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The implications of information processing efficiency on decision making
No full textThis thesis investigates the implications of information processing efficiency on decision making with respect to the ability of decision makers to process information in a rational and timely manner. In order to examine the different aspects of information efficiency with respect to decision making, three different settings were used. First, attitudes and perceptions held by individual decision makers play an important role in the information processing stage of a decision. Therefore, the first thrust of this thesis seeks to investigate the impact of demographic characteristics of decision makers (socially responsible investors (SRIs)) on their attitudes and perceptions (in relation to their corporate social responsibility (CSR) views). The results show that demographic characteristics are useful predictors of CSR views held by SRIs. This implies that companies can reduce their cost of capital by attracting the affluent members of SRIs community and increase their CSR rankings by creating diversity in their corporate boardrooms. These efforts, if undertaken by companies, can help increase share price of the respective companies. Government agencies can also encourage companies to implement CSR agendas by requiring companies to implement CSR agendas which will appeal to the specific members in the SRIs community (clientele effect). Second, the ability of decision makers to process information in a rational manner can be seriously undermined when decision makers are expected to match the different motivations underlying their own or others? objectives with the multiple choices which are available to them. In the second thrust of the thesis, a state contingent (UK horseracing pari-mutuel betting market) with multi-competitor choices is used to illustrate the discovery of the determinants of demand (day-of-the-week, weekend, public holiday, number of races in the same hour, field size, televised races, flat and jump races, race quality, timing of the race during the day, insider trading, track conditions, bookmakers? over-round and risk attitude of bettors) unique to different groups of decision makers (bettors). The results demonstrate that unique sets of determinants can be used to identify the different types of decision makers (that is, sophisticated and unsophisticated bettors). Clearly, the discovery of these unique determinants for demand can be used by the respective authorities (British Horseracing Board, Horseracing Betting Levy and Tote boards) in deciding which variables are important to influence the behavior of the respective decision makers (bettors and horseracing authorities). Third, decision makers ought to be able to arrive at a decision in a timely manner. The third thrust of this thesis attempts to investigate the speed of adjustment with respect to the arrival of new and unexpected information in understanding the financial integration process in the Asia Pacific region (APR). Using stock market capitalization as a measure of equity market size, it was also found that more advanced equity markets are more informationally efficient that those less advanced equity markets possibly due to the fact that the infrastructure which supports information flow enables information to be easily accessible by investors for decision making. The results suggest that a more integrated equity market in the APR can lead to a greater speed of adjustment with respect to information shocks. Therefore, domestic governments have a role to play in ensuring the necessary infrastructure to facilitate information flow is improved and better integrated with neighbouring equity markets. Finally, the thesis concludes that demographic characteristics play an important role in influencing the rational information processing involved in decision making by individuals. When confronted with choices, decision makers are affected by their various motivations and those who seek to capitalise on others? decisions need to be aware of these motivations. In addition, the infrastructure on which information flows is essential in influencing the speed at which information is processe
Beyond the World as Picture:Worlding and Becoming the Whole World
No full textIn his well-known essay, Die Zeit des Weltbildes, Heidegger describes modernity as the age in which the world has been reduced to a picture. The conceptualization of the world as picture is the fundamental basis of globalization and the geopolitical relations of power, inequality and exploitation that characterize the world-system created by late capitalism. The world as picture is also the basis of various conceptual approaches for understanding worldliness informing various disciplines in the humanities and the narrative social sciences: world history, globality (global exchange and intercourse) and environmental kinship. But what is implied by the world as picture is the excess that is excluded or obscured by the picture frame because the idea of a frame intimates at something that lies beyond the picture that is its ontological condition of possibility. This talk examines two philosophical accounts of what is beyond the world as picture: Heidegger’s idea of worlding and Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of becoming the whole world as it is connected to their account of minor literature. It highlights the fundamental differences between these philosophies of world and the above approaches. Time permitting, I will then explore how postcolonial world literature, when read as part of the temporal process of worlding and world-creation, disrupts and shatters the world picture by participating in struggles within specific fields of forces in contemporary globalization. Such literature unsettles their readers’ sense of territorial boundaries and makes them aware of how they are constitutively implicated in the hierarchies of the contemporary world even as it resists being arrested in a geographically bounded and determinable subject-object such as a nation, a continent or a region. Pheng Cheah is Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. His research interests include late 18th-20th century continental philosophy and contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory and anglophone postcolonial literatures, theories of nationalism, cosmopolitanism and globalization, philosophy and literature, legal philosophy, social and political thought, and feminist theory. He is the author of What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature (2016), Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (2006), and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (2003). Followed by a discussion with Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley), Carmen Moersch (Kunsthochschule Mainz) and Birgit Hopfener (Carleton University) Moderated by Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University
Guan, Cheah Hong, [No Service Number]
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/389370Surname: GUAN. Given Name(s) or Initials: CHEAH HONG. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: [No Registration Number]. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 48548.213139
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Pheng Cheah, What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
No full textThe definition of “world literature” has been subject to many discussions since the late 20th century (see Cécile Girardin’s review in this issue); with this book, Pheng Cheah adds a cogent contribution to it. He starts by asking the question “what is a world” when one talks of “world literature,” challenging our spatial view of the world, as divided into time zones, when originally it was conceived as a temporal category. Conceptualizing the world in temporal terms, Cheah then undertakes to ..
A machine utilization analysis tool
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-77).by Johnson Cheah-Shin.M.S
Pheng Cheah. What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. Durham: Duke UP, 2016.
No full textReview of Pheng Cheah. What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. Durham: Duke UP, 2016
World, Worlds, Worlding: A Review of Pheng Cheah\u27s What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
No full textReview of Pheng Cheah, What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. Presents an overview of Cheah\u27s argument regarding normativity and temporality in worlds and worlding, a summary of chapters, and an assessment of the book\u27s contribution to philosophy, world literature, and postcolonial studies
Survey and qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 public health measures on people living in Thailand, Malaysia, Italy, United Kingdom and Slovenia (SEBCOV study)
No full textThis set of slides was presented by Professor Phaik Yeong Cheah on behalf of the International SEBCOV team at the International Pandemic Sciences Conference, 10 & 11th July 2023 in Oxford. These slides contain a summary of the following publications arising from the SEBCOV study.
1.SEBCOV study protocol: Pan-ngum W, Poomchaichote T, Cuman G et al. Social, ethical and behavioural aspects of COVID-19. Wellcome Open Research 2020, 5:90
2.Cross-country quantitative results: Osterrieder A, Cuman G, Pan-Ngum W, et al. Economic and social impacts of COVID-19 and public health measures: results from an anonymous online survey in Thailand, Malaysia, the UK, Italy and Slovenia. BMJ Open 2021;11:e046863. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046863
3.Cross-country qualitative results: Schneiders ML, Naemiratch B, Cheah PK, Cuman G, Poomchaichote T, et al. (2022) The impact of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions on the lived experiences of people living in Thailand, Malaysia, Italy and the United Kingdom: A cross-country qualitative study. PLOS ONE 17(1): e0262421.
4.Thai quantitative results: Pan-ngum W, Poomchaichote T, Peerawaranun P et al. Perspectives on public health interventions in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research 2021, 5:245
5.Thai qualitative results: Naemiratch B, Schneiders ML, Poomchaichote T, Ruangkajorn S, Osterrieder A, et al. (2022) “Like a wake-up call for humankind”: Views, challenges, and coping strategies related to public health measures during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Thailand. PLOS Global Public Health 2(7): e0000723.
6.Malaysian qualitative results: Cheah, P.K., Jalloh, M.B., Cheah, PK. et al. Experiences, coping strategies and perspectives of people in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Public Health 23, 1085 (2023).
7.Malaysian quantitative results: Cheah, P. K., Cheah, P. K., Ongkili, D., Osterrieder , A., Poomchaichote , T., Waithira, N., Mukaka, M. and Cheah, P. Y. (2021) “COVID-19: Comparison of situational factors between healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers in East Malaysia”, Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine, 21(1), pp. 90-95
8.UK qualitative results: Schneiders ML, Mackworth-Young CRS and Cheah PY. Between division and connection: a qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on social relationships in the United Kingdom [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research 2022, 7:
Grape seed extract: a potential adjunct to chemotherapy?
No full textKer Y Cheah, Gordon S Howarth, Susan EP Bastia
Grape seed extract improves parameters of small intestinal mucositis in a dose responsive manner in rats
No full textKY Cheah, GS Howart, SEP Bastia
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