An overview of Shirley Lim's poetry and summary of the eight articles written in her honour in this Festschrift.UC Santa Barbara Journal of Transnational American Studies Title To Honor the Poet: A Festschrift for Shirley Geok-lin Lim Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jz853hc Journal Journal of Transnational American Studies, 10(2) Au

This issue of Asiatic(Vol. 13, No. 2) is dedicated tothe life and works of Dennis Haskell (1948-),a long-standing friend of the Journal, who has been on itsAdvisory Board since the Journal’s inception.He is also an ardent champion of Asian literaturewhohas been at the forefront of literary representations of Australian-Asian interactions and has

A series of recent reform proposals in Malaysia have started to consider enhancing shareholders' self-help remedies by expanding shareholders' powers in corporate decision-making. The reform of listing rules, codes of corporate governance, and securities law legislation is intended to enhance shareholders' participatory rights in decisi

In this paper, the surface roughness characteristic of D-shaped optical fibre sensors with its effects on the sensitivity has been studied. The ULTRAPOL end and edge polishing system was used with some modifications to fabricate the D-shaped sensors with planar sensing zone from the single-mode optical fibres. The mean surface roughness of 343, 96,

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The objective of this study is to analyze and evaluate public acceptance and their willingness to pay (WTP) for solar energy for their household use in Kuala Lumpur. For this reason, a contingent valuation method (CVM) was conducted to recognize the WTP of individuals and the features persuading it. Inhabitants of 400 families in Kuala Lumpur were

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This study investigates the link between religious schools, called madrassas, in Pakistan and recruitment and use of child soldiers in the long-lasting armed conflict in Afghanistan. A great deal of existing research on this and related topics has pointed to Pakistani madrassas as primary recruitment sites for the underage soldiers fighting in the

The overall policy and strategies of an organization i.e. employee policy or employee development strategies, resource management as well as monitoring and control strategies characteristically have an effect on the quality management of the organization. These policies usually also have impact on the stakeholders i.e. satisfaction of the wider com

EMG signal based research is ongoing for the development of simple, robust, user friendly, efficient interfacing devices/systems for the disabled. The advancement can be observed in the area of robotic devices, prosthesis limb, exoskeleton, wearable computer, I/O for virtual reality games and physical exercise equipments. Additionally, electromyogr