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Suburbs in Melbourne present to us a unique context with which a new approach towards urban form can be devised using the existing conditions and opportunities found with infrastructural developments. This thesis contains the investigations on the various 'pathologies' of the urban fabric specifically on the potential use of 'Spaces Left-Over After Planning' as by-product to infrastructural development in relation to the reinvigoration of Melbourne suburbs under the influence of current and future metropolitan growth pressures.

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This thesis adopts an explanatory sequential mixed-approach, incorporating two inter-related studies investigates the resilience capabilities of Hong Kong-based SMEs. Specifically, the overall objective is to empirically examine the multidimensionality of resilience capability, and how each dimension is developed, utilized, and evolved over time and in various contexts. Study 1 involves a survey of 177 Hong Kong-based SMEs and explores the interrelationship between resilience capabilities and firm performance, and the moderating impact of environmental turbulence on these relationships.

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This research emphasises Marxist feminist standpoints in order to study typography in its commodity form. Undertaking a critical analysis of typography and the context in which it has been marketed and sold, I intend to problematise the fetishisation of language and interrogate its sociomaterial relations as expressions of commodity feminism within a postfeminist landscape.

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Service quality can be understood as an organization’s ability to fulfill its obligatory functions or mandates in satisfying customer needs. In the Indonesian context, especially at District Education Office level, service quality is the District Education Office’s ability to fulfill its obligatory functions to satisfy school needs. Delivering services depends on many different factors.

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In the context of related demands on and challenges for higher education, and libraries specifically, the key objectives of this thesis are to: a) Gain an insight into the complexities of the challenges in terms of change management, leadership and technology advances; b) Investigate the current change management practices in university libraries, with emphasis on Australian university libraries; and c) Develop new knowledge in the field of change management and leadership by investigating the way the chief librarians in university libraries approach these important issues.

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In this thesis, three inter-related research issues have been explored within the context of the textile and garments industry of Bangladesh. This industry in Bangladesh has gained negative media publicity and Western concern over the use of child labour, poor working conditions, health and safety issues, and human rights and other labour-related issues for years.

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This thesis is presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the College of Business, RMIT University. It includes five scientific papers which have been submitted and are currently under review or accepted for publication in targeted journals. These papers comprise one conceptual paper and four empirical papers.

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This research develops a rich theoretical and empirical understanding of embeddedness by way of three dimensions (structural, relational and cultural), and investigates its implications for actors’ value co-creation behaviours and value-in-context outcomes. In addition, the research refines co-creation perspectives by examining a central boundary condition of co-creation processes. The data was collected in an online service environment and was analysed using structural equation modelling techniques.

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The aim of this research study "Exploring human resource management practices: an empirical study of the performing arts companies in Australia" is to explore HRM practices in the performing arts companies in Australia, using a qualitative research design and two phases of data collection. Firstly, interviews were conducted, with the overall objective to acquire richer data from key stakeholders on the perceived HRM practices in the performing arts sector, and the associated impact of the environment, for example, policy context and funding arrangements.

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The thesis researches and builds an entity search technique based on implicit semantic relations using clustering methods to improve search efficiency. Apply context-aware techniques, build an vertical search engine that applies context-aware in its own knowledge base domain (aviation data). Propose to measure combinatorial similarity in the contextual query suggestion problem to improve the quality of suggestion.

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Assessing the Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community on attracting foreign direct investment in Vietnam when AEC officially came into operation in December 2015. - Proposing some solutions related to factors affecting FDI attraction into Vietnam under the impact of AEC, in order to attract FDI effectively in the context of implementation of AEC commitments.

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This study fill the gaps in exploring individual differences to predict consumer behaviors in mobile commerce context (Ovčjak et al., 2015, Sanakulov and Karjaluoto, 2015, Zhang et al., 2012). Particularly, the relative role of CFC-Immediate and CFC-Future in relation with perceived risk and perceived security, to predict consumer continuance intention to use mobile commerce is investigated in the current study.

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System of basic theories related to enhancing the competitiveness of telecommunications services in general and telecommunications services business in particular. In particular, the thesis will study the competitiveness of telecommunication service business, factors affecting the competitiveness of telecommunications service business.

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The second essay examines the effect of banking system reform, which is defined by the presence of foreign banks, on investment-cash flow relation in a context of a small transition economy. I find evidence that the presence of foreign banks in Vietnam results in decreasing in firm’s dependence on local banks and has changed their financial constraint. Company investments are less reliant on internal cash flow in the post reform period.

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Through this paper an attempt is being made to discuss some issues related to organisational set up and management system of Guwahati Municipal Corporation. With a view to systematizing the discussion on the topic referred to here, the entire paper is divided into three parts.

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In the world there have been many studies on issues related to enterprise resource planning (ERP), an overview of research on ERP, 3 ERP project implementation process in enterprises, roles and impacts. of ERP to business operations, critical success factors (CSFs) of ERP projects, ERP development trends.

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The object of the dissertation is the direct investment projects of Vietnam enterprises into Laos. Besides, in order to better assess the current status of the projects as well as investment opportunities into Laos in the future, the thesis will study the investment environment in Laos, the main competitors (Thailand and China), policy related to OFDI activities of Vietnam and Laos, the documents signed between enterprises as well as the two governments.

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The objectives: showing realistic way for ROK and Vietnam to upgrade and develop their relations in all sectors, including political and military cooperation; proposing somerecommendations for a “ROK-Vietnam new mid and long term strategicvision”, a new strategic cooperative model in the years to come.

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Purpose: To accelerate the development of tourism economy in the North Central provinces in the context of Vietnam’s deeper and greater integration in international economic relations from the point of political economics.

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The wealth of available genomic data has spawned a corresponding interest in computational methods that can impart biological meaning and context to these experiments. Traditional computational methods have drawn rela-tionships between pairs of proteins or genes based on notions of equality or similarity between their patterns of occurrence or behavior. For exam-ple, two genes displaying similar variation in expression, over a number of experiments, may be predicted to be functionally related.

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