The star online Published: Monday September 23‚ 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM Updated: Monday September 23‚ 2013 MYT 10:29:23 AM A new normal for local SMEs BY JOY LEE PHOTOS BY FAIHAN GHANI A worker carries a car bumper in a factory that supplies exterior plastic parts for Volkswagen. European SMEs have more experience in implementing energy-efficiency solutions. Increasingly‚ their Malaysian counterparts will have to focus on becoming more energy efficient to compete in global markets.
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Tara Walbridge English 131 Ms. Hiers 10/29/12 What is Lolita? Imagine you’ve taken a trip to exotic Japan. You are excited to learn about their culture: the food‚ the music‚ the literature‚ and the fashion. All of a sudden you catch a glimpse of someone that looks like she just stepped of a movie set about the French Rococo Era. Who is she? An actress just stepping off a movie set? Or maybe a model? A life-sized doll? Actually‚ a life sized porcelain doll is really the look she
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The definition of humanity‚ by the dictionary‚ is human nature or the condition of being human. How is one to understand what “being human” is if there is nothing said on how to do so? Does the condition of being human mean to be civilized? Educated? Being able to communicate? Does it mean to be powerful? Most people would say that these are definitely qualities a human being must possess‚ but they seem to forget about the meaningful qualities one should possess. There are qualities that people are
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Socrates walks into a cave and confronts a strange man. MARCEOUS Socrates‚ we have some things to discuss‚ dear friend. SOCRATES And what might that be‚ Marceous? MARCEOUS I have watched you spread your wisdom to many. The young‚ the old‚ the rich‚ and the poor. You claim not to be the wisest man alive‚ but that is what truly makes you the wisest of any. You know when you do not. You teach others about things that you‚ yourself‚ do not even know. I told you I would return to you one day‚ to acquire
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What is Education? With reference to educational theories and current affairs‚ demonstrate an understanding of child centred learning Personal Evaluation – to support your academic progress‚ we are interested to read your own assessment of this work as a measure of your own effort and in order that we may comment on your strengths and weaknesses. Please ensure you complete this assessment before submitting your work. What do you consider are the best aspects of this piece of work? I learnt
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What should Altius’s objectives be? What trade- off’s must it manage? With Altius staying just focussing with the manufacturing top of the line golf balls‚ their business would only continue to drop. Fortunately the brand value of Altuis was recognised and respected very much by many top notch golfers of the country‚ but this does not mean that they had a lot of profits. Focusing on the low price golf equipments‚ such as Elevate golf ball and changing the marketing strategy from targeting proficient
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What is assessment and what makes it “good?” Assessment is gathering information to ensure teachers make informed decisions about student progress. Five key components of good assessment are: classroom assessment‚ authenticity‚ formative‚ special needs intervention‚ and benchmarking. These enhance and improve student learning‚ and are outlined below. Good classroom assessment involves ‘of‚ for and as’ of learning. This practice involves teachers using inference and evidence‚ while students
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American writings have portrayed numerous ideologies of what it means to be an American and these ideals have transcended throughout time and can clearly be depicted by the major influential literary aspirants from each century. The one thing that remains the same is that it has always been a struggle to forge a truly "American" identity given the fact that our nation is one of immigrants. These early works reached the level of literature‚ as in the robust and perhaps truthful account of his adventures
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1961. Elster‚ J. 1989. Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Elster‚ J. 2007. Explaining Social Behavior. More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Frank‚ M. 1984. What is Neostructuralism? trans. Sabine Wilke Gray‚ foreword by Martin Swab Garfinkel‚ H. 1967. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press‚ 1984. Giddens‚ A. 1976. New Rules of Sociological Method. A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies
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Practical Research Planning and Design‚ by Paul D Leedy‚ Chap1: What Is Research What is Research? Everywhere‚ our knowledge is incomplete and problems are waiting to be solved. We address the void in our knowledge and those unresolved problems by asking relevant questions and seeking answers to them. The role of research is to provide a method for obtaining those answers by inquiringly studying the evidence within the parameters of the scientific method. T he word research is use
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