogaard, A

“…Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important cereal crop across East, South and Southeast Asia, from prehistory to today, and grows in a range of ecological conditions, from rainfed upland to deep water. …”

Local rainfall is more likely than distant thunderstorms to affect movement behaviour in Northern Kenyan elephants by Mulder, T, Mortimer, B, Ferwerda, J, Vollrath, F

“…In our study site, lightning to the North and East often preceded local rainfall and could possibly be used to anticipate local wet periods, but local rainfall appears a more likely trigger of behavioural change. …”

Estimating parameter distributions and developing epidemiological methods and tools to support gastrointestinal outbreak investigation by Awofisayo-Okuyelu, A

“…In some high-profile outbreaks, such as the STEC O104 outbreak in Germany or the large 2009 STEC O157 outbreak in South East England, incubation periods were longer than expected complicating the collection of exposure data and the outbreak investigation process. …”

Divine assemblies in early Greek and Mesopotamian narrative poetry by Ballesteros Petrella, B

“…Although the Greeks are unlikely to have taken over the feature from the Near East, it is suggested that the Greek divine assembly is not to be detached form a Near Eastern context. …”

A Synoptic- and Remote Sensing-based Analysis of a Severe Dust Storm Event over Central Asia by Broomandi, P, Mohammadpour, K, Kaskaoutis, DG, Fathian, A, Abdullaev, SF, Maslov, VA, Nikfal, A, Jahanbakhshi, A, Aubakirova, B, Kim, JR, Satyanaga, A, Rashki, A, Middleton, N

“…The prevailing meteorological conditions showed an intensification of air subsidence over eastern Kazakhstan, featured in a typical omega-blocking system over the region and two troughs to its west and east axis, one day before the dust storm. The prevailing high-pressure system and temperature gradients over Kazakhstan modulated the dominant anticyclonic wind pattern generated from the south Balkhash basin toward the Caspian Sea, causing a huge dust storm that covered the southern half of Kazakhstan and large parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. …”

A comparative analysis of virtual education technology, E-learning systems research advances, and digital divide in the global south by Akpan, Ikpe Justice, Offodile, Onyebuchi Felix, Akpanobong, Aloysius Chris, Kobara, Yawo Mamoua

“…The results show that ‘East Asia and the Pacific’ (EAP) spent significantly more on (R&D) and achieved the highest scientific literature publication (SLP), with significant impacts. …”
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The threshold analysis of economic growth, FDI and trade on environment pollution in China using provincial panel data by Tang, Caihong, Rosland, Anitha, Yasmeen, Rizwana, Long, Yunfei

“…Based on our empirical results, it is suggested that the Chinese government needs to pay more attention to the unbalanced economic development and environment governance between east and middle & western areas, and take measures to prevent the transfer of polluting industries from China’s developed provinces to undeveloped middle and western provinces.…”

Correlation analysis on crash factor in Surabaya-Manyar toll road by Nurani Hartatik, Nurani Hartatik, Prasetijo, Joewono, Dwi Prasetyo, Yudi, Muhammad Isradi, Muhammad Isradi, Khilda Nistrina, Khilda Nistrina, Atqiya Muslihati, Atqiya Muslihati

“…Data on the volume of vehicles and frequency of accidents on the Surabaya-Manyar Toll Road between 2014 and 2018 were gathered through a collaborative effort between the Highway Patrol division of the East Java Regional Police and PT. Margabumi Matraraya, the toll road's management company. …”
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Mapping of sentiment analysis on food security among Malaysians using social media analytics by Rusli, Noradila, Lee, Yoke Lai, Rosley, Muhamad Solehin Fitry, Lee, Cher Enn, Hamzah, Maheran, Alias, Nurul Ezaila, Bahari, Noraini, Mamat, Mohd. Razif

“…Regional trends were observed, with the East Coast states and certain West Coast states having the highest number of tweets. …”
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HiTrip: Historical trajectory interpolation for trawlers via deep learning on multi-source data by Zhao, Zhongning, Chen, Jiaxuan, Shi, Yuqi, Hong, Feng, Jiang, Guiyuan, Huang, Haiguang, Zhao, Jinhua

“…The proposed deep learning model, integrating ResNet, LSTM, and MLP, seamlessly synthesizes spatial features from coarse fishing effort distributions, sea surface factor fields, and current fields, while accounting for the temporal relationships within trajectory segments. Evaluated on 1855 East China Sea trawler VMS records and Copernicus Climate Data Store hydrological factor data, HiTrip achieves a 0.20 km interpolation error, meeting a finery 0.005° × 0.005°spatial resolution demand for fishing effort distribution analysis. …”
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Renewable energy integration into smart grids : problems and solutions — Singapore experience by Koh, Leong Hai, Tan, Yen Kheng, Wang, Peng, Tseng, King Jet

“…Second, EMA will show case in 2012 how clean and renewable energy can be deployed at the system level in an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable manner for an off-grid community at Pulau Ubin, an island located at North East of Singapore. Third, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and four industry partners developed a test facility Experimental Power Grid Centre (EPGC) [4], housing a 1MW power grid at Jurong Island in South West Singapore.…”
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Spatial-temporal evolution of urban resilience and its influencing factors : evidence from the Guanzhong plain urban agglomeration by Ma, Fei, Wang, Zuohang, Sun, Qipeng, Yuen, Kum Fai, Zhang, Yanxia, Xue, Huifeng, Zhao, Shumei

“…The results showed that the urban resilience of GPUA experienced geographical differentiation in the “East-Central-Western” area and a “circle type” evolution process. …”
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Translating decoration and symbolism of Chinese architectural works in tourism texts : a case study of Nan Hai Ming Zhu Tian Fu Gong (Pearl of the South Seas——Thian Hock Keng) by Koh, Qiumei

“…For more than a thousand years, art has been one of the main features of traditional architectural works in China before it widely influenced East Asia. The underlying significance of this art is rich in cultural connotation. …”
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Modeling public transit route choice behaviour by Zhou, Yao Hui.

“…It was subsequently concluded that morning commuters on the Singapore MRT East West Line from the western region were experiencing overcrowding on their journeys, but the majority of them did not adapt their route or departure time choice as a result of the unpleasant experience in the crowd, because their comfort loss did not easily overcome the concerns over other prevailing factors, like the early arrival schedule cost. …”
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Global marine flyways identified for long-distance migrating seabirds from tracking data by Davies, T, Guilford, T

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Six marine flyways were identified across the world’s oceans: the Atlantic Ocean Flyway, North Indian Ocean Flyway, East Indian Ocean Flyway, West Pacific Ocean Flyway, Pacific Ocean Flyway and Southern Ocean Flyway. …”

Development of ground dune sand blended cement by Hassan, Omer Abdalla Alawad

“…The outcome of this research will benefit the Middle East and other countries where supplies of natural dune sands are unlimited.…”
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