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Tan, Sheila Marie Mei Sum. "The associations amongst and between religiosity, spirituality, stress, and facets of well-being amongst Malaysians /." Abstract Full Text (HTML) Full Text (PDF), 2009. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000577/02/2018FT.htm.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009.Thesis advisor: Joanne DiPlacido. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-57). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Peh, Suat-Cheng. "The pattern of Epstein-Barr virus infections in lymphoma of Malaysians." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29407.
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Previous studies of the pattern of lymphoma in multi-ethnic West Malaysian population have shown a high frequency of EBV association in childhood Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) and adult NK/T-cell lymphomas, with a predilection of the former in Indians and the latter in Chinese. This thesis aims to expand knowledge of the EBV association pattern in childhood non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), Burkitt's lymphoma (BL), ethnic predilection and virus subtype pattern for Malaysian patients. The childhood NHL pattern is similar to other parts of the world. BL, lymphoblastic lymphoma and diffuse large cell lymphoma (predominantly CD30- positive, ALK-positive anaplastic large cell type) form the 3 major groups of the disease. The difference in subtype composition results in different overall EBV association rates for T- and B-cell lymphomas when compared to the adults, being 3x higher in the B-cell lymphomas in children and the reverse for T-cell lymphomas. The frequency of BL in West Malaysian children is not higher and in the malaria endemic state of Sabah the pattern of lymphoma is similar to other Asian series. The low incidence of jaw presentation, more common abdominal and lymph node disease, and EBV association rate of 33% are features of sporadic BL. Using a sensitive nested-PCR test on 38 lymphomas, 14 nasopharyngeal carcinomas, 12 reactive lymph nodes and tonsils, only EBV type A was identified. This was irrespective of the anatomical sites of the biopsy material, age group, sex and ethnicity of the patients. EBV was identified in sequential biopsies of EBV associated lymphomas, and continued to be absent in non-EBV associated cases, supporting the probable pathogenetic role of the virus. In conclusion, EBV type A is the prevalent subtype of virus present in Malaysian patients. East-West differences in lymphoma pattern are less distinct in children. BL is of the sporadic type and the predilection of EBV associated T- NHL to Chinese is again reflected in Malaysian children, supporting the notion that ethnic Chinese are at risk of developing EBV-associated cancers.
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Romli, Muhammad Hibatullah. "The Application of the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool (HOME FAST) in Malaysia to Address Falls Risk among Older Malaysians." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16680.
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The older population in Malaysia is rapidly increasing. A lack of healthcare professionals in Malaysia has limited the service efficacy for falls prevention and intervention–especially in relation to home hazards assessment and management. This responsibility should be shared by community members to accelerate the uptake of falls prevention. However, research on this topic is negligible in Malaysia or Southeast Asia. Moreover, factors associated with home hazards have been inadequately studied even at an international level. Several studies were conducted in this thesis. A systematic review found the HOME FAST can potentially be applied in Malaysia compared to other instruments. The use of the HOME FAST with lay individuals was found to be feasible; there is potential for it to be adopted by Malaysian occupational therapists. This was confirmed with good inter-rater and test-retest reliability using a group of lay individuals. With this evidence, the HOME FAST was used in a population study called the Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research. Older people with a lower education level, Chinese ethnicity, having more people living in the same house, poor financial status, living in traditional house, poor vision and younger age were associated with high home hazards; other potential factors were culture, higher degree of fear of falling, poor perception of own health status and memory, and not owning the home. Factors associated with low home hazards were living in an apartment; other potential protective factors were better independence in activities of daily living, better instrumental daily living functions and having a maid. Older people at high risk of having home hazards should be targeted by healthcare professionals and community members through home assessment, using the HOME FAST to identify the hazards available.
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Karim, Haryati Abdul. "Globalisation, 'in-between' identities and shifting values : young multiethnic Malaysians and media consumption." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8841.
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The aim of this research is to examine the identities of youth from different cultural background in Malaysia that has been formed through consumption of media. The forces of globalisation reportedly have de-centred the self from the core, leading to multiple, fluid and contradictory identities. Individuals have been displaced from their backgrounds, and have emerged as individuals, in contrast to past collective identities. People are self-reflexive in constructing their sense of self, with the media playing a role in nurturing one s quest for self-identity (Thompson, 1995). This issue is of particular relevance to young Malaysians. Within this locality, young people s lives are deeply embedded in the collectivities of ethnicity, religion and national identity. At the same time, Malaysia has adopted an open economic market. The de-regulation of Malaysia s broadcasting services enables a mass penetration of the global media to influence young Malaysians. This study is interested in examining how these conditions have affected young Malaysians identities through media consumption. While other studies have explored identity through the consumption of the global media by local audiences, such studies have focused on hybridised cultural practices. This study takes into account de-centred identities by examining shifts in values among different ethnicities, as reflected in consumption of global and local television programmes, differentiating this from previous research works. This study draws on Giddens (1990) concept of reflexivity in examining this issue. This study found that the global media plays a significant role in young Malaysians questioning tradition against modernity. They admire life outside Malaysia, and view it as more modern and liberating, compared to the perceived closed life of Malaysian culture. Yet, this does not conclusively show that young Malaysians have completely abandoned local cultures and values. Rather, it shows they can fully adopt values they admire into their lives while continuing to live within the bounds of their parents and community. Young Malaysians have appropriated the various forms of global cultures derived from media consumption as a means of forging their sense of self, which articulates a need to project an individual self rather than emerging from their collectivity. Although religion and ethnicity remain important in their lives, these young people do not see themselves solely restricted by these identity markers alone. Their cultural identity contains characteristics of other global cultures as well. It is an intersection of various forms of identities, negotiated between religion and ethnicity within global youth cultures, diaspora, gender, lifestyles and taste. Young Malaysians can best be described as having in-between identities - global - local subjects borne out of the hybridisation of values from both sources. Ethnic minority Malaysians display two identities, due to their consumption of international programmes. First, overseas Chinese and Tamil television programmes enable youth to hybridise their youth identity into Western-Asian popular youth cultures instead of drawing solely from one or the other. Second, this type of exposure leads young Malaysian-Chinese to have feelings of cultural superiority over the local Malay films and drama.
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Ong, Lok Tik. "Young Malaysians' blogging habits and a linguistic analysis of their use of English in their weblogs." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33172/.
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The size of the blogosphere has long been a contentious issue amongst people researching the social media as it cannot be accurately determined. Bodies (BlogPulse, BlogScope, Technorati, etc.) which used to track the growing phenomenon across the world were careful with their choice of words when reporting on its size, such as Sifry’s Technorati report which said, “On July 31, 2006, Technorati tracked its 50 millionth blog” (Sifry, 2006, August 6). However, as Rosenberg (2006, August 9) points out, “… it doesn’t really matter. There’s still a revolution going on.” This ‘revolution’ is dominated by young people and in Malaysia, it was found that 74% of the bloggers in Malaysia were below 25 years old (Windows Live Spaces, 2006) but there is limited study on the phenomenon of casual blogging amongst this age group in Malaysia and the use of English in the blogs. The current study contributes to this body of literature, drawing from works on blogging, linguistic analysis, identity, and varieties of English. It adopts the social-constructivist framework and postulates that blogging is a social action which causes the blogosphere to be in a state of constant revision where “individuals create their own subjective meanings of their experiences through interactions with each other and their surrounding environment” (Hartas, 2010:44). This study used mixed methods in order to answer the research questions using three instruments: survey, interview, and weblog analysis to yield the data needed to investigate the content and interactive blog communication of selected young Malaysian casual bloggers who blog in English. The survey data yielded information about their blogging habits and content; the interview data yielded information about their language learning endeavours which influenced their choice of language or varieties of language in their blogs; and the in-depth analysis of one blog yielded information on how language was used in the blog to achieve communicative intent. The findings reveal the blogging habits of young Malaysian bloggers, and how their attitude towards their identity as Malaysians using English and socio-cultural factors influence their choice of language and/or varieties of English in their blog communication. It discovers the unconventional manner of using an existing language to achieve communicative intent among those in the same blogospheric region. This study makes both the bloggers and their blog texts the focus of its research.
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Koh, Sin Yee. "British colonial legacies, citizenship habitus, and a culture of migration : mobile Malaysians in London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/823/.
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This thesis examines the relationship between British colonial legacies and a culture of migration amongst mobile Malaysians (tertiary-educated Malaysians with transnational migration experience). Drawing from Bourdieu’s “habitus”, I propose the concept of “citizenship habitus” – a set of inherited dispositions about the meanings and significance of citizenship – to understand how and why mobile Malaysians carry out certain citizenship and migration practices. These practices include: firstly, interpreting and practising Malaysian citizenship as a de-politicised and primordial (ethno)national belonging to “Malaysia” that is conflated with national loyalty; and secondly, migration (especially for overseas education) as a way of life (i.e. a culture of migration) that may not be recognised as a means of circumventing pro-Bumiputera (lit. “sons of soil”) structural constraints. Methodologically, I draw from my reflexive reading of archival documents and interview-conversations with 67 mobile Malaysians: 16 in London/UK, 27 in Singapore, six in other global locations, and 18 returnees. I argue that mobile Malaysians’ citizenship and migration practices have been informed by three British colonial legacies: firstly, the materialising of race and Malay indigeneity; secondly, the institutionalisation of race-based school systems and education as an aspired means towards social mobility; and thirdly, race-based political representation and a federal state consisting of an arbitrary amalgamation of socio-economically and historically diverse territories. The Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) further instilled state-led focus on “racial tensions”, resulting in default authoritative strategies to govern, educate, and motivate the citizenry. These colonial legacies, inherited and exacerbated by the post-colonial Malaysian state, contributed to the institutionalisation of Malaysia’s Bumiputera-differentiated citizenship and race-based affirmative action policies, with particular effects on education, migration and social mobility. By adopting a postcolonial approach to migration phenomena, this thesis highlights the longevity of British colonial legacies with long-lasting effects on Malaysia’s contemporary skilled migration, both in terms of migration geographies and citizenship practices.
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San, Oo Pou. "An investigation into the attitudes and motivation of Malaysians of Chinese origin for learning English as a second language (ESL)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425492.
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Leong, Christine Xiang Ru. "Spoken English discrimination (SED) training with multilingual Malaysians : effect of adaptive staircase procedure and background babble in high variability phonetic training." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39339/.
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High variability phonetic training (HVPT) has been shown to improve non-native speakers’ perceptual performance in discriminating difficult second language phonemic contrasts (Bradlow, Akahane-Yamada, Pisoni, & Tohkura, 1999; Bradlow, Pisoni, Akahane-Yamada, & Tohkura, 1997; Lively, Logan, & Pisoni, 1993; Lively, Pisoni, Yamada, Tohkura, & Yamada, 1994; Logan, Lively, & Pisoni, 1991). The perceptual learning can be generalized to novel words (Wang & Munro, 2004), novel speakers (Nishi & Kewley-Port, 2007; Richie & Kewley-Port, 2008) and even to speech production (Bradlow et al., 1997). However, the rigidity of the laboratory training settings has limited applications to real life situations. The current thesis examined the effectiveness of a new phonetic training program - the Spoken English Discrimination (SED) training. SED training is a computerized individual training program designed to improve non-native speakers’ bottom-up perceptual sensitivity to discriminate difficult second language (L2) phonemic contrasts. It combines a number of key training features including 1) natural spoken stimuli, 2) highly variable stimuli spoken by multiple speakers, 3) multi-talker babble as background noise and 4) an adaptive staircase procedure that individualizes the level of background babble. The first experiment investigated the potential benefits of different versions of the SED training program. The effect of stimulus variability (single speaker vs. multiple speakers) and design of background babble (constant vs. adaptive staircase) were examined using English voiceless-voiced plosives /t/-/d/ phonemic contrast as the training materials. No improvements were found in the identification accuracy on the /t/-/d/ contrast in post-test, but identification improvements were found on the untrained English /ε/-/æ/ phonemic contrast. The effectiveness of SED training was re-examined in Chapter 3 using the English /ε/-/æ/ phonemic contrast as the training material. Three experiments were conducted to compare the SED training paradigms that had the background babble implemented either at a constant level (Constant SED) or using the adaptive staircase procedure (Adaptive Staircase SED), and the longevity of the training effects. Results revealed that the Adaptive Staircase SED was the more effective paradigm as it generated greater training benefits and its effect generalized better to the untrained /t/-/d/ phonemic contrast. Training effects from both SED paradigms retained six months after the last training section. Before examining whether SED training leads to improvements in speech production, Chapter 4 investigated the phonetics perception pattern of L1 Mandarin Malaysian speakers, L1 Malaysian English speakers and native British English speakers. The production intelligibility of the L1 Mandarin speakers was also evaluated by the L1 Malaysian English speakers and native British English speakers. Single category assimilation was observed in both L1 Mandarin and L1 Malaysian English speakers whereby the /ε/ and /æ/ phonetic sounds were assimilated to a single/æ/ category (Best, McRoberts, & Goodell, 2001). While the British English speakers showed ceiling performance for all phonetic categories involved, the L1 Malaysian English speakers had difficulty identifying the British English /ε/ phoneme and the L1 Mandarin speakers had difficulty identifying the /d/ final, /ε/ and /æ/ phonemes. As seen by their perceptual performance, the L1 Mandarin speakers also had difficulty producing distinct /d/ final, /ε/ and /æ/ phonemes. Two experiments in Chapter 5 examined whether the effects of SED training generalizes to speech production. The results showed that L1 Malaysian English speakers and native British English speakers found different SED paradigms to be more effective in inducing the production improvement. Only the production intelligibility of the /æ/ phoneme improved as a result of SED training. Collectively, the seven experiments in this thesis showed that SED training was effective in improving Malaysian speakers’ perception and production performance of difficult English phonemic contrasts. Further research should be conducted to examine the efficacy of SED training in improving speech perception and production across different training materials and in speakers who come from different language backgrounds.
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Yadi, Mohd Zakaria. "Malaysian emergencies : anthropological factors in the success of Malaysia's counterinsurgency /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Dec%5FNAME.pdf.
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Abdullah, Sarena. "Postmodernism in Malaysian art." Phd thesis, Department of Art History and Film Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9457.
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Hamid, Jamaliah Abdul. "Agency in school leadership." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368769.
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Jarmeby, Kennerknecht Karin. "English in Malaysia : Attitudes towards Malaysian English and Standard English." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-70944.
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In Malaysia what was at first Standard English has over time changed and a variety called Malaysian English has arisen. This variety of English is full of colloquial expressions and the grammar also differs slightly from that of Standard English. This paper surveys Malaysian speakers’ attitudes towards Malaysian English and Standard English. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The results show that the informants consider Malaysian English useful for informal and everyday communication whereas Standard English is more useful for international communication as well as more formal purposes. A good command of Standard English is still regarded as important. It became evident that while the informers were aware of Malaysian English and its linguistic characteristics, identifying them in written sentences was not easy. The informants’ attitudes towards Malaysian English and Standard English showed that one variety does not have to exclude the existence of the other.Vad som först var standardengelska har i Malaysia över tid ändrats och en ny variant kallad malaysisk engelska har växt fram. Denna variant av engelska är full av lokala uttryck och grammatiken skiljer sig delvis från standardengelskans. Denna studie undersöker talares attityder till malaysisk engelska och standardengelska med hjälp av en enkät. Resultaten visar att malaysisk engelska är användbar för informell och vardaglig kommunikation medan standardengelska är mer användbar för internationell samt mer formell kommunikation. Att behärska standardengelska anses fortfarande vara viktigt. Det blev tydligt att även om informanterna var medvetna om malaysisk engelskas lingvistiska särdrag så var det inte helt enkelt att identifiera dem i skrivna meningar. Informanternas attityder till malaysisk engelska och standardengelska visade att en variant inte nödvändigtvis utesluter den andra.
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Ishak, Naimah. "Colonization and higher education : the impact of participation in western universities on Malaysian graduates who have returned to their academic and professional lives /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9998037.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 372-391). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Ooi, Yeng Keat. "Inclination towards entrepreneurship among Malaysian university students in Northern Peninsula Malaysia." Swinburne Research Bank, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/34453.
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Thesis (DBA) -- Swinburne University of Technology, Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, 2008.Submitted to the partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Business Administration, Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, 2008. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-199).
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Ahmad, Hamidah. "Environmental experiences of Malaysian adolescents in two neighbourhoods in Johor Bahru, Malaysia." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6115/.
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This research has addressed gaps in knowledge relating to environmental experiences of Malaysian adolescents in two neighbourhoods in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. This thesis discusses how the adolescents' experiences may differ from adults' assumptions and planning. The study begins by highlighting current issues relating to adolescents and urban open space planning and design in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Survey questionnaires were used as a research tool to reveal adolescents' time use and environmental experiences of their housing area, neighbourhood and the city. The time use not only revealed their activities but also places they liked or valued and their ideal housing neighbourhood environment. Time use data diaries and interviews were used to verify the data from the questionnaire and to seek more specific data of what they wanted from their outdoor environment. The findings of the research elucidate that there were both similarities and differences in Malaysian adolescents' use of their outdoor environment across different ethnic backgrounds, genders and ages. It is concluded that inadequacies existed in current Johor Bahru urban planning in addressing the needs of the adolescents. Furthermore, from this study, the Malaysian adolescents assigned attributes or specific criteria to the facilities and spaces they wanted within their housing area, neighbourhood and the city. The facilities and spaces they wanted were linked to their physical and social activities which they would like to do. The attributes assigned by the Malaysian adolescents are elements of play, variety, ambience, size, safety, fun and excitement, challenge, walkable, aesthetic and green, sociability, accessibility, intelligent and possessing affordances for sports activities. Based on the research findings, this study outlines recommendations for Malaysian housing and neighbourhood landscape in relation to adolescents' needs. Early consideration of adolescents' needs should be incorporated in the planning and design process. One of the recommendations should include providing opportunities for Malaysian adolescents' participation to determine their needs for facilities and spaces in housing area and the city during the planning and design stage.
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Kana, Maria Perpetua, and res cand@acu edu au. "Christian Mission in Malaysia : Past emphasis, present engagement and future possibilities." Australian Catholic University. School of Theology, 2004. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp68.25092005.
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The course of Christian mission in Malaysia spans a period of almost fivehundred years. It traversed a path that began as a military crusade but then fellshort of its goals in the centuries after and has now arrived once more at thecrossroads. This dissertation reflects upon the course taken thus far and fromits present juncture ponders the passage ahead. The starting-point is mission as it was perceived in the past: an enterprise of
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Abdullah, Wan Abdul Aziz Wan. "The human resource factor in Malaysia's economic growth and transformation : a case study of the Malaysian manufacturing firms." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394880.
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Ng, Sau Foong. "Nanyang Hua Chi'ao to Malaysian Chinese : the emergence of a new Chinese identity in Malaysia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arn576.pdf.
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Yusoff, Norman. "Contemporary Malaysian Cinema: Genre, Gender and Temporality." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9925.
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This thesis provides close, contextualised readings of representations of gender and temporality in a number of contemporary, post-millennial genre films. The focus is on textual analysis of the films, placed within the contexts of their production and critical reception both within and outside Malaysia. This study lies at the intersections of scholarship on Malaysian cinema, film genre, and Asian gender and cultural studies. This thesis argues that the directors’ reworking of genres renders a more dynamic and hybrid nature of generic forms, reiterating certain conventions of old media and cinematic forms such as the culturally-specific mode of melodrama, and elements of magic and superstition. In doing so, they fall outside and question the assumed binary between realist and non-realist genres in US films based on generic regimes of verisimilitude. I further argue that this reworking of genres complicates the dominant notion of gendered subjectivities, which is contained within the binaries of Old Malay and New Malay, Malay and non-Malay, rural and urban, and professional and working-class. In all of the films I examine, such binaries, which have been spawned by the combined forces of the postcolonial capitalist state and resurgent Islam, are destabilised through diverse representations of time, narratively and aesthetically. In the process, they question and fracture the chronology of ‘homogeneous empty time’ that underlies the linear narrative of nation. For example, in romance and horror films, notions of ‘modern’ femininity are represented more ambivalently whereas in comedy and action films, anxieties about modernity are projected on marginalised forms of masculinity. The ultimate aim of this thesis is to reflect upon the ways in which the transformations of both genre and gender lead the films examined to critique contradictory aspects of modernity in postcolonial, contemporary Malaysia.
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MacLeod, Alexander. "Race and nation in 21st century Malaysia : the production of racialised electoral politics in the Malaysian media." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3540.
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This thesis explores the development of ethnoreligious narratives in the Malaysian media. It shows how, despite rapid structural changes in the twenty-first century, including the arrival of new media, the growth of a nascent civil society movement and the shift towards a two-party electoral system, the government, opposition and media continue to construct and reconstruct essentialist ethnoreligious narratives around and through political discourses and events. This process will be demonstrated through a media analysis of the three most recent general elections (2004, 2008 and 2013). Samples are taken from pro-government newspaper Utusan Malaysia and pro-opposition website Malaysiakini. While the former was founded in 1939, the latter was central to the growth of Malaysia’s new media landscape and can reveal how these forms of identity have operated in the new information age. The thesis will draw upon Fairclough’s model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), an in-depth methodological approach covering textual, discursive and social practices in order to analyse the form and function of journalists’ language and the ways in which it constructs ethnoreligious identities. It will be shown that Malaysia’s general elections provide a crucible through which Malaysian identity is reconfigured and reshaped; a site where journalists and other writers creatively rework racial and national ideas. But it will also bring to light the fragmentation that underlies the application of these ethnoreligious narratives; a process that has resulted in the reproduction of divisive political discourses.
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Tam, Yee-mei Agnes, and 譚懿媚. "Preservation of home of Malaysian Chinese." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193563.
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The study of diaspora dictates a yearning to return home which finds its Chinese equivalent in the notion of louye-guigen ( 落葉歸根) - returning to the roots. However, reality is that diaspora comes to an end after settlement for two to three generations. We do see the prevailing trend of luodi-shenggen (落地生根) – the planting of permanent roots in the soils of different countries of Chinese overseas. In some Chinese communities, luodi-shenggen turns out to be a total assimilation while others developed a uniquely Chinese identity.
This dissertation seeks to examine how the Sinophone as ennuciative tactic to afford a sense of homeliness to the Malaysian Chinese – Mahua (馬華) who maintain a practice of Sinitic languages in their daily life for generations while they unmistakably identify themselves as Malaysian. Such identification situates them in an inbetweenness where they engage in constant dialog to engender new speech act.
Through the study of Chinese street names in George Town, Penang and the Sinophone cultural troupe Dongdiyin (動地吟), I argue that Sinitic languages afford the Malaysian Chinese a sense of home and that Sinitic languages are employed as a tactic in face of the grand narratives of their mother Chinese culture and the Malaysian national discourse, and to displace them.published_or_final_version
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Mohd, Ismail Harun Mizam bin. "Malaysian Natural Rubber Industry: An Econometric Analysis on the Elasticity of Supply and Demand Approaches." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/27933888.html.
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Jerome, Collin. "Queer Melayu : queer sexualities and the politics of Malay identity and nationalism in contemporary Malaysian literature and culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39644/.
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This thesis examines Malay identity construction by focusing on the complex processes of self-identification among queer-identified Malays living in Malaysia and beyond. By analysing representations of queer Malays in the works of contemporary Malaysian Malay writers, scholars, and filmmakers, as well as queer Malays on the internet and in the diaspora, the thesis demonstrates how self-identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Malays create and express their identities, and the ways in which hegemonic Malay culture, religion, and the state affect their creation and expression. This is especially true when queer-identified Malays are officially conflated with being “un-Malay” and “un-Islamic” because queer sexualities contravene Malay cultural and religious values. This thesis begins by discussing the politics of Malay identity, particularly the tension between “authority-defined” and “everyday-defined” notions of being Malay that opens up a space for queer-identified Malays to formulate narratives of Malayness marked by sexual difference. The thesis then discusses how queer-identified Malays specifically construct their identities via various strategies, including strategic renegotiations of ethnicity, religiosity, and queer sexuality, and selective reappropriations of local and western forms of queerness. The ways in which “gay Melayu” identity is a hybrid cultural construction, produced through transnational and transcultural interactions between local and western forms of gayness under current conditions of globalization is also examined, as well as the material articulation of queer narratives of Malayness and its diverse implications on queer-identified Malays' everyday lives and sense of belonging. The thesis concludes with a critical reflection on the possibilities and limitations of queerness in the context of queer Malay identity creation. Such reflection is crucial in thinking about the future directions for research on queerness and the politics of queer Malay identity. It is hoped that this study will show that queer-identified Malays reshape and transform received ideas about “Malayness” and “queerness” through their own invention of new and more nuanced ways of being “queer” and “Malay.” This study also fills up the lacunae in the scholarship on Malay identity and queer Malays by addressing the productions of Malay ethnicity and sexual identity among queer-identified Malays within and beyond Malaysia's borders.
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Noor, Fauziah Mohd. "Agricultural law - A comparative study between Islamic law and Malaysian law, with special reference to paddy cultivation in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497556.
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Wang, Yoon Yah. "The intelligibility of Malaysian English : a study of some features of spoken English produced by university students in Malaysia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10006543/.
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Ip, Po-chu. "The making of modern Malaysia's educational policy as a social engineering strategy designed to bring about an ideal Bangsa Malaysia." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B36194797.
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Chan, Kwong Djee. "Developing Funeral Professionals’ Capacity to Provide Grief and Loss Support: Challenges of Modernisation of Malaysian Chinese Funeral Directors." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366943.
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This research aims to develop the ability of Malaysian Chinese funeral directors to offer grief and loss support to their clients. Providing support is now deemed essential due to the continual transformation of the funeral industry in response to the increased social awareness of life and death processes and a shift towards increasing input and demands from the bereaved regarding elements of the funeral ritual. Advances in the Malaysian Chinese funeral industry in recent years are evident and encouraging, yet comparatively less than those seen in the industry in the United Kingdom, United States, China and Taiwan. This is attributed to professional training carried out at the discretion of individual companies rather than coordinated bodies, and to lesser regulation of the industry in general. A greater understanding of the profession in Malaysia will help clarify current practices and the challenges necessary to underpin future interventions to foster increased professionalism and attend specifically to the needs of the Chinese funeral worker with regards to providing grief and loss support.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Omar, Siti. "The exploratory study of the entrepreneurial network of Malaysian Bumiputera entrepreneurs : cases of small firms in the southern region of Malaysia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374254/.
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The overall aim of the research is to empirically explore the dynamics of strong and weak ties within entrepreneurial networks during periods when the entrepreneurs face tipping points, and to show how network interaction can affect the subsequent performance of small businesses. The literature review shows that many studies have explored the mix of strong and weak ties in small businesses, linking them to stages of business development. More recent literature, however, has conceptualised firm growth through the notion of tipping points that must be successfully tackled in order to continue along a development path. While the importance of network ties has been well documented in relation to growth stages, only limited work has been done to investigate the contribution that strong and weak ties make as a firm faces specific tipping points. This research therefore aims to answer the following research objectives: 1) To investigate the configuration of network ties in the entrepreneurial ventures of Malaysian Bumiputera (Indigenous) SME entrepreneurs; 2) To explore the change and development of network ties in relation to the tipping points faced by these entrepreneurs. This qualitative research uses a multiple case study approach involving eight small firms in the southern region of Malaysia. The data collection methods include analysis of secondary documentation and in-depth interviews with the entrepreneurs, using critical incident interview technique. The data has been analysed using NVIVO software and has employed Miles and Huberman (1994) flows of analysis activity. The triangulation of data was carried out by interviewing individuals who were seen as strong or weak ties within the network, and who were identified through interviews with the entrepreneurs. The major findings of the study are illustrated below. Six themes were explored when characterising the configurations of entrepreneurial network ties: personal network, business network, professional network, reputation network, competition network and community network. In addition, the discovery of the existence of a dormant tie associated with the reputation network has provided support for the argument centred on the multiplicity of entrepreneurial network ties in small businesses. Newly emerging findings show that human capital and attitudes are significant for entrepreneurs when deciding the strength of their relationships. Findings suggest that network changes occur not only due to staged life cycle processes of business, but due to also when entrepreneurs face tipping points. Finally, this research provides theoretical and methodological contributions as well as offering implications for entrepreneurs, government agencies and policy-makers.
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Aladdin, Ashinida. "A study on attitudes, motivational orientations and demotivation of non-muslim Malaysian learners of Arabic as a foreign language in multicultural Malaysia." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=186622.
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This thesis investigated the attitudes, motivational orientations and demotivation of the non-Muslim Malaysian learners of Arabic (NMMLAs) as a foreign language in the Malaysian context. Adopting mixed method approach, questionnaire and semi-structured interview were selected for data collection involving 207 and 20 students respectively. Results indicate the NMMLAs’ highly positive attitude toward foreign languages, and moderately positive attitude toward native Arabic speakers and toward learning Arabic, where studying Arabic is not perceived negatively despite being a compulsory subject. Four types of underlying orientations toward learning Arabic were shown. The highest ranked is instrumental orientation, indicating a strong reason for learning Arabic to fulfil the university’s requirement. The NMMLAs show moderate attitude toward intrinsic and integrative orientation in learning Arabic. The NMMLAs’ responses also revealed a new type of orientation i.e. ethnic-relationship of learning Arabic, where learning Arabic can enhance the relationship between Malaysia’s ethnic groups. The NMMLAs’ immediate learning context attitude revealed the importance of teacher’s personality in motivating students, where intelligence, patience and humour are vital traits teachers should posses. The results show the significant impact of the learning context on the students’ motivation in learning Arabic. The NMMLAs view the nature of Arabic language as the most demotivating factor, where Arabic pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and writing are among the difficulties they encountered. Although teachers are perceived as the most important motivating factor, the NMMLAs also reported teachers’ teaching method and behaviour as the second demotivating factor. Other factors extracted are classroom, negative attitudes toward foreign languages, course materials, Arabic course’s compulsory nature, low score, time constraint, lacking opportunities to communicate in Arabic, self-inability and irrelevance to their study. Pedagogical recommendations were made to help ensure the NMMLAs’ instrumental, intrinsic and integrative motivation in learning Arabic. This study has provided new insights into teaching and learning Arabic particularly in broadening the horizon of teaching Arabic in Malaysian context.
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Anuar, Mustafa Kamal. "The construction of a 'national identity' : a study of selected secondary school textbooks in Malaysia's education system, with particular reference to Peninsular Malaysia." Thesis, Online version, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.255203.
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Deane-Johns, Santalia. "Transethnic Initiatives: In Pursuit of a Malaysian Civic Nationalism." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21440.
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This thesis examines the evolution of Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia (I am Malaysian) from a civil society organisation [CSO] to a social movement organisation [SMO] leading to a social movement with broader networks for reform. Formed at the end of 2007, when Malaysia was undergoing a turbulent time due to repression and victimisation of the non-Malay/Muslim communities, political scandals, and economic mismanagement caused by the UMNO-led BN (Khoo, 2018), SABM had two goals. Firstly, to create a Bangsa Malaysia through its “One Nation, One People” Malaysian civic nationalism campaign, a counter-hegemonic movement to challenge the United Malay National Organisation’s [UMNO] Malay/Islamist ethnic nationalism, and secondly, to form a new left-inclined ‘hegemonic articulation’ free from ethnic- and religious-based politics (Laclau & Mouffe, 2001). As a CSO, SABM aimed to enlighten fellow Malaysians through its “think and act Malaysian” socialisation process to participate in a ‘Malaysian’ political community instead of narrowly a ‘Malay’, ‘Chinese’ or ‘Indian’ political community. SABM hoped this would encourage the creation of a Bangsa Malaysia which is reminiscent of Anderson’s (1991) inclusive ‘imagined community’. Although the consociational democratic framework was put in place prior to the nation’s liberation from Britain with the hope that it would unite the deeply divided society and encourage the development of a Malaysian nationalism, this power-sharing agreement has only entrenched ethnic divisions and identity-based politics. This failure has also been caused by the so-called ‘social contract’, a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ among the Alliance leaders to grant the UMNO the dominant position within the coalition in exchange for the Chinese’ and Indians’ rights to citizenship (Puthucheary, 2005). This has enabled the UMNO to impose its ketuanan Melayu (Malay supremacy) and ketuanan Islam (supremacy of Islam) on the non-Malay communities. During the period in which SABM was formed at the end of 2007, there was also a significant rise in other pro-reform CSOs and non-governmental organisations [NGOs], and this saw the emergence of the Malaysian reform social movement. To extend this movement, SABM became a SMO, in which it assisted and participated in various social movement activities organized by the Malaysian reform social movement (Christiansen, 2009). Despite operating in a repressed political environment, the internet and social media enabled the Malaysian reform social movement to mobilise Malaysians for collective action. This also applied to SABM, which employed both the ‘logic of connective action’ and ‘logic of collective action’ to expand its own social movement (Bennett & Segerberg 2012). Whilst the former is a strategy which makes use of personalised action frames that are disseminated and shared through its website and social media networks, the latter utilises conventional methods used by advocacy groups including collaborating with other CSOs and NGOs that are autonomous in their own right and share SABM’s aspiration for a Malaysian civic nationalism. Commencing with an in-depth analysis from a historical materialist perspective in how Malaysia became a deeply divided society, this thesis then proceeds to examine the voices of counter-power and resistance of SABM members to understand how and why they disaffiliated themselves from the UMNO’s dominant discourse, and how they conceptualised their notion of “One People, One Nation” to create a Bangsa Malaysia. This is followed by a discussion of the strategies they employed, connective and otherwise, to advance this social movement, and the various challenges it faced.
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Baharum, Siti Aishah. "A sustainable competitiveness model for strategic alliances : a study of rural entrepreneurs and commercial organisations in Malaysia with special emphasis on Malaysian farmers' organisations." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2004. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/5711/.
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It is evident that strategic alliance route offers Malaysian Farmers’ Organisations a reliable and realistic way forward, towards wealth creation and socio-economic development. It has brought about positive financial rewards to the farmers as well as that of the farmer’s organisations themselves. Statistical significance on effectiveness of the various types of alliance and important control factors of profitable alliance have also been identified. Based on 1991-2004 international strategic alliance development models, a three-stage Dynamic Domestic Sustainable Competitiveness Development Model of Strategic Alliance was developed. It consists of Start-up Period, Adaptation Process and Transformation/termination. With the presence of dynamic business entities, strategic alliance projects inevitably face Competitive Challenge from time to time. A Sustainable Competitiveness Cycle, a product of the Adaptation Process, turns saviour in more ways than one, in a lifespan of an alliance.
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Abdul, Rahman Ramakrishna Rita. "New varieties of English in postcolonial literatures: Malaysian English in Malaysian literature in English." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/553.
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This study investigates language choice in Malaysian literature written in English in three different phases of Malaysian sociopolitical development: the Immediate Post Independence Era (1957–1980), the Mahathir Era (1981–2002) and the Current Era (2003–2006).The study is organised around three major objectives. The first examines the development and the use of Malaysian English (MalE) by Malaysian writers; the second examines the extent to which the use of MalE relates to the sociocultural development in Malaysia; and the third explores the significance of shifts in writing style involving the use of localised English. The study identifies, categorises, and analyses instances of MalE in Malaysian literature in English in terms of these three overarching objectives.The outcomes of this study suggest that the use of a nativised endonormative variety of English in Malaysian postcolonial writings is becoming more prevalent, and that such a harnessing of linguistic resources by Malaysian writers has important ramifications in terms of the construction and maintenance of a shared Malaysian national identity.
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Broinowski, Alison Elizabeth, and alison broinowski@anu edu au. "About face : Asian representations of Australia." The Australian National University. Faculty of Asian Studies, 2002. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20030404.135751.
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This thesis considers the ways in which Australia has been publicly represented in ten Asian societies in the twentieth century. It shows how these representations are at odds with Australian opinion leaders assertions about being a multicultural society, with their claims about engagement with Asia, and with their understanding of what is typically Australian. It reviews the emergence and development of Asian regionalism in the twentieth century, and considers how Occidentalist strategies have come to be used to exclude and marginalise Australia. A historical survey outlines the origins of representations of Australia in each of the ten Asian countries, detecting the enduring influence both of past perceptions and of the interests of each countrys opinion leaders. Three test cases evaluate these findings in the light of events in the late twentieth century: the first considers the response in the region to the One Nation party, the second compares that with opinion leaders reaction to the crisis in East Timor; and the third presents a synthesis of recent Asian Australian fiction and what it reveals about Asian representations of Australia from inside Australian society. The thesis concludes that Australian policies and practices enable opinion leaders in the ten countries to construct representations of Australia in accordance with their own priorities and concerns, and in response to their agendas of Occidentalism, racism, and regionalism.
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Schmid, Matthias. "Stochastic models of Malaysian weather." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/39974.
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Accurate, stochastic representations of rainfall structures and weather patterns in the space-time dimension are a challenging task. Recently, efforts have been focused on the simulation of large spatial fields, representation of higher-order statistics, simulation of spatial extremes and overcoming the problem of overdispersion - an underrepresentation of inter- and intraannual variance in weather generator simulations. In this dissertation, these issues are adressed by presenting three different multisite methodologies - a 'conventional' rainfall generator using orthogonal Markov chains with Richardson-type separation in event-amount generation (multisite, PXEOF-enhanced orthogonal Markov chain model methodology), a more novel approach using multivariate EOFs to express precipitation in the region as a two-component combination of deterministic evolution patterns and corresponding stochastic amplitude coupled with an autoregressive moving average model (multisite, ARMA-enhanced PXEOF model methodology) and, finally, a multivariable extension for the simulation of four meteorological variables with improved interannual variability on the station level (multivariable, multisite PXEOF-EEOF model methodology). Based on above methodologies, 1,000 to 10,000 years of daily simulated weather for 196 stations (20 stations in the case of the multisite, multivariable framework) in Peninsular Malaysia were generated. Statistical characteristics of the synthetic dataset are examined in comparison with the observational record and comparisons between models are made. Regarding the ARMA-enhanced PXEOF model methodology, the need for an autoregressive model component to improve short-term rainfall dependence is demonstrated and model evaluation is focused on a slightly 'neglected' topic, often missing from model evaluations in the literature - spatial rainfall footprints and areal statistics. For the multivariable, multisite PXEOF-EEOF model methodology, the spatial and cross-variable correlation structure as well as the effect of introducing interannual correlations is investigated in further detail. The thesis concludes by summarizing benefits and challenges of using multivariate EOFs in weather generators and a recommendation for the shift towards a more parsimonious model framework with modular structure is made.
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Ghazali, R. J. "Patient satisfaction : the Malaysian experience." Thesis, Swansea University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637051.
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The problem of scarce resources and escalating cost of health care has made the Malaysian governments to think about the corporatization of public hospitals. It is vital to understand the current situation before embarking on such a big project. The fundamental aim of the research was to assess the level of patient satisfaction in seven hospitals. In referral hospitals, only medical, surgical, orthopaedic, obstetric and gynaecology wards were selected. In non-referral hospitals, the wards selected were limited to male and female wards. Inpatients were given self-administered questionnaires after selection based on a set of inclusion and exclusion criteria. As for the staff, the same questionnaires were given to doctors, nurses and attendants who were working during that time. SERVQUAL, which was developed by Parasuraman, Zeithami and Berry, was used as a tool for measuring satisfaction. Apart from SERVQUAL, the questionnaires also include a session on respondent requests. Respondents were asked to list and prioritise five important things that they want from the hospital services. In this study the rate of patient satisfaction was low in all the seven hospitals. None of the hospitals had a patient satisfaction score greater than 45%. However in all the hospitals, the levels of dissatisfaction were only mild. In terms of SERVQUAL, patients and staff were least dissatisfied in the dimension of Empathy. Meanwhile, the greatest level of patient dissatisfaction was in the dimension of Responsiveness. For staff, the greatest level of dissatisfaction was Tangibles. Staff perceived that hospital equipment was not up-to-date. Patients understand that being a public hospital, it could only provide facilities to a certain extent. However they expect the staff to respond promptly to their needs. This study also has proven the hypothesis: The patient satisfaction will deteriorate if staff knowledge about patient requests/expectations decreases.
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Baskaran, Lohanayahi. "Aspects of Malaysian English syntax." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317756/.
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The thesis is a description of some of the basic elements in the syntax of meso-lectal Malaysian English (M.E.), that are different from that of Standard British English (S.B.E. or B.E.). What used to be considered as errors or learner's strategies are not necessarily so and a detailed examination of such elements shows that there is a systematic and rigid patterning in the syntax as such. After a description of the general sociolinguistic setting and the emergence of the concept of institutionalized varieties of English, vis-a-vis the non-native varieties, the first chapter briefly sumarises sane phonological as well as lexical features of M.E. The second chapter then discusses sane of the Noun Phrase elements such as the pluralisation of mass nouns (Individuation), article ellipsis and pronominal concord. The third chapter goes into the Verb Phrase features such as temporal distance (Remoteness Distinctions in Tense), the simplified modal system and the use of stative verbs in the progressive (Stativity and Progressivity). Clause structure elements are discussed in Chapter four, where it will be seen that the interrogative clauses (the wh-interrogative, yes-no interrogative and the alternative interrogative) have their differences in terms of word-order (no subject-operator inversion) and different tag elements. Similar to interrogative clausal features is one type of declarative clausal element where for the initially negated and the adverbially fronted declaratives, there is no subject-operator inversion in ME. The last element described in this chapter is copula ellipsis, followed by a summary of someof the other syntactic features in M.E. that need to be further researched on (such as adverbial positioning, ellipsis of the expletives it/there, substitution of such expletives with got and grammatical particles such as lah, man, what and one). The concluding fifth chapter summarises the main points of the core chapters (2,3,4) and also addresses sane of the relevant applied linguistic and socio-linguistic concerns.
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Muhammed, Suhaimi Bin. "Preservation characteristics of Malaysian timbers." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385151.
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Factors influencing the application of copper(II) and boron-based preservatives to four commercially important timbers of Malaysia viz rubberwood (Hevea brasiliensis), (Koompassia malaccensis), keruing (Dipterocarpus spp.), and dark red meranti (Shorea spp.) were studied. Of the four, only kempas contains a significant amount of extractives; the ethanol-soluble extract reacts with copper(II) solutions to form insoluble Cu(II) complexes. The anatomical features which might influence the penetrability of preservative were shown by optical and electron microscopy to be starch grains, silica grains, gums and gum ducts, tyloses and the nature of pitting on various elements. Among the boron compounds studied, the trimethyl borate-methanol azeotrope gave better impregnation and relatively higher boric acid concentration. Both gas and liquid phase treatment of rubberwood gave a relatively high concentration of boric acid near the surface and a relatively low concentration in the interior. The distribution of copper in the four woods was established by atomic absorption spectrometry and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray analysis. The distribution is similar to that of boric acid in rubberwood. The distribution of copper(II) and the solvent in rubberwood during drying was revealed by X-radiography and chemical analysis. It involves movement of the liquid phase and not simply of the vapour phase. The way in which the treated wood is dried greatly influences the distribution of copper. Drying via the radial and tangential faces results in a relatively high concentration of copper at the periphery leaving the centre with a relatively low concentration.
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Ahmad, Zeti Azreen. "PR and CSR : Malaysian perspectives." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/9799.
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This thesis presents an empirical inquiry that explicitly exposes the relationships between CSR practice in Malaysia and the scope of PR. This thesis embraced a critical approach which offers alternate readings in Malaysian PR literature which are dominantly quantitative in nature. The focus is on how socio-political, economic, cultural and organizational contexts shape the practice of CSR and affect the scope and function of PR in pursuing the practice. This thesis has contributed to the literature by providing empirical evidence of the underlying motives behind the pursuit of CSR among businesses in the country. It also offers empirical data on PR roles in pursuing CSR in Malaysia – something that has received very little attention in the literature despite PR’s perceived potentials in spearheading the function. This empirical work has employed semi-structured interviews among PR managers and CSR managers working in renowned CSR organizations in Malaysia. In addition, the thesis analyses executives’ messages in CSR reports and later triangulated with interview findings that helped to achieve a rich description of the topic under study. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was adopted in this thesis and made explicit the relationships between socio-political, economic and cultural dimensions that shape CSR practice and the scope of PR by taking into consideration the presence of power relations in this phenomenon. Fairclough’s (2010) three dimensional frameworks was adopted to enable interpretation go beyond texts that mainly applied to data from CSR reports. The literature revealed CSR practice is a recent phenomenon in Malaysia whereby the government has been a major driver in its development. Drawing from Malaysian experience, economic growth is fundamental to ensure a fair distribution of wealth among multi-races in Malaysia that perceived imperative to preserve national unity. In this respect, CSR initiatives have been largely undertaken to achieve the long term survival of businesses that consequently drive the nation’s economy in a long term. CSR has been primarily constructed as a means to create business competitiveness and a symbol for success. This has been widely accepted among business firms in Malaysia thus become ideological. At the same time, PR role was found dominant in promoting the practice of CSR that appears to be working to the advantage of the dominant groups i.e., business and government. Nevertheless, how PR promotes mutual interests of business and society through CSR remain obscure. This thesis also argues that the motivation to promote business interests serves as the key stumbling block for PR in creating sustainable impact and value to other than it paymaster and financial stakeholders. This thesis suggests that it is time for PR to reflect on this common practice particularly in terms of its ethical implications to both the organizations and the value of PR profession as a whole. This empirical study has significantly contributed particularly in the realm of PR role research in CSR within specific social-cultural, political, economic contexts of Malaysia and PR research from the critical perspectives.
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Rahman, Shukran Abd. "A study on Malaysian teachers." Thesis, Rahman, Shukran Abd (1999) A study on Malaysian teachers. Professional Doctorate thesis, Murdoch University, 1999. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51399/.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the source of commitment for teachers in Malaysia. This research is taken up by the researcher as an expansion of the previous research which has found that extrinsic reward is not an important determinant of teachers' degree of commitment in Malaysia. In this research, three hypotheses are tested and it is found that locus of control is not an important determinant of teachers' degree of work commitment. The second hypothesis is partly accepted when the study finds that internal teachers experience high intrinsic reward. However, the study cannot establish whether internal teachers experience a higher degree of intrinsic reward than external teachers experience. The third hypothesis, which states that intrinsic reward develops teacher commitment more than extrinsic reward does, is also partly accepted. The study finds that intrinsic reward develops teacher commitment but it cannot establish whether intrinsic reward plays more role in developing teacher commitment than extrinsic reward does. Indeed, this study has found that intrinsic reward is an important determinant of teachers' degree of commitment in Malaysia. Besides that, the research also looks into the source of organizational and occupational commitment and finds that the sources comprise teachers' personal factors and their school organizational factors.
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Majid, M. Shaheen. "Effectiveness of Malaysian agricultural libraries." Thesis, City, University of London, 2000. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/20113/.
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Evaluation studies can help libraries to find out their strengths and weaknesses and use this knowledge for re-orienting their collections, services and facilities to effectively meet the information needs of their users. The purpose of this study was to explore the information needs and seeking behaviour of agricultural scientists in Malaysia and how effectively their needs are satisfied by their libraries. The study investigated some major factors that were considered important in effectively meeting the information needs of these scientists. Five major agricultural institutions in Malaysia participated in the study. Data was collected through two questionnaires and follow-up interviews with selected respondents and library staff. The user survey questionnaire provided data on information needs and seeking behaviour of respondents, their assessment about the adequacy of library collections, services and facilities, and their overall perceptions about library effectiveness. The library survey questionnaire furnished data from the participating libraries on their manpower, budget, collections, physical resources, library services, and resource sharing activities. The population of the study comprised 1,328 individuals. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to generate random samples. A total of 332 questionnaires were distributed and 234 useable questionnaires were received back with an overall response rate of 70.5 percent. The study found that research and review articles were the most preferred sources for getting up-to-date information. Interaction . with professional colleagues was also considered important for information exchange. Libraries were more extensively used during two important stages of research, i.e., proposal development and report writing. Although a majority of the respondents personally visited their library they, however, sent their junior researchers andlor para-professionals for getting photocopies of articles, checking out books or getting information from the sources already known to them. The use of IT-based information sources and facilities was very low, although a majority of the respondents possessed reasonably good computing skills. Among the Internet applications, e-mail was the most popular while other Internet-based sources and facilities were used infrequently. A positive relationship was found between perceptions about library effectiveness and assessment of participants of the adequacy of library collections, equipment and physical resources. Other factors having a positive impact on the perception about library effectiveness were: involvement in the selection of library materials; notification of current materials; adequate promotion; convenient library location; staff attitude; and participation in user education programmes. The level of resource sharing among Malaysian libraries was quite high as nearly 74 percent of the interlibrary loan and document delivery requests of the participating libraries were met locally. However, only a minimal resource sharing was found among the participating libraries and libraries in the ASEAN countries. Although the participating libraries agreed in principle to participate in a resource sharing scheme, they felt that it should be the prerogative of the participating library to decide its level of co-operation and with which library to share its resources. It means that these libraries were in favour of a "loose" library co-operation network. A big difference was found between the number of document delivery requests made by these libraries to international sources and the number of such requests received by them from overseas, confirming one-way flow of information. Most of the document delivery requests were made to the BLDSC. Malaysian agricultural scientists, as compared to scientists in developed countries, made considerably less number of interlibrary loan and document delivery requests. A positive relationship was found between the availability of funds in research projects for literature procurement and the number of document delivery requests made. The study concludes that agricultural libraries in Malaysia were to some extent meeting the information needs of their scientists, although a disparity among these libraries was quite evident. However, the financial crisis of 1997 has severely affected the performance of these libraries. Library collections, services and facilities considered reasonable at the time of this study may quickly become inadequate due to the lack of funds to sustain them. Therefore, agricultural libraries in Malaysia need to develop appropriate strategies for surviving in the rapidly changing environment. Major recommendations of the study are: development of a formal resource sharing scheme for agricultural libraries in Malaysia, putting holdings information of these libraries on the Internet to facilitate resource sharing, making subscriptions to full-text electronic journals, more library co-operation among ASEAN countries, and the conduct of intensive user education programmes.
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Abdullah, Syed Raisudin Bin Syed. "Management strategies and employee response in Malaysia : a study of management industrial relations styles of the U.S. and Japanese multinational companies in the Malaysian electronics industry." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320579.
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Yaacob, Abu Sofian. "A self-assessment tax system in Malaysia : a study of sole proprietors' perceptions." Thesis, University of Hull, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322364.
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Meng, Chow Fook. "Angels with dirty faces : connecting pupils' views with curriculum in Malaysia." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302225.
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Ahmadi, S. Ali. "The role of international trade and industrialization in economic growth in developing countries : the case of Malaysia /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1997.
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Mohammad, Kamaruddin bin. "Reducing income disparity for stability and development : Malaysia's experience /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FKamaruddin.pdf.
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Hasan, Md Ali. "Management development in Malaysia : within the context of the new economic policy /." Electronic version of summary, 1992. http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/gakui/gaiyo/1894.pdf.
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Rahman, Noraiza Abdul. "Facing up to in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in Malaysia : questions of why and how IVF should be regulated within the framework of Malaysian cultural and religious values." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654966.
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Tan, Eng-thye Jason. "Educational underachievement of the Malay Minority in Singapore 1981-1992 : problems and policies /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13554347.
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Ahmad, Normah. "Narrative Risk Disclosure : The Malaysian Case." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.509526.
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