"... In PAGE 62: ... In the past, the relatively cheap, abundant, well-educated and hard-working labour force was one of the decisive factors attracting large inflows of FDI to Asia. As labour costs in some Asian countries have become less competitive, the ability to attract FDI will increasingly be dependent on a number of other factors including: the size of the domestic market and demand for ICT products; the state of infrastructure, especially the quality and cost of telecommunications services and logistics such as road transport; the availability of and proximity to high-quality component producers; local R amp;D capability; and the quality of human resources ( Table9 ). These factors will also be critical to whether Asian economies can maximise domestic spillovers of technology and know-how... ..."

"... In PAGE 5: ...able 4: List of Communication Standards ...............................................................................................42 Table5 : List of Infrastructure Standards .... ..."

"... In PAGE 9: ... As with sub group analysis of socioeconomic status, subgroup analysis of student performance paints a vivid picture of the inappropriateness of presenting only aggregate results. Results for Asian/Pacific Island students are displayed in Table6 through Table 9. Student performance measures, especially in math, show Chinese, Korean and Southeast Asian students as the driving force behind the Asian aggregate group performance, even when controlling for socioeconomic differences and language proficiency.... ..."

"... In PAGE 9: ... As with sub group analysis of socioeconomic status, subgroup analysis of student performance paints a vivid picture of the inappropriateness of presenting only aggregate results. Results for Asian/Pacific Island students are displayed in Table 6 through Table9 . Student performance measures, especially in math, show Chinese, Korean and Southeast Asian students as the driving force behind the Asian aggregate group performance, even when controlling for socioeconomic differences and language proficiency.... ..."

"... In PAGE 60: ... Collection description formats such as the DCMI Collection Description Application Profile and Service Description formats (in WSDL or following the IESR and OCKHAM projects) can allow repositories to self-describe themselves and registries to gather and relate those descriptions. A middleware layer is necessary to allow the connection of different building blocks of the eResearch knowledge layer [see Table8 ]. The creation of registries both machine and human readable for metadata formats, terminologies, collections and services can be the glue between the very different types of content and resources that are available in different communities.... ..."

"... In PAGE 62: ...7.1 Infrastructure and resources There was a general consensus that the agriculture service industry would need to change in response to widespread adoption of organic farming ( Table23 ). The number of suppliers of a range of organic products would increase, along with factory processing capability.... ..."

"... In PAGE 34: ... Integrating with other e-business services will connect the infrastructure and services for learning modeling and assessment with other e-business services, such as human resource information systems and higher education student databases. Table5 presents the tasks for the development of a web services infrastructure to support the integration and interoperability of software, systems, and services for learner modeling and ... ..."

"... In PAGE 8: ... This high external financing, mostly from the banking systems, has been always a characteristic of the East Asian Miracle. Leverage, defined as total debt over equity, remained then also high for many East Asian countries, much above that in other developing countries and many developed countries ( Table6 ). The highest leverage over this period was in case of Korea, about five times the lowest, Taiwan.... ..."

"... In PAGE 7: ...optional vowel symbols and the Tibetan script with no spaces between words (these two languages have high complexity scores in Table1 ). In order to solve the problems with such scripts machine learning tech- niques both for vowel insertion and for word extrac-... ..."