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Int'l Conference for Academic Disciplines (Boston 2015)

The International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) will host its annual conference at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts, from 26 to 30 May 2015. To print the program according to date, venue (i.e., room) or type of presentation, click here.

9:50am HST

WELCOME TO IJAS' ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON THE HARVARD CAMPUS Pechet Room AJ. Bonnici

10:00am HST

PROMOTING AN INTEGRATED CURRICULUM WITHIN SCHOOLS ACROSS FIVE SCHOOL DISTRICTS Pechet Room ASally Barton-Arwood • Kim Daus • Ryan Fox • Lauren Lunsford • Kate Mcgowan • Darlene Panvini • Bonnie Smith Whitehouse

10:15am HST

SECOND-CAREER EDUCATORS IN THE 21CENTURY CLASSROOM: WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE CHOICES, PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICES TO TEACH IN THE CLASSROOM? Pechet Room APatricia Dickenson

10:30am HST

THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF IMMIGRANT CHILDREN: A LOOK THROUGH RESEARCH, EXPERIENCES AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS Pechet Room AKrystyna Nowak-Fabrykowski

10:45am HST

TOWARDS A NEW PROPOSAL: METAPRAGMATIC MECHANISMS, PRAGMATIC CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING Pechet Room AJesús Olguín • Norma Tapia

11:00am HST

SOCIO ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING YOUTH UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN FOOD PRODUCTION IN KADUNA STATE NIGERIA: IMPLICATION FOR COUNSELING FOR EXTENSION WORKERS Pechet Room AR. K. Jiriko • A. A. Omengala

11:15am HST

PROVIDING WIDER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED PERSONS SEEKING HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA Pechet Room AJames O. Ezema • Rosemary Ogochukwu Igbo

11:30am HST

LANGUAGE CONTACT IN THE EFL CLASSROOM: CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE IN THIRD LANGUAGE LEARNING Pechet Room AJesús Olguín • Norma Tapia

11:45am HST

FEEDBACK PRACTICES OF ESL TEACHERS: EXAMINING INFLUENCES AND EFFECTS TO STUDENTS Pechet Room ACristy Dela Cruz Almeida • Joel Paulin Mendoza

12:00pm HST

PESTER POWER: INSIGHT INTO THE INDIAN HOTEL INDUSTRY Pechet Room ARenu Malaviya

12:15pm HST

INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: THE USE OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN ORGANIZATIONS Pechet Room AAkif Aslan • Ercan Eker • Muhammer Karaman • Mehmet Purtaş

12:30pm HST

STUDENTS WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL: INSIGHT INTO THEIR CHALLENGES AND ISSUES Pechet Room ARenu Malaviya

12:45pm HST

A PERCEPTION STUDY OF PASSENGER GROWTH IN INDIAN AVIATION: AN APPLICATION OF BAYESIAN PROBABILISTIC NETWORK Pechet Room ADipa Mitra

1:00pm HST

BUILDING AND LEVERAGING EPORTFOLIOS FOR HIRING PURPOSES IN THE FIELD OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Pechet Room AJessica Alvarado

1:15pm HST

LEXICAL MODIFICATIONS IN TEACHER TALK OF NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH IN EFL CLASSROOMS Pechet Room AMeryem Mirioğlu • Arzu Ünel

1:30pm HST

NEW GENERATIONS AND EFFECTS ON EDUCATION Pechet Room AVeysel Keleşoğlu

1:45pm HST

A STUDY ON INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENTS’ DECISION ON CHOOSING MANAGEMENT INSTITUTES IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT Pechet Room ASandhya Dhabe • R.K. Srivastava

2:00pm HST

EVALUATIONS AND GRADES: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY Pechet Room AMehmet Kaytaz • Z. Bilgen Susanli

2:15pm HST

LA SALLIAN VALUES: SEARCHING FOR TRENDS AND IMPACTS OF VALUES PROGRAM TO SELF-REFLECTION Pechet Room AJoel Paulin Mendoza

2:30pm HST

MATHEMATICS ENGAGEMENT INSTRUMENT FOR 6TH GRADE STUDENTS Pechet Room AMido Chang • Sunha Kim

2:45pm HST

EFFECT OF HEALTH-CONSCIOUSNESS, ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY AND ALTRUISM ON THE PURCHASE INTENTION OF ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCTS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY IN TURKEY Pechet Room AMisra Gul

3:20pm HST

INCOTERMS AS UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES Pechet Room AGermán Alberto Cubillos Guzmán

3:30pm HST

AN ASSESSMENT OF AUDITOR'S ETHICAL BEHAVIOR IN NIGERIA Pechet Room AKida Mohamed • Sheriff Musa

3:40pm HST

WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS IN AFRICA: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE Pechet Room APauline E. Onyeukwu

3:50pm HST

IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON EMPLOYEE DECISION MAKING PROCESS Pechet Room ANancy Chinwe Agha • Gabriel Obasi Udu

4:00pm HST

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES (CSR) OF MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES IN THE NIGER-DELTA REGION - NIGERIA Pechet Room AUdeh Anastasia Ifeoma

4:10pm HST

EFFECT OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM ON ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY WITH UNILEVER NIGERIA PLC AS A CASE STUDY Pechet Room AEkwochi Eucharia Adaeze • Orga Josephine • C.C. Orga

4:30pm HST

ECONOMIC LAW IN LATIN AMERICA: 'LESS STATE, MORE PRIVATE INTEREST' Pechet Room AWalter René Cadena Afanador

5:00pm HST

MAKING OF GLOBAL CITIZENS: A VISION FOR LEADERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Pechet Room AAtima Sharma Dwivedi

5:20pm HST

THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS' NON- VERBAL COMMUNICATION ON ONDO STATE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' LEARNING OUTCOMES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE Pechet Room ABola Margaret Tunde-Awe

5:50pm HST

SKILL IMPROVEMENT FOR PSYCHOLOGIST AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA Pechet Room AJustina Denen Reamen

10:00am HST

LEAN-SIX SIGMA BASED SERVICE SECTORS’ PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION VIA 3-D SIMULATION MODELING - AN INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY Pechet Room AJoseph Chen, Sky Chou

10:15am HST

REMITTANCES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES Pechet Room AMetin Karadağ • Kamalbek Karimşakov • A. Özlem Önder

10:30am HST

DETERMINANTS OF DIVIDEND POLICY Pechet Room AMisbah Iqbal

10:45am HST

SELF-CONFIDENCE AND IDENTIFICATION OF NEEDS IN FINANCIAL LITERACY AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE: A CANADIAN STUDY Pechet Room AVivi Koffi • Tania Morris

11:00am HST

EMPLOYMENT LAWS AND ISSUES IN TRANSACTING BUSINESS IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA Pechet Room AJudy Gibbs

11:15am HST

THE DETERMINANTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF INTERNAL CONTROL DISCLOSURE: EVIDENCE FROM FINLAND Pechet Room AAminah Nalikka

11:30am HST

OPTIMAL DIVESTMENT STRATEGY FOR FIRMS FACING DEMAND UNCERTAINTY Pechet Room APo-Yuan Chen

11:45am HST

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MACROECONOMIC FACTORS, FIRM PERFORMANCE CRITERIA AND FIRM CAPITAL STRUCTURE: EVIDENCE FROM EMERGING COUNTRIES Pechet Room AOsman Sahin

12:00pm HST

PROJECT FINANCE BANK LOANS AND PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) FUNDING IN INDIA: A RISK MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE Pechet Room AVikas Srivastava

12:15pm HST

RHETORICAL VISION OF A CHINESE CORPORATE HERO: A FANTASY THEME ANALYSIS Pechet Room AZhaoxun Song

12:30pm HST

SOCIAL ENTERPRISES’ VIABILITY TO DIFFUSE ADVANCED SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES IN AFRICA: A CASE OF COOPERATIVES IN UGANDA Pechet Room AMutunzi Ahmed Kitunzi • Shailendra Vyakarnam

12:45pm HST

A STUDY OF CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS EFFECTING INDIAN AND IRAQI OIL COMPANIES APPLICATION OF DATA MINING IN ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM Pechet Room ASyed Azharuddin

1:00pm HST

THE RELEVANCE OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER MECHANISMS BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRIES IN ECONOMIC SECTORS: THE CASE OF GHANA Pechet Room AAbdul-Fatahi Abdulai

1:15pm HST

AN IMPROVISED LATENT FACTOR MODEL FOR MORE EFFICIENT RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS Pechet Room APradip Kumar Bala • Bipul Kumar • Abhishek Srivastava

1:30pm HST

SOCIAL MARKETING INTERVENTIONS ON DOMESTIC ENERGY CONSERVATION IN GHANA Pechet Room AWeetsa Marian Adinku • Ernest Yaw Tweneboah-Koduah

1:45pm HST

A TYPOLOGY OF NETWORKING Pechet Room AAshish Hajela • Kaustav Saha

2:00pm HST

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR TIME SERIES PREDICTION: THE CASE OF KUWAIT’S STOCK MARKET Pechet Room AImed Eddine Cherabi

2:15pm HST

A STUDY ON MICRO FINANCE INSTITUTIONS: PRACTICES ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THANE DISTRICT OF MAHARASTRA Pechet Room APaulraj Arunachalam

2:30pm HST

REAL CONVERGENCE USING TAR PANEL UNIT ROOT TESTS: AN APPLICATION TO SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY Pechet Room AChristian Kakese Tipoy

2:45pm HST

THE DETERMINANT OF IPO UNDERPRICING IN THE GCC COUNTRIES Pechet Room ABatool Asiri • Aala Haji

3:00pm HST

FACTORS AFFECTING SUCCESS OF WOMEN ENTERPRENEURS, IN TURKEY Pechet Room AMerve Arslan • Şener Kirci

3:15pm HST

THE EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STOCKS RETURNS, TRADING VOLUME AND VOLATILITY: EVIDENCE FROM STOCK MARKET OF UNITED KINGDOM Pechet Room AHaroon Iqbal

3:45pm HST

QUALITY SCHOOL FACILITIES AND MANPOWER: INDICATORS FOR OPTIMAL LITERACY DEVELOPMENT Pechet Room AEniola Olutoyosi Akande

4:00pm HST

BICYCLE KICK IN SOCCER - IS THE VIRTUOSITY SYSTEMATICALLY ENTRAINABLE? Pechet Room AGongbing Shan • Daifeng Yu • Xiang Zhang

4:15pm HST

FACILITATING REFLEXIVITY: A STUDY PROMOTING THE USE OF DISCUSSION AND DEBATE IN THE CONTEXT OF MUMBAI, INDIA Pechet Room AZohra Surani

4:30pm HST

THE USE OF FILMS IN THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE IN TURKEY: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Pechet Room AHalide Gamze Ince Yakar

4:45pm HST

IMPROVING MEDICAL STUDENT EDUCATION Pechet Room AJeff Jarosinski

10:00am HST

FROM THE CONVENT’S CELL: A FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN THE TEXTS OF TWO BAROQUE NUNS: MEXICAN SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ AND VENETIAN ARCANGELA TARABOTTI Pechet Room AM. Patricia Ortiz

10:15am HST

THE UNTREATABLE, THE UNREHABILITATABLE AND THE UNDESERVING: TRACING CONTEMPORARY EUGENIC AND RACIAL COLONIAL TECHNOLOGIES OF DEHUMANIZATION AT THE CONFLUENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND IMMIGRATION S... Pechet Room AAmeil J. Joseph

10:30am HST

BYRONIC MEMORY IN TAYEB SALIH'S 'SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH': POSSIBILITIES OF TRANSNATIONAL ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE Pechet Room AMichael Seebold

10:45am HST

NEW OLD HISTORY: ERENBURG AND GROSSMAN'S BLACK BOOK OF THE HOLOCAUST Pechet Room AOlga Karasik

11:00am HST

MACHADO DE ASSIS IN ENGLISH: 21ST CENTURY PUBLISHING BOOM Pechet Room ACynthia Beatrice Costa

11:15am HST

PALLIATIVE CARE SYSTEM IN COMMUNITY BETWEEN THAILAND AND INDONESIA Pechet Room AJintana Artsanthia • Suwannee Laoopugsin • I. Ketut Swarjana

11:30am HST

'THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS': THE BLACK MIGRATION IN SEARCH FOR FREEDOM Pechet Room ADalia Elshayal

11:45am HST

THE ROLE OF FOUNDATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN THE POLISH ECONOMY Pechet Room AKrystyna Kietlińska

12:00pm HST

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE OMANI SOCIAL MEDIA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT-OWNED MEDIA ON FACEBOOK Pechet Room AYousuf Al Shamsi

12:15pm HST

AN OVERVIEW OF HAND EMBELLISHED TEXTILES OF SOUTH PUNJAB, PAKISTAN Pechet Room AAisha Asim Imdad

12:30pm HST

PERDA SHARIA IMPLEMENTATION IN LOCAL POLITICS, INDONESIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Pechet Room AMiftahuddin Warjio

12:45pm HST

HISTORICAL PLAYS AND SOCIETY’S DEVELOPMENT: EXAMPLES OF SELECTED PLAYS OF TWO NIGERIAN PLAYWRIGHTS Pechet Room ARosemary Asen

1:00pm HST

THE GERMAN 'BERTOLDO' IN TRANSYLVANIA - ON THE PROCESS OF CULTURAL TRANSFER FROM WEST TOWARDS EAST AT THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY Pechet Room AAlexandra Chiriac

1:15pm HST

UNITY OF THEOLOGY AS SOLUTION FOR THE CONFLICTS IN THE 3RD MILLENNIUM OF WORLD CIVILIZATION Pechet Room AMif Rohim Noyo Sarkun • Faisal Amri Tanjung

1:30pm HST

DVR DODGERS: SPORT-VIEWING PATTERNS IN AN ERA OF CHANGING MEDIA REALITY Pechet Room AYair Galily • Ilan Tamir

2:00pm HST

THE THREAT OF ISIS (ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ & SYRIA) IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: THE NEW EPISODE OF WAR ON TERRORISM Pechet Room AKhing Irene • Aslam Mizan

2:15pm HST

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND LITIGATION: THE RIGHT TO CLEAN AIR AND CLEAN WATER - A NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE Pechet Room AAbdulkarim Abubakar Kana • Smart Obumneme Obiekezie • Linus Ibem Onuoha

2:30pm HST

THE ROLE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN PUBLIC SPHERE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN POLAND AND THE USA Pechet Room APaulina Napierala

2:45pm HST

WIDOWHOOD PRACTICES IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA SOCIO ECONOMICS AND VALUE IMPLICATION ON THE SOCIETY: THE PLACE OF THE CHURCH Pechet Room ANwaoga Chinyere Theresa

3:00pm HST

OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS SAFETY AND SECURITY: RESPONSES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Pechet Room AAhmad Almaududy Amri

3:30pm HST

THE EFFECT OF ENTREPRENEUR’S PASSION AND LEADERSHIP STYLE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE EMPLOYEES Pechet Room AAyşe Ilgün Kamanlı • Uğur Yozgat

3:45pm HST

INFLUENCING AND BEING INFLUENCED: HISTORY OF SCIENCE DURING ABBASIS' ERA Pechet Room AAsya Al Nugali

4:15pm HST

EKPHRASIS IN EMILE ZOLA'S WORK [Presentation in French] Pechet Room AKubilay Aktulum