Introducing Singapore’s kampong life through translation : a case study of Papa as a Little Boy Named Ah Khoon by Loh, XiaoJuan

“…However, most of them were written in English, except for a few Chinese books with brief content. Therefore, this paper seeks to address this issue by introducing kampong life through the translation of the English book titled Papa as a Little Boy Named Ah Khoon. …”
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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. …”

On assigning place names to geography related web pages by Zong, Wenbo, Wu, Dan, Sun, Aixin, Lim, Ee Peng, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…In this paper, we attempt to give spatial semantics to web pages by assigning them place names. …”
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Inorganic salt modified paper substrates utilized in paper based microfluidic sampling for potentiometric determination of heavy metals by Ding, Ruiyu, Krikstolaityte, Vida, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…A relatively high concentration of inorganic salts during pre-treatment of the paper substrates, namely Cd(NO3)2 or Pb(NO3)2 with subsequent measurement of cadmium(II) and lead(II), by Cd2+- and Pb2+-ISEs, respectively was needed to sustain Nernstian response of sensors. …”
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Effects of brand name and made-in label on consumers' product evaluation. by Lee, Ivy Jin Ying., Chua, Zhi Ping., Pow, Nicole Shu Min.

“…This paper adds to the fast developing pool of country of origin studies and focuses on the effect that country of production and brand name has on consumers’ judgment with regard to a high involvement product (i.e. luxury watches). …”
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Tails tell tales: chapter-wide manga transcriptions with character names by Sachdeva, R, Shin, G, Zisserman, A

“…With the goal of fostering accessibility, this paper aims to generate a dialogue transcript of a complete manga chapter, entirely automatically, with a particular emphasis on ensuring narrative consistency. …”

Paper-based solution sampling coupled with potentiometric ion sensors by Ding, Ruiyu

“…To eliminate the unfavourable effects, different paper substrate pre-treatments were investigated, namely: (i) modifications of paper substrates with primary or interfering ions and acidification of paper substrates to chemically bind the active groups on the paper, thus avoid subsequent paper substrate interactions with metal ions in the sample solution; (ii) modifications of paper substrates by gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to selectively remove/diminish transport of proteins from the clinical samples. …”
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Actionable Auditing: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products by Buolamwini, Joy, Raji, Inioluwa Deborah

“…To analyze the impact of publicly naming and disclosing performance results of biased AI systems, we investigate the commercial impact of Gender Shades, the first algorithmic audit of gender and skin type performance disparities in commercial facial analysis models. …”
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Influences of social tags choices on academic papers over time : a user centric approach. by Khasfariyati Razikin.

“…The findings in this study have brought forward the factors that influence the users’ choice of tags for academic papers over time that have both research and practical implications.…”
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Observations on naming and labelling practices in angle work with teachers: how might small language choices support mathematical activity? by Ingram, J, Ward-Penny, R, Kimber, E, Planas, N

“…We focus in particular on the naming and labelling of angles and the relationships between angles, and the different roles these names and labels may have for the fluency, precision and meaning in mathematical communication.…”

A conceptual paper on action research in job satisfaction and turnover intention for a chinese property company by Xue, Fu, Teo, Poh Chuin, Ho, Theresa C. F., Choo, Ling Suan, Tan, Jun Wei

“…This is an action research’s conceptual paper on that focuses on the influence of job satisfaction on employee’s turnover intention in the Chinese property industry, with specific attention given on a company named Chongqing Beleyn Property Management Corporation. …”

“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

“…But this debate has other lessons for those interested in one of the world’s key pieces of information infrastructure. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach: The author’s approach to the study of the Wikipedia talk pages devoted to the Burma/Myanmar naming controversy is qualitative in nature and explores the debate over sources through textual analysis. …”
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing : 15th CCF Conference, ChineseCSCW 2020, Shenzhen, China, November 7-9, 2020, Revised Selected Papers / by CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (15th : 2020 : Shenzhen, China), organiser 642953, Sun, Yuqing, editor 642954, Liu, Dongning, editor 642955, Liao, Hao, 1986-, editor 642956, Fan, Hongfei, editor 642957, Gao, Liping, editor 642958

PARP1 resolves DNA replication defects in PCNA-associated DNA repair disorder by Wang, L

“…By using an inhibitor of PARG, I detected high levels of PAR chains being formed at replication forks in PCNAS^228I cells. …”

A correlated microwave-acoustic imaging method for early-stage cancer detection by Gao, Fei, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Microwave-based imaging technique shows large potential in detecting early-stage cancer due to significant dielectric contrast between tumor and surrounding healthy tissue. In this paper, we present a new way named Correlated Microwave-Acoustic Imaging (CMAI) of combining two microwave-based imaging modalities: confocal microwave imaging(CMI) by detecting scattered microwave signal, and microwave-induced thermo-acoustic imaging (TAI) by detecting induced acoustic signal arising from microwave energy absorption and thermal expansion. …”
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A book is a body by Goh, Su-Lynn

“…A book is defined as sheets of paper bound together. It is no coincidence that the parts of a book are named after the anatomy of a human body. …”
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COSE : a query-centric framework of collaborative heterogeneous sensor networks by He, Yuan., Li, Zhen Jiang.

“…We prove the NP-hardness of EE-QPS, and then design a heuristic approach named IAP by utilizing the correlation (called implication in this paper) among different sensor networks. …”
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Lean Manufacturing Adoption in Malaysia: A Systematic Literature Review by Osman, Azim Azuan, Othman, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rahim, Mohd Kamarul Irwan

“…The articles are classified as literature review, conceptual paper, case study, and survey research. These articles were also grouped into nine meaningful research themes, named: (1) lean definitions, (2) sustaining lean adoption, (3) motivations to adopt lean, (4) lean benefits, (5) results from lean adoption, (6) lean implementation barriers, (7) lean success factors, (8) lean implementation/ assessment models, and (9) lean integration with other management practices. …”
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Differential evolution with large initial populations by Qian, Yanfei

“…This paper proposed a novel method to determine which individuals can enter from the first search phase to the second phase search. …”
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Analysis of changes in composites after different level of heat exposure by Chua, HongWei

“…One of the popular extended non-destructive testing used by the aviation industry to determine heat damage in carbon fiber is the 4100 ExoScan. 4100 ExoScan’s manufacturer, the Agilent’s Technologies had published a research paper named “Composite thermal damage – correlation of short beam shear data with FTIR spectroscopy” to show the effectiveness of 4100 ExoScan to characterize the heat damage in carbon fiber. …”
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