A growing number of reading professionals have advocated teaching literacy through music and song; however, little research exists supporting such practices. The purpose of this study was to determine if sung story book readings would enhance story comprehension and narrative re-tellings in children with histories of speech and language delay. Thirty kindergarten and first grade children l…
The Fabrication of aircraft structural parts is the bottleneck for manufacturing the modern aircrafts due to their structure complexity and technical difficulty. In order to improve the capability to fabricate the complicated aircraft structural parts and the efficiency of technical preparation, and also to accumulate and share the domain knowledge of manufacturing process, and reuse the 3…
The economic linkages between China and Japan have been strengthened through both trade and Japanese direct investment in China for past decades. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of Japanese direct investment in China on the Sino-Japanese bilateral trade. An index, RRCA, was used to illustrate the changes of relative comparative advantage of major products, and AR(p) m…
Spending a week talking to bank executives, fund managers, individual investors and market authorities in Vietnam throws up a curious feeling of paradox. Almost everyone Euromoney spoke to talked with dismay or at best cheerful pessimism about the country's short-term economic problems but also universally recommended the country as a destination for investment. With a young, entrepreneurial po…
Knowledge-based companies such as Amazon.com tap clever marketing and information technology to compete in today's borderless world. Given that e-commerce is a relatively new concept to the traders in Asia, this survey aims to determine the level of cyberbuying activities in China, Hong Kong and Singapore by focusing on the who, where, why and what of online retailing. From the on-line surv…