Writing professional discourse: the challenges faced by Malaysian engineers [PDF]
, 2012 In Malaysia, English is taught and used as a second language. Nevertheless, English has become a requirement for employment and career advancement.
Sarjit Singh, Manvender Kaur +1 more
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International Financial Integration and Consumption Risk Sharing [PDF]
This paper tests the importance of international financial assets and liabilities for consumption risk sharing in a general framework which allows for separate effects of equity and debt holdings as well as country-specific sensitivity to aggregate risk.
Aidan Corcoran
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Writing preparation outlines for public speaking in tertiary classrooms [PDF]
, 2007 This research aims to provide some ideas on the process of writing an outline for speech communication by undergraduate students at Universiti Utara Malaysia. Students face numerous problems in writing the outlines for their speaking task.
M., Murugesan
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Capital controls re-examined: the case for ‘smart’ controls [PDF]
, 2005 The global financial crisis which began in east Asia in 1997 is not over, neither is the inquest into its implications for adjustment policy. In the wake of this crisis, we focus here on the role of capital controls, which formed a much publicised part ...
Duasa, J., Mosley, P.
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Corpus analysis of primary one science textbooks for designing ELT materials [PDF]
, 2008 To make use of words or lists of words in various forms for various purposes is not new. We have been using lists of vocabulary words for tourists and students from various levels of education in the form of glossaries, lists of jargons, indexes and ...
Hanafi Zaid, Yasmin +3 more
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Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment [PDF]
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills, embodied in goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. We first present a set of stylized facts. Using a measure which combines the sophistication
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
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On the security of software-defined next-generation cellular networks [PDF]
, 2016 In the recent years, mobile cellular networks are ndergoing fundamental changes and many established concepts are being revisited. Future 5G network architectures will be designed to employ a wide range of new and emerging technologies such as Software ...
Alzahrani, Bander +3 more
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Development of Free Economic Zones and Labor Standards: A Case Study of Free Economic Zones in Korea [PDF]
, 2005 Development_of_FreeEFZ_KOREA_by_Lee.pdf: 4040 downloads, before Oct.
Lee, Changwon
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Discovery of a missing disease spreader
, 2011 This study presents a method to discover an outbreak of an infectious disease in a region for which data are missing, but which is at work as a disease spreader.
Balcan +36 more
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Services in Doha : what's on the table ? [PDF]
Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This paper attempts to assess what is on the table.
Gootiiz, Batshur, Mattoo, Aaditya
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