SciVerse ScienceDirect Habitat International journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/habitatint Negative impact induced by foreign workers: Evidence in Malaysian construction sector Hamzah Abdul-Rahman a‚ Chen Wang a‚ *‚ Lincoln C. Wood b‚ Shu Fung Low a a b Faculty of Built Environment‚ University of Malaya‚ 50603 Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia School of Information Systems‚ Curtin University‚ Australia a b s t r a c t Keywords: Foreign worker Illegal migration Negative impact Construction market Over-dependence
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As the trend towards sugar-free and low-calorie foods gathers momentum‚ food and beverage firms like Cadbury‚ HLL‚ ITC Foods‚ Glaxo Smithkline and Weikfield are firming up plans to foray in this segment. While HLL is working on low-calorie pre-mixed tea and coffee mixes‚ Cadbury is planning to launch sugar-free chocolates and confectionery. “We are exploring options in the sugar-free chocolate segment‚” confirmed a Cadbury official. Other firms working on sugar-free or ’healthier’ food products
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hard hours for extremely low wages. Instead of spending time with their families‚ they serve others food‚ clean their offices and sometimes their house. They are described as unskilled laborers who never worked hard to free themselves from the poverty line. Different people have different opinions on low-wage work and why it even exists. Many companies benefit from low-wage work because they can spend less on employees which makes it easier for their companies to survive. Low-wage work is always unfair
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distribution‚ it may be in order to define distribution. Distribution is the movement of goods or services from the point of production‚ through distributional channels‚ to the end consumer. Some important elements of Apple’s distribution strategy are: Low-cost manufacturing and shipping In order to save costs‚ Apple has contracted the manufacturing of its gadgets to Foxconn‚ a Taiwan-based company with factories in China‚ where production costs are much lower than in the U.S. Apple also enters into
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A Low-Cost Inverter for Domestic Fuel Cell Applications A. M. Tuckey J. N. Krase Powercorp Pty. Ltd. University of Wisconsin—Madison Darwin‚ N.T. Australia Madison‚ WI U.S.A. tuckey@ieee.org Abstract— The utilization of fuel cells for distributed power genera- tion requires the development of an inexpensive inverter that converts a fuel cell’s variable dc output into useful ac. To encourage this develop- ment the US Department of Energy and the IEEE setup and sponsored a national US student competition
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Low-Carb Lettuce and Tuna Salad Ingredients: • 1 ½ cups canned tuna in water‚ drained • ½ romaine lettuce‚ finely chopped • 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard • ½ cup Greek yoghurt • 1 tablespoon lemon juice • 2 tablespoons sour cream • Dash of sea salt Directions: 1. Place the tuna in a bowl and flake it with a fork. Mix in lettuce‚ mustard‚ yoghurt‚ sour cream‚ lemon juice and salt. Toss the salad then place it in the fridge for 1 hour. 2. Transfer the salad to smaller bowls and serve cold. 3. This
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Compensation: The Increase in Turnover Rates and De-motivated due to Low Compensation Name(s): Sukhraj Bhangoo‚ Nida Aamir‚ Warda Shafiq‚ Course: HRM2600 Date: Novemeber 12‚ 2010 Compensation is a form of pay and rewards received by employees on the basis of their performance. Compensation divides into two parts: direct and indirect compensation. Direct compensation includes employee wages and salaries‚ incentives‚ bonuses‚ and commission. Indirect compensation includes
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The fear of death is often cited as one of the main motivations for religious belief. This school of thought has existed since the time of the ancient philosophers‚ with the Roman Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) subversive statement that "fear was the first thing on Earth to make gods"1. Over the hundreds of years since‚ many notable scientists‚ psychologists and philosophers have reinforced the idea that religion stems out of a desire for immortality. Even Albert Einstein was a proponent of this
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Why unstructured interview have low predictive validities? The unstructured interview is the interview without any set format but in which the interviewer may have some key questions formulated in advance. Unstructured interviews allow questions based on the interviewee’s responses and proceeds like a friendly‚ non-threatening conversation. However‚ because each interviewee is asked a different series of questions‚ this style lack the reliability and precision of a structured interview. Also called non-directive
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weight–for–gestational age‚ regardless of whether that weight is <2500 g Thus‚ it is possible for both preterm and growth-restricted infants to weigh >2500 g. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/2/584S.long Low birth weight is a public health problem in many countries; globally an estimated 15 per cent of births result in low-birthweight babies. Those who survive‚ have impaired immune function and increased risk of disease; they are likely to remain undernourished‚ with reduced muscle strength‚ throughout their lives
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