Effects of brand name and made-in label on consumers' product evaluation. by Lee, Ivy Jin Ying., Chua, Zhi Ping., Pow, Nicole Shu Min.

“…Products with Chinese brand name are also less preferred compared to those with the German and English brand names, despite being produced in a more developed country like Switzerland or the US. …”
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Perceptions of impure innovation: health professionals’ experiences and management of stigmatization when working as digital innovators by Gill, MJ, Naughton, B, Field, M, Shaw, S

“…While the range of factors driving such resistance to innovation are well documented, less clear is how such resistance is experienced and managed by professionals attempting to innovate. …”

Enchantment, possession and the uncanny in E.T.A. Hoffmann's ‘The Sandman’ by Dawson, Terence.

“…My aim is to propose that the tale has less to do with the events of Nathanael’s childhood than with the perils of enchantment in the present.…”
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Pragmatic competence and pragmatic tolerance in foreign language acquisition—revisiting the case of scalar implicatures by Schulz, J, Wonnacott, E

“…Some studies indicate adult L2 learners are less likely than L1 users to accept such statements while others found the opposite, concluding that implicature derivation is “costly” for L2 learners, rendering them less pragmatically competent than L1 users. …”