... CEO age and tenure and CEO shareholdings were used as measures of CEO compensation while ROE was adapted as a measure of firm performance The results ofthe analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated ... beliefs and practices of corporate managers andthe governance of corporations in the United States and legislators and regulators have been quick to respond to the latest corporate scandals Despite ... secondary data compiled by the Securities and Exchange EDGAR database and publicly available annual reports The sample for this study consisted of 15 years of CEO compensation and firm performance...
... in a survey questionnaire andthe sample of analyst users was asked to rate the importance of each item on a 5-point scale After standardizing the responses to a zero mean and unit variance, a ... of voluntary disclosure Third, the Hong Kong data allows a fuller and more powerful approach to analysis as there is considerable variation in the measures ofthe explanatory and dependent variables ... 0.25 average number of IND is 2.45 On the other hand, the average percentage of family members sitting on the board was 32.1% Table shows that in 29% ofthe sample companies the chairman was also...
... Figure Basilar papilla at E9 and E12 Basilar papilla at E9 and E12 Images of regular mosaics at embryonic day (E9) and E12 (from [18]) in the basilar papilla The spatial regularity ofthe primary ... Honda and Yamanaka [9] who examined the relationship between cellular growth and division in the formation ofthe polygonal cellular pattern ofthe avian oviduct epithelium Another notable example ... rate in the published images of Goodyear and Richardson [18] that show primary and secondary cells ofthe central distal region ofthe chick basilar papilla between embryonic day (E9) and day...
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... 3.5 MIV examples Table shows eight examples of MIVs calculated from the Pfam database A sequence was taken from four random families, andthe MIV was calculated using the literal gap method for ... specific classification accuracy We used the Pfam -A dataset to carry out this comparison The families contained in the Pfam database vary in sequence count and sequence length We removed all families ... Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, Calif, USA, 2nd edition, 2005 T M Cover and P Hart, “Nearest neighbor pattern classification,” IEEE Transactions...
... as there are 17.32% of them are American, 4.95% of them are Australian, 7.92% of them are England and Germany Some countries from Asia also had relatively high number of respondent are China, ... Singapore, Japan and Malaysia Others visitors come from Canada, Argentina, This data illustrates that there are wide range of foreign tourist to Hanoi andthe surveys can cover different types of ... and 37.79% of respondents will be citizens of other countries Data analysis method Data analysis is how data is broken down and clarified in a nature of component parts andthe relationship among...
... known as the ‘AsiaPacific Way’ or the ‘East Asian Way’, has played the major role in shaping post-cold war regional integration in Northeast Asia: “…Southeast Asian leaders and intellectuals speak ... Zealand In 2001, Amitav Acharya 32 claimed in a formal study, Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN andthe Problem of Regional Order, that ASEAN can be regarded as a nascent ... Acharya noted that Southeast Asian leaders and intellectuals saw the ASEAN Way “as the organizing principle of multilateralism at the wider Asia-Pacific regional level.” 37 36 Rizal Sukma, “The...
... original work, he cited two examples of security communities: Sweden and Norway after 1905, andthe US and Canada after 1815 Today, the EU, US-Canada, and Australia-New Zealand are generally agreed ... Zealand andthe US Mahathir’s proposal arose in reaction to the formation of potentially exclusive trade blocs like the EU and NAFTA Specifically, Mahathir’s EAEG proposal was an alternative to the ... region was faced with the violent Indonesian Konfrontasi campaign against the Malaysian Federation (1963-66), the Philippine claim against Malaysia’s state of Sabah, and abortive attempts at fostering...
... her studyofthe history of water negotiations between Singapore and Malaysia, the Canadian scholar Diane Mauzy found that Malaysia had used water as leverage in many ofthe bilateral disputes between ... land reclamation Singapore and Malaysia are two core members ofthe original ASEAN-5 They are among the more developed and prosperous ofthe ASEAN states A detailed analysis of their bilateral political-strategic ... degree of affinity and trust among the ASEAN member-states (A) Overall State of Bilateral Relations among the ASEAN States Singapore-Malaysia Relations Over the past forty-seven years, Singapore-Malaysia...
... Burma and other parts of Asia that it cannot handle” 22 The ARF consists ofa total of 27 states, including the ASEAN states andthe major powers, US, Russia, China, and Japan How the non-ASEAN ... importance of extending the ‘ASEAN Way’ to promoting and shaping the Northeast Asian regional order Writing in 1997, Amitav Acharya noted that the ASEAN elites saw the extension ofthe ASEAN Way to the ... pattern and dynamics of Northeast Asian regionalism Mark Beeson, Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 Alan Dupont has claimed that the ARF had sown the seeds...
... ASEAN states Amitav Acharya has cogently described the critical impact ofthe AFC on the accelerated pace of East Asian regionalism in the following manner: One result ofthe Asian crisis was the ... us to gain a better understanding ofthecharacteristicsandthe specific nature of both the strengths and limitations of ASEAN regionalism A great strength ofthe ASEAN Way of cooperative security ... in post-Cold War Northeast Asia In particular, the ARF has played a number of useful roles The Northeast Asian states see ASEAN as an honest broker andthe ‘ASEAN Way’ as ‘non-threatening’ 17 Corruption...
... immunotherapy Ag Antigen α-GalCer α-galactosylceramide AIM activation inducer molecule alum aluminum-based salt AP ExtraAvidine Alkaline Phosphatase APC Antigen Presenting Cell BCG Bacillus Calmette-Guérin ... antigen-specific therapies The latter can be attained either by vaccination or adoptive transfer Vaccination means the administration ofa particular antigen to induce a specific immune response Adoptive transfer ... trivial steps such as how the cells are frozen and thawed, how long the cells are matured, at what speed they are centrifuged, the quantity and timing of antigen they load, the mechanics of their...
... use the data forming the basis of my analysis as part of her project “Spoken Vocabulary of Singapore Mandarin Chinese: a Corpus-driven Approach” (The Ministry of Education of Singapore Academic ... Speaker/hearer knowledge concerns what a speaker knows and what a hearer knows Speaker/hearer meta-knowledge concerns what speakers and hearers know about their respective knowledge, and what parts ... ——母语者和新加坡汉语学习者使用情况对比研究 THE CHINESE DISCOURSE MARKER "SUOYI": A COMPARATIVE STUDYOF ITS USAGE BETWEEN NATIVE SPEAKERS AND SINGAPORE MANDARIN LEARNERS 王荣耀 WANG RONGYAO 新加坡国立大学中文系 硕士学位论文 A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE...
... Parbat-Haramosh Massif andthe Ladakh Arc Terrane, Northern Pakistan INTRODUCTION Background The Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif (NPHM) of northern Pakistan is an unusual geologic feature The massif ... east-west structural grain ofthe high Himalaya and separates two similar island arc terranes, Ladakh to the east and Kohistan to the west The nature and origin of this unusual geologic relationship ... define the location and character ofthe eastern boundary ofthe Nanga Parbat massif The eastern margin ofthe NPHM is in northern Pakistan in the region referred to as the Deosai Plateau (Fig...
... find out the similarities and differences betweenthe syntactic features of ESVs and VSVs - Analyzing data of ESVs and VSVs in terms ofthe semantic features and making a contrastive analysis to ... the analysis of ESVs and VSVs in terms ofthe syntactic and semantic features The analysis results ofthe ESVs and VSVs will be compared and contrasted in order to find out the similarities and ... 1.2.1 Aims This study aims at making a detailed and systematic description ofthe syntactic and semantic features of SVs in English and their Vietnamese equivalents It is hoped that the results of...
... Vietnamese linguists, especially by Cao Xuan Hao and Hoang Van Van Cao Xuan Hao [31] offerred an overview of functional approaches and solved the issues of applying Functional Grammar to analysis ... ofthe Socialist LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Republic of Vietnam 1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS What are the semantic and syntactic features ofthe saying verbs in English and Vietnamese? ... shows their relationship to one another of Functional Grammar) The author pointed out the similarities andThe semantic structure of vocabulary ofa language can be differences in semantic features...
... clauses 1.3 THE SCOPE OFTHESTUDYandthe meaning of non – finite clauses are very abundant and diverse Because ofthe limitation of time andthe ability of our own, in Obviously, it is really ... verb: textual material in one language (Source language) by equivalent an infinitive, a present participle or a past participle and gerund material in another language (Target Language)” According ... Vietnamese to avoid negative transference from mother language and to avoid confusion as well as mistakes in translation exercises Therefore, understanding ofthe use of language strutures makes the...
... songs as the data 9 10 - Describing and analyzing the collected data to find out the semantic features of lexicon and syntactic features of phrases and sentences on the basis of translation theory ... purpose of translation is that the audience in the TL feel and reacts in the same ways as the audience in SL does However, to translate a language into another language effectively and transfer the ... carefully the culture aspect Translation literary works in general and translation musical translation in particular is not an easy task so it requires the translators to learn and research carefully...
... Pamela got marriage to Mr B, a good man, a good husband, and actually became a noblewoman In the first sentences ofthe novel, Pamela appeared as an extraordinary girl of skill and spirit although ... his patriotic attitude when the king of Brogdingnag, laughed at what he said about England: "of course I was angry He was talking about England- England the home ofthe Great, the Winner of Wars, ... died and Lovelace was killed in a fight The life of Clarissa was a chain of misery and agony Firstly, she was the victim of an arranged marriage that was completely for economical aim Solmes was...