... Bloor Street and Spadina Avenue. In terms ofthe street layout within thestudy area, the street is symmetrical, with sidewalks fronting the buildings on each side, a parking /travel lane, and then another travel lane. This layout is representative ofthe larger Spadina Avenue to ... The most obvious limitation of this study is the fact that it was conducted in only one month ofthe year. This was due to both funding and organizational resource constraints. The researchers acknowledge that there are variations intravel behaviour associated with weather and ... Clair streetcar exclusive right of way, TPA is building new ‘Green P’ lots to make up for some ofthe lost on street parking.) Rather than using observational data, parking capacity and usage data was requested from the Toronto Parking Authority (TPA). Because the TPA now exclusively employs pay‐and‐display ...
... 2010 National Art Gallery “About the Gallery” Available from: http://nationalartgallery.sg/about -the- gallery/, accessed on 20 May 2011 National Art Gallery “About the Gallery: Current Exhibition ... Information and the Arts Renaissance City Report: Culture and the Arts in Renaissance Singapore Singapore: Ministry of Information and the Arts, 2000 National Art Gallery “FY 2010 Annual Report (Part ... that has ensured the longevity of its image inthe nation’s imagination Besides its classical architectural form, one ofthe factors that has enabled the façade to remain pertinent despite changes...
... local filmmaker Tan Pin Pin, and as a prop for the national day parade in 1998 (Figures 3,4&5) The majority of these images feature the City Hall façade as a stageset to the national day parade ... Padang Parade performances took place onthe monumental steps ofthe façade, rendering it an active participant inthe parades Transcending its role as an architectural setting, the façade takes ... from the country’s national day parade A yearly event held onthe ninth of August, the national day parade commemorates the day on which Singapore attained its independence Over a duration of four...
... stone-cladded façade of City Hall as a symbol ofthe nation’s colonial past The National Art Gallery façade thus condenses within a singular visual gestalt the projection of Singapore as a fusion of ... completion And circulated through the press releases was the image ofthe National Art Gallery façade, an amalgamation ofthe old and new that projected to an international audience a city that was ... projection of For Singapore onthe City Hall façade was thus given an international audience Circulated as an image inthe international press and media, the City Hall façade did not only appropriate...
... “Imperial London” was the re-imaging ofthe Buckingham Palace with a beaux-arts façade in 1913.60 The refacing was part ofa larger program that saw the reconstruction ofthe ceremonial way that led ... enabling the imagination ofthe nation Elaborating onthe relationship between image and the mind, Italo Calvino describes the imagination as a “mental cinema…projecting images before our mind’s ... locals meant that the imaging ofthe façade was carried outin disregard of its resonance with the native and immigrant population ofthe colony This was despite the fact that the façade was conceived...
... Singapore’s first national day parade.12 Today, the façade still functions as thesettingofthe national day parades that take place at the Padang During these events, the façade registers as ... refurbishment into the National Art Gallery In examining the symbolism behind the visuality ofthe City Hall façade in images, an iconological approach, or thestudyof artistic motifs as reflections ofthe ... illustration Onthe other hand, 9th August, a seven-minute video by local filmmaker Tan Pin Pin, documents the changes inthe visuality ofthe façade as asetting to the national day parades Commissioned...
... objectives ofthe study, information should be gathering from both secondary and primary data 3.2.1 Secondary data Secondary data can be defined as “information that already exists somewhere, having ... involve inthe action that goes against the company’ best interest As indicated by Table 4.5, four main actions that managers and accountants can involve Choosing accounting methods goes against ... So they are used as the basic for calculation of manager’s contractual pay-off They are also the basic to determine the reward and punishment for their’ performance The managers’ and accountants’...
... conversation to flow without a demand or intrusion being made on another person's autonomy Certain illocutionary acts are liable to damage or threaten another person's face Brown and Levinson ... priority onthe practical aspects of crosscultural communication All considerations and conclusions are largely based on data analysis For the theory to be provided, the data to be collected and analyzed, ... to In addition, implications for English language teaching and learning are offered These implications are largely based onthe data analysis as well as the author‟ experience and her discussion...
... one ofthe most important financial decisions Adjusting a reasonable proportion of debt can help the firm reduce an overall cost of capital, take advantage of tax shield, obtain benefits of financial ... Margaritis and Psillaki (2010)) - Financial transparency: The variable expressed the sharing of firm‟s financial information to outsiders under consideration of capital structure The financial ... Verrecchia 2000; Easley and O‟Hara 2004) - 20 - Financial information is an important means of reducing information asymmetries and monitoring managers to make them more accountable (Fama and Jensen...
... functions in last section More precisely, we obtain the following Theorem 3.1 Assume that there exists a family of bumping functions ona local path V ofthe boundary as inthe conclusion of Theorem ... Remark 3.2 The construction ofthe plurisubharmonic peak functions ona pseudoconvex domain of finite type in C2 and a convex domain of finite type in Cn has been obtained by J E Fornaess and ... behavior ofthe Kobayashi metric on certain infinite-type pseudoconvex domains in C2 J Math Anal Appl., 256(1):190–215, 2001 [Lee08] Lina Lee Asymptotic behavior ofthe Kobayashi metric on convex...
... preparation of data for analysis and the actual analysis of them Preparation of data includes such things like editing and structuring data and coding them for analysis It should be clearly labeled ... companies with a market capitalization value of more than $10 billion It is an abbreviation ofthe term large market capitalization Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the number of ... appointment ofnew directors; balanced and understandable financial reporting; and maintenance ofa sound system of internal control The definition ofa good or poor board depends onthe nature ofthe industry...
... interaction, and so during any social interaction, cooperation; cooperation is needed among the participants to maintain each others faces 1.3.4.2 Face-threatening acts According to Brown and Levinson, ... conversational exchanges Leech (1983) defines politeness as forms of behavior that establish and maintain comity That is the ability of participants ina social interaction to engage in interaction in an ... APPENDIX PART A: INTRODUCTION Rationale ofthestudy Language is a specially social symptom and plays an important role in our life Language is considered as a mean of communication Human beings...
... regulations as the most likely alternative The “Six Sins of GreenwashingTM” Sin ofthe Hidden Trade-Off Sin of No Proof Sin of Vagueness Sin of Irrelevance Sin of Fibbing Sin of Lesser of Two ... available standard They then conduct random audits to maintain the integrity ofthe environmental declarations The existence ofthe public standards also allows others to independently verify the ... Without adequate explanation, such claims are so vague as to be meaningless d) Could all ofthe other products in this category make the same claim? (The Sin of Irrelevance.) The most common example...
... technical health staff and assistant health staff The values analysed refer to the basic annual salary for each year The changes in contractual salaries and related purchasing power were analysed ... involved inthe conceptualization, initial drafts and final write-up ofthe paper All authors had access to all data inthestudy and 18 19 Fritzen AS: Strategic management ofthe health workforce in ... mercado de trabalho OIT – CEPAL/ECLAC Santiago de Chile; 2002 Froneberg B: National and international response to occupational hazards inthe healthcare sector Annals oftheNew York Academy of...
... overall twin calving rates per year were 0.030, 0.031 and 0.033, compared with a national average for dairy herds of about 0.01 (New Zealand Dairy Board, 1961) There was a cumulative record ofthe ... calving rates on individual animals were not known The French data consisted of twin calving records on 680 calvings in 216 Maine Anjou cows from a total 11 herds involved inthe nucleus ofthe ... 18% of cows with a twin calving had a second or latter twin set; Foulley et al (1990) using records on twinning of Charolais and Maine Anjou cows prior to purchase in farms, and after purchase in...
... Sorry I can‟t make it then What about a bit later?” 22 (New Headway, Inter., unit 1) The conversations above may demonstrate the suggestion inclusion of both the speaker and the hearer inthe activity ... frequently used in conversational interactions amongst acquaintances which enables both the speaker and hearer reach the comfort and satisfactions in communication E.g.: A: Take care, my love B: ... learning and teaching in Vietnam, and language functions have been introduced in teaching materials, the main focus is still on language usage Some English language teachers have yet to see the...
... purposes and research questions, and finally outline the organization ofthestudy as a whole Rationale It is widely accepted that making frictions in human beings‘ everyday interaction within a community ... Astudyof hedging devices in conversations in Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell‖ In addition to certain theoretical contributions, thestudy is expected to have certain implications in ... parameters The first parameter is verbal and non-verbal lexical items signaling hedging The second one is hedging strategies that include indetermination, depersonalization and subjectivization...
... Cooperative Principle PP Politeness Principle FTA Face Threatening Act FSA Face Saving Act S Speaker H Hearer viii PART I: INTRODUCTION Rationale Inthe age of international communication, more and more ... “Yes, wasn‟t it!” Inthe example, A gives a good comment about the performance He says the pleasant thing about the hearer This expression is a congratulation utterance that maximizes praise ofthe ... brings about some state of affairs by virtue ofthe utterance itself The performance ofthe act brings about a change inthe world This class includes declarations such as baptisms, pronouncing...