High-resolution synthetic population mapping for quantifying disparities in disaster impacts: an application in the Bangladesh Coastal Zone by Rubinyi, S, Verschuur, J, Goldblatt, R, Gussenbauer, J, Kowarik, A, Mannix, J, Bottoms, B, Hall, J

“…The impacts of natural disasters are often disproportionally borne by poor or otherwise marginalized groups. However, while disaster risk modelling studies have made progress in quantifying the exposure of populations, limited advances have been made in determining the socioeconomic characteristics of these exposed populations. …”

15.280 Communication for Managers, Fall 2008 by Hartman, Neal

“…Students may also enroll in 15.277 Special Seminar in Communication: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness Coaching. 15.280 is offered for 6 units and 15.277 provides an additional 3 units for a total of 9 units in Managerial Communication. 15.277 acts as a lab component to 15.280 and provides students additional opportunities to hone their communication skills through a variety of in-class exercises.…”
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A multi-layer CNN-GRUSKIP model based on transformer for spatial: temporal traffic flow prediction by Mohammad Ata, Karimeh Ibrahim, Hassan, Mohd Khair, Ismaeel, Ayad Ghany, Al-Haddad, Syed Abdul Rahman, Alquthami, Thamer‎, Alani, Sameer

“…The model comprises (1) the specialized CNN feature extraction, (2) the GRU-SKIP enhanced long-temporal module adept at capturing extended patterns, (3) a transformer module employing encoder-decoder and multi-attention mechanisms to hone prediction accuracy and trim model complexity, and (4) a bespoke prediction module. …”
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The rise and fall of Britain’s golden cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925-1934 had their lives cut short by austerity by Hiam, L, Dorling, D

“…The British born between 1925 and 1934 experienced exceptional improvements in their annual mortality; earning them the title ‘the Golden Cohort’. …”

Constructions of Japan and the Japanese : war, memory and foreign policy in Singapore by Liu, Joseph Woon Keong

“…The collaborative mode of memory was born of the political and economic engagements with Japan since Singapore’s independence. …”
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Moral cultivation, meritocracy and the origin of petty people: a hypothesis by Lee, Sheng Yue

“…Specifically, one of the main problems in accounting for petty people is that everyone is born as a petty person and petty people are defined to be people who freely express their dispositions and do not pursue moral cultivation, but some are able to undergo ethical transformation and some remain as petty people. …”
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Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. <i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

Review of the aetiologies of central nervous system infections in Vietnam by Brindle, HE, Choisy, M, Christley, R, French, N, Griffiths, M, Thai, PQ, van Doorn, HR, Nadjm, B

“…In particular, we focus on the most common pathogens in adults and children including Streptococcus suis which is associated with the consumption of raw pig products, and Japanese encephalitis virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen. We also discuss pathogens less commonly known to cause CNS infections in Vietnam but have been detected in neighbouring countries such as Orientia tsutsugamushi, Rickettsia typhi and Leptospira species and how these may contribute to the unknown causes in Vietnam. …”

Effect of turbine motion on floating off shore wind turbine aerodynamics by Tignol, Bo Junior

“…Finally, future work should also further hone in on the inclusion of LES at different freestream wind and surge and pitch combinations to explore the potential formation of complex wake states, as well as the investigation of in-sync and out-of-sync joint pitch-and-surge cases to explore the occurrence of any nonlinear aerodynamic interactions.…”
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Envisioning Water: Sustainability and Future-Making in Dubai and Los Angeles by Christidi, Nadia

“…Treating sustainability as a “boundary object” that is shared but viewed differently by actors enables me to hone in on the interests and forces - sometimes countervailing - that shape sustainability projects. …”
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My research career by Ma, Xueliang

“…I was born in Rongcheng County in Shandong province on June 22. 1913. …”
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Determinants Of Displaced Commercial Risk In Islamic Banking Institutions: Malaysia Evidence by Che Arshad, Noraziah, Zakaria, Roza Hazli, Sulaiman @ Mohamad, Ahmad Azam, Irijanto, Tubagus Thresna

“…DCR arises from the assets managed on behalf of the investment account holders which may be borne by the Islamic bank’s own capital, when the Islamic banks forgo part or all of its share of profits on the investment account holders funds, in order to increase the return to the investment account holders. …”
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Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. <i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

Employment equity and mental health conditions: what affects Singaporeans' willingness to work with people with schizophrenia and people with depression? by Cheang, Anna Xin Hui

“…These indicate that more resources need to be devoted to address the greater stigma borne by People with Schizophrenia, and that public education efforts should be focused on instilling beliefs of equity rather than increasing literacy.…”
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SMRT spectrum sensing by Gan, Hui Da

“…This would help prevent train breakdowns which can be very disruptive, especially in Singapore where daily train ridership exceeds 3 million. [1] This information will the be displayed on a webpage which will be updated in real time as train moves along the tracks via a train borne device. The signal spectrum will be captured, analysed and uploaded to an online database for real time access. …”
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Optimising expression and purification of Dengue soluble E protein by Poh, Nina Yong Xin

“…Dengue, a type of flavivirus, is a widespread mosquito-borne infection lacking effective antiviral treatments. …”
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China's collaboration with IndoChina countries in hydropower development in the Mekong region - how far can it go? by Phua, Pei Pei.

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Display of chikungunya epitope on ferritin for potential application as vaccine by Su, Chengxun

“…Chikungunya virus is a human pathogen and one of the leading causes of mosquito-borne arthralgia in parts of Africa, India and Southeast Asia. …”
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SP.2H3 / ESG.SP2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics, Fall 2006 by Perlman, Lee David

“…Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. …”
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Annotated bacterial chromosomes from frame-shift-corrected long-read metagenomic data by Arumugam, Krithika, Bağcı, Caner, Bessarab, Irina, Beier, Sina, Buchfink, Benjamin, Górska, Anna, Qiu, Guanglei, Huson, Daniel H., Williams, Rohan B. H.

“…Background : Short-read sequencing technologies have long been the work-horse of microbiome analysis. Continuing technological advances are making the application of long-read sequencing to metagenomic samples increasingly feasible. …”
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