... idea of the general sentiments that East Asian peoples have of one another Do the peoples within ASEAN view themselves as ‘ASEAN Citizens’? How much they really know of other ASEAN states, their ... related question is the nature and extent of the breadth and depth of regional security cooperation among East Asian states For example, Thailand and the Philippines are formal treaty allies of ... comes to interpretation and analysis of the data and evidence Here, we are interested in finding out whether East Asia has become integrated to the extent of having developed a common ‘regional...
... descriptive depth and analytical challenge that progressively declines as more cases are added’ and ‘as we increase the number of cases… the leverage afforded by paired comparison becomes weaker, because ... prominent newspapers as they are more widely circulated than the local language newspapers.28 As a native speaker of the Malay language I am able to analyse both the major English language and Malay ... 71 32 5 .16 Congress Party of India 477 14 1 25. 82 Janata Dal 19 13. 24 Samata Party 57 12 1. 76 Other State Parties 4 71 101 18.79 Registered (Unrecognised) Parties 8 71 49 10 .87 Independents 19 15...
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... problem can be considered by similar methods in 1, 2, 4 12 and the reference therein Briefly speaking, in this paper we consider the scattering of an electromagnetic timeharmonic plane wave by an ... 3 . 13 whence the operator A is Fredholm with index zero Theorem 3. 2 The operator A has a trivial kernel if −k2 is not Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplace operator in D − Proof In this part, we ... 3. 28 So we complete the proof of the theorem Combining Theorems 3 .1 and3. 2, we have the following Theorem 3.3 The boundary integral system 2 .56 has a unique solution Remark 3. 4 If we remove...
... of the residual carbon and SiO2, respectively In the high-temperature Nanoscale Res Lett (2009) 4 : 15 3 15 6 15 5 Fig Schematic diagram of growing process of SiC nanowire nanowire One can find that ... SEM image and EDX pattern of carbon black after arcdischarge plasma treatment Results and Discussion Figure shows the typical SEM image of the carbon black, which was treated in an arc-discharge ... a graphite boat and located in a high-purity graphite tube As a heating crucible, the graphite tube was placed in a horizontal quartz tube and heated in a high-frequency induction furnace The...
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... member-states (A) Overall State of Bilateral Relations among the ASEAN States Singapore-Malaysia Relations Over the past forty-seven years, Singapore-Malaysia relations have been characterized by ... Transparency International, the Philippines was ranked 14 1, Indonesia 12 6, Vietnam 12 1, Thailand 80, and Malaysia 47 Singapore was ranked 4, after Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden The high levels ... that ASEAN and Indonesia have not been able to address the ‘regional haze’ issue effectively But the reason was that Indonesia lacked the capacity and the political will to implement ASEAN decisions...
... economic-political integration in ASEAN is still relatively low Intra-ASEAN trade was only about seventeen percent of total ASEAN trade in 19 95, and has stagnated at about 23 percent over the past five years, ... way below that of the EU and NAFTA (Chapter Three) ASEAN has a rather poor record of implementing regional economic agreements and joint projects mainly because of the voluntary nature of ASEAN ... priorities and perspectives regarding the role of external powers like the US and China in Southeast Asia Thailand and the Philippines are treaty allies of the US As a small, vulnerable state, Singapore...
... MIMO-OFDM as the physical layer technology, IEEE 802 .11 n, as an amendment to IEEE 802 .11 standards has been proposed [ 53 ] Wireless LAN technology has seen rapid advancements and MIMO-OFDM has gradually ... fading channels and Ricean fading channels have been derived The effects of SNR, the number of channel paths, power profile of fading channel, the delay of the channel on the variance have been ... Frequency Band of Operation Non-Overlapping Channels (US) Data Rate per Channel Modulation Type 802 .11 b 802 .11 a 802 .11 g 802 .11 n Released in 2009 83. 5/ 580 83. 5 MHz 58 0 MHz 83. 5 MHz MHz Sept 19 99...
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... American and Vietnamese informants are Explanation and Strategies OPTING OUT 12 out of 13 strategies appear in both American and Vietnamese Keeping Silent Agreement Offer of Repair ACCEPTANCE ... dispraise have been respond to dispraises in English and Vietnamese rather under-researched Tracy, et al [44] investigated the 1.3 Research Questions How American native speakers and Vietnamese native ... Thanking strategies are employed at relatively whereas Vietnamese ones are not favor in these strategies • 4.2 .1 Realizations of PP and NP Strategies high rates by both American male and female...
... languages with phrases, adjective phrases, verb phrases, adjective phrases, the purpose of recognizing the similarities and differences between prepositional phrases, adverb phrases and sentences ... Vietnamese people, children are priceless presents of the Creator Another feature of national culture of Vietnamese people is that in many old feudal families, a husband could have more than ... languages have 4.2 .1. 3 Hyperbole parallel structures and comparative structures though the amounts are Hyperbole can be defined as a deliberate overstatement or not the same In both languages,...
... the test and how to answer them The readers will also judge essays on how the ideas are presented or organized and developed as well as on the use of language Essays are judged on organization ... Choose one of these three areas and describe the most important qualities ofa leader in that area Explain why these qualities are important, using specific examples and details (A) Point of View ... to have jobs while they are students because they can learn about responsibility; they can learn the value of money and they can learn how to work as a member ofa team When teenagers have jobs...
... between societal needs and applied and basic science The presence of these feedbacks illustrates the dependence of one type of scientific endeavor on the other The committee suggests that the ... 97 10 3 REFERENCES 12 1 APPENDIXES A Committee and Staff Biographies B Acronyms 12 5 13 5 Part I A Review of the Draft Ocean Research Priorities Plan: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the ... how the proposed research will address marine operations related to defense, fishing and aquaculture, recreation, search and rescue, and energy and minerals exploitation Some linkages to research...
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... The panel also appreciates the assistance of Jon Herrmann and Alan Hais, EPA Office of Research and Development and Hiba Shukairy and Grace Robiou, EPA Office of Water who were extremely helpful ... the value of water and increased water system security with the public, rate regulators, and local elected and appointed officials, because increased rate structures may be needed to create the ... or another The Action Plan, however, does not address how the EPA 20 A Review of the EPA Water Security Action Plan will create and manage databases that are accessible to all the water stakeholders...
... subject and object respectively and both of them are edge of TIGERSearch query language Results Table 1: The frequency of pronoun-headed phrases and noun-headed phrases in subjec function and object ... noun-headed phrases ( 25) are more frequent than pronoun-headed phrases ( 13 ) The reason is that the most important information and the heaviest elements come at the end of the sentence Noun phrases ... constraint If it is the simplest feature it will consist ofa single feature-value pair, a feature anda value are separated by an equal sign Furthermore, constituent categories are encoded in node...