Adams family values: Abigail and Louisa Catherine Adams and the influence of Europe on the 'Republican Courts' of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. (1789-1829) by Leeper, JL

Mutual perceptions of Asia and the EU/Europe : media, elite and public opinion in Singapore and Germany by Uehlecke, Jana, Loke, Hoe Yeong

“…It is therefore timely to take a closer look at the mutual perceptions of Asians and Europeans – not only at the governmental and policymaking levels, but also in terms of public opinion and the media. Drawing on data from an extensive research project led by the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE), New Zealand, the empirical study in this paper assesses the mutual perceptions of the EU/Europe and Asia, and their respective actors, focusing on two countries – Germany and Singapore. …”
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Young Europeans’ geo-political identities: a poststructural analysis by Ross, Alistair

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Impact of BREXIT on key stakeholders of the maritime industry in UK by Ching, Claudia Loke Wei

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Study of warm mix technologies for asphalt concrete by Sim, Joey Xin Yi

“…Its use has been well documented and studied in Europe. However, WMA is still not fully applied in Singapore’s context. …”
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Stainless steel channel sections under combined compression and minor axis bending – part 2 : parametric studies and design by Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou, Long, Yue-ling, Gardner, Leroy

“…The test data and numerical results have been carefully analysed to develop a comprehensive understanding of the structural performance of stainless steel channel sections under combined compression and minor axis bending moment, and to assess the accuracy of the existing design provisions in Europe and North America. Comparisons of ultimate loads from the tests and FE simulations with the codified resistance predictions revealed that the current design standards typically under-estimate the capacity of stainless steel channel sections under combined compression and minor axis bending moment; this is attributed primarily to the neglect of material strain hardening and the employment of conservative interaction formulae. …”
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Long Covid: a global health issue – a prospective, cohort study set in four continents by Pazukhina, E, Garcia-Gallo, E, Reyes, LF, Kildal, AB, Jassat, W, Dryden, M, Holter, JC, Chatterjee, A, Gomez, K, Søraas, A, Puntoni, M, Latronico, N, Bozza, FA, Edelstein, M, Gonçalves, BP, Kartsonaki, C, Kruglova, O, Gaião, S, Chow, YP, Doshi, Y, Duque Vallejo, SI, Ibáñez-Prada, ED, Fuentes, YV, Hastie, C, O'Hara, ME, Balan, V, Menkir, T, Merson, L, Kelly, S, Citarella, BW, Semple, MG, Scott, JT, Munblit, D, Sigfrid, L

“…<p><strong> Methods </p></strong>A prospective, observational study in 17 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, including adults with confirmed COVID-19 assessed at 2 to <6 and 6 to <12 months post-hospital discharge. …”

A community-based intervention (the Omama Project) improves neurodevelopment in impoverished 2-year-old Roma children: a quasi-experimental observational study by Fernandes, M, Matuskova, O, Babelova, R, Santosa, WB, Shaw, O, Hrica, P

“…High rates of childhood neurodisability are reported among the Roma, Europe’s largest ethnic minority community. Interventions targeting early child development (ECD) during the first 2 years of life can improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in vulnerable children; however, evidence from Roma preschoolers is scarce. …”

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…<p><strong>Background</strong></p> The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) is the first of a series of annual updates of the GBD. …”

The neoliberal convergence of European industrial relations: economic inevitability or result of European political choices? by Jefferys, Steve

Shrinking Cities, Shrinking World: Urban Design for an Emerging era of Global Population Decline by Ryan, Brent D.

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The geopolitical crisis may trigger changes in energy strategies by Weafer, C

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations by Barrie, W, Yang, Y, Irving-Pease, EK, Attfield, KE, Scorrano, G, Jensen, LT, Armen, AP, Dimopoulos, EA, Stern, A, Refoyo-Martinez, A, Pearson, A, Ramsøe, A, Gaunitz, C, Demeter, F, Jørkov, MLS, Møller, SB, Springborg, B, Klassen, L, Hyldgård, IM, Wickmann, N, Vinner, L, Korneliussen, TS, Allentoft, ME, Sikora, M, Kristiansen, K, Rodriguez, S, Nielsen, R, Iversen, AKN, Lawson, DJ, Fugger, L, Willerslev, E

“…Here, by using a large ancient genome dataset from the Mesolithic period to the Bronze Age, along with new Medieval and post-Medieval genomes, we show that the genetic risk for MS rose among pastoralists from the Pontic steppe and was brought into Europe by the Yamnaya-related migration approximately 5,000 years ago. …”

The paradoxes of wind power by Keay, M

Low wage work in the United Kingdom

“…A central policy theme has been that education and training can empower people to both enter work and to move into better paying jobs. The case study research reveals the endemic nature of low paid work and the difficulties workers face in escaping from the bottom end of the jobs ladder. …”

Generalizing surrogate-assisted evolutionary computation by Lim, Dudy, Jin, Yaochu, Ong, Yew-Soon, Sendhoff, Bernhard

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'To know them thoroughly you must have their photographs': photographing Donatello in the 19th and early 20th centuries by Johnson, GA

“…The emergence of photographic media in the mid-nineteenth century led to an explosion in printed reproductions of works of art, with Donatello and other sculptors working in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Italy of particular interest to authors and publishers from the early 1860s onwards. The present article traces how statues and reliefs by Donatello and other Italian Renaissance sculptors were illustrated in a wide range of new photographically based media and disseminated through an equally wide range of new printing processes. …”

Advanced nanostructured materials : wide-band-gap oxides based magnetic semiconductors by Xing, Guozhong

“…The conjunction of electron spin with the charge manipulation in the semiconductor could lead to a whole new era in information technology, called semiconductor spintronics. …”
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Surface water sensitivity to climate variability by Paltan-Lopez, H

“…Furthermore, by applying this framework, this thesis found that committing to a 1.5oC level of warming, instead of 2.0°C, as agreed in Paris in 2015, may importantly decrease high flow occurrences in regions such central Asia or western Europe. Similarly, this thesis found that the intensification of future low flow events, resulted from future climate targets, may lead to important global water losses which in turn would make almost a quarter of current global GHP vulnerable, importantly affecting the energy share in various Asian and Sub-Saharan countries.…”

Scheduling and resource optimization in rail operations : models and algorithms by Birhade, Mahendra Pandharinath

“…We test our model with real data obtained from IR. With the proposed new model and the solution algorithm, we are able to schedule on average 26% additional trains as compared to existing timetable without much impact on the average throughput time of the trains. …”
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