Life course social connectedness : age-cohort trends in social participation by Ang, Shannon

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Financial portfolio optimization by Chen, Nannan

“…Since each MOEA has its own advantages and disadvantages in a particular situation, I choose four MOEAs that are either representative or promising as a technique. Experimentally, I am particularly interested in stock markets since it is one major financial market. …”
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Perceptions of meritocracy in Singapore : inconsistencies, contestations and biases by Teo, Terri-Anne

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My work in Tibeto-Burman linguistics by Dai, Qingxia

“…Aside from working on Jingpo and Hani, the two languages with which I am most familiar, I also did fieldwork on Achang, Zaiwa, Langsu, Leqi, Bola, Nu (Bijiang), Jinuo, Dulong, Kucong, Katzo (an Yi language used by the Mongols of Yunnan), Lipo, Xiandao, Burmese, and Kelun. …”
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Maris by Law, Wei Kiat

“…I always feel that as long as I am discipline enough to change my bait and cast my line out or move on to a new location, and with the spirit of not giving up, I will get my fish someday. …”
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Stock trading using neural networks by Li, Bofeng

“…For this project China stocks market has been used as testing target, as market is big and I am more familiar with it. Neural network is a kind of data processing model which is established under the revelation of biological neural network. …”
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Reconceptualising literary translation in three acts : translingual narrative puzzles in Guo Xiaolu's novels by Lim, Eunice Ying Ci

“…This dissertation will approach three of Guo Xiaolu's novels – A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007), UFO in Her Eyes (2010), and I Am China (2014) – not as separate works, but as three milestone publications to be plotted chronologically along a trajectory of linguistic and literary experimentation. …”
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Education as a human right : a Confucian perspective by Li, Chenyang

“…In this remarkable work, Chan presents his version of Confucian perfectionism, aiming to balance liberalism and Confucianism as a solution to reconstructing a political philosophy in response to contemporary challenges. I am sympathetic to much of what Chan has to say in the book. …”
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CINA, INDONESIA ATAWA BELANDA: IDENTITAS, PENGALAMAN DAN MEMORI PEREMPUAN TIONGHOA INDONESIA DI BELANDA 1940an-1980an by , WIDYA FITRIA NINGSIH, , Prof. Dr. Bambang Purwanto

“…While, the 1980s has sociologically marked by Indonesian Chinese women as the end of decolonization period, designated by their visit to Indonesia â�� â��interact with their old identitiesâ��. I am limiting my research to the past experiences and memories of some Indonesian Chinese women who lived in the Netherlands at that period. …”

EVALUASI ANGGARAN PENDAPATAN BELANJA BARANG DAN PEMELIHARAAN INVENTARIS KANTOR PADA BADAN PENGELOLAAN KEUANGAN DAN KEKAYAAN DAERAH KABUPATEN SLEMAN by , Melkias Namora, , Eko Suwardi, Dr., M.Sc.

“…This indicates that there are development programs that can not be realized for any reason. 2) Budget for 2005-2009 has been carried out in accordance with applicable legislation and in accordance with the Strategic Plan document and I am budget that has developed between the legislative team with the executive team. …”

Special Edition to Commemorate The Conferment Of Honorary Doctor of Science to Prof Atta Ur-Rahman, FRS in conjunction with UiTM's 75th Convocation : Dewan Agong Tuanku Canselor :... by Jabatan Komunikasi Korporat, UiTM

“…It is with great pleasure that I welcome our guests, parents and relatives of graduands, to this momentous occasion of UiTM's 75th Convocation Ceremony. I am sure that such a pleasure is shared by all of our 189,000 students and our 17,000-strong working fraternity. …”
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Naxa Agrotech / Muhamad Nurazan Mohd Jayadi by Muhamad Nurazan, Mohd Jayadi

“…I use this name of company because it is the founder which Muhamad Nurazan bin Mohd Jayadi. I am select this business because I can expect that the number of modern farmer user is increase and encourage Malaysian to keep farming and gardening. …”
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Writing Irish nurses in Britain by Murray, Tony

“…With this principle in mind, this chapter will analyse the experiences of Irish nurses and navvies in London and the south east of England from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s by closely examining a range of fictional and autobiographical texts such as: The Diary of an Exile (1964) by Donall Mac Amhlaigh; Florrie’s Girls (1989) by Maeve Kelly; I Am Alone (1949) by Walter Macken; Sixty Years a Nurse (2015) by Mary Hazard; With Breast Expanded (1964); A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime (2014) by Mary Morris. …”
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Appropriation and hybridity of Taiwanese literati painting and American abstract expressionism (1949-2007) by Guo Shin, Ye

“…This new visual form of modern Ink-wash painting that I am presenting, is a hybrid, combining both Chinese Ink-wash painting and American Abstract Expressionism, and represents a different and I hope more progressive artistic style in comparison to the restricted conventions of Literati painting. …”
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The fault in us: Ethics, infinity, and celestial bodies by Schaefer, D

“…Rather than seeing ethical labor as a matter of physics, my contention (and here I think I am arguing with, rather than against Keller) is that interdisciplinary undertakings like Cloud of the Impossible are ethical disciplinary practices, re-acquainting us with the non-sovereignty of the self in order to open up new habits of relating, rather than spotlighting ethical imperatives.…”

'These discussions aren't happening': Experiences of people living with inflammatory bowel disease and talking about sexual well-being with health care professionals by Fourie, S, Norton, C, Jackson, D, Czuber-Dochan, W

“…The main themes were: ‘I can’t image talking about sex’; ‘I am a person, not my IBD’; ‘We need to talk about sex’; and ‘Those who talked about sex, talked badly’. …”

Some lessons from history: Morphomes in diachrony by Maiden, M

“…This is not to say, of course, that these arguments are selfevidently correct or that all morphologists would necessarily be persuaded by them (far from it), but I am interested here in standing back and developing some general reflections on what I believe the unusual comparative breadth and historical depth offered by the descriptive literature3 on Romance languages has to offer for the study of morphomes. …”

The syntax and semantics of tense-aspect stem participles in early Ṛgvedic Sanskrit by Lowe, JJ

“…</p><p>I examine the syntactic and semantic properties of tense-aspect stem participles both in relation to finite verbal forms and their wider syntactic context, formalizing the evidence in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Consequently I am able to categorize the syntactic and semantic deviations which many participles exhibit in comparison to finite verbal forms. …”

Normativity, rationality and the pragmatic turn by Bellorini, N, Bellorini, Nick

“…These commitments enable the formulation of a normativity problematic with which I have concerned myself- establishing how we can retain the thought that, as language users, we are distinguished by the normativity of the competencies involved when those competencies are geared to the practical realisation of our communicative aims.</p><p>What I am aim to establish is a notion of linguistic practice or speech action which (i) offers a model of communicative rationality which speaks directly to our overall concern with the normativity of language use; and (ii), is the centrepiece of a pragmatics which relates appropriately to the philosophical concern with meaning.…”

‘Loyal believers and disloyal sceptics’: Propaganda and dissent in Britain during the Korean War, 1950-53 by Buchanan, T

“…Benjamin Britten is a Socialist, and I am not sure this isn’t all about loyalty and the Cold War."…”