The increasing numbers of international students studying in UCSI University necessitates research into appropriate ways to support cultural diversity in teaching and providing learning tools for them. International students usually face problems in adapting to culturally different education system and this complicates the discipline specific skills that they have come to learn. In addition to ...

Controversy over auditor independence has raged in recent times, but little is known about what auditor independence means to the ultimate consumers of the auditors work. In New Zealand, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand (called ICANZ) has held an inquiry into the issue (ICANZ, 2002, 2003), the New Zealand Stock Exchange has made changes to its listing requirements (NZX 2004...

Very little known is about how speakers learn about and/or respond to speech experienced without the possibility for interaction. This paper reports an experiment which considers the effects of two kinds of exposure to speech (interactive or non-interactive mediated) on Scottish English speakers’ responses to another accent (Southern British English), for two processing tasks, phonological awar...

Maintaining synaptic integrity and function depends on the continuous removal and degradation of aged or damaged proteins. Synaptic protein degradation has received considerable attention in the context of synaptic plasticity and growing interest in relation to neurodegenerative and other disorders. Conversely, less attention has been given to constitutive, ongoing synaptic protein degradation ...