A no fault compensation scheme, as an alternative compensatory model, made its appearance as a consequence of the failure of the tort system to adequately compensate accident victims. The scheme provided an entirely new dimension to the civil justice system in dealing with the plight of accident victims by replacing the traditional notion of indivi

Purpose – The objective of the present study is to examine the extent, quality, nature and trends of environmental disclosures of Malaysian property development companies for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006. Design/methodology/approach – A content analysis was undertaken of the annual reports of a sample of public listed property development comp

Malaysia and Singapore are good examples of multicultural societies albeit with different acculturation ideologies. Both countries comprise three main ethnic groups but in diametrically opposite proportion. In Malaysia, 50.4% of the population is Malay, 23.7% Chinese, 11%indigenous peoples, 7.1% Indian, and 7.8% other races. In Singapore, the ratio

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between audit committee expertise and financial reporting quality. Since the Sarbanes Oxley Act, 2002, there has been growing interest in the research concerning audit committee expertise, especially as the Security Exchange Commission requires firms to identify their audit co

Advances in neonatal care now enable more infants to be kept alive despite clear clinical evidence of inevitable or imminent death on a life-support system. It is therefore no longer acceptable to the society that a patient is left to die in the hospital, without any form of treatment or intervention. We report a case of severe birth asphyxia, hypo

Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 14 (1): 79-92, 2013 ISSN 1990-9233 © IDOSI Publications, 2013 DOI: 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.14.1.1984 Corresponding Author: Seyed Rajab Nikhashemi, Department of Resource Management and Consumer Studies, University of Putra Malaysia . 79Internet Technology, Crm and Customer Loyalty: Customer Retention and

The present study examined the relationship between stressors, resilience resources, and well-being in adolescents with low socio-economic status in Malaysia. The specific aims were: (i) to differentiate between resilient and non-resilient adolescents in terms of their resilience resources; and (ii) to examine the role of resilience resources on th

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The present study examined the relationship between stressors, resilience resources and well-being in adolescents. The specific aims were (i) to differentiate between resilient and non-resilient adolescents in terms of their resilience resources, and (ii) to examine the role of resilience resources on the relationship between stressors and well-bei

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