This project investigates the relationship between Claude Debussy’s piano music and various Asian influences, with a particular focus on Chinese influences. Debussy is one of the most prominent composers in the history of Western music, and his music draws on many features for i…
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Accounting valuation has been an important topic in accounting research since the 1960s. However, few prior studies have investigated valuation models in Asian stock markets. This dissertation examines the value relevance of accounting information in seven Asian countries: Hong …
This research examines the economic forces influencing emerging equity markets in Latin America and Asia. This is done by studying the sensitivity of equity index returns in six Latin American and eight Asian emerging markets with respect to each country's economic variable set.…
This study presents a rhetorical analysis of selected texts from Hebrew prophetic literature, particularly Isa 62:1–5 and 66:7–14, to establish a nonviolent and life-affirming model of redemption for Asian women. The preliminary study of Zion imagery in earlier prophetic literat…
The mass media often act as agents of globalization. Although many studies have shown that international news reporting by the media is heavily influenced by particular views like a Cold War news frame, the discussion of media reporting has not gained much attention in the globa…
This dissertation investigates the causes of the Asian crisis and improves implementation in predicting actual currency crises. Chapter I presents an overview of the inception and development of the Asian crisis with a focus on the movements of the macroeconomic variables and th…
This dissertation relaxes the traditional assumption used in consumer theory, which takes preferences as fixed. I propose a model of immigrants' consumption behavior based on habit formation, incorporating past experiences, other consumers' consumption patterns, availability of …
An optimal BMI cutoff is needed in public health and clinical settings as the guidance an optimal body weight. Although body mass index (BMI) cutoffs of 25 and 30 kg/m2 for overweight and obesity, respectively, have been widely used among Westerners and recommended by the World …
This dissertation assesses two important aspects of capital markets in East Asia: (a) financial integration and its volatility and (b) feasibility of forming an optimum currency area. The first aspect focuses on the impact of the financial regime on real activity. It examines th…
Why do workers in some countries organize themselves by enterprise contrary to their counterparts in other parts of the world? This thesis proposes a new theoretical (socio-political) framework to solve this "puzzle." In contrast to popular (internal labor market and cultural) h…
This inductive study explored the indigenous understandings and beliefs about suffering and healing of a sample of South Asian immigrant women. All seven of the participants had immigrated to the U.S. in the last ten years from South Asian countries, were of working class backgr…
This dissertation examines the lives of South Asian women working as domestic workers in Cyprus, the Greek Cypriot women who employ them, and the intersections between domestics and employers within the context of everyday life in Cyprus. Through ethnographic fieldwork with wome…
In the modern economy, international capital flows become more crucial in driving an economy, especially in the developing countries. Mach research focuses on the effect of financial capital flows on economic growth and/or development. Several researches have studied the linkage…
This dissertation examines the dynamic relationship between stock returns and exchange rates as well as the effect of time-varying exchange rate risk on Asian financial capital markets and trade flows in the pre and post Asian crisis periods. As an introduction to the dissertati…
This thesis is an analysis of the patterns of change and continuity in Iranian foreign policy since 1968 using the 1823 Monroe Doctrine as a theoretical framework. In so doing, it will demonstrate that Iran's past and present foreign policy objectives have followed a pattern bes…
This dissertation is an ethnohistorical study of an Afghan branch of the Naqshbandiyya/Mujaddidiyya order, the Saifiyya. The problem this study addresses is how the Saifiyya order is able to sustain and perpetuate itself over time. Recent historical studies attribute the surviva…
Understanding teacher identity and identity formation has become a key component in determining how English language teaching is performed (Varghese, Morgan, Johnston, & Johnson, 2005). In the existing literature, however, the identities of nonnative English-speaking teachers (n…
Using the naturalistic method, this research examined career decision-making of Southeast Asian women. The research was designed to discover new information and to suggest hypotheses. The significance of the study lies in the fact that Southeast Asian cultures are undergoing a t…
This essay explains three groups of artwork with a central theme of impermanence in my MFA Thesis Show Unfkd - A Debut in an autobiographical way. The process of writing is the process of revisiting memories of New York, with flashbacks of my childhood spent in a historical town…