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Chapter 5 Industrial Policy, Structure, and Locations during the Transition toward a Market-oriented Economy in Myanmar
Get PDFThis paper examines Myanmar's industrial policy, structure, and locations during the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented one throughout the 1990s and up to the present. After the military government assumed power in 1988, it abandoned the socialist centrally planned economic system and began instituting a market-oriented one through a series of liberalization and deregulation measures, although most of which have stalled since 1997 and remain half-way implemented. Against this background, it is rather surprising that the impact of these new policies of international trade, finance, regulations, licensing and ownership requirements on industrial structure and location in Myanmar has been poorly documented and examined to date. Some key issues to understanding the impact and effectiveness of the market-oriented policies during the last two decades in Myanmar remain to be answered: Have the new trade and industrial policies changed the industrial structure and organizational behavior in Myanmar? Have they improved the performance of Myanmar's industrial sector? Have they had any impact on industry location in Myanmar? This paper reviews the series of liberalization programs implemented under the military government?the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) and the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC)?and assesses their impact on industrial structure and its spatial distribution.Myanmar, Industrial structure, Industrial policy
Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty Towards Home Loan Service of Myanma Apex Bank (Sandy Tin Htut, 2025)
Get PDFThe objectives of this study are to examine the influencing factors on customer
satisfaction towards home loan service of Myanma Apex Bank (MAB) and to analyze
the effect of customer satisfaction on customer loyalty towards home loan service at
Myanma Apex Bank (MAB). The influencing factors on customer satisfaction are
analyzed with five factors including service quality, loan charges, loan process,
collateral security and loan documentation. Quantitative research techniques are
employed. The study selected 350 customers from the total target population of 3900
by using random sample method. Primary data was collected through a structured
questionnaire. According to the regression analysis, loan charges, loan documentation,
loan process, collateral security are statistically significant effect on customer
satisfaction. It is found that independent variable of loan charge, loan process,
collateral security and loan documentation are somewhat level of effect on customer
satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is nearly moderate level of effect on customer
loyalty. MAB Bank should place the highest priority on improving the loan
documentation process for home loans, and the bank should request only the essential
documents, such as tax documents, business registration certificates, and the NRC card
to reduce customer burden and improve satisfaction
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE CONSERVATION OF BUILT HERITAGE AT BAGAN, MYANMAR
No full textPresenting the outcomes of a capacity building activity, this contribution illustrates a replicable recording methodology to obtain
timely, relevant and accurate information about conditions, materials and transformations of heritage structures. The purpose of the
presented training activity consisted in developing local capabilities for the documentation of the built heritage at Bagan, Myanmar,
employing different IT-supported techniques. Under the Director of UNESCO, the direct supervision of the chief of the culture unit,
and in close consultation and cooperation with the Association of Myanmar Architects, the Department of Archaeology National
Museum and Library (DoA) a documentation strategy has been developed in order to set up a recording methodology for the over
three thousand Bagan monuments. The site, located in central Myanmar, in South East Asia, was developed between the IX and the
XIII century as capital of the Myanmar kingdom. In the last years, this outstanding site has been exposed to an increasing number of
natural hazards including earthquakes and flooding that strongly affected its built structures. Therefore, a documentation strategy to
quickly capture shape, color, geometry and conditions of the monuments, in order to develop proper conservation projects, was
needed. The scope of the training activity consisted in setting up a recording strategy updating the existing Bagan inventory, using
three Buddhist temples as pilot cases study. The three documented temples were different in size, construction period, conditions
and shape. The documentation included several IT-supported techniques including: Electronic Distance Measurements (EDM), SFM
Photogrammetry, Laser Scanning, Record Photography as well as hand measurement and field notes. The monuments’ surveying has
been developed in accordance with the guidelines and standards established by the ICOMOS International Committee for
Documentation of Cultural Heritage (CIPA). Recommendations on how to extend the adopted methodology to the other Bagan
monuments have been also elaborated
Technical assistance for the conservation of built heritage at Bagan, Myanmar
No full textPresenting the outcomes of a capacity building activity, this contribution illustrates a replicable recording methodology to obtain
timely, relevant and accurate information about conditions, materials and transformations of heritage structures. The purpose of the
presented training activity consisted in developing local capabilities for the documentation of the built heritage at Bagan, Myanmar,
employing different IT-supported techniques. Under the Director of UNESCO, the direct supervision of the chief of the culture unit,
and in close consultation and cooperation with the Association of Myanmar Architects, the Department of Archaeology National
Museum and Library (DoA) a documentation strategy has been developed in order to set up a recording methodology for the over
three thousand Bagan monuments. The site, located in central Myanmar, in South East Asia, was developed between the IX and the
XIII century as capital of the Myanmar kingdom. In the last years, this outstanding site has been exposed to an increasing number of
natural hazards including earthquakes and flooding that strongly affected its built structures. Therefore, a documentation strategy to
quickly capture shape, color, geometry and conditions of the monuments, in order to develop proper conservation projects, was
needed. The scope of the training activity consisted in setting up a recording strategy updating the existing Bagan inventory, using
three Buddhist temples as pilot cases study. The three documented temples were different in size, construction period, conditions
and shape. The documentation included several IT-supported techniques including: Electronic Distance Measurements (EDM), SFM
Photogrammetry, Laser Scanning, Record Photography as well as hand measurement and field notes. The monuments’ surveying has
been developed in accordance with the guidelines and standards established by the ICOMOS International Committee for
Documentation of Cultural Heritage (CIPA). Recommendations on how to extend the adopted methodology to the other Bagan
monuments have been also elaborated
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
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