Year: 2013
Musicians’ Enigma in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes
Global citizens in the highly competitive material world in the twenty-first century immerse themselves in an enigma, an enigma where they inevitably struggle in their career for fame and fortune as success but they insensibly alienate from their family in daily life. Kazuo Ishiguro, a newly-rising Anglo-Japanese novelist, explores musicians’ enigma of how they can …
The Catholic Church and Abortion: An Examination of Immediate Animation and Hylomorphism
The Catholic Church currently maintains that abortion is immoral at any stage of gestation because the foetus is a person from conception. This determination as to foetal personhood is founded upon two assumptions: 1. that any being with a soul is a person; and 2. that the foetus is endowed with a soul at the …
An Explanation of Monk’s Marriage in Japan ―The Ideas of Shinran and a Comparison with M.Luther―
Buddhism is one of unique religions which prohibit having sex as its rule. Monks must uphold their precepts in which prohibits “any kind of” sex. And it is noted that, in laymen’ precepts, “indecent” sex is prohibited. It shows that the difference about sex is a clear distinction between monks and laymen. In Japan, we …
Theses on Prolegomena to Ethics
Building the concrete ethics (or moral) always depends on the solution of the question of the existence. “Due” (better or “Good”) is determined according to the understanding of the individual’s existence, its aims and sense. It’s important to note, that in this case any ethics can be called “immanent” – any transcendent and transcendental idea …
The Quest for Spirituality: A Psychoanalytic Approach
The relationship between psychoanalysis and religion is often said to be antagonistic, as Freud famously claims that our religious beliefs are but a product of irrationality generated by our infantile phantasies. Recently, however, the philosopher John Cottingham suggests that religious faith is not only compatible with, but in fact supported by psychoanalytic theory, to the …
Communication Technology and the World Spirit
This paper aims to demonstrate how the global socio-cultural impact of the increasing interconnectedness of the world enabled by the development of communication technology can best be illuminated by Hegel’s conception of the historical progress of the so-called ‘world spirit’ towards consciousness of itself. In Hegel’s philosophy the term ‘spirit’ refers to a kind of …
Ricoeur’s Dialectic of Distanciation and Appropriation in the Asynchronous, Online College Classroom
The digital age has brought about new dimensions of connectedness and alienation in the 21st century. New communication technologies and social media have transformed the everyday realities of human relations in many different ways, some positive and perhaps some negative. It is a legitimate question to ask what this is doing to interpersonal relationships and …
Postmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable
The pervasive, almost irresistible privileging of what can be defined and specified and claim rights for itself in a democratic society supposedly based on argument and rational justification, including self-justification, entails certain liabilities and susceptibilities to abuse. The focus on definable identities seems to have been necessary for social progress, yet it has also led …
On Divine Omniscience and Human Freewill: An Analysis of Nelson Pike’s Argument of Incompatibilism
Nelson Pike’s article entitled, “Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action,” proves that fatalism is unavoidable. Fatalism is the philosophical doctrine emphasizing the necessity of human acts rendering them unvoluntary. Theological fatalism is the thesis that infallible foreknowledge of a human act makes the act necessary and hence unfree, that is, if there is a being who …
We Are Place; Place is Us
The way we see place is the way we see ourselves. Our thoughts, values and identities are shaped by how we perceive place and our relationship to it. Shift in perspective about place can result in a shift in our way of perceiving ourselves – from being isolated to place to being connected. The purpose …
Is Self-Defeating the Self-Fullfilling Prophecy of Judaism?
The challenge of the Re-Ligare and Connectedness ensemble surveys are also the interwoven and tangled form between other conceptual pairs, such as Knowledge and Information, or Mythology and Reason. The estrangement of beings can, though, transport meaningful purposes to their unity (Heidegger): After the rise of the Enlightenment, and Reason worth an Age of its …
Beyond Kolmogorov Philosophy
The Kolmogorov’s probability philosophy is based on a set of axioms that can be extended to encompass the imaginary set of numbers and this by adding to the original five axioms of Kolmogorov an additional three axioms. Hence, any experiment can thus be executed in what is now the complex set C which is the …
Patients’ Perception of Their Patient Rghts as Compared to Compliance with such Patient Rights as Exhibited by Nurses when They Incorporate the Patient into the Bedside Teaching of Nursing Students
The purpose of this study was to study patients’ perception of their patient rights while concurrently observing how the actual nursing care was provided and related to such patients’ rights when the patient was involved in a bedside teaching experience to nursing students, and compare patients’ perception of patients’ rights and the perception of these …
Freedom of Speech and Doctrine of Personal Privacy: A Comparative Law Analysis Originating from a South Korean Case
Following up on the ratification of the Free Trade Agreement among Republic of Korea and United States, a judge of the former wrote on his facebook page: “November 22, 2011, a day when a pro-US-to-his-core president and trade officials sold out the working class and the national economy. I will never forget.” No disciplinary action …
The Challenge of Assessment for the Community of Inquiry: Negotiating Individuals and Community
Philosophy has always grappled with the tension between the individual and the community. In the Philosophy for Children (P4C) movement led by Matthew Lipman, this tension remains. Lipman and his followers have always recommended a dialogical model for children to practice philosophy – flowing from the ancient tradition of the Greeks. The increasing desire in …
Therapeutic Alliance and the Prevention of Relapse in Collectivist Malay Family in Malaysia
Being a drug addict makes one’s alienation possible, even if one belongs to a strong interdependent family as it is in the collectivist community. Culturally, he has deviated from his family’s piously held values and norms. By capitalizing the therapeutic alliance (Rogers, 1957) which is a value that flourishes naturally in the Malay collectivist culture, …
Cognitive-behavioral Therapy of Bipolar Depressive Disorder (Manic-depressive): A Case Study
Introduction: The usual treatments of the bipolar depressive disorder, such as medication and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have negative side effects on memory and cognition and the likelihood of recurrence. Researchers and clinical experts have been trying to design alternative psychotherapeutic methods for treating this disorder. For example, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) has been shown to …
Measuring Trust in China: Resolving Eastern and Western Differences in Concepts of Trust
Trust has implicit meaning for every person and has different meanings in different cultures, making it difficult to measure across cultures. From an International Psychology perspective, contrary to those who suggest creating “different psychologies” for different nations, this paper builds on scientific knowledge by using tested principles and instruments and applying them with contextual sensitivity …
Personal Communicative Activity in a Cultural Adaptation Process
The personal activity problem is connected with the increasing speed of society life, communication capabilities, which form a special person’s relationship with other people and objective reality. On the one hand, it helps to ensure that the person has more resources and ways of self-realization. But at the same time such a high-speed and full …
Risk Management for the Future: Age, Risk, Cognitive Depletion, and Choice Architecture
How can regulation in an era of personal responsibility aid people to make the optimal decisions about their future risks, savings, and retirement? This behavioral study aims to deepen our understanding of how different age groups process choices in relation to future risk and retirement planning in diverse decision-making environments. In a series of experiments, …
Meta-analysis of Intelligence Scores of ‘Street Children’ in Developing Countries
In many developing countries, unsupervised children spend much of their time in the urban environment and in the context of extreme poverty. These ‘street children’ are generally not attending school, psychological traumas are common and rates of substance abuse are high. The multiple deprivations suffered and the exposure to factors mitigating normal neurocognitive development would …
Multiple Creativities: A Task to Set up a New Model to Creative Thinking
This study seeks to provide a new understanding of what is called Multiple Dimensional Creativities by setting up a new model explaining the dynamic process of creativity. This study aims to focus on new arena of psychology by raising the question whether we have one and only one form of creativity or creativity can be …
Taiwanese Parents’ Reaction to the Achievement of Their Children: Vertical Distinctiveness Versus Horizontal Distinctiveness
In Confucian societies, one who has any achievement is always basking his/her Big Self, especially to his/her parents. However, since the Eastern cultures value Vertical Distinctiveness (VD) more than Horizontal Distinctiveness (HD), it is very possible that parents would feel more glorious (having more face) when their children achieve VD than HD and might have …
How to Predict Professional Success in Music and Beyond? Constructing Universal Talent’s Structure for the Best Vocational Choices
The purpose of this paper is to present a universal model for human talent following the example of musical talent. Psychological categories used to describe high achievements’ potential – ‘abilities’, ‘giftedness’, ‘talent’, ‘creativity’, ‘intelligence’ and ‘motivation’ – are shown as parts and elements of an organized structure. A more detailed model for musical talent is …
Consumer Market for Functional Foods in Thailand
Functional food is any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients. The awareness in developing functional foods is thriving, driven largely by the market potential for foods that can improve the health and well-being of consumers. However, consumer attraction of functional food is starting in Thailand. The …
An Integrated Theory of Behaviour
The objective of the study has been to develop an Integrated Theory of Behaviour,to test the theory on Indian and foreign samples and to test the application of theory in changing, predicting and controlling behaviour. The scientific method for the development of theory stems from the natural sciences and adopted by Bunge and Ardila (1990). …
Is Personality Type a Predictor of Social Network Connections?
Social media platforms have become an integral part of how we live our lives, in particular for those generations who have grown up in the digital world and use these platforms to connect and communicate with many different groups. Behavioral science now underpins many facets of our lives for example digital marketing campaigns target specific …
Social Bond of Indonesian Higher-Education Students Who Access Facebook
Along with technological advances and the rapid flow of information, people’s need to access the Internet is increasing. According to data held by www.internetworldstats.com, a site that continues to monitor internet usage in the world of on-line, internet users in Indonesia, in 2008, reached 25 million people. This is because apart from being a source …
A Developing Second-order Measurement Model of Thai Adolescent’s Desirable Characteristic
Over the past decades in Thailand, some educators fixed the students’ good characters in order to becoming the primary educational indicators for teachers’ measurement. However, those characters did not cover all domains in developmental psychology and had no systematic and scientific research conducted to develop such a measured instrument. So, the present study adopted a …
The Role of Empathy in Experiencing of Loneliness of Others and Existential-Behavioral Training in the Empathy Development
Modern life offers many opportunities to keep in touch with each other, but that does not mean the true relationship between people. This relatedness gives us a sense of spiritual belonging in the transcendental meaning; it helps us to maintain our integrity. In the processes of alienation and connectedness the important role belongs to the …
Examining Critical Success Factors for Medical Device Industry in Taiwan
With the population aging, research indicated that the growing of chronic disease and rapidly increasing costs of healthcare are becoming a burden worldwide. Global medical equipment market size in 2010 is 2.456 billion U.S. dollars. It is a big industry output. In a highly competitive market, how to create effective strategies and set successful marketing …
Creating an Audio-Haptic Narrative Book for Blind Children: The Role of Audio Feedback in Inducing Pleasure
The aim of this study was to create an audio-tactile narrative book for blind children and to assess the role that auditory stimulation played in the feeling of pleasure in a blind child reader. We first explain the features of the audio-tactile book and second we report interviews with 4 blind readers. Our methodology was …
Risk Assessment Tool for Adverse Outcomes of Occupational Stress: Development and Investigation of Psychometric Properties
Objectives: While psychosocial factors at work have been widely mentioned as important contributors to occupational stress, only recent research suggests that some non-work factors (e.g. some socioeconomic, personality and health risks) could also contribute to the adverse outcomes of work-related stress. The aim of our study was to develop a comprehensive instrument that would include …
The Moderating Effect of Work Motivation and Coping Strategies on Job Satisfaction and Psychological Well Being among Fire Fighters
Sources of occupational stress and their impact on work motivation, job satisfaction and well being were examined in a questionnaire survey of 436 UK fire fighters from four fire brigades. The role of coping strategies as a moderating factor was also tested. Levels of occupational stress had a significant negative correlation with job satisfaction. Multiple …
Effect of Transpersonal Psychotherapy in Reducing Symptom of Craving and the Level Dependency in People with Substance Use Disorder
The numbers of young people who are addicted to drugs in Bali, Indonesia has been increasing every year and it has reached very concerning numbers. Not only the prevention of spreading drug use needs to be focused on but also the management for those who are already using drugs, so they can be productive and …
An Exploratory Study of Core Competencies in Psychological Assessment —A Taiwan Perspective
Psychological assessment is regarded as one of the eight key competence domains at the 2002 competency conference in the U.S. (Kaslow et al., 2004). After discussion during this conference, Krishnamurthy et al. (2004) proposed an eight-factor model that included eight competencies essential to good practice in psychological assessment. The purpose of this research was to …
Tragedy aesthetics of Ki-duk Kim film
Ki-Duk Kim (1960 ~) is a very well-known film director in Korea that was awarded the best director award at the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival.In 2012, Kim’s 18th works (Pieta) won the Golden Lion Award for best film at the 69th Venice Film Festival. Venice …
Emotion Regulation: A Critical Review of Cross-cultural Validity
During the last two decades, research investigations in emotion regulation have proliferated due to the recognition of its significance in mental health and well-being. Theoretical models and measures of emotion regulation have been proposed. The proposals, however, are based on studies conducted within the Western cultural contexts. With recent empirical and theoretical findings, questions emerge …
Altruism Among Teachers in Jakarta
Altrusim is an important aspect in a teacher. Altruism is an attitude to pay attention on other’s well-being without concerning the self (Baston, 1987). Teachers need to pay more attention to their students’ well-being rather than their personal well-being. Altruism in education is associated with connectedness in interpersonal relationships and involvement in physical and emotional …
Dealing with Emotional Crisis: A Phenomenological Exploration of Thai Helpers’ Perception and Experiences
Emotional crisis is a state of the mind that signifies the suffering caused by the feeling of insecurity from the environments, personal dilemmas, or psychological distress. Past literature has indicated that some of the tragedies/negative life events happening to students especially those in a university level cause severe distress and emotional crisis. A better understanding …
Children’s Understanding of First- and Second-Order False Beliefs in One Narrative
The results of false belief tasks show that children acquire second-order false beliefs (B thinks that A thinks X is Y) a few years later than first-order false beliefs (A thinks X is Y) (ex. Hayashi, 2002). Although different tasks are used to investigate these two false beliefs, it was unclear whether the story of …
The Relationships of Trust in Supervisor, On-the-Job Embeddedness, and Intentions to Leave: Testing the Mediating Effect of On-the-Job Embeddedness
Much work has been done on the voluntary turnover topic in over 50 years, yet much work has to be done to understand the phenomena. Mitchell and Lee (2001) marked the first comprehensive work to try to understand the phenomena of leaving by asking why people stay instead of why people leave. They introduced the …
Self-Acceptance of Sexual Orientation in Gay Men: A Consensual Qualitative Research
Self-acceptance is a salient process for LGBT including gay people, to both explore one’s identity and share that identity with others. It has been documented that self-acceptance has positive effects on psychological well-being of gay men. However, a question of what experiences gay men may encounter in the path to unconditioning self-acceptance still remains unanswered. …
An Analysis of Film Voice-Over and Sound Interpretation Techniques from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
One of the filming approaches is cross-cultural perspectives. Many cross-cultural works, however, are susceptible to controversies and often subject to heated discussions about whether a certain culture is adequately respected or fully understood. This article will focus on the issues in that respect to explore the functions of “voice-over” and “sound” in enhancing the screen …
Relations Between Intention to Self-Change and Cognitions of Benefit and Cost to Self-Change in University Students
The purpose of this study was to examine relations between intention to self-change and cognitions of benefit and cost to self-change in university students. Although it is well known that many university students desire to change themselves, only few studies have examined how they perceive the benefits and costs to their self-change. The hypothesis of …
Cross-cultural Consideration in the Contribution to Somatisation
This article focuses on a discussion of socio-cultural factors contributing to somatisation. Somatisation is a universal phenomenon. People with somatisation often express their psychological distress in a form of bodily complaints, which emphasis the mind-body connection. The experience and expressions of psychological distress varies across different ethnic and cultural groups. A review of cross-national epidemiological …
Factoring in the Correct Answers Ratio in a Psycho-Educational Program
Various prevention programs fall short when it comes to practical application of learned skills. Students should be able to grasp and easily apply these skills in real life. Our psycho-educational program uses familiar conflict scenarios, where students are encouraged to answer assertively. Many students’ high/low correct answers ratio varies with the scenarios. We believe the …
Validation of Psychological Capital Questionnaire in Thai employees
Although the construct psychological capital was first introduced by Luthan, the concept has been developed in attaining competitive advantage and supporting unity between employee and organization within a western context. There is much less attention in Asia, especially in Thailand. This current study therefore aimed to develop and initially validate a Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) …
Negligence in Modern Families Lives
Modern invention of telecommunication devices has made the distance between people in the world closer. People can make contact between one another within seconds,and the cost to communicate is very minimum even free if conducted between the same provider. Ironically such condition has a reverse impact on the interpersonal relations between some family members since …
Explaining Context Effects through the Perspective of Preference Uncertainty
Context effects indicate that when evaluating a set of choices, consumers consider the alternatives not only in isolation, but also in relation to other possible options (Highhouse 1996; Herne 1999). To capture the behavior of consumer choice by considering context effects, many theoretical models have been proposed, such as elimination by aspects (EBA) (Tversky, 1972a, …
Social Policy and Female-Headed Household in the Post Revolutionary Iran
In the recent three decades Iran bears various changes such as revolution, war and socio-economic development which have also brought changes in Iranian families. One of the most dramatic of these changes in the Iranian family in these years has been the increase in the prevalence of female-headed households. Purpose: The main purpose of this …
Preliminary Study of 3D Base Navigation Websites Development – Use 3D Virtual Temple Navigate Websites For Example
From now on, website display still uses interface visual effects as the main appeal, its goal aims to attract user’s browsing interest, but in actuality, the website display is still in 2D images, text-based presentation. Hence this research will build a full 3D base virtual temple website and move the religious spirit of the actual …
Medical Morality in Islamic Civilization
The position of science and scholars in religious doctrines and encouraging people to learn required sciences have provided a proper bed for the emergence and growth of the different branches of traditional and rational sciences in Islamic civilization that we can point to medical sciences among them. As medical sciences emerged and evolved, doctors’ morality …
The Indonesian Moslem Marital Quality Scale: Development, Validation, and Reliability
The development of the Indonesian Moslem Marital Quality Scale (IMMQS) is presented. In the first study, data from 258 respondents were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis. Exploratory factor analysis uncovered 3 factors: friendship, harmony, and satisfaction with children. In the second study, data from 370 respondents were subjected to a confirmatory factor analysis, which …
Learning to Cope with Hypoglycemia for Patients with Diabetes
Background: The fear of hypoglycemia may be an important barrier to people adopting regimens that closely control blood glucose levels and decrease long-term complications. To develop patient-centered education for people who experience hypoglycemia an understanding of their experiences with hypoglycemia is needed. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the problem-solving of people …
Bilingualism Helps Asian Families Flourish
In my personal experience as an Asian Canadian, many Asian families no longer pass on their native language to their children. I feel this may be detrimental in terms of young people losing their cultural identity. This presentation investigates the phenomenon of bilingualism in Asian families. From the cultural perspective, the advantages of passing on …
The Diagnostic Technique of Activity, Action and Deed Reflection
The reflection diagnostic technique is based on long-term fundamental theoretical and methodological researches of Russian psychologists. A new approach to reflection diagnostics is focused on the study of reflexivity mechanisms within the structure of activity. The reflection is considered as the process of a person’s consciousness of the means and ways of his/her activity, and …
Connectedness between Individual, Community and Environmental Factors in the Process of Recovery People Affected Merapi Eruption in 2010
The process of recovery of people after exposure to a natural disaster usually always is seen as the individual process. However, recently many researches disaster-related found that social, including environmental factors, also influence not only the process of recovery but also how people understand the disaster that they experienced. It is Important for Indonesia as …
Modeling Choice Behavior of Delivery Provider of Online Auctioneer
Digital technology has provided a new paradigm of our society and changed our life’s interaction with the Internet. As an efficient and flexible sales channel, companies can use auction sites to liquidate unwanted inventory, as well as to assist in pricing new products, acquiring new markets for low-margin items, and reaching markets that would be …
Competition Anxiety in Egyptian Children Sportsmen
Studying the anxiety of child sportsmen has increased in the past ten years. A lot of studies aimed to identify the causes of anxiety and how to minimize it. Our hypothesis is that child athletes suffer anxiety resulting from the training and participation in competitions in addition to natural anxiety factors apart from sport. If …
Applying Technology-Mediation to Assist Junior College Students to Learn Japanese as 2nd Language and Improve the Efficiency
This study is based on college students’ as study objects and attempting to explore the application of technology-mediation method for students to learn a second foreign language, such as the effectiveness of the Japanese courses.The research includes two experiments. First experiment; the treated group students using the pre-test method divided into the Japanese language high …
Development of Resilience Quotient (RQ) Support Activities Set for Disabled Students
This research had the objectives to develop a Resilience Quotient Support Activities Set for disabled students, to use the developed Resilience Quotient Support Activities Set to support the resilience quotient for disabled students at the Disability Support Services Center (DSS), Lampang Rajabhat University (LPRU) and to assess the results of the resilience quotient support after …
Psychogeographic Impact on Malcolm Lowry’s Consciousness: From the Zapotec and Aztec Civilizations to Taoism
This paper provides an intercontinental, cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary framework for an analysis of the influence of cultures and civilizations – both east and west – upon literature and national identity. It investigates the evolution of the cosmic consciousness of the English Modernist novelist and poet, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) by scrutinizing the psychogeographic and subconscious dimensions of …
“El Sueño de Manuela”, or the Dream of Rewriting History
Despite the importance of Children´s literature in Ecuador, little is known about works written in the last 15 years. In this paper I will discuss El sueño de Manuela (‘Manuela´s Dream’) by Edna Iturralde as a review of national history. In this process, I will use a theoretical framework developed by Maria Nikolajeva and Milena …
“Mukouda Kuniko no Koibumi” : A Woman Writer’s Lifelong Secret From Her Family
Mukouda Kuniko no Koibumi (The Love Letters of Kuniko Mukouda), published posthumously in 2002 by the writer’s sister Kazuko, brought to public light the presence of Mukouda’s lover. Koibumi reveals the correspondence between the writer and her clandestine partner, a married man who was thirteen years her senior. Extramarital affairs are a staple theme in …
Connectedness, Identity and Alienation in Some Italian Novels and Films Depicting Contact Between People from Italy and People from Countries Other than Italy in the 21st Century
A number of narratives have been written in Italian in the 21st century by non-European migrants to Italy. Criticism has illustrated aspects of rejection and integration into Italian society. Postcolonial and other categories of interpretation have been adopted. The linguistic sides have also been explored. The paper will initially give a brief summary of these …
The Reflection of the Concept of Alienation on Post-1960 Art
All kinds of information is consumed as quickly as it is produced in the communication era. The greed of the consumption era is reflected in human relations, leads to alienation from our environment and above all from ourselves. In the process of alienation, most clearly, human beings leave their labor and production created by their …
Articuclamation Connected?!: Oral Narrative of Spiderwoman Theater’s “Sun, Moon and Feather”
Transmotion, also visionary motion, according to Christy Stanlake in his depiction of Native American plays “refers to a critical awareness maintained by individuals with regard to the construction of their identities by self and others” (202). The transmotion, containing both mythic motion and material motion, is fast speed and when one looks again, “it’s gone” …
Space for Love: The Triangle Spatial Relationships in Alan Ayckbourn’s “Things We Do for Love”
Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright whose plays are mostly classified as comedy. Many themes in his plays are about domestic interpersonal relationships. He also employs many spatial movements and placements in his plays. In Things We Do for Love, on the stage, Barbara’s house is divided into three levels. The audience can see …
Simon de Beauvoir: Mother of Modern Feminism?
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the role the French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir played in the development of women’s movement in general and feminist intellectual achievements in particular. The paper explores Beauvoir’s intellectual struggle to urge women to get rid of the manacles of the patriarchal system, which …
The Narrow Road to a Deeper Understanding of Haibun
In seventeenth century Japan, Matsuo Basho wrote The Narrow Road to the Deep North in an innovative style that is much admired in contemporary English language critical theory, and emulated in various forms of practice. The immense difficulties in integrating sections of prose and poetry, (traditionally haiku), in the same text continues to engage and …
Revisiting Sita: The Subversive Myths of Womanhood in Contemporary South Asian Women Writers
Sita, the heroine of the Indian epic Ramayana, is one of the most defining role models for womanhood in the Indian subcontinent and as such exerts a powerful influence on the collective psyche. This paper proposes to focus on the revisionings of the Sita myth by contemporary South Asian women writers writing in English like …
Walking in the Modern Metropolis: Female Flânerie in Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys
This study follows the trajectory of female flânerie and the representations of Western metropolises in women’s writing during the early twentieth century. I shall analyze the transformations of urban subjectivity and alienation in the works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) and Jean Rhys (1890-1979). Born in British colonies and later moved to England before turning 20 …
Beyond Books and Cross-Continents: Cataloguing English Printing Copperplates and Woodblocks in American Library Collections
Museums and libraries have already established clear systems for historical objects, printed books and manuscripts. However, there are rarely any cataloguing methods or indeed any items on their catalogues on printing objects, namely engraved or etched copperplates and woodblocks. These objects are often neglected and become hidden collections in museums and libraries. The reason for …
Coming Home to Modern Japan. An Orphic dialogue between East and West in H. Murakami’s “Norwegian Wood”
In her submission to last year’s conference, “Mapping ‘The Underworld’ of Haruki’s Murakami’s Literary World”, A. Suzuki demonstrated that the topography contained in Murakami’s Norwegian Wood can be superimposed on a map of ancient Japan. In my paper, I propose to demonstrate that Murakami’s coming-of-age novel harbours a mythological intertext in the form of an …
Turning to Violence: Science Fiction, Ethics and Difference in Priya Chabria’s “Generation 14”
Today, biotechnology is radically changing the terms of life: in the past human beings manipulated the external, and today humans turned upon themselves, manipulating their own bodies. The dissolution of the boundary between human and technology has raised questions about identity, humanity and our responsibilities towards new life forms. Meanwhile, globalization transforms the reach of …
Challenges of Teaching Caribbean Literature in a Caribbean University Classroom
This paper explores the teaching / learning strategies employed specifically in three courses that focus on the genres of the Caribbean short story, novel, and women’s writing taught at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad. These strategies range from interactive lectures, graphic organizers, posters, online forums, web pages, video …
Iraqi Digital Libraries: Based on Problems and their Solutions a new Vision and Future towards E-Society:
The Iraq Universities Started to use automated systems in libraries and information centers since the last century, and suffered periodically from using a few old systems, including Baghdad University Libraries. It was difficult to find fit systems suitable to their multiple needs, in addition to the problems of using equipment material and lack of trained …
Evaluation of Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill Under the Light of Nine Rasas of Bharat Muni
This study indicates how Nine Rasas of Bharat Muni can be applicable to the drama of any language of the world. Nine Rasas literally means ‘essence ‘ ,it is used as the sense of emotional state . These Nine Rasas are the backbone of the Natyasatra (Dramatics). In simple words Nine Rasas are complete nine …
A Deliberate Illumination on Linguistic Traits of Du Fu’s Poems: A Study on the Poetics Criticism of Sung School of Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign (1736-1820)
The Sung School of Qing Dynasty basically inherited the philosophy from Jiangxi School of Sung Dynasty that poetry should be based on talent and poetics. With regard to poetics criticism, the Sung School analyzed the sound patterns, lexical and grammatical traits as well as organizations of the poems of Du Fu, who is one of …
Connectedness: Communities of Crime Fiction Reader
For as long as there have been libraries, librarians have played an integral role in connecting readers to writers. The result has been the construction of communities around the world, onsite and online, as people come together for reading experiences that provide education and enjoyment. This paper explores how crime fiction writers are particularly adept …
Hybrid, Memory and Hybridization of Messianic Time in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
In Salam Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’, Saleem Sinai is the hybrid body which can be defined based on the result of comparison between Robert Young’s and Homi K. Bhabha’s discussion. Born right at the midnight of the independence of India, Saleem Sinai’s personal history constituted of his memory is related with Indian History. Being a multi …
The Courtship Practices among the Talaandig as Depicted in Their Folksongs and Folktales
This is a literary study of the Talaandig folksongs and folktales. Its emphasis is on the courtship practices of the Talaandig people. Using the formalistic approach to criticism, these courtship practices can be gleaned from the literary devices and elements such as rhyme, rhythm, symbols and images, characters, plot, setting and theme. To know how …
The Trauma of the Loss of Identity and Anguish of Alienation: An Appraisal of the Indian Writing in English
This paper explores alienation as a global problem in reference to Indian Writing in English. We all live in a global world today where people with different backgrounds and roots come in contact with one another feeling the difference between home and exile. These individuals are torn between two cultures and are unable to totally …
Censorship and Intellectual Property Focusing on Library Activities
Libraries are expected to be fully available in relation to all kinds of knowledge and information, regardless of social acceptance and the importance given to them in certain social frameworks. In many legal formulations, progressive proclamations, successful standardizations, there are still a number of limitations of civil rights and liberties, to which can sometimes contribute …
The “space” in Willa Cather’s Fictions
Willa Cather is famous for a series of Nebraska fictions, in which it depicts the prairie landscape and the pioneers’ lives in the American west. Much attention has been paid to natures descriptions, especially for the American west prairie landscape in her fictions. However, Cheryll Glotfelty points out that “although Cather’s most famous work takes …
Global Cultural Identity on the Example of Japanese Trivial Literature and European Literary Tendencies
The modern global information society depends on numerous national infrastructures which have developed as intellectual capital, differing historical, sociological and political conditions, as well as a system of organization and presentation of information. The relationship between the pure and the trivial literature depends upon historical and personal particularities and relations. Thus we encounter the trivial …
The Drama of Loneliness: Its Evolution from Chekhov to Pinter and Bond
The loneliness of human existence becomes an overriding theme in literature and drama of the 20th century, especially due to the emergence of the European Avant-Garde movements, Sigmund Freud’s theory of the subconscious, and the philosophy of Existentialism (Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus) which focused on an individual in an alienated world devoid of meaning or …
Are We There Yet? Understandings of Home Among Compulsive Migrants
This paper closes a gap in the field of cultural studies by analysing compulsive migrants — individuals who voluntarily migrate out of desire rather than need. Employing in-depth interviews, I create a theoretical framework for compulsive migrants’ understandings of home based on their lived experiences. Academic research on migration focuses on home from a literal …
Meta-Research on Public Broadcasting: Case Study of European Union and Thailand
In Thailand, public broadcasting was founded in 2008 as the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS). To gear its operations in a proper way of idealized public broadcasting, Thai PBS needs to gather information generated from a number of researches conducted on public broadcasting in various countries. This paper is a meta-research on public broadcasting, …
Reading Chinese Painting: Antonello Trombadori’s China and the Limits of the Contemporary
In this paper, we discuss the Chinese Notebook, an account of a trip to China written in 1955 by Antonello Trombadori, a young partisan of the Italian Resistance and an accomplished expert in the fields of art, cinema, and literature. We wish to use his Chinese Notebook as a starting point for a wider discussion …
Seniors Use of Medical Electric Scooters with The Intention Satisfaction Study in Taiwan
This study aims to explore the properties of the senior citizens of Taiwan; their living and their needs of going out. Through using the software “SPSS12.0” to build the model of this research to do confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis and satisfaction analysis, we can understand the influence caused by several dimensions on people’s intention …
Stress Resistance, Adaptability, and Emotional Stability of Medical Students Obtaining Categories 4 and 5 on The Psychometric Test and Related Factors
Background: In its effort to produce high quality graduates, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Indonesia administers psychological tests to assess first year medical students’ logical thinking skills and personality. The results of those tests are divided into 5 categories of recommendation, 1 to 5, based on the capability of the students to complete …
Living Arrangements and Adjustment of Elderly Persons
Adjustment of old age persons is a common problem all over the world. Due to old age and retirement, their living arrangement also changes. This study analyzed the living arrangement of elderly persons and their old age adjustment & mental health. Four types of living arrangement are considered here. 1. Married persons living with their …
The Relationship between Analytic and Holistic Styles of Thinking and Forgiveness
This study examined the relationship between styles of thinking (analytic vs. holistic) and willingness to forgive. Previous research has uncovered a qualitative difference in how individuals attend to their worlds: analytic thinkers focus on objects and their attributes while holistic thinkers focus on the context as a whole in which objects are viewed in relation …
The Study and Research of Wind Energy for Electricity Generator in Chana District, Songkhla Thailand
This article is aimed to study and research about the wind energy for the electricity generator around Chana District, Songkhla province(Southern of Thailand), Thailand. The experiment used three vertical wind turbine, 12 volts 200 watts electric current, charger control, 1,500 watts battery, and 525 watts inverter. This study revealed that the wind energy can generate …
Reducing the Budget Deficit Sustainably in Vietnam: Pathway to 2020
Vietnam economy continously has to face with uncertainties such as low economic growth, inflation, and trade balance deficits and especially budget deficits which lead to double deficits in recent years. This broadly influences on various areas in the country’s economy, especially the private sector. However, Vietnam’s policies to reduce the budget deficit of Vietnam have …
Influence on the Combustion Process of the Type of Fertilizer Used on an Energy Crop (Populus Nigra, L.)
The overall objective of this work was to investigate whether the response to a combustion process was influenced by the material used for fertilizing an energy crop. Hence, black poplar was used as a lignocellulosic biomass crop and three different treatments were applied to fertilize it: digestate from the anaerobic digestion of manure, sewage sludge …
Cationic Contamination In Lake’s Of West Zone, Ahmedabad, Gujarat,India
Ahmedabad is unique in the whole of India in matters of environmental neatness and flourishing conditions and it is superior to other cites in the excellence of its monuments. Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) proposes to undertake work for revival, development of catchments areas and beatification of few lakes under the present project. Of these; …
The Real Cause for the U.S. Subprime, Financial, Economic Crises in 2007-2009
There is general agreement among academics, economists, and policymakers about the U.S. housing market bust having caused the U.S. subprime, financial, economic crises in 2007-2009. However, consensus on what caused the U.S. housing market to burst was not obvious. Now academics, economists, and policymakers have started debating on the impacts of the Global Green New …
DG Types Effect on the Optimal Location for Voltage Sag Mitigation
Voltage sag is considered to be the most serious hazard of power quality and can produce a harmful effect in electrical power system stability. Distributed Generation which used in this paper is playing an important role in power system to improve the grid performance. Grid performance and avoiding degradation the power system networks depend probably …
Parametric Study of Earth-to-Air Heat Exchanger in Malaysian Climate
The technology, where the ground used as a heat sink to produce cooler air, has been an area of interest in Malaysia even before its National Green Technology Policy launched in 2009. Many researchers have studied the Earth-to-Air Heat Exchanger (EAHE) from different points of view, some focused on developing mathematical models to predict the …
Estimation of Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations in the Inner Bangkok by Land Use Regression Model
The Pollution Control Department (PCD) has long been responsible for an hourly measurement of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) concentrations at its twelve stations located within the 430 square kilometer area of Inner Bangkok. In the past, to estimate NO2 concentrations at any unmeasured location, the proximity model, interpolation model, or dispersion model were employed. These models …
Selecting Bio-indicator Fish for Monitoring Organochlorine Pesticide Contamination in Rivers
The aim of this study was to select the appropriate bio-indicator to monitor organochlorine contamination in the river and understand its effecting factors. Two species of fish; Spot barb (Puntius bimaculatus) and Naked catfish (Bagaridge) were selected as the representatives of herbivore fish and omnivore fish, respectively, because they were found across the country and …
Future Prospects of Residential Solar Water Heating System in Oman
The excessive usage of fossil fuels worldwide is causing environmental problems. One solution to these problems is the exploitation of available renewable energy resources, including solar energy. This exploitation of renewable energy resources becomes essential to meet the large energy demand that resulted in depletion of fossil fuel resources, fuel price uncertainty and volatility, and …
Heavy Metal Contamination of Marine Fish from Reclaimed Water in Arid Environment
Arid regions with low rainfall are under continuous threat and pressure to maintain its stability and to meet public demands, specifically issues related to fresh water. Due to the lack of rainfall and continuous population growth, many countries in the arid regions depend mainly on desalination of seawater and brackish water. Most countries in those …
A Lighting Controller for Led Lamp Cooperated with Daylighting in Thailand
This research aimed to develop a lighting controller for LED lamps coordinated with day lighting (LCTL) for replacing the lamps that were installed near windows. This device would control LED lamps to work appropriately at daylight levels. The results revealed that the developed device could control the lighting of LED lamps coordinated with day lighting …
Promoting Sustainability in Selected African Fashion Design Institutions
The period 2005-2014 was identified as the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD. The Decade highlighted education and learning as vehicles through which sustainable agenda could be voiced in the common pursuit of sustainable development. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) provides better understanding of the complex interdependence between human needs and the natural environment. …
Effect of Acidic Soil on Free Fatty Acid of Palm Oil in Thailand
Oil plam was the most important biodiesel plants and were considered as an important part of energy future in Thailand. Some oil palm plantations were grown in soil pH with acid conditions, which lacked of supporting data for agriculturalist. Attempts were made to study the effect of the level of soil pH on the quality …
The Integrated Development of the Community Learning Center of Philosophy of Economic Sufficiency. Case study: DongKraTongYam Sub-district, SriMaHaPho District, Prachinburi Province
The research objectives were to determine the effectiveness of rural development tactics in rural, agricultural Thailand. The action research method was conducted with DongKraTongYam Sub-district, Prachinburi, Thailand. The data were collected by mixed-method field studies, in-depth interviews, focus groups, and analyzed by mean, standard deviation and content analysis. We initiated three projects: a community collaboration …
Rates of Sediment Deposition in Lam Phra Phloeng Dam, Nakorn Ratchasima Province, Thailand, Using 210 Pb as a Geochronometer
Lam Phra Phloeng dam, Nakhon Ratchasima province, is one of the dams most seriously affected by soil erosion related sedimentation in Thailand. Deforestation and rapid land use change, from forest to agricultural land, has led to increase sediment load in rivers draining into the dam. The dominant crops in the upper catchment are sugar-cane and …
Green Architecture and Environmental Design using Rapid-Prototyping Social-Networking Sandbox Tools, followed by Professional Architectural Software
In 2012 the United Nations UN-Habitat’s Sustainable Urban Development Network partnered with European Union sandbox-game developers of architectural and social-networking software. The U.N. goal is to upgrade 300 public spaces worldwide by 2016 by joining professional designers with local inhabitants in virtual-world simulations of public spaces so that a collective design experience may be realized. …
Sense of Place as Community Empowerment in Bioregional Planning Process: A Proposed Model
Dynamic landscape change affects and is affected by human attitudes. Research in landscape ecological sciences has focusing on whether and how spatial organization of landscape creates stable, functioning ecosystems. Humans have been treated as an independent, separate entity despite the fact that in this space they connect and embed their values, perception and attitudes when …
Total Sulfur Deposition over Forest in Tropical Climatology, Thailand
Sulfur (S) is the key component of atmospheric acid deposition on ecological system. This study, S components were collected by a four-stage filter pack over a tropical forest from July 2011 to June 2012 at Sakearat Environmental Research Station. The experiment was operated under conditional sampling technique or relaxed eddy accumulation (REA) method. This method …
Sustainable City Indicators for Greater Mae Kong Sub-Region : Cases from Thailand and Lao PDR
Countries in Greater Mae Kong Sub-region (GMS) have agreed in 1992 to develop international cooperation aiming for economic development, which will in turn improving quality of life of local citizens. However, economic development, if unplanned, may cause adverse impacts to local society. New cities in this region have arisen at a rapid rate in the …
Ecological Study of Selected lentic Water Bodies of Ahmadabad, Gujarat India
In ecology the environment of lakes is referred to as lacustrine. The lakes are quiet large bodies of fresh water usually deep enough that their beds lay much beyond the photosynthetic zone. Fluctuations in the lake level are because of climatic conditions and human water requirements. Lentic limnology refers specifically to still waters. For the …
Applications of Sequential Power Flow Analysis for High and Low Voltage Distribution Systems to Energy Loss Evaluation for Dwelling Units or Buildings
In this paper, a sequential power flow calculation method for high- and low-voltage distribution systems is proposed. The proposed method is employed to assess the energy losses for a single-phase, 3-wire, 2´110V branch circuits of a typical dwelling unit. The daily, weekly, monthly and annual energy losses of a dwelling unit are obtained by a …
Surveying Historic Buildings: Valuing Sustainability in Historic Large Hall Structures including Places of Worship in the UK
Historic buildings make a positive contribution to all aspects of sustainable development. They are more than an environmental and cultural asset; they are an important driver for economic development and delivering social objectives. This paper looks at the factors that need to be considered in order to assess the sustainable performance of listed buildings. It …
Maintaining Water Depth in Colonial Navigation Canals Versus Inland Freshwater Wetland System Loss- The Case of Canoly Canal and Kottuly Wetlands, Calicut, Kerala, India
In addition to irrigation canals, the Colonial rule gave rise to inland navigation canals in India. The Buckingham Canal in the Coromandel Coast and the Canoly canal in the west coast are two such canals in South India constructed during 1800s. Both the canals rely upon inland freshwater systems for sustaining water levels. The Canoly …
Evaluation of Cadmium Concentrations in the Surface Sediments of Salt River Estuary, Taiwan
Major objectives of this study are to evaluation the pollution and potential ecological risk of cadmium (Cd) in the sediments of Salt River estuary, Taiwan. Nine monitoring stations were installed near the estuary of Salt River to collect sediment samples for analyzing Cd. Results of laboratory analyses show that contents of Cd in the sediments …
Sustainability through Subsistence: The Case for De-urbanization in Malaysia
Industrialization was the catalyst for growth of cities in Southeast Asia, in particular Malaysia. However, industrialization in many cities has peaked and is now declining. This raises the issue of increased in urban poverty to be a significant problem facing the cities in the 21st century. Evidence from other developing countries is that, faced with …
A Study of Feasibility of Pretreatment Process to Utilize Lignocellulosic Biomass as Materials for Biodiesel Production
Biomass is the most abundant renewable resource in the world and has a potential use as an alternative to fossil resource for production of chemicals and fuels. One’s of key challenges is the development of new processes for the utilization of biomass. For the effective conversion from biomass to biofuels or other chemicals, it requires …
A Study of Feasibility to Utilize Lignocellulosic Biomass as Materials for Biodiesel Production
Lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable, inexpensive, and abundant resource with high potential for biofuel production to implement the sustainable energy energy worldwide. The bottleneck of biofuel production is the recalcitration of ligoncellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars. Searching for a novel cellulase, a biocatalyst, is one of major challenges to promote biofuel production with economic and …
Assessment for Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Nakhon Ratchasima City Municipality, Thailand
Rapid increase in volume and types of solid waste generation due to economic growth, urbanization and industrialization has become a problem in developing countries including Thailand. Urban cities in Thailand such as Nakhon Ratchasima City Municipality (NRCM) have put sustainable waste management among their top priorities. One way to solve this problem is to convert …
The Consideration of Heat Reduction Hourly Schedule on Front Surface of Photovoltaic Module to Improve Efficiency
The efficiency of the Photovoltaic (PV) are depended on many things, one of them is the accumulative heat on the front surface which related to the operating temperature. The attempt to improve PV efficiency was carried out by reducing the heat on the front surface. The Monocrystalline silicon photovoltaic was used in the experiment. There …
Key Issues on Designing and Implementing Emissions Trading System in China
The mitigation of carbon emissions has been the subject of gradual policy development in the international community during recent years. China, as the world’s most populous and largest developing country, is a large greenhouse gas emissions source that grows rapidly in line with its industrialisation and urbanisation. Extensive air pollution within China today, however, is …
Regime dynamics and diversification of Norwegian energy system incumbents
Given the urgency of realizing a transition to more sustainable energy systems, it is crucial to gain more knowledge about the role of incumbents and the dynamics of regimes. Over the past decade many energy system incumbents have found themselves responding to exogenous challenges in their core domestic markets and many have strategically reoriented themselves …
The Effect of Accounting Information System Implementation on Accounting Information Quality and Its Impacts on Managerial Performance.(survey at 26 Districts/ Cities in West Java Province-Indonesia)
The local government financial management paradigm has been changed over few years in Indonesia. This is shown by the implementation of local financial information system which integrates each agency of local government. In turns, it is expected that local managerial can increase their performance trhough this mechanism. This research aims to study and analyse the …
Bioenergy Potential Assessment of Wastewater Sludge and Forestry Waste in Taiwan: Financial Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment
Final disposal of enormous wastewater sludge in Taiwan becomes an environmental issue since most landfill sites will be closed in the next decade. The low heat value and high ash content in sludge restrict its energy application using thermochemical processes. Co-firing of sludge with the abundant forestry wastes like wood chips in Taiwan seems a …
A Strategic Model towards the Empowerment of Distributed Solar Pv System for Sustainable Rural Communities in Malaysia
Power scarcity due to the depletion of fossil fuels could cause frequent power interruptions and lead to a disruption of the nation’s social structure. The most vulnerable group is the low-income people in the rural areas, who have limited access to generate their own power supplies. Due to this situation, it is necessary to introduce …
An Impact Assessment of Rural Electrification Project in China
This article investigates the relationship between China’s coal consumption in power sector and sustainable GDP per capita. By subtracting the environmental and social cost from the GDP, the overall effect of power-generating coal use on the country’s economic growth is re-examined using time series data from 1961 to 2010. Statistical analysis shows that the role …
Social Green as a Strategy to Design Sustainable City in Developing Countries a Case Study of Surabaya
Designing city with minimum ecological foot print is necessary. However, most cities in developing countries have lack ability to design it. Lack of budget, lack of technology, urbanization, rapid population and economic competitive pressure has created slum and waste (Zarsky & Tay, 2000). Article argues that environment policy should meet five criteria. It should have …
The Sustainability of Cultural Heritage for Community-Based Activity under Flood Disaster: A Case Study of Ayutthaya,Thailand
Ayutthaya Historical City was registered as a world heritage site by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1991, was valued as one of the world heritage sites in Thailand. The main threat affecting on the existence of Ayutthaya heritage sites is at risk from natural disaster through a devaluation of the cultural …
Investigating Farm Land Ownership: Farm Land Owner’s Response to Regional Growth and Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia
In Indonesia, farmland is necessary to meet increasing food demand caused by continuing population growth (WFP, 2009). Import restriction of rice (Kemendag, 2008) and progressive farmland conversion (BPS, 2003) have made the achievement of self sufficient rice so challenging. To secure rice production, farmland as main production capital must be preserved. In addition, sustainable agriculture …
A Simplified Mathematical Model to Predict the Thermal Physiological Responses of a Sleeping Person in Steady-State and Uniform Conditions
This paper reports on the simplified mathematical model to predict the thermal physiological responses of a sleeping person in steady-state and uniform conditions. By modifying Gagge’s two-node model and coupled with a mathematical model of predicting the total insulation value of a bedding system, a mathematical model for predict the thermal physiological responses of a …
Study of WEEE Collecting and Recycling Network in China
A large amount of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment ) is generated in China every year. However, the recycling and treatment of WEEE in China just begins and there are many problems in the current situations. There are two recycling and treatment networks, one is formal and the other is informal. We examine the …
The Impact of Energy Transition on the O&G Supply Chain: A Content Analysis of Corporate Sustainability Reports
Concerns over environmental impact of oil and gas (O&G) and its future availability have resulted in increased call for transition to low carbon energy. Although various studies have been conducted on energy transition, few researchers studied the impact of the transition to O&G supply chain. Since O&G is one of the primary sources of energy, …
Border Adjustments under Unilateral Carbon Pricing: The Case of Australian Carbon Tax
In the absence of a global agreement to reduce emissions, Australia has adopted a carbon tax unilaterally to curb its own emissions. During the debate prior to passing the carbon tax legislation, there were concerns about the challenge that Australia’s emissions intensive and trade exposed (EITE) industries may face in terms of decreasing international competitiveness …
Energy Efficient Building Design: Revisiting Traditional Architecture
Energy Efficient design of buildings and their operations are becoming more and more important in the world. A building is a system that is linked to its surrounding environment and is subject to a range of interactions between the external conditions and the indoor comfort condition. Buildings are major consumers of energy in both their …
Environmental Impact Evaluation Using Cost Benefit Analysis and Multi Criterion Analysis: A Case Study of Rayong Province, Thailand
Rayong Province is a major industrial area in Thailand. For more than 30 years this province has served the demand of Thailand’s petro-chemical industries, mainly in the Map Ta Phut industrial zone. However, the industrialization of the area has resulted in many serious environmental and health problems, causing distrust and protests from the local people, …
The Potential of Tourist Attractions: A Case Study of 2 Rural Connecting Districts in the Western Part of Thailand
The area along the Thai-Burmese border in the western part of Thailand is dominated by mountain ranges lying in north-south direction. This area is enriched with national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and diversity of ethnic minority groups. Some of these places are promoted to be tourist attractions. However, sustainable tourism is still in its infancy. The …
A Multi-Sectoral, Multi-Household, General Equilibrium Model to Assess the Impact of a Carbon Price on the Australian Economy
The Australian government announced a tax of $23 per tonne of CO2 as a starting carbon price which commenced from 1 July 2012. The economic implications of this carbon price are projected using a descriptive Computable General Equilibrium model of the Australian economy titled A3E-G. With an explicit tax, the A3E-G model is capable of …
Enhancing Coral Reef Resilience Through Ecological Restoration: Concepts and Challenges
The coupling of environmental and anthropogenic stressors has driven global coral reefs to rapid decline. Furthermore, changing human demographics and growing dependence on coastal resources provided by corals reefs have underlined the need for immediate measures to ensure sustainable use of this key marine ecosystem. While passive management measures have been useful in retarding this …
Current Status of Coral Reef Restoration in Singapore
Since the mid 1960s, coral reefs in Singapore have been impacted by a variety of anthropogenic disturbances such as coastal development, land reclamation and dredging. While the supply of coral larvae in Singapore is non-limiting, the survival of new recruits is challenged in an environment of chronically high sediment loads and unconsolidated rubble that is …
Drylands Agriculture and Prevention Strategy of Environmental Agroecosystem Damage in Kabupaten Musi Rawas, South Sumatra
Until now, the use of drylands as a agricultural mode is severely lacking in Indonesia. Agriculture, Paddy farming in this sense, is done more in wetlands. In fact, the drylands area occupies the largest area of Indonesia. Besides that, the future of drylands has a strategic position in the agricultural development in Indonesia. Therefore, the …
Deteremination of Energy Consumption in Pest Control Using pesticides in New Zealand
This paper examines the energy consumption of pesticide applications in New Zealand. Energy use in pest control using pesticides is investigated in the horticultural, arable, pastoral and forestry sectors, based on30 different groups of farm products. On average, total energy consumption in pesticide applications in New Zealand was estimated at about 2,350,757 GJ. Energy use …
Conception of a New Water Collection System Using LiBr Solution for Dry Area
Nowadays the problem of water shortage and water pollution is very serious all over the world. Moreover, these limited water resources are faced with a very serious industrial and domestic pollution particularly in developing country like China. To solve the problem of water shortage, many methods have been proposed and studied. we designed a new …
Assessment of Productive and Environmental Efficiencies of Japanese Industries
The global warming and climate change becomes a major policy issue in the world. To partly deal with the climate change issue from economics and business strategy, this study proposes a use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a methodology for productive and environmental efficiency assessment. The proposed DEA approach has been long serving as …
Assessment of the Analgesic Activity of Musa Paradisiaca Linn Peels of the Family Musaceae
Pain is the body’s alarm system and is triggered in the nervous system. It signals when something in the biosystem is going wrong. It has varied characteristics dependent on the individual and the circumstances. The Musa paradisiaca (L.) family Musaceae, commonly known as banana in English, is a perennial tree like herb grown indigenously in …
At the Grassroots Level of Diplomacy:A Research on the Perception of Indonesian Migrant Workers on Indonesian Diplomatic Corps
This research addressed the perception of Indonesian migrant workers on Indonesian diplomatic corps. This study also investigates the correlation between the proximity of the workers with the diplomatic corps and the impact on their perception on Indonesian diplomatic corps. These are important issues because Indonesian migrant workers have been a challenge for Indonesian diplomacy lately. …
How Does the Energy Industry Deal with Climate Change? Perception and Actions of the Energy Industry on Climate Change
The extent and pace of climate change is already beyond our expectation. It impacts are now experienced in every country. There is no time to lose; not only to mitigate green gas emission for slowing down the current pace of change, but also to learn how to live with expected impacts, which were induced by …
Emerging Issue in a Proper Recycling Technology for Printed Circuit Board Waste: A Pyrolysis Based Recycling Approach
At the present, treatment processes for non metallic fraction (NMF) from Printed Circuit Board (PCB) waste after mechanical recovery process of the precious metallic material are combustion, landfill or reuse as filler material. These cause secondary pollution and loss of natural resources. The most important aspect is the fact that (NMF) can be recovered as …
Analysis on Social Remittances as the Impact of International Migrationcase Study: The Return Migrant Women in East Java, Indonesia
The research examines the return migrant women remittances through social approaches. Remittances are mostly associated with economic contribution since they have given significant impact on increasing household income, influencing the exchange rate, and creating capital stock in most sending countries. Indonesia experiences a definite feminization of migrant labor force. The worker leaving Indonesia for Malaysia, …
Lost in Translation: First Year Physical Education Teachers Experiences with Teaching Sudanese Refugee Students
The purpose of this study was to analyse and explore the experiences of four first year physical education teachers who teach and have taught Sudanese Refugee Students. An interpretative approach was taken to understand the physical educators’ knowledge and understanding of the students learning styles. Data was collected from participant information sheets, interviews, discussion groups …
An Approach to Enhance the Use of Soft Landscape Principle’s to Save Energy in Housing Projects in Saudi Arabian Cities
The purpose of this paper is to encourage the application of landscape principles as an approach to save energy in housing projects in Saudi Arabian cities. The ultimate goal is to increase the decision makers’ awareness and appreciation of the importance of soft landscape principles to reduce energy consumption. Many concepts and guidelines are presented …
Evaluating the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA): Economic, Social and the Environmental Impacts in the Amazon Countries in the Cardoso and Lula Governments (1995-2010)
Since the 1990s Brazil began to take special interest in South American affairs, specifically during the presidencies of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva (2003-2010), which resulted in the strengthening of “Mercado Comum do Sul” (MERCOSUL). During this period, countries with the highest economic growth were those located around the Pacific …
Poverty and Local Development in Mexico: Seeking Solutions
Nowadays, Mexico is involved in two important processes: in the economic sphere, the Mexican government is engaged in an ongoing process of integration into the international economy. On the political and social level, is building a solid democracy system. However, the two processes are complex and are often characterized by the forgetfulness of “local development”. …
The Development of Information Resources in Library Search System Based on RFID
The objectives of this research were to develop the development of information resources in library search system based on RFID. The research methodology was composed of three steps. Firstly, the IR form and model were synthesized through gathering and elicitation IR. Secondly, the IR system was analyzed, designed, and implemented. Last, the IR system was …
A Low Powered NAS-based Web Server for Small and Medium Enterprises
Small and Medium sized Enterprises or SMEs are companies that have a small number of personnel. In Thailand, SMEs outnumber large enterprise significantly. Both large and small enterprises have equal footing in term of their identities on the Internet. Some successful Internet-based firms do not operate brick and mortar stores and do business solely through …
A Model of Local Wisdom Transference Pertaining to the Making Palm Juice at Ban Paknam, Chachoengsao
This qualitative research aimed to study and develop a model of transferring local wisdom concerning how to make sugar palm juice at Ban Paknam, Chachoengsao Province, Thaland. The research sample consisted of local people of a village in Paknam Sub-District, Bangkhla, Chachoengsao, which two local experts conveyed the knowledge of making sugar palm juice, 16 …
Exploring Sites for Sustainable Development in Bang-Khla, Thailand
The objective of this study was to explore specific sites, which could be developed and linked to the Bang-khla District of Chachoengsao’s floating market for sustainable tourism. The study consisted of a survey of important places in the Bang-khla District and nearby areas. Merchants and local people were interviewed on the impact of the floating …
A Study of the Protein Profile Related to Sweetness during the Developmental Stages of the Nam-Dokmai Mango (Mangifera indica)
Sugar production levels and protein profiles of Mangifera indica were examined in order to study their relationship during development. Sugar levels were analyzed over eight developmental stages using an ATAGO hand refractometer. The results showed that sugar was detected at stage two and remained at the same level through stage five, increased at stage six …
Curative Methods of Thai Traditional Medicine
The purpose of this study was to examine, identify, and accumulate all existing methods of Thai traditional medicine that were available in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand. All practitioners of a traditional system of medicine developed and selected methods of treatment, which had been existed in Thailand before the advent of European medicine, still flourish. Observing, interviewing, …
Thai Phuan Traditions in Globalization Era : A Case Study of a Village in Chacheongsao Province
The research objectives were to investigate the condition of Thai Phuan traditions in the current climate and to find out ways to revive and preserve their traditions. Qualitative methods for data collection and analysis were employed. The key informants were chosen through specific sampling. Data collection was used through specific sampling, participatory and non participatory …
The Development of 4 MAT Lesson Plans for Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division Combined for Prathomsuksa 3 Students
The study was aimed at developing the 4 MAT lesson plans with an efficiency criterion of 80/80. Efforts were made to study the effectiveness index of 4 MAT lesson plans, students’ learning achievement after learning using 4 MAT lesson plans, and students’ satisfaction after learning using 4 MAT lesson plans. The participants comprised of 22 …
Factors Affecting the Market Mix of Hydroponics Vegetables, Seaweed, and Mushroom
This study was aimed at determining of factors affecting market mix of vegetables grown by hydroponics, seaweed, and mushroom, which would lead to market development of the processing products under Bangkla Natural Innovative project ofRajabhat Rajanakarindra University. The participants were consisted of 200 tourists who visited Chachoengsao province and general consumers living in Chachoengsao province. …
Future Governance and Disappearing Nations: Canaries in the Sustainability Mine?
A number of island nations (The Maldives, Kiribati, and Tuvalu) are disappearing. Their futures challenge the very notion of sovereignty, which, hitherto has depended on territoriality. What legal status should these nations have when they have lost their territory? How can they establish new territory? This paper examines the latest efforts to save these nations, …
Analysis Cost of Transportation of Fresh Cassava Roots in SaKaeo Province
This study was aimed to analyze the cost of transportation of cassava roots in Sa Kaeo province and developed guidelines to reduce the cost of transportation from farm to factory. It was found that cassavas were grown in nine districts of Sa Kaeo province in a total of 658,380 rai of land, where there were …
“Single Mothers” Between Law and Civil Society in Morocco
Throughout the world, Morocco is cited as an example of moderation and progressiveness in its attitudes and laws regarding women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. However, despite this perception, several Moroccan laws contain deep inequalities for women, which marginalize and stigmatize them. Single mothers are among those women who suffer from …
The Model Development for Integrated Community Welfare Fund Network in the District Level: A Case Study of District in Thailand
This research was the participatory action research. The objectives were to collect the information about community welfare fund and situations of the disadvantages in the community, and to develop the model for integrated appropriate community welfare fund network with the local context according to social capitals and competencies. The study area covers 11 sub-district areas …
Developing Effective Government Responses to Climate Change: The Case of Australia
The international awareness and emphasis on global climate change has put pressure on national governments to prepare action plans to counter its impact. The imperative to act as quickly as possible is an added strain on national government agents who seek effective and timely responses to this complex problem. A country’s environmental policies are shaped …
A Distributed Coverage-based Connectivity Restoration in Wireless Sensor Networks
In recent years, wireless sensor networks have been widely used in many real-life scenari-os, and have become more and more important. However, network connectivity is necessary for sensor network applications. When some of sen-sor nodes fail (due to energy depletion or de-struction), it will cause the network disconnected. How to restore network connectivity is very …
Fish Amino Acid Efficiency in the Growth of Spirulina Platensis
This study looked at the efficiency of fish amino acid on the growth of Spirulina platensis in two samples of fish amino acid in five concentrations, i.e., 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 %. The first sample composed of fish and molasses in a 1:1 ratio; the second was 1:0.5. They were both allowed to …
The Tendency of Spatial Layout Changes in Design of Terraced Houses in Melaka Tengah, Malaysia
Terraced house modification has been a trend in recent years. It has been done excessively either with or without consent from the local authorities. However, there are no proper steps taken to overcome this problem. The reason is that terraced house modification has become a necessity for the resident to cater for the growing number …
Fashion as Communication: A Semiotic Analysis on Dagadu’s T-shirts as a Counter-hegemony toward Americanization
This paper elaborates how Dagadu as one of creative design producers in Indonesia employs a counter-hegemonic movement toward American culture that dominates Indonesians’ everyday life by parodying global symbols from America on its t-shirts. Gramsci distinguishes between coercive control which is manifest through direct force or the threat of force, and consensual control which arises …
The Role and Impacts of Social Media in Social Movements: “Example of the Arab Spring”
New communication networks provided by developments in internet technologies allow people to get more reliable and secure information or knowledge. Today people can get first hand information directly without using secondary sources. Needs of getting information from reliable sources among people have been rapidly increasing in the last years. After the increasing importance of internet …
Preliminary Findings on the Willingness to Participate in Oral Cancer Screening among the High-Risk People; A Study of a Muslim Predominant Community in Narathiwat, South Thailand
Objective: This research aimed to study the willingness to participate in oral screening among high risk people who have practiced long-term smoking and betel quid chewing in one Muslim predominant community in Narathiwat province, Thailand. Method: This cross-sectional study adopted five distinctive variables of the Health Belief Model Theory in explaining the willingness to participate …
The Subnational Local Governance Index in Mexico
The main purpose of this paper is to present the results of the use and construction of the methodological instrument called Subnational Local Governance Index (ISGL). That Index was built to contribute to the assessments of institutional capacities of local governments, in order to resolve public problems in Mexico. The Construction of that Index has …
An Empirical Study about Social Factors and Pro-environmental Behaviors in Southeast Asia
This study aims to investigate the various factors affecting environmental behaviors of the residents in ASEAN countries. To achieve the objective, the data from questionnaire survey “ASEAN Barometer 2009” (sample number of completed questionnaire = 9,080) were used to examine the relationships among demographic characteristics, information access, environmental concerns and environmental behaviors. The data were …
Japan and Japanese Image in Turkish Newspapers
Country image can be defined as the total of beliefs and impressions that one has about a particular country. Country image is created by different kinds of knowledge which are gained directly or indirectly over long periods of time. Todays, having positive image in the eyes of foreign countries are very important for all the …
Voluntary Contribution of Public Goods and Income Equality
If we consider the models of voluntary contributions of public goods, a neutrality theorem holds. In this theorem, a small redistribution of incomes between contributors does not affect each agent’s consumption in the equilibrium outcome. In contrast, a large redistribution of incomes changes the set of the contributors and each agent’s consumption. Especially, redistributions that …
Brand Marks as Messengers of Publicity for the City: The Level of Awareness of the City Brand Marks
The metropolitan cities which are getting biger and bigger together with the increasing of mechanization in production have caused some changes in people’s way of life and habits. In today’s world many cases such as fast spread of mass culture, typical habits of eating, drinking and having fun, revival of tourism, emerging new brand marks …
Engaging while Empowering Community: A Case Study of Government’s Internet Access Distribution Program to Rural Community in Indonesia
This research examines the implementation of Indonesian government’s internet access distribution program to rural communities in Indonesia. The growing gap of I-poor and I-rich in most countries has brought about higher inequality in people’s literacy, opportunity, and economic achievement (Kagan, 2000). Indonesia, which varies in people characteristics and geographical land scape has experienced this matter …
Airlines Companies’ Usage Of Social Media: A Content Analysis of Airlines Companies’ Tweeter Messages
The developments in knowledge and information technologies provide new opportunities for corporations. Corporations are realizing the potential to build relationships with publics using social media.Twitter, as a popular microblogging tool, is a social media platform used by corporations. Twitter has the possibility of informing target audiences about publicity, services and promotions of companies. Additionally, companies …
Reducing Production Costs of Jasmine Rice with Quality Control Circle (QCC)
Our research objective was to find ways to reduce the cost of growing jasmine rice in Chachoengsao, Thailand. The finding revealed that the estimated costs of production were high up to 4,403.39 baht/rai with an average yield of 467.62 kg/rai. The transfer of technologywith a Quality Control Circle was proposed to reduce costs of production. …
Philanthropy, Transparency, and Mass Media in Indonesia; Sustainable Systems of Governance in the Media
Aceh Tsunami in Indonesia on December 26, 2004, is one point behind the changing functions of the media in Indonesia. At that time the media in Indonesia is not only a bearer of news of the disaster, but also the organizations collecting and channeling public funds. One of the media that Metro TV Through “Indonesia …
A Simulation and Genetic Optimization Framework for Optimizing Nitrogen Fertilization for Rice Crop
Precision agriculture is a technique that can enhance the current agricultural production system dramatically. Optimizing Nitrogen fertilization for rice crop is one of important research issues in Precision agriculture because it can decrease the cost of rice farming, reduce environmental pollution and increase grain yield. The optimal amount of N and schedules depend on several …