Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention by Faitaki, F, Liggins, S, Murphy, V

“…Children’s oral language skills at the earliest stages of education are known to determine their success at school later on. Improving oral language skills is achievable through targeted intervention, and drama can be an effective intervention medium, but its potential has not been extensively evaluated to date. …”

The 'Clisurean' finds from Climente II cave, Iron Gates, Romania by Bonsall, C, Boroneanţ, A, Evatt, A, Soficaru, A, Nica, C, Bartosiewicz, L, Cook, G, Higham, TFG, Pickard, C

“…Comparison of the Climente II archaeological inventory with that from later, fisher-hunter-gatherer settlements in the Iron Gates indicates continuity of mortuary ritual, lithic tradition and subsistence practices from the Lateglacial into the Early Holocene.…”

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

“…We further show that these MS-associated immunogenetic variants underwent positive selection both within the steppe population and later in Europe, probably driven by pathogenic challenges coinciding with changes in diet, lifestyle and population density. …”

Psychological significance of name changes: a case study of (North) Macedonia's name referendum by Stojanov, A, Segal, K, Halberstadt, J, Whitehouse, H

“…Participants (ethnic Macedonians, N = 301) took a survey measuring these variables, along with their voting intentions and behavior, one week prior to a national referendum on the name change, and again several weeks later. The results indicated that while all variables predicted negative attitudes toward the name change, only considering the name a sacred value and, to a lesser extent, being identified with the country, uniquely predicted this outcome, and only sacred values uniquely predicted voting. …”

The longitudinal effects of intergroup contact on youth attitudes towards ethnic minorities and constructive societal engagement by Schaefer, D, McKeown, S, Ali, S, DuPont, P-L, Manley, D, Rao, S, Taylor, LK, McKeown Jones, S

“…Building on the relatively smaller body of longitudinal intergroup contact research, we conduct a three-time point survey amongst youth in Northern Ireland to determine whether frequent and good quality interactions with ethnic minority groups is associated with later reports on: (1) attitudes towards ethnic minorities, (2) prosocial behaviour toward ethnic minorities, and (3) civic engagement. …”

Express: Learning new words via reading: the influence of emotional narrative context on learning novel adjectives by Dong, Y, Mak, MH, Hepach, R, Nation, K

“…Both immediately after and 24 hours later, participants completed a series of post-tests including speeded recognition, sentence completion, meaning generation, and valence judgment. …”

Childhood language development and alexithymia in adolescence: an eight-year longitudinal study by Lee, K-S, Catmur, C, Bird, G

“…Results indicated that boys with low language function at ages 4-5, and those who later met the diagnostic criteria for language disorders at ages 5-6, reported elevated alexithymic traits when they reached adolescence. …”

Royal Malaysia Custom Department (RMCD): A Case of Information Systems Success towards Employee Performance by Abd Zakaria, Zuhdi, Anuar, Herman Shah, Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli

“…The importance of this framework could be applied in various government departments that apply information systems which could better improve their employee performance. This will later on further improve the performance of the respective departments in achieving their key performance indicators as well as increasing their productivity in the long run…”
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A Framework for Robust Long-Term Voltage Stability of Distribution Systems by Nguyen, Hung D., Dvijotham, Krishnamurthy, Yu, Suhyoun, Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…Furthermore, the constructed regions are shown to cover substantial fractions of the true voltage stability region. The paper will later discuss a number of important applications of the proposed technique, including fast screening for viable injection changes, constructing an effective solvability index and rigorously certified loadability limits.…”
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Relationships among emotion regulation, depression, anxiety, stress, and physical health-related quality of life in coronary heart disease patients by Ng, Min Geng

“…Results indicated that baseline physical HRQoL predicted physical HRQoL 6 months later. Even though baseline emotion dysregulation levels were not found to predict change in physical HRQoL, negative change in emotion dysregulating predicted further deterioration in physical HQRoL in 6 months. …”
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A communal furniture informed by the deprivation of Mauritian beach by Fok Kow, Fok-Chi-Seng

“…Having lived near to a beach and creating childhood memories of the place, to later witness its deterioration due to erosion is something unbearable, especially when climate change is one of the major reasons. …”
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A simplified formulation to estimate influence of gearbox parameters on the rattle noise by Zhang, Jidong, Sui, Wentao, Dhupia, Jaspreet

“…The rattling noise level is affected by several gearbox parameters, an understanding of which is essential to prevent the expensive design modifications at later stages of product development. To develop such understanding at the gearbox design stage, this paper analytically evaluates the gear parameters’ effect on the root mean square of the wheel gear acceleration under idling condition, which is known to be linearly correlated to the rattling noise level. …”
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The effects of heat treatment on the AISI 316L stainless steel overlay with respect to its PREN by Khow, Stephen Junjie.

“…Pitting factor was presumably to determine the extent of pitting corrosion but was later found out that it strongly depend on the dimensions of the samples. …”
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Sensor development for a nano-satellite by Resham Abdul Razak.

“…Through this project, a prototype was assembled and tested on a breadboard level and later, fabricated into a printed circuited board (PCB). …”
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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK by Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Oswald, Andrew J., Lockwood, Ben

“…The paper shows that those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be substantially less likely to go on later to have offspring. Probit and Weibull survival models are estimated. …”
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非政府组织（NGO）如何带动中国在全球治理中的发展 ：以上海基督教青年组织（YMCA）为例 = How NGOs lead China in global governance : with reference to YMCA in Shanghai... by 吴佳蓉 Ng, Melissa Chai Yong

“…As cold war ended, many countries begin to adopt “Global Governance” as a new concept on governing their own nation. This new concept was later adopted by China’s government to govern the country and to make plans for new reforms. …”
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贈り物 : gift by Pang, Desmond Hee Wee

“…An accidental viewing of a Japanese anime in 2002 renewed my passion and love for art and got me interested in the Japanese culture and language. Almost 8 years later, I had the fortunate opportunity to participate in an undergraduate academic exchange to Japan. …”
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Fabrication of nanocrystals-based solar cells by Chen, Zhiyong.

“…With the adding of electrolyte, the solar cell is finished. The later part of the report will be describing the various testings of solar cell under the sunlight, SEM and characterization. …”
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Recurrent correlation associative memories by Teo, Mei Ping

“…The underlying principle is to store past information to be recalled later for application in the current context. The existing recurrent neuro-fuzzy system shows promising results that motivates the author to further the efficacy of the recurrent neuro-fuzzy system. …”
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Ball game measurement and analysis on Android by Ng, Wei Kang

“…Although the application is specially design for the elderly, we hope that the later version of the game can be extended to more elderly user and their data can be collected.…”
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