11,978 research outputs found
The Effectiveness of Assessing Teacher Dispositions
No full textA capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education At Morehead State University by Cheng-Shan Lay on March 11, 2016
FACTORS AFFECTING ON POVERTY OF HOUSEHOLDS IN FLOODED AREA OF SHAN KA LAY KYUN VILLAGE, AMARAPURA TOWNSHIP
No full textThis paper is concerned with the socio-economic status and poverty level of
households in Shan Ka Lay Kyun Village. The objectives of the study are to investigate
the socio-economic situations of households, to analyse the factor affecting on the
expenditure of households and to analyze the socio-economic factors affecting on
poverty of household in flooded area of Shan Ka Lay Kyun Village, Amarapura
Township. Primary data to collect the require information 300 households from 850
households are randomly selected by using simple random sampling method. In this
paper, descriptive analysis, multiple regression analysis, binary logistic regression
analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) for calculating wealth index are used.
Most of the household heads are primary education level. Households’ earned monthly
income between 90000 and 374999 Kyats. Households’ monthly expenditure was
found between 22100 and 162099 Kyats. To analyze the factors affecting on monthly
expenditure of households, multiple linear regression model is used. According to the
results of multiple linear regression models, total income, family size, length of stay
and number of students are statistically significant. In binary logistic regression
analysis, total income and loans are positively correlated with poverty and occupation,
family size, gender and number of student are negatively correlated with poverty. It is
suggested that garbage system should be changed for not harming in environment and
the socio-economic life of households in Shan Ka Lay Kyun Village should be uplift to
increase the income level
A Study on the Palm leaf Manuscripts in Thar –Lay (South) Monastery, Thar-Lay Village, Innle Lake, Shan State
No full textThere have been many fine monastic libraries since early period all over Myanmar country. Most of monastic libraries kept mainly hand inscribed Palm leaf manuscripts and handmade paper manuscripts, called Parabikes (folded paper). Now these monastic libraries are disappearing because monks and people did not use these libraries. But some monasteries still remain these rare manuscripts. So, this paper aims to study the palm leaf manuscripts of a monastic library called Thar-Lay (South) Monastery, Thar-Lay village, Innle Lake, Shan State that was established in the early Konbaung period, AD-1789. There are above (704) palm leaf manuscripts. This paper highlights on those palm leaf manuscripts in that Thar-Lay Monastery: what types of manuscripts there are, what kinds of literature (eg. Prose, Poem) there are, which language (Pali or Myanmar) is used, the life of palm leaf, which subjects there are, and how to keep those manuscripts and so on. This study which is not only Myanmar scholars, researchers and monks but also other scholars and researchers from abroad can be able to know that still have those rare palm leaf manuscripts in that monastery and able to study their related subjects in those resources. And the palm leaf manuscripts collection is need to preserve and conserve to exist the Myanmar treasures
An Interview with an Author and Editor: The View from Taiwan
No full textORCID Engagement Manager Asia-Pacific, Estelle Cheng, recently spoke with Wen-Yau Cathy Lin, an academic, author and scholarly journal editor about ORCID and its use in Taiwan
Yu Cheng-long's 于成龍 Bao-jia System 保甲法
No full textThis is a study of the bao-jia system of the early Qing 清. Immediately after the conquest, the Qing instituted a system called zong-jia 總甲 which was in fact a bao-jia arrangement. But as Matsumoto Yoshimi 松本善海 demonstrated some years ago, the scope of this zong-jia law was quite narrow to begin with, and it quickly transformed itself into an institution primarily concerned with rounding up Chinese slaves who absconded from the Banner-lands. Thus it is clear that the bao-jia law put into effect by Yu Cheng-long in Zhi-li 直隷 was the real foundation of the Qing bao-jia system. Here Matsumoto's argument is revised and expanded, and the author makes the points that the prototype for Yu Cheng-long's bao-jia law was a system he introduced in Ma-cheng 麻城 county, Huang-zhou 黃州, Hubei 湖北, that this local pao-jia system was designed to help suppress the "Dong-shan 東山 rebellion" which was an offshoot of Wu San-gui's 吳三桂 rebellion, and that it was this experience which led Yu Cheng-long to promulgate, under the rubric of "Covenant for Tranquilizing the People and Suppressing Bandits"(安民彌盜條約), his bao-jia law later on when he was in authority in Zhi-li
Position Paper: The Case for JavaScript Transactions
No full textModern Web applications combine and use JavaScript-based content from multiple untrusted sources. Without proper isolation, such content can compromise the security and privacy of these Web applications. Prior techniques for isolating untrusted JavaScript code do so by restricting dangerous constructs and inlining security checks into third-party code. This paper makes the case that JavaScript must be extended to make isolation a language-level primitive. We propose to extend the language using a new transaction construct that allows a Web application to speculatively execute untrusted code and isolate the changes and effects it performs. The Web application can then inspect these speculative actions and commit them only if they comply with the application’s security policies. We discuss use-cases that can benefit from JavaScript support for transactions, present a formalization of JavaScript transactions and conclude with implementation considerations.Technical report DCS-TR-66
Tunable acoustic attenuation in dilute suspensions of non-spherical magnetic particles
No full textThe microstructure of suspensions of ferromagnetic particles with subwavelength size can be controlled by an external field, making it possible to develop novel broadband acoustic materials with anisotropic and tunable acoustic properties. In this study we experimentally show that dilute suspensions of nickel micro-flakes exhibit a greater than 20% change in attenuation coefficient at MHz frequencies upon changing the direction of an external magnetic field, at particle volume fractions of only 0.5%. Optical transmission measurements and analysis of the characteristic timescales of particle alignment and chaining are used to study the mechanisms behind this acoustic anisotropy. By making comparison to suspensions of spherical particles, we show that the shape and orientation of the nickel micro-flakes play important roles in the tunable acoustic attenuation of these suspensions.Peer reviewed
Liquid democracy: a comparative study of digital urban democracy
No full textIn Liquid Democracy, author Yu-Shan Tseng offers a bold new framework for understanding democracy as a dynamic, fluid process. Challenging the idea that AI and digital tools are inherently anti-democratic, this innovative volume bridges theory and practice to investigate various “liquid conditions,” a novel concept capturing how political action flows and transforms like water within the intersections of urban spaces and digital technologies.Through an in-depth comparative study of three groundbreaking digital democracy platforms—Decide Madrid in Madrid, OmaStadi in Helsinki, and vTaiwan in Taipei—Tseng explores how digital platforms can foster participatory governance, pluralism, and alternative democratic futures. In-depth chapters critically examine the interactions between humans, algorithms, and urban systems, revealing how digital tools reconfigure the boundaries of political participation, decision-making, and collective action. Throughout the text, Tseng offers fresh insights into how democracy emerges under contingent conditions shaped by technology and geography.Drawing from years of ethnographic fieldwork, Liquid Democracy is essential reading for master’s and PhD students in geography, political science, and urban studies, as well as scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in digital governance, smart cities, civic technology, and algorithmic politics
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