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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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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Report on the 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) by Pelkey, Jamin R.

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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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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. …”

Draft genome sequence of Enterobacter sp. strain EA-1, an electrochemically active microorganism isolated from tropical sediment by Rice, Scott A., Marsili, Enrico, Lauro, Federico M., Doyle, Lucinda Elizabeth, Williams, Rohan Benjamin Hugh

“…EA-1, along with a previously sequenced Enterobacter isolate from East Asia, forms a distinct clade within the Enterobacter genus.…”
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The other face of the coin : a reevaluation of the air war over Malaya 1941-42 by Cheang, Jia Wei

“…This essay thus attempts a reappraisal of the RAF’s position in the Far East by rejecting ‘European’ standards of aircraft performance. …”
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Design and verification of a fast low-dropout regulator for a high performance receiver chain targeting GNSS applications by Debaditya, Mullick

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Materiality of common good objects by Khonsari, Torange

“…This chapter uses one specific project from the commons organisation the author co-founded entitled Public Works in a neighbourhood in East London (Bow) where she initiated the project in 2014 after being asked to get involved by local residents. …”
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Book review : Africa's urban youth: challenging marginalization, claiming citizenship by Amy S. Patterson, Tracy Kuperus, and Megan Hershey by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Ghana is in West Africa and the latter two are in East Africa. Ghana is a liberal democracy, and Tanzania and Uganda have authoritarian governments. …”
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Genomic perspective on the bacillus causing paratyphoid B fever by Hawkey, J, Frézal, L, Tran Dien, A, Zhukova, A, Brown, D, Chattaway, MA, Simon, S, Izumiya, H, Fields, PI, De Lappe, N, Kaftyreva, L, Xu, X, Isobe, J, Clermont, D, Njamkepo, E, Akeda, Y, Issenhuth-Jeanjean, S, Makarova, M, Wang, Y, Hunt, M, Jenkins, BM, Ravel, M, Guibert, V, Serre, E

“…Following its discovery in 1896, it circulated across Europe until the 1970s, after which it was mostly reimported into Europe from South America, the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa. Antimicrobial resistance recently emerged in various genotypes of SPB PG1, mostly through mutations of the quinolone-resistance-determining regions of gyrA and gyrB. …”

Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China: mineralogical and chemical analyses of Yangshao and Majiayao painted ware by Spataro, M, Hein, A

“…Sixteen sherds come from the early Yangshao-period Banpo site in the Wei River Valley, east of Xi’an, 17 from the eponymous site of Majiayao and five from Waguanzui in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu province. …”

Exploring the development of agricultural trade between China and ASEAN under the RCEP: a SWOT analysis by Cong, Shufeng, Chin, Lee, Allayarov, Piratdin

“…Through the RCEP, China's agricultural products are expected to achieve not only growth in trade scale and trade facilitation, but also stronger economic ties in East Asia. However, the RECP also poses new challenges to China's agricultural trade structure, core competitiveness, and quality and safety system. …”
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