International Conference on
Social and Management Sciences; Theoretical and Practical Approaches
(SMSTPA-2017)
 
Date: December 15-16, 2017
Abstract Submission Date: November 30, 2017
Full Paper Submission Date: December 05, 2017
Early Bird Discount Date: August 30, 2017
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Venue: Hotel Grand Pacific Singapore
Submit Manuscript to: smsstpa@gissf.com

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Conference Theme: “Highlighting the Socio-economic and Socio-cultural Implications of Social Science Development”

CALL FOR PAPERS

GISSF Research Wing announce the international conference on “Social and Management Sciences; Theoretical and Practical Approaches”. This forum is established to discuss the issues of multidisciplinary field collaboration with business and economics emerging trends. We invite the scholars /scientists / engineers/ researchers / practitioners / students to join with us and share the new innovative trends in their respective field. This common platform is expected to provide the bases for joint venture among different fields to serve the society in a better way.
TO SUBMIT A PAPER:
1. Read through the track calls below and select the track which is closest to the topic of your paper. If you cannot decide that which track is suitable for your research topic, you can email the corresponding person with your title and a draft of your manuscript, for advice on smsstpa@gissf.com
2. Authors must submit papers electronically through the conference system by using online submission form or you can send it via email to smsstpa@gissf.com
3. All papers must follow the paper submission guidelines
All submitted abstracts/ papers / posters will go through a blind peer review process and accepted manuscripts will be published in conference proceedings. Conference proceeding will be submitted to ISI Thomson Reuters Web of Science for consideration and indexation.
Selected conference papers will be published in special / Scopus indexed journals associated with this conference. Associated journals will allocate a special / regular issue for papers submitted to this conference.
Invitation for Reviewers & Session Chairs in all fields
Voluntary participation as a reviewer and session chair will be acknowledged through a certificate by GISSF Wing.

GISSF Conference scope covers, but not limited to, the following topics:
Main Tracks of the conferences:

  • Track1: Social and Community Studies
  • Track2: Arts
  • Track 3: Humanities
  • Track 4: Civic and Political Studies
  • Track 5: Cultural & Global Studies
  • Track 6: Environmental Studies
  • Track 7: Organizational Studies
  • Track 8: Educational and Communication Studies
  • Track 9: Economics, Finance & Accounting
  • Track 10: Business and Management Studies
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    SUBMISSIONS FOR DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM ARE OPEN

    In the practice of SMSTPA 2017, the Doctoral Colloquium will take place during the main conference. The colloquium is for doctoral students seeking careers as researchers in public, private and academic organizations with research interests in multiple areas of research.
    The aims of the SMSTPA 2017 Doctoral Colloquium are:

    • To develop and sustain a network of young scholars conducting high quality research.
    • To support the upcoming generation of researchers by addressing issues relevant to the advancement of a research career
    • To allow Students to discuss their research with leading specialists, scholars and peers in an international setting.
    • To discuss the issues faced by students during their dissertation progress with the senior scholars across different fields and countries

    The Doctoral Colloquium will Cover 4 major aspects. The first aspect will focus on introductions, networking and general mentoring. The second aspect will be based on group and individual research feedback sessions. The third aspect will be a colloquium poster session, providing students the opportunity to learn about one another’s research and prepare for the conference-wide poster session in which they will also participate. The fourth aspect is a question answer session between the students and professors to seek solutions for the student research issues.
    Eligibility Criteria:
    As the purpose of this colloquium is to support Students with their dissertation research, only Doctoral and Masters students who have not yet defended their dissertation are able to apply. Accepted colloquium participants must register for the main conference at the student rate. If student has already registered as a presenter or attendee, the entrance to student colloquium is free of charge. however the student has to confirm his/her appointment by sending email to smsstpa@gissf.com for participation in the colloquium.

    CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS

    Important Information:
    1. Please submit your panel proposal to smsstpa@gissf.com
    2. Panels will generally be 1 hour in duration. Time should be included for audience participation.
    3. All participants must be registered for the overall SMSTPA-2017 conference.
    4. Please use the contents below for your panel proposal.
    5. In case of further clarification or any assistance required before completing the proposal you can email at smsstpa@gissf.com
    At least the moderator and two other panelists must be registered for the conference, so work on the schedule and proceedings can begin.
    SMSTPA 2017, Panel Proposal must include the following information:
    1. Title: Title of your panel
    2. Aims and Objectives of the Panel: Explain why such a panel is relevant to SMSTPA and to the Theme of SMSTPA. (Max 5-10 lines)
    3. Occurrence/Novelty: Please describe either past instances or the novelty of new ventures here. (Max 10 lines)
    4. Description: Use this to clarify scope, audience and focus. Give aims and objectives for your panel here. This will become the “abstract” for the proceedings and program. (Max 20-25 lines)
    5. Event Structure/Agenda: Describe what organizers and participants will do during the panel. E.g., will there be a series of fixed presentations and then discussion, and/or will the moderator ask questions to which first the panelists and then the audience may respond. What are the main questions you would ask? (Max 20 lines).
    6. Panel Members: List all names, affiliations, and emails of all anticipated panel participants, and state if they have accepted the invitation to participate should the panel be accepted. Include the moderator/organizer.
    7. Qualifications of panelists: Briefly describe your and your fellow panelists’ backgrounds and qualifications/ areas of expertise in the related research/practitioner domain.

    CALL FOR POSTERS

    The SMSTPA 2017 poster session will provide an opportunity for authors to interact informally with conference attendees, using a standard-size poster as a visual aid. Presenting a poster is also a good way to discuss and receive feedback on a work in progress that has not been fully developed into a paper. To facilitate this interaction, the SMSTPA 2017 poster session will be held in conference common areas, where attention of the participants is expected to be high.
    Poster proposal should be submitted consisting of an extended abstract, with a maximum of 250-300 words describing the research that would be the topic of the poster for presentation and discussion. You might include a small version of a figure or two that would be in the poster, such as a screen shot of a system you will be describing. Posters are submitted to a the conference. If your poster proposal is accepted, you will be notified and then you can prepare the actual poster which should be maximum of 45″x 60″.

    CALL FOR SESSION MODERATORS

    we invite scholars to become session moderators in the following tracks:

    • Social and Community Studies
    • Arts
    • Humanities
    • Civic and Political Studies
    • Cultural & Global Studies
  • Environmental Studies
  • Organizational Studies
  • Educational and Communication Studies
  • Economics, Finance & Accounting
  • Business and Management Studies
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    All interested scholars should send their consent to smsstpa@gissf.com by mentioning their area of interest. For this voluntary service, all session moderators will be awarded a certificate of appreciation by the SMSTPA 2017 secretariat.

    GUIDELINES FOR SESSION CHAIRS

    In this International Conference “Social and Management Sciences; Theoretical and Practical Approaches” several sessions will be held based on different themes and areas of interest.

    • Session chairs are requested to kindly check the Schedule of conference.
    • Check the date, room and time of the sessions that they are chairing.
    • Main task of session chair is to motivate the presenter/researcher to share his/her knowledge on the particular topic and also make conducive environment so the participants may have an intellectual discussion on the subject.
    • Session chair can share his/her own knowledge, research, experience, observations very briefly if time permits.
    • Please ensure your availability at assigned room at least 5-10 minutes prior to the beginning of session. This will help you to acquaint with the working of Laptop and multimedia etc. Please contact the control room, in case of any problem.
    • Please choose your seat in front row, so participant may see and interact with you easily.
    • Please introduce yourself and greet the participants of session.
    • Make attendance of presenters of your session to ensure their presence in the room.
    • Make an announcement regarding the allocation of time to each presenter. Time for each presentation is of 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes of Question & Answer session. However, session chair may extend the time of presentation keeping in view the allotted time for session.
    • Session chair is responsible for session to be completed on time.
    • Before inviting presenter(s), announce their full name(s) and the title of the paper.
    • Best session paper has already been decided by our distinguished reviewers and his/her name will be conveyed to you, you will announce this at the end of session and present a certificate to researcher.
    • You will have to decide “Best Presenter of Session” by filling in the evaluation form provided to you and certificate will be awarded in the closing ceremony.
    • At the end of session, distribute the certificates of presentation, convey expression of thanks on your personal and GISSF behalf to the presenters and the participants.
    • In case of any sort of confusion, please contact conference chair or management of GISSF.

    CALL FOR REVIEWERS

    we invite scholars to become Reviewers in the following tracks:

    • Social and Community Studies
    • Arts
    • Humanities
    • Civic and Political Studies
    • Cultural & Global Studies
  • Environmental Studies
  • Organizational Studies
  • Educational and Communication Studies
  • Economics, Finance & Accounting
  • Business and Management Studies
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    All interested scholars should send their consent to smsstpa@gissf.com by mentioning their area of interest. For this voluntary service, all reviewers will be awarded a certificate of appreciation by the SMSTPA 2017 secretariat.

    PLAGIARISM POLICY

    According to plagiarism policy of SMSTPA-2017 all full papers considered for proceeding publication will go through plagiarism check using “TURNITIN” software and acceptable level of similarity index is 20%. Irrespective of initial abstract acceptance, full papers with more than 20% similarity indexed will not be published in online full paper proceeding. All authors are deemed to be individually and collectively responsible for the content of papers published by SMSTPA-2017. Hence, it is the responsibility of each author to ensure that papers submitted to SMSTPA-2017 should comply with the ethical standards with respect to plagiarism.

    SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

    • 1. Language English is the official language of the conference; the paper should be written and presented only in English.
    • 2. Presentation & Publication (Full paper) Full paper is requested, if you are also considering publishing your paper.
    • 3. Oral Presentation Only (Abstract) If you just want to make an oral presentation without paper publication, then you can only submit an abstract.
    • 4. Academic Ethics Articles submitted to the conference should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We firmly believe that ethical conduct is the most essential virtual of any academic. Hence any act of plagiarism is a totally unacceptable academic misconduct and cannot be accepted.
    • 5. Formatting and Paper Length Limitation

    Click on the following links for paper template.
    The conference welcome papers on the following research topics but not limited to:
    Track1: Social and Community Studies
    Sociology: concepts and practices, Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows, what are the behavioral sciences, Psychology of the social. Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice, Economics as social science, Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony, Philosophy’s place in the social sciences, Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice, Health in community, Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences, Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences, Social sciences for the professions, Social sciences for social welfare, Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion, Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence, Social sciences addressing social crisis points, Technologies in and for the social Economics, politics and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards, Commonalities, differences and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions, Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’, The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health
    Track2: Arts
    Teaching and Learning the Arts, Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy, Arts Theory and Criticism, Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, Visual Arts Practices, Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music, Literary Arts Practices, Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media, Other Arts
    Track 3: Humanities
    Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication, Aesthetics, Design, Language, Linguistics, Knowledge, Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness, History, Historiography, Literature/Literary Studies, Political Science, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Globalisation, Ethnicity, Difference, Identity, Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation, First Nations and Indigenous Peoples, Sexuality, Gender, Families, Religion, Spirituality, Cyberspace, Technology, Science, Environment and the Humanities, Other Humanities
    Track 4: Civic and Political Studies
    Political science as disciplinary practice, Investigating public policy, Law as a social science, Criminology as social science, Public health, Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards, Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics, Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation and inclusion, Trust, social capital, social cohesion and social welfare, Politics in, and of, the social sciences, Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship and nationality, Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti-terror, The neo-liberal state and its critics, Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness
    Track 5: Cultural & Global Studies
    Cultual studies are of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts; Of human life courses: family, childhood, youth, parenting and aging; Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology, Ethnographic methods, Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text, Cultural studies as a constitutive field, Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism, Where humanities and social sciences meet, Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological, Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences, Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic, Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism, Religion and the human sciences, Health, wellbeing and culture, Global flows, Global security, Human movement: migration, refugees, undocumented migrants, The dynamics of globalization, diaspora and diversity, Globalized economics: inequalities, development, ‘free’ and ‘fair’ trade, Developed and developing worlds, Inequalities in international perspective, Poverty and global justice, Human rights in global perspective, The local and the global
    Track 6: Environmental Studies
    The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies, Human environments, Sustainability as a focus of interdisciplinary study, What are applied sciences?, Health and the environment, People, place and time: human demography, Environmental governance: consumption, waste, economic ‘externalities’, sustainability, environmental equity, Human interests in the natural sciences: the politics of the environment
    Track 7: Organizational Studies
    Management as social science, Culture in organizations, Technology and work, The social dynamics of organizations, Human resource management, Workers’ rights, Corporate governance, Organizational and social sustainability, Corporate social responsibility, Knowledge ecologies: embedded knowledge in the organizational setting, Tacit and explicit knowledge, Private and public knowledge, Scenario building and futures forecasting, Organizational change
    Track 8: Educational and Communication Studies
    Education as a social science, The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor, Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science, Teaching and learning the social studies, History teaching and learning, Economics teaching and learning, Geography teaching and learning, Technology in learning and learning about technology, Communication Media studies as social science, Communications as a social science, Information and communications technologies, the social web: the internet in its social context, Human-computer interactions, Literacies as a social learning experience
    Track 9: Economics, Finance & Accounting
    Financial Accounting, management accounting, auditing tax accounting, Accounting information systems Islamic Finance, Financial Markets, Money and Capital Markets, International Finance, Derivatives & Foreign Exchange Rates, Islamic Banking, Portfolio & Funds management, Behavioral finance, International Economics, Public Finance (GST & Taxes), Monetary Economics, Sectorial Studies, Macroeconomic Issues
    Track 10: Business and Management Studies
    International Business, Globalization, International Law, Management in Multicultural Society, International Market Entry, Cross Cultural Management, Business Models, Organizational Studies Organization Behavior, Organization Theory & Design, Organization Development, Organization Culture and Values, Operations & Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Sourcing, Logistics management, Supply chain strategy, Project Management, Human Resource Management, Training & Development, Conflict Resolution, Global and Multicultural Issues, Strategic HR Management, Recruiting and Staffing, Marketing Management, Hospitality and Tourism, Advertising, Promotion & Marketing Communication, Branding & Positioning, Consumer Behavior, Innovation & New Product Development, International and Cross-Cultural Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM),Pricing, Public Relation, Retailing and Sales Management, Marketing Technology, Modeling and forecasting, Neuro-marketing, Social Responsibility, Ethics and Consumer Protection, Sports Marketing, Social Entrepreneurship and SME Management, New Business Models, Agri- Business, SME challenges & Issues, SME & Globalization, Entrepreneurial Marketing, Entrepreneurial Education, Technology Management Management Information System, Enterprise Resource Planning, Innovation & Creativity, E-Commerce & E-biz, Global Technology Transfer, Research & Operations, Education Technology Strategic Management, Small – Medium size Firms in Crisis, Social Issues in Management, Collaboration and Strategic Alliances
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    Keynote Speakers

    Dr Rael Futerman is a Programme Manager at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at the University of Cape Town South Africa.
    Dr Rael Futerman had done his specialization in Industrial Design, Participatory Design and Design-led Innovation. As a Design Thinking educator, his interest is in developing context-relevant programmes that support experiential learning among multi-disciplinary student and industry groups. His area of interest include the development of contextual models of design thinking practice, entrepreneurship development and discovery-driven innovation.
    Rael has worked as an educator and Programme Manager within the Industrial Design department of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), and a consultant and researcher in the academic and corporate sectors. His education includes a Masters in Technology with a focus on geron technology, and a Doctorate of Technology with a focus on Participatory Design, both from CPUT. As part of his academic research he has worked with a range of communities, both nationally and internationally, in the code sign of context responsive design methods and outputs. A key area of interest that has emerged is the development of Activity Theory informed systems mapping within design practice.
    His key note speech at ICMRP-2015 will be an insightful address for the audiance and participating scholars.

    BEST PAPERS NOMINEE LIST

    SMSSTPA 2017 Best Paper Award Winner

    Paper ID: SMSTPA-17-108
    Forecasting International Tourist Arrivals to Sri Lanka using Sarima Approach
    S.C.Thushara; Jen-Je Su, Jay Bandaralage
    Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD Australia



    Best Papers Nominee List

    Paper ID: SMSTPA-17-108
    Forecasting International Tourist Arrivals to Sri Lanka using Sarima Approach
    S.C.Thushara; Jen-Je Su, Jay Bandaralage
    Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD Australia

    Paper ID: ICMRP-17-108
    The Mh370 Incident and Malaysia-China Bilateral Relations: A Comparative Analysis of Newspapers in Malaysia and China
    Yang Lai Fong
    Taylor’s University, Malaysia

    Paper ID: SMSTPA-17-113
    E-Government Divide in the Republic of Mauritius
    Chintamanee Sanmukhiya
    Modern College, Central Flacq, Mauritius

    Paper ID: SMSTPA-17-115
    What Is The Problem Represented to be (Wpr): A Research Methodology for the Analysis on Australian Skilled Migration Policy
    Hock Thye Chan
    University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

    Paper ID: ICMRP-17-132
    Creating a Web-Based 3D Virtual Patient Scenario for Communication Skills Practice
    Baris Sezer, Mohan Zalake, Andrew Cordar, Samsun Lampotang, Benjamin Lok
    University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

    Paper ID: ICMRP-17-172
    Monitoring System for Abnormality of Electronic Devices using Deep Learning
    J. K. Lee, B. J. Kim, S. J . Lee
    Soongsil University, Korea

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    SMSTPA Proceeding
    Volume 1, Pages 1-103
    International Conference on “Social and Management Sciences; Theoretical and Practical Approaches” (SMSTPA 2017)
    December 15-16, 2017 Singapore
    Edited by Dr. Ahmed Saddam

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    Preface of proceeding

    Track: Business Management & Economic Studies

    Toward Start up Model for Green Care Business in Korea

    2

    Pages 1-5
    Youngdo Shim, Hyeim Ahn, Dae-Koo Kang

    Abstract
    In Korea, requiring good results first climate in business have given positive or negative side effects as health problems. Culture as applauding a success or blaming a failure about their work may be good for supporting their eager to win, but it will be very bad pressure in some cases as they don‟t like it. And care for business peoples or their family will be going to enlarge new business market for exhausted people needs. The purpose of this study was to suppose the green care startup business model in Korea. For the study, it was followed by interviews or visiting the company, corporation and villages where care programs was operated using agricultural resource or environment as animal, plants, forest resources, natural scenery. For the research, previous site visit and interview with manager or worker in 49 green care business cases was followed after 2016 or 2017, and we selected 10 cases for more deeply investigation. Based on 10 companies with interview form (type, size, main facilities, recipients of care, program contents, annual turnover, goal and vision etc), each business information was gathered by interviews and mails. Based on the reviews on the business data and discussion with researchers, green care startup models proposed two basic type as green care surrounding based business and green care expert based business. And all basic type has some varieties in views of each other factors combination focus. Along with basic models, some implementation as startup process and main revenue source was composed by models.

    Consumer behavior for Retirement Planning in Thailand

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    Pages 6-12
    Ongcaruttiya Kittichotwattana , Rudsada Kaewsaeng-on , Mohamed Pirani
    Bahaudin G. Mujtaba

    Abstract

    The study explored retirement planning in Thailand, especially how consumer behavior in relation to potential purchase of retirement pension plans becomes imperative. The research used a questionnaire to collect data from 502 respondents (age between 25 to 55 years). They were chosen by using convenience non-probability sampling method. The data was analyzed using SPSS (hypothesis testing and multiple regression models). The research uncovered that „there is a lack of knowledge and preparation for retirement‟, and that „perceived risk‟ is the only factor that influences consumer „retirement pensions‟ buying behavior. Therefore, the findings are important for policy makers and those selling retirement financial products. For the Government, there is a need to educate people about retirement pension‟s provisions and available options; while from the financial industry point-of-view, there is need to design appropriate products to suit the different needs of the population.


    Forecasting International Tourist Arrivals To Sri Lanka Using Sarima Approach

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    Pages 13-23
    S.C.Thushara, Jen-Je Su, Jay Bandaralage

    Abstract

    Sri Lanka is one of the popular ‘sun and sea’ tourism destinations in Asia that attracts tourists from all regions of the world. The tourism industry in Sri Lanka is a major economic activity and hence provides many economic benefits in terms of contribution to GDP, foreign exchange, employment and the indirect effect on other industries. Sri Lanka is currently experiencing a tourism boom as a result of the end of political violence and nearly three-decade long war in 2009. Tourism has now become a driving force of post-war economic development and Sri Lanka has even developed a Tourism Development Strategy for 2011-2016 by recognising the role it can play in post-war economic development. Over the years, the world tourism industry has changed in terms of trends, patterns and structure of origin and destination countries. UNWTO predicts that international tourist arrivals will grow by 43 million annually until 2030and the Asia Pacific region is predicted to get the most of the share of the new arrivals. This creates new opportunities and challenges for the countries which depend on the tourism such as Sri Lanka. To gain the maximum benefit from this growing industry, appropriate policy decisions, infrastructure development and conducive business environment need to be developed. To that end, accurate forecasting of the international arrivals is vital. Consequently, the main purpose of this paper is to identify a forecasting model that best fits the international tourist flow patterns in Sri Lanka using SARIMA approach. Monthly tourist arrival data from January 1984 to June 2016 is used as the training sample to identify the best forecasting model and the arrival data from July 2016 to June 2017 is used to evaluate the forecasting accuracy of the selected model. ARIMA (2,1,2)(1,0,2)12 model was selected as the best model to forecast international tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka. The findings of this study will be useful for government agencies involved in tourism planning and promotion, and the private establishments in the industry.


    Track: Social Sciences and Humanities

    THE MH370 Incident and Malaysia-China Bilateral Relations: A Comparative Analysis of Newspapers IN Malaysia and China

    2

    Pages 24-35
    Yang Lai Fong

    Abstract
    China has become a major global power at the turn of the 21st century with its multidimensional growth ranging from economic, military, education, scientific to technological. Intellectuals from a variety of backgrounds emphasize that the rise of China will inevitably change the structure of world politics and the global economy. These changes are especially relevant to Malaysia – China is Malaysia’s biggest trading partner. Malaysia, on the other hand, is China’s third-biggest trading partner in Asia and the biggest trading partner among all the countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In light of the events surrounding the missing flight MH370, the critical importance of studying media representations across Malaysia and China has become all the more essential to understand the role of media in bilateral relations. Based on a comparative content analysis, this paper investigated the framing of the MH370 incident as well as Malaysia-China bilateral relations by mainstream Malay-, English- and Chinese-language newspapers in Malaysia as well as by mainstream Chinese-language newspapers in China. The findings indicated that the newspapers reported with different intensity and prominence, while relying on different news sources. The two salient frames found in this study were ―search and rescue operation‖ as well as ―friendship, ties and understanding‖. The coverage of the newspapers was also dominated by positive valence towards Malaysia-China bilateral relations. By employing framing theory as the theoretical framework, this study thrusts current and future research into the complex dialectic between mass communication and international relations (and, specifically, diplomacy). By locating media framing processes within the wider political, social and economic contexts, the study also addresses the paucity of framing research that deals with issues of power and ideology. In order to investigate the impact of news frames on people’s perception of an issue, it would be interesting to juxtapose the findings of this study with public opinion data to measure public perceptions towards Malaysia-China relations.

    Indigenous Measurement Tools and Means Used by Agta of Lupigue, Ilagan City, Isabela, Philippines

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    Pages 36-42
    Martin Aldwin M, Odanga Lea T

    Abstract
    This ethnographic study identified and described the Indigenous measurement tools and means used by Agta of Sierra Madre in Lupigue , Ilagan City, Isabela, Philippines. The researchers being observers obtained data in natural setting using interview, documentary, analysis, observation and immersion. The Barangay officials and the elders of the community served as the main informants as to their Indigenous measurement tools and means used by Agta. A review of documentary materials and readings was done to enrich the researcher‟s knowledge of cultures, systems and practices of the respondents. Indeed the result of the said research with regards to the indigenous measurement tools is simple and anchored on their physical attributes based on their immediate needs for survival. Interviews also revealed that aside from the dangan, piye, dippa, dapan, tikken, addang, gappa and akup is also part of Indigenous measurement tools. The agta have evidently demonstrated a strong sense of ownership and pride for these indigenous measuring tools due their time – tested effectiveness and sustainability. It is highly recommended that the aforementioned practices be shared and passed on, thus paving the way to the regeneration of Indigenous measurement tools.


    The Future of Learning in Emerging Creative Economies

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    Pages 43-49
    Rael Futerman

    Abstract
    Given the fourth industrial revolution‟s rapid pace of change and technology‟s exponential growth, people need to learn how to become more adaptable and resilient in this unpredictable marketplace. This often means exploring new avenues for growth and developing new learning pathways. Rapid change brings “complexity, discontinuity, conflict, resistance and difference”, a state of change and ambiguity which requires a paradigm shift to thinking in new ways about change that necessitates flexibility and fluidity, and an acceptance that confusion is a normal state of events (Welge, M & Holtbrügge, D. 1999). Increasingly the skills needed for this time of change is essentially „human‟, that is, emotional intelligence, creativity, critical thinking and cognitive flexibility. This is particularly important when higher education institutions are training students for jobs that might not yet exist or that might have changed or become redundant by the time they graduate.
    This paper presents an outline of several programmes initiated at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at the University of Cape Town (d-school). The aim of these programmes is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of interdisciplinary study at a tertiary institution that operates in a highly complex, multicultural and evolving context. Design thinking, an innovative , human-centric problem solving process, is being used very successfully as a cross-cutting, multidisciplinary academic programme that goes beyond traditional university practices. Graduates are more competent to enter emerging economies. We‟re living in a time of rapid transformation in terms of what‟s required for a country‟s workforce. According to the World Economic Forum five years from now, over one third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today‟s workforce will have changed”. Design thinking programmes that nurture both creativity and critical thinking around complex challenges offer students an opportunity to develop core skills for the workplace of the fourth industrial revolution.

    Does Conspicuous Leisure Consumption Increase Leisure Satisfaction of Mountain Climbers?

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    Pages 50-52
    Sunhwan,Hwang, Cho. Heetae, Kang Hyoung-Kil

    Abstract
    This paper addresses the associations between conspicuous leisure consumption, recreation specialization, and leisure satisfaction among Korean mountain climbers. The data were collected from 443 mountain climbers. Data analysis was conducted using K-means cluster analysis, one-way ANOVA, and two-way ANOVA. The results of this study were that when the level of recreation specialization increased, the propensity of conspicuous leisure consumption also increased. In addition, conspicuous leisure consumption does not show the positive association with leisure satisfaction. Theoretical and practical implications are provided in the discussion section.


    Curriculum Development on the Green Care Experts Development in Korea

    2

    Pages 53-60
    Hyojin, Lee, Dae-Koo Kang

    Abstract

     In Korea, rapid industrialization would give many effects in good sides or bad sides. In rural sides, peoples moving toward cities gave population deficiency and community shrink, and peoples moving would be required more jobs, houses, conveniences ever in cities. In 1997, financial crisis made each business searching benefit and survival in business. For the survival in business, each business requires their employees to produce more profits as productivity enlarging, long time work, sacrifice his/her life for company works. So it gave more burdens to any employee. Specially, in newcomer employment diminishing condition, employee didn‟t want leave their jobs, any company‟s requirement almost accepted. So these surrounding may be give much pressure to escape. In this point, green care business will be started. Green care means to use agriculture and rural resources and surrounding for caring unprivileged peoples. So training for green care experts will be long time and more specialized. For making training systems, first of all, we should select more needy contents.
    For the curriculum development, we developed job model for green care experts by 21 experts composed of researchers, green care business workers or managers, vocational education experts, green care contents experts. Through literature review and visit and interview with some managers or some experts, we proposed 9 category and 62 subcategory model. Through three staged Delphi methods, we finally made new model composed of 7category and 50subcategory. So we recommend the competency including in curriculum.


    Green Care Competency Needs of Rural Extension Agents in Korea

    2

    Pages 61-68
    Lee, Seunghee, Dae-Koo Kang

    Abstract
    In Korea, It was main goal for rural extension agents to teach and counsel more good foods producing or benefits for farmers. Recently farmers tried to change their farming systems along with customer need change. Because of low family number and rapid business surrounding change, „eat alone‟, „drink alone‟ is main trend in city-life. So it affects their life negatively by competitive surrounding. Eat alone without comfortable family or friend may give only full stomach without satisfaction and relief, so many workers in office want to take a break. But they don‟t have rest, they should be burned out. Many people visited to take a break in rural during their vacation season. So it is new market opportunity for farmer and rural peoples to give a rest in rural surroundings. But this business has new and old fashioned in many focus. So green care business start -up maybe need to training for farmer and rural peoples. Rural extension agents will be good helper for farmer to start a green care business. But it is critical to know their level about green care activities and business for whether it is possible or not. 400 rural extension agents in Korea were sampled by the two staged stratified sampling methods. And educational needs questionnaire was developed by researchers through green care related literature reviews. Finally returned 290 questionnaires analyzed by t-test, Borich‟s educational needs formula. All 26 items had significance difference in t-test between present competence level and ideal level. It was very high gap in green care program developing and planning proposal making along with client, professional development competency as green care experts, green care resource finding along with client characteristic and needs, green care program contents composition with care resource mixing, change measuring and effect testing of care program attendee.


    E-Government Divide in the Republic of Mauritius

    2

    Pages 69-81
    Chintamanee Sanmukhiya

    Abstract
    This study is the first attempt to address the effects of demographic factors on e-government divide in the Republic of Mauritius. Findings would encourage wider e-participation and e-inclusion into policy making from all segments of the population. A stratified random sample of 310 users and non-users of e-government was used. A logistic regression was estimated. The non-significant Hosmer-Lemeshow test and the Nagelkerke R2 of 0.538 imply that the logit model is useful in predicting e-government divide. The classification table shows 81% correct classification. All Wald Chi-Square statistics are reported. This research reveals that marital status and gender do not predict e-government divide. Age (p<0.01), education (p<0.001), middle income range (p<0.05), dwellership (p<0.01) and public sector employment (p<0.05) affect a citizen‟s decision to adopt e-government. The massive investments in e-government initiatives cannot be justified as these have not catered for universal coverage. Young citizens are at most 20 times more likely than old citizens to adopt e-government. The tendency to use e-government increases as more education is acquired. Rural dwellership almost triples the odds of e-government adoption although these citizens are less educated than their urban counterparts. Public sector employees are 3.6 times more likely to use government websites than the self-employed. Monthly income earners of Rs 20001 to Rs 35000 are 3.3 times more likely to use e-government services than those earning up to Rs 10000. This study challenges the belief that rural dwellers are marginalised and reinforces the importance of education within the theoretical framework of e-government divide.


    Track: Engineering and Technology Studies

    Development of Dynamic Simulation Modelling of Power Converters for OWC Wave Power Generation System

    2

    Pages 82-88
    Jaehyuck Kim

    Abstract

    The oscillating water column (OWC) wave power generation system consists of an OWC chamber, a turbine, a generator, and a power converter. The power converter controls the generator to convert the kinetic energy of an irregularly varying wave to electric energy. The power converter comprises a rectifier that converts the three-phase AC voltage, which is the output of the generator, into DC, and an inverter that converts the three-phase AC voltage into an AC voltage of a frequency and magnitude required by the grid. In this paper, we present a topology of a power converter for an OWC wave power generation system and simulate the mathematical modeling of a permanent magnet synchronous generator and power converter for a wave power generation system to the operation characteristics of the power converter.


    Using Attenuation Coefficient to Solve the Grounding Resistance Estimation of Human Body in the Special Cases

    2

    Pages 89-98
    Jeu-Min Lin, Zhao-Xiong Wang

    Abstract

    It is dangerous when human are working in and around the high voltage environments. The safety of personnel in and around electric power the installations has been a prime concern. Specifically, this safety is generally in terms of the allowable touch and step voltages. These voltages are related to the ground resistance of human foot. In order to increase the safety of personnel, a high resistivity surface layer of gravel is normally existed in the substation switchyards or other high voltage areas. The thickness of this layer will affect the calculation of the ground resistance of human foot. Among them, the electromagnetic field and humidity factors are also considered in this paper. As a result, the surface layer of gravel can be used to reduce the grounding resistance of human foot. The equivalent model of human foot was modeled by the circular plate conductor in the past. Which consider the beauty of the environment, most of the transmission lines are in the surface, so the transmission line generated by the discrete current will affect the grounding resistance estimation, so this paper will consider the composition of the Maxwell equations. On the other hand, the damp ingredients and temperatures on the surface will also be considered in this paper. This paper investigates the present methods for estimating the ground resistance of human foot and proposes an equivalent model for calculating the grounding resistance of human foot. A comparison of the proposed model and present methods is also shown in this paper.


    Track: Health and Medicine Studies

    Creating a Web-Based 3D Virtual Patient Scenario for Communication Skills Practice

    2

    Pages 99-103
    Baris Sezer, Mohan Zalake, Andrew Cordar, Benjamin Lok, 5Samsun Lampotang

    Abstract
    Using Virtual People Factory (VPF – http://vpf2.cise.ufl.edu), developed by University of Florida – Virtual Experiences Research Group, we created an interview with a 3D Virtual Patient (VP) suspected of migraine. VPF is free software that enables content-area experts (e.g. educators and end-users) to rapidly create virtual conversations. VPF allows us to capture a dialogue between a human user and a VP. We used the following steps to create the interview. 1) Using VPF, we created a corpus of questions (questions/statements posed to the VP) and corresponding responses from the VP. When a learner interacts with the VP, the learner‟s input is matched against all the questions in the corpus, and the closest match is found. The corresponding response for the identified match is displayed as the response from the VP. 2) The conversational content (121 questions, 47 responses in total) was prepared in stages (Greeting, History of Present Illness, Medical History, Social History, Family History and Closing). The important questions on each stage were marked as important discoveries (13 important discoveries in total). 3) All the VP‟s responses were recorded via a microphone to .wav sound files. 4) We used a 3D character provided by Adobe Fuse. Patient information, goals, scope and stages were defined on VPF. VPs can help health profession students learn affective skills by providing a safe environment. VPs, who are programmed, always give the same reactions, do not forget lines, provide consistent feedback, can simulate and present any role or characteristic, and are ready anytime for use and for repetitive practice. The scenario was prepared using these four steps above and was prepared in Turkish. Once the conversational content has been created for a VP using VPF, it can be used anywhere through a simple http (web) call.


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    Pusat Pengajian Perniagaan dan Pengurusan Maritim Universiti, Malaysia
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    University of Kuopio, Finland
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    Regional Manager Peregrine Academic Services and Leadership Institute, South Africa
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    Faculty of Business & Economics Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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    University of hassiba ben bouali de chlef, Algeria
    Poorna Prabhat Sunkara
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    Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Melaka,
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    Omar Kairan
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    The British International School of Northern, and the British International School of Krabi, Thailand
    Kelvin LO M. F. (Dr.)
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    Osmanbey Kampusu, Egitim Fakultesi Turkey
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    LPU, Jalandhar, Punjab -India
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    Sharda University, India
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    Jawaharlal Nehru University , India
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    Faculty of Media Sciences SZABIST, Islamabad. Pakistan
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    Pokok Sena Science Secondary School, Malaysia
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    School of Computer Application, Lovely Professional University
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    Lovely Professional University , Punjab (India)
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    Faculty of Management, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
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    Assistant Professor of Philippine Merchant Marine Academy
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    University of Petroșani, Romania
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    Bennett University, India.
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    Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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    Jagran School of Law, Selaqui, India

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    Manav Rachna University, India

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    Universite Kasdi Merbah Ouargla, Algeria

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