Month: November 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Influence of Organizational Communication
Purpose - To date, the effective organization communication with employees has long been recognized as the essential tool for developing …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Suratthani Rajabhat University Branding
The objective of the research is to study the different perceptions of the image of Suratthani Rajabhat University by people …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Convergence Journalism
This is a qualitative study on convergence journalism, focusing on its definition and concept. This study covers different topics in …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …