Storytime : a pilot study on sound symbolism and child-directed speech by Travers Kumar, Juanita

“…Results found significant main effects of the pseudowords (label) for all measures but main effect of congruency was not found. These findings suggest that a larger sample size and additional measures should be considered for similar future studies. …”
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How one-parent-one-language strategy influences the development of balanced bilingualism by Lee, Debbie Shih Min, Pek, Siao Tian, Seah, Vivian Yi Fang

“…This paper has provided a better theoretical understanding regarding the effects of the OPOL strategy on balanced bilingualism. Based on the findings, a set of practical guidelines has also been developed to aid parents in the implementation of the OPOL strategy in their homes. …”
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Optimization of solubility of corannulene polymers via ring opening metathesis polymerization by Gunasegaran, Kevitrra

“…The PDI of the copolymer produced was characterized using GPC whereas its solubility was visually assessed. Based on the findings, it can be deduced that corannulene- undecane-substituted norbornene copolymer has the highest solubility at 1:9 via G3-catalyzed block polymerization, whereby the polymerization process only proceeds when the corannulene monomer is blocked first. …”
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Cultural identity, language ability, and their relationship among Chinese preschoolers in Singapore by Teng, Venice Wen Si

“…Theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed.…”
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Vibratory finishing on SLM-printed hip stem implant by Goh, Joo Hao

“…Hashimoto’s model will also be used in the course of the report to further evaluate the findings. It is further discovered that only certain surfaces of the built samples are able to be finished to required standards for use as hip stem implants, however this problem can be mitigated whilst designing of the hip stem implant for the patient.…”
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Reimagining the Singaporean dream : the rise of entrepreneurial pursuits amongst young adults by Chiang, Alicia Chor Hong, Ong, Chu Wen

“…This paper positions ‘Ideology’ as a key mechanism in influencing the pursuit of entrepreneurship in Singapore given its power to influence its desirability, and the findings suggest that social environment for one to start a business venture in Singapore is not as conducive as it seems at face value given the dynamics of ‘ideological state apparatuses’ at play.…”
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Disruption of the Broadcast by Packer, Randall

“…But today, artists are plugged in and wired, like everyone else, such that the torrent of news and information that lights up our screens in such overabundance often finds its way into the artistic process. And conversely, with the emerging tools of the Web, self-publishing blogs, and social media, artists are increasingly engaged in reporting news and opinion, becoming their own media outlets, distribution centers, and independent news feeds. …”
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Investigating effects of avatars on primary school children’s affective responses to learning by Theng, Yin-Leng, Aung, Paye

“…Specifically, the study aims to examine whether the expressions of avatars have an influence on these young children’s emotional responses and motivation towards learning. Preliminary findings with twenty-four young children participants showed that they loved avatars and influenced by avatars’ expressions on their performances. …”
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The effectiveness of project management by stakeholders in enhancing project and stakeholder management by Aladpoosh, Hamid

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Navigating an invisible labyrinth: the effect of involuntary bogus self-employment on female Greek-Cypriot educators’ job satisfaction and subjective well-being by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Implications of the findings are discussed to unveil the gendered challenges that women with caregiving responsibilities still face in the workplace due to insufficient childcare and caregiving support.…”
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State and faith: the supply-side theory of religion and the case of Turkey by Gurses, Mehmet, Fox, Jonathan, Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…We argue this is because hegemonic religious policies may create crosscutting effects which both increase and decrease religiosity. The findings also have political implications that are undertheorized in the supply-side literature.…”

Negotiating publicity, publicising domesticity: women-authored Heian kana memoirs, circulation, reception, and power by Tome Valencia, I

“…</p> <p>This thesis presents a comparative approach to different modes of authorship, dynamics of patronage, questions of publicity, the circulation of women-authored texts, and their relation with the sphere of domesticity; and finds itself in the intersection between premodern literature and Queer studies.…”

The α-globin super-enhancer acts in an orientation-dependent manner by Kassouf, MT, Francis, HS, Gosden, M, Suciu, MC, Downes, DJ, Harrold, C, Larke, M, Oudelaar, M, Cornell, L, Blayney, J, Telenius, J, Xella, B, Shen, Y, Sousos, N, Sharpe, JA, Sloane-Stanley, J, Smith, AJH, Babbs, C, Hughes, JR, Higgs, DR

“…When the SE is inverted within its normal chromosomal context, expression of its normal targets, the α-globin genes, is severely reduced and the normally silent genes lying upstream of the α-globin locus are upregulated. These findings add to our understanding of enhancer-promoter specificity that precisely activate transcription.…”

Urban trust in Kenya and Tanzania: Cooperation in the provision of public goods by Burbidge, D

“…In Kisumu, in contrast, with participants reflective of the dominant Luo ethnicity, the lack of state provision of public services has seen a feeble and individualistic response. The findings demonstrate how ethnic distribution matters less for public goods provision than commitments amongst citizens themselves and between citizens and local authorities.…”

A tale of disregard? Reception of the jurisprudence of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities before the European Court of Human Rights by Cali, B, Galand, AS

“…By focussing on the right to legal capacity, accessibility and reasonable accommodation, we demonstrate that the transformative jurisprudence of the CRPD Committee was met with visible disregard in Strasbourg. Our findings point to both the importance of specialised human rights treaties and jurisprudence in advancing the rights of historically discriminated groups and the challenges of judicially diffusing transformative protections for the rights of persons with disabilities into general human rights law. …”

Perceived climate risk and stock prices: an empirical analysis of pricing effects by Ameur, HB, Dao, D, Ftiti, Z, Louhichi, W

“…Our results show that perceived climate risk is priced into Standard and Poor's 500 (S&amp;P 500) Index stock returns and is robust when different asset-pricing models are used. Our findings have implications for market participants, as understanding the relationship between perceived climate risk and asset prices is crucial for investors seeking to navigate the financial implications of climate change and for policymakers aiming to promote sustainable financing and mitigate the potential damaging effects of climate risk on financial markets, and a pricing model that accurately incorporates perceived climate risk can facilitate this understanding.…”

Mental disorder and its treatment as a transformative experience by Villiger, D

“…The paper examines pharmacological, psychological, and psychedelic-assisted treatment and reveals that each of them uses a different transformative route to recovery: a finding relevant, for example, to ongoing debates in medical ethics about informed consent.…”

Encephalitis: diagnosis, management and recent advances in the field of encephalitides by Alam, AM, Easton, A, Nicholson, TR, Irani, SR, Davies, NWS, Solomon, T, Michael, BD

“…In parallel, the number of autoimmune encephalitis syndromes has rapidly expanded and clinically characteristic syndromes in association with pathogenic autoantibodies have been defined. By focusing on findings presented at the Encephalitis Society's conference in December 2021, this article reviews the causes, clinical manifestations and management of encephalitis and integrate recent advances and challenges of research into encephalitis.…”

Public functions of political parties in the United Kingdom by Trueblood, L

“…This article challenges this finding by offering a framework, drawn from current case law, for establishing when political parties are exercising public functions. …”

Universal in-context approximation by prompting fully recurrent models by Petrov, A, Lamb, TA, Paren, A, Torr, PHS, Bibi, A

“…While it was recently shown that transformer models do possess this property, these results rely on their attention mechanism. Hence, these findings do not apply to fully recurrent architectures like RNNs, LSTMs, and the increasingly popular SSMs. …”