Typically, an academic writing style for journals is complicated because those journals use complex vocabularies and sentences. It might be hard for students to read journal articles in detail and in short periods of time. Therefore, this research proposes a Journal Article Selection Model (JASM) based on article abstract using combination of scanning and skimming techniques. JASM aims for two objectives. Firstly, JASM aims to find out knowledge within journal articles in the form of multi-layer topic model, which is the hierarchy of topics and ...

This study explores why the charitable entrepreneurs have original aspiration of charity, and how their “original aspiration” promotes the development of their enterprises based on qualitative research in the special social context of the lagging charity causes and the imperfect enterprise charity tax laws without good implementation in China. Through face-to-face in-depth interviews with 27 philanthropic and non-philanthropic entrepreneurs in 13 provinces and 27 cities across the country, using continuous analysis and induction method, combined ...

There is a scarcity of literature on evaluation – particularly in the field of language teaching and learning and educational evaluation – that addresses the quality evaluation system of undergraduate-level Thai-language teaching programs in the context of mainland China. Therefore, this study aims to fill this research gap by proposing an evaluation design including evaluation concepts, guiding principles, and required information to underpin a more effective evaluation system for the undergraduate-level Thai language program. Based on the ...

In recent years, the investment of emerging economies has soared, and more and more emerging economies firms (EEFs) have embarked on the process of internationalization. The data points one of the major development trends of the global economy, once an emerging economy that has been invested heavily and hoped to reap rapid growth in profits by multinational companies, it has become a source of investment funds and a competitor with the United States and Europe in terms of foreign investment. The overseas development of EEFs is faced with many ...

The purposes of this research were 1) to study cruise tourists’ behaviours; 2) to assess and compare the effectiveness of cruise tourism management between Phuket and Singapore; 3) to study the cruise tourism management factors affecting the cruise tourists’ intention to revisit; 4) to study the process to build an alliance for cruise tourism at the regional level in order to attract cruise lines to the region, and 5) to propose alliance strategies of cruise tourism for cooperative development between Phuket and Singapore. To obtain the data ...

The problem of waste management in tourist attractions, especially marine debris, is a significant problem that all stakeholders should work together to find a solution. General, the concept of waste solution consist of reduction, reuse, and recycling (3Rs). Therefore, this research aimed to study the current practice waste management of Chang Island and how to achieve the 12th Sustainable Development Goal (12th SDGs) targets 12.5. This research also aimed to the reveal the problems, obstacles, and guidelines for effective implementation of waste ...

With the overall development of the social economy and the improvement of people's daily life, tourism has become an indispensable part of the spiritual and material life of the nation. As a result, the development trend of tourism is gradually moving towards mass consumption and quality demand, and the people's demand for leisure and holiday travel experience is more intense. The requirements for the infrastructure, public service facilities, ecological environment, and travel experience of tourist destinations are constantly increasing, especially ...

After the "double reduction" policy was implemented in Yunnan, it was not possible to completely achieve a balanced transition between the various stages of education within a short period of time, and the professional development of primary school teachers showed a clear appearance of "involution". The imbalance in management mechanisms leads to the involution of teachers' professional development motivation, the imbalance in incentive mechanisms leads to the involution of teachers' professional development quality, and the imbalance in evaluation ...

The purpose of this study were 1) to identify the measurement of creative tourists, 2) to construct the creative tourism value proposition from creative tourist’ perspective, 3) to analyze the differences of value proposition among creative tourist segments, 4) to assess destination capability in responding to value proposition of creative tourism, and 5) to develop a guideline for developing creative tourism product, activities, and destination to the Lower Northeastern Provinces Group 2.  Mixed methods research was used in this study. Questionnaire ...

This paper studies ten years (2008-2018) of annual financial data from four state-owned banks, macroeconomic data and data from the financial technology (fintech) industry using ratio analysis, dynamic estimation and common size statements analysis. The study also considers the analysis of independent attributes, for example, GDP growth, interest rates and fintech lending capacity and capability that could affect the financial performance of the banks. Moreover, this research emphasizes that competition with fintech companies could affect banks’ ...