Purpose: While education policymakers in Asian polities find it difficult to resist the English language which has attained a new status in “late capitalism”, prevailing policy-level perceptions also suggest that a ruthless adoption of English may un...
This paper uses bibliographic mapping techniques to map the research conversation in four Pacific Basin accounting journals listed on the Social Sciences Citation Index (Abacus, Accounting and Finance, Australian Accounting Review, and the Australian...
In their paper, “Determining Cost of Sales in the CCA System”, in the November, 1981 issue of Accounting and Finance, Messrs. Das and Fraser claimed to “have demonstrated that the recommended capital maintenance adjustment of the Australian Provision...
Purpose: To explore speech pathology services for people with Down syndrome across the lifespan.
Early seventeenth-century English sermons often address their audiences directly as “beloved”. This form of address aims to create a Christian community of love; but, as classical rhetorical theory holds, the preacher’s ability to move his audience d...
Background: Systems neuroscience acknowledges that human brain function relies on complex interactions between specialised brain regions that are organised in widely distributed functional brain networks. This approach provides a powerful framework t...
The Australian standard on income statements (AAS 1) was recently amended to require that extraordinary items be non‐recurring. Although the amendment applies from 1990, the Corporations Law requires that comparative financial statements for 1989, co...
Change and continuity in ideology, structure, and operation of China's media reform, are documented by contrasting the present reform with three previous ones in 1942, 1945, and 1956. Whereas all reforms were aimed at efficient utilization of media f...
Bentham, James;Di Cesare, Mariachiara;Stevens, Gretchen A.;Zhou, Bin;Bixby, Honor;Cowan, Melanie;Fortunato, Lea;Bennett, James E.;Danaei, Goodarz;Hajifathalian, Kaveh;Lu, Yuan;Riley, Leanne M.;Laxmaiah, Avula;Kontis, Vasilis;Paciorek, Christopher J.;Riboli, Elio;Ezzati, Majid;Abdeen, Ziad A.;Hamid, Zargar Abdul;Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.;Acosta-Cazares, Benjamin;Adams, Robert;Aekplakorn, Wichai;Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.;Agyemang, Charles;Ahmadvand, Alireza;Ahrens, Wolfgang;Al-Hazzaa, Hazzaa M.;Al-Othman, Amani Rashed;Al Raddadi, Rajaa;Ali, Mohamed M. Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896...
