Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi by Chen, Sherry Yong, Kenstowicz, Michael J.

“…This paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000 inhabitants located about 375 km southwest of Shanghai in Western Zhejiang Province, China. …”
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Study of Mandarin Chinese tones recognition by Ge, Liang.

“…In this dissertation, the Mandarin tones are recognized and represented graphically by using wavelet transform and fundamental frequency estimation methods. …”
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Is a high tone pointy? Speakers of different languages match Mandarin Chinese tones to visual shapes differently by Shang, Nan, Styles, Suzy J.

“…Across both studies, we replicated the previously observed ‘u-curvy, i-pointy’ sound/shape cross-modal correspondence in all groups. However, Tones were mapped differently by people with different language backgrounds: speakers of Mandarin Chinese classified as Chinese-dominant systematically matched Tone 1 (high, steady) to the curvy shape and Tone 4 (falling) to the pointy shape, while English speakers with no knowledge of Chinese preferred to match Tone 1 (high, steady) to the pointy shape and Tone 3 (low, dipping) to the curvy shape. …”
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Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments? by Saxena, Anju

“…Sharma 1989) Identify it as a tone language. To quote D. Sharma: The glottal fricative /h/ tends to be realized as high falling tone in a prepausal position, as in /meh/ = /me/. …”
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Why shoot it down now? : understanding China's missile firing into outer space by Horta, Loro

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Effect of electronic word-of-mouth (EWOM) message tone on brand attitude. by Goh, Pei Yong., Goh, Michelle Shu Zhen., Lin, Danqing.

“…Responses were compared between those who read the blog with a formal tone with those who read the blog with an informal tone. …”
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Wireless zone lighting control system by Wai, Lwin

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UMPSA and Futurise launch the Eastern Zone Dronecubator by Naqiah, Puaad

“…PEKAN, 27 August 2024 – For the first time, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) and Futurise have launched the Eastern Zone Dronecubator, an event held today at Block 1 Field, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technology (FTKEE), UMPSA.…”
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Numerical study on contact zone in an interfacial crack by Shen, Hongnian.

“…This thesis presents an analysis for contact zone near an interfacial crack tip by using the commercial FEM software ANSYS 5.0 and 5.3. …”
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The focusing property of the spiral Fibonacci zone plate by Liu, Y. J., Dai, Haitao, Sun, Xiaowei

“…In this letter, Fibonacci zone plates (FiZPs), which is generated by means of Fibonacci fractals, was proposed. …”
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High-efficiency metalenses for zone-plate-array lithography by Smith, Henry I, Mondol, Mark, Zhang, Feng, Savas, Timothy, Walsh, Michael

“…To date, zone-plate-array lithography has employed an array of binary pi-phase zone plates, each 135 μm in diameter, operating at 405 nm wavelength, in conjunction with a spatial-light modulator and a moving stage, to expose large-area patterns in photoresist without a mask. …”
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Discovery zone in the library : a new service for the children by Tan, Florence Kia Mui.

“…The National Library Board, Singapore, embarked on a pilot service known as Discovery Zone which aims to provide increased learning moments for children. …”
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Pedestrian, cyclist and motorist behaviour and interactions at school zones by Wong, Zhi Hao

“…A fatal traffic accident involving two young boys near a school zone has triggered Singapore’s attempt to improve the road safety levels, and therefore the Enhanced School Zone (ESZ) scheme arose in order to further supplement the existing scheme. …”
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BLIQUE-TMI : blind quality evaluator for tone-mapped images based on local and global feature analyses by Jiang, Qiuping, Shao, Feng, Lin, Weisi, Jiang, Gangyi

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UMPSA hosts RBTX Petrosains Challenge Eastern Zone 2024 by Naqiah, Puaad

“…PEKAN, 4 September 2024 - Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) hosted the RBTX Petrosains Challenge East Zone 2024 Competition at the Multipurpose Hall, UMPSA Pekan.…”
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Humanitarian intervention from above : ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya? by Ong, Wei Chong

“…The complexities and challenges of establishing a No-fly Zone over Libya are immense. Any attempt to do so without due consideration of its operational and strategic implications will unnecessarily put lives at risk.…”
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Crustal deformation at the Sumatran subduction zone revealed by coral rings by Ward, Steven N., Natawidjaja, Danny H., Suwargadi, Bambang W., Sieh, Kerry

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Insurgent envelopment: the emergency blanket and scenes of exposure at border zones by McCormack, D

“…Developing and extending this agenda, this paper offers an account of how scenes of exposure at border zones are mediated materially, aesthetically, and politically by forms of envelopment. …”

The effect of silver nitrate and silver thiosulphate on in vitro shoot regeneration of australian pink finger lime (Citrus australasica cv. Mia Rose) by Qiao, Stephanie Er Wong, Sreeramanan Subramaniam, Bee, Lynn Chew

“…Results demonstrated that 4.00 mg/L AgNO3 resulted in the highest shoot number and length (2.65 ± 0.18 and 0.27 ± 0.03 cm respectively), while treatment with 10.00 μM STS resulted in the highest number of shoots and shoot length (2.36 ±0.19 and 0.32 ± 0.04 cm respectively). …”
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Effects of music attrition on English-Mandarin Chinese bilinguals’ lexical tone perception and production in a foreign language by Toh, Xin Ru

“…To examine whether cognitive mechanisms for music and speech are domain-general or domain-specific, researchers have studied the effects of musical training on lexical tone pitch processing. However, few studies have studied the effects in the long-term and among tone language speakers. …”
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