Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words by Holland, Amanda, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…In an exposure session, 354 3- and 4-year-old children were shown a set of two familiar and three novel stimuli. …”
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Partition at 75: reflections on migrant memories in the British South Asian diaspora by Clini, Clelia, Hornabrook, Jasmine, Nataraj, Paul, Keightley, Emily

“…In 2017, the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India was widely discussed in the UK, not only within academic and cultural circles, but also in popular culture. Five years later, on the 75th anniversary of Partition, the scholarly, cultural and community interest in the events of 1947 intersected with the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the South Asian population from Uganda, and the 70th anniversary of the Language Movement that led towards Bangladesh independence in 1971 - the 50th anniversary of which was celebrated just the year before. …”
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Empirical assessment of trade potentials of Pakistan with SAARC countries using revealed comparative advantage by Siddiqi, Masood Mashkoor, Khan, Aurangzeb, Khan, Ameerzaib, Khan, Shahbano

“…For this purpose data related to imports and exports of concerned countries for the year 2019 are utilized and Revealed Comparative advantage technique is applied to identify the commodities of comparative advantage and having potentials that need to be explored in order to increase nation’s overall level of satisfaction. …”
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Beyond compliance: an event history analysis of environmental stewardship by Pitsakis, Konstantinos, Gössling, Tobias, Vink, Remco

“…Beyond compliance behavior is measured as the adoption of a sustainable forestry certificate issued by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The longitudinal (10-year period) dataset consists of adoption events per company, their business characteristics and historic socio-economic data per region in the respective European countries. …”
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At your service! The role of tax havens in international trade with services by Hebous, S, Johannesen, N

“…While total service imports from&nbsp;tax havens&nbsp;are very large, our estimates suggest that Germany&rsquo;s loss of government revenue from mispriced service imports from&nbsp;tax&nbsp;havens is relatively modest, less than &euro; 1 billion per year.</p>…”

New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants by Allen, MR, Fuglestvedt, JS, Shine, KP, Reisinger, A, Pierrehumbert, R, Forster, PM

“…Here we show that the widely used 100-year global warming potential (GWP100) effectively measures the relative impact of both cumulative pollutants and SLCPs on realized warming 20–40 years after the time of emission. …”

University teaching of mass spectrometry as a key practical technique within the context of a fully-integrated, spiral curriculum by Worrall, A, Campbell, C, Midson, M, Stewart, M

“…This mini-review describes how we introduce and develop students' use of MS throughout our three-year undergraduate spiral curriculum practical programme, using atmospheric pressure chemical ionization MS (APCI-MS).…”

Temperatures, conflict and forced migration in West Asia and North Africa by Abdel Ghany, J

“…The findings suggest that extreme temperatures in two consecutive years, defined as the upper 10% of the country-specific annual mean temperature distribution, cumulatively increase the probability of armed conflict by 42.5% in the following year ( p = 0.07). …”

"Workhorses": exploring how internal medicine residents learn efficiency by Ting, J

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> A qualitative interpretivist approach was employed. First- and second-year internal medicine residents at a Canadian university participated in semi-structured individual interviews to explore their learning of efficiency. …”

Prehistoric foragers and farmers in South-east Asia: Renewed investigations at Niah Cave, Sarawak by Barker, G, Barton, H, Beavitt, P, Bird, M, Daly, P, Doherty, C, Gilbertson, D, Hunt, C, Krigbaum, J, Lewis, H, Manser, J, McClaren, S, Paz, V, Piper, P, Pyatt, B, Rabett, R, Reynolds, T, Rose, J, Rushworth, G, Stephens, M

“…The critical importance of the Niah stratigraphies was commonly identified – including by Tom Harrisson himself – as because the site provided a continuous sequence of occupation over the past 40,000 years. The present project indicates that Niah was first used at least 45,000 years ago, and probably earlier; that the subsequent Pleistocene and Holocene occupations were highly variable in intensity and character; and that in some periods, perhaps of significant duration, the caves may have been more or less abandoned. …”

The Malay Standard Framework (KSBM) as a measure of Malay writing mastery in third form activity books by Abd. Nasir, Siti Noridayu, Abdul Halim, Hazlina

“…Mastery in writing skills is an important for students who will seat the end of year exams at school. This is because the weighting of the marking in the Malay subject is the writing of reviews and essays. …”
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Studies on Acacia mangium in Kemasul Forest, Malaysia. I. Biomass and productivity by Lim, Meng Tsai

“…The above-ground biomass, litter production and litter accumulation in a four-year-old stand m Peninsular Malaysia were studied. …”

Spontaneous ruptured pyomyoma: A rare yet critical postpartum complication: A case report by Soo, Tze Hui, Subramaniam, Mogana, Chai, Woon Kian, Ee, Wei Sheun

“…Herein, we report the case of a 44-year-old Para 3+1 woman with red degeneration of uterine fibroids during pregnancy, who experienced worsening abdominal pain and foul smelling vaginal discharge 1 week post Caesarean section. …”
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Understanding perspectives and research trends in down syndrome neuropathogenesis: a bibliometric analysis by Huang, Tan, Lam, Xin-Jieh, Lim, Chong-Teik, Jusoh, Norhazlin, Fakurazi, Sharida, Cheah, Pike-See, Ling, King-Hwa

“…Keyword analysis revealed promising research areas, including “Alzheimer's disease,” “development,” “inflammation,” and “neurogenesis”. This 22-year survey of the brain with trisomy 21 research unveils key trends, contributors, and focal areas in DS neuropathogenesis. …”
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Development Of A Formative Assessment Regime For Chinese-english Interpreter Training And Its Effects On Academic Achievement, Motivation, And Collaboration by Yan, Da

“…The researcher recruited 129 second-year interpreter learners, 7 lecturers, and 10 experts as participants in the study. …”
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Enabling social enterprise success in Malaysia: A conceptual model linking entrepreneurial ecosystem and financial performance by Ng, Shean-Min, Ho, Theresa C. F., Teo, Poh-Chuin

“…With the evidence that social enterprises (SEs) are playing a significant role in promoting a country’s inclusive growth, it is worrying that only 33% of the social enterprises in Malaysia are able to sustain themselves by making profit, according to the report of the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC) in year 2019. Therefore, this finding raises concerns where it is crucial and pressing to identify what are the resources that would assist social enterprises to achieve sustainable financial performance. …”
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Factors in the Selection of Houses for the Disabled in Kedah by Abdul Latif, Mohammad Raznil, Abdul Nifa, Faizatul Akmar

“…The number of people with disabilities is increasing worldwide every year. This means that individuals with disabilities now have access to a multitude of employment opportunities and can even own their own homes. …”
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Factors in The Selection of Houses for The Disabled in Kedah by Abdul Latif, Mohammad Raznil, Abdul Nifa, Faizatul Akmar

“…The number of people with disabilities is increasing worldwide every year. This means that individuals with disabilities now have access to a multitude of employment opportunities and can even own their own homes. …”
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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 SLR involved analysing 163 scholarly articles from international journals and conference proceedings published between the year 2005 to 2019. The articles are classified as literature review, conceptual paper, case study, and survey research. …”
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Embracing the PhD journey: From odyssey to jewels by Zuraina, Ali

“…Having worked for almost a year in the capital city of Malaysia; clocking in when the sun is rising and clocking out when the moon is ticking, I realised that I do not want to work in that condition for a long time. …”
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