Established in 2022, the College of Integrative Studies is SMU’s seventh School and plays a pivotal role in helping students traverse the disciplinary areas associated with the other SMU Schools – Accountancy, Business, Economics, Computing, Law and Social Sciences. The CIS is different in that it emphasises the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across disciplines to derive new solutions in areas related to SMU’s Strategic Priorities. Its faculty members research on topics such as Computer Science, Economics, Environmental History, Geography, Law, and Urban Climate, amongst others. The College seeks to cultivate an environment conducive to intellectual exploration across academic disciplines and to bring their distinct disciplinary perspectives together to address modern challenges in today’s complex world.

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Submissions from 2020

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The Ehrenfests’ use of toy models to explore irreversibility in statistical mechanics, Joshua LUCZAK and Lena ZUCHOWSKI Book Chapter

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Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction, Alberto MARTILLI, Matthias ROTH, Winston T. L. CHOW, and et al Working Paper

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The building data genome project 2, energy meter data from the ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III competition, Clayton MILLER, Anjukan KATHIRGAMANATHAN, Bianca PICCHETTI, Pandarasamy ARJUNAN, Young June PARK, Zoltan NAGY, Paul RAFTERY, W. Brodie HOBSON, Zixiao SHI, and Forrest MEGGERS

Sino-Christian Theology, Teng-kuan NG

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Claiming the Los Angeles River for ‘the public’, by boat and by permit, Sayd RANDLE

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Ordinary disasters: On unexceptional flooding in LA's San Fernando Valley, Sayd RANDLE

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Unmaking California’s Central Valley, Sayd RANDLE

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Media literacy, scientific literacy, and science videos on the internet, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Minding other people's business: Community attachment and anticipated negative emotion in an extended norm activation model, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Kang Leng HO

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When doing more requires knowing more: Explaining the intention to seek procedural information about recycling, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Yan Wah LEUNG

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Reputation cues as signals in the sharing economy, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Jean Yi Colette TAN, and Ting Fang POH

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A tripartite model of trust in Facebook: acceptance of information personalization, privacy concern, and privacy literacy, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Ole-Christian WASENDEN, Gorm-Andreas GRONNEVET, and Rich LING

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SynCity: Using open data to create a synthetic city of hourly building energy estimates by integrating data-driven and physics-based methods, Jonathan ROTH, Amory MARTIN, Clayton MILLER, and K. Rishee JAIN

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To thine communication partner be true: The effect of presentation consistency on perceived authenticity and liking after making a first impression online, Nicholas TANG, Janell CHU, Kahmun LEONG, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

The water-energy-food nexus: Bridging the science-policy divide, Terry VAN GEVELT

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End-user perceptions of success and failure: narratives from a natural laboratory of rural electrification projects in Malaysian Borneo, Terry VAN GEVELT, T. ZAMAN, F. GEORGE, M.M BENNETT, S.D. FAM, and J.E. KIM

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Bayesian calibration at the urban scale: a case study on a large residential heating demand application in Amsterdam, Cheng-Kai WANG, Simon TINDEMANS, Clayton MILLER, Giorgio AGUGIARO, and Jantien STOTER

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A global regression method for thermal sharpening of urban land surface temperatures from MODIS and Landsat, James. W. WANG, Winston T. L. CHOW, and Yi-Chen WANG Journal Article

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Central inspection teams and the enforcement of environmental regulations in China, C. XIANG and Terry VAN GEVELT

Submissions from 2019

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Implementing natural capital credit risk assessment in agricultural lending, Francisco ASCUI and Theodor Florian COJOIANU

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Imperiled destinies: The Daoist quest for deliverance in medieval China, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Neo-Daoism in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Commentary: How effectively can Singapore adapt to sea level rise?, Winston T. L. CHOW News Article

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Crowdsourcing bike share station locations: evaluating participation and placement, Greg P. GRIFFIN and Junfeng JIAO

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What they meant: On Helena Rosenblatt’s "The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century", Christine HENDERSON Book Review

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The UK summer heatwave of 2018 and public concern over energy security, Shaun LARCOM, Po-Wen SHE, and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Explicating perceived sustainability-related climate: A situational motivator of pro-environmental behavior, Yan Wah LEUNG and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Tuning networks for prosocial behavior: From senseless swarms to smart mobs [Commentary], Sun Sun LIM and Roland BOUFFANAIS

Comparative global knowledge about the use of digital technologies for learning among young children, Sonia LIVINGSTONE, Sun Sun LIM, Anulekha NANDI, and Becky PHAM

A spatial analysis of housing prices in Chinese coastal cities, a case study of the city of Xiamen, China, Yuan LI, Lang HE, and Junfeng JIAO

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An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0), Naika MEILI, Gabriele MANOLI, Paolo BURLANDO, Elie BOU-ZEID, Winston T. L. CHOW, Andrew M. COUTTS, Edoardo DALY, Kerry A. NICE, Matthias ROTH, Nigel J. TAPPER, Erik VELASCO, Enrique R. VIVONI, and Simone FATICHI Journal Article

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More buildings make more generalizable models—Benchmarking prediction methods on open electrical meter data, Clayton MILLER

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Applicability of lean production principles to performance analysis across the life cycle phases of buildings, Clayton MILLER and Clayton MILLER

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Twenty years of building simulation trends: Text mining and topic modeling of the Bldg-sim email list archive, Clayton MILLER, Matias QUINTANA, and Jason GLAZER

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Of faith and faithlessness: Adaptive fidelity in Shusaku Endo's Martin Scorsese's Silence, Teng-kuan NG

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Apples or oranges? Identification of fundamental load shape profiles for benchmarking buildings using a large and diverse dataset, June Young PARK, Xiya YANG, Clayton MILLER, Pandarasamy ARJUNAN, and Zoltan NAGY

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A data-driven load shape profile based building benchmarking: Comparing DOE reference buildings with a large metering dataset, Young June PARK, Clayton MILLER, and Zoltan NAGY

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Vietnamese pre-schoolers’ tablet use and early childhood learning: an ecological investigation, Becky PHAM and Sun Sun LIM

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Bare mountaintops and thirsty cities: On California and its snowpack, Sayd RANDLE

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Harvesting Alternative Water Resources (U.S. West), Sayd RANDLE

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Perceived influence of proenvironmental testimonials, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Michael Field DAHLSTROM

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Catching up with the ‘core’: The nature of the agricultural machinery sector and challenges for Chinese manufacturers, M. T. SAFDAR and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Thinking algorithmically: From Cold War computer science to the socialist information culture, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Indigenous perceptions of climate anomalies in Malaysian Borneo, Terry VAN GEVELT, H. ABOK, M. M. BENNETT, S. D. FAM, F. GEORGE, N. KULATHURAMAIYER, C. T. LOW, and T. ZAMANE

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Zoning changes and social diversity in New York City, 1990–2015, Juan G. YUNDA and Junfeng JIAO

Submissions from 2018

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Predictors and outcomes of nurses’ use of smartphones for work purposes, John Robert BAUTISTA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Trisha T.C. LIN, and Yin Leng THENG

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Psychometric evaluation of the smartphone for Clinical Work Scale to measure nurses' use of smartphones for work purposes, John Robert BAUTISTA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Trisha Tsui-Chuan LIN, and Yin Leng THENG

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The two foundings thesis, Sonu BEDI and Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

Chennault, Cynthia L., Knapp, Keith N., Berkowitz, Alan J., & Dien, Albert E. (Eds.). Early medieval Chinese texts: A bibliographical guide, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Laozi in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Climate change and technology: Examining opinion formation of geoengineering, Christopher L. CUMMINGS and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Third-person perception of science narratives: The case of climate change denial, Michael Field DAHLSTROM and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Constructing underachievement: The discursive life of Singapore in US federal education policy, Roberto Santiago DE ROOCK and Darlene Machell ESPENA Journal Article

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Public support for censorship in a highly regulated media environment: The influence of self-construal and third-person perception over time, Benjamin H. DETENBER and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Cosmopolitan cinema: Cross-cultural encounters in East Asian film [Book review], ESPENA Darlene Machell Book Review

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The value of green certification in the Singapore housing market, Eric FESSELMEYER

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How much do users value a network expansion? Evidence from the public transit system in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER and Haoming LIU

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The effect of localized density on housing prices in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER, Kiat Ying Sky SEAH, and Jonathan Ci Yi KWOK

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Faith C. S. Ho, Western medicine for Chinese: How the Hong Kong College of Medicine achieved a breakthrough, Jack GREATREX

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A small entrepreneurial city in action: Policy mobility, urban entrepreneurialism, and politics of scale in Jiyuan, China, Shenjing HE, Lingyue LI, Yong ZHANG, and Jun WANG

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Revisiting image of the city in cyberspace: analysis of spatial Twitter messages during a special event, Junfeng JIAO, Michael HOLMES, and Greg P. GRIFFIN

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Do voluntary commons associations deliver sustainable grazing outcomes? An empirical study of England, Shaun LARCOM and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Scaling the nexus: Towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food, Scott J. MCGRANE, Michele ACUTO, Francesca ARTIOLI, Po-Yu CHEN, Robert COMBER, Julian COTTEE, Geremy FARR-WHARTON, Nicola GREEN, Ariella HELFGOTT, Shaun LARCOM, Julie A. MCCANN, Patrick O'REILLY, Gloria SALMORAL, Marian SCOTT, Lindsay C. TODMAN, Terry VAN GEVELT, and Xiaoyu YAN

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A review of unsupervised statistical learning and visual analytics techniques applied to performance analysis of non-residential buildings, Clayton MILLER, Zoltán NAGY, and Arno SCHLUETER

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Pedestrian dharma: slowness and seeing in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker, Teng-kuan NG

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Comparing the indoor environmental quality of a displacement ventilation and passive chilled beam application to conventional air-conditioning in the Tropics, Jovan PANTELIC, Adam RYSANEK, Clayton MILLER, Yuzhen PENG, Eric TEITELBAUM, Forrest MEGGERS, and Arno SCHLÜTER

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Reliability analysis of repairable systems with recurrent misuse-induced failures and normal-operation failures, Weiwen PENG, Lijuan SHEN, Yan SHEN, and Qiuzhuang SUN

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Landscapes of power: Politics of energy in the Navajo Nation, Sayd RANDLE

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The meanings and limits of ‘local water’ in Los Angeles, Sayd RANDLE

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Liquid futures: Water management systems and anticipated environments, Sayd RANDLE and Jessica BARNES

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Audience prototypes and asymmetric efficacy beliefs, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Procedural information and behavioral control: Longitudinal analysis of the intention-behavior gap in the context of recycling, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Efficacy beliefs in third-person effects, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Benjamin H. DETENBER, and Hernando ROJAS

Environmental communication among minority populations, Bruno TAKAHASHI and Sonny ROSENTHAL

The Great Soviet calculator hack, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Achieving universal energy access and rural development through smart villages, Terry VAN GEVELT, C. Canales HOLZEIS, S. FENNELL, B. HEAP, J. HOLMES, M.Hurley DEPRET, B. JONES, and M.T. SAFDAR

A global overview from a geographical perspective, Dariusz WÓJCIK and Theodor Florian COJOIANU

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Resilience of the US securities industry to the global financial crisis, Dariusz WÓJCIK and Theodor Florian COJOIANU

New perspective on regional inequality: Theory and evidence from Guangdong, China, Yong ZHANG, Tong DE, and Xiongfei LIANG

Submissions from 2017

From uncrowned king to the sage of profound greatness: Confucius and the Analects in early medieval China, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

Supporting smallholders in improving wheat cultivation, Tinashe CHIURUGWI, Simon KERR, Ian MIDGLEY, L. A. BOYD, Johnson KAMWAGA, Peter NJAU, Terry Van GEVELT, Claudia CANALES, and Max MARCHESELLI

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Developing an evidence base for assessing natural capital risks and dependencies in lending to Australian wheat farms, Theodor Florian COJOIANU and Francisco ASCUI

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Remembering 1965: Indonesian cinema and the 'Battle for History', ESPENA Darlene Machell Journal Article

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Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship, Eric FESSELMEYER and Kiat Ying SEAH

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Unsupervised load shape clustering for urban building performance assessment, Jimeno A. FONSECA, Clayton MILLER, and Arno SCHLUETER

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A people of the law: Review of Kevin Butterfield’s "The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: Law and Association in the Early United States", Christine Dunn HENDERSON Book Review

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Level up! Refreshing parental mediation theory for our digital media landscape, Hee Jhee JIOW, Sun Sun LIM, and Julian LIN

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Regulating the water-energy-food nexus: Interdependencies, transaction costs and procedural justice, Shaun LARCOM and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Youth workers' use of Facebook for mediated pastoralism with juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk, Sun Sun LIM

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Energy storage for PV-driven air-conditioning for an off-grid resort - A case study, Christoph LUERSSEN, Arifeen WAHED, Thomas REINDL, Clayton MILLER, David CHEONG, and Chandra SEKHAR

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Predicting success of energy savings interventions and industry type using smart meter and retrofit data from thousands of non-residential buildings, Clayton MILLER

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Mining electrical meter data to predict principal building use, performance class, and operations strategy for hundreds of non-residential buildings, Clayton MILLER and Forrest MEGGERS

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The building data genome project: An open, public data set from non-residential building electrical meters, Clayton MILLER and Forrest MEGGERS

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Urban and building multiscale co-simulation: case study implementations on two university campuses, Clayton MILLER, Daren THOMAS, Jerome KAMPF, and Arno SCHLUETER

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Unsustainability in action: An ethnographic examination, Sayd RANDLE, Lauren BAKER, C. Anne CLAUS, Chris HEBDON, Alder KELEMAN, and Michael R. DOVE

Data imputation, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Motivations to seek science videos on YouTube: Free-choice learning in a connected society, Sonny ROSENTHAL

Regression analysis, Linear, Sonny ROSENTHAL

Structural equation modeling, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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A workflow for managing building information and performance data using virtual reality: an alternative to BIM for existing buildings?, Adam RYSANEK, Clayton MILLER, and Arno SCHLUETER