Year: 2018
The System Dynamics of Character Education in Indonesia
There has been growing interest in Indonesia’s character education, especially after The Presidential Regulation no. 87 of 2017 on Strengthening Character Education and The 2003 National Education System Law. Indonesia is predicted will be a great industrial country in 2045. A stable education system is essential to build a nation and accelerate Indonesia’s development to …
What are Missing on the English Teacher Preparation Programme at Japanese Universities in Terms of Pronunciation Instruction?
The purpose of this study is to examine how English pronunciation instruction is dealt with in the teacher preparation programme at Japanese universities and to suggest how the trainees can be better prepared in terms of pronunciation instruction before they start teaching in classroom settings. The literature review verifies vicious cycle of pronunciation of instruction, …
Internationalization in a National Education System: Initiatives in Japan to Introduce International Baccalaureate Programmes
Our rapidly changing world means that education in any part of the globe must now serve an increasingly complex set of needs and purposes. The Japanese government recognizes the need for changes in the traditional national educational system, the need to internationalize. As one of many initiatives to address this MEXT is working to introduce …
All On Screen : The Effects of Digitized Learning Activities on Increasing Learner Interest and Engagement in EFL Classroom
With digital natives as learners, today’s EFL classroom has become a challenging field for teachers to design a lesson which will effectively capture and maintain learner attention and engagement. This study attempts to elaborate a technology-based learning environment in order to increase learner interest and deeply engage them in classroom activities. “All On Screen” scheme …
The Effectiveness of Gamification in Finance Education
The Finance educators today face many challenges in providing an effective learning environment to their students: the millennials, who are the digital natives. They have different learning styles and require new teaching and learning process that have triggered the main problems in education today. It is no longer possible to assume that the learning could …
A Study on a Method of Integrating AR Markers into a Foreign Language Learning System for Task-Based Activities
In this paper, we investigate a method to integrate Augmented Reality (AR) into a foreign language learning environment for task-based activities. We accomplish that task by focusing mainly on two objectives. First, AR markers can be applied to integrate some objects into the language learning environment as learning materials. Second, movement of an AR-tagged object …
The Context of Curator in the Twenty-First Century: A Study at Museums in Bangkok Area
The purpose of this research is to study the context and progression of the curator in the Twenty-First Century. Since the millennium, the flood of technological and economic growth significantly affected the context of the curator. The curator is not only a keeper or collector of digital data cultural heritage as before, but must also …
The Effects of Software Interaction Mode on Nominal Group Creativity in Online Classes
When students work together in a group in an online class, often times they work in a ‘nominal group’ – a term used to address the situation when individuals work separately – rather than an actual group. This paper focuses on an electronic brainstorming task in nominal groups in online classes, where group members can …
Improvement of Listening Skills of Thai Elementary Japanese Learners Using the Top-Down Shadowing Approach
A common problem for Thai elementary Japanese learners is a failure in listening comprehension despite learning quite a lot of vocabulary and grammar. Thus, the author conducted a study by using the top-down shadowing approach for approximately three months to develop the listening skills of a group of Thai elementary Japanese learners. This study found …
Collaborative Assistive Technology in Mathematics Learning for Students with Special Needs
This study is an interactive and collaborative assistive technology in mathematics learning for students with special needs. The participants in this study were 3 first grade of elementary school students who with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual and developmental disability and developmental delay respectively. The purpose was to promote interpersonal interaction, active participation, and understanding in …
Manufactory: Promoting 3D Spatial Skills with Productive Failure and Educational Games
This research study investigated an innovative teaching and learning framework that incorporated the proven concept of Productive Failure (PF) and educational games. The aim is to design a new approach that effectively enhances students’ learning experience and improves their understanding capacities in the threshold concepts of product manufacturing and assembly. As a measure to promote …
Digital Technology Use of Teachers and Students and Their Perceptions of Technology Integration into English Curriculum in Thailand
In this digital age, many CALL scholars affirmed the leverage of digital technologies and social media to access enormous authentic online resources. Moreover, technologies can increase students’ motivation, their learning outcome and make teaching and learning more constructive and engaging. However, no research to date explored in depth the digital technology use of students and …
Reading as a Problem Solving Task and Digital School
The renewed school idea, understood as an open learning space that allows students to develop life skills, imposes an overview of reading in a new epistemological dimension. Within the European educational systems, a prominent role is occupied by the reading comprehension and mastering the language. Reading literacy is a cognitive life-skill that structures thought and …
The Effective Dimensions of Engaging Students in Contemporary Architecture Design Studios in Times of Change
The architecture design studio is a pedagogical platform for the majority of learning and teaching experiences that take place within architecture design education. The traditional architecture design studio pedagogical model signified as “signature pedagogy” has gradually shifted away from its conventional forms of engaging students. Since the turn of the millennium, the studio has transformed …
The Use of ‘Kebudiluhuran’ Aspect As a Curriculum Development in Budi Luhur University
Budi Luhur University located in Jakarta is a private university that has a basic principle in the learning process. Budi Luhur University uses the philosophy of “Cerdas Berbudi Luhur”. based on that in the application of the curriculum that emphasizes on the achievement of learning, Budi Luhur University includes the element of kebudiluhuran in each …
The Role of Informal English Language Teaching in Childhood on English Knowledge and Attitude Towards it in Adolescence
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of informal English language teaching in childhood on English knowledge and attitude towards it in adolescence. The research plot was ex-post facto one. The statistical population includes all first-year students of undergraduate of Islamic Azad University branches who had been studying humanities in the academic …
Research as Assessment for Learning vs Assessment of Learning at Higher Education
At higher education, students are terminally assessed through a research output that demonstrates their originality, creativity, innovativeness, and contribution to knowledge and problem solving in society. However, the assessment process, unlike the traditional pencil-and-paper and other performance assessments which are thoroughly proctored by the examiner, is one that is loosely structured. Depending on whether the …
Chinese Immigrant and European American Parents’ Emotional Expressions in Childrearing Activities: Cultural Norms of Emotions
Both European Americans and Chinese immigrants value emotional expressions that are true to inner feelings, and adhere to social norms dictating appropriate expressions for different situations. However, the two groups differ in how they coordinate the values of being faithful to inner feelings and to social norms. The European American culture values an individual’s genuine …
A Phenomenological Study on Experiencing in-Class Discussion Among University Students in Hong Kong
Adoption of various type of information and communication technologies in different teaching and learning activities have been a common practice all over the world. One of its adoptions is to facilitate an interaction among students through online discussion forum. While such practice wins a lot of adherents in higher education, there is a concern over …
Power-Dependence in Domestic Politics and Interdependence, Balance of Power and Soft Law in Diplomacy, Comparison of Bureaucracy in the History
This paper investigates Power-Dependence in Domestic Politics and Interdependence, Balance of Power and Soft Law in Diplomacy, Comparison of Bureaucracy in the History between the US., UK., EU and Japan. This paper consists of four parts. First, this paper investigates the similarity and common factors of Power-dependence in Domestic Politics and Interdependence in Diplomacy. I …
Death of a Parent: Its Effects on Students’ Psychological Well-Being and Academic Resilience
The study attempted to find out the effects of parental death on students’ psychological well-being and academic resilience, where majority of them obtained average levels of psychological well-being and academic resilience. The correlation for both variable was found. From the sixty respondents from ages 7-21, majority of them were male, have male deceased parent who …
Mathematics and Racial Equity: Self-Selection and Appropriate Placement
This paper explores the relationship between appropriate class placement and racial equity under a self-selection program model at an urban middle school in the Midwest. We define self-selection as students’ ability to choose their level of courses regardless of test scores and other academic criteria. Within this school, students have the ability to specifically choose …
Comparing Vocabulary Profiles of Asian L2 Written English in the ICNALE Corpus
This brief study examines the vocabulary profiles of Asian EFL students’ written English in the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE; Ishikawa). The ICNALE corpus is a collection of written and spoken texts from 2800 learners of English across 10 different Asian countries. The texts included in this corpus were composed under …
Conceptual Reality: National Identity as Part of Ethical History
This paper explores the concept of national identity as ‘acceptable reality’ from three different perspectives: the individual, the society as a whole, and the international community. The national identity and the process of its formation have been a hot topic in various areas of social sciences for many years. However, most of academic research on …
Human Genome Editing: Human Dignity in an Era of Genetic Aristocracy
Genetic Engineering brought to man what, until now, was given to destiny or to God (as it were): the determination of the identity and historicity of man, unique to each being. The creator of man can be, now, a peer, that takes in his hands, especially at the level of the biotechnology promises of human …
Social Support and Life Satisfaction of Burns Survivors: Relationship with Demographics
Burn survivors are facing many challenges which are affecting their life satisfaction. Even at discharge from hospital, majority of burn survivors reported extra misery and lesser satisfaction with life than the normative samples (Patterson, Ptacek, Cromes, Fauerbach, & Engrav, 2000). Present study was conducted to study the social support and life satisfaction, with specific role …
The Effect of Instructor Intervention on Usage of Mobile Devices for Informal Language Learning
Autonomy and self-initiation are essential to informal language learning. However, previous research has shown that instructors can have an influence on students’ propensity to engage in both self-directed and incidental language learning. In order to uncover best practices in regards to the promotion of informal mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) in the Japanese university context, the …
The Self-Management System Standard for a Prosper Lifestyle: An Educational Module for Dependencies Interface Management: From the Teachings of Islam
Born orphan. Right after birth, his mother passed away. Nurtured by another mother of the same tongue (Arabic), and living at the countryside (a Bedouin), the prophet Mohammad PBUH (Peace Be upon Him), was consequently taken care of by his grandfather and uncle. Mohammad PBUH gifted with the Quran for Humanity, and the messenger of …
The Sharing Cycle of Science Learning: A Method to Connect College STEM Courses with Tribal Community Topics that Enhance Sovereignty
American Indian students are underrepresented in all science and engineering fields by almost 50%. At the same time, the fastest growing occupations for the past half century require knowledge of science and mathematics. To address the need for relevant science training, the “Framing the Chemistry Curriculum” project was created by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), …
Sejong Puzzle: An AR Based Fun Geometric Math Teachware
We are developing a teachware app implemented by Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Recent interests on AR technology have promoted a number of AR-based teachwares for children. However, most of them simply show users 3D images to intrigue them when users attach cards or books onto camera. Sejong Puzzle is designed not only to give funs …
The Features of QR Code as Attendance Monitoring System: Its Acceptability and Implication to Classroom
The study was conducted to determine the features and acceptability of Quick Response (QR) Code innovative platform as an attendance monitoring system. Purposive sampling was used in the study involving 20 teachers who adapted the QR code and 36 students who were exposed to the attendance monitoring system during the first quarter of the academic …
Facilitating Tabuk City National High School Employees Gender and Development Seminar-Workshop Through Cooperative and Collaborative Learning Approaches
The study focused on cooperative and collaborative learning approaches as the strategy in facilitating employees’ Gender and Development (GAD) Seminar- Workshop. It assessed participants’ awareness level on selected GAD laws, mandates, and issues before and after the Seminar-Workshop. Correlation of the participants’ awareness level along variables of sex, age, and subject departmental affiliation was considered. …
The Teaching of Japanese Language and Culture to Filipino Students Through Blended Learning
The study was intended to determine the effectiveness of blended learning as a mode of delivering Japanese language lessons to learners from selected Universities in the Philippines. It was found out that after taking up the one-semester Japanese Language Course, many learners from both the undergraduate and graduate degree programs possessed a good language proficiency …
Informal Settlements and its Regeneration Factors in Urban-Rural Continuum
A pattern of settlement has formed in urban- rural continuum, which is contradiction with ordinary urban-rural settlement and called with different names, including “Shanty town”, “Slum” and “informal settlements”. Usually these kinds of settlements understood as locational- geographical spaces, in which the life of people are not favorable from the viewpoints of government mechanism and …
Teaching and Learning Urbanism in Architecture Schools
How are approaches and tools changing to deal with critical territorial challenges, particularly risks associated with climate change, the spatial dimension of the economy and the networked metropolitan region? Are urbanists equipped to lead solutions to our society’s challenges to sustainability? Learning is a puzzling act, and the learning of a discipline like Urbanism is …
Strangers in the Neighbourhood: Everyday Interaction Between the Refugee and Local Women
Due to the ongoing war both in Syria and Iraq, as İçduygu (2015) addresses, over 3.5 million refugees are shifting from refugee to immigrant status in Turkey, and this creates an immediate need to plan for their long-term stay and to transform Turkey from a host country to home for them. To this end, the …
Autoconstruction as a Housing Tactic in the Contemporary City
Based on the recognition of the difficulty of access to urban housing by the lower classes as one of the greatest political and socio-economic challenges faced by Brazilian cities in the contemporary world, this article seeks to elucidate how this issue has been operated over the years and what are the consequences of such actions …
An Analogy of Metropolis “Istanbul” as a Big Machine
What does one do in a metropolis with dozens of business towers, huge and luxurious shopping malls, hotels, conference centers, sports complexes, airports, endless construction sites, highways, bridges, sub-sea tunnels, cars, busses, and metros? What does one think to do in a city with a population of more than tens of millions, receiving constantly immigrants …
Wellbeing, Inequality and the Role of Urban Form
The study of wellbeing is fast becoming a key consideration for urban planning, architecture and design policy makers as it can provide a system to measure social progress. Although average national wellbeing scores are rising in the UK, so is inequality of wellbeing. The pattern of disparities in wellbeing reveals an unequal geography both across …
The Image of the City in the Portuguese Literary Journalism in the End of the 19th Century
The end of the nineteenth century witnessed several changes: the industrial Revolution created new jobs, new ways of working, new ways of producing the newspapers. The social misery that was a consequence of these transformations soon became the object of interest of men who wandered in the cities, reporting the bad conditions of life of …
Semiotic Multimodality: A Filmic Analysis of Wong Kar-Wai’s “In the Mood for Love”
The study builds on Bateman and Schmidt’s (2011) seminal research on film as a form of “cinematographic document” and continues their efforts to construct a semiotic mode of film. The study applies a multimodality framework for a fine-grained analysis of Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love” – a film adaptation of Liu Yichang’s modernist …
Potential Threats of Consumer Textiles
Local is global and global is local. With the acquaintance of globalization to the world, the perception of things and happenings has been varied and modified radically. With multidimensional rising reservations and challenges to ourselves the threats that textile industry proposes and promises acquire quite an important status, specially considering potential threats in everyday use consumer …
Addressing Experiential Learning in the Classroom: An Example of Course Design and Implementation in Art History
Experiential Learning fosters off site learning, extending the student learning experience outside the classroom and beyond traditional learning. Embedded in an environment of guided reflection and critical thinking on one hand, and positive engagement and active learning on the other, EL is an essential tool for the application of in-class acquired knowledge and skills to …
Neo-liberal Governance of Culture and Neo-Ottoman Management of Diversity in New Turkey
Neoliberalism and neoconservatism as two distinct political rationalities have formed a peculiar alliance and generated what Wendy Brown (2006; 2015) describes as “de-democratizing effects” in contemporary societies over the last two to three decades. In Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party’s rule, this alliance has a unique configuration combining the norms and values of …
Written in Auschwitz; Case Study: The Writings of the Sonderkommando, The Political Prisoners, and Lili Kasticher All Written in Auschwitz
This study focuses on the works of three different groups of writers who dared to write in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where anyone caught with a piece of paper or a pencil stub was immediately sentenced to death. Accordingly, inmates produced virtually no written material (Shik, 2012), with certain rare exceptions: (1) The Sonderkommando, who documented everyday life …
Noli Timere Draconem – How TRPGs Create Space to Play with Fear and Collaborative Storytelling
In the digital era, and the fourth industrial age, agency and ownership of storytelling has been shifting. How might we deal with the fears that bubble in these stories? The hypothesis of this doctoral research is that imagination is ‘eventified’ within roleplaying gameplay and can be shaped like a theatre performance, and therefore studied as …
Amaro (Brazilian Returnees) and Cultural Diffusion in Lagos: A Study of Lagos-Pacific Cultural Relations
Amaro is the traditional word used to describe the Brazilian returnees whose advent in Lagos was an aftermath of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. And since their return to Lagos they have succeeded in institutionalizing a replica of the Rio-carnival known in Lagos as the fanti carnival. This paper examines the advent of …
Dance and Resistance in Tango and Reisado: Comparative Audio-Visual Research on Cultural Performance in Argentina and Brazil
Comparative audiovisual research, within Cultural Studies, has emerged in recent years as an interdisciplinary form of critic and social intervention. In Latin America, many of the cultural manifestations of the body, which had always been discredited in academic circles, are actually the center of interdisciplinary researching thanks to various audiovisual materials captured “in situ” by …
The Concept of Political Power in Thailand’s Philosophy “Absolute Power Tends to Absolute Morality”: Obstacle of Thailand’s Democracy
In the late of 20 century, since the fall of The Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of political ideology era has come, liberal Democracy the worst form of government except for all those other forms having been tried from time to time became a political main idea and regarded …
Creative Market in China: The Gathering Place of Folk Creative Forces in Contemporary Cities
This paper identifies the developing of Creative Market in China. Creative Market refers to such fair that displays and sells small creative objects for everyday use within a given time and venue. With fieldwork method the paper author carried out a tracking investigation Creative Market in China and applied the findings to the paper. This …
Violence and Radicalisation in Communities: The Role of Multi-Agency Partnership in Detection and Prevention
After 37 murders in London during the first three months of 2018, and the 2017 UK terrorist attacks by religious extremists, concerned commentary on this state of affairs emerged in the media. This commentary questioned the Conservative Government cuts (LGA,2015) to public spending, including the Police, and posited this as a possible cause for the …
Futurity, Fascism and Decolonial Ecologies in Recent Stories by Yuko Tsushima and Yoko Tawada
This presentation examines two recent, post-nuclear disaster short fictions from Japan : Yuko Tsushima’s ″Celebrating Cesium 137’s Half-Life (Hangenki wo iwatte, 2016),″ and Yoko Tawada’s″The Emissary (Kentoushi, 2014) ″. Both texts describe an isolated, totalitarian Japanese society of the near future where technoscientific progress has stopped. ″Cs137’s Half-Life ″ envisions a Dr.Strangelove-like chronotope where a …
New Approach of Using Social Media in Graphic Design at the Higher Education in Sultanate of Oman
Over the past decade, Social media has supported education and has become the most common means of digital communication, articulating the advantages and disadvantages of its different platforms for instructors and students to sustain confidentiality and provide tips for applying social media-based teaching into the training curriculum. From this point of view; this research explores …
Baby Hatches’, in Japan and Abroad: An Alternative to Harming Babies
A “baby hatch” system is prevalent worldwide. Mothers or parents, who cannot bring up a child by themselves, leave their baby in a safe space. This is a contentious issue in Japan and in many other countries. Its modern origin is found in the German “Babyklappe,” and the Japanese baby hatch is based on this …
Can Science and Religion Ever Have Anything in Common?
The Age of Information, evolution and materialism have created an understanding about our world, which some believe has pitted Science squarely against the things of faith. But new scientific discoveries and the reinterpretation of existing phenomena by some scientists have upended traditional views on both sides of the argument. This is due to the discovery …
Radical Acceptance as a Pathway to Change
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) was designed in the 1990s for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, a mental illness characterized by mood swings, unstable self-image, and impulsive behavior. Central to DBT is the belief that “reality is interrelated and connected, made of opposing forces, and always changing.” DBT pivots on the concept of “radical acceptance”, …
Coping and Survival Strategies Implemented by Women Who Faced Partner Rapes
This communication summarizes the results of a qualitative research conducted among five young women (25 year-old in average), former victims of partner rapes, who separated from their spouse since a few years. Five tools were used in order to answer our research questions: an anamnestic questionnaire, a semi-structured interview, the Body-Image Questionnaire (Bruchon-Schweitzer, 1987), the …
Perceived Parental Control and Risk-Taking From a Machine Learning Approach
The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship of parental control and risk-taking among emerging adults. Specifically, the study examined the differences between high risk-taking and normal college students in parental control, risk-taking, and risky decision-making.Data were drawn from 538 college students by using an online survey. The measurements included demographic questions, …
A Study of the Need of Peer Group Supervision for Psychologists Working in the University in Taiwan
When psychologists facing crisis cases, they will look for individual supervisions. Sometimes, the institutions also provide group supervisions. However, the quality and the quantity of these supervisions are far more below their practical needs and cause some following problems: Stagnation of self-development, Insufficient professional growth, Unable to handle crisis cases, and Financial problems. In order …
The Role of Social Support on Perceived Financial Hardship and Parental Behaviour: A Study on a Greek Population
The present study investigates the effects of perceived financial hardship (subjective) due to the economic crisis on parental behaviour, and the degree to which social support may work as a moderator of the relationship between perceived financial hardship and parental behaviour. The participants were 807 parents of children aged 6-12 years that attend Public Primary …
Cognitive and Affective Disorder Among the Elderly in Assisted Living Facilities in Klang Valley, Malaysia
This research was conducted in privately-run assisted living facilities for the elderly in the Klang Valley, Malaysia to screen for cognitive disorder using the Mini-Cog assessment and affective disorder using the Patient Health Questionnaire-2. Besides finding the incidences of these disorders as well as the gender and race distribution among the sample, this research also …
Influence of Familiarity and Social Sensitivity on Performance in a Consensus Game
In this study, we focused on familiarity and social sensitivity of group member, and we investigated how they affected performance a consensus game. A consensus game is one of communication game. Its purpose is to solve some problems by group discussion. In this experiment, we used the consensus game called “If you have distress in …
Psychology Career Development Enhancement: A Case Study of the Fourth-Year Thai Undergraduate Class
With the work field of Psychology remaining at its budding stage within Thailand, psychology undergraduates— while increasing in number— reportedly experience difficulties identifying their future psychological works. The course “Career in Psychology” hence was offered, to assist students to explore their psychology career options. With the increased enrollment and course limited time resource, a classroom …
Relationships Among Mindfulness, Suppression-Emotion Regulation, Reappraisal-Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Well-Being of the Thais
Recently, psychologists have conducted extensive research on positive psychology to determine how to best define well-being and a life well-lived. One such attempt was to identify psychological ingredients that contribute to psychological well-being. Such attempts remained very limited in Thailand, however. This research study hence aimed to establish relationships among psychological well-being, mindfulness, cognitive reappraisal, …
How Tapping Affects Talking: Reversals of Action-language Interaction Effects
A growing body of research shows that there is a close functional connection between motor and language systems of the human brain. Behavioural and TMS investigations document a causal influence between language and motor systems, an influence that is bidirectional and which can be facilitatory or inhibitatory. While it is still not fully clear what …
Relationships Among Rumination, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Depression in Thai University Students
In Thailand, depression and suicide attempts have been increasingly reported in undergraduates. Their causes are indicated, for example, as interpersonal problems, stress from study and intrapersonal thinking styles. However, there are some protective factors which worth the consideration. The current study, hence, aimed to explore the relationships that rumination, mindfulness and acceptance had with depression. …
Very Short-Term Electrical Energy Consumption Forecasting of a Household for the Integration of Smart Grids
The recent integration of smart grid systems to present electric power systems and the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources make electrical energy consumption forecasting not only a prominent subject but also an arduous challenge due to nonlinear and nonstationary characteristics of electric loads which can be affected by seasonal effects, weather conditions, socioeconomic dynamics, …
Hydrological Vulnerability Assessment of Landfill Site Using GIS: A Case Study of Alimosho Landfill Site
Solid waste are disposed in landfills where it decomposes and produces leachate that can contaminate underlying groundwater. This study investigated the effects of open landfill sites on the underground water quality using the DRASTIC L model based on eight parameters. In addition, water samples were collected using systematic random sampling method from hand-dug Wells around …
Nanocellulose: Types, Synthesis and Applications
Based on the current level of ecological awareness, it is difficult to ignore hazardous emissions from any industrial process or human activities because of its adverse impacts on the environment. The substitution of input materials with less- or non-toxic, eco-friendly or renewable raw materials, where possible, has been the concern of various researchers in recent …
Optimal Design and Analysis of Single-Stage Flyback PV Microinverter
Over the last decades, solar energy systems have aroused much interest due to increased concern for the environment. Photovoltaic (PV) module based electrical energy generation systems present promising solutions to ensure sustainable, abundant, inexhaustible, and environmentally friendly energy. In view of foregoing, the converter used in PV systems is emerging as a major component. Microinverters …
Electricity Generation From Renewable Sources: Algeria Cases (Situation and Prospect)
The world is witnessing fast population growth. So, life needs are increasing especially, energy which is considered nowadays, as the sinews of life and the decisive factor in economic growth. Fossil energy is the most widespread and exploited, because they are the mainstay of economy of the most countries, mainly the producing countries. But all …
Renewable Energy Solutions for Sustainable Fishing Practices and Improved Livelihoods of the Fisherfolk in the South West Coast of India
This paper looks at the application of renewable energy solutions for sustainable fishing practices and improved livelihoods of the fisherfolk in the south west coast of India. This region is featured with the indigenous coastal community which is known for their traditional and sustainable fishing practices. At the same time, they are considered to be …
Resilience Must Cope with Increasing Natural Hazards in Europe
Rampant European flooding in recent years reminds us of the natural hazards facing Europe. The North Sea has a history of ferocity. Europe has also faced seismic and volcanic risks, landslides, tsunamis and wildfires. The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and the Storm of 1703 are historic reminders of the perils facing Europe.Risks are not …
Water Resources, Population Growth, and the Environment in Malaysia: An Overview
Water is the basic need for life as well as the essential input for industries. The increasing population and urbanization leads to the highly demand of water consumption which contributes to water scarcity among residential and industrial usage. Water stress is the most crucial environmental challenges experiencing in many nations around the globe. Beside, water …
In Support of Greening the Economy: How to Enhance TVET’s Contribution to the Development of Generic Green Skills
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays a significant role in supporting green economic restructuring and tackling environmental problems through skills development. This paper outlines current theories and practices related to education for sustainable development (ESD) pedagogy that can enhance TVET’s contribution to generic green skills development. It reviews the pedagogical models used in …
Institutional Support and Maternal Health Outcomes – Review of Cross Country Experiences
Pregnancy and its related health outcomes have been identified as a key predictor of human development and therefore can be used as an indicator to measure a country’s human development index. For this reason, it is important to put in place strategies and measures that can help improve the maternal health outcomes. The aim of …
Equity, Social Justice and Economic Policies (Case of Study: The Taxes Systems)
All economic doctrines, ultimately aspire to one thing: reducing inequalities that exist in the population. By doing so, they would enhance the welfare of the most disadvantaged.However, the search for what is referred to as “social justice” or natural equity is often blurred, tedious and sometimes leads to paradoxes and raises many questions: what is …
Bureaucracy of Power-Dependence in Domestic Politics, and Diplomacy of Linkage, Interdependence and Soft Law between US, UK, EU and Japan
This paper investigates the Bureaucracy of Power-Dependence in Domestic Politics and Diplomacy of Linkage, Interdependence and Soft Law between U.S., U.K., EU and Japan. This paper consists of three parts. First, this paper explores the similarity of power-dependence in domestic politics and interdependence in diplomacy. I consider the power-dependence theory in central-local government relations by …
Woomera’s Women: Roles and Rolls of Film
In the aftermath of WW2, with the onset of the Cold War, Australia became one of a few global centres for the testing of rockets and other long-range weapons. By the mid 1950s a town named Woomera had been created in the Australian Desert with a population of 7,000 at its peak. Women’s roles at …
Fears in 21st Century Through Movies
How does culture replicate itself in the film? How does our fear for future reflect in the film? People express themselves through both documentary films and sci-fi movies. This paper will focus on more than 30 sci-fi movies. In the last century, people always worried that the robots would exceed human intelligence and finally destroyed …
Communication of Thailand Homestay Standard Compares ASEAN Homestay Standard
This research study communication of Thailand homestay standard compares ASEAN homestay standard. This research is qualitative research is a research document from sources including data from two sources together with the following documents: 1. Thailand homestay standard and ASEAN homestay standard 2. Secondary documents, including books, documents and the Internet. With content related research. Data …
Texting Behavior’ and Impacts of ‘Mobile Messaging’ on Youth of Pakistan: A Uses and Gratification Analysis
Advances in mobile technology have revolutionized the lives of Pakistani people, especially youngsters. The excessive use of mobile for ‘texting’ i.e. sending messages has become a normal practice regardless of the time and place. The present study focuses on this intensive habit of mobile texting exhibited by the youngsters of Southern Punjab to highlight and …
The End of Utopia as We Know It? Zygmunt Bauman’s Take on Our Contemporary Times
According to Bauman, we live in a world of hunting and hunters where instead of lingering in the present and appreciating it for what it holds, we push into the future at an ever-increasing speed unable to seize the day and live the moment. When too concerned with maintaining a state of flux we lose …
Development of Instruction in Television Creative Presentation Course Through Digital Media
The qualitative research entitled the “Development of Instruction in Television Creative Presentation Course through Digital Media” aimed to study 1) the development of effective instruction in Television Creative Presentation Course and 2) the learning outcome focused on management of students in Television Creative Presentation Course. The results revealed as follows:1) The effective instruction was to …
Internet Wisecracks: Construction of Resistance and Deconstruction of Meaning
A large corpus of wisecracks and jokes has been widespread on internet in contemporary China. This kind of ‘humor’ is important to those who have been ridiculing social reality and very often the political system. It can be constructed as a form of resistance, through quiet, nonviolent means, and act as a stabilizing safely valve …
Disclosing the State of Fear in Contemporary Taiwan – The Ambiguity in Taiwanese Film Noir, Who Killed Cock Robin
Film noir, a genre named by French critics in the 1950s, has been attracting the interests of academics and the public since then. Although the base of the genre’s production begins to thrive prominently in English-speaking countries and France, film companies in other countries, regardless of their individual film’s differences of success, have also plunged …
Globalisation and Fearful Futures in the Thai Cultures
The ethno-nationalistic discourses have been dominant in Thailand, a medium-sized country in Southeast Asia during the last twenty years. First it was caused by the international financial crisis in 1997 when the sense of Thai nationalism has strongly made a comeback. Later on, it was instigated by the two military coups in 2006 and 2014 …
We Need to Talk: Language and Communication in the Martian and Arrival
Science-fiction cinema has a long history as the stage upon which political and social fears, both real and imagined, have been played out. Fear of the Other, be that a foreigner or a so-called Communist; fear of technology; fear of science. This paper explores the ways in which contemporary cinema responds to some of the …
Media Portrayals of Aging Society in Thailand
Thailand, like many countries, is moving toward an aging society. Ministry of Social Development and Human Security of Thailand statistics show that by the next decade people aged over 60 will make up 20 percent of the population, while people aged 65 and above will account for 14 percent. Although these numbers might initially appear …
Emotional Resonance and Individual Bias in Advertisements: Depictions of Individuals Are Perceived as More Emotional Than Depictions of Groups
Advertisements can create strong emotional responses in their viewers. While utilizing emotionality is common advertising strategy, little work has systematically explored the factors which actually make advertisements emotional. We set out to explore this by examining how the number of people in the advertisement influence its emotional resonance. We hypothesized that, in line with previous …
Re-Defining the Self: Thai Documentary Films After Coups D’état in 2014
During the period of political instability that led to the coups d’état in 2014, the independent cinema has become an alternative space for exploring political issues. With political issues having long been a taboo subject in Thai cinema, particularly during times of military control, many of the filmmakers choose to portray the issue in a …
Neuromarketing: Analysis of Packaging Using GSR, Eye-Tracking and Facial Expression
Neuromarketing techniques (use of psychophysiological responses as variables in decision making processes) are being used successfully in the area of marketing.However, there is no academic research that enables us to explore the degree of effectiveness of these techniques, as well as the cognitive and affective mechanisms underlying. This data will allow the construction of theoretical …
The Influence of Participation in Sedupe Se Sekolong (SSS) Educational Radio Programme on Academic Achievement
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of participation in the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)’s Sedupe Se Sekolong (SSS) educational radio programme on academic achievement of the Grade 12 learners in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. A random sample size of 252 schools was selected from a total population of …
The Naked Option, Delta Boys and Big Men: An Analysis of Corruption in the Niger Delta
The oil-rich Niger Delta region in Western Africa is in crisis. Economic disparity and corruption are the main features of the nation that is constantly ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world. Global capital, manifested as powerful and all-encompassing transnational corporations play out a struggle for national power in an increasingly poverty-stricken …
A Brief Approach to Spivak’s Reflections on Subalternity and Agency from the Perspective of Cognitive Science
The purpose of this research is to examine Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reflections on subalternity and agency from the perspective of cognitive science. The sciences of mind and brain shed light on how the human brain processes and transforms the inputs it receives and highlight the importance of contemplating how the “machine” of mind works in …
Trend and the Factors that Affecting on Aesthetics Experience of Viewer at Contemporary Art and Cultural Museum
This research aims to study the 1) perception on aesthetic experience 2) factors influencing aesthetic experience 3) trend of aesthetic experience and 4) guideline for management aesthetic experience in contemporary arts and cultural museum. The research was done as mix-methodology by using in-depth interview 5-6 sampling by qurator and the 8 -10 sampling by art …
Culturalizing Transformation: Reimagining Futures
This paper introduces an ‘action research’ work that began in 2013 with the identification of the experience of singleness among adivasi (indigenous) women farmers in rural India. The continuous articulation and analysis of singleness has connected women in a kind of collective form, named Eka Nari Sanghathan (Single Women’s Collective). The Sanghathan has emerged as …
Imagining ‘Empowered’ Futures: Thinking of Possibilities in Contemporary Times
The paper is a presentation of the work based on an intensive ‘field work’ conducted in Hoshangabad district, block Kesla, Madhya Pradesh, India. The work examines the practices of women empowerment and its strategies at the ground level. It is a work which critically pursues the functions of empowerment strategies and goals,with its successes and …
Cultural Identities of International Students in the Twentieth First Century
Although the number of international students in higher education has increased exponentially over the last few years, international students often struggle to adjust and adapt to the cultural and academic environment in host countries. The experience in an international context may change their cultural identities and alter their views on their home cultures. This study …
Ethnic Stereotype as the Cause of Hatred: The Study of Thais’ Biases Towards the Rohingya Refugees
In 2017, the United Nations addressed the situation of the Rohingya refugee crisis as “the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis and a major humanitarian emergency”. Up to March, 2018, the report by the United Nations Children’s Funds showed that there were approximately 1.3 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, alone. Out of this number, there were …