Statistical model on student performance in UTHM by using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric survival analysis

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Protes dalam masyarakat di Alam Melayu sebelum Merdeka: analisis terhadap beberapa novel terpilih

Makalah ini menganalisis pemikiran protes di kalangan masyarakat watan di Malaysia, Indonesia dan Brunei pada zaman sebelum merdeka berasaskan beberapa buah novel-novel terpilih pada era berkenaan. Rujukan diasaskan kepada beberapa buah novel yang mendapat tempat di kalangan masyarakat di negara-negara berkenaan pada era tersebut. Penulisan ini menggunakan pendekatan struktural atau formalistik. Didapati secara amnya para pengarang pada zaman tersebut mempunyai kecenderungan untuk mengenengahkan pemikiran protes melalui tema-tema percintaan, kahwin paksa, emansipasi wanita, pertembungan budaya dan nasionalisme

Why Can't I Cry

This paper won a honorable mention writing flag award in the creative/reflective category. Che, writing for Kathleen Stewart’s ANT 325L class, “Ethnography of Emotion”.Stewart, KathleenUndergraduate Studie

From the Grabbing Hand to the Helping Hand

I present a study of ownership of firms under government rent seeking. Using its control of regulated inputs, a government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment. Such a government rent seeking activity leads to a typical hold-up problem. Government ownership is shown to serve as a second best commitment mechanism through which the government agency will restrain itself from the rent seeking activity and even offer the manager support and favor such as tax breaks and subsidies. This mechanism works at a cost as government ownership compromises ex post managerial incentives and creates distortion in resource allocation. Nevertheless, under some fairly general conditions, government ownership Pareto dominates private ownership. The analysis corresponds to a host of stylized empirical observations concerning local government-owned firms during China's transition to a market economy. Based on this analysis, I suggest that local government owned firms will be transformed to private ownership as China's input markets become more liberalized.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39448/3/wp58.pd