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The Wafa Group: Case studies in audition
No full textWAFA Berhad was registered as a trademark in Malaysia in 1984 and is now registered in more than 20 countries, thus laying the foundation for global expansion. In 1988, the WAFA Group commenced manufacturing and marketing of Electrical Home Appliances under the WAFA Berhad brand. Henceforth, this Malaysian owned-and-grown and operated brand entered history as the nation�s first �Made in Malaysia� electrical home appliances.For the first time, a locally conceived and produced range of electrical products took its place among established brands from Japan, Europe and the United States.The WAFA Group: Case Studies in Auditing is very useful to accounting students as it mirrors both the accounting profession and a complete auditing cycles.The cases in this book aim to create a realistic view of how an auditor organizes and performs an audit examination. These cases provide a simulation that permits students to put the abstract and difficult concepts of auditing into practice
Abu'l-Wafa' s trigonometric tables
No full textMatematik tarihi ile ilgili eserlerde, Ebu'l-Vefâ'nın onuncu yüzyılda astronomi ile ilgili çalışmalarının yanında düzlemsel ve küresel trigonometri konusunda da önemli çalışmaları olduğu ve 15' aralıkla sinüs cetveli hazırladığı ve bu değerleri bugünkü yazım tarzına göre sekiz basamağa kadar doğru hesapladığı ifade edilir. Ancak bu eserlerde Ebu'l-Vefâ'nın (940-998) bu hesapları nasıl yaptığına dair bir açıklama bulunmamaktadır. Bu çalışmada, bu konuya bir açıklık getirmek amacıyla, Şali Zeki Bey'in (1864-1921) Asarı Bakiye isimli ünlü eserlerinin I.cild'inin "Ebu'1-Vefâ 'nın Cedavel-i Müsellesâtiyesi" (Ebu'l-Vefâ'nm Trigonometri Cetvelleri) isimli bölümü bugünkü yazıya çevrilip sadeleştirildikten sonra Ebu'l-Vefâ'nIN sin 30' ve sin 1° ye ait hesaplarının bir değerlendirilmesi yapılmıştır.In the works dealing with history of mathematics it is noted that in X. century Abu'l-Wafa al-Buzjani [940-998] besides of astronomical studies had also important studies about plane and spherical trigonometry and also made up new sine table for angles differing by 15', using the equivalent of eight decimal places. But in these works there is no explanation how had Abu'1-Wafa calculated them. In this article, to explain this subject, we have transcribed chapter named "Ebu'l-Vefa' nın Cedavel-i MÜsellesâtiyesi" in Asarı Bakiye I written by Salih Zeki (1864-1921) and have simplified to todays Turkish and then have criticized Abu'l-Wafa's computing sin 30' and sinl°
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Relaxin becomes upregulated during prostate cancer progression to androgen independence and is negatively regulated by androgens
No full textVanessa C. Thompson, Tanis G.W. Morris, Dawn R. Cochrane, John Cavanagh, Latif A. Wafa, Tatyana Hamilton, Shunyou Wang, Ladan Fazli, Martin E. Gleave, and Colleen C. Nelso
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Analysing the board of directors in family firms: An integrated framework for future research directions
No full textBoards of directors are complex systems, and it is imperative to understand what the contextual forces are that shape the direction and make-up of boards. This Research Handbook provides inspiration for researchers and practitioners interested in the manifold dimensions and facets of context surrounding boards of directors.
The contributions identify the complexity and multiplicity of contexts in which boards of directors work and operate, as well as indicating how board members interact with, and influence their contexts. The chapters explore national and institutional differences, divergent understandings of board requirements, climate change and boards’ duties, transformation due to digitalisation, family firms, and micro-contextual dynamics affecting boards and their decisions. This Research Handbook promotes board accountability, questions the relative position of companies in society, and reconsiders governance from a multiple context, multi-actor perspective.
Building a greater understanding of the main issues and theories surrounding boards of directors, this Research Handbook will be ideal for PhD students and scholars of business and governance. They will appreciate the manifold dimensions and theory discussions of context surrounding boards of directors. Practitioners and policy makers can also find material for their evolving frameworks
Aminolysis of phosphinothioates in acetonitrile - by Wafa A. Daouk
No full textThesis (M.S.)--American University of Beirut. Department of Chemistry, 1984.;"Advisor: Robert Cook, Associate Professor, Chemistry Members of Committee: Makhlouf Haddadin, Professor, Chemistry George Hanania, Professor, Chemistry."Bibliography: leaves 46-47.The following esters were synthesized and characterized: X (C6H5)2P-Y-C6H4N02-PX = S or 0 Y = S or 0 The kinetics o
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
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