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The Audit Commission of Local Government in the UK
This paper examines the Audit Commission of local government in the United Kingdom. The function of the Audit Commission, established in 1983 as an independent public corporation and dissolved in 2015, is to audit administration by the local authorities. However, in fact, the Audit Commission has been playing roles of the policy maker and influencing …
A Smart Guiding Tours of Eco-Tourism for Taiwan’s Fairy Pitta: The Service Design Viewpoint
Fairy Pitta, is a special bird that could be found in Taiwan during the summer season. Currently, we can only find their appearance in Huben area in Taiwan. In each summer season, there are many backpackers and birdwatchers all around the world traveling to Huben area to watch this bird. However, the serious outward migration …
Students’ First Language in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Classroom in Ubon Ratchathani University: “The Students’ Perspective”
This study tries to investigate the students’ perspective on the use of their L1 (Thai) in the acquisition of the L2 (English) in Ubon Ratchathani University. The study adapts questions used in previous studies to capture weather students think Thai should be used in the English class room and in what situations students use their …
Suicide Prevention as Governance: Suicide Discourses in Post-Martial Law Taiwan
This thesis re-examines the current dominance of suicide prevention discourse and the widely accepted pathologized suicide implications in contemporary Taiwan. Increasingly constructing suicide as a personal and psychological problem, this pathologization of suicide has helped the creation of institutions, discourses, and national policies that work together to form a concrete demonstration of social and emotional …
Developing a 3D Interactive Tool for Learning OOP Concepts
Object Oriented Programming (OOP) recently became the most influential programming paradigm. Several studies have indicated some serious deficiencies in the learning outcomes of students who have passed one or several programming courses in CS programs. In King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah-Saudi Arabia, during the second semester of the year 2014-2015¬∏ it has been analyzed through …
Practice of 21st Century Skills-Oriented Project-Based Learning: A Case for Developing Application Software
Rapid technological advances and globalization of the 21st century have caused a large change in people’s way of life and how to think and learn. On the other hand, modern society have various complicated problems such as terrorism, conflict, refugee problems, poverty, and environmental issue. Today’s children must face the problems in the future. However, …
Building Opportunities for Children to Exercise their Rights at School
There is inconsistency in the relationship children have with regards to their rights in the school setting. Few teachers know about these rights, families don’t utilize them, and children are ignorant of them. Having said this, one of the most substantial social justice problems in schools is talking about rights without creating any opportunities. If …
John Updike and the Grandeur of American Suburban Life
The standing of John Updike (1932-2009), a multiple prize-winning author of more than 60 books, has suffered over the last two decades. Updike’s great subject was ordinary middle class America. He strove to illuminate the truths of small town America, to reveal the beauty in its ordinariness. Updike captures the texture of ordinary American life …
Fostering Social Justice Orientation through Clinical Legal Education in the Caribbean ___ Stakeholder Considerations
Caribbean law schools governed by the Council of Legal Education, aim to “facilitate the development of competent legal practitioners for the region”, who, among other things, ‘are inspired in the promotion of social justice’. Towards this end, students are required to attend a legal aid clinic in their final year of law school, where they …
The Perception of Science Secondary School Teachers Towards the Science Learning Problems of Lower Secondary School Students in Thailand
The purposes of this study are; 1) to find the science learning problems of lower secondary school students in terms of science teachers’ perception. 2) to find the issues that science secondary school teachers need to solve in science learning. The open-ended questionnaire was responded by thirty-six science teachers from nine areas in Thailand in …
High School Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science
The aim of this study was to investigate students’ understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS). 108 high school students at a secondary school in the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 36 participated in this preliminary study. An open-ended questionnaire was adapted from the View of Nature of Science questionnaire (VNOS-form C) of Lederman et …
Flipping with a mooc: A Case Study of an English Academic Writing
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have been growing in popularity with educational researchers and learners in online environments. Courses in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in higher education setting often bring together students from different academic backgrounds. However, MOOCs platforms haven’t provided many choices for EAP courses. For this reason, such courses tend to demonstrate …
Active Compassion: Empowering Buddhist Nuns Through STEM Education
This study endorses teaching and learning opportunities in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) for Buddhist nuns. The Dalai Lama’s position on science and secular education is examined, as well as STEM educational programs in which the Buddhist monastic community participates. This research advances the initiatives of international governmental and nongovernmental organizations …
The Effectiveness of Authentic Material Application to Enhance EFL Students’ Listening Comprehension
Up to now, there has been a variety of factors influencing on Thai EFL students who are learning English for their survival in the competitive societies, especially when Thailand becoming one of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) members. One of the most influential factors is that Thai students still lack English communicative competence which is considered …
Tagubhang: The Lifeblood of Living Traditions
Tagubhang is a literary theory conceived through the inspiration of the continuous rendition and performance of the oral narrative tradition of the people of Partido, a culturally-rich district in Camarines Sur, Bicol Region, Philippines. It has been conceived upon the observation of the poetics of the oral narratives locally called as osipon, systematically collected in …
Organisational Culture that Facilitate Lean Implementation
Purpose: Lack of research regarding the critical factor of organisational culture related to lean implementation and Culture is the key factor to making the changes for lean implementation (Pakdil and Leonard, 2015). Implementing lean into industrial SMEs faces difficulties, whereas it is more likely to be implemented successfully in larger companies, which then gain the …
Automated Students’ Thai Online Homework Assignment Clustering
This paper proposes a model to cluster students’ Thai online homework assignments before teachers go for further for grading, in other words Automated Students’ Thai Homework Assignment Clustering. The proposed model consists of 5 parts: 1) Thai Word segmentation, 2) Stop-word removal, 3) Term Weighting, 4) Document Clustering, and 5) Performance Evaluation. The Thai Word …
Schematic Figures As Foregrounding Elements in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech
A writer’s style of persuasion is worth analysing, especially when this style can serve as a powerful tool to convey the writer’s persuasive goal in a speech as well as to highlight the aesthetics of the language used. In this case, a writer can use certain linguistic features to function as foregrounding elements in the …
The Specificities of Lisbon As an International (City) Actor
States have been, traditionally, the key analytical category to reason on International Relations (IR) with different renounced authors explicitly or implicitly acknowledging it. However, on pair with states, cities are an organizing form and space of political, social, cultural, demographic, environmental and economic life. Cities are nowadays one of the actors of the global, and …
From Design to Management _ Task Shift of Architects in Urban Regeneration Process
The regeneration of old urban villages in China has entered a new stage. The past patterns of redevelopment of these areas caused many problems such as culture loss, social segregation, urban space fragmentation and over-exploitation. It is more and more agreed that the old urban village areas with long city history and complicated property relationships …
Nonvegetated Constructed Wetland with Graded Sand Bed System for Hazardous Landfill Leachate Treatment and Heavy Metals Removal
Three pilot scale non-vegetated constructed wetland with graded sand bed systems (N-VCWGS) were investigated for the treatment of hazardous landfill leachate and heavy metals removal. The reactors were filled with graded sand media. The pilot systems were operated at the same Hydraulic Retention Time (HRT) of 5 days. The results showed that the N-VCWGS which …
Determinants of Profitability of Rice Farming in Peri-Urban Area, Bangkok, Thailand
Rice farming is not only beneficial for farmer, but also have a significant contribution to the share of agriculture in peri urban area of Bangkok. This study examined the profitability of rice farming and investigate some socio-economic factors affecting the profitability of rice farming in peri-urban area of Bangkok, Thailand. A questionnaire were administered to …
Contributing and Inhibiting Factors of Cultural Adjustment
There is a growing population of international students in U.S., and though previously only the elite or scholastically advanced students were able to study abroad, currently this experience is becoming more easily accessible. As this new demographic grows, questions arise on how to make international students experience in U.S. more positive and less stressful. Asian …
The Impacts of Globalization on Urban Peripheral Villages of Iran
Globalization as an ongoing economic, social, political and technological process has various impacts around the world, which its quantity and quality has been different in terms of various countries conditions. One of these impacts is spatial transformation of urban peripheral villages. The objective of this research is considering factors affecting spatial transformation of Iran’s urban …
Using an Ontology to Develop the Learning Outcomes in Library
Recently, Learning Outcomes(LO) are relevance feedback information from learning activities in the university. Library is a centre of the resource services to support these activities. However, stakeholders are student, teacher, department, faculty and university which have different activities and goals. In this study, Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University Library is used as case study, it provides …
The Significance of Social Components in Urban Transformation in the Context of Sustainability: A Romany Neighbourhood Example/Istanbul
Cities are like living organisms like every single living creature that is born, grows up and dies. Just as when a living being is in bad health and medical intervention becomes inevitable, such intervention is inevitable in cities as well. One of the interventions is “Urban Transformation” in order to prevent dilapidation and deterioration in …
Overlooking Injustices for National Pride: Inside the Australian War Memorial’s Representation of the Papua New Guineans During WWII
War is sometimes argued as necessary in maintaining peace and justice. During the Second World War the Australian government sent troops to Papua New Guinea to thwart the imminent invasion of Australia by the Japanese. As a consequence, the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea was the site of some of the most desperate and …
Internet Addiction Motivations Among Chinese Young People: A Qualitative Analysis
The present study aims to explore the internet use pattern and the possible internet addiction motivations among Chinese young people, such as parenting style, social environment, changes of communication pattern, and psychological empty etc. Qualitative interviews were conducted. A total of 25 addictive young people and two parents were interviewed individually. Analysis of interviews found …
Neglect and Abandonment in Anne Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler (born 1941) is one of the creative twentieth century American writers. Classified by critics as a Southern writer, Tyler focuses on modern families and their distinctive relationships. She writes with wit and insight about runaway husbands, wives, fathers, mothers and children. Her interest in themes concerning family, home and identity becomes increasingly significant …
Aesthetics of Villages: Analysis of Related Cases in the Combination of Art and Living
This study use the village is not only an art museum but art of life as the main ideology, to investigate and review domestic as well as foreign relevant cases for past five years, and summarize the present and future development trend of community design. The purposes of this research are (1) to understand the …
“Hao Shi Duo Mo”: The Combination Practice of Gameplay and Culture Art with IPO-AER Principle
A grindstone was a kind of tool for rural people to grind beans, wheat or other Ingredients to produce food further by human power or animal power in early Taiwan. As time progresses and technology develops, this tool has gradually not been used in modern life of Taiwan, but for many elders, the grindstone is …
An Act of Not Forgetting: Representation of 1965’s Events in Leila S. Chudori’s “Pulang” and N. Riantiarno’s “Cermin Merah”
The events of 1965 are one of unforgettable events in Indonesia history. Many of Indonesian people believed that Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) or Indonesia communist party was responsible for kidnapping and murdering seven highly-ranked Indonesia army generals. Later on, this act was considered to be an act of coup d’Etat to the government. Their cruel …
Applying Digital Media Design in Elementary School: A Case Study of the Soma Cube
SOMA cube is a block that combines seven units of different shapes. With diverse assembly methods, these seven blocks can be created to unlimited shapes. Practice the SOMA which implies space record that may therefore enhance the learner’s sense of space memories and designing creativities. This study is to explore all possible profit that can …
Just Transition and the Renewable Energy Industry – to What Extent Does the German Energiewende Consider Decent Work and Job Quality?
The paper refers to the concept of Just Transition and examines the corresponding interface of energy and labour policies in the German renewable energy industry, a subject which has received only little attention in the political and scientific debates surrounding the German Energiewende. On the one hand, the renewable energy industry directly and indirectly benefits …
The Medieval University
Medieval Europe saw the emergence of the university. In Italy, France, and England universities developed from the late eleventh century to take on the role of educating the young for future careers. In many ways the medieval university appears quite unlike the university of today, with its numerous departments and its huge student body. Yet …
Effects of Robotic Dogs as Catalysts for Social Interactions: A Preliminary Study
As robotics technologies are advancing at an ever increasing rate, robotic pets have emerged in the market offering companionship and socialization to users, including robot-assisted activity. However, the effects of robotic analogues of living dogs as social catalysts remain unclear. Can robotic dogs act as catalysts for human social interactions like real dogs? How do …
Mobile Phones Use in an Arab Context: Blending Modernity and Tradition
This exploratory study examines Arab college students’ use of mobile phones, and investigates the impact of mobile telephony on Arab family structure, friendship, and face-to-face communication. The study uses and gratifications theory as a theoretical framework, and utilizes a survey instrument and a nonrandom sample (N=303) to get answers to its research questions. The study …
The Sustainability and Justice of the Conservation of Modern Architecture in Thailand
The study of modern architecture in Thailand highlights the period of 1932-1985 A.D. which depicted the period of cultural transition and the founding of civilization that has been shaped by significant social, economic and political changes to the nation. All this has been much reflected in Thai architectural works. In that period, numerous buildings and …
The Law of the Ghost: Late Nineteenth Century Ghost Stories in China and Britain
The laws of the human world is often seen as inadequate in implementing justice, so that imaginations about an alternative law appear frequently in literature, and that is the law of the ghost. Cultural imaginations of the ghost in both East and West are closely related with ideas of justice. In traditional Chinese culture the …
The Sound Exchange of Movement: A Study on the Current Soundscape Conditions of Taiwan’s Metro System
Soundscape developed in Europe and Canada. In 1996, it was incorporated into urban planning in Japan. In recent years, Taiwan has begun attaching value to the conceptual application of soundscape, which is reflected on the actuation of the 2015 Taipei Soundscape project. The development of the rapid transit in Taiwan is entering into its second …
“The White Man’s Burden”: Politics of Volunteer Tourism
This conceptual paper explores critically the political economy of volunteer tourism along the lines of a ‘white savior complex’ and argues that the meanings, practices, and policies of volunteer tourism development continue to be informed by colonial thought, resulting in disempowerment of the rural populations in the Third World and making volunteer tourism an avenue …
Production of Urban Spaces for the Creation of a ‘Modern Society’ In Turkey
The creation of a new culture, following the proclamation of the Republic and Turkish Revolution is the embodiment of an excessive passion. In Turkey’s experience, modernization (and westernization) was achieved by a plan introduced from the top. This plan was achieved by several reforms on political, legal, cultural, social, and economic policy debates for the …
The Study on the Development and Processing Transfer of Lip Balm Products from Virgin Coconut Oil: A Case Study
The purpose of this research was aimed to study the development and processing transfer of lip balm products from virgin coconut oil by herbal producing group of the Sibedsok sub-district, Banpho district, Chachoengsao province, Thailand. Their physical properties and stability test at various storage conditions were performed. The results showed that all of the formulations …
Revitalizing the Indonesian National Values to Strengthen the Nation’s Character
National values are not present in a vacuum. They grow and develop from the interaction of history so as to form a civilization that characterizes a nation. The characteristic is then institutionalized and becomes an identity of a nation. National values are a set of values manifested in a collective consciousness of the society and …
Handmade Toy Development for Early Childhood Using Local Wisdom
This study was aimed to develop and produce toys from handmade materials for young children by the application of local wisdom. The participants consisted of young children in the kindergarten school in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand. The selection was made by the purposive sampling from 10 schools, where each school selected 1 room, and each room …
Synthesis and Characterization of Bioi/TiO2 Photocatalysts for Waste Water Treatment
The main cause of water pollution was generally due to human acts. Activities such as transporting the already used industrial or generated waste water and garbages from the community and put them into the water resources. As a result of the pollution occurring, organic matters were degraded and natural forms were eventually changed into other …
Research and Prospects of Urban Morphology Evolution in the Information Age
The evolution of urban morphology is usually seen as a response of human science and technology in different periods. Firstly, as a crucial area, information technology would be closely associated with urban morphology evolution in future. Then, based on six aspects_º_relationship between urban and rural, regional differences, city scale, the central area, spatial relationships and …
ASEAN Community 2015: Model for Managing International Labour Migration in Thailand
To enter to ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015, human resources would be one of weaknesses for Thailand. There are more than 3.5 million persons from other ASEAN countries without Thai nationality living in the country, more than 3.0 million of them are working in the country, and approximately 1.4 million of them are not …
A Study into Residential Energy Use in Adelaide Metropolitan: Determinants and Effects on Household’s Consumption
Energy consumption in residential buildings is a significant contributor to world energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions, since residential sector absorbs about one-fifth of global energy demand stems for heating, cooling, lighting and running appliances in dwellings. This paper analytically examines the effects of various determinants on household energy consumption. Household characteristics, dwelling type …
Evaluation of Zeolite Efficiency for Removal of Cesium Ions From Seawater
Cesium is a radioactive material which is a big problem when it leaks into seawater. Zeolites are an alternative for removing cesium because they absorb cationic elements and are widely used due to their simplicity, high efficiency and low cost. The objective of this study was to investigate the efficiency of NaCl treated zeolite for …
Removal Efficiency of Cesium and Strontium in Seawater by Zeolite-Fixed Bed Columns
It is documented that the Chernobyl nuclear melt down released large amounts of Cs-137, Cs-134 and Sr-90 (100, 50 and 8 PBq, respectively). The accident had a devastating impact on the marine environment. The main aim of this research was to study the removal of cesium and strontium in seawater by natural zeolite. The experimental …
The Attitude of the Pre-Islamic Arabs towards Arts and Crafts
From the late Roman period the Saracens (the Arabs of Arabia) were described by the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 380 CE.) as follows: “Nor does any member of their tribe ever take plow in hand or cultivate a tree, or seek food by the tillage of the land; but they are perpetually wandering over …
Assessment of Impact of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on European Russia Forest
During the last two centuries, agriculture and the burning of fossil fuels have increased significantly the global pollutions and deposition of nitrogen compounds. Atmosphere nitrogen depositions influence on function of the natural habitat and limited nitrogen nutrition forests have particularly strong disturbance. The aim of our study was to assessment of effect of mineral nitrogen …
The Investigation Research of the Group of Active Aging with Experiencing the High-Tech Eco-Travel Interactive Situation
With the rapid aging of the world population trends and technology, Eco-tourism has become one of the elderly’s relaxing and travel patterns. This research first begins with scenario approach ‘i-Travel’ Ecotourism interactive scenarios, and continues with the original design method to conduct the interactive model and simulation. We invited the active aging group for experience, …
Bribing for the Truth: A Comparative Study of Guanxi and Justice through Geling Yan’s “The Uninvited”
Geling Yan, one of the world’s most well-known writers in diaspora literature, has produced a substantial body of works in both Chinese and English. This paper attempts to provide a comparative analysis of the two conceptions of justice and guanxi through her English novel The Uninvited (2006). Drawing on theoretical bases from Jacques Derrida, John …
ISSN: 2758-0970 The Paris Conference on Arts & Humanities 2022 Official Conference Proceedings
PCAH2022 – La Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France
Thursday, June 16 – Sunday, June 19, 2022
ISSN: 2758-0970
ISSN: 2186-4691 – The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2011 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Connecting Theory and Practice”
June 10-12 2011, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-4691
ISSN: 2187-476X – The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Trust”
March 29-31 2012, Osaka, Japan
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ISSN: 2187-4743 – The Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences 2011 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Brave New World”
March 20-22 2011, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-4743
Transforming Science Education at Grade 9 With a Pedagogical Technological Integrated Medium: An Integrated Approach for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
The study aimed to explore the potential of technology beyond its role as a teaching tool in science education by introducing the concept of a Pedagogical Technological Integrated Medium (PTIM). The PTIM approach functions as a platform for scaffolding, enabling students to construct meaningful knowledge structures. It brings together teachers (T), learners (L), and parents …
ISSN: 2758-9374 APISA 17th Annual Congress (APISA2023) Official Conference Proceedings
APISA2023 – Warmadewa College, Bali, Indonesia
Thursday, June 29 to Saturday, July 1, 2023
ISSN: 2758-9374
Study of the Level of Solitude in the Elderly at the Yogyakarta Nursing Home
Aging and loneliness has been established widely. Loneliness has been studied from many different points of view and there is no unified definition (Muhumed, K & Cervinkova, M, 2011) Mainly, loneliness is thought as being stranged from others. (Killeen 1998, 763-764.) Feeling of loneliness most vulnerable seems to be adolescents and elderly people. Loneliness among …
ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2022 Official Conference Proceedings
ACAH2022 – Held online from Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, June 1 – Saturday, June 4, 2022
ISSN: 2186-229X
ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2023 Official Conference Proceedings
ACAH2023 – Held in Tokyo, Japan, and Online
Friday, May 26 – Monday, May 29, 2023
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ISSN: 2758-0989 – The European Conference on Arts, Design & Education 2022 Official Conference Proceedings
ECADE2022 – Held onsite and online from the University of Porto, Portugal
Thursday, July 7 – Sunday, July 10, 2022
ISSN: 2758-0989
ISSN: 2758-0970 The Paris Conference on Arts & Humanities 2023 Official Conference Proceedings
PCAH2023 – La Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France
Friday, June 16 – Monday, June 19, 2023
ISSN: 2758-0970
ISSN: 2189-1109 – The IAFOR North American Conference on the Social Sciences 2014: Official Conference Proceedings
NACSS 2014, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Conference Theme 2014: “Individual, Community & Society: Conflict, Resolution & Synergy”
Thursday, September 11, 2014 – Sunday, September 14, 2014
ISSN: 2189-1109
ISSN: 2187-5294 – The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2014: Official Conference Proceedings
FilmAsia2014, Osaka, Japan
Conference Theme 2014: “Individual, Community & Society: Conflict, Resolution & Synergy”
Thursday, November 13, 2014 – Sunday, November 16, 2014
ISSN: 2187-5294
ISSN: 2186-5906 – The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2015: Official Conference Proceedings
MediAsia2015, Kobe, Japan
Conference Themes 2015: “Power & Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture”
Thursday, November 12 – Sunday, November 15, 2015
ISSN: 2186-5906
ISSN: 2187-4751 – The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2014 – Official Conference Proceedings
ACCS 2014, Osaka, Japan
Conference Theme 2014: “Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing”
Rihga Royal Hotel, Osaka, Japan
Thursday, May 29, 2014 to Sunday, June 1, 2014
ISSN: 2187-4751
ISSN: 2186-5914 – The Asian Business & Management Conference 2010 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Challenges and Opportunities”
October 7-9 2010, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-5914
ISSN: 2186-5906 – The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2010 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Brave New World”
October 27-30 2010, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-5906
ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
‘Exchanges and Encounters’
April 5-8, 2012, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-229X
ISSN: 2187-4743 – The Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Trust”
March 29-31 2012, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-4743
ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2011 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Ancient and Modern” & “Journeys of Discovery”
May 27-30 2011, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-229X
ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2010 – Official Conference Proceedings
“East Meets West”
June 18-20 2010, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-229X
ISSN: 2186-2281 – The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
‘Exchanges and Encounters’
April 5-8, 2012, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-2281
ISSN: 2186-2303 – The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2010 – Official Conference Proceedings
The Inaugural Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2010
“East Meets West”
June 18-20 2010, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-2303
ISSN: 2186-2303 – The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Working Together Towards a Sustainable World”
May 3-6 2012, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-2303
ISSN: 2187-5294 – The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
‘Exchanges and Encounters’
‘Journeys and Discovery’
‘Elation and Despair’
November 2-4 2012, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-5294
ISSN: 2187-4735 – The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
‘Encounters and Exchanges’
June 1-3 2012, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-4735
ISSN: 2187-4735 – The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2011 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Learning from the Past: Looking to the Future”
June 2-5 2011, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-4735
ISSN: 2187-4751 – The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2012 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Encounters and Exchanges”
June 1-3 2012 – Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-4751
ISSN: 2187-4751 – The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2011 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Brave New World”
March 23-25 2011, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2187-4751
ISSN: 2186-5892 – The Asian Conference on Education 2010 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Globalisation or Internalisation?”
December 2-5 2010, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-5892
ISSN: 2186-5892 – The Asian Conference on Education 2009 – Official Conference Proceedings
“Local Problems, Global Solutions”
October 24-25 2009, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-5892
ISSN: 2186-4705 – The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom 2011 – Official Conference Proceedings
“The Right Tool for the Right Job”
June 10-12 2011, Osaka, Japan
ISSN: 2186-4705
ISSN: 2186-5892 – The Asian Conference on Education 2014 – Official Conference Proceedings
ACE 2014, Osaka, Japan
Conference Theme 2014: “Transforming and Changing Education: Individuals, Communities, Societies”
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 – Sunday, November 2, 2014
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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. Data collection was via retrospective method which operated from the registration books of maternal and newborn services belonging to the department of family and community nursing. The books were used to record learning activities of …
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 perennial, is most commonly used as an herbaceous annual. Flower colors vary, ranging from yellow to deep red and purple, and foliage with green or variegated leaf margins. Growth habits for different lantana cultivars vary …
Depositions of Acid Aerosols and Black Carbon from Biomass Burning Over the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve Forest, Thailand
Burning of biomass is an important source of acid aerosols and black carbon emissions into the atmosphere. In the tropics, the formation of secondary organic and inorganic aerosols depends on meteorological parameters. High humidity and rain washout both reduces air borne aerosol concentrations. We monitored the concentrations of aerosols associated with biomass burning from July …
Media Education – A Major Challenge for Our Era
The media play an important role in modern democracies by providing a space for deliberation and for creating and exchanging meaningful discourse. They contribute to a better understanding of the world and enable citizens to participate in society’s debates. International guidelines for acquiring “media competence” grounded in the functioning of the media have been drafted. …
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 …
Study of WEEE Collecting and Recycling Network in China
A large amount of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment ) is generated in China every year. However, the recycling and treatment of WEEE in China just begins and there are many problems in the current situations. There are two recycling and treatment networks, one is formal and the other is informal. We examine the …
The Struggle of Waria Buddies to Achieve Symbolic Capital in an Infectious Diseases Intermediate Care Unit in Indonesia
HIV/AIDS is a major health issue that has become the concern of various parties. Infection Diseases Intermediate Care Unit (Unit Pelayanan Intermediet Penyakit Infeksi or UPIPI) is a therapy and treatment unit for people with HIV and AIDS (Orang yang hidup dengan HIV/AIDS (ODHIV)) in Dr. Soetomo teaching hospital, Surabaya, that employed 2 waria(s) (Indonesian …
Far to Go: Nine Takeaways from a Survey of Businesses’ Progress on the Journey to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
This paper investigates how companies are reacting to the launch of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by updating their existing sustainability initiatives or launching new programs. Interviews were performed with more than 60 multinational corporations, SMEs, startups, investors and financial institutions, NGOs, industry associations and sustainability service providers. The field of reporting on SDG impacts …
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 Mario Vargas Llosa, “one of the finest novelists of twentieth century Spanish America,” and the 2010 Nobel Laureate. Although the question remains unanswered in the novel, it pervades each facet of life in Peru under …
Bangkok Street Food Variety and Its Relationship in Spatial Aspect
In Bangkok, the capital and the largest city of Thailand, street food business provides local with cheap and convenient access to a variety of foods and a means of making a living. Even though, Thai foods are prepared daily in the most of every Thai households, yet, trading food has been a common economic activity …
Transformation of the Open-Air Cinemas of Istanbul Under Urban Gentrification
This study aims to look at the history open air cinemas in Istanbul and how they formed democratic spaces for different social classes in Turkey. Open-air cinemas were located at small neighborhoods and addressed middle and lower classes who do not have access to major movie theaters at the city centers. With no hierarchical settings, …
Threat of Bio-Cultural Diversity Loss Evaluated by International Students; Case of Traditional Japanese Paper (Washi) Making in Futamata Community
Kanazawa City was designated as UNESCO Creative City in the field of crafts and folk, and the demand to the locally made traditional crafts still remains high in the city. However, after the rapid economical growth, the utilization of the local natural resource for traditional crafts making was reduced due to the introduction of the …
Public Relations Education in an Arab/Islamic Context
Numerous scholars consider the discipline of public relations a western construct, infused with classic Greek rhetoric and Judeo-Christian tradition. In fact, public relations education in many Arab and Islamic countries continues to be based on Anglo-Saxon concepts and knowledge generated by US-UK scholars. A number of critical scholars have referred to the need of addressing …
Introducing Mobile Learning Into the Primary School Curriculum: A Case Study of the Continuous Pedagogical Use of Mobile Devices
The present paper is a brief overview of an innovative educational program in Primary Education regarding the pedagogical use of mobile devices in teaching. The program adopted Puentedura’s (2010) SAMR model, which is based on Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, and proposes four levels of integration of digital applications into teaching practice. The program, which was implemented …
Modular Learning Approach at the Catanduanes State University During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, state universities in the Philippines such as the Catanduanes State University (CATSU) had to resort to alternative means as holding of face-to-face classes became untenable due to the upsurge of COVID-19 cases. With the poor internet connectivity and erratic power supply in the island-province of Catanduanes, the Catanduanes State University had …
Parasitism: The Inextricable Connection of the Indispensables
When questioning people about their top three everyday life companion gadgets, the answers are often smartphones, smartwatches, and laptop computers. The interconnection could be symbolically analogized to a parasitic relation. The term parasitism characterizes an interdependent relationship between two living beings, in which one benefits from another; in some incidents, the parasites cause some harm …
Considering eLearning and Collaborative Learning in Secondary Schools – An Australian Perspective
Drawing upon my experiences as an English teacher in a West Australian public school, this workshop explores a number of case studies in which groups of secondary school students were able to achieve improved outcomes with the support of technology. Australian schools are in the process of implementing the Australian Curriculum – a set of …
Traditional Art, Interactive Technology, Gamifying Cloud: Cross-Cultural Hybrid Puppetry New Experience
Puppetry is the key project intangible cultural heritage in Taiwan, which has developed into the most drama performances featuring arts and culture, modern life has become an integral part of the entertainment . In the past few years , with the significantly improved computing capabilities , emerging digital tools ( such as tablets , smart …
Online Interactions of Japanese and Hungarian EFL Learners: A Critical Analysis
This presentation seeks to address how Japanese and Hungarian EFL learners co-constructed their social relations, identity and power through the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) online. Following the principles of critical discourse analysis (Gee, 1999), I analyze ELF online interactions between six Hungarian teenagers with low socio-economic background and five Japanese university …
Keeping Tabs on Reading: Comparing Reading Comprehension Scores of E-Text Readers and Physical Text Readers in Senior High School
Technology plays a powerful role in the field of education (South, 2017), and with digital integration inside the classroom, scholars debated in the use of these e-texts since issues regarding reading comprehension surfaced as researchers tried to tackle new forms of digital learning (Moran et al., 2008). This research aims to compare the pre and …
Instructor Experience Affects Perception of Student Technology Use as a Sign of Engagement
Devices such as cell phones, tablets, and laptops have become commonplace in the classroom. Students can use these devices to disengage and distract others or to take notes and collaborate with others. Recognizing the difference is now a critical skill for university instructors. Assessing student engagement and responding to disengaged students are learned skills that …
Can MOOC’s be a Model for Providing Quality Higher Education to Refugees? Lessons from the First Experiment
The literature on refugee studies thus far has explored the role of education in the settlement of refugees in their host countries (Rek 2005). Efforts to integrate them through various socio-economic programmes have met limited success with millions forced to work illegally in the informal economy (Orhan 2015). Although holistic assistance is required to ensure …
Closeness and Alienation：A Case Study of an Exhibiting Animated Film “Inter-dine”
In modern society with high-end technology nowadays, images and video clips can be accessed by the public easily and fast via various digital devices, including mobile phones, tablets, iCloud, and streaming platforms. In the process of watching videos, the past timeline flows with the present one simultaneously. Additionally, memories and the circle of generations reveal …
Flipped Classroom: The Case of Professional English Writing Course
Recently the teaching trend is to keep up-to-date with the boom in technology. Flipped teaching, which is rated as one of the “top trends in educational technology” (Watters, 2012), has gained foot in the EFL/ESL classrooms only recently (Fahim & Khalil, 2015; Bauer-Ramazani, Graney, Marshall, & Sabieh, 2016). To follow the teaching trend, the researcher …
Web-Based Science Learning as Innovative Instruction
There are so many mediums of technology, which is radically redefined in order to obtain communication and change the view of teaching and learning. The widespread use of the World Wide Web (www) extended the capacity of the different educational institutions involved in training to extend the possibilities of e-learning. There are a lot of …
Drawn In
Art, has always been about reflecting and interpreting the world. It also appears that much of today’s output seems directed towards highly individual, so artists seem to demand an intimate, and personal engagement with their art. Drawing has become such perfect platform to accommodate the artists’ personal, intimate and direct experiences of belonging in transcultural …
Media Websites and Their Visitors’ Choices on Cookies
Cookies are small bits of data that are being sent from the websites a user visits and downloaded to their computers.They appeared immediately after the introduction of the World Wide Web (WWW) and are now widely used.By using these particular pieces of information, websites have the capability to offer customized services covering the personalized needs …
Educational Practice and Professional Identity among Volunteer Correctional Educators: Becoming a Teacher Behind Bars
This case study examines the experiences of 8 volunteer educators working in a rural county jail in the northeastern United States. More specifically, it explores the challenge of developing a critical educational practice and nascent professional identity in a context otherwise alien to them and on the “borderlands” of contemporary educational practice It is well-documented …
De-colonizing Canadian Post-Secondary Education
In Canada, the recent Truth and Reconciliation Committee of Canada Report (2015) revealed the devastating impact of over a century of forced assimilation on Indigenous peoples. In the educational context, assimilation manifested itself in the residential school system, a system which existed from the late 19th century until 1996 and whose mandate was to “Kill …
Storytelling with Multi-media Technologies
Storytelling is considered one of the most effective ways for teaching a foreign language, and it enables learners to build greater confidence in their target language fluency through improving their presentational skills. Furthermore, storytelling sparks learners’ curiosity about the target culture while stimulating learners’ creative thinking and active learning processes. This paper investigates how the …
Social Bond of Indonesian Higher-Education Students Who Access Facebook
Along with technological advances and the rapid flow of information, people’s need to access the Internet is increasing. According to data held by www.internetworldstats.com, a site that continues to monitor internet usage in the world of on-line, internet users in Indonesia, in 2008, reached 25 million people. This is because apart from being a source …
A Study in Information Usage Behavior of Students in Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University
The study has following objectives as: (1) to study information usage behavior of students in Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, (2) to study about problems in information usage and (3) study about requirements of the students in information usage. Sample comprised of 300 students. Data were collected by questionnaires analyzed by percentage, mean and SD. The results …
Intermedia Motion Tracking in AR/VR – On Immersive Storytelling and Choreographic Patterns
According to the KAMC Submission Stream “Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music”, we would like to contribute details on our current research project IML – “Immersive Media Lab” (https://research.fhstp.ac.at/en/projects/immersive-media-lab). The project was funded by FFG COIN “Aufbau” and started in 2018 at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences under the leadership of Dr Franziska …
Development of Teach by Social Networks
The objectives of this research were to compare the achievement of students’ learning through Social Networks ss to study the students’ recommendation of studying through Social Networks ss. The sample of this experimental research was 60 students in Communication Research Course, Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University, 1st Semester, Academic Year 2555/2012. The 30-student random sampling group taught …
Technology, Toucan, and Language Education
Globalization and computerization along with the limitations caused by the current pandemic have all moved us towards having more online presence. From online shopping to online learning, all aspects of our lives have been impacted by technology including how we learn and use languages. The goal of this presentation is to discuss various aspects of …
Engaging University Students in Designing an E-magazine
Student learning outcomes rely on the depth and quality of their engagement in language learning. Since the early 2000s, the concept of engagement has gained a lot of attention from researchers. They often define engagement as a complex construct that consists of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional components. In addition, students’ engagement is very important in …
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 powerful mobile devices in everyday life. With the advanced technology development and high connectivity to the Internet through wireless networks in school, it becomes common that students and teachers are bringing their own mobile devices …
Cloud Computing for Collaborative Knowledge Construction: A Case with Google Drive
Usage of mobile technology in daily life has been developed to be a part of the cultures in many countries especially in a metropolitan city. Students nowadays bring their mobile devices to classroom and prefer to use their own devices whenever it is possible. With the advanced technology development and high connectivity to the Internet …
The Study of Students’ Willingness to Use Mobile Learning in English Classes
Recently, New Taipei City of the Taiwanese government has made great efforts to promote mobile learning. For example, the related programs, “New Taipei City Mobile Learning Experimental Schools of Ministry of Education” in the 101 academic year and “New Taipei City Cloud educational studio” in the 102 academic year. Furthermore, in the 103 academic year, …
“‘Knock it Out of Them'”: The Matter and Meaning of Stone
Novalis’ HENRY VON OFTERDINGEN (1802), Ludwig Tieck’s “The Runenberg” (1804), and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Mines at Falun” (1819) are three linked German Romantic tales that speak of stone as object and sign. Their three protagonists Henry, Christian, and Elis, wayfarers all, study “the power of rocks”*, entreat us to “ask the stones, you will be …
Unchaining Computer Science Students from the Desktop
Prompted partly by potential space release and reuse, and also by international trends in moving away from desktop computer learning environments and traditional classroom set-ups, this project has explored alternatives to requiring computer science (and other) students’ use of fixed desktop computers in rows facing the front of the computer laboratory. Although many studies and …
Designing Digitally Enhanced Print for International Conferences and Tourism
This year at TEDxKyoto, a new interactive team was assembled and geared to get participants more engaged with speakers, vendors, and volunteers. We wanted to encourage more interaction between all stakeholders both in-person and virtually on-line. Looking to approach the idea on several fronts and link them all together we put together a series of …
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 literacy. The ability to create, access and understand material online has been crucial to recent Egyptian developments since January 2011. Yet, digital literacy is only the domain of a small group of young, tech-savvy Egyptians. …
Toward the Cognitive Analysis of Non-Native Speakers’ Handwriting in Japanese with iPad and LMS
Tablet computers have gathered attention in classrooms in Japanese university. Apple’s iPad is the most popular among several varieties. BeeDance is a learning management system (LMS) for iPads created by a Japanese company to facilitate active participations of learners. In this study, cognitive analyses of non-native speakers’ Japanese handwriting are examined through the uses of …
Virtual 3D Media in Royal Temple Thailand: Wat Yannasangvararam
Thailand has many invaluably cultural heritages found in various areas, particularly historical heritage, arts, architecture, and the way of life, which attract tourism in Thailand at the present. Although, some heritages have not properly been kept in good condition or used for arts and appreciation of intelligence of locality. Wat Yannasangvararam is a Buddhist place …
ISSN: 2186-4705 – The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom 2014 – Official Conference Proceedings
ACTC 2014, Osaka, Japan
Conference Theme 2014: “Individual, Community, Society: Connecting, Learning and Growing”
Rihga Royal Hotel, Osaka, Japan
Thursday, April 17, 2014 to Sunday, April 20, 2014
ISSN: 2186-4705
Exploring Wellbeing Related Issues Arising From the Unregulated Use of Screen-Based Technology During Breaktimes in an International Middle School Environment
The following study uses a design-thinking and mixed methods research approach to elicit students’ views on the use of screen-based technology during break periods. An interest in this area emerged due to a noticeable reduction, in recent years, in the number of students spending time in outdoor play areas during morning and afternoon breaks. The …
Improving Customers Satisfaction to the Development of User Interface Design for Mobile Shopping through QFD
Retailers are trying hard to develop good relationships with their customers through mobile devices (e.g., smart phone, Tablet computer, etc.). Utilizing mobile devices is a low-cost and real-time way to provide high-quality service/ product for customers,which is a direct medium between retailers and end customers. However, unfriendly user interface (UI), such as small-size screen, low-resolution …
A Study of Multi-Agent Simulation in the Urban Transformation of Tamsui, Taiwan
Cities embed the parameters and drive components, which has intention behind the physical embodiment. Based on the research of Cedric Price’s urban planning operated by the dynamic and adaptive system showed the interactions to reflect such intentions of the immediate neighbors, participants, and the other informational feedback loop. The bottom-up intelligence becomes visible and with …
Perceptions of the Concept Moral Courage: The Stories of Religious and Secular Teachers in the Israeli Ethnocentric Educational System
Moral courage of teachers in Israeli education system has an additional value, because the Ministry of Education has complete control in determining policy and educational activities in the country (Baratz & Reingold, 2010). Kidder formulates it: “Moral courage is the courage to be moral” (Kidder, 2005, p. 10). That is to say, moral courage is …
Techno-Economic Analysis of a Grid-Connected Hybrid Biogas/Photovoltaic Power Generation System in the Mediterranean Region
Depletion of fossil fuels and oncoming impacts of global warming reveal the vitality of utilizing renewable power generation systems for future generations of humanity. Investing in those systems also has several incentives in Europe for domestic equipment usage or selling produced electricity to the grid with advantageous tariffs in recent years. Reciprocating internal combustion engine …
Food and Power: Global Food Challenges Affecting Interactions among Actors
This paper emphasizes on food as a source of power of states in international politics. During the twentieth century, there are growing challenges on food problem such as food scarcity, famine and more nations are depending on imported food. This situation has created a situation where food is became an importance issue in international politics. …
Learning Media of Currency Introduction for Children with Special Needs
Application of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) has no longer been uncommon and has reached almost every aspect of human lives, including education and learning aspects. The learning media in this study is targeted at children with special needs. It is constructed based on the standard curriculum for mathematics, especially the topics related to numbers, …
Increasing ESP Student Engagement through a Process of Structured Feedback
Student engagement is a common concern among many instructors in higher education (Fraser, 2012). This is particularly true relative to student feedback. Indeed, of all the responsibilities inherent in university teaching, grading papers and offering feedback is considered one of the most important, yet least enjoyable among instructors. There are numerous reasons for this, including …
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 heritage. According to the Malaysian Department of Statistics, the mining sector continues to be significant, supplying basic raw materials to the construction and manufacturing sectors enabling Malaysia’s economic growth. Until the late 1970s, Malaysia was …
Grey Wolf Optimizer for Solving Combined Economic Emission Dispatch Problems
Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) is a newly proposed algorithm that developed based on inspiration of grey wolves (Canis Lupus). This GWO algorithm mimics the nature of grey wolves in leadership hierarchy and hunting mechanism. This paper is in the purpose of introducing GWO to solve combined economic emission dispatch problem (CEED) in power system. CEED …
Measuring the Effects of Online-To-Offline Marketing
Due to the emerging mobile device usage and rigid competition in e-commerce industry in recent years, companies begin to create a new strategy for their e-marketing, that is, online-to-offline (O2O) marketing, to integrate multiple channels more efficiently. However, still very few studies focus on measuring the effects of O2O marketing strategy. The purpose of this …
Consumer Guilt, Online Resale and Purchase Intention
Consumer guilt is a critical factor affecting consumers’ purchase decisions. Marketers would apply various strategies to reduce the sense of guilt so consumers can be more willing to spend the money. With the popularity of online auction, consumers can easily resell unwanted online by themselves, and the return of the resale may lower their sense …
Scaling Protected Western Fence the Fate of Nigeria Immigrants to Europe
The world is gradually shrinking that at the press of a button events happening in far-flung part of the earth could be followed live via cable network. Globalization or capitalist penetration of every economy is the new phenomenon. Industrialized nations of the West are growing richer and having access to natural resources of the third …
Asoke Buddhist Education in Thailand
This paper looks into the Buddhist community-based education in the Asoke Buddhist villages in Thailand. The Asoke Buddhist movement has been running its own schools for the last thirty years. Thousands of young people have been trained in these samma sikkha schools. Many of the young people subsequently stay in the Asoke groups and may …
Bowing to the Creative Industry: Making Art a Useful Commodity
A survey of globally diverse art school models, including those that already exist, along with those still on the theoretical drawing table, shows that while no perfect institution exists, there is at least one issue that proffers itself over, and over again within the university art education domain. Surprisingly, this issue is not about good …
A Community Market as Economic Foundation of Logistics Process Starting Point: A Case Study of Community Market at Chachoengsao Municipal Stadium, Muang District, Chachoengsao Province, Thailand
A community market is the unique resource of economic rotation in the local community and is still well-accepted by the consumers among the growth of very big and highly competitive department stores. The study of the community market at Chachoengsao Municipality Stadium was conducted. The objectives of this study were 1) to study the context …
Left Behind: The Rural Children of Chinas Alternative Cinema
Against the narrative of success propagated by the Chinese government, China’s independent filmmakers have committed themselves towards articulating an alternative vision of her phenomenal transformation in recent years. One important subject is that of rural children being left behind by parents who go in search of better job prospects and lives in the city. Using …
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 anthropogenic systems such as agriculture that interact with natural environments. The importance of agriculture to feed the growing world population without compromising the already scarce and depleted resource base, makes it a challenging, yet promising …
A Novel Business Model Based on Real Time Bidding and Online Video Interaction Technology
The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel business model based on real time bidding (RTB) and an online video interaction technology and to demonstrate how they can be integrated to boost the power of advertising. The interaction technology was built around a novel object recognition/tracking technique and a traditional video-processing one. Innovative …
Applying DANP to Explore the Critical Factors for Building Taiwan Restaurant Industry’s Customer Loyalty
The restaurant industry in Taiwan embeds a characteristic of easy entrance and lower imitation barriers that results in a fierce competition in nature. How to build customer loyalty for encouraging customers to visit repeatedly is an essential challenge for every restaurant manager. This article employs the DANP method to explore the criteria and their priority …
Digital Piracy Case of Learning Materials in China: A Tough Challenge to Chinese Copyright Law
Digital piracy of learning materials is arguably considered as unlawful behavior of students under Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as “Chinese Copyright Law”), which has caused great harm to the copyright owners and licensed users. This study aims to examine the reasons for digital piracy of learning materials and …
Do Sound Bites Impact Students’ Perceptions of Credibility of Podcasts? An Experimental Analysis
Due to their relatively low price and appeal, podcasts are commonly used in educational contexts (e.g., Cho et al., 2017). A common structural element of podcasts is the use of sound bites, which are excerpts of longer pieces of outside media (e.g., interviews). A main indicator of quality upon which students judge podcast material is …
Value Creation in Photovoltaic Supply Chain Through Market and Product Diversification: Insights From Emerging Building Integrated PV Segment
The recent years in the PV industry have been marked with a severe imbalance of manufacturing capacities and demand, which led to abrupt market shocks and end-product price volatility. Moreover, the Chinese fast-follower producers managed to grasp the significant competitive advantages, both, in terms of scale and technological advancements. Under such conditions, the PV segments …
How the Elements of Arquitectural Design, Color, Lighting and Layout of a Quick-service Restaurant Image (QSRI) Influences Perceived Value, Customer Satisfaction and Revisit Intentions
A restaurant’s interior and exterior design can have an enormous influence on customer’s perception of value and satisfaction, which in return can influence their revisit intentions. The purpose of this research is to unfold the key elements by which a Quick-Service restaurant image (QSRI) influences perceived value, customer satisfaction and revisit intentions. Previous research has …
Factors Affecting the Market Mix of Hydroponics Vegetables, Seaweed, and Mushroom
This study was aimed at determining of factors affecting market mix of vegetables grown by hydroponics, seaweed, and mushroom, which would lead to market development of the processing products under Bangkla Natural Innovative project ofRajabhat Rajanakarindra University. The participants were consisted of 200 tourists who visited Chachoengsao province and general consumers living in Chachoengsao province. …
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. In 2011, the Japan economy was severely damaged by the great East Japan earthquake that happen on 11th March. To pay the insurance premium, Japanese major insurance companies were also damaged. In addition, the flood …
Adoption of Thai Rubber Smallholders’ Household on the Use of ICT: A Case of Southern Thailand
Rubber is one of them which create high economic values for Thailand apart from rice. Under the uncertain socio-economic and environment situation, rubber smallholders’ household confronts with many obstacles such as rubber price and climate variation. The rubber smallholder is intensively supported by the government, in forms of technology and production inputs such as seedlings, …
Exploring Determinants of Voting for the Helpfulness of Online Consumer Product Reviews
With the growth of e-commerce, online product reviews have become a major information source in consumer purchase decisions. However, anyone can easily provide product review in the manner of anonymous, which may lead to the enormous amount of reviews available for consumers and the manipulation behavior of reviews by vendors. Therefore, many website owners have …
Examining Critical Success Factors for Medical Device Industry in Taiwan
With the population aging, research indicated that the growing of chronic disease and rapidly increasing costs of healthcare are becoming a burden worldwide. Global medical equipment market size in 2010 is 2.456 billion U.S. dollars. It is a big industry output. In a highly competitive market, how to create effective strategies and set successful marketing …
Cross-Cultural Investigation of Eye-Gaze Patterns for E-Learning Content Optimization
E-Learning in developing countries is still in a marginal state, mainly because of the cost of its introduction, and the lack of human resources to maintain the system. But the situation has changed and the price of the e-learning device has become affordable. So far, a large part of educational material is simply imported from …
Re-Thinking on Public International Law
Today, human being, global environment and natural resources are suffering from the extended and endless national, regional and global conflicts, wars, political violence and terror attacks. From 1950-2007, there was an average of 148000 global battlefields deaths per year, and from 2008-2012 the average was 280 000. Total terror attacks and internal conflicts in 2013 …
Arabizi: Is Code-Switching a Threat to the Arabic Language
Classic Arabic is widely spoken all over the world and is the official language in 23 Arab countries. Moreover, Arabic is the language of Quran, which is practiced in Turkey, Iran, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia. The word Arabizi is a mixture of Arabic and English, in which Arabic words are written using English letters. Many …
Typical Writing Styles Among Genders: A Corpus Study in Asian L2 Learners’ Academic Writing
Scholars have been attempting to distinguish the writing characteristics between male and female since the last several decades. Although it has been assumed that the gender-based characteristics more likely exists in literary works (Holmes, 1998; Koppel et al., 2002) and orally produced discourse (Mulac and Lundell, 1994) rather than in academic writing, a number of …
The South Asian Wanderer: A Literary Evolution of the Orient
Recent times have witnessed the reemergence of the popular notion of the oriental, though now dyed in a singular Arabesque hue due to the sociopolitical and theological nature of the present ‘East’ and ‘West’. This paper however, aims to revisit Edward Said’s interpretation of the notion and to highlight the oriental as a South Asian …
Gauging the Effectiveness of Diagramming and Scratching an Outline for Small Size Classrooms of English As L3 Users
Writing is one of the most important and challenging skills in the English Language that learners often find difficult to master. Brainstorming is a strategy that is considered effective in facilitating learners with their writing tasks. The present action research focused upon the impact of two brainstorming techniques – diagramming and scratching an outline on …
The Views of Romanian Teachers on the Sexual Development and Education of Children
The topic of sexuality passes for a taboo in our country even today, there being no open treatment of the subject, not even in the closest family circle. There is no sexual education in schools, while sexual enlightenment is restricted to 1-2 hours, provided at the age of 13-14. Our goal is to determine the …
Remote Experiment for Electrical Engineering
Handson experience is mandatory for engineering courses such as electrical power system, and power electronics. However, the laboratory is not accessible during lock-down period. In such case, remote experiment setup is required. This work shares a laboratory setup is assisting the remote experiment for electrical engineering instructors and students. The setup involves electrical training equipment, …
AI Ethics in Next Generation Wireless Networks: A Philosophical Outlook
Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms are playing a great role in modern society nowadays. Developing AI-based algorithms more intelligent than humans, for example, it has beaten humans in many specific domains such as chess, and ensuring the use of their advanced intelligence for good rather than bad raises a lot of ethical issues including safety, security, …
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Trauma-Informed English Language Teaching to Adults
This qualitative paper examines trauma-informed teaching of English as a second language (ESL) to adults. Trauma is highly prevalent worldwide, and post-traumatic stress negatively affects language learning. A review of the literature identified five major principles for trauma-informed learning: safety, agency, a foregrounding of student identities, recognition of strengths, belonging, and meaning. However, very few …
Study of University Education in COVID-19: Considering Future Lectures Based on Survey Results
COVID-19, which is longer than expected, has a great negative impact on our society and life. We are restricted in our actions and many restaurants and businesses are bankrupt. The unemployed are also accelerating. In the field of education as well, various restrictions were imposed, and we had no choice but to change to a …
Unlocking the Next Generation of Training Experience: The Impact of XR Technology on Vocational Education and Training
The development of computer technology has brought humanity into the digital information era. Real-and-virtual collaborative environments and human-machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables were achieved in these years. XR (including VR, AR, and MR) has initially achieved a considerable leap from concept to technology to product and has launched many practices and applications …
Refugees and Disaster Frameworks – Ukraine’s Education in Time of Crisis
The number of refugees globally is at an all-time high and it is predicted to continue to rise in the years ahead. Host countries of these refugees are put under pressure as they must stretch the limited resources to accommodate them. The Ukraine war with Russia has caused around 10 million Ukrainians to flee their …
Investigating the Impact on Learner Interest With the Incorporation of Active Learning Activities in a Tertiary CLIL Context
This interactive presentation will discuss the benefits and time-saving nature of the inclusion of Active learning(AL) techniques emphasizing the positive effect on learner interest (LI) in Japanese tertiary Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) oriented classes. This presentation will offer a brief background into the concept of AL as a methodology for instruction as well …
Teachers’ Readiness, Teaching and Research Competence in the New Normal: Implications to Educational Policy
This descriptive-correlation research was conducted to determine the levels of readiness, teaching and research competence of teachers in the Schools Division of Iloilo as they adapt to the new normal. There were 380 public secondary junior and senior high school teachers who were surveyed using an adapted and modified questionnaire. They were categorized into age, …
Design, Development, and Implementation of Pediatric Physical Therapy Senior Clinical Internship Telerehabilitation Program: The Pandemic Impetus
The pandemic situation continues to affect the lives of many people including children with disabilities and their families globally especially in developing countries like the Philippines. Moreso, the operations of health programs, industries and economic sectors, as well academic training institutions are still challenged in terms of operations and delivery of services. The academic community …
Curriculum Review of the BS Pharmacy Program of a Local University in the NCR, Philippines: A Mechanism for Quality Assurance
The Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy program at a local university in the NCR was officially approved on February 10, 2012 by virtue of the Board Resolution No. 2012-029. Curriculum enhancements were made in order to align with the thrust of the local university. On December 2021, the new PSGs for BS Pharmacy program was …
Influencing Learner Interest With Authentic Materials in a Tertiary CLIL Context
Authentic materials are an extremely valuable tool for instruction particularly in Content Language Intergraded Instruction (CLIL) contexts but often instructors shy away from using these materials, citing the linguistic difficulty for students. This presentation will discuss a mixed methods research project focusing on the effect on learner interest (LI) with the incorporation of English authentic …
How Clinical Interviews Are Conducted: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Japanese Nurse Practitioners and American Student Doctors
In medical/healthcare universities, students develop communication skills by participating in simulated patient (SP)-based practicums involving recurrent clinical interviews. The aim of this study was to elucidate the linguistic features related to participants’ social relations and roles during clinical interviews conducted in Japanese and American English by comparing the interviews of 18 Japanese advanced nurse practitioners …
Education Plan According to Age and Experience to Reduce Human Error of Construction Workers
In Korea, as construction projects become increasingly large and complex, many construction accidents are occurring. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, as of 2021, the number of accident victims in the construction industry is the second highest after other industries, and the number of accident deaths accounts for about 50%, ranking first in …
Promoting Whistle-Blower Engagement: Fostering a Culture of Fearless Reporting for Staff to Uncover Irregularities
This research focuses on the concept of whistle-blower activity and proposes methods to encourage staff members of companies to report irregularities without fear of facing negative consequences. Whistleblowing plays a crucial role in preventing and exposing wrongdoing, safeguarding the public interest, and upholding accountability and integrity across sectors. However, whistle-blowers often face significant personal and …
Kidnapping and Abduction Online News Reports’ Influence on Fear of Victimization and Prevention Practices
The increase in reports of kidnappings and abductions in the Philippines has been widely circulated on social media. Studies indicate frequent exposure to crime news significantly increases people’s fear of crime. Hence, this research investigated the demographics, exposure to online kidnapping and abduction news, degree of fear of victimization, and prevention practices among students at …
Continuity of Learning Through TBM: Technology-Based Modalities During and After Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is definitely a health issue that has affected much of the sectors in the community. As a city, Santa Rosa has never been hindered by the present challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, different calamities, and problems that need to be addressed appropriately. This investigated the learners’ perspectives on their current capacity …
Learning of Glutinous Rice Community Achieves Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand
The production and consumption of glutinous rice has been a vital part of the local culture and daily lives of the farmers in the Greater Mekong sub-region. The production of glutinous rice provides food security to rural farmers and consumers even in the face of economic, social, and environmental changes. This paper presents the process …
Contribution of Ergonomics in Designing Accessible Classrooms for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Indonesia: A Proposed Guideline
For the past decade, several studies have been conducted in order to assess and confirm the impact of the physical classroom environment towards students’ learning effectiveness, including deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students. Several principles of ergonomics have been gathered aiming to provide guidelines in building a classroom that serves DHH students’ needs. However, …
Navigating Stormy Seas: Techniques for Teaching Contentious Topics in Political Science Programmes
In increasingly polarized political contexts, exacerbated by concerns over student safety, mental health, and media hysteria over “safe spaces” and “cancel culture”, teaching contentious political science topics has become more challenging than ever before. At the same time, students do not enter as blank slates on these topics and are likely to bring their own …
A Correlational Study of Political Accountability of Sanguniang Barangay and Barangay Readiness for Climate Change
Climate change is a worldwide phenomenon having far-reaching consequences in numerous areas of society, including the economy, government, and living conditions. To effectively mitigate these effects, the national government needs to develop and employ policies and directives that can fulfill the safety and protection requirements of its people through development efforts, therefore improving the overall …