Media policy and Vulnerable Groups of Japan

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5th International Conference on Advances in Social Sciences (ICASS), Bangkok

January 2-3, 2015

Holiday Inn Bangkok Silom

981 Silom Road, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500

Email: [email protected]

Instructions for Oral Presentations

Devices Provided by the Conference Organizer:

• Laptops (with MS-Office & Adobe Reader)

• Projectors & Screen

• Laser Sticks

• Materials Provided by the Presenters:

• Power Point or PDF files (Files shall be copied to the Conference Computer at the beginning of each Session)

Duration of each Presentation (Tentatively):

• Regular Oral Session: about 9-12 Minutes of Presentation, followed by 2-3 Minutes of Q&A

• Keynote Speech: 15-20 Minutes of Presentation, followed by 3-5 Minutes of Q&A

Schedule for January 2, 2015

Registration and Kit Distribution: 09:30 – 10:00 am

Inauguration and Opening Address: 10:00 – 10:30 am

Coffee Break: 10:30 – 11:00 am

Key-note Address: 11:00 – 11:30 am

Photo Session: 11:30 – 12:00 noon

Team Building Activity: 12:00 – 1:30 pm

Lunch Break: 1:30 pm -2:30 pm

Conference Session: 2:30 – 4:30 pm

Coffee Break: 3:30 – 3:45 pm

Keynote Presentation 1

Dr. Ora Danino

13 Shoshan Tzahor, Modi'in Israel [email protected]

Keynote Presentation 2

Luigi Andrea Berto

Department of History, Western Michigan University (USA) [email protected]

Photo Session & Coffee Break

Li Nguyen GIC1412051

Rocking the boat: Metaphoricalised discourse of ‘otherness’ in

Australian media reporting of maritime asylum seekers Li Nguyen

Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra, at [email protected]

Abstract

This research project reports the results of a discourse analysis on how contemporary Australian media utilize certain metaphoric concepts to represent maritime asylum seekers, covering the period from the announcement of the controversial PNG Solution on 19 July 2013 up until the Federal Election on 7 September 2013. Specifically, the research aims to untangle the relationship between figurative language, discourse and social realities in relation to boat arrivals within Australian political and social context. It covers both print and online media platforms across three major news outlets nation-wide, including the ABC News Online, The Age, and The Daily Telegraph. Those news outlets are chosen primarily based on their dominant readership and diverse political views. Using metaphor-led discourse analysis as an overarching methodology, the paper first identifies the emergent metaphors and schema across the corpus, then qualitatively discusses how such metaphoric concepts reflect the underlying ideologies and produce new immigration discourses. The finding reveals five major metaphoric themes: boat arrival is a natural catastrophe; boat arrival is war; Australia is a container and asylum seekers are violators of the container; asylum seekers are diseases; and asylum seekers are burdens. The paper ultimately argues that the Australian media under scrutiny feature a range of figurative language that consistently constructs maritime asylum seekers as ‘uncontrollable dangers’, potentially legitimising restrictive policies and opening up further possibilities for anti-immigration measures. Key words: Metaphors, discourse analysis, asylum seekers, Australian media, immigration policies

Fangtzu GIC1412052

Restricted Patriarchy: Chinese Migrant men in Taiwan

Dr. Fang-tzu Yen Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, National Defense

Medical Center, Taiwan, R.O.C. [email protected]

Abstract

With a focus on politics and intimate relationships, this study explores the multiple masculinities appear in Chinese male marital immigrants who migrate to and live in Taiwan through cross-strait marriages in the context of cross-strait societies and politics. Taking anthropology as my research approach, I conduct participant observation and in-depth interviews to understand the changes of gender identities as the male Chinese marital immigrants undergo before and after immigration. I analyze the interaction process between these males and Taiwan society, and the refined gender ideologies and practices, especially on restricted citizenship and patriarchy. Then, I will discuss the effect of restricted citizenship and patriarchy on

Chinese male marital immigrants. While marrying out, these male immigrants living in Taiwan society confront matrilocal residence, not recognizing their education, changes of career, limited social network, restricted patriarchy, all of which in turns affect their survival, life and mental status. Nearly half of male marriage migrants have returned to Mainland China since 2008. Those who still live in Taiwan while attempting to maintain family formation, work performance, and gender identities; however, the migration process affects their health. The results of migration process impact on their health.

Key words: Chinese male migrants, gender, politics, immigrant health Hazel GIC1412053

A Study on The Parents’ Practices Regarding their Child’s Viewing

Patterns as Affected by the Regulations of the Movie And Television

Review and Classification Board

Author: Hazel Lou K. Velasquez, Co-author: Asst. Prof. Josephine A. Placido, MA

ABSTRACT

The influence of television to children had been an issue for decades. Some scholars are baffled by the detrimental effects of television on children, while others prove that television can be beneficial to children. However, these studies have not adequately addressed the issue of the role of parents on their children’s television viewing patterns. This study looks into the practices of parents on their child’s television viewing as influenced by the regulations of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) . This empirically based study aims to determine the influences of the MTRCB to the parents, as well as the different practices of parents regarding their children’s television patterns. This study is guided by Lazarsfeld, Berelson, and Gaudet’s Two-Step Flow of Communication hypothesis (Katz, 1957; Valente, Thesenvitz, & Lombardo, 2007). Data is collected through semi-structured interviews on randomly selected parents of children aged 1-5 years old; data is analyzed and coded using NVIVO. Results show that parents recognize their roles as guides to their children’s media use and practice censorship in their child’s television viewing which suggests that there is a positive reaction towards the MTRCB ratings. However, a number of the respondents have a little or no understanding of the ratings. Some of the respondents have a misconception of the term “ratings” and considers it as the type of program shown on TV (i.e., cartoons, drama). In conclusion, this research recommends that the MTRCB should act more dynamically, conduct more seminars, and orientations to help the parents understand the ratings better, thus, helping the Board to meet its goals, and ultimately promoting parent’s intervention in children’s media use.

Shahidullah GIC1412054

Social Entrepreneurship in Economically Disadvantaged Communities:

Merit of NGO-MFI Guided Community-Based Organizations

Abstract The paper advances an idea that community based organizations (CBOs) can be turned into social enterprises (SE) by integrating ecosystem services management objectives with microcredit strategy in the poor communities in

developing countries. It diagnoses CBOs and establishes policy-guidelines as to how they can become SE. NGO-MFIs facilitate the process of creation and organization of CBOs in the local communities to expand livelihoods and income generating micro–entrepreneurial operation. Within the present ensemble of NGO-MFI-CBO discourse, the CBO members act mainly toward economic objectives. Though the characteristics and organization of these CBOs are akin to grass-root social organization – but the potential societal roles of such organizations are largely unexplored. The research finds that a positive mission drift of the CBOs with inclusion of ecological goals can create a new social enterprise model that would simultaneously take care of the poverty and ecosystems at a local community level. Though there is no singularly grounded existing concept that would allow such shift; however, the research draws from the Focault’s notion of dispositif to enable transformative social changes within the grass-root organization. The empirical context of the research is characterized with communities who have substantial dependence on their surrounding natural environment for food, fodder, and fuel. It finds that the CBOs have the potential to adopt social objectives as the prime mission and can play instrumental roles in managing local ecosystem services and contributing to the local community well-being to enhance local ‘4F’ (Food, Fuel, Fodder, and Forest). Key Words: Social-Enterprise; Community-based Organization (CBO); Micro-credit; Ecosystem Services; Dispositif

Stavros GIC1412055

Exploring the premises of European education systems

Stavros Moutsios Assoc. Prof. of International Comparative Education Policy, University of

Aarhus, Denmark Marie Curie Research Fellow, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7

10117 Berlin Germany

Abstract

This paper (part of a project carried out under the EU’s Marie Curie programme of Intra-European Fellowships, FP7-People-2011-IEF, CETH, 298656) explores the emergence of the European education systems in Modernity. As the paper will argue, the institution of education in Europe was associated with a web of meanings encompassed by the central imaginary signification of autonomy, manifested as critique and questioning of established representations, pursuit of truth through rational communication and scientific knowledge, as well as democratic citizenship, conceived of as social and personal self-determination. But, in addition to Greek Antiquity, on which Modernity drew, the European social imaginary included the central signification of rational control and domination, which is articulated mainly as instrumental rationality, techno-scientific supremacy, capitalism, national state and bureaucracy. This fundamental antinomy, between autonomy and rational control, explicated by Castoriadis, constitutes

the very particularity of the European imaginary, which has been incarnated, as the paper argues, in the institution of education since the Enlightenment – although its first traces appeared much earlier. Understanding the historical premises of European education would allow us to understand the trajectory that education systems have had till today, in Europe and beyond.

Sumanta Singh GIC1412056

The Limitation of International Institutional Roles in Deterring Nuclear

Proliferation: An Analytical Perspective on Iranian Nuclear Crisis Naorem Sumanta Singh,

Student, Research Scholar (Ph.D) MMAJ-Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University

New Delhi 1100265 Add: 105 SRK Hostel Jamia Milliaa Islamia

New Delhi 110025 Email. [email protected]

Abstract

This paper focuses on the tri-relation of Iran, the western power and International Institution in concerning Iran nuclear Crisis. The ongoing crisis has directly affecting the international political system in larger context. Heaving a geo-strategic importance, rich energy potential, and the aggressive behavior of its ideological leadership, Iran become’s a pivotal state in shaping the international politics of the Middle East and the global veto powers. The International Institutions such as the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) has become limited hand in deterring Theran nuclear program and related proliferation issues. Amongst, the inviolable political pressure from the Western powers and the firm skillful defensive legal positions of Theran, the IAEA force its position to handover the responsibility to the United Nation Security Council (UNSC). This complexity of commingling arguments from legal and political condition place the United Nation Security Council weaker and limited in which in it failed to bring a successful negotiation. The problem still lies in limitation of legal position due to the lack of cogent evidence on nuclear weaponisation activities in Iranian nuclear facilities. As, the veto power state actors are in position of controlling the International Institution for their political vantage in confronting Theran nuclear crisis. This leads to the division of Veto power and their respective perspectives against the crisis. This paper will analyse the circumstance of these issues so to understand how this crisis altered the roles of International Institutions in global political system.

Zhang GIC1412057

Hospitality or Hostility?

Acceptance Attitude of Japanese toward Immigrants Jie ZHANG

Waseda University

Abstract

This study aims to examine the attitude Japanese citizens have toward accepting immigrants. It discusses the predictors of those attitudes. The

central questions addressed in this study are: whether Japanese people would like to accept immigrants from different countries and cultures? What factors can influence Japanese’s attitude towards those immigrants? This study uses Japanese General Social Surveys (JGSS 2008) to examine the level of acceptance among Japanese citizens toward Chinese immigrants by comparing that toward immigrants from South Korea, South East Asia, Europe and North America. The results shows that Japanese people who have often met Chinese people on street or near their house, have interpersonal contact, or watch Chinese movie show positive feelings toward Chinese immigrants. On the other hand, among Chinese immigrants, even those who have frequent contact with Japanese people perceive discrimination. Moreover, residential location, the size of the city, work arrangement and even fear of crime do not show significant effect on Japanese people’s attitude towards Chinese immigrants.

Sonathya GIC1412058

Roles of Public Sector and Mass Media in Management Communication for

Natural Disasters : Case Study in

Songkhla Province Thailand

Sonthaya Kaewkum*, Imjit Lertpongsombat Graduate student, Faculty of Environmental Management, Prince of Sonngkhla Universit

hadyai, Sonngkhla 90110 Thailand Associate Professor, Faculty of Communication sciences, Prince of Sonngkhla University,

Pattani 94000, Thailand *Phone : + 66 817988483, Fax :+ 66 74465302, E-mail : sonsunsetsetsun@gmailAbstract This study was objected to analyze the roles of public sector and mass media in management communication for natural disasters in Songkhla province. In part of public sector, the effective of planning and developing of communication management were considered on every occasion of disasters. In part of mass media, the roles of presented functions and information towards natural violence were studied. This quantitative research was collected data by in-depth interview and focus group discussion procedures. Data analysis and information association were concluded and interpreted. Results of study followed the concept of David K. Berlo showed the source formed by single command. Beginning of messages was screened by the disaster management board of province and then the provincial governor of Songkhla province has taken supremacy to be the informant of disasters. By changing situation, the disaster emergency message was exactly right and fast announcement. A critical disaster discovery was publicized by national and regional media channels via television and radio station broadcasts, especially 3 local radio stations so the population at risk (or receivers) prepared to survive before a disaster strikes. Meanwhile, the catastrophes were appearing, fact-finding reports by mass media were important for the receivers. Mass media still have distinguished on mobilizing assistance for victims at this worst time. Keywords: Management Communication; Natural Disasters; Mass Media

Luigi

GIC1412059

Miracles and the Politics of Memory in Medieval Venice

Luigi Andrea Berto Faculty (Associate Professor)

Department of History, Western Michigan University (USA) Department of History

Western Michigan University USA

Email: [email protected] Abstract

Studying miracles has become an important component of medieval studies for understanding religious practices of people living in medieval Europe and, more in general, their mentality. Most of miracle stories can be found in the biographies of the saints and in texts connected with the shrines of the saints. The scant hagiographical production in Venice during this period due to the absence of local martyrs and saints is probably the main reasons for the lack of interest for this topic among scholars specialized in medieval Venice. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that miracles had a relevant role for medieval Venetians as well. In particular, this paper aims to emphasize that medieval Venetian historians used divine interventions in order to create a past that glorified the special status of their homeland. For example, the fact that God punished those who dared to attack Venice and Venetian leaders. Special attention will be also devoted to historical works employing miracles for proving that, during some conflicts within Venice about the right to rule the state or about the jurisdiction over some estates, God supported the claims of some Venetian families.

Chaisung GIC1412060

The Pandemic of the Spanish Influenza in Colonial Korea

Chaisung LIM (SNU)

Abstract

The present study sheds light on the structural aspect of disease and death in colonial Korea by examining the whole picture of the Spanish influenza, which was pandemic during 1918-1921, and exploring its socioeconomic effects. The Spanish influenza likewise emerged in colonial Korea through the process of presymptoms in spring, with the first epidemic characterized by high morbidity rates and low death rates, and the second epidemic characterized by low morbidity rates and high death rates. Consequently, nearly half of the population fell ill, over 200,000 from among them losing their lives. While the morbidity rate per ethnic group was similar for ethnic Koreans and Japanese or higher for the latter group, the fatality rates revealed salient disparities. Indeed, the structure of disease and death where the Japanese showed low death rates, which surfaced throughout the colonial period, emerged in this case, too. Regarding the pandemic of the influenza, the Government-General of Korea (GGK), the Japanese colonial ruling organ, devised measures through the police hygiene system but failed to be effective. As a result, not only did many inevitably lose their lives but also

the socioeconomic effects were considerable, including a drastic rise in rice prices and the temporary closures of schools and offices. This led to discontent with the colonial ruling system and to the March 1 Independence Movement, as a result of which Japan’s colonial policy changed into one based on “culture” and “development.” In the process, demographic transitions such as a decrease in the death rates appeared during the 1920s. Keywords: Spanish Influenza, Government-General of Korea, police hygiene system, demographic transition

Marija GIC1412061

Culturo-Historical Aspect in Literary Translation: A Case Study of

“Nadsat”

Marija Sabaliauskienė Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Communication

Kaunas University of Technology Kaunas, Lithuania

[email protected] Abstract

The paper adopts a culturo-historical approach on the translation of the cult novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess into the Lithuanian language. More precisely, the object of the paper is the “Nadsat” language of the teen protagonist which is a mixture of English and Russian (heavy in slang and borrowings). From culturo-historical viewpoint, the novel written in “Nadsat” during the peak of the Cold War combines two opposing forces, i.e. English and Russian, in the form of language with culture encoded therein. Such fundamental means of expression poses a considerable translation problem for a Lithuanian translator since in regard to English and Russian, the Lithuanian language and culture stand in a completely different position, i.e. that of subordinate one. Having been a part of the Soviet Union, Lithuania experienced many years of imposed Russification which was met by overwhelming rejection at the time and after regaining the independence in 1990. The post-Soviet period in Lithuania was characterised by a great impact of English because it was considered influential and highly regarded by the state and media (Šarkanas, 2006). As a result, the translation of the ”Nadsat” language into Lithuanian is aggravated in terms of the choice of dominant languages due to the culturo-historical implications. Thus, the paper looks at two attempts to translate the novel, namely by Petrukaitis (1993) and Dagys (1999), paying special attention at the macro translation strategy, i.e. the choice of the language combination, which is analysed through the techniques of foregnization and domestication (Venuti). The two translators combine both strategies but to different degrees, which produces a different effect on the final target texts in comparison to the original role of “Nadsat” in the source text. Keywords— Culture, history, Lithuanian, Nadsat, translation problems

Dilan GIC1412062

Gender and Conflict Dciftci-(phd. Candidate- lecturer)

Near east university

Faculty of communication North Cyprus

Abstract

In this paper, the contribution of gender study to the contemporary understanding of conflict and conflict resolution will be evaluated. For this purpose, in the first place, this paper will mainly focus on the linkage between conflict and gender in terms of gender roles in warfare and gender-based violence. German fascism, women’s movement under Sandinista in Nicaragua and Islamic fundamentalism will be explained in the context of gender as case studies. Secondly, the significance of gender analysis in the post-conflict reconstruction will be studied by regarding both formal and informal peace process. The Oxfam GB studies in Africa will be identified as case study. With respect to these knowledge, lastly, it is indicated that gender study provide multidimensional understanding of society for conflict, and it could contribute the analysis of post-conflict with much more compatible and applicable development programmes.

Hilmi GIC1412063

Appearance of realism in the art of Opera: Verismo

Mr. Hilmi Yazici Selcuk University

Dilek Sabanci State Conservatory Konya / TURKEY

Encountered in caves with primitive men, the concept of art has had a continuous development and change from the ancient times to the present day. The art has always kept its place in lives of man as a part of social, economical and cultural developments performed by man for ages. Along with the concept of art developing and changing in time, many different types of wordings and many branches of arts have been formed. As the materials of arts were shaped and changed, the arts were also likely to be separated to different branches. However, among many different styles formed with the development of music, “opera” is of a vital importance. The art of opera has passed through many different periods during its development period, also with the effect of interest by people. As well as the development performed by opera itself within this period, social, political, economical and cultural alterations have also been effective in addition to the movements of thoughts. Especially the effects of the movements of thoughts developing in the 19th century became important on individuals on a large scale, and these effects were also seen in opera, as in other arts. All developments and awareness in society seen in the 19th century led to serious intellectual movements. One of the most important movements developing in this period was also “the movement of realism”, that is, “realism” appearing in the field of literature. The movement of realism effective in literature in the 19th century became influential on opera as well and was called “verismo”. While the appearance of verismo movement in opera is evaluated in this study, several important composers representatives of the movement will be mentioned, and social, cultural and

political factors leading to the movement will be examined. Mustak GIC1412064

Media Policy and Vulnerable groups of Japan Dr. Mustak Ahmed Associate Professor

Department of Mass Communication and Journalism University of Rajshahi

Bangladesh Email: [email protected]

Abstract Japan is exceptional among Asian countries in the sense that it has achieved amazing rapid economic growth in the past 100 years. Today’s Japan is probably one of the most media saturated societies in the world (Kato, 1978:9). The media are undergoing rapid changes in Japan like others industrial societies. There are approximately 120 daily newspapers with a total of 50 million copies of 'set papers' 8,216 commercial broadcasting stations and 6736 Japan broadcasting stations, 759 commercial radio station and 894 Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) radio stations.

Mudzeilwana GIC1412065

Student teachers’ reasons for choosing teaching as a Career: A case

study of First Year Students from a rural University

Dr N.P. Mudzielwana School of Education

Department of Early Childhood Education University of Venda Private Bag X5050

Thohoyandou 0950

South Africa Email: [email protected]

Abstract

Teaching is an important profession as it affords the students to develop knowledge before joining the world of work. The present paper sought to gather student teachers’ experiences of why they chose teaching as a career and implications of the findings on the enhancement of teacher preparation programmes. The study adopted a qualitative case study design in which a purposeful sample of 138 first years National Professional Diploma in Education (NPDE) students participated. Open ended questionnaires were used as the main and sole data collection tool. Content analysis was used to analyse data thematically after coding. The study found that student teachers felt nervous, fear, inability to control learners. In some instances they felt excited to teach and improved on practice over time. The study concludes that there were a plethora of challenges in participants’ experiences in teaching in the foundation phase. Recommendations were made. Keywords: teaching, professional growth, student teachers

Nancy GIC1412066

Management of Pregnant Learners in Secondary Schools: The

Experience Of Educators

Nancy H. Mutshaeni, PhD

University of Venda Centre for Higher Education Teaching and Learning

P.O.Box 5050 Thohoyandou

0950 0159628347 0828429155

[email protected]

Samuel T Mashau,DED University of Venda

Department of Curriculum Studies and Education Management

Livhuwani Robert Manwadu University of Venda

Department of Curriculum Studies and Education Management

Abstract

The aim of the study was to examine management of pregnant learners in

secondary schools in the Vhembe district of Limpopo Province, South

Africa. A qualitative research approach was used to investigate the

phenomenon from the educators’ perspective. The target population

comprised of secondary school educators, school’s management teams and

school managers. Focus group interview schedule was used to collect data

from the participants. Data was analysed thematically. The findings revealed

amongst others the following: Lack of skills to teenage pregnancy

management. The following recommendations were made: Educators need to

be well equipped with skills that will enable them to deal with pregnant

learners in schools. The government should give educators in-service training

on how to manage a pregnant learner. Educators should also form support

group structures in schools, clusters and circuit level where issues on

learners’ pregnancies can be addressed.

Keywords: Pregnant learners, Secondary school, Management.

Ali Hussein GIC1412068

Suggestions on some Arab Maqamat for Deepening Identity and

Improving the Performance of the Piano

Ass. Prof. Ali Hussein. Ali Ass. Professor, Music Education Department, Ain Shams University


The study of music and music education in particular, is considered one of the most important media that can influence the spread of the goals targeted at a broad sector, and it comes through direct contact with the subjects inside the tissue of music. This increases the influence whenever the ideas associated with the environment and identity, and that leads to stability in the speed of conscience and feelings. The piano is one of the deepest musical instruments for its capabilities and widening its degree of sounds and how to deal with many of the ideas. The performance of Piano is one of the basics of music education that reflect the level of culture and music teacher, and the performance of Piano requires many different skills acquired, especially for the musical elements of music that reflects the culture and national identity. Arabic music contains of different musical elements, and the Arab Maqamat is the most important elements that characterize its music, and what distinguish the Arab Maqamat character are the dimensional proportions between degrees of sounds. There are two types of Arab Maqamat: the first one contains the dimensions of the piano which cannot be performed due to the nature of the stability of degrees of sounds, the second can be performed by so as to divide the distances in these Arab maqamat which matches to degrees sounds, and this is the subject of this study. The aim of this study are two points; first point is to improve the performance of the piano for students through the musical suggestions, and the second one is to deepen the identity through some Arab Maqamat in building of musical suggestions. Results of the experiment on the students of Department of Music Education, Ain Shams University showed the effectiveness of the musical suggestions to improve the piano performance, and the impact of the suggested Arab Maqamat in deepening the identity and establishing it through the musical suggestions for some Arab Maqamat.

Mehmet GIC1412069

Contributions of J. C. Friedrich von Schiller to The Art of Opera

Mr. Mehmet Baltacan Selcuk University, Dilek Sabanci State Conservatory

Konya / TURKEY [email protected]

Abstract

Known as a German poet and writer in Turkey, Friedrich von Schiller brought numerious works in different areas such as dramas, ballads, philosophic essays and lyric poems into the World literature during his 46-year life. These works of Schiller becoming reputed with great dramas like “Die Räuber”, ”Kabale und Liebe”, “Don Carlos”, “Wilhelm Tell” and “Maria Stuart” were rewritten as opera texts and composed by opera composers and libretists, and these works contributing to the art of opera as repertory have taken part in the World opera repertory as qualified ones. In this study, the related literature to Schiller’s life and Works will be scanned,

and by examining the works rewritten as opera texts and their composers, the importance of these works will be tried to be analyzed in terms of the art of opera. Keywords: opera, poet, libretto, literature

Majid GIC1412070

Fighting Competition Stress by focusing the Psychological Training on

the Vigor-Activity Mood States

Dr. Majid al-busafi Assistant Professor - Coach Education

Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies Sultan Qaboos University, Edu, Physical Education, Muscat, Alkohd: 32-

123, Oman Tel:00968 99444661 - Fax:00968 24413817 (Oman)

Web: majidbusafi.weebly.com

E-Mail: [email protected] – [email protected]

Alexe Cristina Ioana Ştiinţa Bacău Sports Club, 157, Calea Mărăşeşti, Bacău, 60015, Romania

Alexe Dan Iulian “V.Alecsandri” University of Bacău, 157, Calea Mărăşeşti, 60015, Romania

Abstract

The specific competition and pre-competition stress in professional track and field determined an increasing engagement, from a biological and psychological point of view, of the middle distance and long distance runners, to obtain the top performances that would get them to win in a competition. Under these conditions, if the psychological stress is not properly managed, the negative effects can lead to a total drop in self-confidence, and can affect the value, the talent, and the self-trust, which generates an even higher stress. One of the means at our disposal is the psychological training, specially adapted to the athlete's individual characteristics, to the characteristics of the athletic event, or of the competition. This paper aims to highlight certain original aspects regarding the effects of a specific psychological training program on the mood states characterized by psychological activation, vigor, vitality. The subjects were represented by 12 professional middle distance and long distance runners, subjected to an applicative intervention to which they have participated voluntarily, over the course of 6 months (a competition season). The results indicated that The application of a psychological training program, adapted to the track and field competition system, over a period of time characterized by high competition stress, can determine an increase in the states of vigor and psychological activation, at the same time diminishing those moods that have negative effects on the performance, in the middle distance and long distance running events. This conclusion confirms the hypothesis of this research.

Keywords: Competition Stress, Psychological Training, Track And Field,

Vigor-Activity.

Satit GIC1412071

The Use of Debate Technique to Develop Speaking Ability of Grade Ten

Students at Bodindecha (Sing Singhaseni) School

Mr Satit Somjai.

Asst. Prof. Dr.Anchalee Jansem

English has become the global language and the primary method of communication for the peoples of the world in fact it is now common for English to be referred to as International or even Global English . Within this global environment fluent English is vital for wider economic and to some extent social success . Any company in the modern world of open economies, the ability to speak English is one of the principle requirements of employees and stakeholders alike, to meet the demands of the global economy, a sound English speaking skill has become the medium for the ease of communication . The Ministry of Education has stated in the national curriculum that basic teaching of English should include the four skills at both primary and secondary levels (The Ministry of Education, 2008). A good performance in English is required at all levels, and students are expected to use English in various situations, both in and out of their classrooms and with local and foreign communities.

Nylon GIC1412072

Applying the basics of Successful School Leadership to Uphold the Right

to Basic Education for all R.N. (Nylon) Marishane

Department of Education Management, School of education, University of Venda, Box 5050, Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa

E-mail: [email protected]

Interest in school leadership as a critical element of school improvement has been rising with the passage of time. This interest, as studies show, is motivated largely by the growing demands for schools to account for outcomes and concomitant increase in the complexity of the contexts in which schools operate and to which principals have to be responsive. One of these contexts is the human rights-based approach to education, rooted in the belief that education is a basic human right. The right to education, which is ratified by international conventions and is constitutionally guaranteed in many education systems, covers the right of access to education, the right to quality education and the right to respect in the learning environment. Though the right to education is globally recognised as a fundamental human right, many studies conducted into this area place more focus on macro level rather than on the micro level. Based on a qualitative study, this paper seeks to study how school principals apply the basics of successful school

leadership model to uphold learners’ right to education at the school level. The results show that though school principals recognise children’s right to education, they meet challenges in connecting basic school leadership functions to the task of upholding children’s rights to basic education. To address these challenges, the paper comes up with recommendations for improvement. Keywords: human rights, leadership functions, school context, school culture, school leadership

Haydar Karaman GIC1412073

The role of Turkish Military Service in the Construction of Turkish

National Identity

Haydar Karaman Ph.D. Candidate in law studies,

University of Sussex, [email protected] ([email protected])

+447731961142

The ideology of Turkish state shifted from the emperor of Islamic ummah to unitary and secular state with the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. This new state instituted on the culture of insecurity which is spread and justified through fears about national independence, territorial integrity. The new state wanted to create a new citizenship profile which is based on militarist Turkish identities with disciplinary institution such as military service and citizenship obligations. The Military service is one of the most important prerequisites for the development of successful subaltern nationalism in society. As Dagi classifies that the Turkish nationalism into three groups, namely, Kemalist nationalism, radical nationalism and popular nationalism. He also claims that all these forms of nationalism “share a culture that treat the state, not the nation, as the supreme entity and view its survival. Because of this, Turkish nationalisms are prone to militarism, if not fascism”

Elisha GIC1412074

Dialogue for peace: a study on the interfaith dialogue styles used by the

communication foundation for asia and the peacemakers’ circle

foundation inc. As a tool of development communication

Abstract

Elisha Marie Blando, Jonathan Andal, Abigail Adsuara Student,

De Lasalle University-Dasmariñas [email protected]

This study explores how interfaith dialogue, which is a dialogue that aims to understand both faiths, of the Christians and Muslims is used as a tool fordevelopment communication through peace building that leads to society’s development, specifically the dialogue styles of Communication Foundation for Asia on their peace camps, and the Christian-Muslim

community in Brgy. Tala, Caloocan, City of Peacemakers’ Circle. This leads to the formulation of the problem statement, “How is interfaith dialogue used by Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) and Peacemaker’s Circle as a tool for development communication?”, which were answered through informant interviews, and sessions observations of both organizations’ interfaith dialogue styles and peace building projects. Data gathered from the different methods were analyzed using the concepts presented in the review of related literature and the theories applied in the study. This study showed that both organizations used interfaith dialogue as a tool for development communication in the community that the participants belong. CFA uses art and media as peace building projects where they did video documentaries for their peace camps and they include painting, acting, and instrument workshops as part of the camp. On the other hand, Peacemakers’ Circle Inc., uses community development projects such as clean and green projects, micro-financing, etc. The researchers found out that these development projects aid their interfaith dialogue styles since the participants has the four key conditions enumerated by intergroup contact theory by All port namely equal status, intergroup cooperation, support by social and institutional authorities, and common goal, which created mutual understanding among the participants. Also, the interfaith dialogue styles of both organizations follow the Cultural Convergence Theory by Kincaid since both conduct communication repetitively resulting to mutual understanding. This mutual understanding leads to the cooperation of both religions toward the success of development projects formulated by the organizations.

Viky GIC1412075

Indonesian Floating School for a better Education - The Problem of an

Archipelago

Viky Eko Nuridlo [email protected]

Abstract

Republic of Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world which is located in Southeast Asia. Indonesia has 17,504 islands (approximately 6000 are uninhabited). Indonesia's vast territory and consists of thousands of islands as well as the diversity of wealth owned by indigenous tribes as well as in it made some people can’t enjoy the process of education and other facilities provided by the government to the nation's children. It should be recognized also that the factor connecting infrastructure such as roads, bridges and so give effect to the lack of access that can be felt by residents in remote areas. Indonesia has many islands, Indonesia does not mean that the handling of education in each islet. Not that in the thousands and thousands of small islands in Indonesia, none of youths aged 6 to 25 years who need education. How are they going to get a normal education? Just because they live in a small island so that they do not deserve a decent education as youth in high economic areas such as in cities or large islands. Percentage of illiteracy in Indonesia, including very high. According to the BPS-RI and Suspenas 2003-2013, the percentage of illiteracy in Indonesia in 2013 covers for ages 15 + 5.86%, 1.61% age 15-44, and age 45+ 15:24%, which means

that education is uneven causing the population of Indonesia many who suffer from illiteracy. Indonesia is an archipelago country, to reach an island of the island to the other one needed a boat or an airplane. Very unlikely to build a bridge crossing between islands. That's the problem faced by Indonesia. Not to mention the problem of the lack of means of information and poverty in Indonesia is still quite a lot. A lot of teachers who do not want to teach in the islands because the facilities do not meet and transportation difficult. There is uncertain that each island has a school. So the children have to cross the island to get an education or more severe can’t go to school because school fees are expensive. To build the basic structure of education in Indonesia must be stable. Educate the public that in fact difficult to reach due to natural conditions remain to be implemented. With the school boat, education can be reached by anyone and anywhere on the island. So they were on the island does not have a school can still get the same education. Because who young generation should to be indigenous leader if they can’t to be smart? All about young generation, an archipelago, systemic and technical solution. If it was not a school boat which facilitates education on small islands that do not have schools, like who else?

Keyword: Education, School Boat, Archipelago, Indonesia, Young Generation

Jonalou GIC1412076

Covering Corruption: Content analysis on the coverage of Philippine

Star, Philippine Daily Inquirer and Manila Bulletin on the Philippines’

PDAF Scandal

Alyssa Bianca Delfin, Jillian Nathalie Garcia1

Jonalou Labor2

1 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Colegio de San Juan de Letran- Manila, Philippines

2 College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines- Diliman, Philippines

Abstract

This study is a quantitative content analysis of the three Philippine broadsheets (The Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star and The Manila Bulletin) from August 3 to October 30, 2013. The study is also qualitative because focus interviews with journalists from the three broadsheets were also conducted. The researchers focused on finding out how much prominence the news articles allot to the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) issue by considering their news presentation, journalistic standards, treatment, frequency of appearances and placement on the newspapers. The study also determined the relationship between these attributes and computed for their correlation. The researchers concluded that there is a regular pattern of reportage of the PDAF issue. However, the

observed relationships between the variables revealed disparity between each of them. Keywords: Framing, Philippine broadsheets, political communication, prominence of issues, content analysis

Manalo GIC1412077

Pamana: A Study on the Communication Pattern among Anting- Anting

Users of Calabarzon

MANALO, MABELLE M. [email protected]

SAMONTE, Eunice Rean L.

[email protected]

ZALDIVAR, Mariella D. [email protected]

Abstract

The knowledge about anting- anting is still evident and the belief in its existence has already been a part of the Filipino culture. Anting- antings are amulets that take in many forms such as pendants, rituals, and others, which are believed to give protection, good fortune, and other magical powers to their owners. This study determined the communication patterns in the interactions of anting- anting users in CALABARZON using three communication theories namely Symbolic Interactionism Theory, Ethnography of Communication, and the Cultural Approach Theory. Types and frequencies of interactions of anting-anting users, communication modes and styles, and the messages relayed by anting- anting users during the communication process were discussed further in this study. The researchers selected anting- anting users as main sources of information in discovering their communication patterns. For further verification and other necessary details, the proponents of the study sought for the statements of professors and experts with sufficient knowledge about the topic. From the results and findings, the researchers found out that although the types of interactions, frequency, communication styles, and messages relayed were able to stay the same through time, the modes of communication that are existent during their interactions were able to evolve and improve with the help of modernization and new technology. Their communication pattern has undergone an evolution of context, commerce and use; the users are now using the modern ways of communicating with each other for immediate feedback. Keywords: Culture, Communication pattern, Interaction, Anting-anting

Patricia

A Case Study on the Communication Patterns used by Selected Single

Fathers in Communication with their Daughter in Cavite

DAQUIOAG, Denise Ayna M.

[email protected] GARCES, Mariko S.

GIC1412078 [email protected] MATALOG, Patricia Marie E. [email protected]

Abstract

Single Fathers who ended up raising their child alone also play the role of the mother. They are known as the "modern day fathers" who come in various forms – either single, separated, gay, adoptive or widower. As "modern day fathers," the communication patterns and styles used by the single fathers with their daughter vary when it comes to her physical changes, studies, and relationship with peers and opposite sex, and even in handling misunderstandings. The researchers aim to answer the question, "How do single fathers communicate with their daughter?" of six single fathers in Cavite who were interviewed to determine their frequency of interaction; degree of openness; communication styles and communication patterns used in addressing the daughter's physical changes, studies, and relationship with peers and opposite sex, and in handling misunderstandings. Data gathered was analyzed through the use of two supporting theories: Social Penetration Theory and Relational Dialectics, that found that single fathers in Cavite used different communication patterns in handling these issues wherein most single fathers used Unbalanced Split pattern in deciding matters of their daughter’s concern with her physical changes; most single fathers used Equality in deciding matters of their daughter’s concern with her studies; most single fathers used Unbalanced Split and Equality in deciding matters of their daughter’s concerns with her peers; most single fathers used Monopoly in deciding matters of their daughter’s concerns with her relationship with the opposite sex; and most single fathers used Equality in deciding when they have a misunderstanding with their daughter.

Key Words: Single father, daughter, communication style, communication

pattern

Marlyn GIC1412079

Like and Share: Influence of “Tulong Na, Tabang Na, Tayo Na” FB

Page to Natural Disaster Preparedness amongst its page followers

Marlyn Faye V. Correa1 Sherlene S. Villanueva1 and Asst. Prof. Jonalou SJ Labor 2

1 Senior Communication Arts Students, Institute of Communication 2Faculty, Languages Area, Colegio de San Juan de Letran

Abstract This paper studied the influence of the “tulong na, tabang na, tayo na” fb page to natural disaster preparedness amongst its page followers. This study sought to determine the perception of the netizens about the communicative practices they have done because of said facebook page. Furthermore, the

researchers conducted the study via online survey. The study revealed the “tulong na, tabang na, tayo na” facebook fanpage influenced the knowledge and attitude of its followers towards disaster preparedness. However, the followers of the said fanpage were undecided that the fanpage influenced their behavior towards disaster preparedness. Keywords: disaster preparedness, facebook, disaster knowledge, disaster attitude, disaster behavior, social media research

Cezar Gioson

Towards a Comprehensive Computerized Intervention for Depression

Cezar Giosan, Ph.D.1, 2 Vlad Muresan, Ph.D.1 Oana Cobeanu, Ph.D.1

Cristina Mogoase, Ph.D.1 Oana David, Ph.D.1

Aurora Szentagotai, Ph.D.1 1. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

2. Berkeley College, New York

Abstract

The aim of this work is to disseminate an alpha-version of a Comprehensive Computerized Intervention for Depression. While face to face cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) remains the psychological standard of care in the treatment of depression, other delivery formats, such as two-way online video, have been tried successfully in the recent years. Automated interventions for depression (e.g., internet-delivered sessions) have been shown to have comparable clinical outcomes with standard CBT. They also come with benefits such as convenience, cost reduction and greater reach. However, such interventions also come with less desirable outcomes, such as a high dropout rate, or limited long-term improvement. Building on these recent advances, we are developing a Computerized Intervention for Depression that aims at minimizing the problems that current automated solutions face. To this end, our proposed solution incorporates insights from Graphic Design, gamification theories, and Artificial Intelligence, to increase the quality of the user experience, potentially leading to better clinical outcomes.

Shanuka GIC1412081

Securitization and Credit Default Swaps (CDSs): Towards Diagnostic of

the Fundamental Problem and Suggested Solutions

Shanuka Senarath* and Richard Copp**

Abstract

Most of the blame for the present Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has been

attributed to securitization and CDSs in the years preceding growth of the

crisis. On reflection, most of the blame must be “sheeted home” to the former

U.S government’s mandate to banks and other financial institutions to

mitigate their normal lending criteria on U.S home loans. The fundamental

problem with these securitization contracts was not the securitization of good

loans, but the securitization of “lemons”. The loans should have never been

entered into in the first place. The “failure” of securitization contracts was

therefore a failure of well-intended (but poor) government policy makers in

foreseeing the unintended consequences. In order to “insure” against

expected defaults, the lenders and the investors entered CDS contracts in the

shadow banking sector. The fundamental problem with the CDS contracts

which are much touted in the regulated and shadow banking sectors as being

“desirable” as a profitable form of “insurance”, was that they were (and are)

able to be used for wagering or betting purposes. In contrast to the

conventional insurance, CDS contracts do not require an insurable interest;

do not require compliance with the indemnity principle; and are not uberrima

fides.

JEL classification: G01, G22 Key words: Credit Default Swaps, Securitization, Global Financial Crisis

Tsun Chiang GIC1412082

Motivation and Experience in Playing Somatosensory Games of Elderly

in Nursing Homes

I-Tsun Chiang, Hsiu-Chi Fu, Hsin-Chin Wu, Mao Liu, Shang-Ti Chen Graduate Institute of Sports and Health, National Changhua University of

Education, Changhua, Taiwan

Taiwan [email protected]

Abstract

With the advance of technology, game-based electronic products have been developed and promoted rapidly. The purpose of this study is to investigate the motivation and user experience in playing different kinds of somatosensory games of elderly in nursing homes. Forty-three older adults were selected to play four types of 360 Kinect® games, included the competitive, developing, puzzling, and were examined their game experience and motivation by using questionnaires. The result identified that significant differences were found in different kinds of somatosensory games playing experiences (p <.001). The scores of those experiences in competitive games were higher than other types of games. Motivation in different types of somatosensory games was also showed significant differences, and the scores

in motivation measurements in competitive games were also higher than other games. In conclusion, the competitive games were the most popular game for the elderly because users had significant higher scores in uses experience and motivation. Besides, regression analysis pointed out that the experience gaining from different kinds of somatosensory games reached a significant level in motivation, and the main factors for game experience were the motivation of sociability and the feeling of escape. Keywords: Elderly, somatosensory games, motivation, game experience, leisure

Alexis GIC1412083

From Standard Jobs to Green Jobs in Thai Tourism

Dr Alexis Esposto1

Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia

As the world steps up to tackle and combat climate change, a series of new innovative ideas implementations are emerging. These innovative solutions are looking at improving the human capital of nations by transforming the way we do things at work. Hence, through investments in training and retraining, every potentially existing job could become a ‘green job’, impacting positively on our physical environment and improving our welfare for future generations. This paper provides an example of how to transition a standard job to a ‘green job’ in the tourism industry through the development of ‘green competencies’.

Key words: green jobs, competencies, climate change, tourism

Dominik GIC1412084

Direct horizontal effect of the free movement of goods and reshaping of

the European Economic Constitution ©Dominik Vuletić, PhD

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Law Department Abstract

The Court of Justice of EU has established very early in its history direct vertical effect of Treaty provisions on free movement of goods. However, direct horizontal effect of the same rules has never been recognized. This paper furthers a following thesis: hypothetical future recognition of direct horizontal effect of the Article 34 and 35 TFEU (prohibition of quantitative restrictions on imports and exports and all measures having equivalent effect) would reshape European Economic Constitution and provide basis for more ordoliberal reading of the Treaty. Viewing market freedoms as fundamental constitutional rights on which individuals can rely in private relations is logical consequence of such interpretation. This paper looks to the case law development, like the recent judgement in the Fra.bo case, to detect possible shifts from established jurisprudence in non recognizing horizontal direct

effect of the free movement of goods rules. Keywords: direct horizontal effect, free movement of goods, European Economic Constitution, EU Internal Market Law, ordoliberalism, social market economy, judicial activism.

Lanie GIC1412085

Functional Behavior Assessment as an Effective Tool in Addressing

Students’ Misbehavior

LANIE MANUBA MENDOZA Secondary Teacher

Polytechnic University of the Philippines +639489054542 or [email protected]

Abstract

Today, teachers are faced with different misbehaviors shown by the students in varying levels and degrees. When a student’s behavior disrupts classroom instruction, teachers often address the problem by manipulating events that follow the misbehavior such as verbal reprimands, isolation, detention, suspension. Research revealed that this approach fails to teach the student acceptable replacement behaviours. The student may respond to the consequences for the moment, but in many instances, what has been absent is a method for determining “why” the student misbehaved in the first place. To address this problem, educators conceptualized the use of Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA). It hinges on identifying the causes and purposes of problem behaviour, as well as finding ways to teach and promote appropriate replacement behaviours that serve the same “functions” as the inappropriate behaviours.

Maria GIC1412086

Issues in the Implementation of Result-Based Performance Management

System (RPMS)

Maria Elena M. Mensote Master in Education Management

Polytechnic University of the Philippines [email protected]

Abstract

Teaching effectiveness is important because effective teaching helps student learning. It has become even more important as the emphasis on quality education has increased. Effective teaching does not occur by chance. Effective teachers have become good at what they do because they evaluate their practice. James (n/d) suggests that “educational evaluation is a professional responsibility for academic staff, arising from a commitment to understanding the effects of teaching on students and to enhance student learning.” There are numerous ways employed in evaluating teaching or monitoring its effectiveness. Among these is the implementation of Result-

Based Performance Management System (RPMS) to monitor and to manage the performance of teachers. RPMS is a systematic approach for continuous and consistent work improvement and individual growth. However, its abrupt implementation generated positive and negative reactions from teachers. This study aims to look at the issues encountered by the public school teachers in the implementation of RPMS in education. Moreover, it intends to use the descriptive-survey method of research in order to identify issues concerning RPMS implementation and eventually analyse these issues. The target respondents are the public school teachers who will be selected randomly. The locale of the study is Catanauan District wherein all elementary and secondary schools will be included. The researcher will then design a questionnaire to gather the necessary data. As part of the plan, the researcher will check if there are relationships that exist when the respondents are grouped according to their demographic characteristics by using the Pearson r, mean, and ranking as the statistical tools. The study hopes to ascertain the issues encountered by the teachers in managing their teaching performance. In addition, it will examine the measures used by the school heads in addressing these issues. The final output of the study is the implication of the findings to the performance of teachers and in the implementation of RPMS. Keywords: Result-Based Performance Management System, teacher effectiveness, performance management

Maribel GIC1412088

Utilizing Technology in the Classroom as an Effective Tool in Enhancing

Teachers and Students Performance

Author: Maribel P. Candelario

Polytechnic University of the Philippines Unisan Learning Center


Technology has taken an immense place in the classrooms today. Many educators have embraced the role of technology in the teaching-learning process because research reveals its significant contribution in improving teacher and students’ performance to a great extent. With technology, teachers can collaborate to share their ideas and resources online. They can meet the shortcomings of their work, refine it and provide their students with the best. This approach definitely enhances the practice of teaching. It is also in technology where students can develop valuable research skills at a young age. Technology gives students immediate access to an abundance of quality information which leads to learning at much quicker rates than before. Furthermore, students and teachers have access to an expanse of material. There are plenty of resources available on the Internet that both teachers and students can utilize. It also provides a variety of knowledge and doesn’t limit students to one person’s opinion. Finally, technology provides motivational and multi-sensory factors that help stimulate learners’ interest.

Menilda GIC1412089

Perfect Attendance Raffle Promo

Menilda M. Cabangon


[email protected] Conference Name: 5th International Conference on Advances in Social

Sciences (ICASS) Conference Dates: January 2-3, 2015

Conference Location: Bangkok (Thailand) Abstract

Absenteeism is a perennial problem encountered by teachers in school. It is the habit of staying away from school without providing a genuine or any reason for not attending classes. Furthermore, absenteeism is a truant behaviour that negatively affects the performance among students that can lead to depression and also result in poor quality of education as a result of time lost while being away from school. In severe cases, it could also cause moral degradation that leads to drug abuse, early pregnancies and unruly behaviour. With this problem, teachers have tried a number of measures and intervention program in order to address this. However, absenteeism still remains a challenge to many educators. Some say, it can be remedied by providing adequate co-curricular activities to students. It could be curbed by creating of clubs and societies to keep students busy when they are out of class. Schools should strive to have up to date learning facilities like libraries as well as sporting facilities to make students enhance student retention and many other ways.

Seong GIC1412090

Short-run and long-run asymmetric linkages between BRIC stock

returns and country risk ratings: Evidence from dynamic panel

threshold models

Walid Mensia, Shawkat Hammoudehb, Seong-Min Yoonc,2, Duc Khuong Nguyend

aDepartment of Finance and Accounting, University of Tunis El Manar,

Tunis, Tunisia bLebow College of Business, Drexel University,

Philadelphia, United States cDepartment of Economics, Pusan National University,

Busan, Republic of Korea dIPAG Lab, IPAG Business School, Paris, France

Abstract This study investigates the short-run and long-run asymmetric linkages between the BRIC stock markets (Brazil, Russia India and China) and three country risk ratings (financial risk, economic risk and political risk) in the presence of six global financial and economic factors (MSCI world equity market index, WTI crude oil prices, gold prices, implied volatility index, the U.S. economic policy uncertainty index and the St. Louis Fed’s Financial Stress Index). Using the dynamic panel threshold models, we find evidence of long-run asymmetry, in most cases, of the BRIC stock markets with the political risk and financial risk ratings, whereas the economic risk ratings have no significant impact on the performance of BRIC markets, except for the one-period lagged return threshold variable under the upper regime. Furthermore, improvements in the global stock and gold markets, and in some case for the WTI oil market, contribute to enhancements in the BRIC market performance. Increases in the financial stress and implied volatility indices lead to drops in the BRIC stock markets. Finally, no significant relationship is found between the U.S. economic policy uncertainty index and the BRIC market returns. While they vary in function of the selected threshold variables, these findings are useful for the domestic and international investors as well as traders and rating agencies. JEL classification: G14; G15 Keywords: BRIC, country risk ratings, global factors, regime-switching, dynamic panel threshold model

Navid GIC1412091

Relationship in Shanghai Cooperation Organization and its influence in

the energy market

Navidreza Ahadi, Ali Lotfian, Amirhossein Taghipour,Samart Deebhijarn,

Puris Sornsaruth, Negar Mohammadi Ramkhamhaeng University, Assumption University, King Monkut Institute

of Technology Ladkrabang Abstract

This study is in regards to Russia Geo-economic interest and influence in Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the importance of SCO as a sufficient Eurasian organization’s leadership in energy market and the prospective of Russia to affect the energy market and energy reserve as a major authority within the organization Keywords: Russia, Energy Market, SCO, CSTO, Central Asia, China, Oil and Gas

Irene GIC1412092

Utilizing Technology in the Classroom as an Effective Tool in Enhancing

Teachers and Students Performance

Irene R. De Ocampo


[email protected]

Abstract

Technology has taken an immense place in the classrooms today. Many educators have embraced the role of technology in the teaching-learning process because research reveals its significant contribution in improving teacher and students’ performance to a great extent. With technology, teachers can collaborate to share their ideas and resources online. They can meet the shortcomings of their work, refine it and provide their students with the best. This approach definitely enhances the practice of teaching. It is also in technology where students can develop valuable research skills at a young age. Technology gives students immediate access to an abundance of quality information which leads to learning at much quicker rates than before. Furthermore, students and teachers have access to an expanse of material. There are plenty of resources available on the Internet that both teachers and students can utilize. It also provides a variety of knowledge and doesn’t limit students to one person’s opinion. Finally, technology provides motivational and multi-sensory factors that help stimulate learners’ interest. With these benefits, the researcher decided to delve into this kind of research study that aims to find out the percentage of teachers are utilizing technology in the classroom, how they are using it, and how often. And if teachers are not using it, the researcher wants to discover why and how those reluctant teachers can be encouraged to utilize technology more frequently in the classroom. In addition, it will look at the observed effects to the performance of students if technology is utilized in the classroom. This study will use descriptive-survey method in order to attain its objectives. The target respondents are secondary school teachers in Catanauan District who will be selected randomly. Survey questionnaire will be the primary instrument in gathering the necessary data. All the gathered data will be analyzed and interpreted using percentage, ranking, and weighted mean as statistical tools. The study hopes to provide information on the effectiveness of technology in elevating the learning performance of students as well as the teaching performance of teachers. It also intends to encourage reluctant teachers to adapt technology in their classrooms. Keywords: Technology, teaching-learning, performance, utilization, effectiveness

Rebecca GIC1412093

Push Mo Yan: A Study of the Influence of Facebook and Twitter to

Adolescent Communication

Cervantes, Rebecca C. 1& Pangilinan, ElishahMaro F. 1

Dr. Rowena Capulong – Reyes2

1 AB Communication Arts Senior, Institute of Communication, CLAS, CSJL

2 Professor, Institute of Communication, CLAS, CSJL Abstract

The current research used Uses and gratifications theory to further

understand the motivations and satisfaction students get from Facebook and Twitter. The researchers relate the objectives in developing uses and gratifications theory 1) to explain how individuals use mass communication to gratify their needs, “what do people do with the media” many of these young adults use social media networks to communicate with family, friends, and even strangers. Social media sites have created new and non-personal ways for people to interact with others and young adults have taken advantage of this technological trend; 2) to discover underlying motives for individuals’ media use. 3) toidentify the positive and the negative consequences of individual media use. The researchers use survey questionnaires to gather information that is used in this study. A descriptive analysis was used to measure the answers to a 24-item questionnaire. Keywords: Adolescent, Communication, Social media, #Hashtag

Ali Ozel GIC1412094

Identifying learning levels of the 9th grade students via computer-aided

teaching techniques on the theme “The shape and movements of the

earth’’

Prof. Dr. Ali OZEL (Corresponding Author)

Servet OZUNAL, Emine OZEL, Nurettin BILGEN Dumlupınar University, Kutahya, Turkey

Primary School Department, Education Faculty, Dumlupınar

University [email protected]

Abstract

This research is an experimental study that aims to identify misunderstood concepts and measures the effects of the choice of method in minimizing misunderstanding in the section “The shape and movements of the Earth”. Achievement test is the means used in data collection in this study. Aim of this study is to search effect of teacher based education applications, computer aided education and education applications for concept teaching on student success and attitude. The developed measurement tool has been applied to 48 students who are 9th grade students studying at a private high school. Cognitive and affective competence of the students is identified with pre-test application. Students are separated into two groups and after different education applications same groups are given post-test and their development levels are identified. Significant differences between pre-test and post-test scores are found and it is seen that this differentiation is more in computer aided applications. By making a literal questionnaire study, it has been identified there is no significant differences among the success levels and genders of students; parents education occupational an income position, whether she/he has a computer at home. The research was finished with suggestions for developing geography teaching. SPSS programme is used for analyzing the data; two-factor ANOVA test has been used for percentage, frequency, mean and the research, repeated measures on one factor. Key words: Education of Geography, Movements in the world Shape, Concept Education

Romel GIC1412096

Addressing the factors that affect the interest of severely wasted students

in participating the feeding program in

Quezon National High School

ROMMEL R. ENDENCIA Secondary Teacher 1

Polytechnic University of the Philippines +639331974123 and [email protected]

Science

Abstract

Malnutrition among students is considered as a school’s concern because it may affect student’s performance. In response to this problem involving many students, Quezon National High School initiated a feeding program to reduce nutrition deficiency and health risks among students whose Body Mass Index (BMI) fall under severely wasted level. The 100-days feeding program launched by the school seeks to promote nutritious meals and healthy living to help malnourished students in achieving an ideal body mass index. However, many recipients tend to ignore the program and do not attend the feeding sessions. This research primarily aimed to determine the reasons why students with severely wasted BMI hesitate to participate in the feeding program. The total number of recipients was forty-one (41) grade seven high school students, but only six (6) or a 14.63 % of the recipients actively participated. The researchers conducted a survey among thirty-five (35) non-participating recipients to determine the reasons behind their non-participation. Results indicated that the greatest factor affecting their non-participation was the perceived stigma that feeding program recipients are only those who can’t afford to buy foods. Another factor includes food preference of the recipients, many students do not eat vegetables, and instead they prefer processed goods. As a solution, a seminar on proper nutrition and risks of nutrition deficiency was conducted by the school involving the feeding program recipients together with their parents. Based on the results, the active recipients of the feeding program increased from six (6) or 14.63% to twenty-one (21) or 51.21%. There was a fifteen (15) or 36.58% increase in the total number of active recipients. Therefore, the researchers concluded that the seminar was effective in increasing active participation among the recipients of the feeding program. Keywords: feeding program, body mass index (BMI), severely wasted

Ugur GIC1412097

Social Multipliers on the Development of Intellectual Capital

Ugur Sak

Professor, Faculty of Education, Anadolu University, Turkey; [email protected]

The interaction between innate skills and environment produces a type of social multiplier on the development of intellectual abilities (Dickens & Flynn, 2001). Each increase in competence produces better environment and

the better environment further increases competence. A small difference in competence in childhood leads to a small difference in environment or environmental self-selection and this difference can become a large difference in adulthood. For example, early intervention and early educational television programs, such as the Sesame Street, were found to have larger effect on students with higher ability than on students with lower ability. A similar effect can be observed on the competence of the society as well. A wider social change slightly rises the average competence of the society. This slight enhancement in the competence of the society slightly increases its individuals’ performances because of the high demand in the society. In turn, the small increase in individual performance further improves the quality of group environment. This interaction process produces significant IQ differences between generations. In this presentation, the effect of social multipliers, such as group quality, ability composition, classroom size, team quality, and expectancies, on the development of individual and group intellectual competencies will be reviewed and discussed. A particular focus of the talk will be early starters of social multipliers and research findings that support the effect of social multipliers.

Shun Wing GIC1412098

A Case Study on the Outsourcing of Educational Activities in Hong

Kong: Issues and Considerations

Shun-wing NG

(Hong Kong Institute of Education)

Management of Outsourcing Extra-Curricular Activities in Primary

Schools: Issues and considerations

Abstract

In Hong Kong, many school principals outsourced their extra-curricular activities to reduce the workload of teachers and provide more activity options for students. This study reports on a qualitative study aiming at examining the views of a group of sixteen teaching professionals from ten primary schools in Hong Kong on the effectiveness as well as the major concerns about outsourcing extra-curricular activities. Findings indicate that three themes emerged from the data regarding effectiveness of outsourcing extra-curricular activities to external organizations including (1) reducing teachers’ workload and cost saving; (2) enhancing the expertise of teachers; and (3) catering for the needs of both parents and students. On the contrary, the major concerns about outsourcing activities were (1) increasing administrative duties; (2) quality of the activities; (3) linking activities to school curricula; and (4) student discipline. It is recommended that school, government and parent representatives be involved in monitoring outsourcing activities.

Keywords: outsourcing; extra-curricular activities; school management;

service providers

Shahin GIC1412099

Role of Leadership, Safety Climate and Safety Outcomes in KL Hospital

in Malaysia


High-risk organizations are continuously striving to minimize risks and establish a safe working environment. While technology and high standards are crucial, a core aspect of an effective safety management system lies in safe human behaviour and this constitutes the main theme for the present research. In order to assess the state of safety of an organization from a behavioural perspective, styles of leadership (transformational and transactional), safety climate, safety compliance (SC) and safety citizenship behaviour (SCB) will measure through questionnaires. There are range of practical ways, strategies and interventions to prevent worker accidents and reduce injury rates which are not mentioned in safety climate questionnaire. In order to understand some of the human and organizational factors that influence safety behaviour of employees in KL Hospital in Malaysia study 2 are designed to identify any interventions and activities in depth according to managements’ actions could be considered to shape positive safety climate.

Abidah GIC1412100

IDEOLOGICAL OF POLITICAL PARTY IN MALAYSIA

Adibah Yasmin Alias dan Zaid Bin Ahmad Universiti Putra Malaysia

[email protected]

Abstract

This paper argues ideological position of party politics in Malaysia. The focus of the discussion was on three component parties in Pakatan Rakyat PAS, PKR and DAP. Since the 1999 general election, the political position of the Pakatan Rakyat Malaysia increasing significantly. Overall increase in terms of support, particularly in urban areas can be seen from the results of the last election. However, the integrity of Pakatan Rakyat has waned due to the 9 month long struggle on the position of Selangor state Minister. This issue generated much provocation and polemic among the people of Selangor who trusted the state leadership to Pakatan Rakyat for a second term. The problem did not arise from the opposition party, the Barisan Nasional coalition but from Pakatan Rakyat itself. The crisis occurred between PAS and PKR due to conflicting decisions agreed upon by the party leadership components. This paper put forward the hypothesis that the cause of this problem is due to ideological differences between PAS, PKR and DAP. The main purpose of this study to determine the extent of ideological influence attitudes and political stance in an issue and how it is shape politics in Malaysia. This article specifically discusses the relevance of ideology in determining the direction and future of politics in Malaysia. Keywords: Political Ideology, Political Party, Party Attitudes, Ideology

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Fatih GIC1412101

Students’ Approaches to Solve Non-Routine Problems in Mathematics

Fatih Karabacak

Anadolu University, Education Faculty, Eskişehir/ Turkey In this presentation, sixth grade students’ methods and processes that they employ in the solution of non-routine problems will be shared and discussed. Mathematics usually has two types of problems: routine problems and non-routine problems. People use different methods while solving non-routine problems; whereas they use ordinary methods in the solution of routine problems. Participants of the study included 25 sixth grade students in a school in Turkey. Data was collected in students’ elective courses throughout a semester. In the study students worked on non-routine problems 2 hours per week. Problems were presented as a game-type. The findings showed that students had difficulty to generalize knowledge and skills they learn while solving game-like problems and their skills were rather task-specific. In the presentation, students’ difficulties in terms of using novel approaches to solve non-routine problems will be discussed in detail.

Dr. Ora GIC1412102

Losing Home: Psychological effects

Dr. Ora Danino and Dr. Hillel Ma –Naim

[email protected] Our home is the most private space we have. Home is where we can dream and hope, relax and be ourselves, laugh and cry. For the majority of us, home is a safe and welcoming place It is the centre of existence – where our most significant relationships are nurtured – where we can impart a sense of self in both physical and psychological ways. To lose this place is overwhelming, the physical implications and the psychological impact are destruct full. In our study we relate to people who have lost their homes not due to nature disasters or war, but because of a decision that was made by governments. We shall point out means of psychotherapy used for PTSD and dynamic procedures as a part of a long term treatment. A psychiatrist-in-chief of Boston’s McLean Hospital, Dr. Bruce Cohen, ranks loss of a home with loss of a job and loss of a loved one as among the top causes of extreme stress and despair. Psychological effects of losing a home start with feelings that create specific reactions or coping styles. These may be positive or negative. High levels of stress impede sound thinking. Fear and shame that comes with losing a home, incapacitates healthy coping mechanisms. More and more psychological effects surface when families are losing a home. A psychological imbalance is created in these families who are losing a home. there is a link between foreclosure rates and mental and physical health problems, as well as suicide attempts.

Dr. Leena Taneja GIC1412103

Looking Forward, Looking Back: Transnational Perspectives in

Globalization

Abstract

Globalization intensifies religious diversity in so-called “world religions” such that the religion as practiced by adherents in one cultural context is likely to be qualitatively different from that in another cultural context. While this argument is not disputed, in spite of this, why do so many scholars continue to study religion as if it were a “single, invariant object?” Too often our concept of “religion” but also our conceptual toolbox for discussing various religions frames the objects of our study as if they were timeless and impervious to the effects of human agency and societal change. The rapid spread of Eastern religions in the Middle East brings this debate into sharper focus, illustrating that the very conceptions of religion, contrary to other scholarly opinions, are the products of historical and ongoing social contests in which individual and collective actors engage in struggles to create and maintain boundaries that support their interest. Historically, such struggles have resulted in the marginalization of the religious practices of the least powerful, such as women and ethnic minorities or those living in poverty. Based on field work conducted in Dubai and Sharjah in the U.A.E on both Hindu and Sikh communities, this paper will demonstrate how globalization leads to religious diversity. As new religious rituals, narratives, sacred spaces, and identities are drawn and maintained, privileging one form of the religion, it systematically excludes or denigrates the core religious and lived experiences of people—particularly poor people, immigrants, women, and minorities. In effect, globalization allows transnational populations to rewrite and conceive new conceptual boundaries but at the cost of the marginalization of religious practices and people within those communities.

Radu Dimitriu GIC1412104

New immigration at the European Union's periphery

Special geographical notes concerning the Romanian citizenship

acquisition within the period 2000-2013

Lecturer, PhD, Rusu Alexandru Department of Geography

Faculty of Geography and Geology, Al. I. Cuza University Iasi, Romania

[email protected] Lecturer, PhD, Tudora Daniel

Department of Geography Faculty of Geography and Geology, Al. I. Cuza University

Iasi, Romania [email protected] PhD, Dimitriu Andreea


Iasi, Romania

[email protected] PhD Candidate, Bunduc Petru


Iasi, Romania [email protected]

Abstract

Immigration is one of the most fundamental realities of Europe's demographic last decades. From this point of view, it can be said that Romania, recently included in the European Union, tends to become a destination for flows of immigrants, even if the phenomenon is at an early stage. Since the mechanical movement study of the population has a quarrel scientific, social and even political importance, the analysis of these shifts is well to be carried out on their debut. Thus, our research, based on existing statistical information is trying to delineate geographical human characters of the population which has recently acquired Romanian citizenship. From this point of view I can analyze the dynamics of flows, their origin, and certain structural aspects. Index Terms: Immigration, nationality, the European Union

Dr. Salah GIC1412105

Critical Thinking Skills among Students

in Public and Private schools - Case Study in Kuwait

Dr. Salah Al-Fadhli Dr. Ali A Dashti

Abstract

This study examines the effectiveness of constructivist teaching strategy in enhancing critical thinking of students in intermediate level. The examination of the effectiveness is achieved by comparing the critical thinking skills of students in public schools with their counter-part in private schools. This effectiveness is measured by a critical thinking test. The target population for this study is students in intermediate schools in Kuwait. The findings indicate that the private schools environment had a positive effect on the students’ critical thinking skills. Keywords: Critical Thinking, private schools, public schools, constructivism, Kuwait

Barnali GIC1412106

Grammar as We Know and Grammar as We Use

-A Study of Lexical Features in Marketing Communication

Dr. Barnali Chetia Abstract

The choice of words in the world of marketing/advertising is very cautious and skillful. The aim of the copywriter is to make the information of a product or service accessible to the consumer and also to persuade them to buy the product or use the service. This paper aims to identify and analyse the various lexical features used by English advertisements (marketing communication) in a multilingual setting like India, by examining especially

the lexical features through a detailed discussion of the collected data. In this process, data has been collected and analysed from a sample of 300 advertisements with taglines. On the basis of the linguistic analysis of the sample, the features identified and categorized have been discussed in the paper. Key Words: marketing/advertising, lexical features, persuade, product, service

Phuong GIC1412107

Problems in pronouncing Thai consonants and vowels of Vietnamese

students

Nguyen Mai Phuong Faculty of English Language Teacher Education, University of Languages

and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi Email: [email protected]

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the problems of Vietnamese learners in pronouncing Thai consonants and vowels as well as categorize the problems and analyze possible causes. Data were collected from 30 Vietnamese students who learned Thai as a second foreign language for approximately two year. Results of the research revealed that the subjects had problems in pronouncing six single initial consonants, two final consonants and seven vowels. These problems can be categorized into three types, which are sound substitution, sound deletion, and sound addition. Main causes of these problems involved interference of the subjects’ mother tongue, the confusion of the subjects in terms of similar phonemes and interference of the surrounding sounds. Keywords: Teaching Thai; pronunciation problems; Thai consonants and vowels

Dr. Casey GIC1412108

Work Engagement: The Case of Workers with Part-time Training Roles

Dr Casey Ho (DBA), Dr Francis Or (Phd)

Work engagement, an emerging psychological concept, has gained significant traction over the last decade. Research on work engagement across several occupational profiles has been conducted, among whom are individuals in educational positions. However, little is known about the group of workers with a training role secondary to their main occupations with specialised tasks, and how this dual role is implicated. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of work engagement among this group of subjects, known as ‘part-time trainers’, and determine the socio-demographic factors that impact the phenomenon. In addition to the collection of socio-demographic data, the Work and Well-being Survey (UWES) was employed to assess work engagement in the three dimensions of vigour, dedication and absorption. The results revealed that work engagement among part-time trainers was balanced. Gender, marital status and age were also found to be related to the syndrome. The implications of the research were discussed.

Field of Research: Work Engagement, part-time training roles, part-time trainers

Tudora GIC1412109

Using factorial analyses for highlighting patterns of territorial

development. The case study of Romania

Tudora Daniel1, Roșu Lucian2, Eva Mihail3, Radu Dimitriu4, Rusu Alexandru5

Department of Geography “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University

Iași, Romania [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],

[email protected]

Abstract

Starting from the idea that space is one of the factors that create differences in terms of territorial development, this paper has the aim of using factorial analysis to determine the components related to this phenomena. Local based development, at national level of Romania, is the expression of several factors which were decomposed using a multivariate methodology. Social, urban, demographic or territorial components (through accessibility) are factors taken into account in applying this method. Index Terms: Territorial development index, factorial analyses, geo-statistical methods

Shih Li GIC1412110

New Strategy for Continuing Education Curriculum of “Patient-

Physician Communication Teaching Skill” for Medical Teachers

Shih-Li Tsai1, Chi-Wei Yang1 1Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education, National Taiwan

University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University

Corresponding Author:

Shih-Li Tsai, MD, MS.

Department of Medical Education,

National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine

National Taiwan University

7 Chung-Shan South Road,

Taipei City, Taiwan 100

Tel: 886-2-23123456 ext 61426

Fax: 886-2-23710615

Email: [email protected]

Abstract

Aim Patient-physician communication is an essential core clinical competency that is indispensable to medical education. Literature reviews suggest that an integrated design is the best way to develop this curriculum. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of a pilot integrated curriculum for continuing education of medical teachers teaching skill of patient-physician communication. Methods A four-hour continuing education curriculum was developed taking into consideration the local cultures. Eighty-nine medical teachers from internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, and emergency medicine departments were invited to participate in this curriculum in August 2013. During the four-hour curriculum, five video clips were shown followed by small group discussion, role-play, video replay and feedback. Every participant completed a questionnaire before and after the curriculum and that questionnaire was to evaluate teacher’s perspectives of the importance and confidence of patient-physician communication teaching skill.

Xin Xin GIC1412111

SUDDEN CHANGES IN VOLATILITY IN CHINESE STOCK

MARKET

XinXin Jiao

Department of Economics Pusan National University

Pusan, Korea [email protected]

Seong-Min Yoon Department of Economics Pusan National University

Pusan, KoreaCity [email protected]

Abstract

This study analyzed the return series of Chinese stock market by using GARCH model without sudden changes and re-examined the impact of sudden changes in volatility persistence in Chinese stock market by using GARCH model with sudden changes. We detected sudden changes in volatility by using the iterated cumulative sums of squares (ICSS) algorithm. Our findings indicated that the investor psychology was still green in Chinese stock market and the Chinese stock market still had high speculation and risk. In addition, we also found that the ignorance of sudden changes in volatility would overestimate volatility persistence in stock markets. Index Terms: Sudden changes, volatility persistence, ICSS algorithm, GARCH model, Dummy Variable.

Tanawin GIC1412112

“Statelessness of the Rohingya: Fleeing Persecution from Burma to

Human Trafficking in Thailand”

Tanawin Kosaidilok

ASEAN Studies Program, Pridi Branomyong International College, Thammasat University

Bangkok, Thailand

Abstract

The Rohingya people are one of the most persecuted ethnic minorities in Burma. Their political persecution and systematic discrimination supported by the state, forced them to migrate from their homeland. The perilous journey of the Rohingya is uncertain and in many cases they become victims of the human trafficking network in Thailand. However, Thailand does not distinguish between economic migrants and those who seek for political refuge, so the situation for the Rohingya is ‘escaping the tiger to the crocodile’. Thailand has been active to combat human trafficking, but for the Rohingya, exploitation of this particular group is still unaddressed. At the moment, government policies on the Rohingya are unclear and are solved on an “Ad Hoc” basis.

Schedule for January 3, 2015

Coffee Break: 10:30 – 11:00 am

Key-note Address 2: 11:00 – 11:30 am

Photo Session: 11:30 – 12:00 noon


Lunch Break: 1:30 pm -2:30 pm


Coffee Break: 3:30 – 3:45 pm

Certificate Distribution: 5:00 – 5:30 pm

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