Year: 2014
Human Capital and Technical Efficiency: An Analysis of the Stochastic Production Frontier and Inefficiency Effects Model for Thai manufacturing SMEs
This paper employs the World Bank�s 2006 Enterprise Survey and the stochastic production frontier and inefficiency effects models to empirically investigate the significant impact of human capital, such as i) skilled workers’ years of education, years of tenure and age, ii) workforce’s education and iii) unskilled foreign workers, as well as iv) in-house and outside …
Developing Staff Schedules under the Constraint of Constant Total Staff Quantity in a Gas Station
This research aims to solve the labor scheduling under the constraint of constant total staff quantity in a 24 hours gas station to minimize the labor cost and increase the service level. The methodology consists of studying the gas station work procedure, service time and customer arrival time in each hour were integer programming models …
The Conceptual Relationship between Work Values Ethics and Innovation Using Leadership as a Mediating Factor
Due to differences in cultures and values, it is widely suggested that management practices needs to be adjusted to suit the contextual environment. Several researchers have revealed a huge impact of national cultures and their implications on management such as leadership styles. Few studies, however, have explored the relationships between work values at the individual …
Negotiation Practices in Japan: An Update on the Bubble Era
The subject of negotiation practices and preferences by culture continues to attract academics and business practitioners around the world. In the case of Japan, however, data has hardly been collected since the years after the Bubble Era, even Adair, Brett, and Weingart (2007) is based on data collected in 2001. Other recent works such as …
Measuring the Effects of Online-To-Offline Marketing
Due to the emerging mobile device usage and rigid competition in e-commerce industry in recent years, companies begin to create a new strategy for their e-marketing, that is, online-to-offline (O2O) marketing, to integrate multiple channels more efficiently. However, still very few studies focus on measuring the effects of O2O marketing strategy. The purpose of this …
The Financial Constraints and Firm’s Profitability: A Case Study of the Indonesian Transportation Companies Listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange
This study attempts to analyze the correlation between financial constraints with the firm’s profitability through return on asset (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and profit margin (PM). The indicators used in determining the financial constraints are cash flow(CF), firm size(FS), dividend payout(DP), interest coverage(IC), debt to capital ratio(DTC) and long-term debt to capital ratio(LTDC). The …
University Branding and Rural Tourism through the Interactive Information Kiosk System
This paper discusses the use of Interactive Information Kiosk System on the development of university-based location in order to enhance tourism for the rural city in Taiwan. The Interactive Information Kiosk System is a touch screen technology relatively new for universities in Taiwan, particularly in remote areas. Further, the Interactive Information Kiosk System is suggested …
Is There a Liability of Japaneseness in Least Developed and Developing Economies:A Study of the Japanese FDI in The Middle East and Africa
Given the insularity of Japan and its unique institutional, economic and cultural framework, we posit that the economic distance, the economic freedom distance and the cultural distance between Japan and the host country of investment will have an important influence on its Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) levels. Using a 31 country sample in the context …
Designing a Creative Tourism Supply Network: Experiential Perspectives
Tourism development involves examining and designing a supply network so that tourism value can be delivered to the tourists. Creative tourism supply has special characteristics compared to other types of tourism in terms of key resources, processes, and deliverable. It is more likely that experiential perspectives play an important role in designing its supply infrastructure …
Technical Efficiency of Micro and Community Enterprises: Evidence from Dok-Kham-Tai District, Phayao, Thailand
This study is to find what are key factors contributing efficiency of the Dok-Kham-Tai community enterprises. In order to meet this objective question, first Data Environment Technique (DEA) is applied to calculate the community enterprise efficiency scores. Then, the calculated efficiency scores will be linked and explained by financial and non-financial factors. According to this …
Regional Income Inequality and Well-Being: A Case Study in the Northeast of Thailand
Inequality issue on the regional income inequality has played an important role in economy, society and politics in Thailand. This issue is difficult to be eliminated within the short period. Evidently, the poverty problem has been diminishing, but inadequate distribution should still be concerned cautiously. In term of statistical reports, they are usually revealed by …
The Influence of Organizational Communication
Purpose – To date, the effective organization communication with employees has long been recognized as the essential tool for developing and maintaining successful human resource management, especially in the service sector. Furthermore, it is also utilized in aligning, motivating and cultivating employees to be in line with the organization culture. Thus, this research was aimed …
Accounting Standard for Smes in Japan
The first accounting standard for SMEs in Japan was established in 1949. This is called �gBook Keeping Guidance for SMEs�h. It was established soon after World War II by the request of the Shoup Mission of the US. Since that time, the accounting standard for SMEs, which was appropriate for current situations, was not established. …
Japanese Subs for Australia? Developments in Australian Defence Procurement/Japanese Defence Export Policy
The Abbott Liberal-National Coalition government of Australia is currently in search of a replacement for the troubled Collins-class conventional submarine fleet of the Royal Australian Navy. Coincidentally, defence ties between Australia and Japan have become ever closer in recent times, particularly under the respective conservative governments of Prime Ministers Tony Abbott and Shinzo Abe. Following …
A Proactive Framework for Protecting Personal Information at Risk: Taiwan Experiences
Many organizations have collected data about individuals at an increasing rate. Online attacks against computer systems are on the increase and are frequently considered dangerous for some organizations. It��s about time to manage privacy and security of on-line information by reviewing their fundamentals and principles as well as relevant laws and regulations. Concerns of privacy …
A Novel Process Framework for Digital Forensics Tools: Based on ISO/IEC 27037:2012
Digital crime has reached unprecedented proportions nowadays. In order to assist digital forensics specialists, many digital forensics tools have been designed from open source programs or business software, which are based on law, policy and practice. Digital crime investigators often encounter a dilemma in choosing proper tools on the workflow of identifying, collecting, acquiring and …
Analysis of Time Series Mining in Manufacturing Problems
Recently, almost all modern manufacturing operations rely on automatic tools. These automatic tools react with materials used and physical events. Physical events are determined by data patterns that definable by domain experts. However, when problems that have not predefined occurred, it will cause critical errors especially in manufacturing plants. Furthermore, with machine complexity and new …
Analysis of Uncertainty in Time Series Data: Issues and Challenges
This paper reviews issues and challenges of uncertainty in time series data. The aim of uncertainty analysis is to determine the ways of how to deal with uncertain data in order to gain knowledge, fit low dimensional model, and do prediction. So as to build an efficient predictive tool, uncertainty in data could not be …
Performance Evaluation of TCP/IP vs. OpenFlow in INET Framework Using OMNeT++, and Implementation of Intelligent Computational Model to Provide Autonomous Behaviour
Analysing the performance of transmitting data from a source to a certain destination is an interesting task. One of the most reliable networking protocol suites is the Transport Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), which will be studied against a new management paradigm called Software Defined Networking (SDN). SDN is an emerging programmable network …
Applying the ICA-Based Approach to Detect Faults in Processes
To save time, cost and labor, there are many studies that have been conducted about the detection of faults in industrial processes. Most of the previous studies used only Independent Component Analysis (ICA) or Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for detection, but they can not form close enough boundaries to reject outliers. This paper proposes an …
Political Instability and the Roles of Governments in the Implementation of the Education Reform Policy in Thailand from 1999-2009
The most recent education reform policy in Thailand officially began in 1999, when the National Education Act came into force. It was considered the most comprehensive reform in Thailand’s history. Since 1999, many governments and ministers of education assumed power. They could be separated into three groups: (1) the Democrat Party; (2) the Thai Rak …
Social Media Censorship Policy and Law: Balancing Good Governance and National Security
This research aims to help Thai government balancing good governance and national security at the same time, this analysis examines four policy alternatives: (1) the status quo policy, (2) cooperation with trusted Non-Government Organization (NGOs), (3) amendment computer crime act, and (4) government participates in social media. All of four alternatives are assessed in terms …
Mapping the Regional Potentials of Public Private Partnership in West Java Province, Indonesia
Mapping regional potentials is attractive to study, among others as a material in developing a partnership between the government and private sector. What is mapping regional potentials ? What are its goals, and what is its status ? The questions were dealt with in the current paper. It containded on Mapping the Regional Potentials of …
Re-Thinking on Public International Law
Today, human being, global environment and natural resources are suffering from the extended and endless national, regional and global conflicts, wars, political violence and terror attacks. From 1950-2007, there was an average of 148000 global battlefields deaths per year, and from 2008-2012 the average was 280 000. Total terror attacks and internal conflicts in 2013 …
Strategic Partnership between Australia and Thailand: East Timor and a Legal Case against EU at WTO
This paper uses the concept of strategic partnership to analyse the co-operation between Australia and Thailand in the peacekeeping operations in East Timor from 1999 to 2001. A strategic partnership in this paper focuses on how to countries work together by sharing skills, information, resources and risks to advance their perceived mutual interests on security …
Bridge the Gap of Overlooked Loopholes in Societal Structures
This paper was intended to raise awareness of imbalance between mental and material growth which led to the existing gaps in the economic inequality and resulted in damaging the societal structure. This meant that some entrepreneurs in the country uninsured and the problems only come to light when it is too late as they belief …
A Cross-Cultural Study on the Value Structure of Mobile Internet Usage: Comparison between Indonesia and Thailand
The aim of this paper is to identify the differences in value structures of mobile Internet usage between Thailand and Indonesia. Data obtained from a survey in 2013 and analyse by using a multiple regression. The results of this study indicate that functional value, emotional value, social value, and the monetary value can simultaneously …
Adoption of Thai Rubber Smallholders’ Household on the Use of ICT: A Case of Southern Thailand
Rubber is one of them which create high economic values for Thailand apart from rice. Under the uncertain socio-economic and environment situation, rubber smallholders’ household confronts with many obstacles such as rubber price and climate variation. The rubber smallholder is intensively supported by the government, in forms of technology and production inputs such as seedlings, …
Use of Social Media in the Academic Environment: A New Platform for Enhancing Independent and Collaborative Learning
Social media technologies generated deep transformation in societies by capturing worldwide audiences. Initially used for socializing, and entertainment have in recent years experienced a rapid increase in participation that has been accompanied by a diversification of purposes and usage patterns. They expanded their reaches into learning activities providing an open space to create content, share …
The Importance of Process Mining in Enhancing Process Performance in Organisation
The development of business intelligence allows organisations to manage and enhance the decision-making process by providing methods and tools for analysing data. Process mining in organisation is needs to develop connection between data mining as business intelligence method and Business Process Management. Its main purpose is the discovery of process model based on existing event …
Enrich Cultural Heritage and Museum through Linked Open Data: The Content Analysis of Open Data Platform in Taiwan
Recently, the concept of Open Data has drawn attention worldwide. It is suggested that the government or government-subsidized institutions should disclose data for public access, distribution and reuse, therefore, those data can contribute more values to the society. In the trend of Open Data, museums or cultural institutions have started to release cultural datasets over …
Creating a Social Media Based Continuous Interaction Platform for the Design Studio
Social Media offers enticing pedagogic opportunities. Unlike Learning Management Systems (LMSs) or Personal Learning Environments (PLEs), the Social Media User has the ability to create a profile and form interactions with his/her contacts which have real life value and impact. In a learning context, considering the popularity of Social Media, user familiarity with the interface …
Business Intelligence and Analytics to Prediction of Going Concern Using Neuro-Fuzzy Approach
Rapid advances in technology, enterprise environmental changes and increasing competition has affected the risk of investment. Going concern prediction (GCP) is an important element in investors’ evaluation. The evaluation of a enterprise ‘s going concern status is not an easy task. To assist auditors, going concern prediction models based on statistical methods such as multiple …
The Conceptual Link between Leadership and Innovation: The Role of Organizational Climate and Personal Initiative
Travel and Tourism industry is recognized as one of the vehicles for socio-economic developments. The growing competition arising from globalization trends and technological advances exacerbates the demand for hotels to innovate their services and processes to ensure their effectiveness and competitiveness. It is believed that employees’ innovative behavior can be seen as a competitive advantage …
Bankruptcy Cancelation in Indonesia: A Labirin for Curator Fee Execution
This article investigates the application of Article 17 paragraph (2) Law No. 37 of 2004 on Bankruptcy and Suspension of Payment (“Bankruptcy Act“) in Indonesia since 2004 until 2013. Article 17 paragraph (2) Indonesia Banckrupcy Act states that the Supreme Court must specify the curator fee amount in case of bankruptcy cancellation petition granted. This …
The Profile of Sharing through Social Media: The Coca Cola Case
Social media are used for individuals with the aim of a great many individual and social motivations. Social media stands, in itself, for communication environments based on the social effect. Individuals are influenced by what other individuals share and by their existence even if they aren’t in interaction with them, and express themselves through social …
On Using Machinima as ‘Found’ in Animation
This article explores the extent to which machinima can work as ‘found’ and be appropriated in an animation. Machinima as a relatively new animation production technique gains its popularity in the community of independent animators. It is also used by installation artists to create installation artifacts in the digital space. As a form of remix …
Suratthani Rajabhat University Branding
The objective of the research is to study the different perceptions of the image of Suratthani Rajabhat University by people both inside and outside the university and to develop a strategic communication plan to manage the image of the university through studying strategic brand management by type of Higher Education Institution. The results showed that …
Communication for Maintaining Ethnic Identity of the Siamese-Malaysian Community in Malaysia
This article explains that in the changing context of society the Siamese-Malaysian community can maintain their efficient community among the multi-cultural races. They have cultivated and built the awareness of historical context in order to construct the collective meaning of their ethnicity. They conserve cultural context that is the meaning and value of their national …
Female Masculinity and the Image of Women in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
My current research investigates the influence of the Cultural Revolution on the image of women in Chinese film and television. The paradigm used in this paper to examine this is the concept of “female masculinity”, which I theorize as a specific female identity that advocates masculinity (or that women internalize and embody masculine values). Postmodern …
I Love You, Bro: The [Mis]Representation of Male-Bonding in Boy Bands through their Music
The intricacies of defining a relationship between the same sex often yield to misperceptions of gender preference of that individual who is living in a heteronormative society. The so-called male-bond or ‘bromance’ which typically exists in boy bands have ample time to stay together and to get attached. With this, an inevitable question has been …
Depiction of the Good and Evil Conflict through Female Characters in Turkish Cinema from Kezban to İklimler
The narrative cinema mainly focuses on such genres as love, good vs. evil conflict, reunion of lovers, and the story of intervening evil characters. In contrast to classical cinema, independent cinema makes its way through questioning the “reality”, making an intellectual rather than emotional influence on the viewer, and preventing their identification with the story. …
A Research Study of the Application of Digital Music in Taiwanese Films
The rapid progress of today’s digital technology has made a great impact on the music creation in the film industry. Today, musicians create their musical pieces using modern-day software and hardware to replace the traditional ways of writing music notation and performing by the orchestra or musical bands. It is more and more popular and …
Stray Dog, A Gun, The Individual and Society in Shinji Aoyama’s “An Obsession”
Shinji Aoyama’s film An Obsession (1997) is a loose adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s film Stray Dog (1949). Aoyama has borrowed the main plot of a cop losing his gun to a criminal, whom the detective relates to but must hunt down and bring to justice. A discussion of similarities and differences is followed by an …
Artificial Consciousness: Where Does Science Fact Break from Science Fiction, and How Do We Know?
This paper explores what has been termed artificial consciousness (AC) (a.k.a., synthetic consciousness or artificial sentience). Like its companion, artificial intelligence (AI), the subject might sound more like science fiction or fantasy than possibility. Though humans have been speculating about nonhuman consciousness for centuries, it was in the 1960s when computer science promised the rise …
Film Theory, Subject and Community: How Does Film Theory Relate to the Idea of Community Building?
In my paper I will discuss the relation between film theory, subject and the idea of community building. I will give a detailed understanding of how both theoretical perspectives in film studies as well as artistic practice of film making try to rethink new ways of possibility of being together. I will argue that the …
Investigation on Historical Representation by the Case Study of Taiwan Historical Drama Films
Under the discourse of “historiophoty”, historical drama films can be both entertainment and media of conveying history. Historical drama films not only have been taken as the material of history study by historians, but also affect viewers’ cognition of history. The main subjects in this research are the Taiwan historical drama films which depict the …
Rebellion and Despair. Children and Adolescents in Recent Japanese Films
Children and adolescents have been a prominent subject for Japanese cinema during all its history. From the viewpoint of the proposed thematic scope of “Individual, Community & Society: Conflict, Resolution & Synergy”, the non-adult characters and its maturation process is a privileged theme. Cinema, as a popular culture manifestation, aims to the setting of discourses …
Anime, A Universal Language Defying Boundaries: An Applied Study on a Sample of Egyptian Youth
Abstract:The Japanese animation, commonly known as Anime, is one of Japan�s most distinguished cultural features. Anime began to be known in the late 1910s, but its official beginning was in the postwar period. Anime evolved from targeting the local market to the international market, but it maintained its strong links with its heritage and the …
The Role of Culture in Communication: How Cultures Influence the Way People Perceive Information
Communication is an important part of everyday. However, its perpetual presence often implies simplicity and mutual understanding. While there are a lot of description on communication, generated information and symbols, thoughts and feelings so the message from the source to be transferred to the receiver and transferred correctly understood the interpretation of this message is …
Is That So Different to Become a Journalist? A Study of Journalism Professional Careers in Brazil
This paper studies the changes in the professional careers of Brazilian journalists. Structural changes have affected journalism as a profession over the last 30 years such as the development of ICTs and the emergence of internet, the economic crisis of traditional media organizations, the growth of corporate communication and the introduction of flexible working conditions …
A Corpus Stylistics News Story Analysis of a Japan-China Faceoff: The Senkaku-Diaoyu Territorial Dispute
News coverage of the Japan-China territorial confrontation (Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands) reveals marked differences in the way the two countries present their claims. This study explores this issue by showing that Japanese descriptions of the argument are more neutrally presented, through restrained and hedged lexical choices without metaphorical allusions, resulting in a rational, somewhat abstract, and arguably …
Convergence Journalism
This is a qualitative study on convergence journalism, focusing on its definition and concept. This study covers different topics in two textbooks, namely �Convergence Journalism – An Introduction� and �The Handbook of Global Online Journalism�. The study In-depth interviews were conducted with two executive editorial members and two reporters. The interviews look into the use …
Ethical Use of Online and Social Media in News Reporting of Thai Newsrooms
Online and social media have transformed journalism practice and newsroom has embraced a hybrid model of news reporting including newsgathering, news distribution and use of user-generated content to survive in convergence news culture. This research aims to study ethical issue on online and social media usage in news reporting, and ways to develop ethical code …
The Irrelevancy between Headline and Content in Online Journalism
While hard copy newspapers require better circulation figures, news websites seek to reach more and more clicks. This paper claims that headlines and the body of news reports have never been that much irrelevant in journalism history. The readers’ experience while consuming online news media today is a type of trickery. The reader is firstly …
Expectations for Delivering Entertainment News through Television
This research was entitled expectations toward delivering entertainment news on televisions, 2 main objectives of this research are to search audience’s expectations in terms of watching entertainment news on televisions, and to provide suggestions to properly develop further entertainment news programing on televisions. The results of this research indicate that the number of times presenting …
Communication Process of Community in the Conservation of Biodiversity: A Case Study of the Doi Saket Chiang Rai Province Community
The objection of this research is to study (1) To study the Doi Saket Community. (2) To Study the Communication Process of Community in the Conservation of Biodiversity Case Study Doi Saket Community. This was a qualitative research based on a sample of 5 government staff of Chiang Rai Municipality and 5 Community leaders of …
What’s on Your Mind? Rhetorics of Identity Construction on Facebook
Among young Filipinos, Facebook enjoys wide acceptance, with almost 81 percent of the youth population using the social networking site. With this knowledge, this study, What’s on your mind: Rhetorics of identity construction in Facebook, aims to determine how Facebook features, specifically, status updates and profile pictures, aid in the construction and representation of identities. …
Social Media Modi-Fication: Narendra Modi’s Use of Social Media in Indian Elections 2014
Title: Social Media Modi-fication: Narendra Modi’s use of Social Media in Indian Elections 2014 Research objectives: In an unprecedented rise to power Right Wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate, Naredra Modi, now Prime Minister of India, used social media strategies to advance his campaign to the masses. From using 3D holograms at political rallies to caller …
Microblogging and Life Changes: An Ethnographic and Statistical Analysis of Young Adults
Microblogging has revolutionized people�s interaction on the web. This paper investigates the changes in the microblogging practices of young adults after they have experienced life changing events associated with studying and working overseas. To test for the presence of significant changes in microblogging behaviour the empirical analysis focusses on young Chinese adults who have moved …
Linplexity: A Closer Look at How One Asian is a Representative for an Entire Race
Asians specifically in America, negotiate with the depictions of microaggressions rooted in racism in everyday life. According to Derald W. Sue et al. (2007), “racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily, verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communication hostile, derogatory; or negative racial slights and insults towards people of color” (Sue …
Participatory Culture and New Imagined Community: Competing Imagination of Muslim Ummah in Islamic Online Media in Indonesia
The participatory culture marked by the introduction of the buzzword Web 2.0 has contributed to the potential development of the internet as a convivial and democratic medium for the dissemination of information and the construction of identities in the twenty-first century. Recent studies on the role of the internet in the re-imagination of Muslim ummah …
A Study on the Communicative Efficacy of Korean High School Students on the Internet
This study examined the communicative efficacy of Korean high school students in the context of their use of news comments on the Internet. The study was based on the normative argument that the portal media’s news service should provide the space for public discussion and debate on the important social issues. However, in reality, it …
Public Service Broadcasting in South Korea
This paper contributes to the role of public service broadcasting in South Korea in the context of changing media landscape created by convergence. It explores two analytical issues which have attracted considerable scholarly attention. One concerns the interpretation of traditional rationale of public service broadcasting in a more democratised political landscape, as compared to the …
Islam and Mosque Developments in the Australian Media: A Literature Review
This paper is a literature review of current thinking on discursive representations of Islam in Australian media, particularly in relation to proposed mosque developments. Significantly, research into representations of Islam in Western media has increased since the events of 9/11 (Abu-Fadil 2005; Kothari 2013). This research has found that ‘Western media have generally failed to …
Television Documentary on the Threshold of the 21st Century
With the birth of television, documentary programs became the central core of TV productions. In the 80 years span of TV presence in our daily life, TV documentaries have gone through changes both in form and content. The goal of this article is to find an explanation for recent modes of TV documentary. My finding …
Seeing like a Feminist: Representations of Societal Realities in Women-Centric Bollywood Films
One of the most notable contemporary trends in Indian cinema, the genre of women oriented films seen through a feminist lens, has gained both critical acclaim and sensitive audience reception for its experimentations with form and cinematic representations of societal realities, especially women�s realities in its subject matter. The proposed paper is based on readings …
The Analysis on the Documentary, “The Big Picture”: The Moment of Sympathetic Connection as a Rupture
A recently released documentary, “The Big Picture”, portrays the moment of a cross-cultural dialogue between the Japanese and Koreans regarding the comfort women issue. Through approaching the documentary from a Deleuzian perspective, I contend that such moment of connection through sympathy may induce both Koreans and the Japanese to perceive circumstantial vulnerability comfort women faced …
Whither the News: Problematizing the Gendered Limits of Coverage on Women’s Wartime Labour in Canadian Newspapers, 1939-1945
During the Second World War, women’s involvement in Canada’s ‘total war’ effort meant increased domestic responsibilities, volunteering, enlisting, and joining the civilian workforce. Women’s labour force participation more than doubled throughout the war, blurring gendered divisions of labour and rendering women’s labour a subject for discussion in the public sphere. But what about in the …
Village Voiced, Village Empowered: A Case Study of the Citizen Journalism Practice Using New Media as a Medium of Empowering the Villagers at Banyumas Regency in 2012-2013
Village is basis of the poor in Indonesia. This condition has placed Village as the main target of the poverty-eradicating program. Unfortunately, the development program that has been implemented in Village is ineffective. So far, Village is viewed more as passive object with limited authority to manage itself independently. The condition above encourages a group …
Designing Optimal Viewpoints in Technical Illustrations
Technical illustrations are important for understanding spatial positions in a 2D environment. This paper demonstrates that illustrations that show a performer’s point of view (body-centered and seen as following the performer from the perspective of the performer’s body) is equally easy or difficult to mentally animate and visualize when compared to spectator’s point of view …
City’s Visual Communication Strategy in the Digital Context: A Case Study of Wuhan’s Image Videos
For the generation of cultural consumers addicted to screens, it is becoming customary to believe “if there is no video, it will be ignored”. On the other hand, with the development of digital technology built on the internet, electronic media recording methods increasingly rely on real scene videos, and the pattern of the video communication …
A Study into the Understandability of Technical Illustrations Shown From Different Height Perspectives and Camera Positions
The study set out to determine the ease with which people without any specialised knowledge of visual communication or information design can understand technical images shown from different height perspectives and camera positions, with the aim of helping technical illustrators visually demonstrate physical orientation in procedural actions. The study was carried out as an in-class …
Applications of Sudden Stops of International Capital to the Mexican Economy
There was nothing in the fundamentals of the Mexican economy that would suggest at this point the beginning of a crisis of such magnitude. The 1994 crisis was extremely unexpected for both domestic and foreign firms and households, because there were good economic indicators so far together with the financial stability of the previous years. …
Solar Assisted Power Supply for Rail Coaches
Awareness for the need of sustainable and eco-friendly mobility is on the increase and various innovations take place in this area. The focus of the work is to assess the feasibility of installing solar PV modules atop train coaches in India. Most long distance trains of India consist of Alstom-LHB [Linke Hofmann Busch] coaches that …
An Experimental Study on Coupling DCMD with SGSP through Its Wall Heat Exchanger
The interest of using solar powered membrane distillation systems for desalination is growing worldwide due to the membrane distillation (MD) attractive features. This study experimentally investigates utilization of direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) coupled to a salt-gradient solar pond (SGSP) for sustainable freshwater production and reduction of brine footprint on the environment. A model for …
Renewable Energy Policies: A Comparison of Global and Turkish Perspectives
Sustainability concerns resulting from the consumption of natural resources, life-threatening levels of pollution, global warming, climate change and the ever increasing worldwide energy use have brought renewable energy sources to forefront. Given the possibility of depletion of fossil fuels in the near future; the utilization of clean and renewable energy sources have become inevitable. Consequently, …
An Evaluation of Renewable Energy Indicators within the Sustainability Framework
Environmental concerns such as security of available resources, global warming, greenhouse effect, Carbon and Nitrogen emissions force governments to take preventive actions and make restrictive regulations. One way to provide a clean environment for the future generations is to promote the usage of renewable energy sources and development of renewable energy technologies. In this perspective …
Field Test for the Conversion Efficiency Determination of High Concentrating Solar Cells with Fresnel Lenses in a Tropical Location
Abstract Field test for the conversion efficiency determination of high concentrating solar cells with fresnel lenses in a tropical location was conducted at the top of NRRU Science Center Building, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand . The seven of square shape of 5.5 x 5.5 mm. mutijunction solar cells were series connected to be a module for …
Improving Energy Scavenging Capacity via a Vertically Configured Closed-Circuit Pro System
A novel configuration for a closed-circuit PRO system is described. The PRO system enables fluid flow in both the draw and feed channels using gravitational potential energy. As a result the novel PRO system requires neither pressurization pumps nor the use of generated energy in running the pressurization pumps and can recover a significant amount …
Comparative Studies of Renewable Energy Development between China and the United States of America
Current status of renewable energy development in China and US is analyzed via comparative studies. Past trend for each country is analyzed based on data in the past twenty years or so. The trajectory for the renewable energy development is different. In order to meet the demand of renewable energy and protect environment, a mathematical …
Meshed Hvdc Transmission in the Content of Sustainable Power Transmission for the Future and Its Environmental Impact
When talking about the future of power systems, power transmissions cannot be omitted. While it makes sense to generate renewable energy where the potential is highest, it often means that renewable plants will be far from industrial zones or load centers. Hence, volatile renewable energy has to be transmitted over long distances. Because DC transmission …
Urban Ventilation, Improving the Wind Environment in High Density Cities by Undrestanding Urban Morphology
There is clear evidence that Heat island has changed cities microclimate from their original and it has led to increased overheating risk, longer summer periods and higher energy consumption for cooling. Understanding of the relation between urban morphology and favorable wind conditions could provide a key to avoid such serious episodes and to improve the …
Municipal Solid Waste Management in Greater Jos, Nigeria
In Nigeria, municipal solid waste management is an integral part of the waste management system. The current status of municipal solid waste management in Greater Jos, a rapidly growing municipality in Nigeria has been reviewed through literature and other relevant documents. In addition, information from in-depth interviews conducted on senior government officials and industry stakeholders …
Human Right to Water: Public Policy and Guarantee Adequate Food in Brazil
The study addresses the human right to water, taking it as an essential component of adequate food, given that the lack of access to clean water reaches more than 1.4 billion people worldwide, according to the United Nations (UN), of which 36 million only in Latin America, according to the World Bank, in 2014 . …
Gender Disparities in HIV/AIDS Epidemiology: A Study of Expectant Couples in Selected Rural Communities in Nigeria
Gender disparities appear to be widening such that women make up a growing proportion of persons living with HIV, globally. Statistics has shown that the highest population of people living with HIV are women in the child-bearing age of 15-49 years. However, beyond women’s greater biological susceptibility and other explanations of why men and women …
Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Ever since American continent was discovered by Europeans, particularly its part that was turning into the USA became a place of opportunities for many underprivileged from different parts of Europe. However, the status of women, Native Americans, and other racial minorities, including immigrants from Asia, and particularly from Africa, was complicated. During the 19th century …
The Narrowing US-China Power Gap and the China Threat Theory Transition and Stability in East Asian Regional Order
This research examines the much debated issue of the possibility of China’s peaceful rise under the prism of regional transitional stability-instability model as the indicator of future trajectories. The current phase in East Asian politics is observed as the start of regional takeover attempt which does not necessarily require the equality of US and Chinese …
Sino-American Relations in Southeast Asia: Oil Crisis in Global Affairs
The global shift in international order after the Cold War was largely expected to be one with American rules and supremacy. However, Chinese successful economic reforms, its effective regionalization policies and cooperation initiatives with ASEAN, Japan and South Korea re-directed the global shift to Asia and made it a big challenge for the American foreign …
Genocide As a Threat to the Nigerian Federation
Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people especially those of a particular nation, ethnic or religious group. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with great diversity because of the many ethnic, linguistic and religious groups that live within its borders. Nigeria is a state encompassing 250 to 400 ethnic …
Cultural Impediments to the Domestication of Women’s Rights Instruments in Nigeria
Nigeria ratified a number of International human rights instruments aimed at recognizing the rights of women. These include the Convention on the elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Optional Protocol to CEDAW and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa …
The Roles of Governments in the Education Reform Policy in Thailand and Their Impacts From 1999-2009
The most recent education reform policy in Thailand officially began in 1999, when the National Education Act came into force. It was considered the most comprehensive reform in Thailand’s history. Since 1999, many governments and ministers of education assumed power. They could be separated into three groups: (1) the Democrat Party; (2) the Thai Rak …
Strategic Partnership between Australia and Thailand: A Case Study of East Timor
This paper uses the concept of strategic partnership to analyse the co-operation between Australia and Thailand in the peacekeeping operations in East Timor from 1999 to 2001. A strategic partnership in this paper does not focus on formal agreements between countries or exchange of visits between officials. Instead, a strategic partnership in this paper focuses …
The Views of University Students on Sponsorship
Sponsorship is an important work area for public relations academics and practitioners. Sponsorship connections between an organization and its publics can lead to mutually beneficial relationships and outcomes. Sponsorship is a way of achieving a number of public relations, advertising and marketing objectives for organizations. University students have various views on sponsorship. In this study …
The Level of Mass Media Usage of Electors in Political Enlightenment: A Fieldwork with University Students
Electors, one of the most important actors of elections, want to have a deep knowledge about alternative parties and candidates in order to decide which party or candidate to vote for before acting voting. For this reason they head towards their families, circle of friends, social groups they belong to, opinion leaders and mass media. …
News Coverage of Municipal Elections 2014 in the Turkish Press
On December 17, 2013, as Turkey was on the brink of a new year awaiting three important elections, three separate corruption investigations started against the administration which was already criticized with showing authoritarian attitudes since the Gezi Park events. Minister children and ministers were among the prosecuted in this first wave, and a follow up …
Local Institutions, Fetish Oaths and Blind Loyalties to Political Godfathers in South-Western Nigeria
This presentation examines the involvement of traditional rulers and other institutions such as Community Development Association (CDA) and Community Development Council (CDC) in the mobilization for both local and General Elections in south-western Nigeria. It argues that the upgrading of some village heads to the position of kings, together with the creation of the position …
Anger among Interpersonal Communication Process and its Reasons
Anger is an emotional condition which can reach an extreme intensy of aggression from a moderate irritation. A variety of dissatisfaction and unhappiness about our lifes, a variety of situations which we face with but don�t think that we deserve, decrease of our general tolerance and resistance level or tha space and unsatisfaction created by …
Urban Egalitarianism: The Way Forward to Ensure Sustainable Urban Design, Practice and Development in Developing Countries (The Nigerian Case)
Many cities and urban areas across the world are entities with high complexity, most especially with the unavoidable ever increasing population which incorporates human diversity in culture, wealth and status. Rapid urbanization and expansion is today a common phenomenon in many developing countries across the world, which is often characterized by challenges such as slum …
How Effective are Bullying Interventions in Reducing Perpetration and Victimization Among School-Aged Children? A Systematic Meta-Analysis
Education administrators, policy makers, and community workers need clarifications of school-based bullying interventions when making informed decisions concerning bullying prevention resources and funding. In the past decade, bullying strategies and intervention programs have increased significantly from the original strategies and interventions of Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. The purpose of this systematic meta-analysis is to contribute …
Environmental Economic Benefit Assessment Research of Recycled Phosphor in Obsolete CRTs
Lots of phosphors including rare earth elements (Y, Eu, Ce, Te, etc.) exists in the obsolete CRT TV sets and PC Monitor in recent years, on the other hand, the rare earth resources are scarce, and environmental pollution caused by primary rare earth ore mining is serious. To investigate the environmental benefits derived from recycling …
Environment Economy Assessment on Recycling of Rare Earths and Mercury from the Waste Fluorescent Lamps
Rare earth elements and mercury in waste fluorescent lamps belong to the category of hazardous waste. In China, the scrap of waste fluorescent lamps produced each year is more than 5 billion. The improper disposal not only causes a waste of resources, but also pollutes environment seriously. People do not pay much attention to recycling …
Attribution Analysis at Member State Level of Percent Changes in European Carbonization Index
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, emissions of CO2 due to human activities have led to a marked increase in atmospheric concentrations of long-lived gases, leading to a worrisome global warming. In recent years, with a view to contribute to design suitable policies to control those emissions, numerous environmental studies have analyzed the trends …
Aerobic Wastewater Treatment Packages: An Environmental and Energy-Saving Option
The water management systems throughout the world employ and depend heavily on water supply management approach to cater the demand. This approach is unsustainable in the long run as water demand will eventually overtake water supply. It requires an effective approach like building water retaining structures; dams, canals etc., along with an effective management plan …
Hospital Waste Management in Ondo State South West Nigeria
Globally, the concept of sustainability is currently increasing because there is need to conserve and preserve the environment. This study investigates waste management practices in some selected hospitals in Ondo State. The research focuses on some selected hospitals in densely populated regions of the state. Five (3 public and 2 privates) hospitals were assessed, their …
Panangisuro iti Ilocano (Teaching in Ilocano): Perceptions of Elementary School Teachers on the Role of MTB-MLE in Preserving Cultural Identity
Language in education can either empower or marginalize students and their communities. The Bilingual Education policy that has long been practiced in the Philippine basic education setting has been viewed to contribute language loss at the expense of native languages. The full implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) thru the Philippines’ Department of Education …
Investigating Students’ Problems in Understanding Their Personal Qualities and Skills for Cover Letters: A Self-Assessment Approach
This paper explores students’ problems in presenting their personal qualities in cover letters for job application and examines the effectiveness of self-assessment approach in countering these problems. This study adopts the action research approach, and the research methods used are content analysis, individual interview and self-assessment feedback. The research procedure consists of a three-stage approach. …
A Correlation Study: English Teacher’s Educational Background and the Students’ School Final Exam Scores in South Sumatera, Indonesia
English is categorized as a foreign language in Indonesia. This condition forces its citizens to do extra effort in order to master English as their media of communication. Therefore, learning EFL in earlier ages is surprisingly recommended by parents, government, and stakeholders. Government of Indonesia had already supported the idea of English in early learning …
Mobile Assisted Foreign Language Teaching in Turkey
In Turkey, Mobile phones are recent phenomenon for education and are seriously discussed. The discussions are related to whether mobiles are opportunity or threat. For the ones seeing it as an opportunity, mobiles are among the basic needs for today’s world. For the others it is an addictive object. Meanwhile mobiles have already entered the …
The Teaching of Grammar through Storytelling among L1 Malay Learners
English language teachers have always been trying to find new and interesting methods of teaching English grammar in the ESL classroom. Storytelling, although an aged-old method, can captivate students’ attention, interest and imagination. This method is also known as an analogy. Generally, students find learning grammar a fearful experience because of the various grammar rules …
English Education and Polysemy
The process of learning and teaching two languages and cultures can be a very transformative experience. This paper explores how knowledge is constructed by learners and teachers through two languages. From an applied linguistics approach, we focus particular attention on the correlation between L1 and L2 in language education. How does L1 affect the L2 …
The Use of Concept Maps to Illustrate Understanding in a Standard Reading Exercise
The benefits of a standard reading exercise, whereby students regularly answer the same set of questions by applying them to a variety of different texts, were first explored by Scott et al. (1984). The Foundational Literacies Advanced Stream curriculum design project at Kanda University decided to experiment with such an exercise, as it is felt …
The Use of Information Technology in Art Education: Opportunity or Threat?
Nowadays referred to information age, technology which is a tangible form of information has affected life deeply and art education has been affected from this, too. Today information technology, making education independent of time and space, is indispensable for art education. Besides some advantages of information technology t, it has been discussed that there are …
Required Knowledge of Cooperative Education Students: A Case Study of Modern Management Information Technology Curriculum, College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University
Cooperative education (co-op) is an educational method combing typical academic study with real working experience. This academic method is propelled by two major associates; those of academic institute and professional company. The co-op operations especially identification of required knowledge of co-op student cannot be specified solely by academy or host company. Therefore, this study aimed …
The Integration of Economic System Concept Through Teaching and Learning Processes to Promote Students’ Systematic Thinking in Business and Computer Major in Faculty of Education, Kasetsart University, Thailand
The objective of this classroom action research was to construct learning activities in terms of the integration of Economic System Concept through teaching and learning processes to promote students’ systematic thinking. The researcher developed three learning activities that were applied from Economic System Concept, including 1) Brainstorm Chart, 2) Concept Chart, and 3) Content Networking …
Satisfied and Happy: Establishing Link between Job Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being among Filipino Teachers
Job satisfaction refers to people’s reactions and feelings towards aspects of their jobs. On the other hand, subjective well-being refers to people’s evaluations of their lives which include cognitive judgments, such as life satisfaction; and affective evaluations like moods and emotions. The present study describes the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective well-being specifically among …
Development of a New Inventory of Attitude towards Statistics among Postgraduate Students
Introduction: Statistics is often viewed negatively based on our experience and also conducted studies. As statistics is an important component of postgraduate studies, it is important to assess attitude towards statistics to enable appropriate improvement in teaching of statistics. To our knowledge, currently there is no inventory specifically targeted at postgraduate students. Preexisting inventories are …
Enhancing Mathematics and Science Teacher Education in Regional Australia: Pedagogical Interactions and Their Affective Outcomes
This report outlines particular aspects of a three-year project funded across six regional universities in eastern Australia, designed to enhance the pre-servicer education and training of mathematics and science teachers. The project research and implementation uses iterative processes to trial and develop modules for teacher education and other university curriculum. Trial iterations draw together, through …
Where Our Youth Are in the New Media World: Measures of New Media Literacy
The recent development of highly immersed media-rich environment, and the rapid adoption of tablet computers and smart phones has proliferated new media to almost every aspect of our daily life. It is now possible to use Google Maps to check for direction while travelling in a foreign country. People use their smart phones to check …
Reevaluating the Relationship between Millennial Students, Their Parents, and Professors When Teaching a Study-Abroad Course: Searching for More Success
When the new millennium approached, educators looked toward the 21st century with either excitement or concern. As a perfect time for of self-reflection, many universities and colleges began to pay attention to a new generation of students that began arriving on campuses in 2000. Since then, much of the research has focused on identifying their …
Exploring Learners’ Patterns of Using the Online Course Tool in the University Classes
Online course tools such as WebCT or Manaba+R are popularly used in university classes and enhance learners’ understanding of their course contents. In addition, teachers try to utilise these online course tools for their students such as giving their students online discussions, provide students additional materials and so forth. However, based on the authors’ observation …
Competence Development Measures
Demographic change forces companies to develop concepts for lifelong learning that focus on involving older and younger employees. Nevertheless, demographic change offers a great opportunity because older employees often have distinctive age-related competences. These are particularly relevant for failure management, where older employees, due to their knowledge gained through experience, positively influence the efficiency of …
The Leadership of Principal in Space Managementprincipium and Pattern
The leadership of principal in space management is a new theory of education leadership. It is rapid development in the promotion of academic research in the new theory. The paper provided the principium and pattern of the leadership of space management to the principal in the school education reference. There are four topics in the …
Technology Acceptance by In-Service Teachers in Hong Kong – Preliminary Results
Educational technology is appealing to some educators due to its potential in supporting a larger variety of pedagogy. Since 1998, the government in Hong Kong has been making continuous investment into the ICT infrastructure and staff training in local public schools to support the use of ICT for teaching and learning enhancement. It is nevertheless …
Learning Media of Currency Introduction for Children with Special Needs
Application of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) has no longer been uncommon and has reached almost every aspect of human lives, including education and learning aspects. The learning media in this study is targeted at children with special needs. It is constructed based on the standard curriculum for mathematics, especially the topics related to numbers, …
Designing Childrens Multimedia Learning Application in Developing Childrens Knowledge of Child Sexual Abuse
Various educational applications has successfully utilized multimedia in learning environment. Many researchers agree that multimedia can facilitate learning through its advantages. However, there are differences in developing multimedia application for young children and develop multimedia application for adult. Children are different than adults in the way they think and learn, and this difference changes over …
Integration of Flipped Classroom Approach and Project-Based Learning in an Undergraduate Engineering Course
Encouraged by the increasing numbers of successful cases both on Flipped Classroom approach and project-based learning around the world, the authors transformed the instructional method of an undergraduate engineering course at the fall semester of 2013. After 80% of original course slides were converted into video clips, students of the course were instructed to facilitate …
Instructional Support for Improving Students’ Planning Skills to Solve Physics Problems
Deep analysis on students’ cognition (i.e. mental representation in solving Physics problem) is crucial to develop tool to support learning. In this paper, we describe a study of how students plan and solve Physics introductory mechanics problems. In the study, students were given several Physics problems to solve, with varying level of difficulties. For each …
Attitude towards Holography in Teaching among Lecturers in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
The very many advantages offered by ICT in education sector have led most educational institutions to integrate it in academic departments; thus these rapid developments made tremendous changes in education. Education quickly took advantages of technology through new models of education such as e-learning, m-learning, interactive learning and blended learning. Recently, technological developments are playing …
The Effect of Theme Preference on Academic Word List Use: A Case Study of Smartphone Video Recording Feature
67 Japanese English as a Foreign Language undergraduate learners completed 1 cell phone video production per week based on a teacher selected theme on a weekly basis for 12 weeks. Designed as a case study for this specific context, the data collected information regarding the students’ perception of the weekly themes as well as post-intervention …
Taiwanese EFL Learners’ Perceived Use of Online Reading Strategies
Reading strategies are beneficial to learners’ reading comprehension in second language learning. The strategies can be divided into different categories, such as global reading strategies, problem solving strategies and support strategies. Most previous studies investigated the importance of reading strategies in the paper-based reading. However, relatively few studies examined online reading strategies and their effects …
Gamification of Web Based Learning Environment for Physics Problem Solving
In today’s digital generation, gamification has become a popular tactic to encourage specific behaviors, and increase motivation and engagement. While having this idea successfully used mostly in business and commercial contexts, it’s suggested by some researchers that application of game mechanics can be used in web based education to ease the common pain points in …
Developing ESP Multimedia Courseware for Taiwan East Rift Valley National Scenic Area
The Taiwan government has carried out various policies to promote the tourism industry. To meet the needs of the industry, several related programs, departments and colleges in higher technical education have been established in Taiwan to cultivate high quality manpower by increasing English communication skills and related professional knowledge. With the rapid development of information …
Using the Flipped Classroom Approach to Stimulate Deep Learning in Large Classrooms
This project used the Flipped Classroom approach to stimulate deep learning in large classrooms during the film module of a Diploma in Performing Arts course at Sunway University, Malaysia. In the flipped class, students first watched online lectures as homework, and then completed their assignments and practical work in class where the lecturers were present …
Building a Value Network Model for the Design and Use of Learning Solutions
It is generally agreed on that ICT can have a meaningful role in teaching and learning. However, learners – children and young people – are still in an unequal position in regard of access to ICT and its pedagogically varied use in learning environments. There are also wide differences in how children use ICT at …
Teaching Science in the Basic Education Levels in Nigeria: Challenges and Way Forward
ABSTRACT This paper thus looked into the teaching science in the basic education levels in Nigeria: challenges and way forward. Government and other stakeholders should endeavor to improve the system in order to assist, improve and support science teaching for national development. The challenges noticed include poor funding, lack of appropriate and adequate teaching materials, …
Beyond the Bars, Breaking Barriers towards Digital Inclusion: Family Visits through ICT-Based “E-Dalaw” as Innovation in the Reformation Program of the Maximum Security Inmates of the New Bilibid Prison, Philippines
Information Communication Technologies (ICT)’s enabling power of bringing about participation fosters social and digital inclusion, and supports the Philippines’ development goal of “Inclusive Growth”. The country’s Correctional System piloted an ICT-based program called “e-Dalaw,” that enables inmates to connect to their families regularly. This is in line with modern reformation concepts, as prison visits were …
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Continuing Accountability Discourse in Education
Currently, Australian governments are again shining the spotlight on education and teacher quality. This has particularly resulted from literacy and numeracy results slipping in the PISA measure of student performance. Such performance and teacher quality become inextricably linked and, almost inevitably, teacher education is the subject of reform. In this paper, the author analyses the …
The 10,000 Hour Rule and What it Means for Language Teaching
For many years the Japanese Ministry of Education MEXT and English language teachers have tried to increase the English proficiency of Japanese students. Different methods of teaching and new curriculums have been tried with limited success. Recently EF Education First Japan Ltd announced that Japan ranked 24th out of 60 countries on the English Proficiency …
Towards an Audiovisual Translation Policy in Arabic
The future of translation studies in Arabic is in screen and not print translation. As digital technology is fast changing the way we access information, do business and entertain ourselves, the screen has become the modus operandi through which much of infotainment is produced and consumed. However, the majority of Arabic translation research has been …
Transformative Language Education: The English of Sustainability
As the countries of South-East Asia continue to broaden their horizons and coalesce into a single ASEAN community, there are numerous transformations taking place that will radically alter the educational landscape. The ASEAN Secretariat emphasizes sustainable development as a goal to permeate the changes ahead, which will require the voices and experiences of all the …
Romantic Illusions in ELT: The Cultural Creation of Pedagogic ‘Self’ and Student ‘Other,’ from Shakespeare and the Sublime to English Textbooks
This paper will discuss the connections between Western cultural movements such as the enlightenment and the romantic counter-enlightenment, and their residue in modern English teaching practices abroad. While enlightenment culture represented Western progress positively, demarcation between `civilized self` and `savage other` meant that other parts of the world were judged by Europeans to be inferior. …
Assimilate the Individual ‘I’ Into the Collective ‘we’? Mainland China Students’ Localisation and Adaptation during Their Study in Hong Kong
The binary concept of globalise/localise, similarities/differences as well as the issue of actualise/neutralise (Vischer, 1989, 1996; Hall, 2003) constitutes the major focus of this study. Framing the above into the cross-boundary and overseas education, it would be interesting to know how ‘diasporic consciousness’ re-generates overseas students’ identity and sense of belonging. More specifically, this paper …
Digital Competencies in the Early Years
The paper presents a model for development of digital skills in early years. The model is structured in four levels and is designed for implementation in Primary school. The content follows the government policy in ICT teaching and learning in Bulgaria. Year after year, digital skills have become part of a person’s literacy. It is …
Online Comic in Mandarin Chinese Vocabulary Learning: A Case Study of Budi Utama Multilingual School in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
This research aims to 1) investigate the improvement of CFL elementary-school students’ skill in learning Mandarin Chinese vocabulary through creating comic individually without online resources, creating online comics individually and collaboratively, 2) investigate the CFL elementary-school students’ attitude towards the application of online comics in learning Mandarin Chinese vocabulary, and 3) investigate the CFL elementary-school …
Ethical Decision Making in Education Systems in Times of Transformation: Codes of Ethics and the Potential Benefits of Deontology, Consequentialism, and Mixed-Consequentialism
In times of transformation, the issues of equity, social justice and social change require careful review in educational institutions. Effective educational leaders need a firm understanding of ethics in addition to technical and administrative skills (Starratt, 2004). Personal values, including religious reasoning, may lead to decisions that cause conflict and are not in the best …
The Impact of Students’ Participation to a Facebook Group on Their Learning Motivation and Scores
The development of Information and communications technology (ICT) has brought rapid and profound changes in the field of Education. Nowadays, teachers and students alike are engaging on social networks such as Facebook. This study discusses the benefits of using social network in the classroom. It aims at assessing the impact of Facebook on students’ motivation …
The Main Components of Self-Development Model to Enhance Non-Formal Education Facilitators’ Potential in Lifelong Education Management
Recently, lifelong learning has been essential in knowledge-based economy and learning society. Thai laws and policies indicated lifelong learning was one of the ways to sustain community development.Thus the non-formal educators had to acquire knowledge and skill by self-development in lifelong learning management. The purpose of this study was to find the main components of …
Narration as a Means of Formulating and Transferring Tacit Knowledge
The goal of this study is to highlight the importance of the narrative type of knowledge, its relation to tacit knowledge and to outline the specifics of tacit knowledge in the narrative form in the context of teaching. Stories are parts of our identity and culture. We assume that social knowledge (skills) are a specific …
The Curriculum Development of Science Camp for Primary Students in Udon Thani Municipality Schools Based on Constructivist Paradigm and Learners’ Skills in 21st Century
The curriculum of Science Camp for Municipality Students Project was used an area-based collaborative strategy that designed to provide local students with opportunities to apply basic concepts in science and thereby developing their 21st century skills. The three study objectives were 1) to construct and develop a science camp curriculum using an area based context …
Participative Management as a Strategy for Enhancing Job Satisfaction of Teachers: The Case of South African Teachers
Participative management and shared decision-making are increasingly finding their way into schools. This signifies a radical change for many teachers and school principals that could lead to either an increase or decrease in teacher morale and job satisfaction. This paper investigated the efficacy of participative management as a strategy in enhancing job satisfaction of teachers. …
Current Issues on Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria
The study was primarily designed to investigate current issues on vocational and technical education (VTE) in Nigeria. Specific objectives were: (1) to explore recent policies, practices and problems regarding vocational and technical education; and (2) to emerge solutions on vocational and technical education for economic and human resource development in Nigeria. The study employed ‘documentary …
School Leadership: Impact of Changing School Management to Internal Stakeholder Satisfaction
One nearly collapsed public primary school has been determined successful and well managed by a new principal. The case highlights the study of (1) how a woman, the new principal has been successful in carrying out the change on school management; and (2) how this change has given an impact to the satisfaction of school …
Developing Problem-Solving Skills and Pair Programming Strategy for Fundamental Computer Programming Course
Many research showed the barriers to learning programming of learners were that students don’t have basic problem solving skills and don’t know how to create algorithms. Our overall Objective was to help students develop the foundation capabilities needed to become successful programmers and to help students learn how to learn effective programming skills. The main …
Developing Research Skills of the Third Year Teachers Students Using the RTI Model in Thailand
This research aimed to 1) develop research skills of the third year students, 2) develop teaching method by using the RTI MODEL for suitable instruction. The target groups were 44 third year students who chose to take a social study major of the faculty of education. The research instruments were (1) 4 cycles of lesson …
Integrating Formative Assessment in the University Education
Assessment in education should effectively measure if and how students learn. This paper discusses the integration of formative assessment (FA) into the university education. Summative assessment (SA) provides a summary judgment about the learning achieved after some period of time. SA’s primary goal is to inform external audiences for certification and accountability purposes. Formative assessment …
Assessment Patterns in Computing Education
Computing education aims to develop computational thinking skills in students. It requires many higher order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, logical thinking etc. Quality and effectiveness of computing education is achieved by focusing these skills in the three stages of education – planning of learning-objectives, teaching and assessment. Assessment is the most important stage …
The Effect of Using Games and Puzzles on the Achievements of Mentally Retarded Pupils in Multiplication Table
The mentally retarded pupils face a big problem to remember multiplication facts. For that this research tries to measure the effect of using games and puzzles on their achievement in multiplication tables. This research tries to answer these questions: • What are the games and puzzles that can be used in the teaching multiplication table …
Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) on Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB MLE) Program among Grades 1 and 2 Public School Teachers in Lupi, Camarines Sur
Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB MLE) in the Philippines is on its early stage of implementation. It aims to address the issue of language as a barrier in education mainly caused by contents of materials that are unfamiliar to learners. While there are many challenges in the implementation of MTB MLE, the success of this …
The Result of Using Notebooks for Increasing Competency in the 21st Century of the Elementary Students in Thailand
Reading is a process essential for all aspects of development. It is an integral part so important in building up quality competency for the 21st century skills: the citizens as well as children who will become the nations in the future. These statistics were in line with the result of the reading survey of the …
Transcending Teacher Professional Development from Deterministic to Complexity
The multiplicity of factors and actors that come at play to make teacher professional development (TPD) a strategic and powerful scheme for improving teacher practices is mounting and evident in educational practices and theories. Consequently, the traditional perspectives that view TPD as events and methods for teacher learning in isolation with other factors and actors …
Situation, Problem, and Need in Teaching and Learning Process Based on Research-Based Approach of a School Belonging to Mahasarakham Provincial Administrative Organization: Nakha Witayakhom School, Mahasarakham, Thailand
The purpose of this study was to investigate the situation; problem and need related the teaching and learning process of a school belonging to Mahasarakham Provincial Administrative Organization. In this study, a Nakha Wittayakhom School was selected as a sample group by using the purposive sampling technique. Participants were 25 teachers from 8 learning areas; …
Continunous Professional Development Program for Novice Teachers of English
Novice language teachers, especially those who are in their first or second year of teaching, generally feel a need for in-service programs that better equips them for the institutional needs, expectations and challenges, as well as meeting their own professional development agenda. Although most educational institutions have their own induction and in-service programs, most of …
A Model of Small-Group Problem-Based Learning in Pharmacy Education: Teaching in the Clinical Environment
Problem-based Learning (PBL) is an alternate method of instruction that incorporates basic elements of cognitive learning theory. Colleges of pharmacy use PBL to aid anticipated learning outcomes and practice competencies for pharmacy student. The purpose of this study were to implement and evaluate a model of small group PBL for 5th year pharmacy students in …
A Social Constructivist Approach toward Teacher Learning: A Case Study Aimed at Revitalizing the Japanese Teacher Development Approach, ‘Jugyokenkyu’, Internationally Recognized as Lesson Study
The material in this presentation describes the results of several teachers going through a teacher-learning process in Japan known as ‘Jugyokenkyu’, referred to internationally as ‘Lesson Study’ (LS). We argue that LS is effective because it coheres with a Vygotskian view that ‘learning is social’ and therefore, with principles found in educational psychology aligned with …
The Design and Use of Multimedia Storytelling Book for Hearing Impaired Students
Multimedia application of a multimedia storytelling book is useful and has many advantages for hearing impaired students. This paper presents information based on reliable literature reviews about the multimedia storytelling book design framework for hearing impaired students. The purpose of this research is to explore the application of a multimedia storytelling approach in teaching the …
Cloud Computing for Collaborative Knowledge Construction: A Case with Google Drive
Usage of mobile technology in daily life has been developed to be a part of the cultures in many countries especially in a metropolitan city. Students nowadays bring their mobile devices to classroom and prefer to use their own devices whenever it is possible. With the advanced technology development and high connectivity to the Internet …
Application of Grey Wolf Optimization for Time Series Forecasting
Forecasting the price of nonrenewable commodity such as crude oil is a critical task and requires careful attention. Due to the vital role of nonrenewable commodity in the economics of an organization, forecasting its price has attracted both researchers and practitioners. In this paper, a relatively new Swarm Intelligence (SI) technique, namely Grey Wolf Optimization …
Grey Wolf Optimizer for Solving Combined Economic Emission Dispatch Problems
Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) is a newly proposed algorithm that developed based on inspiration of grey wolves (Canis Lupus). This GWO algorithm mimics the nature of grey wolves in leadership hierarchy and hunting mechanism. This paper is in the purpose of introducing GWO to solve combined economic emission dispatch problem (CEED) in power system. CEED …
The Mediating Effects of Green Product Design on Economic Performance of Reverse Logistics: A Conceptual Study
The dwindling of natural resources and higher demand for landfill space fuelled the concept of sustainable consumption. For decades, buy and throwaway society created a string of negative environmental consequences and a positive change is taking place as developed nations take the lead in closing the supply chain loop via extended producer responsibility (EPR). Returns …
Institutional Strength and Strategic Use of E-Government to Improve Inter Government Collaboration: A Study on Implementation of E-Audit in Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia
Government institutions have used information and communication technology (ICT) not only to improve public service delivery but also to fight against corruption on top of the concept of e-government. However, government institution alone is not enough to overcome corruption. This study argues that corruption in a country is a systemic crime which could be overwhelmed …
Website Vulnerability Scan for Information System of Toddler’s Growth and Development
Web-Based Information System of Toddler’s Growth and Development is a client server application which has been information source as monitoring tools for the growth and development. It also be accessed easier by parents, posyandu and medical personnel that has been implemented. On the other hand, the more easily to access this website also the more …
Gender Effect on Student Teachers’ Attitudes toward Peer Feedback in a Wiki Learning Environment
The focus of this research is pre-teachers’ attitudes toward peer feedback in a wiki learning environment and its relation to their self-esteem. Results indicate that women find it harder to give and receive feedback. Men agree more with statements that represent high self-esteem. Women agree more with statements which represent lower self-esteem and learning from …
A Hybrid Digital Watermarking Method Using Sectioning and Dwt Technique in Chrominance Channel
In this research, we proposed a hybrid method to improve performance of extraction process of the digital watermarking by applying the multiple sections embedding technique together with DWT digital watermarking method in the embedding process. The YCbCr colour space was selected for embedding and extracting a watermark signal. Also, a new pixel prediction method is …
Social Media Technology as a Disruptive and/or Complementary Technology in Higher Education: A Case Study of Vhembe Further Education Training College-South Africa
Social media technologies are being widely used by students in institutions of higher learning and these are transforming their way of learning, social conduct, communication and networking. Complements and disruptions of social media technologies appear to be blurred in the technologies that are currently on the market. It was with this intend that this research …
Developing a Game-Based Proprioception Reconstruction System for Patients with Ankle Sprain
Research results have revealed that ankle sprain is the top one cause for sport injury, indicating the relatively high demand of rehabilitation programme due to ankle sprain. For patients with ankle sprain, apart from providing treatment for joint and muscle tone, in order to maintain body balance and stability, proprioception reconstruction should also be considered …
A Study of Relocation Factors of Production Base and Investment of Japanese Investors from Thailand to CLMV+I Countries
The aim of this research is to study the factors that affect theories applied to the inventory management of auto- parts manufacturing companies. The sampling group was the executives who were responsible for inventory management of 342 auto- parts manufacturing companies located in industrial estates. Systematic random sampling was used to select the samples. The …
Transforming Language Learning through Technology
As is the case in many educational systems worldwide, secondary education in Thailand is largely teacher-centered. Students transitioning from this educational system to liberal arts universities in Thailand and beyond face serious disadvantages. The liberal arts model, which emphasises enquiry, problem solving, and critical analysis, stands in stark contrast to teacher-centered models of education, which …
The Study of Elementary School Teacher’s Behavior of Using E-Books by UTAUT Model
The purpose of this research is to applied Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model to investigate the factors that influence elementary school teacher��s behavior of using E-books. Based on the literature review, a questionnaire was modified and used to test the elementary school teachers in Changhua. A total of 420 questionnaires …
Development of a System to Analyze Students’ Keystroke Sequence in Programming Education
A coding style is one of the techniques of improving the quality of software. However, coding processes, such as a key type order, are not made into the main concerns. In bringing up a software engineer, mastery of a coding style including a key type process is important for novice programmer. However, even if it …
Design of Accessible Digital Picture Books for People with Print Disabilities
This research examined the design of accessible digital picture books (e-books) for people with print disabilities. Accessible e-books can be presented in a simplified layout, with suitable fonts, or audio synchronized with word highlighting. Previous studies have established that children show curiosity about recordings of unfamiliar natural voices that are different than their mother’s voice …
Derivations of the Factors Influencing Imagination Capabilities of Students Major in Computer Graphics
Computer graphics is an efficient means for exchanging information through graphical communication. Imagination capabilities are essential for computer graphics majored students in creative graphics design. However, very few researches tried to uncover the factors influencing the imagination capabilities of students major in computer graphics. To derive the factors, the focus group method was introduced. Based …
Valuation of Emerging Learning Solutions – Perspectives from Four Countries
Last decade has been a period of strong and rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT). However, schools have not adopted ICT for use at teaching and learning according to the available possibilities for ICT access. It has been indicated that students are in rather unequal situation in regard of 21st century learning enhanced …
Policy-Making Process of Higher Education and Vocational Training in the EU
This paper studies the policy-making process of higher education and vocational training in the EU from the viewpoint of norms and legalization. The legal system of the EU is characterized by binding hard law as the legislation and non-binding soft law as the norm. In the field of international relations, the concept of the norm …
Critical Perspectives on Arts Integration in Learning: For Whom and Why?
In 2002 when the British Columbia government mandated that school districts generate their own revenue, one attractive option was the creation of focus schools (schools of choice). This paper analyses the results of a case study based on the transformation of one elementary school on the brink of closure. When it transitioned into an arts-integrated …
Examination of Picture Story Books in Terms of Language-Cognitive Development Area Indicator and Concepts in Moe 2013 Early Childhood Education Program
This research is conducted for the examination of the compliance of picture story books prepared for early childhood education period children and language-cognitive development area outcomes, indicator and concepts in MOE 2013 Early Childhood Education Program. It is thought that examination and analyzes of picture story books in terms of concepts; language-cognitive development area outcomes …
Didactic Simulator Applied to Solving Problems of Vector Algebra in Two Dimensions
Education today faces challenges that put into question the value of their purpose, content and process, consequences of complexity in the academic process, one of the concrete manifestations of what should be the teacher is teaching acting. The construction of learning products which developed under different factors, conditions and educational practices that deal with the …
Analyzing Impact of Formally Taught Life Skills’ Curriculum on Self Esteem and Thinking Skills of Early School Children
There is a rapidly developing trend of anxiety and depressive disorders; the level of prevalence of such disorders is at 34% in urban Pakistan. We have analyzed that educational institutions can play a vital role in providing preventive tools that will facilitate in coping with diverse situations that pose challenges leading to disorders. Our study …
Flipped Classroom in Hong Kong Higher Education: An Experience Sharing
Flipped Classroom is a pedagogy in which direct instructions in class are flipped with practices and revisions at home. Students watch video lectures or complete other pre-class preparations before the taught sessions, while the face-to-face contact hours are left to active learning activities. This pedagogy, theoretically supported by the constructivism learning theory and practically inspired …
Peculiarities of Bachelors of Computer Science Professional Training: Japanese and Ukrainian Experience
The article presents the most urgent problem of reformation of system of professional education at Bachelor cycle in Ukraine with the implementation of progressive experience of the most educated and highly developed countries. The especial value and primary importance of achievements of Japan for pedagogical public of native higher educational establishments is emphasized. The comparative …