China’s export control regime : from state to private sector proliferation by Yoram Evron

“…During the last decade China has strengthened its export control regime. …”
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The Whole Picture : The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it / by Procter, Alice, author 656024, Octopus (Online service) 656025

“…Each section tackles the fascinating and often shocking stories of five different art pieces, including the propaganda painting that the East India Company used to justify its control in India; the Maori mokomokai skulls that were traded and collected by Europeans as 'art objects'; and Kara Walker's controversial contemporary sculpture A Subtlety, which raised questions about 'appropriate' interactions with art. …”
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Developing a Household Flood Vulnerability Index for Managing the Risk of Flood Disasters (S/O 13584) by Hassan, Sallahuddin, Abu Bakar, Arpah, Othman, Zalila, Khalid, Mohamad Sukeri, Abu Talib, Mansor

“…Due to insufficient studies notably in the East Coast region of Malaysia on the flood vulnerability analysis in a comprehensive or systematic manner, the region is foreseen to be under serious threat of floods and the awareness on flood vulnerability cannot be adequately raised among the public. …”
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A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of dyslexia in alphabetic words and chinese characters. by Kwok, Fu Yu.

“…Nevertheless, in the past few years, studies of dyslexia in other languages such as Chinese language are slowly increasing. …”
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Halving premature death and improving quality of life at all ages by Norheim, OF, Chang, A, Bolongaita, S, Barraza-Lloréns, M, Jha, P, Lewington, S, Jamison, DT, Peto, R

“…To assess whether halving premature mortality by 2050 is feasible, we examined the large variation in premature death rates before age 70 years and trends over the past 50 years (1970–2019), covering ten world regions and the 30 most-populous nations. …”

Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2022, MIT Museum by Durant, John

“…This report contains the following sections: Celebrating our Past; Ongoing Activity; Planning for Kendall; Personnel…”
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Venezia e il Peloponneso, 992-1718 : indagini storiche tra territorio, biblioteca e archivio by Nanetti, Andrea

“…In an almost millenary chronology (992-1718), the Peloponnese – a land on the maritime border between the Ionian and the Aegean Seas, a cultural and commercial link between the Latin-Roman West and the Hellenistic East – is a privileged laboratory for the training of the next generation of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural historians, and for staunch supporters of peace among peoples.…”
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The phonology of voicing and aspiration in Amdo Tibetan by Green, R. Jeffrey

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On VO vs. OV in Southeast Asia by Benedict, Paul K.

“…Chinese and Karen, lie on the east, where they overlie Austro-Tai (Austronesian /Kadai/Hmong-Mien), with the same VO feature. …”
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India-Southeast Asia relations : beyond economics. by Malminderjit Singh.

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Ship detection using optical satellite imagery by Hu, Jing

“…Given Singapore is a coastal state that connects the West and the East. Being one of the world’s busiest port, maritime security plays a vital role. …”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…Sectarian identity in the Middle East has appeared ascendant, seemingly serving as the basis of intractable, even violent conflict. …”
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Understanding the environmental and social risks from the international trade in ornamental plants by Hinsley, A, Hughes, AC, van Valkenburg, J, Stark, T, van Delft, J, Sutherland, W, Petrovan, SO

“…We show global increases in ornamental plant trade, with supply expansions in East Africa and South America, and highlight risks and impacts including biodiversity loss, aquifer depletion, pollution, undermined access and benefit sharing, and food security. …”

Bibliometric analysis: Cyberspace engagement on employee performance by Mohammad Jafree, Nurul Khairunisa, Abu Samah, Irza Hanie

“…The purpose of this article is to report the documents and source type, year of publication, authors, and geographical distribution of nations in South East Asia about the topic of internet interaction on employee performance area. …”
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Contextual Predictability and Phonetic Reduction by Martin, Kinan R.

“…We train instances of GPT-2 on different context directions (past, future, and bidirectional) and context sizes (bigram vs. sentence) to provide measures of conditional word predictability, then use linear regression to quantify their correlation with a measure of phonetic reduction (word duration). …”
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The redirected gesture in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa by Lee, Cheryl Julia

“…In particular, I propose that, contrary to most critics’ straightforward reading of the Mundys’ dance in Act 1 as one of Michael’s memories, it is in fact an aesthetic gesture located at the intersection of the past and present, of reality and the imagination, of the self and the other. …”
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The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scientific papers by Thurner, Stefan, Liu, Wenyuan, Klimek, Peter, Cheong, Siew Ann

“…Here we use the bibliographic coupling network, derived from all physics papers that were published in the Physical Review journals in the past century, to try to identify them as mainstream, out-of-the-box, or interdisciplinary. …”
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Influenza messaging is better than no messaging at all : an experimental assessment of the effects of goal framing and affected-person framing on influenza vaccination attitudes an... by Kong, Wei Yi

“…The persuasiveness of goal framing on preventive behaviors has been established in past research but its effect on vaccination is inconsistent, and highlighting recipients of health benefits or consequences was suggested to moderate framing effects. …”
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Establishing the association between traditional tobacco, e-cigarette and dual use and mental health problems among high school students: results from a 2022 behavioral surveillanc... by Thepthien, BO, Tinn, CS, Sharma, R

“…This study examined the association among past-year use of conventional cigarette (CC), e-cigarette (EC), dual use (using both CC and EC), with presence of substance use (i.e., alcohol use and marijuana use), having friends and family members who use cigarettes, and mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychological distress (PD), problem gambling (PG) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)). …”

120 children of UMPSA staff participated in Exploring Mathematics Programme by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PEKAN, 21 December 2023 - A total of 120 participants consisting of the children of Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) staff participated in the Exploring Mathematics Programme held at both campuses for four sessions starting last Monday.…”
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