Category: Hawaii Conference Series 2017 1
The Relevance and Impact of Professional Counselling on Land Use and Management for Environmental Sustainability: The Benue Experience in Nigeria
This paper would report the environmental implications of indiscriminate multiple land use in the Benue region of Nigeria. The relevance …
Pushing European Boundaries Towards East and West: Gulliver in Japan and America
Worldwide, in the East as well as in the West, one character has become a part of everybodys childhood, regardless …
Sustainability on Economic and Energy Planning of China
From the “13th five year” plan, China now is directing to transit to the green economy for not only relying …
Searching for the Spice: On Chinese Diaspora’s Food Practice in Helsinki, Finland
In this research project, I examined the ever-changing interconnected relations between immigrants’ identity construction, food practice and the broader social …
Urban Logistics Planning of Kho Chang Port Island, Trad Province, Thailand
With the potentiality of Thailand in being ASEAN's logistics center, the past and present governments have given emphasis on this …
Teaching Cross Cultural Communication Course Through Content Based Instruction: Curriculum Design and Learner Perspectives in an EFL Context
This study intends to introduce a content based curriculum design for the course "cross cultural communication" in an EFL context. …
DEA Environmental Assessment on U.S. Industrial Sectors
A green image is recently an important component for corporate survivability in modern business. This study discusses a new use …
Performance of a Solar Heating System with Photovoltaic Thermal Hybrid Collectors and Heat Pump
The energy consumption in buildings accounts for a large part of the World’s CO2 emissions. Much energy is used for …
The Strategies of Piano Manufacturers: Crafts, Industry and Marketing
This article focuses on a study of product architecture and marketing strategies of piano manufacturers; Steinway & Sons and Yamaha. …
Type of Coal and Possible Occurrence of Congestion Related to Eco-Technology Innovation in U.S. Electric Power Industry
Coal-fired power plants generate approximately 32% of electricity in the United States. The electric generators fueled by coal are a …
Political Communication – Reach and Relevance: A Case Study of Delhi
In the nineteenth century mechanical printing replaced direct communication/dialogue/ speech. In the wake of twentieth century radio and television occupied …
Effects of EFL Instruction Utilizing International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) on Intelligibility of Japanese Students
This study focuses on intelligibility of Japanese students pronunciation. Japanese students are handicapped in acquiring EFL, because Japanese differs from …
Time Series Analysis of Thai Flooding Effects on Japanese Insurance Companies
In this paper, we analyzed effects of the 2011 Thai flooding on Japanese economics, especially on the Japanese insurance companies. …
Sustainable Development of Catchment Land-Use for Multifunctional Agro-Ecological Landscapes Under a Changing Climate
Incorporating the likely impacts of climate change into regional and rural planning is vital to accommodate their profound effects on …
A Field Report on the Art Movement: The Case of Mullae Arts Village, Seoul
This study takes a deep look at the art movement as cultural practices based on the local community by focusing …
Influencing Factors and Processes Involved in the Commercialization of the Industry-University-Government Alliance Outcomes
According to data from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (data from 2004 to 2014), the total number of Industry-University-Government …
How Public Educational Policy Reform has Lost Its Way
American education has lost its sense of mission, its direction, its connection to real life, and its willingness to change …
Research on the Structural Forms of Dance
This paper which is about dance structure is the summary of the author’s practical experience, and could be regarded as …
Stochastic Model of Demand Curve Supported in Consumption Habits of Electric Energy for Residential Sector
This paper shows the methodological aspects to design and develop a stochastic model, which determines the demand curve from variation …
Marriage Al ‘Mosaico’ in Divorzio All’Islamica a Viale Marconi: Muslim-Arab Migrants’ Code Switching at Play in Amara Lakhous’ Novel
The present article focuses on a popular novel set in Rome, Divorzio all’ islamica a Viale Marconi (2010), in which …
The Effect of Cluster Simplification in Thai on the English Language Learners
This research is aimed at studying the effect of the change in progress of spoken standard Thai in terms of …
Adding Value to Thailand’s Robusta Coffee through Geographical Indication
Coffee is the most valuable and widely traded tropical agricultural product. Thailand is one of the top coffee producers in …
Management System Prototype for an Electric Iron to Contribute to Energy Efficiency
In this paper, a management system prototype for electric iron is presented with the purpose of monitoring tension, current, energy …
Transglobal Culture, Hybrid Food, and Cultural Identity
The term ‘East’ and ‘West’ cannot repudiate the binary concept on ‘local’ and ‘global’. And today, the discussion on the …
Teaching Whiteness in American Literature
Teaching Whiteness in American Literature discusses challenges to raising the consciousness of university students of American literature about the impact …
Study on Eco-Environment Crisis Coping with System of Russia under Sustainable Development Strategy Background
Ecological crisis is the challenge commonly faced by mankind, and it is environment protection topic emphasized by countries across the …
Microenvironment of HMGB1 “Clusters”: A Potential Drug Target for Cancer and Diabetes
The quest for potential therapeutic strategies to treat inflammatory diseases represents one of the topical progresses in the field of …
Numerical Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer in Adsorbent Beds with Rectangular Fins
A transient two-dimensional numerical model of coupled heat and mass transfers in adsorbent bed of a silica gel/water adsorption chiller …
Energy and Exergy Analysis of Evacuated Tubes Solar Air Collector with Micro-Heat Pipes Arrays (MHPA)
Solar air collector (SAC) occupies an important place among solar air heating systems because of simpler structure and lower manufacturing …
Art and Politics in Iraq: Examining the Freedom Monument in Baghdad
The Iraqi Freedom Monument by Jawad Salim in Baghdad is an example of an artistic achievement that came into existence …
Between Land and Sea: An Approach for Resilient New Development along the San Francisco Bay
The urban edge that defines the San Francisco Bay is a contested landscape whose boundaries are continually changing, both in …
The Exploration of Spatial Strategies on Social Construction in Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a unique city in China where 70% of people come from outside of the city. In fewer than …
Bilingual Language Production: Shared or Separate Processing?
Language production processes have recently been of interest to many psycholinguistic researchers. While human beings are able to acquire multiple …
What is Interpretation and How Can I Perform it? A Case Study of Assessing Interpreter Training in Japan
Interpretation is a communication approach for facilitating personal meaning making and developing connections with things, places, people, and concepts and …
Facing the Challenge of Being a Woman Officer in the Belgian Army: Personality Profile and Coping Strategies
Forty years ago, the first women soldiers joined the Belgian army. Since then, much progress has been made in the …
Motivations to Visit a Museum – Why Do You Visit While Others Don’t Go?
Museums are critical for resource conservation, while they can provide a recreational setting and enhance visitor’s leisure experience. Museums also …
The Diversity of Indigenous Wisdom on Grief: Exploring Social Work Approaches to Bereavement
The aim of our study was twofold: 1) to describe the diversity of indigenous wisdom on grief and maintaining relationships …
Hardwood Propagation of Lantana Camara L. for Green Environment
Lantana is popular for its growth and flowering throughout the heat of summer and while it is a tender woody …
Quantitative Assessment of River Environment by Focusing on Benthic Biota
It is well known that the benthic biota in the river ecosystem changes drastically between the mountain and urban streams. …
Using Asset Management to Unlock Sustainability Potential
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) ensures the nation's nuclear security. Comprised of eight science …
Light, the Physical Factor Affecting the Social Security of Public Space in Historical Texture
Yazd city is the first adobe and the second historical city in the world. Placement of valuable historical texture of …
Waste Management Cost Impacts on Project Finance: A Case Study of Solar Photovoltaic Rooftops in Thailand
Recently, the Royal Government of Thailand has announced promotional policies for solar photovoltaic (PV) roof mounts. The feed-in tariff policy …
Oil Producers, Refiners and Renewable Energy Consumers: Correlation to the Wealth, Competitiveness, Peace and Happiness of Populations
A popular perception suggests that nations with abundant natural resources will ultimately demonstrate stronger economic performance. Studies investigating this perception, …
Policy Networks of Central-Local Government Relations in the UK and Japan and Linkage of International Relations in the EU
Policy networks and linkage are tightly connected concepts in the politics. The policy networks defined by Rhodes are set of …
Indian Sandalwood Fragrance Culture from East to West
The present study explores the cultural and techno sphere of Indian Sandalwood that has been affecting the increase of the …
A Comparative Analysis of Environmental and Economic Costs of PV Solar Imports and Manufacturing: China vs. Ontario, Canada
Solar energy is one of the most suitable renewable sustainable energy options with the opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. …
When Fraud Wears Religious Cassocks
According to the US court papers, Taipei Smartphone maker HTC Corp’s founder, Cher Wang, was defrauded out of US$7.4 million …