Month: December 2016
What’s Love got to do with it? Motivating Intercultural Competency and Language Learning Through Discussions of Intercultural Romantic Love Relationships
While English is a required subject in Japanese junior and senior high schools, Japanese university students’ communicative language competency is …
The Relevance and Impact of Professional Counselling on Land Use and Management for Environmental Sustainability: The Benue Experience in Nigeria
This paper would report the environmental implications of indiscriminate multiple land use in the Benue region of Nigeria. The relevance …
Pushing European Boundaries Towards East and West: Gulliver in Japan and America
Worldwide, in the East as well as in the West, one character has become a part of everybodys childhood, regardless …
Sustainability on Economic and Energy Planning of China
From the “13th five year” plan, China now is directing to transit to the green economy for not only relying …
Urban Logistics Planning of Kho Chang Port Island, Trad Province, Thailand
With the potentiality of Thailand in being ASEAN's logistics center, the past and present governments have given emphasis on this …
Searching for the Spice: On Chinese Diaspora’s Food Practice in Helsinki, Finland
In this research project, I examined the ever-changing interconnected relations between immigrants’ identity construction, food practice and the broader social …
Teaching Cross Cultural Communication Course Through Content Based Instruction: Curriculum Design and Learner Perspectives in an EFL Context
This study intends to introduce a content based curriculum design for the course "cross cultural communication" in an EFL context. …
DEA Environmental Assessment on U.S. Industrial Sectors
A green image is recently an important component for corporate survivability in modern business. This study discusses a new use …
Performance of a Solar Heating System with Photovoltaic Thermal Hybrid Collectors and Heat Pump
The energy consumption in buildings accounts for a large part of the World’s CO2 emissions. Much energy is used for …
The Strategies of Piano Manufacturers: Crafts, Industry and Marketing
This article focuses on a study of product architecture and marketing strategies of piano manufacturers; Steinway & Sons and Yamaha. …
Political Communication – Reach and Relevance: A Case Study of Delhi
In the nineteenth century mechanical printing replaced direct communication/dialogue/ speech. In the wake of twentieth century radio and television occupied …
Type of Coal and Possible Occurrence of Congestion Related to Eco-Technology Innovation in U.S. Electric Power Industry
Coal-fired power plants generate approximately 32% of electricity in the United States. The electric generators fueled by coal are a …
Time Series Analysis of Thai Flooding Effects on Japanese Insurance Companies
In this paper, we analyzed effects of the 2011 Thai flooding on Japanese economics, especially on the Japanese insurance companies. …
Effects of EFL Instruction Utilizing International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) on Intelligibility of Japanese Students
This study focuses on intelligibility of Japanese students pronunciation. Japanese students are handicapped in acquiring EFL, because Japanese differs from …
Sustainable Development of Catchment Land-Use for Multifunctional Agro-Ecological Landscapes Under a Changing Climate
Incorporating the likely impacts of climate change into regional and rural planning is vital to accommodate their profound effects on …
A Field Report on the Art Movement: The Case of Mullae Arts Village, Seoul
This study takes a deep look at the art movement as cultural practices based on the local community by focusing …
Influencing Factors and Processes Involved in the Commercialization of the Industry-University-Government Alliance Outcomes
According to data from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (data from 2004 to 2014), the total number of Industry-University-Government …
How Public Educational Policy Reform has Lost Its Way
American education has lost its sense of mission, its direction, its connection to real life, and its willingness to change …
Research on the Structural Forms of Dance
This paper which is about dance structure is the summary of the author’s practical experience, and could be regarded as …
Stochastic Model of Demand Curve Supported in Consumption Habits of Electric Energy for Residential Sector
This paper shows the methodological aspects to design and develop a stochastic model, which determines the demand curve from variation …
Marriage Al ‘Mosaico’ in Divorzio All’Islamica a Viale Marconi: Muslim-Arab Migrants’ Code Switching at Play in Amara Lakhous’ Novel
The present article focuses on a popular novel set in Rome, Divorzio all’ islamica a Viale Marconi (2010), in which …
Adding Value to Thailand’s Robusta Coffee through Geographical Indication
Coffee is the most valuable and widely traded tropical agricultural product. Thailand is one of the top coffee producers in …
The Effect of Cluster Simplification in Thai on the English Language Learners
This research is aimed at studying the effect of the change in progress of spoken standard Thai in terms of …
Management System Prototype for an Electric Iron to Contribute to Energy Efficiency
In this paper, a management system prototype for electric iron is presented with the purpose of monitoring tension, current, energy …
Study on Eco-Environment Crisis Coping with System of Russia under Sustainable Development Strategy Background
Ecological crisis is the challenge commonly faced by mankind, and it is environment protection topic emphasized by countries across the …
Teaching Whiteness in American Literature
Teaching Whiteness in American Literature discusses challenges to raising the consciousness of university students of American literature about the impact …
Transglobal Culture, Hybrid Food, and Cultural Identity
The term ‘East’ and ‘West’ cannot repudiate the binary concept on ‘local’ and ‘global’. And today, the discussion on the …
Microenvironment of HMGB1 “Clusters”: A Potential Drug Target for Cancer and Diabetes
The quest for potential therapeutic strategies to treat inflammatory diseases represents one of the topical progresses in the field of …
Numerical Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer in Adsorbent Beds with Rectangular Fins
A transient two-dimensional numerical model of coupled heat and mass transfers in adsorbent bed of a silica gel/water adsorption chiller …
Energy and Exergy Analysis of Evacuated Tubes Solar Air Collector with Micro-Heat Pipes Arrays (MHPA)
Solar air collector (SAC) occupies an important place among solar air heating systems because of simpler structure and lower manufacturing …
Art and Politics in Iraq: Examining the Freedom Monument in Baghdad
The Iraqi Freedom Monument by Jawad Salim in Baghdad is an example of an artistic achievement that came into existence …
Between Land and Sea: An Approach for Resilient New Development along the San Francisco Bay
The urban edge that defines the San Francisco Bay is a contested landscape whose boundaries are continually changing, both in …
A Qualitative Study of the Leadership Practices of Repatriated US-Educated Chinese Organizational Leaders
The number of students participating in international education is continuously rising. In particular, mainland China has been sending the greatest …
Teaching Japanese Across Borders: An Original Intercultural Approach
The goal of this paper is to present to the international academic public a unique and original book for teaching …
Challenges for the Online English Curriculum
Curriculum is a control for any study; it exemplifies the teaching and learning theory including what to teach (content), how …
Facilitating Language Use and Communication in ESL/EFL Classrooms through Game-Based Learning
The objectives of this paper are (a) to argue for the benefits of immersive virtual environments to enhance language use …
Introducing the First Large-Scale English Collocational Chunk List and Innovative Methods in Which Collocational Fluency Can Be Mastered
This presentation will discuss the findings of the speaker's PhD thesis which identified the most common chunks of English. The …
Implementation of Problem-Solving Instruction in a Global Education Course and Visualizing Japanese Undergraduate Students Learning
The world has been globalized at an unprecedented speed in that everything from people to information moves across nations more …
Internationalization of Library and Information Science Programs in Thailand: Development and Implementation
Internationalization is recognized as a key strategy to cope with changes in the new 21st century environment by increasing the …
The Exploration of Spatial Strategies on Social Construction in Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a unique city in China where 70% of people come from outside of the city. In fewer than …
Simulation-Based Learning: A New Educational Tool
Problem- based learning (PBL) has been well established in medical education as an efficacious learning technique. Meanwhile, developments in computer …
Intensive English Program for Engineering Students: An Action Research
Most international students take pre-college or pre-graduate school Intensive English Programs (IEP) to improve English skills in order to fulfill …
Curriculum Enhancement Through Learning Partnerships
The aim of this paper is to discuss an Aston University (Birmingham, UK) model for programme enhancement offered to international …
The Use of Application Builder & COMSOL Multiphysics as a Tool to Build and Deploy Simulation Apps for Heat Transfer
For teaching Heat transfer, we currently apply COMSOL Multiphysics software and its new application builder features. Main goals are to …
The Transport Phenomena: Course Teaching Strategies Using Comsol Simulation Apps for Engineers and Scientists
Teaching undergraduate transport phenomena fundamentals course in universities worldwide was mainly based on the well-known most useful chemical engineering textbook …
Writing in a Foreign Language
For many Japanese students, writing is probably the most difficult skill in English. The Ministry of Education of Japan (MEXT) …
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Through Karate for Sustainable Development in Education
Karate has a long and established history as an effective means of unarmed combat, incorporating techniques for self-defence. These centuries-old …
Exploring the Impacts of Race, Culture, and Language on African Refugee Students in Ontario Secondary Schools
Identity threat, or perceived identity threat, in school settings has been linked to decreased academic engagement and performance among minority …
Using DVDs to Introduce Multimodal Digital Literacy Practices into the Japanese EFL Classroom
Despite having the third largest economy in the world, Japan still lags behind countries like Malaysia and Korea in international …
The Origin of Kaibo:Ron Marine Defense Ideology in Pre-Modern Japan
(Analyzing the «Inquiry into Customs of Red Ezo» and «A Discussion of the Military Problems of a Maritime Country») The …
Bilingual Language Production: Shared or Separate Processing?
Language production processes have recently been of interest to many psycholinguistic researchers. While human beings are able to acquire multiple …
What is Interpretation and How Can I Perform it? A Case Study of Assessing Interpreter Training in Japan
Interpretation is a communication approach for facilitating personal meaning making and developing connections with things, places, people, and concepts and …
Facing the Challenge of Being a Woman Officer in the Belgian Army: Personality Profile and Coping Strategies
Forty years ago, the first women soldiers joined the Belgian army. Since then, much progress has been made in the …
The Diversity of Indigenous Wisdom on Grief: Exploring Social Work Approaches to Bereavement
The aim of our study was twofold: 1) to describe the diversity of indigenous wisdom on grief and maintaining relationships …
Motivations to Visit a Museum – Why Do You Visit While Others Don’t Go?
Museums are critical for resource conservation, while they can provide a recreational setting and enhance visitor’s leisure experience. Museums also …
Hardwood Propagation of Lantana Camara L. for Green Environment
Lantana is popular for its growth and flowering throughout the heat of summer and while it is a tender woody …
Quantitative Assessment of River Environment by Focusing on Benthic Biota
It is well known that the benthic biota in the river ecosystem changes drastically between the mountain and urban streams. …
Using Asset Management to Unlock Sustainability Potential
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) ensures the nation's nuclear security. Comprised of eight science …
Light, the Physical Factor Affecting the Social Security of Public Space in Historical Texture
Yazd city is the first adobe and the second historical city in the world. Placement of valuable historical texture of …
Waste Management Cost Impacts on Project Finance: A Case Study of Solar Photovoltaic Rooftops in Thailand
Recently, the Royal Government of Thailand has announced promotional policies for solar photovoltaic (PV) roof mounts. The feed-in tariff policy …
Teaching Generation Z at the University of Hawai’i
New generations of students are not the same as prior generations and they respond differently to instruction. The University of …
Junior College EFL Students Respond Better to a Formative Assessment Project Than a Paper Midterm
Replacing paper midterms with a challenging, assessment project is in line with Robinson and Ross’ ideas on measurement: “traditional skills-focused …
Using Social Network Analysis As a Tool for Improving Teaching Effectiveness
Social network analysis (SNA) is an excellent observational tool for understanding community formation in the classroom. Students engaged in the …
Instructor Experience Affects Perception of Student Technology Use as a Sign of Engagement
Devices such as cell phones, tablets, and laptops have become commonplace in the classroom. Students can use these devices to …
Effecting Positive Change in English Language Learning with Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an instructional framework developed from education and neuroscience research. Based on the knowledge that …
Developing Spoken Corpora of Non-Native English Teachers to Assist in English Classroom Interactions
This study reports the classroom speech traits of non-native English language instructors (NNIs) observed from the bilingual spoken corpora compiled …
LePo: An Open-Source Learning Management System with Text Annotation and Content Curation Functions
Web-based Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are widely used in educational institutions mainly because no management cost for native client application …
An Application of Team-Based Learning (TBL) with Thai as a Foreign Language Course
Team-based learning (TBL) is a structured type of cooperative learning that has growing application in many education fields. As opposed …
Teacher Will: A Framework to Transform Classroom Practices! It’s Intentional
The single unit of change in what matters for student learning is an effective teacher. What makes an effective teacher? …
Curricular Changes in Teacher Education: A View of Comparative Research in Three Contexts
This work is part of a project whose objective was to study curricular changes in teacher training programs from a …
Indian Sandalwood Fragrance Culture from East to West
The present study explores the cultural and techno sphere of Indian Sandalwood that has been affecting the increase of the …
Policy Networks of Central-Local Government Relations in the UK and Japan and Linkage of International Relations in the EU
Policy networks and linkage are tightly connected concepts in the politics. The policy networks defined by Rhodes are set of …
Oil Producers, Refiners and Renewable Energy Consumers: Correlation to the Wealth, Competitiveness, Peace and Happiness of Populations
A popular perception suggests that nations with abundant natural resources will ultimately demonstrate stronger economic performance. Studies investigating this perception, …
When Fraud Wears Religious Cassocks
According to the US court papers, Taipei Smartphone maker HTC Corp’s founder, Cher Wang, was defrauded out of US$7.4 million …
A Comparative Analysis of Environmental and Economic Costs of PV Solar Imports and Manufacturing: China vs. Ontario, Canada
Solar energy is one of the most suitable renewable sustainable energy options with the opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. …
Ending Hatred and the Start of Healing: President Elpidio Quirino’s Pardoning of Japanese War Criminals in the Philippines and its Aftermath
On July 22, 1953 President Elpidio Quirino issued a proclamation granting executive clemency to 105 Japanese war criminals and allowed …
International Law & Sovereignty: A Divisive Concord of Paradigms in the South China Sea
The contemporary system of interdependent states, driven by the continuous demands of globalization has led to the ever-increasing relevance of …
Sarkans Junijs’ – Military Relationship Between Japan and the Baltic States in the 1930s
In terms of the pre-war relationship between the Baltic states and Japan, Japanese historians tend to emphasize Chiune Sugihara's contribution …
Brazil’s Foreign Policy and Asymmetrical Partnership with China and Japan, 2003-2015
Brazil is among the 7th largest economies in the world and Asia has always been a priority in the foreign …
The Analysis of China’s Soft Power in Africa (1978-2015)
The main purpose of this paper is to examine China’s soft power in Africa (1978-2015). Coincided with seizing power by …
Victory in Cyberspace: Issues, Means, and Geography
A review of state-initiated and state-sponsored incidents in cyberspace in the past decade reveals that over two thirds of these …
The Geopolitics of Dam Construction and Operation Along the Mekong River: Implications for Food Security in the Region
Rivers cater to the needs of the people, especially in terms of food, agriculture and energy. Rivers are important to …
Ontological Security and the Limits of Realism and Neo-Realism
Ontological Security as an International Relations theory is not yet able to carry the same weight within the discipline as …
Reconciliation: The Conditions of Possibility that Enable Practices in the Anlong Veng Community, Cambodia
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the conditions of possibility that enable practices of reconciliation in the Anlong …
A Twenty-Point Recipe of Peace – The National Action Plan for Pakistan: Context, Analysis and Evaluation of Successes and Pitfalls
A twenty-point recipe of the National Action Plan (NAP) has become a core strategy to counter terrorism in Pakistan after …
Stateless Persons and Climate Refugees in Asia
UNHCR has indicated that 65.3 million individuals were forcibly displaced in 2015: 40.8 million people around the world were displaced …