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Robot Rescue, Hui Yu Ruan
Robot Rescue, Hui Yu Ruan
Theses
Recently, it is very common in Asia that people put little toys on their office desks. It doesn’t mean they sometimes have their kids visiting them nor they are not grown up yet. These are toys, which can soothe their stress from work. I am always attracted by toys and also animations designed or directed by many artists and designers. In this fantasy world of toys, there may not be only human beings. As in Hayao Miyazaki’s animation “Spirited Away,” where there was a magic world ruled by a witch; and there was also an old spider man, a frog …
The Development Of Social And Cultural Geographies In Taiwan: Knowledge Production And Social Relevance, Hsin-Ling Wu, Sue-Ching Jou, Lily Kong
The Development Of Social And Cultural Geographies In Taiwan: Knowledge Production And Social Relevance, Hsin-Ling Wu, Sue-Ching Jou, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Social and cultural geographies have long occupied a marginal position in Taiwan's scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Despite the influence of the so-called ‘cultural turn’ that has characterized much of Anglo-American scholarship since the 1990s (Barnett 1998), Taiwan's scholarship in the social sciences in general and human geography more specifically has remained relatively untouched by these intellectual currents till very recent years. This paper seeks to examine the social, intellectual and institutional contexts that explain this marginalization, and consider the possibilities for social and cultural geographies' emergence from marginality in Taiwan in the future. This possibility is considered …
Government Procurement: A View From Asia, Locknie Hsu
Government Procurement: A View From Asia, Locknie Hsu
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
There is no single approach to government procurement regulation among Asian countries. While some are signatories to the WTO's Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), others are not. Some have deliberate policies which confer preferences on domestic suppliers of goods and services. Even so, some have embarked on changing their GP regimes independently of WTO requirements. Yet others appear to be prepared to make changes in tandem with the negotiation of bilateral or regional free trade agreements. This article examines government procurement from these varied perspectives of Asian countries.
Blending On And Off Campus: A Tale Of Two Cities, Geraldine E. Lefoe, J. G. Hedberg
Blending On And Off Campus: A Tale Of Two Cities, Geraldine E. Lefoe, J. G. Hedberg
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Increasingly online learning has become part of the normal educational experience of students. This chapter examines the changes faced by two universities in different countries as they move to blend traditional face-to-face learning activities with those online. In particular, it reviews lessons that can be drawn for others moving into blended learning environments for successful implementation.
Knowledges Of The Creative Economy: Towards A Relational Geography Of Diffusion And Adaptation In Asia, Lily Kong, Chris Gibson, Louisa-May Khoo, Anne-Louise Semple
Knowledges Of The Creative Economy: Towards A Relational Geography Of Diffusion And Adaptation In Asia, Lily Kong, Chris Gibson, Louisa-May Khoo, Anne-Louise Semple
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Recent dialogues in geography and the social sciences have reminded researchers of the extent to which academic and policy knowledges are socially and spatially embedded-that is, they circulate through formal and informal systems of publishing, exchange, commodification and cultural influence. Academic and policy knowledges are, in short, very much a part of the creative economy. In light of this, our paper surveys knowledges of the creative economy itself, as reflected in a geography of industry reports and government policy statements in selected Asian countries. Using a post-positivist framework adapted from diffusion theory, we critically interpret the circulation, mutation and adaptation …
Asset-Based Policy In Indonesia: Pilot Study And Emerging Opportunities, Michael Sherraden, Li Zou
Asset-Based Policy In Indonesia: Pilot Study And Emerging Opportunities, Michael Sherraden, Li Zou
Center for Social Development Research
The Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis collaborated with the Indonesian Ministry of Social Welfare and researchers from the State Islamic University (UIN) to design a major asset-based, poverty-alleviation pilot project in Indonesia. The government committed significant resources to this 5-year study, which formed a major part of the welfare rethinking in the Indonesian Department of Social Welfare’s five-year plan (2006-2010). This pilot study operated in impoverished localities in parallel with Indonesia’s successful microfinance program (Cooperative Micro Businesses, or KUBE program). Discussion of asset building has grown steadily in Indonesian government circles since the idea …
Learning Distance Metrics With Contextual Constraints For Image Retrieval, Steven C. H. Hoi, Wei Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Wei-Ying Ma
Learning Distance Metrics With Contextual Constraints For Image Retrieval, Steven C. H. Hoi, Wei Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Wei-Ying Ma
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Relevant Component Analysis (RCA) has been proposed for learning distance metrics with contextual constraints for image retrieval. However, RCA has two important disadvantages. One is the lack of exploiting negative constraints which can also be informative, and the other is its incapability of capturing complex nonlinear relationships between data instances with the contextual information. In this paper, we propose two algorithms to overcome these two disadvantages, i.e., Discriminative Component Analysis (DCA) and Kernel DCA. Compared with other complicated methods for distance metric learning, our algorithms are rather simple to understand and very easy to solve. We evaluate the performance of …
Annex To The Signing Of The Second Bilateral Swap Arrangement Between The Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas And The Bank Of Japan, As Agent For The Minister Of Finance Of Japan Under The Chiang Mai Initiative-Second Stage, William W. Grimes, William N. Kring
Annex To The Signing Of The Second Bilateral Swap Arrangement Between The Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas And The Bank Of Japan, As Agent For The Minister Of Finance Of Japan Under The Chiang Mai Initiative-Second Stage, William W. Grimes, William N. Kring
Documents
No abstract provided.
Launch Of Deposit Insurance Scheme In Singapore, Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation, Monetary Authority Of Singapore
Launch Of Deposit Insurance Scheme In Singapore, Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation, Monetary Authority Of Singapore
Documents
No abstract provided.
Gareth Farr's 'Kemang Suling': Three Musical Snapshots Of Asia, Robert J. Damm
Gareth Farr's 'Kemang Suling': Three Musical Snapshots Of Asia, Robert J. Damm
College of Education Publications and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Journal Of Mine Action Issue 9.2 (2006), Cisr Journal
The Journal Of Mine Action Issue 9.2 (2006), Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Asia and the Pacific | Social and Economic Development Strategies | Research and Development
Searching For The Holy Grail Of International Education: Feedback From Hospitality Management Study Abroad Participants, Hubert B. Van Hoof
Searching For The Holy Grail Of International Education: Feedback From Hospitality Management Study Abroad Participants, Hubert B. Van Hoof
Hospitality Review
This article reports on a study done among hospitality management students who participated in study abroad programs between January 2001 and May 2003. The participants in the study were both incoming students to the US and outgoing students from the US. The study investigates, among other things, why they had decided to study abroad, why they had selected a particular institution, how their home institution compared to the partner institution abroad, and what they perceived to be the benefits and relevance of their international experiences. It was found that respondents were generally very positive about the study abroad experience. Some …
China In Asean-Led Multilateral Forums, Serene Hung
China In Asean-Led Multilateral Forums, Serene Hung
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
Re/Constructing South Asia, Paul Sharrad
Re/Constructing South Asia, Paul Sharrad
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
[extract] In her early essays on life in India as an expatriate writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala describes her cycle of emotional responses to living abroad. Firstly, everything in India is wonderful; secondly everything about India is appalling; thirdly, reality is a mix of the two. In her model of the Westerner doing Asian Studies, at least in the Indian context, the wheel keeps turning from delighted fascination to extreme irritation to more moderate feelings that are nonetheless never a state of completely stable harmony (An Experience of India).
Assessing The Threat Of Maritime Terrorism: Issues For The Asia-Pacific Region, Sam Bateman
Assessing The Threat Of Maritime Terrorism: Issues For The Asia-Pacific Region, Sam Bateman
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
This article provides a critical assessment of the contemporary threat of maritime terrorism in the Asia-Pacific region. It addresses the operational dimensions of the threat to ships and port infrastructure, and considers the effectiveness of the international and regional measures that have been introduced in recent years to deal with this threat. Based on a proposition that that there has been rather too much emphasis on highly remote and speculative “doomsday” scenarios, the article supports the need for balance and equity in addressing the risks of maritime terrorism. It identifies types of terrorist attack that might be assessed as more …
Intellectual Property Law In Southeast Asia: Recent Legislative And Institutional Developments, Christoph Antons
Intellectual Property Law In Southeast Asia: Recent Legislative And Institutional Developments, Christoph Antons
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
Over the last few decades, countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) all had to revise their intellectual property systems. These revisions resulted at first from bilateral pressure of major trading partners such as the US and EU, then from the WTO-TRIPS Agreement and more recently from bilateral Free Trade Agreements. To observe the IP developments in ASEAN over this period is interesting, because this group of countries covers developed (Singapore), developing as well as least developed countries. All countries had to reform their outdated laws from the colonial era in very short time. However, in comparison …
The Soviet Legacy And Leader Cults In Post-Communist Central Asia: The Example Of Turkmenistan, Stephen M. Brown, Konstantin Sheiko
The Soviet Legacy And Leader Cults In Post-Communist Central Asia: The Example Of Turkmenistan, Stephen M. Brown, Konstantin Sheiko
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
[Extract] While a new wave of democratic revolutions was widely expected in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, progress towards democratisation has proven slow. In many parts of the world, including Central Asia, victory in what Francis Fukuyama claimed was the last of history’s battles has proved elusive.2 Perhaps the most striking feature of the politics of Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has been the durability of the leader cults that have grown up around Presidents Nasultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan, and Saparmurat Niyazov in Turkmenistan.
Characterizing Prevalence And Severity Of Depression In Coronary Artery Disease Patients In Bangkok, Thailand, Anna Yusim
Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library
Numerous studies in North America, Europe and Australia have linked depression to increased risk of morbidity and mortality in coronary artery disease (CAD). Although the co-morbidity of depression and CAD is well documented in the western world, little work on the subject has been carried out in Asia. Differing depression presentations in Asia necessitate the use of culture-specific depression rating scales. This study sought to determine whether the correlation between CAD and depression documented in western countries also exists in an Asian nation: Thailand. It was hypothesized that rates of depressive symptoms were higher in Thai inpatients with either unstable …
Expressions Of Asia 2006
Diversity Programs
Lectures, Cultural Events and Asian Cuisine during Expressions of Asia, January 2006.
Does Governance Matter? Yes, No Or Maybe Some Evidence From Developing Asia, M. G. Quibria
Does Governance Matter? Yes, No Or Maybe Some Evidence From Developing Asia, M. G. Quibria
Research Collection School Of Economics
This paper seeks to explore the relationship between economic growth and governance performance in Asian developing economies. This exploration yields some interesting conclusions. First, notwithstanding its tremendous economic achievements, the state of governance in Asia is not stellar by international comparison. Indeed, a majority of these countries seem to suffer from a governance deficit. Second, contrary to our expectation, data do not suggest any strong positive link between governance and growth: paradoxically, countries that exhibit surpluses in governance on average grew much slower than those with deficits. The paper ends with some conjecture about this apparent paradox.