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An autoethnography on Diaohua Chang / Wang Lei
Get PDFThis dissertation focuses on an autoethnographical account of Diaohua Chang in Kuala Lumpur with a case study at three nightclubs. Diaohua Chang is a live-singing performance of Chinese popular songs common to venues such as open-air food court and night clubs. The present research studied Diaohua Chang at nightclub setting. The selected nightclubs host Diaohua Chang, a live singing performance on a stage in a Karaoke Pub setting. There is a serious lack of studies on Diaohua Chang. Related past literature such as Tan (1984), Chang (2014) and Chin (2015) described the cultural elements of the sing-song performances of Getai and Hua Chang, however most are from an outsider perspective. In this study, the author explored the very much female dominated Diaohua Chang from an insider and male perspective in an auto-ethnographical tradition. This dissertation aims to provide a holistic view and discussion on Diaohua Chang and its social and gender issues with a self-reflexive account of the author’s participant observation at the field
Charitable Giving, Immigrants and Ethnicities
No full textThis paper analyzes the relationship between ethnic immigrant groups and charitable giving of both money and time using the Canadian Survey of Giving Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP) data sets. Both probit and Tobit models are used for running the regressions. I find that there is a relationship between ethnic groups and giving, and this relationship has been quite consistent over the past ten years. I find that various ethnic groups have different impacts on giving, depending on their length of time in Canada. Both immigrant and ethnicity have a negative effect on the giving of money in some cases, but not for all groups or all samples. However the impact of being an ethnic on volunteering is almost always negative. I find evidence to suggest that giving behaviour of long-term immigrants becomes closer to that of Canadian born
Replication Data for: Will falling domestic labor compensation share really be improved when global trade slowdown?
No full textData analyzed in the Humanities & Social Sciences Communications article, "Will falling domestic labor compensation share really be improved when global trade slowdown?
Competition Law Enforcement in China: Between Technocracy and Industrial Policy
Get PDFThe article provides a rare reconstruction of a number of early cases decided under the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law. In particular, the article seeks to go behind the published decisions of the responsible authorities, to reconstruct their decision-making process in particular by identifying the sources of consultation and the arguments that various stakeholders presented to the authorities about what course of action to follow
Output feedback stabilization of nonlinear MIMO systems having uncertain high-frequency gain matrix
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to provide a method for (semi-global) asymptotic stabilization of a nonlinear minimum-phase MIMO system, under a mild hypothesis of the so-called "high-frequency gain" matrix. This result is based on a non-trivial extension, to the MIMO setting, of the approach based on the use of extended observers. As a byproduct, a dynamic output feedback control is obtained, that asymptotically stabilizes the equilibrium of the closed-loop system, in spite of uncertainties in the high-frequency gain matrix. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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
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