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Carbon dioxide emission generated by passenger road transport in Iskandar Malaysia Johor by 2025
No full textThe Effects of Government and State Ownership on Dividends
No full textThis study aims to investigate the relationship between government ownership and dividend policy of Malaysian listed companies. Specifically, the objective of the study is to examine whether government and state ownerships influence dividend payout and dividend per share. The study used a sample of 400 companies, w h i c h were randomly chosen. Two dependent variables were used as a proxy for dividend namely the dividend per share (DPS) and dividend payout ratio (DPR), while 8 government agencies (EPF, LTH, KWAP, LTAT, MKD, KNB, PNB and STATE) represented government ownership. Since dividends are truncated, the Tobit model was utilized to examine the effect of government ownership. The findings showed that there is no relationship between government ownership and dividends when using the DPS as the dependent variable. However, when DPR is used, the result showed that government ownership could affect the dividend policy. Furthermore, it is found that privately funded government agencies were more likely to affect dividends. This result indicates that these government agencies influence the proportion of earnings distribution or the payable amount rather than the amount of dividend per unit of shares
ELASTICITY TOWARDS ROAD CHARGES : SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA
No full textThe Malaysian government has recently introduced a new charge called the Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP), which applies to foreign-registered vehicles, starting with Singaporean cars. This action has resulted in discontent from the Singaporean government, who considers it discriminatory towards Singaporean-registered vehicles. Consequently, Singapore has responded to the announcement of Malaysia\u27s plan to implement the road charge-VEP on August 1st, 2014, by taking drastic measures such as increasing the VEP fee, imposing toll charges, and instituting a reciprocal charge that will only be lifted if Malaysia implements a VEP for foreign vehicles entering Malaysia. This study aims to analyze the potential impact of Malaysia\u27s Road Charge policy on travel demand, specifically focusing on Singaporean drivers crossing the border. The objective is to determine the degree of response by Singaporean drivers to the road charge and understand its possible repercussions on Malaysia\u27s tourism and commerce. In order to achieve this goal, the study examines related literature on the Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP), toll prices, and travel behaviour, including the concept of price elasticity of demand. The study utilizes secondary data and employs an elasticity model to calculate the elasticity of travel demand. The Mann Whitney and Independent T-Test will be utilized to establish the difference in the number of entries after the implementation of the Road Charge. The study\u27s findings indicate that the demand for private cars decreased by 44.66% from the beginning to the end of November 2016, and there was a sharp decline in demand even during the festive season. The researcher also determines that the demand for travellers is relatively elastic with a value of -0.108. This study\u27s results will provide policymakers with insight into the possible negative impacts of such policies and how to mitigate them on tourism and commerce, particularly for stakeholders with lower incomes and the environment.
Kerajaan Malaysia telah memperkenalkan caj baharu yang dipanggil Permit Kemasukan Kenderaan (VEP), yang terpakai kepada kenderaan berdaftar asing, bermula dengan kereta Singapura. Tindakan ini telah mengakibatkan ketidakpuasan hati daripada kerajaan Singapura, yang menganggap ia mendiskriminasikan kenderaan berdaftar Singapura. Akibatnya, Singapura telah bertindak balas terhadap pengumuman rancangan Malaysia untuk melaksanakan caj jalan-VEP pada 1 Ogos 2014, dengan mengambil langkah drastik seperti menaikkan caj VEP, meningkatkan caj tol, dan memulakan caj timbal balik yang hanya akan ditarik balik jika Malaysia melaksanakan VEP untuk semua kenderaan asing yang memasuki Malaysia. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis potensi kesan dasar Caj Jalan Malaysia terhadap permintaan perjalanan, khususnya memfokuskan kepada pemandu Singapura yang melintasi sempadan. Objektifnya adalah untuk menentukan tahap tindak balas pemandu Singapura terhadap caj jalan raya dan memahami kemungkinan kesannya terhadap pelancongan dan perdagangan Malaysia. Bagi mencapai matlamat ini, kajian mengkaji literatur berkaitan Permit Masuk Kenderaan (VEP), harga tol, dan gelagat perjalanan, termasuk konsep keanjalan harga permintaan. Kajian ini menggunakan data sekunder dan menggunakan model keanjalan untuk mengira keanjalan permintaan perjalanan. Ujian- Independent-T dan Mann Whitney akan digunakan untuk menentukan perbezaan dalam bilangan penyertaan selepas pelaksanaan Caj Jalan. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa permintaan untuk kereta persendirian menurun sebanyak 44.66% dari awal hingga akhir November 2016, dan terdapat penurunan mendadak dalam permintaan walaupun pada musim perayaan. Pengkaji juga menentukan bahawa permintaan untuk pengembara adalah agak anjal dengan nilai -0.108. Keputusan kajian ini akan memberikan penggubal dasar dengan gambaran tentang kemungkinan kesan negatif dasar tersebut dan cara mengurangkannya terhadap pelancongan dan perdagangan, terutamanya bagi pihak berkepentingan yang berpendapatan rendah dan alam sekitar
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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