The Elements of Creative Culture in Thai Higher Education Institutions
Creative culture is the shared values reflected by the organization's behavior and attitude in the joint task of the people …
Invigorating Literature Teaching in Taiwan through Drama
English Literature courses are elective and considered minor courses in the departments of Applied English in institutes of technology in …
Training of Technical Teachers through Integration of Information & Communication Technology in India
Technology has provided the platform for learning i.e anyone can learn anything, any where any time. The potential of technology …
Diversity and Assistive Technology: Focusing on the analysis of special education magazines from 1999 to 2009 in Japan and The United States
People with disabilities who are able to make use of adequate Assistive Technology (hereafter referred to as AT), are more …
Students with Visual Disability and Active Touch: Levels of Understanding and Think Aloud Protocols
There is a lot of ongoing research regarding the key functions of the sense of active touch and their links …
Making of a Japanese Traditional Automation, Namely Renrigaeri, and Its Application to Education
We report results of science classes in which the fourth, fifth, or sixth year pupils in elementary schools made Renrigaeri …
Developing International Professional Qualification Standards in the Computer Field for Academic Personnel of Rajamangala University of Technology
The purpose of the research study was to develop international professional qualification standards in computer for academic personnel of Rajamangala …
Adoption of a Personal Learning Environment & Network to Support Learning
The 21st century is a knowledge and digital era. The issues of changing condition and information overload challenge people’s abilities …
The Effect of Game Design on Game Play Time and Learning Outcomes
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the design of a social studies mobile game on game play time …
Effect of Assessment on Group Work Activities Using Wiki
This study investigates the implementation of wiki in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning environment. Many research works have proceeded to identifying …
Feasibility Analysis of Investment Projects on Housing Development in Thailand with Valuation Technique Based on Economy Factor
This research concerns feasibility analysis of investment project in housing development in Thailand with valuation technique based on economy factor. …
A Computer Game for Cultural Learning and Promotion: A Case Study of Thai Risk-Loss Cultures
In this modern world, communication and transportation has become more convenient and faster than before. This rapid growth of globalization …
The Relevance of Software Development Education for Students
According to Bill Gates the 3 R's: Rigour, Relevance and Relationaships are the most important aspects of education reform. In …
Knowledge Engineering for Developing Knowledge Management System: College of Arts, Media and Technology, Thailand
Research and Development are crucial to every university aiming at being the world-class educational institute internationally accepted. The College of …
The OrBITal Map: A New Design Tool for an Effective Representation of Knowledge Systems and Instructional Objectives
In search of tools for effective content analysis and representation of knowledge systems, instructional designers usually use concept or mental …
The Different Involvement of Kinect Games in Physical Education Courses Effect on the Baseball Batting Skill Learning Performance of High School Students
The purpose of this study was to discuss the different involvement of kinect games in high school physical education courses. …
The Action Research of Synthesizing Lessons of Suitable Radio Program for Children in the East of Thailand
This paper contains three objectives, which are (i) to examine present styles and contents of the appropriate radio programs for …
Female Teenager’s Perseption toward Indonesian Boyband’s Masculinity in the 2010
This research figure out gender discourse which stored in Indonesian Boyband performance as one of the popular culture’s text. The …
Social Media and Online Activism in Kazakhstan: A New Challenge for Authoritarianism?
The internet provides new channels for citizen voices, expression of minority viewpoints, and political mobilisation. In Egypt, Russia, Syria and …
Visual Social Communication Through Photographic Images
Social commentary is a method of photographic images that could change public perception towards a better life. It is an …
Applying the Conjoint Technique in Identifying Preschool Preference of an Ideal Computer Game for Nutrition Literacy
The advancements and innovations in the industries of healthcare and education are at the threshold of a breakthrough. The main …
Nutrition-related Computer Game Use Resulted to Improved Health Literacy among Preschoolers in the Philippines
Health education aided with technology has been recently examined by experts as a new approach in extending universal efforts to …
Predictors of Nutrition-related Game Utilization among Preschoolers in the Philippines
ith the pending issues on malnutrition and healthy illiteracy, the focus has been turned towards the potentials share of the …
Teachers as Actors: Lecturing Theory Classes for Students in Vocational Education and Training Institutes
When Confucius and Socrates taught, they had one thing in common: they lectured. Using vocal control, body languages and questioning …
Comparative Analysis of Thinking Process Between Designer and Engineer Based on Case Application of Multispace Design Method
This paper describes each feature of thinking process for a designer and an engineer based on comparative analysis applying Multispace …
Planning and Evaluation Skills: A Search With the Teachers of Italian Schools
This contribution proposes a reflection on the centrality of the construct of competence, which, especially in the last twenty years, …
The Effect of English Visual Presentation in a Second Language Class
The recent years, a great tendency towards the use of technology and its integration into the curriculum has gained a …
Monitoring Progression and Personalized Coaching in a Virtual Gaming World for Learning Sciences
It is important to better integrate the use of web learning applications in classrooms and also to ensure that some …
Sound Used in the Movies: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Wong Kar-Wai’s Film Works
Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Wong Kar-Wai's film work has always been full of controversial topics. Their filming technique often raise extensive …
Identity, Responsibility, then Politics: The Uyghur Diaspora, Facebook and the Construction of Identity Online
This paper presents findings from an examination of the use of online social media among the Uyghur diaspora. The Uyghur …
Characterizing Health-Related Cues to Action: Using Yelp Reviews of Restaurants in Hawaii’s Oahu Island
Even though Yelp’s ability to reflect consumers’ real voices has been questioned (Kuehn, 2013), this social media site—with a platform …
Relationship between Belief Factors with the Teenagers’ Acceptance of the Newspapers
Newspapers contain an abundance of information which enables to enhance the teenagers’ knowledge. Nevertheless, in the current situation, the teenagers’ …
Chinese Social Media as a Dominated Public Sphere: A Case Study of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Sina Weibo
The Internet has long been the focus of Utopian arguments proposing its democratic potential. Most recently, social media has been …
Non-verbal Communication Training with an Interactive Multimedia Application
Non-verbal communication incorporating visual, audio, and contextual information are important to make sense of and navigate the social world. We …
Realizing e-Learning for Higher Education in a Low-Speed Internet Environment
As information and communication technology (ICT) becomes more robust and widely used, there is an increasing number of higher educational …
Application of Designers’ Sketching Skills in Design Education
The use of sketches in the generation of design ideas is thought to have various effects. However, previous studies have …
Screening Otherness: The Potential of Screen Literacy Learning for Cosmopolitan Knowledge and Understanding
Recent cineliteracy projects for young people in Japan and Australia indicate that knowledge and understanding of the moving image impacts …
Development of Scales on the Effects of Gaming in Cyber Cafés in Manila
This study attempted to develop valid and reliable scales towards the effects of gaming in cyber cafés in Manila. In …
The Strategies of Improving Instruction Qualities in Taiwan Senior High Schools from the Perspective of TQM
The purpose of this study was to find out the strategies of improving instruction qualities in senior high schools from …
Theories and Practices in English as an International Language(EIL), World Englishes (WE), English as an Lingua Franca (ELF) Seen in Students Perception Data (1)
This symposium addresses the issues of the gap between theoretical stances and inferential data in WE, EIL and ELF, on …
Evaluating the Impact of Students’ Disconnection with Mathematics on Academic Achievement of Primary Five and Six School Pupils
The study was carried out to find out the impact students’ disconnection with some topics in mathematics have on academic …
The Earth And Ice-pits Sustainable Architecture In Iran
Many architects hold the view that Iranian traditional architecture has proved to be successful in creating innovative and sustainable architecture …
(Inter)disciplinary research and practice with refugees resettling in Europe: the need for a ‘phronetic’ social science
This paper draws on a systematic literature review in the area of refugee resettlement and adaptation and argues against the …
Quality of Mentoring and Personal Attributes as Correlates of Professional Competencies Among Librarians of Region 10
It is essential for librarians to advance professionally. The professional competencies of librarians that were acquired through education and library …
Americanism and Japanese Post-Colonial Influence on Taiwan: On Zhenho Wang’s “Portraits of Beauties/Americana” “(Mei Ren Tu)”
Three years after the U.S. switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to P.R.C. in 1979, Wang Zhenho’s novel, Portraits of Beauties/Americana …
Transfiguration of Space: Practice-Based Research in Painting and Digital Art by Kong Ho
Envisioned as a practice-based research project in painting and digital art by Kong Ho, "Transfiguration of Space" will explore the …
Rewriting the Signpost: Memories of Misdirection
"YOU ARE HERE" declares the red dot on the mall's directory. To shoppers in need of finding their orientation in …
The Clustering of Accommodation Facilities and Tourism Development in Cing Jing area of Taiwan
This research, taking the example of Cing Jing area, examined the relationship analysis of accommodation facilities temporal-spatial clustering and Butler's …
Othering the Malay in Malaysia: A Planned Consequence of Politics?
This paper examines the rise in the politicisation of Islam in Malaysia and links it to the othering of the …
A Heuristic Model to Aid the Western Business People Working in Culturally Different Societies to Adjust to the Environment
This paper is based on an ongoing research project that investigates the factors that contribute to successful assimilation by Western …
The content analysis of sex, violence, and the use of language in television programs rated as G (General): for all ages
This study is a content analysis research that analyzes inappropriate expression in the content of television programs rated as "G …
Politics of Asian Welfare Marketing Campaign: Is Thailand following the Footstep of Euro Breakdown?
One of the headline issues of avoidance in politics is the question of how public finance (and the costs to …
Who Controls Radio Listening in Cars?
Despite many studies on media consumption in the domestic sphere, few studies have been conducted in the driving context. Based …
Facebook : Communication Behavior of Thai Teenagers in the Public Sphere
Currently, young people are increasingly using the Internet, especially social networking sites. Facebook.com has grown dramatically with many researches showing …
A Simple Glimpse of the Present Times Hand in Hand with Dao De Jing
Chinese philosophy highlights human experience where practical wisdom is attained. Dao De Jing is an ancient Chinese philosophy, while postmodernism …
Study of Health Practice of Postpartum Women Living in Urban of Nakhonratchasima and Nearby Who Received Family Health Service by Nursing Students During Year 2005 to 2009
This research studyies the behaviors of postpartum women composed of antenatal care, using folk-postpartum medicine, newborn feeding, and family planning. …
Comparing Tourism Destination Images Between Before the Trip and After the Trip
There are several studies identifying tourism destination images to three types-original image, reduced image, and complex image based on before …
Ethnic Relations in Transnational Context : The Case Study of Chinese Indonesians – Indonesian Relations in Medan after 1998
The relations between Chinese and 'Pribumi' Indonesians are unequivocally complicated, and vary according to global & local contexts. For decades, …
Is the Transportation Revolution Accelerating the Marginalization at Regional Level?
This research aims to illuminate the core is emerging, and the periphery is undergoing marginalization on geography proximity through the …
Meaning Construction of Modern Women in Weight-Loss Coffee Advertisements
The objective of this research is to study symbolic meanings of modern women in weight-loss coffee advertisements, popular drinks among …
Kuki Shūzō’s Temporal Aesthetics: Finding Japanese Identity in Art and Literature
The objective of this paper is to analyze two works of Kuki Shūzō: Propor sur le Temps (1928) and Bungaku …
A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis of the Traveler Type Differences of the Travel Path Patterns in Dong-Gang Area of Taiwan
Despite travel path patterns are the fundamental aspect of tourism phenomenon; little attention has been given to connect with traveler's …
The Contact Zone: The Intersection of Indigenous Knowledges in the Arts and Humanities
Settler societies and indigenous peoples operate in the contact zone routinely in asymmetrical relations of power. Through the integration of …
From Resistance to Participation: Clanship and Urban Modernization in the Wuyi Rural Market Towns during the Republican Era
Studies on urban modernization in early twentieth century South China usually attribute rural development to the government and some returned …
The Duality of Narrative Voice and the Possibility of Friendship in Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Everything Is Illuminated”
In Jonathan Safran Foer’s postmodern novel, Everything is Illuminated, we see a semi-autobiographical journey in search for generational memory, family …
The House as Mirrors in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a story about the misery of the Ushers who …
At the Nexus of Nature and Culture: Botany as Metaphor
This paper looks at a series of artworks which I produced in 2009 to 2012 during my doctoral programme at …
“Princess Robot Bubblegum” Critiques “Cool Japan:” An Illustration of the Impact of Japan’s Soft Power Movement through a Cross-Cultural, Cross-Media Response
The anime parody ‘Princess Robot Bubblegum’ found in Grand Theft Auto IV has stirred controversy in both video game and …
The Searching of “Dream Illusion” in Chinese landscape poetry of Liu Tsung-yuan
When interpreting Liu’s poems about mountains and rivers, we can discover that there is quite an amount of intense melancholy …
The Construction of Narrative in Three Modernist Moments: Riverrun Past A Carafe to The Red Wheelbarrow
The construction of narrative has been debated by a full range of intellectuals, including philosophers of language, semioticians, narratologists, and …
Passageway and Its Double: Reconsideration of Function of Parodos in Ancient Greek Theatre
Parodos are the side entrances to orchestra, the performing space, in the ancient Greek theatre. It is worth noting that …
Ethics and Globalization in the Light of Hinduism
In the world of radical individualism, consumerism and materialism, to understand the ethical responsibility, time is needed. The complexity of …
The Monumental Imaginary: Postsocialist Architecture in Chinese Visual Culture In China,
Processes of rapid urbanisation and the unprecedented building frenzy have resulted in the transformation of Chinese cities into construction sites …
Marginality in Negotiation: Emasculated Identity, Masculinities and Genre in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Brokeback Mountain”
In his discussion of framing in "The Parergon" and his notion of the supplement, Jacques Derrida theorises a legitimate place …
Who Am I Really? Linguistic and Cultural Practices of Trinidadian Douglas
The peculiar histories of the colonies in the Caribbean brought together people from Europe, Africa and Asia in a common …
Identity and Values of Malaysian Muslims among Women and Their Metaphors in Fashion (2000-2012)
Identity of the Malays refer to three phases, which are myth, philosophy and functional. The myth reflects the “Malay world”, …
The Intercultural and Psychophysical Pedagogy of Phillip Zarrilli
Phillip Zarrilli is an acting teacher, based in the United Kingdom, who incorporates the Asian disciplines of kalarippayattu, hatha yoga, …
The Influence of Painting Education on Taiwan Folk Art during Japanese Colonial Period – Taking Landscape Painting of Colored Drawing for Building as Example
In general, Taiwan’s folk art tradition is inherited from the local characteristics in Fujian and Guangdong areas of mainland China. …
Health Behaviors of Menopausal Women in Nakhon Ratchasima District,Thailand
The purpose of this study is to explore health behaviors of menopausal women in Nakhon Ratchasima district, Thailand. The subjects …
Integration between Teaching and Learning Activities and Public Mind of Nursing Students
This project was the integration between teaching and learning activities and public mind of nursing students at Boromarajonani College of …
A Case Study of the Impact on Reading Ability of Students with Learning Disability as Using Multi-Sensory Reading Materials in Elementary Schools of Taiwan
In recent years, Taiwanese students’ performance in an international valuation has declined compared to the previous years. The reason is …
Enhancing Learning Ability among Deaf Students by Using Photographic Images
Education is one of most important things in human life. Without education we cannot compete and achieve in any area …
“And the gem-black night will come…” – Phraseological Expressions in the Songs of “Kojiki” and “Nihon Shoki”
Traditionally scholars consider only a few idioms to be phraseological units of the «Kiki» songs. Giving an exact example this …
The Role of Media in the Deconstruction of the Portuguese Empire In America – The Case of Cipriano Barata
The formation of Brazil as a nation was a tortuous process, whose progress was made during the nineteenth century, particularly …
The Study of New Ideas for Sustainable Development of Future Children Television Programs of Thai Public Broadcasting Service (ThaiPBS)
The research titled "The study of new ideas for sustainable development of future children television programs of Thai Public Broadcasting …
The Effects of Cross-age Peer Tutoring on English Learning Performance of Taiwanese Elementary School Students
Cross-age peer tutoring is not a new notion but has not yet been extensively used in Taiwan. Therefore, this study …
Botho/Ubuntu: Perspectives of Black Consciousness and Black Theology
Botho or Ubuntu is a philosophy that is as old as humanity itself. In South Africa this is a philosophy …
The Influence and Remaining Japanese Cultural Elements in Raku Artworks of Contemporary Non-Japanese Artists/Potters
This research examines the extent to which Japanese cultural elements - specifically the ‘spirit’ or philosophy of traditional Japanese Raku …
The Visual Element, Combination and Image Perception of Online Auction Photos of Female Clothing
In this study, female consumers aged 18 to 28 were selected as subjects to investigate the relationship between the presentation …
Splendor of “Songket” in Freeze-Dried Mangosteen (“Garcinia Mangostana L”) Dye
In the past, dyeing Songket with natural dye was the traditional technique used among the Malay dyers in Peninsular Malaysia …
The Representation of Women Warrior in Zhang Che’s ‘Golden Swallow’
Zhang Che, the late master of Hong Kong action cinema, has been seen as an important industrial player that influenced …
The Feasibility of Implementing Standard Chinese Characters in Hong Kong
As the outcome of the reform of Chinese characters in China during the 1950s, the system of Standard (Simplified) Chinese …
Connectedness, Identity and Alienation and the Japanese 2012 Election
The Japanese 2012 election on December 16th saw the defeat of the centre-right Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), returning the …
Flannery O’Connor in the Filipino Classroom
The Philippines is known as the only English-speaking country in Asia. This reputation makes the country assume to be close …
Indonesia’s Cultural Highest Achievement as a Propaganda of the New Order Administration through Pavilion Display at the World Expo 1970 -1993
World Expo is a world-class event where the participating countries uncovered their identity through national, cultural and organizational symbols they …
Jurisdictional Issues in Cross Border Hacking
Increase in use of cyber technologies and at the same time increasing trends in the related crimes, compelled the scholars …
Tracing the 11th-12th Century’s of Asia’s Connectedness: Learning from Candi Panataran’s Reliefs
“Man is by nature a social animal”, according to Aristotle (384 BC- 322 BC). The history of human civilization is …
Transfer as an Alternative to Direct Drawing in Yoruba Hand Built Pottery
Drawing is a by-product of man’s innate curiosity; its evidence is often traced back to the period early Palaeolithic man …
Adaptation of Thai Traditional Play on the Thai Contemporary Stage: Finding an Identity for Modern Thai Theatre
In Thailand, traditional theatre and modern theatre are categorized separately from each other. While traditional theatre still performs in traditional …
Social Capital and Human Well-Being: A Southeast Asian Country Perspective
Developing countries in Southeast Asia have suffered from growth without development for a long time. This paper aims to address …
Intersection of Asian Supernatural Beings in Asian Folk Literature: A Pan-Asian Identity
Asian nations have a rich cultural and literary tradition, through these; we can see the common features that bind these …
Interpreting Basic Policy Concepts Across Cultural Boundaries
The understanding of basic policy concepts between different contexts is a highly important quest. Since we all live in different …
The Importance and Significance of Heritage Conservation of ex-tin Mining Landscape in Perak, The Abode of Grace
The tin mining industry in Malaysia is one of its major exports and has been classified as its oldest industrial …
Unresolved issues on ASEAN harmonization of laws and regulations and their implications for ASEAN Economic Community
By the end of 2012, ASEAN decided to delay the inauguration of the AEC from January 1 to December 31, …