Month: June 2014
Religion and Respeto: The Role and Value of Respect in Social Relations in Rural Oaxaca
This paper discusses the different ways that the notion of ‘respect’ (respeto) is used in common discourse in rural Oaxaca, …
To Mend the World: Trauma, Containment and Mourning
In his 1989 work, To Mend the World, Emil Fackenheim systematically confronts the questions he believes are posed to philosophy, …
Love, Suffering and Conflict: Some Lessons from Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents
In Civilization and its Discontents, Freud suggests that interpersonal relations constitute one of the three main sources of human suffering, …
NonStandard Ethics
Contemporary Ethics is, mathematically speaking, a field biweldered by its natural commutativity axiom, wherein any nonzero element is invertible. Not …
A Call for Positive Metaphysical Agnosticism: Creating a Synergistic Relationship between the Individual and the Community in the Religious Studies Classroom
The religious studies classroom has become an increasingly dynamic "place" over the last several decades, and this trend will continue …
System of World Coordinates on the Basis of Extreme Dynamic Equilibrium – Link between Natural and Artificial
Artificial formations are often created in arbitrary manner, but in complexity world it is very dangerous. All artificial formations must …
Role of Noobiogeocoenosis in Interaction of Artificial and Natural
The contradictions between artificial and natural reality lead to the ecological crisis. The biosphere is the object of natural planetary …
Industry’s Needs on Oral Communication Skills among Tourism Students in a Polytechnic
As a growing industry, tourism provides tremendous opportunity for students who enjoy working with people. It is important that the …
Existential Communication: Beyond Conflict
Some, if not all, of our most deeply held positions are not at all the
result of reasoned enquiry but …
Cornering the Muses: A Multifaceted Approach to Assessing Creativity
Since Guilford addressed the American Psychological Association in 1950 and called for an academic movement for the study of creativity, …
Applying Culture Bound Theory to Acute Social Withdrawal (hikikomori)
This paper seeks to identify factors that implicate culture bound theory both in the socio demographic orientation of hikikomori and …
Compulsive Buying among Late Adolescents as an Identity-related Compensatory Behaviour: Big Five Personality, Identity Motives and Self-construal as Predictors
Compulsive buying is dysfunctional consumer behaviour with harmful personal, social, psychological, and financial problems. Social psychological perspectives define compulsive buying …
Crime, Conflict and Control in Bangkok
As there were considerable crime and conflict in Bangkok, the researcher studied and analyzed such problems compared with crime problems …
Correlations among Peer Relations, Learning Activities with Friends, and University Adjustment
In September 2013, to examine the correlations among peer relations, learning activities with friends, and university adjustment, a questionnaire was …
A First-attack Urticaira Increased Risk of Following Depression in Adolescence – National Study
Objective: Urticaria is a common ailment in adolescents. Its symptoms (e.g., unusual looking rash, limited daily activities, and recurrent itching) …
Real, Relevant or Redundant: Positioning and Re-Positioning Buddhism in Australia as an Education Paradigm
This paper explores the development of a Buddhist religious education program conducted in state primary schools in Australia. It considers …
Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for the Elderly – A Case Series
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an increasingly rare commodity to find in psychiatric practice, but has never been seen to have a …
To See is to Believe: Why Students Cannot Detect Geometric Properties?
Geometric properties are important characteristics to identify geometric shapes. The sorting task in geometric shapes is to help students understand …
Students’ Perspectives on Learning Environments: Factors Affecting Their Satisfaction and Emotions in School
Children spend most of their waking time in school; therefore, experiences in school are a major domain in their life. …
Femoral Neck Fracture Increase the Chance of Suffering Depression: A National Population-Based Follow-Up Study
Comorbidities, poor levels of activity and pain may contribute to the development of depression, but these factors have not been …
A Study of the Relationship between Resilience and Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Adolescent Students affected by Civil Unrest in the Three Border Provinces in Southern Thailand
This research is aimed to 1) study resilience of adolescents students affected by civil unrest in the three border provinces …
Internet Using Behavior of Teenagers
This research was qualitative based research. The objectives were to better understand Internet media consumption behaviors and search for terms …
The Discourse Analysis of Social Reflection Drama of Sexual Behavior of Teenagers
The objectives of this research were 1) To find the characteristics of adolescent’s sexual behavior reflected in the characters. 2) …
A Study of Sexual Value of University Students of Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok Chantaburi Campus
This research has two main objectives: 1) to determine the sexual value of students in Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok …
The Study of Well-Being in Grade 12 Students
The purpose of this research was to examine the well-being of high school students and to determine comparability of well-being …
The Growth of Science in Developing Nations: A Discourse in Intercultural Philosophy
Conceiving science in a cultural or national context seems a conceptual absurdity. This sense of absurdity derives from the positivists' …
Indonesian Primary School Students’ Perceptions on Academic Help-seeking Behaviour
Seeking academic help when students are facing academic difficulties is considered to be an adaptive behaviour. However, many studies have …
Oral Health Practices During Pregnancy
Background: This study contends that poor oral health might associate with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Little is known about oral hygiene …
Health Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in Young Adulthood
In young adulthood most people begin to realize the meaning of health. The amount of costs to be incurred for …
Cognition for Eating Behavior of Thai’s Consumer: The Mirror of Public Health Policies
Nowadays, Thai consumers, especially those who live in the main cities have active concerns regarding their eating behavior even though …
Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to Investigate Consumers’ Purchase Intention: Usana as an Example
The sudden boom in direct selling business in recent years has drawn a considerable number of participants. The mechanism that …
Cognitive Change among Foreign Managers in Japan’s IT Sector
There is a large volume of research on foreign worker adjustment, though little has taken on the issue of cognitive …
Requiem for a Beast: A Case Study in Controversy
In 2008, Matt Ottley’s Requiem for a Beast: A Work for Image, Word and Music was awarded the Book of …
Developing Reading Culture for the Challenges of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria
The paper critically interrogates and assesses the importance of reading and its indispensable contributions to the educational development of the …
The Recuperation of African History in African Fiction
The relationship between fiction and history is quite an obvious one, especially in postcolonial African settings, where it is more …
When The Whale Talks Back: An Interspecies Cultural Dialogue in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005)
The paper explores the ways in which the narrative perspectives relate the interconnectedness between human characters and nonhuman characters, Saluni …
Interference of Arts in the Saudi Literature (Narrative and Formative Model)
The interference with arts contributed effectively to the development of the expressiveness of the literary text ,and to supply it …
Unacknowledged Matricide in T. S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion
T.S. Eliot admits the two serious problems he had not solved properly: the Furies, the disruptive perspective of the play. …
Mario Vargas Llosa’s Conversacion en la Catedral: A Paradigm of Corruption
"At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?" exasperatingly asks Conversation in the Cathedral, the highly acclaimed novel of …
Terrible Beauty: the Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature
War narration is inseparably linked with the image of death, which is a very sensitive issue. This paper shows how …
Considerations on Finnish and Romanian Literary and Cultural Relations within European Context
Sharing similar historical development, fairly equally placed under the eastern bloc pressure, Romania and Finland slowly became involved in a …
Death Drive: Vampires in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles
The essay attempts to discuss the literary meaning of immortality and the symbolic interaction of vampire figures in Anne Rice’s …
Cultural Colonization in Poems by Wallace Stevens
The reason for Wallace Stevens' skepticism regarding cultural colonies is clear. Most of the people in America are descendents of …
Game for None, Game for All: Verbal Contentions and Life Affirmation in De Turkey and De Law
Zora Neale Hurston, a Harlem Renaissance African American female writer in the 1920s, grew up at Eatonville, an all-black community …
Utopian Individuals, Dystopian Societies: Two Communal Imaginations in Meiji Japan
This paper offers a dialogical comparison of the writings of Japanese Buddhist Anarchist pioneers Uchiyama Gudo (1874-1911) and Takagi Kemmyo …
Feminism and the Nigerian Female Question: A Feminist Appraisal of Zaynab Alkali’s Stillborn
This paper examines feminism as a literary ideology, which attempts to win for women a status of recognition and parity …
Challenging Childhoods: Representations of Conflict in Australian Junior Historical Fiction Since 1945
Representations of conflict permeate Australian junior historical fiction, including acts of extreme violence, acts of political protest and acts of …
Atomic Bomb’s Survivors’ Personal Narratives in Contemporary and Intercultural Contexts: Lessons Yet to Be Learned
The voices of A-bomb survivors are getting lost in this multimedia environment as the world stage has become crowded. Hibakusha’s …
A Synthesis of Researches Conducted by Personal of Sirindhorn College of Public Health Chonburi during 2009-2011
The purpose of this study was to analyze the situation of research conducted by personnel of Sirindhorn College of Public …
Design from Fiction to Reality: An Exploration into the Process of Design in Cosplay
Enthusiasts dressing up as anime characters and posing for photography have become a common sight in anime activities around Taiwan. …
Ethical Transformation of Individual Managers through Spirituality: A Sufi Perspective
Business ethics literature appears to focus more on philosophy and seems to have overlooked spirituality. Though spirituality has started to …
Consumer Behaviors of Meat with Traceability in Thailand: The Psychological Mechanism
Due to the outbreak of mad cow disease and bird flu, consumers around the globe are more concerned with meat …
Country Personality: The Application of Brand Personality Concept to Country as a Brand
Brand personality refers to human personality traits associated with a brand. Through a series of studies, Aaker (1997) uncovers five …
“Just Eliminate the Illness; Do Not Eliminate Dharmas”: A Case Study on the Lived Experience of a Buddhist Surviving Spouse
Despite the fact that myriads of publications, basing on Western theories, have investigated spousal loss, which threatens to physical health …
Factors Associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders in School-age Children in Thailand
This cross-sectional analytical study examined the relationship between risk factors of Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) in school-age children in …
Self-leadership as an Impetus for Individual, Group or Community Development
The concept "self-leadership" is an outgrowth of the broader term "leadership" whose purpose is to motivate others in utilizing their …
The Role of Service Competencies: Promoting the Relationship between Frontline Employee and Customer
Within the service industry, the service-person enhances customer commitment by increasing customer benefits and decreasing customer costs, but is also …
The Influence of Sekentei and Significant Others on Seeking Help toward Psychological Services
The under-utilization of mental health services is salient in Japan, implying that those seeking psychological help can be inhibited through …
Logo-bibliotherapy on People Suffering from Myasthenia Gravis
Myasthenia Gravis (MG), is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that is characterized by a weakness of the skeletal muscles within …
Cognitive Dissonance among Chinese Gamblers: Cultural Beliefs versus Gambling Behavior
The main objective of this research was to ascertain whether there is cognitive dissonance among Chinese gamblers as a consequence …
Relationship between Self-efficacy, Self-esteem, and Attachment Style among Juvenile Delinquency in Urmia City – Iran
Psychological factors, such as self-esteem and self-efficacy, have been shown to be equally as important in contributing to the cause …
An Application of the UTAUT Model for Exploring Cosmetics Product Purchase Intention of Virtual Community Members
Technology development have been rapidly grown and adapted by people. Internet users in Taiwan have been a great number and …
Note on Publishing Intensity and Publishing Breadth
Given a set of leading scholars, a list of journals and a
period of time, publishing intensity (PI) of a …
A Structural Model of the Factors of Dissatisfaction Involved in Mobile Applications
Mobile Applications (Apps) have been increasingly popular in the recent years and are changing people's daily lives in leisure and …
Measuring Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Balanced Scorecard for Taiwan Medical Equipment Industry
Nowadays, the rapid changes of industrial environment have led to fierce competition among enterprises, and evaluating performances has become crucial …
Exploring the Effect of Service Recovery Strategy on Internet Consumers’ Satisfaction and Word-of-Mouth
While more and more consumers are shopping on the Internet, the consumers can easily change their mind and switch to …
The Driving Factors of Key Value Influence Online B2B Banking Satisfaction
Purpose - In the case of rapid technological progress, online business-to-business (B2B) banking services provide efficient and convenient finical services …
Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Library to Face SCOAP3’s Development
The SCOAP3 funding model is entirely open to "core" journals in the HEP
content. This article describes the development, funding …
The Innovative Arrest Warrant Tracking System
There currently remain 152,148 warrants in the database of the Royal Thai Police (data as of 28 March, 2013, Royal …
Attitudes towards Meeting in Real Life via the Internet in Japanese University Students
In recent years, several crimes concerning victims and perpetrators who had previously met via the Internet and had subsequently met …
Self-esteem, Readiness for Self-improvement and Subjective Well-being in Women from Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures
The question of how collective self-esteem and personal self-esteem are linked to readiness for self-improvement and subjective well-being in women …
The Study of Social Intelligence in Adolescents in Roi-Et Province
This study aimed to 1)examine the level of Social Intelligence in adolescents in Roi-Et province, Thailand 2)to study correlation between …
Uses and Gratifications for Paid Mobile Applications
The increasing growth of the mobile applications industry attributes to the popularity of the smartphone. More and more people use …
Exploring Consumer Perception of Pop-Up Advertisement
Nowadays, not only on the computer, but also smart phones and other mobile devices, Internet advertising has become increasingly common. …
A Study on Quality of Life in Male to Female Transgender
The objective of this study was to examine Transgenders' quality of life. Samples were 120 Transgenders in Chonburi province, Thailand, …
Predicting Consumer’s Intention to Buy Local Specialty Online
The purchases of local specialties were usually seen in conventional physical stores in the past. The potential consumers were the …
Influence of Mental Models of Attachment during Middle Childhood on Self-esteem and Social Competence: A Short-term Longitudinal Study
Purpose: This short-term longitudinal study examined the influence of attachment mental models (AMM) during middle childhood on self-esteem and social …
A Study on Reasons for Living of Inmates in Chonburi Women’s Penitentiary Center
The purpose of this study was to survey the female inmates' reasons for living. The samples included 99 inmates who …
The Effect of Sensation Seeking from Peers, Parenting Style, Religious Values and Juvenile Delinquency in Middle Adolescence of High School
This study wanted to see the effect of sensation seeking, parenting style, and the value of religious studies on juvenile …
The Potential of the Museum Collection Management Systems (MCMS) Development in Hong Kong Museum of History (HKMH)
The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the use of qualitative methods in the field of library …
Car Safety Rating and Consumer Decision Making: with Respect to ASEAN NCAP
Emerging as one of the developing regions in automotive industry, countries in the Southeast Asia region are experiencing growth at …