Month: July 2016
Trieste/Crossroads of Cultures in Central Eastern Europe: Transformations/Contradictions and Continuities at the Italian Eastern Border
This paper aims to highlight some peculiarities of this border region contested between Italy and Yugoslavia where the ethnic differences, …
Talking Like a (Foreign) Man: Diaspora Teenage Languages Shaping Urban Spaces in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani
This paper aims to investigate the role of language for the British Indian diasporic community teenagers of London, for whom …
Up and Down the City Road: London in the Other’s Eyes
This paper probes into two facets of the life of Indian immigrants in post-war London portrayed in Anita Desai's Bye-Bye, …
Overcoming Barriers to Gender Equity in the Workplace: Why aren’t we there yet?
Gender inequity continues to exist in all facets of society, community and the workplace. This paper seeks to explore the …
South Korea Gimhae City Color Palette of Representative Colours and Symbolic Colour Development
City colors analysis and guidelines development is a way to assist the city to become more sustainable and be developed …
The Dimensions of Childhood in Modern Architecture: From Urban Scales to Domestic Spaces
According to many authors, architecture is more than meets the eye: it is the image of a certain historical, cultural, …
Surrealism: A Global Cultural Movement with Local Political Agency
Surrealism is a cosmopolitan cultural movement that transcends the very notion of a nation-state. Notwithstanding, it has been canonised as …
The Impacts of Globalization on Urban Peripheral Villages of Iran
Globalization as an ongoing economic, social, political and technological process has various impacts around the world, which its quantity and …
Urban Aspirations: A Field View from the Margins of the City
Indian cities are transforming rapidly. Though there is a huge variation between the transformation of various cities but metropolises like …
Public Images/Private Lives: Blurring Truth and Fantasy in the World of Professional Bondage and Discipline
Public images and private lives often do not match up. Indeed, social life is premised as much on what is …
Orchestrating French Music Conservatories: European Political Interventions and Local Governances
This research aims to understand the processes of institutional recombination of French higher music education system in the context of …
Internet Addiction Motivations Among Chinese Young People: A Qualitative Analysis
The present study aims to explore the internet use pattern and the possible internet addiction motivations among Chinese young people, …
Rugao and Water Garden in Seventeenth Century China
My paper focuses on Rugao, a city on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, during the period of the …
The Specificities of a Public Procurement Contract Contract Formation
As opposed to civil law, where contracts are generally formed simply through offer and acceptance, in public procurement law the …
Falklands Calling’: Exploring the Life of the Local Community in Terms of Global Interaction
The aim of this paper is to explore the degree of international interaction of the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands. …
The Soundscape East of The River: Sonic Icons in Nagai Kafū’s Writings
By focusing on the auditory dimension of Nagai Kafū’s (1879-1959) representation of Tokyo in his most renown – and admittedly …
Keys to Words That Are Already There: Chief Bromden’s Psychedelic Journey Towards Redemption
This paper investigates how One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an artistic piece of psychedelic creation that traces the …
The Specificities of Lisbon As an International (City) Actor
States have been, traditionally, the key analytical category to reason on International Relations (IR) with different renounced authors explicitly or …
The Acceptance of Social Network Services of Generation Y in Thailand
This research is aimed to 1) study the relationship between the perceived usefulness in the use of social network services …
A Journey Through La Barceloneta: Neighbours and the Changing Cultural Identity of Barcelona’s Beach Suburb
This paper explores the shifting urban and cultural transformation of one of Barcelona’s most iconic suburbs: la Barceloneta. Targeted by …
Gender in Negotiation
This study aims to investigate how negotiator perceive the other side when the negotiator identified the same or opposite sex. …
The Significance of Social Components in Urban Transformation in the Context of Sustainability: A Romany Neighbourhood Example/Istanbul
Cities are like living organisms like every single living creature that is born, grows up and dies. Just as when …
Globalization and the Rise of Ethnic Conflict in Southeast Asia
The rise of ethnic conflict in Southeast Asia is a phenomenon brought about by the tension coming from the assertion …
A Culture of Peace and Indigenous Women’s Engagement in Peacebuilding: A Cross-Cultural Concern
Southeast Asia is home to various cultural communities beset with war and conflict. Peace building efforts in the islands have …
Investing on Preventive Diplomacy: How ASEAN can Generate Soft Power through Its Peacemaking Mechanism
Preventive diplomacy is defined by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum as diplomatic or political action used …
The Global and Local Urban Identity
The notion of urban identity has been the subject of many researches. In the era of globalization, the impact of …
Neglect and Abandonment in Anne Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler (born 1941) is one of the creative twentieth century American writers. Classified by critics as a Southern writer, …
Who’s Next in Line? Succession Planning Practices of Academic Libraries
As libraries continue to evolve in their future of unlimited possibilities, they frequently undergo transitions in leadership that have an …
Trends in Reference Newspapers in Chile: The Art of Balancing Positions Through the Framing of Political News Sources
The study analyzes whether the press, in the context of Chile’s concentrated media ownership, shows trends to a uniform framing …
Antigone and Politics of Plurality in Postmodern Era
In Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone (441 BC), the heroine Antigone defies the state law, which Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, …
Finding Value that Matters: Investigating Librarian’s Attitudes Toward Continuing Professional Development Pursuits
This paper primarily investigates the librarian’s attitude in their participatory decisions when it comes to their continuing professional development (CPD) …
Culture, Language and Applied Linguistics: Language Teaching and Cultural Awareness
The role of culture in a field as vast as applied linguistics is so pronounced and vital that even a …
What Happens When We “Cage” Our Fellow Humans?
Literature is a powerful medium for examining justice, judgment, and society’s treatment of humankind. “Does justice have a dark side?” …
Networked Music Improvisation: A Common Rhythm for Art and Science.
In a context of isolation of different knowledge, simultaneous online music improvisation reestablishes a sense of justice synthesizing equanimous “points …
Mother Goddess in Kerala: Discursive Struggles and Contested Signifiers in a Popular Faith Phenomenon
Mata Amritanandamayi faith is a popular faith phenomenon that began in Kerala, South India during the late 1970s. Over the …
Unjust Identity Quest: Sahar Khalife’s the Inheritance: A Post-Colonial Study
In Sahar Khalifeh’s novel The Inheritance, the reader is immersed in a hysterical world of various Diasporas revealed between the …
Talk Little and Know How to Listen’: Women’s Magazines as Moral Judges
Even though women’s magazines do not escape the general malaise affecting journalism today, they have always managed to captivate a …
Media Portrayal of Street Violence against Egyptian Women
"Often ignored in media coverage of the Egyptian revolution is how protests led by labor unions—many of them women based …
Graphic Design on Packaging for Development of Local Textile Products: A Case of Cloth Weaving Commodities in Mahasarakham Province, Thailand
This research aimed to raise a product brand (Underwood, Klein, and Burke, 2001) for cloth weaving commodities in Mahasarakham province, …
The Nigeria – Biafra Conflict: The Inalienable Right to War
In Gowon’s 2015 Convocation Lecture titled “No Victor, No Vanquished” at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, he still upheld the necessity …
The Examination of Adolescents’ Motives, Relational Maintenance and Intimacy in the Communications with Their Parents
The widespread and mobile access to new technologies have affected adolescents in their daily life. Prior studies have attributed the …
Occult and Religious Tattoos Symbols Amongst the Underground Musicians and Fans in East Java, Indonesia.
My research is based primarily on participant observation fieldwork in Surabaya and Sidoarjo, Indonesia. I interviewed 45 musicians and fans …
Intercultural Education of Pre-Graduate Teacher Training Students From the Perspective of Intercultural Sensitivity: Comparative Insight into the Czech Educational System
The paper focuses on the issue of Czech pre-graduate teacher training students' intercultural sensitivity within a comparative insight into the …
Hindi Television News Media (HTVNM): An Inquiry About Domineering Studio Journalism
Hindi television news media is in a developing and growing stage. Although it might have been inspired or influenced from …
Domestication and Foreignization in the Revolt of the Young: Essays by Tawfiq Al-Hakim
The Revolt of the Young is a collection of essays originally published in 1984 by one of the most distinguished …
Educational Practices Between Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University and Lipa City Colleges: A Comparative Study
The study determined the difference between the educational practices of Lipa City Colleges (LCC) and Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University (BSRU) such …
Media Websites and Their Visitors’ Choices on Cookies
Cookies are small bits of data that are being sent from the websites a user visits and downloaded to their …
Evaluating Turkish Media Coverage of Results for the November 2015 Elections
It is obviously seen that the Turkish general election of November 2015 will be a political phenomenon for the Turkish …
Doris Salcedo: Parameters of Political Commitment in Colombia
Doris Salcedo is the most prominent sculptor from Colombia ever and currently, one of the most prestigious Latin-American artists in …
The Good German: Consensus and Dissent in the Development of British Wartime Subversive Propaganda
With particular attention to the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), this paper will examine the way in which British propagandists approached …
Illustrating Justice between Literal Representation and Visual Metaphor
Artists have been representing justice as an abstract concept for long centuries, revealing and interpreting its comprehensive meaning through illustrations, …
Easy-To-Read Books for Children with Dyslexia in Public Libraries
In Japan, most public libraries do not provide sufficient easy-reading materials or make available reading facilities suitable for Japanese children …
Environmental Justice and Sustainability: Evaluating the Built Environment Professional Practices in the Nigerian Context
Elsewhere environmental justice and sustainability goals have been mainstreamed, guided and enforced by policy implementations. Furthermore, environmental justice plays a …
Educational Planning: Dropout of CWSN and SLD Children in India
India is striving for universal enrolment up to secondary level in schools. The planning documents reveal that Net Enrolment Ratio …
Does the Kitchen Location Matter? Comparing PM in Buildings in Irasa Community of Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
Predominate cooking fuel in majority of developing countries continues to be biomass fuel (agricultural wastes, wood, charcoal, sawdust, wood chip). …
Techno-Economic Analysis of a Grid-Connected Hybrid Biogas/Photovoltaic Power Generation System in the Mediterranean Region
Depletion of fossil fuels and oncoming impacts of global warming reveal the vitality of utilizing renewable power generation systems for …
Modeling Sustainable Futures: Cultural Shift Strategies
Recognition of the detrimental effects of rapid industrialization have resulted in the development of policies that are designed to promote …
The Unlikely Pollution Haven
According to the pollution haven competitiveness hypothesis more stringent environmental policy adversely affects international competitiveness in a polluting industry. To …
The Role of Environmental Organizations in Protecting Human Rights and Performing Social Justice in Indonesia
Mining activities carried out by Transnational Corporations (TNCs) may cause positive and negative impacts in developing countries, such as in …
A Literature Review on the Strategy Planning, Implementation and Execution in Large Service Industry and Cultural Effects on Strategy Execution
The pedantic strategy is one of the key element of any cooperation’s success. However, the implementation of the strategy is …
The Access of Disabled Persons on the Romanian Labour Market: An Institutional Ethnography of the Role of Social Welfare
Using a qualitative approach based on an institutional ethnography of social organization of work inclusion for disabled persons, the current …
Upward Flow Analysis of Methanol in Hydrofracking
Energy resources and generation of energy have always been popular topics since the industrial revolution. While the necessity for increased …
The Effect of Firms Reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project on Their Co2 Emissions
Nowadays, we are more aware of climate change and so increasingly sensitive to the “green” economics in order to assure …
Accessibility to Justice for Foreigners Before the Indonesian Constitutional Court
In 2007, the Indonesian constitutional court refused judicial review submitted by 3 Asstralian citizens. Those people have been sentenced to …
The Framework of Corruption As a Human Rights Violation and Its Implication to the Indonesian Penal System and Corrution Judicial
The Indonesian Anti Corruption Act perceives corruption is not only related to state financial loss, but also as a violation …
The Contract of Assignment in Public Procurement Law
Contracts are legally binding between two signing parties. In some cases, rights can be transferred to third parties with respect …
Balancing the Hybridization of Public Libraries and Private Companies
This article explores how the government balances hybridization of public libraries and private companies based on a study in Japan. …
Justice for Psychopaths: Punishment or Therapy
Psychopathy is one of the most dangerous mental disease and provides a theoretical and practical challenge to the Criminal law …
“The Consciousness Evolution”: Identification and Re-Identification after the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
Stemmed from the Umbrella Movement in September of 2014, Hong Kong had experienced dramatic social and political changes that people …
Penal Mediation for Medical Dispute Settlement in Indonesia Perspective
In Indonesia, most of medical malpractices which were submitted before the court brought loss to the patients. Besides having high …
Patients’ Rights and Medical Liability Within Off-Label Prescription
Off-label prescription refers to the use of a medication beyond what it is established in the respective Marketing Authorization Application …
What Drivers Determine CSR Strategies in the Energy Industry? Evidence From Italy
This paper moves from the awareness that companies in the energy sector are increasingly stimulated to deal with the growing …
Curbing Suburban Sprawl: Adding the Education Variable to the Housing + Transportation Model
In urban planning, there is considerable discourse about how to curb suburban sprawl, increase densities in the urban core and …
Industry Sectors Specifics of Remanufacturing Processes
Today remanufacturing is a key industrial discipline at the end of a product's life cycle. In terms of the economic …
Acquisitive Prescription ss a Mean of Acquiring Ownership: An Albanian Perspective on the DCFR
Acquisitive prescription has been for centuries a consolidated institute through which becomes possible the acquisition of ownership. The goal of …
Public Debt and Improvement of Laws on Public Debt Management in Vietnam
In the highly unstable context of current world economy, public debt has become a hot issue that many countries are …
Organisational Culture that Facilitate Lean Implementation
Purpose: Lack of research regarding the critical factor of organisational culture related to lean implementation and Culture is the key …
The Efficiency of the Commodity Futures Market in Thailand
Since two commodity futures markets are organized in Thailand – the Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX) and the Agricultural Futures Exchange …
Develop the Independent Corruption Eradication Commission Through Redesigning the Recruitment Mechanism of the Corruption Eradication Commission’s Chairman
The Corruption Eradication Commission was formed as a special government institution to combat corruptions. The institution is constitutionally granted an …
Palm Oil Sustainability Certification and Firm Performance: Is There a Conflict Between RSPO and MSPO?
Malaysia is very proactive in governing its palm oil industry. As the second largest world exporter of palm oil it …
3D Mapping and GIS Technology for Soil Characterization of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Sites
To understand the decision framework for hydrocarbon contaminated soil remediation technology selection, it is important to understand the general principles …
Mobile Phones Use in an Arab Context: Blending Modernity and Tradition
This exploratory study examines Arab college students' use of mobile phones, and investigates the impact of mobile telephony on Arab …
Quality Management and the Reduction of Unproductive Times in Agro-Industrial Processes: Bonduelle Portugal
Because of not adding value to the final product, the unproductive times are the subject of this study, in order …
Improvement of law on Anti-Money Laundering through Commercial Banks in Vietnam – Some Lessons from Some other ASEAN Countries
Currently, the phenomenon of money laundering through commercial banks which are the intermediary financial institutions has become more complex and …
Low Cost Taxis an Environmentally Friendly Low Cost Transport. A Study Made at the City of Lisbon, Portugal
This project, nesting in the entrepreneurism area, aims to develop an innovative road transport network for passengers (TAXI) at the …
Complementarity Between Human Capital and Research and Development Activities
National Innovation System (NIS) approach specifically focuses on the interactions among the components of system as a basic dynamic of …
Migration Flows and Municipal Waste Analysis Using the Spatial Panel Durbin Model – The Case of Poland
The aim of the paper is to examine the impact of migration processes (mainly the emigration and immigration) and economic …
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Development the Case of the Niger Delta
In recent years, multinational companies operating in developing countries have come under increased pressure to engage in community development as …
FDI Motivations and Their Impacts in Former Soviet Republics
The growth of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) activities through Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in developed and developing countries have largely attracted …
Investment, Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions: An Analysis on the Strategy of Industry Development
Taiwan has exposed the vulnerability of its economy during the 2008 financial crisis. The issues on democratization, the rise of …
Just Transition and the Renewable Energy Industry – to What Extent Does the German Energiewende Consider Decent Work and Job Quality?
The paper refers to the concept of Just Transition and examines the corresponding interface of energy and labour policies in …
The Global Economic System is in a Reverse Direction and No One Repaired it
The way money has been handled is directly related to the multiple crises facing humanity. The existence of debt allows …
Study on Service Quality of Select Indian Banks: Usage of Data From Online Review Sites
Measuring Service Quality has bas been an area of interest for researchers since 1980s. As the retail banking institutions become …