“A wound that has been festering since 2007”: The Burma/Myanmar naming controversy and the problem of rarely challenged assumptions on Wikipedia by Luyt, Brendan

“…It was also one of the longer running debates on Wikipedia beginning almost at the same time as the creation of the article in 2003. …”
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Parametric optimisation of heat treated recycling aluminium (AA6061) by response surface methodology by Yusuf, N. K., Ahmad, A., Lajis, M. A., Shamsudin, S., Zhong, Zhao Wei

“…By employing Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for full factorial design with centre point, a total of 11 runs were carried out randomly. Three dissimilar extrusion temperatures were used to obtain gear-shape billet. …”
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Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside by Deringer, William

“…Mathematical tables like Acroyd’s emerged out of long-running conflicts between church landlords and tenants over how to determine just and reasonable fines on church lands. …”
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Structural Interventions and the Dynamics of Inequality by Zhang, Aurora, Hosoi, Anette

“…Inspired by both these critiques, we construct a common decision-making model, using mortgage loans as a running example. We show that under some conditions, any choice of decision threshold will inevitably perpetuate existing disparities in financial stability unless one deviates from the Pareto optimal policy. …”
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Hardness of Approximate Diameter: Now for Undirected Graphs by Dalirrooyfard, Mina, Li, Ray, Vassilevska Williams, Virginia

“…A simple folklore algorithm can output a 2-approximation to the diameter in linear time by running BFS from an arbitrary vertex. It has been open whether a better approximation is possible in near-linear time. …”
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Edge/cloud resource management for time-sensitive applications by Pham, Quoc Hung

“…An open-source simulation toolkit called CloudSim Plus, which runs on Java, is used to implement this system. This simulation environment simulates the core functionality of the cloud, such as job/task queue, events processing, broker policy implementation, and the communication between different entities. …”
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Design of a battery-operated portable DC power supply. Part 1 : voltage output control by Saw, Khai Guan

“…Whether in homes, schools, or workplaces, our daily routines rely heavily on various types of electronic equipment running on DC voltage. Batteries are a main source of DC power supply when it comes to delivering constant DC voltage to these electronic devices. …”
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Forest warrior : a virtual reality application to enhance climate change awareness by Sankar, Ahkshara

“…While the slashing of paper is a key to entice the students and keep them engrossed in the game, the idea of it runs much deeper. The action of slashing paper subconsciously evokes awareness about the abundant and mostly unnecessary use of paper. …”
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The autism advantage: a communications campaign to combat the autism employment gap in Singapore by Chu, Chloe Ying Jie, Tan, Shaun Chong Xun, Yeo, Shermaine Jie Rui, Goh, Shernyce Ariel

“…Running from 14 December 2022 to 22 March 2023, The Autism Advantage is a communications campaign that aims to advocate for more holistic support for the employment of persons with autism (PWAs) in Singapore. …”
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Performance study of mobility support in WiMax networks by Nagarajan Maheswari

“…In this process, which may take hundreds of milliseconds, the MS leaves its previous channel thus temporally suspending running services. In cellular network, the HO may cause packet losses and service disruptions. …”
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Detection of story segments in news video footages by Octopios, Chowrichzy Wisdomy

“…In this project a user friendly annotation tool that is platform independent (runs on Win, Unix, and Mac) and allows detailed concept annotation is developed. …”
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Screening for interaction domain in vault nanocapsules. by Loo, Jonathan Yun Haw.

“…Results from affinity test done by running mixture of GST-MVP34 and mCherry-mINT through size exclusion chromatography using Superdex 200 show no or insufficient binding between the two proteins.…”
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Strategic and operational issues in sustaining community-based dementia support groups: the Get Real with Meeting Centres realist evaluation part 2 by Morton, T, Evans, SB, Swift, R, Bray, J, Frost, F, Russell, C, Brooker, D, Wong, G, Hullah, N

“…This is the second of two linked articles outlining learning from this realist evaluation of Meeting Centres (MCs) for people with dementia and carers, which focusses on findings regarding their operational and strategic running.</p> <br> <p><strong>Method:</strong> Semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with 77 participants across three MC sites in England and Wales, including people living with dementia, informal carers, staff, volunteers, trustees, and supporting professionals/practitioners. …”

Jamaican customs data, c. 1800-45 by Graham, A, Lavallee, E

“…Unless otherwise noted, years follow the financial year of the island, running from 30 September to 29 September i.e. "1824/5" refers to the period 30 September 1824 to 29 September 1825.…”

Effects of different throttle opening and air intake lengths on the volumetric efficiency of SI engine using 1D simulation method by Ahmad Harazi, Mohamad Firzan, Hairuddin, Abdul Aziz, As’arry, Azizan, Masuri, Siti Ujila

“…Thus, this current study focuses on the impact of different throttle opening and intake lengths in relation to engine speed on the volumetric efficiency of the Proton CamPro 1.6L SI engine. The simulation runs on different ranges of engine speeds from 1000 rpm to 7000 rpm and different intake lengths with different throttle opening angles. …”
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Enrichment of carotene from palm oil by organic solvent nanofiltration by Ghazali, Nazlee Faisal, Md. Hanim, Khairilanuar, Pahlawi, Qadly Ameen, Lim, Ki Min

“…PuraMem 280 showed the best selectivity performance, with the concentration of carotene in permeate oil increased from 0.60 to 0.79 g/L when hexane was used as the solvent. Runs by using DuraMem 150, DuraMem 300 and DuraMem 500 showed low or no selectivity between carotene and triglyceride in all solvents. …”

Light-induced access to gram-scale photosynthesis of polyfunctionalized dihydro-2-oxypyrroles: A recyclable halide perovskite photocatalyst as a single-electron redox mediator for... by Mohamadpour, Farzaneh, Kamyab, Hesam, Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan, Mohammad Amani, Ali

“…Moreover, the simplicity of utilization of CsPbBr3 is a crucial advantage of our research. With a minimum of 5 runs demonstrating no decline in catalytic activity, this halide perovskite showcases a lengthy lifespan of use, offering a remarkable economic characteristic. …”

Value Co-creation with Customers by Facebook Community: A Successful Example of PKT Logistics by Belal, H. M., Noordin, Alminnourliza, Hasan, Quamrul, Ahmad Zaidi, Mohamad Faizal

“…The Nike+ shoes co-creation platform exploits the link between running and listening of music. Users can select their exercise from a personal training list, including foot movements, rhythms, times, distances covered, and calories burned. …”
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Optimization of oil palm empty fruit bunch gasification temperature and steam to biomass ratio using response surface methodology by Najwa Hayati, Abdul Halim, Suriyati, Saleh, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad

“…Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used to design the gasification experiment from the temperature range of 800-1000°C and SBR range of 0.5-1.5. Thirteen number of runs were generated based on Central Composite Design (CCD) with five replicated center points. …”
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GenSQL: A Probabilistic Programming System for Querying Generative Models of Database Tables by Huot, Mathieu, Ghavami, Matin, Lew, Alexander K., Schaechtle, Ulrich, Freer, Cameron E., Shelby, Zane, Rinard, Martin C., Saad, Feras A., Mansinghka, Vikash K.

“…Finally, GenSQL delivers a 1.7-6.8x speedup compared to its closest competitor on a representative benchmark set, and runs in comparable time to hand-written code, in part due to its reusable optimizations and code specialization.…”
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