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Characterization and Reliability Performance of the Immersion Gold Plated Module Fingers
No full textMaster'sMASTER OF SCIENCE IN ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR MICRO- & NANO- SYSTEMSMSA Project Supervisor: 1. Dr Tan Ah Chin, Fellow Chemist, Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd. Dissertation Advisor: 1. Assoc. Prof. Wong Chee Cheong, Nan Yang Technological Universit
An application of the Rasch model to establish an item-free, sample-free mathematics item bank and to equate pupils' test performance.
Get PDFby Tan Ah Kiang.Bibliography: leaves 90-96Thesis (M.A.Ed.) -- Chinese University of Hong Kong, 198
In factors influence the sustainable of paddy production: A case of Tan Ah Boy Sdn Bhd
Get PDFThis study focuses on the sustainable supply chain management of paddy in Malaysia.This study attempt to identify some problems related to collaboration at downstream of the supply chain such as weather, government, competitor, supply and demand. This study applied a quantitative approach. The data was collected by questionnaire.The respondents in this study are the all employees and the boss of Tan Ah Boy Sdn Bhd which are 10 respondents.All the questionnaires were returned as a final sample. The results show that all the variables have significant effect to the sustainable supply chain management of Tan Ah Boy Sdn Bhd especially the weather and government variables
Effects of strategy, competition, decentralizationand organizational capabilities on firm performance:The mediating role of strategic management accounting / Tan Ah Lay
Get PDFTraditional management accounting‟s lack of strategic orientation has mooted much debates and research interest on strategic management accounting (SMA) since the late 1980s. Even though there is no agreed framework, academics have recommended many SMA techniques which they claim to be external and long term focused, and able to assist
managers in strategic decision-making process. But “SMA or SMA techniques have not been adopted widely, nor is the term widely used” (Langfield-Smith, 2008) and there seems to be a gap between SMA literature and strategic management literature (Nixon and Burns, 2012). SMA research has ignored resource-based view of the firm emphasized in strategic management. Using a survey on management accountants from 103 manufacturing strategic business units of listed companies in Malaysia, this research investigates the relationship between competitive strategies identified by Porter (1980) and SMA. The contingency model which incorporates the two dimensions of SMA, i.e. strategic role of accountant and SMA usage, also assesses the impact of intensity of competition, decentralization and four organizational capabilities (market orientation, entrepreneurship, innovativeness and organizational learning) on the usage of SMA. The results of partial least squares (PLS) test appear to support the significant association between differentiation strategy and the two dimensions of SMA, the significant association between the four organizational capabilities collectively and SMA usage. But there is no significant association between some contextual variables (intensity of competition, decentralization and strategic role of accountant) and SMA usage. Despite that there is a positive association between strategic role of accountant and differentiation strategy, strategic role of accountant surprisingly shows a negative association with firm performance. In addition, SMA usage is found to be positively associated with firm performance, but the relationship is not significant. Further PLS test on large size companies, however, found a positive association between strategic role of accountant and SMA usage, and between SMA usage and firm performance. The mediating role of SMA usage on strategy-performance relationship is apparent in large size companies but not in small size companies. The qualitative information obtained from the post-survey interviews of six corporations reflected that most large corporations in Malaysia do apply contemporary management accounting techniques in supplementing the traditional management accounting such as standard costing and variance analysis. But the term „SMA‟ is not widely used in Malaysia. SMA techniques can be used interactively through regular meetings among managers. The companies interviewed also agree that there is a changing role of management accountants towards participation in strategic decision-making process and organizational learning, though there is a need for accountants to be more passionate and outward-looking in the manufacturing industry. This research contributes to the limited literature in SMA and role of accountants in strategic decision-making process, and bridging the gaps between management control and strategic management. Organizational capabilities (market orientation, entrepreneurship, innovativeness and organizational learning) collectively help the firms to enhance competitiveness and performance as well as impact the usage of SMA. Lastly, this study reaffirms the contingency theory that there is no universally appropriate management accounting system that applies equally well to all organizations in all circumstances. In this study, strategy and company size are important factors influencing the contingent outcome of SMA.
Key words: Strategic Management Accounting, Management Control Systems,
Organizational Capabilities, Management Accountants, Malaysi
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
Analisis tentang nilai-nilai murni yang terkandung di dalam buku teks Bahasa Cina KBSR tahun 2 / Tan Ah Ba @ Tan Beng Cheng.
Get PDFVariations 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
Clustering and its Extensions in the Social Media Domain
No full textThis chapter summarizes existing clustering and related approaches for the identified challenges as described in Sect. 1.2 and presents the key branches of social media mining applications where clustering holds a potential. Specifically, several important types of clustering algorithms are first illustrated, including clustering, semi-supervised clustering, heterogeneous data co-clustering, and online clustering. Subsequently, Sect. 2.5 presents a review on existing techniques that help decide the value of the predefined number of clusters (required by most clustering algorithms) automatically and highlights the clustering algorithms that do not require such a parameter. It better illustrates the challenge of input parameter sensitivity of clustering algorithms when applied to large and complex social media data. Furthermore, in Sect. 2.6, a survey on several main applications of clustering algorithms to social media mining tasks is offered, including web image organization, multi-modal information fusion, user community detection, user sentiment analysis, social event detection, community question answering, social media data indexing and retrieval, and recommender systems in social networks
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