Incidence and mortality rates of 14 site-specific infectious diseases in 10 diverse areas of China: findings from China Kadoorie Biobank, 2006-2018 by Huang, R, Kartsonaki, C, Turnbull, I, Pei, P, Chen, Y, Liu, J, Du, H, Sun, D, Yang, L, Barnard, M, Lv, J, Yu, C, Chen, J, Li, L, Chen, Z, Bragg, F

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> From 2004 to 2008, the prospective China Kadoorie Biobank enrolled 512,726 adults aged 30-79 years from 10 diverse areas (5 rural, 5 urban) of China. During the 12 years of follow-up, 101,673 participants were hospitalized for any infectious disease. …”

Electrical substations mapping for possible communication technologies using QGIs and Google Earth Pro by Zulkifli, Izzati Thaqifah, Azhar, Nayli Adriana, Mohamed Radzi, Nurul Asyikin, Md. Aripin, Mohamad Faruq Syahmi, Mohd. Azmi, Kaiyisah Hanis, Samidi, Faris Syahmi

“…The QGIS in this study is used to reclassify the demographics into three main demographics: urban, suburban, and rural areas. On the other hand, the Google Earth Pro programme is used to map and visualize the overall electrical distribution substations alongside the communication technology ranking, based on the three main demographics. …”
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The intergenerational ethics of climate change : the failure of cost-benefit analysis as a normative framework by Lee, Nathan R. (Nathan Ross)

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Rapid response : email, immediacy, and medical humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia by Grayman, Jesse Hession

“…Immediacy is explored as both an urgent moral impulse to assist in a crisis and a form of mediation that seemingly projects neutral and transparent transmission of content. …”
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Meera Syal's scapegoat : Hinduism & the Indian woman by Muthupalani, Sharanya

“…Syal points an accusing finger at religion as an oppressive form of moral, sexual and totalising governance against women, particularly Indian women. …”
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Animus: human-embodied animals by Savulescu, J, Sawai, T

“…We argue that this raises issues of moral status that will imminently arise and must be addressed through functional studies of these new life forms. …”

Penilaian kandungan teks novel mata pelajaran Kesusasteraan Melayu berdasarkan Gagasan Persuratan Baru by Hassan@Zulkifli, Muhammad Zarif

“…Dalam konteks ini, teks-teks yang dikaji didapati memperagakan nilai-nilai yang bukan sahaja bertentangan dengan Islam, tetapi turut bercanggah dengan skema moral sejagat yang diperakukan dalam FPK, KBSM, dan SPKM. …”
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Ubin or, life in the woods. by Tan, Katrina Liyi.

“…The installation showcases a series of images and found objects that encapsulates the essence of this last bit of rural landscape left in Singapore. Experimenting with the early photographic salt print process using local seawater, the work speaks of the organic beauty of the island and its ephemeral state.…”
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Pan-European atmospheric lead pollution, enhanced blood lead levels, and cognitive decline from Roman-era mining and smelting by McConnell, JR, Chellman, N, Plach, A, Wensman, SM, Plunkett, G, Stohl, A, Smith, N, Vinther, BM, Dahl-Jensen, D, Steffensen, JP, Fritzsche, D, Brugger, SO, McDonald, BT, Wilson, AI

“…The most significant exposure for the rural, nonelite population may have been to background air pollution from silver mining and smelting that underpinned the Roman economy. …”

Factors predicting financial well-being of government employees in selected states in Malaysia by Fazan Ahmad, Noor Diyana

“…Each state was categorized into urban and rural areas. Lists of government departments were obtained for each urban and rural area of the selected states departments in the second stage of sampling. …”
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Sorption mechanisms of divalent cations with titanate nanotube by Du, Jianhong

“…Discharges that are not properly treated causes pollution to the downstream river and groundwater which are often used for drinking and irrigation in the rural area. This thesis explores the feasibility of titanate nanotube as an industrial sorbent to remove cadmium and other divalent cations from water.…”
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Safeguarding human rights : opportunities and challenges for NGOs involved in the democratisation of communication by Pradip, N. Thomas

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Chinese labor protest and trade unions by Chan, J, Pun, N, Selden, M

“…Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwanese-owned transnational corporation founded in Taipei in 1974, holds more than 50 percent of the market share in global electronics manufacturing. 1 Its 1.4 million workers in China are comprised mostly of rural migrants in their late teens to twenties. This chapter considers their struggle for labor rights, the nature of union representation at the giant firm, and the joint responsibility of the enterprise and government for the protection of workers.…”

Nietzsche and the significance of genealogy by Prescott-Couch, A

“…On this view, Nietzsche provides a ‘deconstructive genealogy’ that indicates whether and where we should expect to find unity in our current moral practices. Moreover, Nietzsche’s history contributes to a critique of contemporary morality because it reveals that morality is unlikely to have the kind of unity required by many of its defenders. …”

Roof politics: the materiality of interpellation by Wendel, Delia Duong Ba

“…Historical research substantiates the persistent use of architecture aesthetics as a medium of interpellation mobilised previously in the name of morality, health, and modernity, and most recently, peace.…”
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Winnie the pooh: examining the value of fantasy in children’s literature. by Koh, Meryl Kai Lin.

“…The paper discusses how Winnie the Pooh draws its context from reality, how it teaches children moral and social lessons. how it gives a child agency, and how there lies within the text issues that are more complex than what meets the eye. …”
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The concept of the human being in the Xunzi by Li, Jifen

“…The moral necessity of ritual propriety is grounded on Xunzi’s argument that the original state of human nature is bad and people need to depart from it. …”
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What’s the point of constitutional monarchy? by Barber, NW

“…However, the mode of selection of the monarch is problematic, making it improbable officeholders will invariably possess the capacity to fulfil the role and bringing moral costs. In consequence, monarchy is a time-limited constitutional form, a transitional mode of leadership.…”

Structural inequality and the protectorate of discrimination law by Laborde, C

“…It articulates a structural inequality theory of the moral foundations of discrimination law and defends it against prominent alternatives, such as the view that discrimination is wrong because it is irrational or disrespectful. …”

How to be an epistemic constitutivist by Hanson, L

“…First, it reveals a way in which constitutivism is a particularly good fit for epistemic norms, and not such a good fit for moral ones. Second, it reveals that constitutivism is not, as is often thought, an antirealist position, and is in fact entirely compatible with robust realism. …”