The road more travelled : how user-generated content can lead to homogenized travel journalism by Duffy, Andrew

“…Employing interviews and a survey, it finds that homogeneous travel attitudes and reports are highly influential in directing them in what to see and what to think about it—maintaining existing power relations and ideologies of tourism. …”
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Simulation on window's energy efficiency using EnergyPlus (Performing simulation on selected windows to find the most energy efficient window for residential housing) by Li, Lan.

“…Windows are the most interesting and complex elements in residential design. It can cause a large percentage of heat loss and heat gain between the building and the environment. …”
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When money can’t buy political love: lab experiments on vote buying in Ghana and Uganda by Burbidge, D, Cheeseman, N, Panin, A

“…Respondents who have had positive experiences of elections were more likely to reward nonbribing candidates These findings suggest that the lab-in-the-field results are best explained by democratic values among some respondents. …”

Hired or not even considered? : Investigating how the employment outcomes of deaf persons in Singapore can be promoted by Gan, Jessa Wan Zhen

“…Additionally, current policies which target employers are also not effective in shaping their behaviour to hire deaf persons with equal consideration alongside hearing persons. The findings of this study contribute to the minuscule deaf-related employment research set in Singapore and can be considered for research on employment outcomes of other PWDs.…”
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Can training enhance public employees’ public service motivation? A pretest–posttest design by Chen, Chung-An, Hsieh, Chih-Wei, Chen, Don-Yun

“…In places where civil service examinations prevail, even adverse selection (selecting low-PSM individuals) can occur. This leaves public sector managers with tough questions: “Can we improve new recruits’ PSM? …”
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How data governance technologies can democratize data sharing for community well-being – Corrigendum by Wu, Dan, Verhulst, Stefaan G., Pentland, Alex, Avila, Thiago, Finch, Kelsey, Gupta, Abhishek

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Analysing the reasons for the use of the death penalty in Singapore through Bentham’s utilitarianism : can the noose be loosened? by Priyanna Subramaniam

“…Despite this, Singapore’s retentionist position towards the death penalty raises the question of whether the government’s largely utilitarian attitude towards policymaking and governance can truly be attributed to the greater good of society. …”
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Can liaison neurology add value to patient care within a mental health setting? by Ward, JH, Sargent, B, Bale, R, Klein, JC, Harrison, PJ, Lennox, B, Al-Diwani, A, Handel, AE

'He that no good can', again: three further unrecorded copies of a Middle English Proverb by Oldfield, MF, Sawyer, D

Using knowledge translation to support the use of evaluation findings: A case study of the linda mama free maternity program in Kenya by Guleid, FH, Orangi, S, Kairu, A, Arwa, B, Keru, J, Musuva, A, Vilcu, I, Pattnaik, A, Ravishankar, N, Barasa, E

“…Using KT, especially when evaluating and refining the implementation of complex health programs with multiple stakeholders, is useful in improving the uptake of evaluation findings. However, it can be challenging to sustain such engagement with stakeholders. …”

Heterogeneity in definitions of surgical site infection after cranial surgery limits the validity of research findings in neurosurgery: a systematic review by Majidi, N, Sivakumar, A, Vogt, A, Ranganathan, S, Ashkan, K, Price, SJ, Lee, KS

“…Variability in outcome definitions can hinder the ability to produce reliable evidence. …”

Global analysis of dark matter simplified models (DMSMs) with leptophilic spin-one mediators using the MasterCode framework by Goh, Edwin Duo Yao

“…Recent cosmological and astrophysical studies have shown that ordinary matter, which can be observed directly, only constitutes 15% of the total matter content of Universe. …”
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Improving the well-being outcomes via decent work and job engagement: a findings from Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in Malaysia by Norizan Baba Rahim, Rasidah Arshad, Zulnaidi Yaacob

“…Using purposive sampling technique which involved 143 PWDs in Malaysia via SurveyMonkey, the measurement items were adopted from past research with acceptable reliability, and the hypothesis were tested via Partial Least Squares (PLS) 2.0. The findings revealed that decent work was related to well-being outcomes. …”
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Giant photonic spin Hall effect empowered by polarization-dependent quasibound states in the continuum in compound grating waveguide structures by Wu, Feng, Liu, Tingting, Long, Yang, Xiao, Shuyuan, Chen, Gengyan

“…The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) plays an important role in both fundamental science and precision metrology. …”
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Variational study of the two‐impurity spin–boson model with a common Ohmic bath : ground‐state phase transitions by Zhou, Nengji, Zhang, Yuyu, Lü, Zhiguo, Zhao, Yang

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Measuring spin polarization of Cu-doped bulk indium tin oxide using point contact Andreev reflection method. by Tan, Lihao.

“…Spin polarization of a novel material is of interest to researcher in the field of spintronic devices. …”
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Rethinking the role that the “step” in the load–displacement curves can play in measurement of fracture toughness for hard coatings by Zhang, Xiaomin, Zhang, Sam

“…This paper scrutinizes the “step” and finds that the “step” is a gap artificially bridged up with a straight line and that the “step” size corresponds with the thickness of the coating in testing. …”
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Can AI create better lesson plans than humans? This is what Malaysian english instructors think by Wan Noor Farah, Wan Shamsuddin, Nur Amalina, Mohd Shariff

“…This is then followed by a semistructured interview with several instructors for more qualitative findings. The results indicated that Malaysian English teachers have a positive outlook towards using the technology especially when designing lesson plans. …”
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Helicobacter pylori infection can affect energy modulating hormones and body weight in germ free mice by Loke, Mun Fai, Vadivelu, Jamuna, Tan, Tuan Lin, Wong, Whye Yen, Khosravi, Yalda, Seow, Shih Wee, Amoyo, Arlaine Anne, Chiow, Kher Hsin, Poh, Qian Hui, Sentosa, Ignatius Mario Doli, Bunte, Ralph M., Pettersson, Sven

“…However, in contrast to SPFH mice, GFH showed reduced weight gain and malnutrition. These preliminary findings show that exposure to H. pylori alters host metabolism early in life; but the commensal microbiota in SPF mice can attenuate the growth retarding effect from H. pylori observed in GF mice. …”
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Can a humanoid robot be part of the organizational workforce? A user study leveraging sentiment analysis by Mishra, Nidhi, Ramanathan, Manoj, Satapathy, Ranjan, Cambria, Erik, Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia

“…The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of humanoid robots on customers in a work environment, and see if it can handle social scenarios. We propose to evaluate these objectives through two modes, namely: survey questionnaire and customer feedback. …”
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