He tokotoko mo nga tangata : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Regional and Environmental Planning at Massey University

THE PROBLEM Urban river corridor areas are often subject to damaging use and to increasing pressure from conflicting uses. The main issue is the need to utilise the characteristics of a river and its margins within a city while integrating it into the city's life and preserving its ecological functions. The aim of the thesis is to develop a planning framework to address this issue. Information from various disciplines contribute to the River Corridor Planning Framework. The main areas researched are landscape aesthetics, ecology, recreation styles and public participation in planning. The study of landscape aesthetics reveals universally valued natural landscape features, and in part justifies concern for, and planning action in, river margin areas. The potential for river corridor areas to host significant ecological functions is shown in the ecological study, and brings an additional aspect to the urban planning situation. The significance of provision for informal recreation, the most common type, also influences the Planning Framework. Integral to the Planning Framework is a strong belief in, and justification of, the need to include public participation in all phases of the planning process. The River Corridor Planning Framework developed is applied to part of the Whanganui River in the city of Wanganui, which is in some ways typical of medium sized cities with rivers in New Zealand. It is suggested that the River Corridor Planning Framework may have application in other cities with similar situations

Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age

Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the focus of the book are antidemocratic movements grown out of democratic periods in Thailand, but became the catalyst for the country’s democratic breakdown. Why, when, and how supporters of these movements mobilize offline and online to bring down democracy are some of the key questions that Sinpeng answers. While the book primarily uses a qualitative methodological approach, it also uses several quantitative tools to analyze social media data in the later chapters. This is one of few studies in the field of regime transition that focuses on antidemocratic mobilization and takes the role of social media seriously

DESIGN OF STORAGE ALLOCATION USING CLASS BASED STORAGE POLICY AND ROUTING METHOD USING GENETIC ALGORITHM TO MINIMIZE DELAY TIME IN FINISHED GOODS WAREHOUSE PT.XYZ

Top Coat, Putty, Construction Chemicals, Primer and Sealer are main products that produced in PT. XYZ. One of manufacturing industries focused on producing paint and construction chemical. In order to store those products, the warehouse is used in the company as a temporary storage area. Currently, it is designed floor stack and used dedicated storage policy. Around 62066 SKU’s were not found in the warehouse from the data order picking activity. In addition, manual searching activity is the waste that occurs in the warehouse and it can cause delay time. This research is conducted to minimize delay time, especially for searching activity. Big Picture Mapping using Value Stream Mapping and Detail Mapping were used to get the process time and the value of each activity. Moreover, the proposed future of product storage policy was used class-based storage policy using FSN Analysis, then the zoning and slotting were determined for storing product in put away activity. Furthermore, the routing method for picking activity is simulated under Genetic Algorithm. The results of the research, future condition show to decrease the processing time from 3465,35 seconds to 2767,37 seconds. In addition, the value added time is increase 22%

An integrated cost model with possible reduction of rework/scrap costs

This research addresses the problem of reworking of defective items and develops an integrated cost model so as to minimize the extra costs of reworking/scraping of work-pieces. Items to be reworked are the results of quality problem. To improve a product\u27s quality, the selection of process target is extremely important since it directly affects the process defective rate, part cost, rework/scrap cost, and loss to customer due to deviation of product from desired specification. The amount of investment necessary to economically correct a defective process is still an issue of research. This research is a contribution of this type of problem. Specifically, we investigate the possible economic investment in a process to reduce its variance and taking the process mean close to target, which is ultimately the reduction of waste like rework/scrap. Based on this model, management can evaluate the quality investment in order to get a significant financial return

SIKAP SISWA PADA MATA PELAJARAN MEKANIKA TEKNIK DAN KEMAMPUAN PENALARAN FORMAL TERHADAP PRESTASI BELAJAR MEKANIKA TEKNIK SISWA KELAS X SMK NEGERI 7 SURABAYA

Faktor yang mempengaruhi belajar dapat digolongkan menjadi faktor ekstern dan faktor intern. Sikap siswa pada mata pelajaran mekanika teknik dan kemampuan penalaran formal siswa merupakan bagian dari faktor intern yang ada hubungannya dengan siswa dalam mencapai prestasi belajar mekanika teknik. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh sikap siswa pada mata pelajaran mekanika teknik dan kemampuan penalaran formal terhadap prestasi belajar mekanika teknik. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan secara acak yaitu dipilih satu kelas dari dua kelas, sehingga sampel yang terpilih yaitu 40 siswa kelas X KBB. Instrumen pengumpulan data adalah angket dan tes. Analisis yang digunakan untuk mengetahui pengaruh antara prediktor terhadap variabel terikat adalah regresi. Data yang digunakan berupa skor skala sikap, skor kemampuan penalaran formal, dan skor tes mekanika teknik. Pengaruh antara sikap siswa pada mata pelajaran mekanika teknik terhadap prestasi belajar mekanika teknik adalah sebesar 13,70% dan pengaruh antara kemampuan penalaran formal siswa terhadap prestasi belajar mekanika teknik adalah sebesar 15,30%. Pengaruh sikap siswa pada mata pelajaran mekanika teknik dan kemampuan penalaran formal siswa terhadap prestasi belajar mekanika teknik adalah sebesar 26%. Dengan demikian, ada pengaruh antara sikap siswa pada mata pelajaran mekanika teknik, dan kemampuan penalaran formal siswa terhadap prestasi belajar mekanika teknik siswa kelas X KBB SMK Negeri 7 Surabaya Kata kunci : Sikap, Penalaran Formal, Prestasi Belajar. Factors that affect learning can be classified into external factors and internal factors. The attitude of students in engineering mechanics subjects and formal reasoning ability of students is part of the internal factors that has to do with the students in achieving the learning achievement of engineering mechanics. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of student attitudes on subjects mechanics and techniques of formal reasoning ability on learning achievement of engineering mechanics. Sampling was done randomly selected one class from the two classes, so that the selected sample of 40 students of grade 10th KBB. Data collection instrument was a questionnaire and tests. The analysis used to determine the effect of predictors on the dependent variable is regression. The data used in the form of an attitude scale scores, formal reasoning ability scores, and test scores of engineering mechanics. The influence of the attitudes of students in engineering mechanics subjects on the learning achievement of engineering mechanics at 13,70% and the influence of formal reasoning ability of students to learning achievement of engineering mechanics at 15,30%. The influence on the attitude of students of engineering mechanics subjects and formal reasoning ability of students to learning achievement of engineering mechanics at 26%. As such, there is influence between the attitudes of students in engineering mechanics subjects, and formal reasoning ability of students to the learning achievement of engineering mechanics grade 10th KBB SMK Negeri 7 Surabaya. Keywords: Attitude, Formal Reasoning, Learning Achievement

Mutual fund performance in emerging markets: the case of Thailand

The rate of growth of investment in mutual funds has increased dramatically over the past decade. Many studies have developed models for performance evaluation and have examined whether fund managers provide value added for investors. Most of these studies, however, have focused on the developed markets and only a few examine whether the findings carry over to emerging markets as well. This thesis specifically investigates mutual funds in one of the emerging economies, Thailand, using a more extensive dataset than previous studies; it controls for investment policy and tax-purpose differences, as unique characteristics of mutual funds in Thailand. We scrutinize how fund managers perform and what strategy they use in managing their portfolios; and ask whether any fund characteristics can explain fund performance. We also explore the impact of liquidity on performance and performance measures. We find in this context that mutual fund managers, as a whole, do not have selectivity or timing ability and they do not give value added to investors. Most of the fund managers in Thailand invest heavily in small and growth stocks. Flexible fund managers are, in comparison, more active and adjust their portfolios dynamically according to economic information. There is persistence in performance in general mutual funds. This evidence is statistically and economically significant although it derives mainly from poorly performing funds which continue to perform badly. Size, age and fund family also have explanatory power in fund performance but it is specific to investment policy and the evidence is not economically significant. Net cash flows, in general, have no impact on fund performance. However, the significant amount of cash inflows can severely lower performance in mutual fund since the fund managers are unable to allocate their portfolio immediately and leave large amounts in their cash position. Liquidity also plays a major role in mutual fund performance. We find that funds which contain more illiquid assets in their portfolios perform better and this suggests that there is a liquidity premium in mutual funds. As a result, a liquidity-augmented model which includes one liquidity factor is proposed. Results from this proposed model show that our liquidity factor, as measured by stock turnover ratio, has explanatory power for fund performance, in particular in low liquidity portfolios. However, our liquidity factor is unable completely to explain the liquidity premium in mutual funds because the evidence of a liquidity premium is still present. Finally, the study reveals the policy implications of introducing the tax-benefit funds scheme in Thailand. We find that the tax-benefit funds perform significantly better than general funds and this is also true even when controlled for other fund characteristics. The tax-benefit fund managers are more passive than managers of general funds but they do not employ any different strategy from that used by managers of general funds. Tax-benefit funds are more sensitive to cash flows and contain slightly more illiquid stocks in their underlying assets. Thus, the superior performance in tax-benefit funds is not only attributable to the liquidity premium, but also to the fund managers’ superior ability, as well as to the long-term restrictions which help tax-benefit fund managers to reduce nondiscretionary trading cost in these funds

THE EFFECT OF PROBLEM-POSING AND THINK-PAIR-SHARE LEARNING MODELS ON STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS AND MATHEMATICAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS

The main purpose of this study was to compare and examine the effectiveness of problem-posing and think-pair-share cooperatives' learning models on mathematical problem-solving skills and mathematical communication skills. This study was experimental research with a quasi-experimental design. The samples of the study were 41 students for classroom experiments and 40 students for classroom control. The instruments employed in this study were pre-test and post-test. The instruments were made in essay forms which design to measure students’ mathematical problem-solving skills. The result of the study showed that problem-posing and think-pair-share are very effective to improve students’ mathematical achievements. However, between the problem-posing and think-pair-share, the think-pair-share is more effective than problem-posing, view from the standards of mathematical problem-solving skills and mathematical communication skills of Junior High School students

Theatrical Clerics in Religious Ritual

A wise man said that "you will never be a pious when you never feel loneliness", because loneliness can be used as an indicator of someone's level of piety. In loneliness, the awareness of God’s existence can be felt, because in loneliness a person will not be affected by motives that come from the encouragement or motivation of the other persons’ prensence. Meanwhile someone’s piety which is shown in the public, according to the author it is very difficult to assess the real of sincerity. There are thousands motives when someone do observance in the middle of the social communities. This research used a qualitative research method with phenomenological research tradition, in the terms of Lindlof (1995:27) it is called as an interpretive paradigm which is refered to the communication research with qualitative methods that perform the tradition of phenomenology, ethnometodology, symbolic interaction, ethnography and cultural studies