9,064 research outputs found
Q&A: Peter Kimani, author of Dance of the Jakaranda, talks with Maëline Le Lay
No full textAfrica in Words. https://africainwords.com/2019/05/23/qa-peter-kimani-author-of-dance-of-the-jakaranda-talks-with-maeline-le-lay
Graduate Recital: Yang Lay Tan, Piano; May 2, 1994
No full textKemp Recital HallMonday EveningMay 2, 19949:00 p.m
Engaging China – Reflections from the EU’s and ASEAN’s Responses. EU Centre Background Brief, 3rd January 2019
No full textChina’s rise as a global economic and trading power has taken on a new significance for the Asia-Pacific region as well as the western world in light of USA’s increasing protectionism under the Trump administration. This brief will explore how regional organizations like the Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) as well as their member states respond to the rise of China and its increasing assertiveness in projecting its power and protecting its interests globally. China’s geographical proximity to South East Asia and the power competition between China and USA are important factors that shape the responses of ASEAN nations. This brief looks at the “hedging” and “bandwagoning” strategy employed by ASEAN member states against China. On the other hand, being a more unified actor than ASEAN and a central pillar for a rule-based multilateral world order, the EU hopes to constructively manage its internal differences while engaging China in its reform process. Upon closer look, the author finds that the EU, like ASEAN, is challenged by an unpredictable and unilateral America First under Trump, and an increasingly assertive China. To manage the rising tensions and uncertainties, both regional organisations need to be more cohesive and united. They should also work more closely together to uphold a rule-based multilateral order
Winds of change: Three pre-independence debates which shaped Singapore Chinese literature
No full textIn pre-independent Singapore, the development of literature in the Chinese language saw a tension between developing a literary voice rooted in the experience of the local and responding to the influence from “motherland” China. Tan Chee Lay from the Nanyang Technological University highlights the nuances of the three debates which shaped literary trends and schools of thought in local Chinese writing as Singapore’s Chinese literati sought to establish an authentic and unique voice.Published versio
Behaviour of trading and non-trading stock returns in the Malaysian Stock Market / Tan Lay Khong
No full textTan Dun's death and fire: ad parnassum, animals and Paul Klee
No full text© 2002 Ai Lay ChungThis thesis examines the work Death and Fire: Dialogue with Paul Klee (1992) by Tan Dun, a significant composer of the twentieth-century. His musical language is unique in the sphere of the twentieth-century composers. Tan Dun's experiences from various backgrounds are integrated into his musical language today. The condition of humanity is a particular concern of Tan's. The natural world is also a strong influence on the composer. This aspect of his music is the primary concern of this thesis. In this thesis, it examines the importance of natural images of Klee's paintings as a source of inspiration for Tar_ Tan, in his thesis, mentions that the responses towards the paintings were inspired more by the technique of the paintings than the literal subject matter content. Through analysis of paintings and comparison between the responses in the music towards the paintings, it will be argued that the images of nature found in Klee's works apply a more influential factor in Tan's music than Tan acknowledges. The elements such as animals, birds, and the earth, are literally translated into three of the ten inserts: Insert 1: Animals At Full Moon, Insert 4: Twittering Machine and Insert 5: Earth Witches. Primary sources include the musical score and the thesis entitled Death and Fire: Dialogue with Paul Klee that were completed in 1992 by Tan Dun as his recital composition for the degree of Doctorate in Composition at Columbia University, nine paintings of Klee's used by Tan in Death and Fire: Dialogue with Paul Klee, and bibliography
Effects of strategy, competition, decentralizationand organizational capabilities on firm performance:The mediating role of strategic management accounting / Tan Ah Lay
No full textTraditional 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
Drawing the Line: An Exploration of How Lay People Construct Child Neglect
No full textThis thesis uses a Foucauldian approach to explore how lay people construct child neglect in England. The concept of child neglect developed after the Industrial Revolution in conjunction with the construction of ‘normal’ childhood. Both depend on developmental models of childhood produced by psy-complex discourse. However, the knowledge producing the ‘normal’ family and the disciplinary institutions producing and protecting the ‘normal’ childhood have been challenged by late modernity, with a potential impact on what can be considered ‘abnormal’ and therefore neglectful.
Recent years have seen an increasing professional and political focus on both the importance of child neglect, and the role of lay people in child protection – ‘everybody’s business’. It is unclear how lay people construct child neglect, a category that properly results from political and moral choices made by society. To analyse how lay people construct child neglect, data was collected from focus group discussions between 46 self-defined ‘lay’ people.
Children were constructed as having developmental needs during childhood, which, if unmet, could cause long term problems for child and society. Four clusters of needs were identified: physical, emotional, training and supervisory. If these needs were unmet, children could be seen as Deprived, Unloved, Uncontrolled or Escaping. However, this did not mean they were positioned as neglected. Neglect required some abnormal adult/parent behaviour. The normal parent was non-neglectful although sometimes temporarily Overburdened, the abnormal parent was neglectful, categorised as Clueless, Underinvested or Unsuitable. Lay people were constructed as having a responsibility to support parents and families within their midst. However the forces of late modernity, particularly globalisation, challenged the normal/abnormal family binary, leaving lay people unclear about where society and/or child protection professionals draw the line between normal and neglectful childhoods. The implications of these constructions for children, parents, state, professionals and lay people are examined and recommendations made
Lay Down Your Arms
No full textDie Waffen nieder! (1889), translated into English in 1892 as Lay Down Your Arms, was an international bestseller. Its Austrian author Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) chose the medium of fiction in order to reach as broad an audience as possible with her pacifist ideals. Challenging the narrow nationalisms of nineteenth-century Europe, Suttner believed that disputes between nations should be settled by means of arbitration rather than armed conflict. She devoted her life to campaigning for the cause of peace, and in 1905 became the first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Suttner’s influential novel yields insights into the early development of calls for a united Europe and an end to the arms race.
This English translation of the novel was carried out as a ‘labour of love’ by the eminent Victorian surgeon and medical scholar Timothy Holmes (1825-1907), the editor of Gray’s Anatomy, for whom this was an unusual foray into the world of fiction. Holmes was Vice-Chairman of the London-based International Arbitration and Peace Association and a contemporary of Suttner. His translation helped to spread Suttner’s views across the Anglophone world, and contributed to the growth of the peace movement in the period before the First World War
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