This paper identifies repair strategies by children with history of cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) following the initiation by their conversational partners. Specifically, it analyses the strategies that are used by these children to construct the repair turn. Data come from approximately 7-hour recordings of everyday interaction during family acti

Children with a history of cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) can experience a range of difficulties such as sound articulation errors and reduced psychosocial functioning. This causes interaction with them to contain more frequent communication breakdowns than non-cleft children. The present study shows evidence of such breakdowns involving topic shif

This paper examines the urgent need to successfully implement best practice certification when determining an effective economic mechanism for the foodservice industry from the management perspective. The study involved 73 managers of targeted foodservice companies (at a response rate of 92%) who participated in a survey. The 33 best-practice compl

In recent years, poverty has become a series issue around the world. Poverty in Afghanistan is widespread throughout rural and urban areas. The government estimates that 42 per cent of the country's total population lives below the national poverty line. Another 20 per cent of the people live just above that line and are highly vulnerable to th

Kesedaran masyarakat terhadap kepentingan kesihatan telah menggalakkan pemasaran produk nutraseutikal di Malaysia. Nutraseutikal didefinisikan sebagai produk berasaskan makanan yang diyakini mampu memberikan kesan positif kepada kesihatan pengguna dengan cara melindungi serta merawat pengguna daripada penyakit. Oleh sebab permintaan terhadap produk

Melaka Declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction in Malaysia (2011) captured the future direction of the country on disaster risk reduction as well as its efforts towards implementing the priority areas for the Sendai Framework, 2015–2030 and together with SDG11 (Sustainable Goals 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG13 (Sustainable Goals

Continuous approach and solution in solving resilience over a few decades are yet to resolve the main issue in developing sustainable development, disaster risk reduction and new challenges on climate change. Current frameworks that have been developed tend to be over-generalized which required major changes in developing effective frameworks appro

A 2 x 2 non-uniform planar array with a new technique of array arrangement has been proposed in this paper. The proposed non-uniform array has been achieved by shifting the second-row elements with a change of certain angle with respect to the elements in the first row. After optimizing the angle using CST MWS, the proposed array has achieved a pea

This paper presents a compact CPW monopole antenna on rubber substrate for multiband applications. The multi band applications (2.45 and 3.65 GHz) is achieved on this antenna design with better antenna performances. Specially this antenna focused on ISM band application meanwhile some of slots (S1, S2, S3) have been used and attained another freque

Healthy lifestyle is a significant factor that impacts on the budget for medicine. According to psychological studies, personality traits based on the Big Five personality traits especially the neuroticism and conscientiousness, have the ability to predict healthy lifestyle profiling. Electrophysiological signals have been used to explore the natur