All posts by James Alexander Gordon

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Reframing the Conflict ‘of Interest’: The Public/Private Interface

The dominant understanding of the ‘conflict of interest’, grounded in a quintessentially Western conceptualization of public and private , has …

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Emma’s Journey: A Case Study on the Death Penalty and Some Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System

The murder on January 1, 1979 of a prominent white business man in the small southern American community of Lincolnton, …

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Methodology Review Making a Case for Grounded Theory in Occupants’ Energy Behaviour Research

It has been recognized by many researchers that social issues, such as occupants’ energy behaviour, play a vital role in …

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Inclusive Governance by Gender Equality: Innovative Vision to Humanize our Cities

This paper suggests a broad approach to enhance the social sustainability through socially innovative and inclusive governance when planning and …

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Public Participation in Environmental Conflict Management in Development Projects in Thailand

Over the past four decades, a rapid economic growth and industrialization have been cased natural resource degradation, environmental pollutions and …

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Determinants of Residential Building Occupants’ Behavior in Sustainable Living a Questionnaire Survey in Hong Kong

Green building movement has been playing a major role in sustainable urbanism as well as current architectural development. In addition …

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Boardgames as a Tool for Teaching Basic Sustainability Concepts to Design Students

One aspect of sustainability that often baffles design students is the need to balance concepts such as the triple bottom …

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Transitional Spaces: Reconciling Conflicts in Dense Sustainable Housing Projects

Density strategies are generally perceived as a powerful leverage for sustainable built environments. Reality unveils however a more nuanced appreciation. …

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An Integrated Study of Corporate Social Responsibility and Relationship Management in China: An Interpretive Perspective

The purpose of this study is to determine how companies in China manage their relations with publics (stakeholders) in China …

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Marketing of a Net Positive Future

In many climatic regions, both in Europe and the US, it is possible to design and build homes that can …

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An Assessment of the Socio- Economic Impact of Medical Tourism on the Mauritian Community.

Medical tourism is also known as medical travel, health tourism or more recently, global healthcare; which in a broad sense, …

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“Just Ask Me”: Mechanisms for Being Together in Fragile Communities

Communities located in sparsely populated rural areas traditionally rely on prolific social involvement among members to inform decisions and initiate …

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Use of Problem Based Learning to Teach Ethics in Indian Context

Fostering ethical values and its internalization in students’ lives is a daunting process. Mere regurgitation of moral values in classroom …

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Transformation in Socio-Cultural Identity: Causes and Effects

Political and economic aspects are shaping the built environment and transform the socio-cultural organization of the cities. Cities play an …

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Religion and Respeto: The Role and Value of Respect in Social Relations in Rural Oaxaca

This paper discusses the different ways that the notion of ‘respect’ (respeto) is used in common discourse in rural Oaxaca, …

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To Mend the World: Trauma, Containment and Mourning

In his 1989 work, To Mend the World, Emil Fackenheim systematically confronts the questions he believes are posed to philosophy, …

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Love, Suffering and Conflict: Some Lessons from Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents

In Civilization and its Discontents, Freud suggests that interpersonal relations constitute one of the three main sources of human suffering, …

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NonStandard Ethics

Contemporary Ethics is, mathematically speaking, a field biweldered by its natural commutativity axiom, wherein any nonzero element is invertible. Not …

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A Call for Positive Metaphysical Agnosticism: Creating a Synergistic Relationship between the Individual and the Community in the Religious Studies Classroom

The religious studies classroom has become an increasingly dynamic "place" over the last several decades, and this trend will continue …

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System of World Coordinates on the Basis of Extreme Dynamic Equilibrium – Link between Natural and Artificial

Artificial formations are often created in arbitrary manner, but in complexity world it is very dangerous. All artificial formations must …

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Role of Noobiogeocoenosis in Interaction of Artificial and Natural

The contradictions between artificial and natural reality lead to the ecological crisis. The biosphere is the object of natural planetary …

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Industry’s Needs on Oral Communication Skills among Tourism Students in a Polytechnic

As a growing industry, tourism provides tremendous opportunity for students who enjoy working with people. It is important that the …

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Existential Communication: Beyond Conflict

Some, if not all, of our most deeply held positions are not at all the
result of reasoned enquiry but …

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Cornering the Muses: A Multifaceted Approach to Assessing Creativity

Since Guilford addressed the American Psychological Association in 1950 and called for an academic movement for the study of creativity, …

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Applying Culture Bound Theory to Acute Social Withdrawal (hikikomori)

This paper seeks to identify factors that implicate culture bound theory both in the socio demographic orientation of hikikomori and …

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Compulsive Buying among Late Adolescents as an Identity-related Compensatory Behaviour: Big Five Personality, Identity Motives and Self-construal as Predictors

Compulsive buying is dysfunctional consumer behaviour with harmful personal, social, psychological, and financial problems. Social psychological perspectives define compulsive buying …

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Crime, Conflict and Control in Bangkok

As there were considerable crime and conflict in Bangkok, the researcher studied and analyzed such problems compared with crime problems …

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Correlations among Peer Relations, Learning Activities with Friends, and University Adjustment

In September 2013, to examine the correlations among peer relations, learning activities with friends, and university adjustment, a questionnaire was …

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A First-attack Urticaira Increased Risk of Following Depression in Adolescence – National Study

Objective: Urticaria is a common ailment in adolescents. Its symptoms (e.g., unusual looking rash, limited daily activities, and recurrent itching) …

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Real, Relevant or Redundant: Positioning and Re-Positioning Buddhism in Australia as an Education Paradigm

This paper explores the development of a Buddhist religious education program conducted in state primary schools in Australia. It considers …

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Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for the Elderly – A Case Series

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an increasingly rare commodity to find in psychiatric practice, but has never been seen to have a …

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To See is to Believe: Why Students Cannot Detect Geometric Properties?

Geometric properties are important characteristics to identify geometric shapes. The sorting task in geometric shapes is to help students understand …

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Students’ Perspectives on Learning Environments: Factors Affecting Their Satisfaction and Emotions in School

Children spend most of their waking time in school; therefore, experiences in school are a major domain in their life. …

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Femoral Neck Fracture Increase the Chance of Suffering Depression: A National Population-Based Follow-Up Study

Comorbidities, poor levels of activity and pain may contribute to the development of depression, but these factors have not been …

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Internet Using Behavior of Teenagers

This research was qualitative based research. The objectives were to better understand Internet media consumption behaviors and search for terms …

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The Discourse Analysis of Social Reflection Drama of Sexual Behavior of Teenagers

The objectives of this research were 1) To find the characteristics of adolescent’s sexual behavior reflected in the characters. 2) …

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A Study of Sexual Value of University Students of Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok Chantaburi Campus

This research has two main objectives: 1) to determine the sexual value of students in Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok …

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The Study of Well-Being in Grade 12 Students

The purpose of this research was to examine the well-being of high school students and to determine comparability of well-being …

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The Growth of Science in Developing Nations: A Discourse in Intercultural Philosophy

Conceiving science in a cultural or national context seems a conceptual absurdity. This sense of absurdity derives from the positivists' …

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Indonesian Primary School Students’ Perceptions on Academic Help-seeking Behaviour

Seeking academic help when students are facing academic difficulties is considered to be an adaptive behaviour. However, many studies have …

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Oral Health Practices During Pregnancy

Background: This study contends that poor oral health might associate with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Little is known about oral hygiene …

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Health Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in Young Adulthood

In young adulthood most people begin to realize the meaning of health. The amount of costs to be incurred for …

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Cognition for Eating Behavior of Thai’s Consumer: The Mirror of Public Health Policies

Nowadays, Thai consumers, especially those who live in the main cities have active concerns regarding their eating behavior even though …

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Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to Investigate Consumers’ Purchase Intention: Usana as an Example

The sudden boom in direct selling business in recent years has drawn a considerable number of participants. The mechanism that …

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Cognitive Change among Foreign Managers in Japan’s IT Sector

There is a large volume of research on foreign worker adjustment, though little has taken on the issue of cognitive …

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Requiem for a Beast: A Case Study in Controversy

In 2008, Matt Ottley’s Requiem for a Beast: A Work for Image, Word and Music was awarded the Book of …

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Developing Reading Culture for the Challenges of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria

The paper critically interrogates and assesses the importance of reading and its indispensable contributions to the educational development of the …

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The Recuperation of African History in African Fiction

The relationship between fiction and history is quite an obvious one, especially in postcolonial African settings, where it is more …

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When The Whale Talks Back: An Interspecies Cultural Dialogue in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005)

The paper explores the ways in which the narrative perspectives relate the interconnectedness between human characters and nonhuman characters, Saluni …

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Interference of Arts in the Saudi Literature (Narrative and Formative Model)

The interference with arts contributed effectively to the development of the expressiveness of the literary text ,and to supply it …

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Unacknowledged Matricide in T. S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion

T.S. Eliot admits the two serious problems he had not solved properly: the Furies, the disruptive perspective of the play. …

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Mario Vargas Llosa’s Conversacion en la Catedral: A Paradigm of Corruption

"At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?" exasperatingly asks Conversation in the Cathedral, the highly acclaimed novel of …

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Terrible Beauty: the Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature

War narration is inseparably linked with the image of death, which is a very sensitive issue. This paper shows how …

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Considerations on Finnish and Romanian Literary and Cultural Relations within European Context

Sharing similar historical development, fairly equally placed under the eastern bloc pressure, Romania and Finland slowly became involved in a …

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Death Drive: Vampires in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles

The essay attempts to discuss the literary meaning of immortality and the symbolic interaction of vampire figures in Anne Rice’s …

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Cultural Colonization in Poems by Wallace Stevens

The reason for Wallace Stevens' skepticism regarding cultural colonies is clear. Most of the people in America are descendents of …

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Game for None, Game for All: Verbal Contentions and Life Affirmation in De Turkey and De Law

Zora Neale Hurston, a Harlem Renaissance African American female writer in the 1920s, grew up at Eatonville, an all-black community …

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Utopian Individuals, Dystopian Societies: Two Communal Imaginations in Meiji Japan

This paper offers a dialogical comparison of the writings of Japanese Buddhist Anarchist pioneers Uchiyama Gudo (1874-1911) and Takagi Kemmyo …

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Feminism and the Nigerian Female Question: A Feminist Appraisal of Zaynab Alkali’s Stillborn

This paper examines feminism as a literary ideology, which attempts to win for women a status of recognition and parity …

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Challenging Childhoods: Representations of Conflict in Australian Junior Historical Fiction Since 1945

Representations of conflict permeate Australian junior historical fiction, including acts of extreme violence, acts of political protest and acts of …

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Atomic Bomb’s Survivors’ Personal Narratives in Contemporary and Intercultural Contexts: Lessons Yet to Be Learned

The voices of A-bomb survivors are getting lost in this multimedia environment as the world stage has become crowded. Hibakusha’s …

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A Synthesis of Researches Conducted by Personal of Sirindhorn College of Public Health Chonburi during 2009-2011

 
The purpose of this study was to analyze the situation of research conducted by personnel of Sirindhorn College of Public …

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Design from Fiction to Reality: An Exploration into the Process of Design in Cosplay

Enthusiasts dressing up as anime characters and posing for photography have become a common sight in anime activities around Taiwan. …

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Ethical Transformation of Individual Managers through Spirituality: A Sufi Perspective

Business ethics literature appears to focus more on philosophy and seems to have overlooked spirituality. Though spirituality has started to …

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Consumer Behaviors of Meat with Traceability in Thailand: The Psychological Mechanism

Due to the outbreak of mad cow disease and bird flu, consumers around the globe are more concerned with meat …

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Country Personality: The Application of Brand Personality Concept to Country as a Brand

Brand personality refers to human personality traits associated with a brand. Through a series of studies, Aaker (1997) uncovers five …

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“Just Eliminate the Illness; Do Not Eliminate Dharmas”: A Case Study on the Lived Experience of a Buddhist Surviving Spouse

Despite the fact that myriads of publications, basing on Western theories, have investigated spousal loss, which threatens to physical health …

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Factors Associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders in School-age Children in Thailand

This cross-sectional analytical study examined the relationship between risk factors of Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) in school-age children in …

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Self-leadership as an Impetus for Individual, Group or Community Development

The concept "self-leadership" is an outgrowth of the broader term "leadership" whose purpose is to motivate others in utilizing their …

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The Role of Service Competencies: Promoting the Relationship between Frontline Employee and Customer

Within the service industry, the service-person enhances customer commitment by increasing customer benefits and decreasing customer costs, but is also …

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The Influence of Sekentei and Significant Others on Seeking Help toward Psychological Services

The under-utilization of mental health services is salient in Japan, implying that those seeking psychological help can be inhibited through …

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Logo-bibliotherapy on People Suffering from Myasthenia Gravis

Myasthenia Gravis (MG), is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that is characterized by a weakness of the skeletal muscles within …

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Cognitive Dissonance among Chinese Gamblers: Cultural Beliefs versus Gambling Behavior

The main objective of this research was to ascertain whether there is cognitive dissonance among Chinese gamblers as a consequence …

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Relationship between Self-efficacy, Self-esteem, and Attachment Style among Juvenile Delinquency in Urmia City – Iran

Psychological factors, such as self-esteem and self-efficacy, have been shown to be equally as important in contributing to the cause …

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An Application of the UTAUT Model for Exploring Cosmetics Product Purchase Intention of Virtual Community Members

Technology development have been rapidly grown and adapted by people. Internet users in Taiwan have been a great number and …

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Note on Publishing Intensity and Publishing Breadth

Given a set of leading scholars, a list of journals and a
period of time, publishing intensity (PI) of a …

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A Structural Model of the Factors of Dissatisfaction Involved in Mobile Applications

Mobile Applications (Apps) have been increasingly popular in the recent years and are changing people's daily lives in leisure and …

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Measuring Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Balanced Scorecard for Taiwan Medical Equipment Industry

Nowadays, the rapid changes of industrial environment have led to fierce competition among enterprises, and evaluating performances has become crucial …

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Exploring the Effect of Service Recovery Strategy on Internet Consumers’ Satisfaction and Word-of-Mouth

While more and more consumers are shopping on the Internet, the consumers can easily change their mind and switch to …

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The Driving Factors of Key Value Influence Online B2B Banking Satisfaction

Purpose - In the case of rapid technological progress, online business-to-business (B2B) banking services provide efficient and convenient finical services …

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Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Library to Face SCOAP3’s Development

The SCOAP3 funding model is entirely open to "core" journals in the HEP
content. This article describes the development, funding …

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The Innovative Arrest Warrant Tracking System

There currently remain 152,148 warrants in the database of the Royal Thai Police (data as of 28 March, 2013, Royal …

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Attitudes towards Meeting in Real Life via the Internet in Japanese University Students

In recent years, several crimes concerning victims and perpetrators who had previously met via the Internet and had subsequently met …

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Self-esteem, Readiness for Self-improvement and Subjective Well-being in Women from Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures

The question of how collective self-esteem and personal self-esteem are linked to readiness for self-improvement and subjective well-being in women …

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The Study of Social Intelligence in Adolescents in Roi-Et Province

This study aimed to 1)examine the level of Social Intelligence in adolescents in Roi-Et province, Thailand 2)to study correlation between …

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Uses and Gratifications for Paid Mobile Applications

The increasing growth of the mobile applications industry attributes to the popularity of the smartphone. More and more people use …

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Exploring Consumer Perception of Pop-Up Advertisement

Nowadays, not only on the computer, but also smart phones and other mobile devices, Internet advertising has become increasingly common. …

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A Study on Quality of Life in Male to Female Transgender

The objective of this study was to examine Transgenders' quality of life. Samples were 120 Transgenders in Chonburi province, Thailand, …

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Predicting Consumer’s Intention to Buy Local Specialty Online

The purchases of local specialties were usually seen in conventional physical stores in the past. The potential consumers were the …

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Influence of Mental Models of Attachment during Middle Childhood on Self-esteem and Social Competence: A Short-term Longitudinal Study

Purpose: This short-term longitudinal study examined the influence of attachment mental models (AMM) during middle childhood on self-esteem and social …

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A Study on Reasons for Living of Inmates in Chonburi Women’s Penitentiary Center

The purpose of this study was to survey the female inmates' reasons for living. The samples included 99 inmates who …

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The Effect of Sensation Seeking from Peers, Parenting Style, Religious Values ​​and Juvenile Delinquency in Middle Adolescence of High School

This study wanted to see the effect of sensation seeking, parenting style, and the value of religious studies on juvenile …

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The Potential of the Museum Collection Management Systems (MCMS) Development in Hong Kong Museum of History (HKMH)

The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the use of qualitative methods in the field of library …

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Car Safety Rating and Consumer Decision Making: with Respect to ASEAN NCAP

Emerging as one of the developing regions in automotive industry, countries in the Southeast Asia region are experiencing growth at …

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The Changing Face of American Business Education: Past, Present and Future Trends

Traditional business education in America through most of the 20th century has been male dominated, aimed at providing tools for …

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Montessori Materials as the “Instrument” for Expansive Learning

In this paper I aim to introduce Montessori Materials for the "instrument" of expansive learning theory, and show a pilot …

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A Case Study in Complexity and Accuracy in Development in ESL Academic Writing: A Dynamic Perspective

This presentation is a case study on the development of complexity and accuracy in an advanced English learner's academic writing …

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Creating Interdisciplinary Collaborations in a Learner-centered Global Environment

"Creating Interdisciplinary Collaborations in a Learner-centered Global Environment" Strategic initiatives for major US research universities include the increased emphasis on …

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The Effects of Input and Output during Interaction: A Diary Study of an Adult Learning Korean as a Second Language

This study investigated how comprehensible input is received and how output facilitates second language acquisition (SLA) through a dairy study …

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The Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s Vision of Educational Leadership

The scope of this paper is to highlight the relevance of Gandhi's vision of educational leadership to the present-day educational …

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Promoting Alternative Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A General Survey

Alternative higher education has become a major subject in learning and teaching, reflective of current trends in educational provisions worldwide. …

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The Relationship between Students’ Learning Style and Academic Performance in MARA Professional College, Malaysia

A study was conducted to determine MARA Professional Colleges students' perception on learning style. The study builds on the Dunn …

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Factor Affective Stress and Stress Removing Methods Of Undergraduate Student Teachers

The objectives of this research were to study the stress levels, factors affecting personal stress, and stress removing methods, of …

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Using Educational Technology to Enhance Student Engagement and Retention

The Bachelor of Accounting course of the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE in Australia was recently established and has adopted …

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Cross-Age Tutoring: Its Effects on High Performing Students and Students At-risk with Learning Disability in Mathematics

This study aimed to determine the effects of cross-age tutoring on high performing students and students at-risk with learning disabilities …

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The Challenge of Curriculum Design in the Transnational Classroom: Put Theory into a Practice

This paper aims to review existing activities in the internationalisation of the curriculum at one division of an university in …

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Higher Education and the Malaysian Public Employment

Higher education expanded rapidly in Malaysia. Shouldering the country’s aspiration to achieve the goal of becoming a developed nation by …

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English Language Teachers’ Digital Literacy Development: A Case Study of English as a Foreign Language Teachers at a Vietnamese University

Information and communication technologies have significantly contributed to the shaping of an increasingly digitalised landscape of English language teaching over …

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Engendering Education: Ensuring Equity

Securing free, compulsory, quality public education for all is a need of time. The Charter on Rights Respecting School for …

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Perspectives on World Englishes in Government-Authorized High School Textbooks in Japan

The study attempts to unveil the treatments of English as a lingua franca (henceforth ELF) and the linguistic and cultural …

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Development and Evidence of the Student Participatory Class Model in Mathematics Education

The student participatory class model in mathematics education was developed to nurture the necessary literacy in mathematics education. To nurture …

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Whose Role is it to Develop Secondary Students as Self-regulated Learners? A Study Exploring Student, Parent and Teacher Perceptions

This paper draws on data from a doctoral study exploring how schools approach the development of self-regulated learning (SRL) for …

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Why Mentoring Matters: Professional Development in a Virtual World

Population growth, demographics, advances in technology, globalisation and associated economic imperatives are a few of the drivers behind the changes …

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Motivating Students in an Era of Declining Motivation and English Ability

Over the last 20 years, many teachers in Japan have witnessed the gradual decline in student motivation and ability with …

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The Literacy Practices of Adolescents in a Digital World

This study investigates young adults' online literacy practices in asynchronous computer-mediated communication, ACMC, in Taiwan. Aligned with New Literacy Studies, …

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Thailand’s Educational Strategic Plan in Preparation for the ASEAN Community

This research was aimed to study Thailand's Educational Strategic plan of Thai government during 2008-2015 A.D. in preparation for the …

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The Development of a Communicative English Learning Process for Local Cutural Communication

The present research was aimed to investigate and to develop the communicative English learning process based on the necessary content …

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Democracy, Trust, Responsibility, and Global Workforce Competence: A Case Study Revisited

In 2001, the researcher studied the values of democracy, trust, and student responsibility as featured in the Swedish National Curriculum; …

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Globalisation and Internationalisation of Education: Is on Right Direction?

One aspect of the process of globalisation in recent years has been the increase in the number of students travelling …

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Are We Ready to Engage Students with Our Own Mobile Devices?

Nowadays, mobile technology becomes the most penetrating innovation in this information generation. Students and teachers are exposed with fascinating and …

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How to Better Integrate Summer Projects: Insights from Students’ Comments

This presentation explores students’ reflection on their experiences of summer research and service programs at a liberal arts university in …

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English Passive Sentence Construction of Thai EFL University Students

Student errors are considered as a device that learners use and from which they can learn (Corder, 1967); they provide …

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Primary School Teachers’ Perceptions of the Use of Calculators in the Mathematics Classroom

The use of calculators in the mathematics classroom has been a topic of intense debate among educators and policy-makers alike …

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The Android Appreciations Training Package in the Change Money System According to the IDFVE Model for the Technical Training

The objectives of this study were 1) to develop the android appreciations training package in change money system according to …

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Culture Education in College Foreign Language Teaching

As language and culture are interdependent dual unity, they can't be separated from each other。 However, it is a common …

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Implementing Mobile Assisted Language Learning in Rural Schools for Enhancing Learning Opportunity

There are  gaps between students in rural school and urban school  in Indonesia relating to motivation and interests in learning …

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American Progressive Education and Yutori Kyoiku

Few groups in the history of education have been as influential as the American progressives, who were part of the …

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Citizenship Responsibility Higher Learning: Combining The Spiritual-Cultural, Rights-Responsibilities, and Economics of a Civic Development Higher Learning Thru a Sociology In English

Blanton (1992) argues that education often violates the deepest needs of the human spirit by (1) alienating and boring or …

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A Development of Analytical Thinking Skill of Graduate Students by using Concept Mapping

Graduate students need to have an analytical thinking skill to do research and develop new knowledge and innovation by themselves. …

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3D Animation for Energy Reduction Campaign

Recently, every country has been using technology for manufacturing and agricultural development, including creating various convenient facilities to satisfy human …

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Learning and Teaching in Times of Change, Challenges and Transformation: Reinventing the Aims of Education

The most demanding challange before us is that Education all over the world has completely failed to make compasssionate and …

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Designing a Curriculum for the Advanced Stream of a Foundational Literacies Course

Originally, members of the Basic Skills project at Kanda University of International Studies were given the task of developing a …

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How Labor Market Perceptions Affect Undergraduates’ Preparation?

2,407 undergraduates from six universities in Taiwan were surveyed in this research. Results showed that female undergraduates perceived a greater …

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A Case on Learning about ‘You Tubing’ and ‘Face booking’ for Learning

This paper aims to better understand the experiences of the youth with the tapping of social media like YouTube videos …

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A Study on Establishing Decision Tree of Teacher Ethic Reasoning in Taiwan

Due to saving the teacher prestige, teacher professional ethical as one of professional trait theory should be taught during pre-service …

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Problems and Advantages of Children with Filipino Parents in Their School Lives in the Philippines and in Japan: Through Their Experiences in Both Countries

The paper focuses on the problems in primary and secondary education of children with Filipino parents in Japan. The number …

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A Gamification Platform to Encourage the Students Social Etiquette Improvement

Information Technology and globalization help bring people closer. The boundary between nations are blurred and many cultures are lost or …

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Are Students our ‘Customers’? : A Perspective on the Bureaucratic Implications of ‘student-customer’ Concept in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions

This paper is about the use and abuse of treating students as ‘customers’ and implications that follow for quality assurance …

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Determining Demand in Thai Job Market for Communications-Related Degree Title: A Survey of an Online Job Website

This study sought to determine the extent of the demand for graduates of communication-related academic degrees in the Thai job …

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Tone in the Khorat Dialect and the Northeastern Dialect

The main objective is to study and a comparative acoustic characteristics study of the tone in the Khorat dialect and …

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Thai Food Culture through Grammatical Patterns of English Translation

Thai food has been recognized and become popular across the world. To present Thai food culture to foreigners, English translation …

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Peace Education: Community Development and National Prosperity

In light of the current political dynamics and transformations that engulf the MENA region and especially Lebanon, Higher Education Institutions …

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The Development of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Teaching Practices Through Reflective Process

The purposes of this descriptive research were to develop a criterion for evaluating pre-service science teachers' teaching practices and to …

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Critical Thinking in Second Language Learning: An Intercultural Approach

It is commonly agreed that critical thinking is a significant concept to be promoted in our students at higher education …

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Mathematics Assessment in Primary Classes – Formative or Summative, or Seize the Moment?

There is a need to move away from the present day conflicts and tensions that surround formative and summative assessments. …

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Effectiveness of a Programme of Movement Education and Traditional Physical Education on Movement Satisfaction, Attitude Towards Physical Activity and Self-Concept of Elementary School Children

Traditional Physical Education in elementary schools is under critical evaluation with regard to its contribution to alround development of children. …

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Placing Digital Literacy in Audiovisual Translation Studies

Egypt’s second revolution on June 30th 2013 came to reinforce the power of digital technology and the importance of digital …

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The Effect of Poverty on English Language Learning Outcome: College Level

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of poverty on English language learning outcome in college level. …

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Transnational Education as an Emerging Feature of Migration

This study investigates student teachers' conceptions of even numbers and the relationship between proof types and conceptions of even numbers. …

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Tracing the Impact of Foreign Influences on Irish Playwrights: Wilde and Yeats

During the late nineteenth century, many Irish playwrights searched for a new "form" of drama as realistic drama was increasingly …

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An Exploration of Graduate Students’ Writing Competencies in Educational Research

In any academic institution, writing skills are essential to meet educational demands more importantly those who are in research field …

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A Construction and Evaluation of Electronics Slides on Supplementary Grammar Through E-Learning on English II Course (999042)

English is not the official language in Thailand, it is taught as a foreign language. Thai undergraduate students who have …

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Language Contact: Challenging in Diversity

The aim of this study is to analyze and compare tonal systems and acoustic characteristics of tones in four Tai …

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Structural Equation Modeling for Korean Elementary School Students’ Achievements of English Capacity

The goal of this paper is to find out causal relationships among Korean elementary school students' achievements of English capacity, …

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A Multi-level Modeling Approach to Predict Teaching Quality, Student’s Satisfaction, School Climate on Student Achievement

This study explores theoretical and empirical research concerning school effectiveness and school improvement, in particular, improving student achievement through school …

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Trends in Vocational Education Provision of Municipalities in Thailand

The municipality's role in education provision has been discussed in last two decades that decentralization in Thailand has been an …

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Utilizing Junior High English Texts at the Japanese University Level for Large Non-English Major Courses

Many non-English majors encounter extreme difficulty when it comes to writing in English. Most learners are perplexed when asked to …

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Problem Analysis of English Major Undergraduate Students on Internship: A Case Study of Burapha University

Thailand may encounter both crises and opportunities when the ASEAN Economic Community is implemented in 2015. Newly graduated student may …

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The Developmental Co – Operation Strategy of Local Administration Organizations in the Provision Vocational Education

This intention of Constitution of The Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2550 and Educational Act B.E. 2540 Local Administration Organizations (LAOs) …

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Solar Powered Solid Oxide Fuel Cell with Thermoelectric Generator

Durable, location independent, environmental-friendly sources of energy which allow for modular, few moving parts, low operating noise, high electricity generation …

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Student Satisfaction with Hybrid and Face-to-Face Teaching Approaches in an English Course

Hybrid courses combine technology with innovative teaching practices to facilitate learning. This paper studied satisfaction of students who experienced a …

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Teaching Values Using Creative Teaching Strategies: An Asian Perspective and Exploration

To teach values is to respond to the crisis of apparent normalcy in these post-modern times. Globalization, secularization and modernization …

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A Developmental of Environmental Ethic and Learning Achievement in Environment Impact Assessment Course by Action Learning Style

The researchaimed to find the relationship between environmental ethic development and learningachievement in the environmental impact assessment course. It used …

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Implementations of Knowledge Management as a Strategy for Improving Competitiveness of Higher Education Organization (Aplication Reseach of Soft System Methodology for Higher Education Organization)

Impact of globalization on the organization, reactive to changes in the environment and able to respond to the challenges faced. …

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Behavioral Relationship between Sexes and Sexual Relations of Male Students in Silpakorn University, Thailand

This study presents qualitative research, which is aimed to make an understanding on behavioral relationships between sexes and activities related …

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A Study of Learning Motivation of Current and Prospective School Teachers in Online Psychology Classes

Indifferent and careless school teachers bring much harm to a society. That is why the study of teachers' motivation, specifically …

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Gender Impact On The Information Environment Of Distance Learners In Botswana

Gender issues have occupied the front burner of educational discourse over the past decades. Cases of gender imbalance in education …

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The Lessons from the Experience of Educational Risk Management of Thai Government University

The objectives of this research were to 1. To study the situations of risk and 2.to study the lessons from …

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General Education Model of University in Thailand

The purpose of this study was to describe the General Education Model of University in Thailand. Using a mixed methods …

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Language Use and Identity within the Virtual Community of Mahjoob.com

This paper introduces the virtual community of the Mahjoob.com website, a global community of 1,261 web forum posters, where globalizing …

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How to Make Technology Better?

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Integration of PSO and BP Neural Network for Building the Artillery Ballistic Model

The artillery firing precision plays an important role in the war and it's hard to describe the projectile trajectory in …

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Administrative Success Factors of Private Pre-Schools in Khon Kaen under Office of the Private Education Commission : Multi-Cases Study

The aims of these studies were to investigate factors of the schools’ administration achievements by both overall and classifications according …

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Using Machinima as a Method for Color Practice and Digital Narrative Creation

Combining visual game scenes, actions and narrative, Machinima, a by-product of the digital game, has been seen as a storytelling …

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Emotional Prosody Mediated Visual Search in a First and Second Language: Evidence from Eye Movements

The difficulties that children have in thinking about time concepts may result from the complexity of time as a concept, …

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Collaborative Feedback in a Blended Learning Environment: A Case Study of an EFL Writing Class

Collaborative feedback in a blended learning environment was studied to encourage learner-centeredness in the process of writing. The study aimed …