Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 001
Time: 09:00 – 10:55
Chair: Richard Johnston, Harvard University, USA.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Opening: Multidisciplinary Issues I
Welcome Note
Joseph Bonnici
IJAS Conference Coordinator
Central Connecticut State University, USA
Promoting cultural proficiency through reflective assignments in study abroad
Ruth Benander and Deborah Page
University of Cincinnati, USA
Qualitative versus quantitative research: A scientific or philosophical debate?
Don Redmond
Mercer University, Atlanta, USA
Interdisciplinary professional cohabitation
Ove Sandell
Østfold University College NO-1757 Halden, Norway
Do epidemics hurt or help economic growth?
Eduardo Olaberria
Banco Central de Chile
On preference and literary study
Richard Johnston
Harvard University, USA
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 002
Time: 09:15 – 10:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Teaching and Education I
Academic "friendship": Gender considerations of students/faculty relationships on facebook
Irene Rabinovich and Francine Robinson
Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Negation in Turkish international corpus of learner English
Cem Can
Cukurova University, Turkey
Motivating the unmotivated: An everyday challenge
Ivana Vodogaz and Marijana Jurisic
University of Split, Croatia
Faculty and student perceptions of teaching creativity
Hüseyin Özçınar
Pamukkale University, Turkey
Conflict between the material and the method in EFL classes of Turkish primary schools
Hasan Bedir
Cukurova University, Turkey
How can a portfolio assessment develop English language teaching?
Ream Odetallah
Al Ain University, UAE
Impact of media education on students’ media analysis skills and media use habit
C.K. Cheung
University of Hong Kong, China
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 022
Time: 09:15 – 10:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Business and Economics I
The impact of corporate culture on bank services: The case of Bank Rakyat Indonesia
Djokosantoso Moeljono and Roberto Akyuwen
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, and Finance Education and Training Center Yogyakarta, Indonesia
The role in financial analysis in agricultural farms In Kosovo
Jehona Shkodra , Mujë Gjonbalaj ,Visar Beqiri and Iliriana Miftari
Universyty of Prishtina, Kosovo
Liberty or conformity in accounting valuation
Iulia Jianu, Ionel Jianu and Cristina Geambasu
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania
Intention in accounting - key to freedom of choice of valuation models
Ionel Jianu, Iulia Jianu, Cristina Venera Geambasu and Liviu Geambasu
Bucharest Titu Maiorescu University
Organizational communication for changing to autonomous university: A case study of Thaksin University
Chetsada Noknoi, Wannaporn Boripunt and Sutee Ngowsiri.
Thaksin University, Thailand
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 021
Time: 09:15 – 10:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Social Sciences and Humanities I
The role of the second architect on a significant building site
Estelle Alma Mare
Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Business interactions in the Austro-Hungarian cross-border regions
Anikó Tompos and Anna Garai
Széchenyi István University, Győr, HUNGARY
Healers vs. heroes: Tolstoy’s calculus of history as applied to medicine
Robert J. Bonk
Widener University, USA
Serra da Estrela – an approach to the territory, its potential and future for the winter tourism industry.
Raul Ressano Garcia
Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal
Into a cultural body: The concept of man in Darwin’s The Descent of Man
Theresa Der-lan Yeh and Chen Chin-Yen
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
The treaties diplomacy, a paradigmatic diagnosis of Romanian external policy post 89
Trandafir Miruna Madalina
University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 001
Time: 11:00 – 12:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Multidisciplinary Issues II
Innovative work integrated learning for law students
Deidre Joubert
Vaal University of Technology, South Africa
Critical mass in the formation of customary international law
William Thomas Worster
The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
The evaluation of latest developments in Turkish check law from civil and criminal points of view
Ibrahim Dulger and Cumhur Boyacioglu
Selcuk University, Turkey
AV telecomm course delivery experiences in an american law school - implications for pedagogy
Barbara J. Brunner
The Penn State Dickinson School of Law, USA
The impact of firm characteristics, industry types and financial ratios on SMEs utilization of tax incentives in Malaysia manufacturing sector
Nadiah Abd Hamid, Rohaya Md Noor, Mustaffa Mohamed Zain and Barjoyai Bardai
University Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Tax evasion as ignorance of social norms
Karlis Litaunieks
Riga Stradins University, Latvia
The idea of justice in Kurdish tribal societies: Reconsidering “Töre” as the ethos of tribe
Önder Güneş
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 002
Time: 11:00 – 12:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Social Sciences and Humanities II
Relationships between effectiveness of crisis management and leadership behaviors of general managers in Taiwan
Liang, T., Chao, Y. G., Chen, U. C. and Dend, H. G.
National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, R. O. C.
False negativity and false positivity of HCV-screening in blood donors, end stage renal disease on hemodialysis and HIV patients
Essam S . Badawy, Sayed M. Abdel Rahman and Mervat Shafik
Ain-Shams University, Egypt
The use of social media in politics: the case of the Turkey’s general political elections in 2011
Nurullah Terkan and Ömer Bakan
Selcuk University, Turkey
Turkish press’s representation form of demonstrations and protests
Banu Terkan and Abdulkadir Gölcü
Selcuk Universty, Turkey
Youth, media and politics: The role of media for getting political information by university students
Ayhan Selçuk, Emre Osman Olkun and Enes Bal
Selcuk University, Turkey
Sponsorship applications of GSM network operators: An analysis of web pages
Ahmet Tarhan
Continuing professional development of South African teachers: Comparing staff’s experiences to successful professional development programmes
GM Steyn
University of South Africa, South Africa
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 022
Time: 11:00 – 12:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Business and Economics II
Does foreign direct investment promote economic growth: A time series approach
Tan Khay Boon
SIM University, Singapore
Are the implications of the financial growth cycle confirmed for Spanish SMEs?
Javier Sánchez-Vidal and Juan Francisco Martín-Ugedo
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Globalization, entrepreneurship and human development
Murali Murti
PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
Social networks and national innovation system
Sadettin Keskin
Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
Public health effects of coal based eelectricity generation in South Africa
George Alex Thopil and Anastassios Pouris
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Strategic and economic implications of China in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emmanuel Chekwa
Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
The Effects of Customized Information according to Permission by Individualism and Collectivism in the Web Site
Minsook Park, Jongkuk Shin and Miri Kim
Pusan National University, Republic of Korea
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 021
Time: 11:00 – 12:15
Chair: Joseph Poon, University of Hong Kong
Subject Area: Chinese Language & Culture Panel
Organized By: School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong
Why simplified Chinese characters are not widely used in Hong Kong: An examination of their limitations
Chi Hung Chan
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The use of modal auxiliaries “應” Ying and “須” Xu in legal texts: A case of the basic law of the Hong Kong special administrative region
Yiu Chung Soo
The University of Hong Kong
A lexical analysis on the Tang Biji
Yiu Kay Tse
The University of Hong Kong
From Chinese idioms into idiomatic English: A practical translation guide
Joseph Poon
The University of Hong Kong
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 021
Time: 12:20 – 12:55
Chair: Murali Murti, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.
Track: Teaching and Education II - Posters (click here for information about poster format)
Locus of control and academic achievement in higher education: the need for an undergraduate intervention program
Ella Dalton-Brits
Central University of Technology , Free State, South Africa
Documentary film as supporting instrument in teaching ESP for students of medicine
Branka Maksimovic
University of Banjaluka,Bosnia and Herzegovina
Assessment of a full-day, four-year-old kindergarten program and its impact throughout elementary school
Yves Herry, Claire Maltais, Catherine Mougeot and Lucie Bartosova
University of Ottawa, Canada
The quality of education for Saudi students on scholarships to study abroad
A\'aeshah Alahmadi
Taibah University , KSA
The importance of the internet and metacognition in the computer´s laboratory working on the education level in Mexico
Beatriz Dolores Guardian Soto, Beatriz Rosas Guardian, Abel Camacho Galvan and Roberto Osornio Soto
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México
Progressivism and 21st century schools: Is John Dewey relevant today?
Rebekah Kelleher and Heather Leonall
Wingate University, USA
Integrated application of phonics-graphonics methods at a starter level of teaching English to young learners
Ina Baratashvili
Tbilisi State University, Georgia
The science literacy of German and Taiwanese 15-years-olds: An international comparison based on PISA 2006
Tsung-Hau Jen, Kuan-Ming Chen, Hung-Yu Hsu, Ying-Shao Hsu, Wen-Gin Yang and Chen-Yung Lin
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Assessment of mobile learning contribution and practices in a lifelong learning society
Alina - Irina Popescu
Academy of Economic Studies, Romania
Distance versus face to face professional development environment: physical educators’ knowledge acquisition on student evaluation
Vassiliki Derri, Kyriaki Emmanouilidou and Vassiliki Chatzaraki
Democritus University of Thrace, Hellas
Multifaceted development of young children: effects of a pilot standards-based physical education program
Vassiliki Derri, Grammatiki Samara, Maria Papadopoulou, Kyriaki Emmanouilidou and Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou
Democritus University of Thrace, Hellas
An online e-learning system for driver’s license test
Kadri Sylejmani, Atdhe Muhaxhiri, Agni Dika and Florent Ahmedi
University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Continuing professional development of South African teachers: Comparing staff’s experiences to successful professional development programmes
GM Steyn
University of South Africa, South Africa
Hogarth and the art of engraving in London’s society
Paula Rama da Silva
Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 001
Time: 13:00 – 14:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Social Sciences and Humanities III
The link between philosophical anthropology and theology
Sovrea Iustinian
Babes-Boyai University, Romania
Smart schools and their contribution to educational reform in the Arab Countries with particular reference to United Arab Emirates
Abdel-Dayem and Mohammad Ahmad
United Arab Emirates University
Phonetic organization of poetical texts with positive emotional colouring
Elena Titova and Lilia Nefedova
Chelyabinsk State University, Russia
Weak thought and theological thought: From posmodernism to apophaticism
Nicolae Turcan
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Factors contributing to career maturity development among adolescents
Amla Salleh, Muhamad Sani Ismail and Salleh Amat
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Different lives under the same name: Stresses and identities among lesbians in Northeast China
Li Ming
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 002
Time: 13:00 – 14:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Teaching and Education III
Student teachers’ self-directed learning and the ability of applying the theory, subject matter knowledge and pedagogical skills: student teachers’ and tutors’ perceptions
Tan, Cheng-Im and Mui, Siew Aun
Penang, Malaysia
Subscribing to webfolios: A scalable approach to showcasing student achievement
Annette Easton and George Easton
San Diego State University, USA
The analysis of the development of public education in the USA (XX century)
Tatiana Bokova
Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia
Integration of online social networking in improving writing: Effects of topic selection
Jitpanat Suwanthep
Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
Academic Web 2.0: Reflective and Critical Practices
Andy Coverdale
University of Nottingham, UK
Perceptions of primary school teachers based on individual differences of the students in Turkey
Pınar Özdemir
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Students’ motivated strategies according to their learning styles and gender
Sertel Altun and Deniz Canca
Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 022
Time: 13:00 – 14:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Business and Economics III
Linking organizational innovation and flexibility to high performance work systems, competitiveness and profitability
Constantine Kontoghiorghes
Cyprus University of Technology
Learning about innovation online: An exploratory research
Hussin Hejase and Ghada Chehimi
American University of Science and Technology (AUST), Lebanon
Women on board of directors
Antonio Minguez-Vera
University of Murcia, Spain
CEO Power: The Effect on Capital Structure and Firm Performance
Melek Acar Boyacioglu
Selcuk University, Turkey
A study on factors influencing user's intention for social network service: focused on technical, individual, social factors
Jongki Kim and Jinsung Kim
Pusan University, South Korea
Influencing factors in intention of smartphone use focused on ubiquitous characteristics
Sootai Nam and Jongki Kim
Pusan National University, Korea
Representation of organizational functioning through the use of organigraphs
Pınar Büyükbalci, Esin Can Mutlu and Yonca Gürol
Yıldız Technical University, Turkey
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 021
Time: 13:00 – 14:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Social Sciences and Humanities IV
What is lost and what is gained? The conflict between generations and the inheritance of culture in contemporary South Asian literature
Margarida Pereira Martins
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Perception and representation of space in Postmodern Francophone literature
Alina Tenescu
University of Craiova, Romania
Founded, broken and re-forged: The writing process of Wilfred Owen’s “The Send-off”
Ilaria Natali
University of Florence, Italy
Breaking stereotypes: images of Chinese Americans in recent films and literature
Alexander Yamato and Qingyun Wu
California State University, Los Angeles, USA
‘A sporting chance?’ Examining a sport development educational project at a tibetan children’s village in northern India
Joel Rookwood, Simon Kawycz and Kat Holloway
Liverpool Hope University, UK
The compulsory capital city of Turkish sport news : Istanbul
A.Yalçın Kaya, Mete Kazaz, M. Barış Yılmaz and Asina Gulerarslan
Selcuk University, Turkey
Sports brands and youth’s football brand evaluations
Hüseyin Altunbaş, Hasret Aktaş and. M. Nejat Özüpek
Selçuk University, Turkey
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 001
Time: 15:00 – 16:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.
Duration: Out of consideration for others, each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes or less.
Track: Teaching and Education IV
Impact of online exercises on English language learning
Araya Vithsupalert
Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
Supporting at-risk English language learners (ELLs) In an urban secondary science classroom: Developing content literacy strategies in a peer enhanced restructured classroom (PERC)
Linda Gerena and Leslie Keiler
York College, City University of New York, USA
Unhealthy health news: The healthcare news in Turkish press
A.Yalçın Kaya, Mete Kazaz and M.Barış Yılmaz
Selcuk University, Turkey
Holocaust education: Global controversies shaping curricula integration and implementation
Bryan Davis and Eliane Rubinstein-Avila
University of Arizona, USA
Foreign language learners’ awareness of ‘invisible’ culture and their reading comprehension skills in light of intercultural communicative competence
Katarzyna Piatkowska
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Teaching the unteachable: Experience-based leadership studies at Bucknell University
William R. Gruver and John A. Miller
Bucknell University, USA
Instructors’ and learners’ attitudes towards teaching and learning on-line: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) (Saudi Arabia) Case Study.
Ahmed Bendania
Date: June 21, 2011
Location: Room 002
Time: 15:00 – 16:55
Chair: The first person to present in this session.