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Electronic Commerce: Formation Of Contract Under Malaysian Law, Chun Boon Loo

Student Works (2000-2009)

The subject of contract formation is a fundamental component of the law of contract as all aspects of contractual performance are dependent on a contract being properly formed. The purpose of this Thesis is to examine how the novelties introduced by the Internet and other electronic media like Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and electronic mails affect the existing legal principles concerning formation of contracts under the law of Malaysia. This Thesis argues that the existing law in Malaysia governing the formation of contracts is fraught with uncertainty when applied to the Internet and other electronic media. This Thesis submits that …

The Forgotten Voice Of The Oneida Stake Academy, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

The Physiography class invited me to their Comet Party. We all got up at 3 o'clock a.m. and went to the academy building and there watched Halley's comet and indulged in outdoor games, wrote H. Oswald Christensen, a devoted faculty member of the Oneida Stake Academy in Preston, Idaho. His voice, along with those of many other Academy faculty members and students, must not be forgotten.

From Liverpool To Keokuk: The Mormon Maritime Migration Experience Of 1853, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

In January, Fifty-three, we left our English home, Determined for the Gospel's sake, to Zion's land to come. Our family was very small, its members numbered three, Yet strong in faith of Israel's God, and full of hope were we. 'Twas not to us an easy task to bid old friends adieu, To take a long farewell of those who always had been true, To leave for aye, the cozy home we made but just before, And take a last fond look of things we should behold no more; The wind blew keen, as out we went into the cold …

The 1853 Mormon Migration Through Keokuk, Fred E. Woods, Douglas Atterberg

Faculty Publications

In May 1853, William W. Belknap, who would later serve as a major general in the Civil War and as secretary of war to President Grant, wrote to his sister, Clara, about the Mormon emigrants who were outfitting in Keokuk, Iowa, that spring and summer: "Yesterday was Sunday and I wish you had been here to go up to the Mormon Camp with me. They had preaching at three stands in three languages--English, German, and Danish. They sing --especially the Danes--very sincerely and are perfectly enthusiastic. It is a strange, strange mystery and if you were here you'd be astonished. …

Theatre In Pioneer Utah, J. Michael Hunter

Faculty Publications

The performance of theater and drama in Utah and the buildings that housed them are described. Theater was an important community project from the earliest days of Mormon settlement in Utah, beginning with the Social Hall. The Salt Lake Theatre opened in 1862 and until its demolition in 1928 was an important theater in the American West. Theater was a community project by the Mormon settlers of the Salt Lake Valley under the leadership of Brigham Young.

A Time For Change : Improving Salt Lake City, 1890-1925, J. Michael Hunter

Faculty Publications

Although visitors to Salt Lake City during its earliest years described the valley as a place of order and beauty, by the 1880s the city had become dirty, polluted, and unsanitary. This article details the efforts at improvement beginning in the 1880s, including the installation of water and sewer systems, public transportation, electricity, paved streets, and the beautification of parks and playgrounds.

Supporting Biosciences In The Nursing Curriculum: Development And Evaluation Of An Online Resource, Ka Gresty, Dre Cotton

School of Biomedical Sciences

Aims. The aim of this project was to develop and evaluate an online resource designed to improve the biosciences knowledge of preregistration nursing students. Background. A number of studies have identified lack of biological subject knowledge and anxiety about studying biosciences as serious problems for nursing students. The availability of a contextualized biological information resource prior to and early in their studies might help to reduce this fear and anxiety. Methods. The project used an action research approach, involving an initial analysis of the extent of the problems with biosciences encountered by our nursing students, followed by the development and …

World Of Tang Dynasty Poems (Wtdpp), Fen Lee Shun

Student Works (2000-2009)

World of Tang Dynasty Poems (WTDP) is my final year thesis title. This project documentation is an exercise submitted to the Faculty Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, as a report for the Final Year Project. WTDP is designed to introduce the Tang Poetry to public and to enhance the understanding ancient of Tang Dynasty. It divided to five modules, there are maintenance module, poems module, poets module, exercises modul and games module. WTDP is display in three languages English, Chinese and Malay. It Consisted many functions such as poem reaction, text recitation. song of poem and so …

Children’S Sociable And Aggressive Behaviour With Peers: A Comparison Of The Us And Australia, And Contributions Of Temperament And Parenting Styles, Alan Russell, Craig H. Hart, Clyde C. Robinson, Susanne F. Olsen

Faculty Publications

Links between both temperament and parenting, and children’s sociable and aggressive behaviour with peers (physical and relational), were examined. The research was undertaken in two Western cultures (the United States and Australia) assumed to be similar in socialisation practices and emphases. The moderating effects of parent sex and child sex were also examined. Parents completed questionnaires on parenting styles and child temperament. Preschool teachers rated children’s aggressive and sociable behaviour. US children were rated higher on both types of aggression by teachers and on sociability, activity, and emotionality by parents. Girls were rated as more relationally aggressive and more prosocial …

Sistem E-Dj Player, Hock Lin Wong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem E-DJ Player merupakan satu perisian untuk memainkan muzik dengan melalui komputer. Sistem ini bukan sahaja untuk mendengar lagu, ia juga dapat menkategorikan lagu berdasarkan jenis penyanyi, jenis album dan jenis audio. Selain itu, sistem ini juga dapat melakukan equalizer supaya pengguna boleh menyelara kualiti bunyai yang disukai. Berbanding dengan sistem sedia ada seperti Winamp,Windows Media Player, Cowon Jet-Audio dan sebagainya, system E-DJ Player dapat melaksanakan gabungan fungsi yang terdapat pada sistem ada. Metodologi yang digunakan untuk pembangunan sistem yang akan dibangun adalah model Air Terjun dan model Prototaip. Model ini membenarkan pembangun menilai sebehagian dari aspek sistem yang dicadang …

From Individuality To Individualism: A Critique Of The Helping, Timothy B. Smith, Matthew R. Draper

Faculty Publications

Individualistic values characterize contemporary society and many popular approaches to mental health treatment. This paper critiques the individualistic values embedded in the helping professions that implicitly contradict the teachings of Jesus Christ, the surest foundation for mental health interventions. Members of AMCAP are encouraged to search out and replace other problematic values that contradict gospel teachings but that have been integrated into contemporary mental health practice.

Data Mining Of Forensic Association Rules, James V. Hansen, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Rayman D. Meservy

Faculty Publications

Data mining offers a potentially powerful method for analyzing the large data sets that are typically found in forensic computing (FC) investigations to discover useful and previously unknown patterns within the data. The contribution of this paper is an innovative and rigorous data mining methodology that enables effective search of large volumes of complex data to discover offender profiles. These profiles are based on association rules, which are computationally sound, flexible, easily interpreted, and provide a ready set of data for refinement via predictive models. Methodology incorporates link analysis and creation of predictive models based on association rule input.

Rites Of Passage In Emerging Adulthood: Perspectives Of Young Mormoons, Larry J. Nelson

Faculty Publications

This study explores the role that culture, particularly religious rites of passage, may play in emerging adulthood by examining the demographics, criteria for adulthood, identity development, and risk behavior of Mormon emerging adults.

Are All Rivals Affected Equally By Bond Rating Downgrades?, Gary L. Caton, Jeremy Goh

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We use revisions in analysts' earnings forecasts to examine how the bad news associated with a bond rating downgrade gets transferred from the downgraded company to its rivals. In general, we find that stock analysts revise their earnings expectations downward for rivals of companies with downgraded debt. However, the significance of the revision is limited to rivals of downgraded companies with non-investment grade debt only. For the rivals of companies with investment grade debt, we find no significant forecast revisions. We hypothesize that this differential impact is due to differing levels of market visibility. This is consistent with our finding …

Parenting And Adult Development: Contexts, Processes, And Products Of Intergenerational Relationships, Rob Palkovitz, Loren D. Marks, David W. Appleby, Erin K. Holmes

Faculty Publications

For the past 50 years, parenthood has been discussed in social science literature as a context of adult development. Theories, anecdotes, and the opinions of laypersons are nearly unanimous: People who become parents and are involved in the raising of children are transformed and follow a different developmental trajectory from people who do not engage in parenting roles. Erickson (1950) suggested that positive adult development reflects care for the next generation, or "generativity," and that parenthood is "the first, and for many, the prime generative encounter" (Erickson, 1964, p. 130). More recently, parenthood has been described as a necessary but …

Trust And The Decision To Outsource: Affective Responses And Cognitive Processes, Mark Hansen, J.L. Morrow Jr.

Faculty Publications

Many of the various forms of cooperative strategy that firms are pursuing in today’s economy entail the placing of important business functions in the hands of a partner. This paper examines the role of trust in the decision by a producer to place the marketing function in the hands of another entity, namely a cooperative. Although others have studied the effect of what may be termed general trust on inter-organizational relationships, few have examined the antecedents of that trust. We propose a model in which affective responses and cognitive processes are precursors to a sense of general trust, which, in …

3d Gui, Chia Ming Foong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem yang dibangunkan adalah antaramuka untuk sebuah permainan tiga dimensi. Permainan ini adalah permainan strategik yang khas dibangunkan untuk golongan yang berumur 12 tahun dan keatas. Kebanyakkan daripada mereka pernah terdedah kepada penggunaan komputer dimana kawalan dalam permainan ini adalah lebih kepada kekunci shortcut dan pengawalan petunjuk tetikus. Permainan ini adalah mengenai peperangan antara pengguna dan penjahat untuk menyelamatlam angkasa yang dikuasai oleh penjahat. Permainan ini sesuai untuk pengguna yang suka main permainan strategik, lebih-lebih lagi permainan ini dibangunkan dalam persekitaran tiga dimensi yang kelihatan lebih realistik. Semua objek dalam sistem ini adalah berbentuk organik dan tidak mempunyai bentuk yang …

Issues And Challenges Of Corporate Change Initiatives In Singapore's Small Business Sector, Thomas Menkhoff, Benjamin Loh, Lena Kay

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

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Reading African American History And The Civil Rights Movement, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

At this time of year, English teachers have two excellent opportunities to use YA literature to help students understand the Civil Rights Movement and to gain an appreciation of African American culture in the United States. The first opportunity comes up soon, January 20, 2003: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In addition to discussing the important role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played in changing American societv, the class days immediatelv before and after this holiday can be devoted to reading fiction and nonfiction about the Civil Rights Movement. The second date to remember is all of next month, February …

Can Reading Help?, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

I've not slept well for many months. Until recently l had assumed that my fitful nights were merely the combined effects of impending writing deadlines, ALAN presidential duties, middle age, a long list of incomplete house and yard chores, a six-digit mortgage, my university students and classes, a neurotic and noisy cat, and two teenage daughters.

Some nights are worse than others, and I've supposed that when stress goes up, sleep goes down. But I've also noticed lately that when things go bump in the night, I jerk awake wondering if it was just wind, the dog, a neighbor's car …

Unfinished Business, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

This is my thirtieth and final YA literature column for English Journal. Beginning with the next issue of EJ, Donald R. Gallo, one of the leading experts in YA literature today—and the leding YA short story anthologist in America—will take my place. Don has some terrific ideas, and in the future this column, which will be renamed "Bold Books for Innovative Teaching," will provide EJ subscribers with useful and thought-provoking insights into books for teenage readers.

Responding To The Demise Of Adolescent Artmaking: Charting The Course Of Adolescent Development In An Exceptional Art Classroom, Mark Graham

Faculty Publications

Adolescent artistic developmental potential is often underestimated, ignored, or dismissed as irrelevant. This article argues that the deliberate cultivation of artistry is neglected and the task of developing mastery in any visual language is rarely attempted. By adolescence, most children give up the visual arts as a means of understanding or expression. Although drawing is accepted as a fundamental skill in most secondary art programs, there are different opinions on how to teach drawing, and to whom drawing should be taught. Endpoints of development and the role of cultural influences are two areas that invite different points of view. This …